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1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side
of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite the Red sea,
between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. 2 (There
are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir
to Kadeshbarnea.) 3 And it was in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month,
on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the
children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandments
for them; 4 After he had killed Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelled
in Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelled at Astaroth in Edrei: 5
On this side of Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this
law, saying, 6 the LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have dwelled
in this mount long enough: 7 Turn and take your journey and go to the mount
of the Amorites and to all the places near there, in the plain,
in the hills and in the vale and in the south and by the sea side, to the
land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which
the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give to them
and to their seed after them.
9 And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself
alone: 10 the LORD your God has multiplied you and behold, you are
this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (the LORD God of your fathers
make you a thousand times many more as you are and bless you, as
he has promised you!) 12 How can I myself alone bear your burden and your
load and your strife? 13 Take wise men, understanding and known among your
tribes and I will make them rulers over you. 14 And you answered me and said,
The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. 15
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men and known and made them heads
over you, captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains
over fifties and captains over tens and officers among your tribes. 16 And
I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between
your brothers and judge righteously between every man and his brother,
and the foreigner who is with him. 17 You shall not respect persons
in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great;
you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is
God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring to me and I will hear
it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible
wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as
The LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea. 20 And I said
to you, you are come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our
God gives to us. 21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you:
go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has
said to you; fear not, nor be discouraged. 22 And you came near to me every
one of you and said, We will send men before us and they shall search out
the land for us and bring us word again by what way we must go up and to
what cities we shall come. 23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took
twelve men of you, one of a tribe: 24 And they turned and went up into the
mountain and came to the valley of Eshcol and searched it out. 25 And they
took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down
to us and brought us word again and said, It is a good land which
the LORD our God gives us. 26 But you would not go up, but rebelled against
the commandment of the LORD your God: 27 And you murmured in your tents and
said, Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt,
to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Where shall
we go up? our brothers have discouraged our heart, saying, The people
are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and
walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
29 Then I said to you, Dread not, nor be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your
God who goes before you shall fight for you, according to all that he did
for you before your eyes in Egypt; 31 And in the wilderness, where you have
seen how that the LORD your God bore you in all the way that you went, as
a man bears his son until you came to this place,. 32 Yet in this thing you
did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went in the way before you, to
search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night,
to show you by what way you should go and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD
heard the voice of your words and was angry and swore, saying, 35 Surely
there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land,
which I swore to give to your fathers, 36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
he shall see it and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on and
to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD. 37 Also the LORD
was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also shall not go in there.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go
in there: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover
your little ones, whom you said should be a prey and your children, who in
that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there and
will I give it to them and they shall possess it. 40 But as for
you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red
Sea. 41 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD,
we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded
us. And when you had girded on every man his weapons of war, you were ready
to go up to the hill. 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 struck before
your enemies. 43 So I spoke to you; and you would not hear, but rebelled
against the commandment of the LORD and went presumptuously up to the hill.
44 And the Amorites, who dwelled in that mountain, came out against you and
chased you, as bees do and destroyed you in Seir, even to Hormah.
45 And you returned and wept before the LORD; but The LORD would not listen
to your voice, nor give ear to you. 46 So you abode in Kadesh many days,
according to the days that you abode there
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1 Then we turned,and journied to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea,
as the LORD spoke to me: and we went around Mount Seir many days. 2 And the
LORD spoke to me, saying, 3You have gone around this mountain long enough:
turn northward. 4 And command the people, saying, you are to pass
through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir;
and they shall be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore:
5 Do not meddle with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not
so much as a foot breadth; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau
for a possession. 6 You shall buy meat from them for money, that
you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them for money, that you may
drink. 7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand:
he knows your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the
LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.
8 And when we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwelled
in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath and from Eziongeber, we
turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the LORD said
to me, Do not distress the Moabites, nor contend with them in battle: for
I will not give you of their land for a possession; because I have
given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession. 10 The Emim dwelled
there in times past, a people great and many, and tall, as the Anakim; 11
Who also were accounted giants, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them
Emim. 12 The Horim also dwelled in Seir before; but the children of Esau
succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them and dwelled
in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD
gave to them. 13 Now I said,rise up and go over the brook
Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the space in which we came
from Kadeshbarnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, was thirty
eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from
among the host, as the LORD swore to them. 15 For indeed the hand of the
LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were
consumed. 16 So it was when all the men of war were consumed and dead from
among the people, 17 That the LORD spoke to me, saying, 18 You are to pass
over through Ar, the border of Moab, this day: 19 And when you come
near and opposite the children of Ammon, do not distress them, nor meddle
with them: for I will not give you any possession of the land of
the children of Ammon; because I have given it to the children of Lot
for a possession. 20 (That also was accounted a land of giants:
giants dwelled there in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;
21 A people great and many and tall, as the Anakim; but The LORD destroyed
them before them; and they succeeded them and dwelled in their place: 22
As he did to the children of Esau, who dwelled in Seir, when he destroyed
the Horim from before them; and they succeeded them and dwelled in their
stead even to this day: 23 The Caphtorim who came out of Caphtor destroyed
the Avim who dwelled in Hazerim, even to Gaza and dwelled in their
place.)
24 Rise up, take your journey and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have
given Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon and his land into your hand: begin
to possess it and contend with him in battle. 25 This day I will
begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the nations that
are under the whole heaven, who shall hear your report and shall tremble
and be in anguish because of you. 26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness
of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27 Let
me pass through your land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither
turn to the right hand nor to the left. 28 You shall sell me meat for money,
that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: I will only
pass through on my feet; 29 (As the children of Esau who dwell in Seir and
the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me;) until I shall pass over Jordan
to the land which the LORD our God gives us. 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon
would not let us pass by him: for the LORD your God hardened his spirit,
and made his heart obstinate, so that he might deliver him into your hand,
as it appears this day. 31 And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have
begun to give Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess it, that you
may inherit his land. 32 Then Sihon came out to fight at Jahaz against us,
he and all his people. 33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and
we struck him and his sons and all his people. 34 And we took all his cities
at that time and utterly destroyed the men and the women and the little ones,
we left none remain of every city: 35 We took only the cattle for a prey
to ourselves and the spoil of the cities which we took. 36 From Aroer, which
is by the brink of the river of Arnon and from the city
that is by the river, even to Gilead, there was not one city too
strong for us: The LORD our God delivered all to us: 37 But you did not come
to the land of the children of Ammon, nor to any place of the river
Jabbok, nor to the cities in the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our
God forbade us.
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1 Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan
came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2 And the
LORD said to me, Do not fear him for I will deliver him and all his people
and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon
king of the Amorites, who dwelled at Heshbon. 3 So the LORD our God also
delivered Og the king of Bashan and all his people into our hands: and we
struck him until not one was left remaining to him. 4 And we took 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. 5 All
these cities were fenced with high walls, gates and bars; besides
a great many unwalled towns. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did Sihon
king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women and children, of every
city. 7 But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey
for ourselves. 8 And at that time we took the land that was on this
side Jordan, out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites from the river
of Arnon to Mount Hermon; 9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion;
and the Amorites call it Shenir;) 10 All the cities of the plain and all
Gilead and all Bashan, to Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og
in Bashan. 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not
in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length
and four cubits, its breadth, after the cubit of a man,.
12 And I gave this land, to the Reubenites and to the Gadites which
we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon
and half Mount Gilead and its cities, . 13 And the rest of Gilead and all
Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh;
all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob to the borders
of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair,
to this day. 15 And I gave Gilead to Machir. 16 And I gave to the Reubenites
and to the Gadites from Gilead even to the river Arnon half the valley and
the border even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the
children of Ammon; 17 The plain also and Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth
even to the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah
eastward. 18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, the LORD your God
has given this land to you to possess: you shall pass over armed before your
brothers the children of Israel, all that are fit for the war. 19
But your wives and your little ones and your cattle, shall abide in your
cities which I have given to you (for I know that you have much
cattle); 20 Until the LORD has given rest to your brothers, as well as to
you and until they also possess the land beyond Jordan which The
LORD your God has given them: and then shall you return every man
to his possession, which I have given to you.
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: even so the LORD shall
do to all the kingdoms where you pass. 22 you shall not fear them: for the
LORD your God shall fight for you. 23 And I besought the LORD at that time,
saying, 24 O Lord GOD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness
and your mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth,
who can do according to your works, and according to your might? 25 I beg
you, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan,
that goodly mountain and Lebanon. 26 But the LORD was angry with me for your
sakes and would not hear me: and the LORD said to me, Be satisfied; speak
no more to me of this matter. 27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up
your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and behold
it with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan. 28 But
charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him: for he shall go over
before the people and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall
see. 29 So we abode in the valley opposite Bethpeor.
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1 Therefore O Israel, Now listen to the statutes and to the judgments, which
I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess
the land which The LORD God of your fathers gives you. 2 you shall not add
to the word which I command you, nor shall you diminish anything
from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I
command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor:
for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them
from among you. 4 But you who clung to the LORD your God are alive
every one of you this day. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments,
even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land where
you go to possess it. 6 Therefore keep and do them; for this
is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations
who shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation
is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there
so great, who has God so near to them, as the LORD our God
is in all things that we call on him for? 8 And
what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments
so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 9
Only take 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 teach them to your sons and your sons' sons;
10 Especially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in
Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather the people together to me and I will
make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that
they shall live on the earth and that they may teach their children.
11 And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned
with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds and thick darkness.
12 And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the
voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only you heard a voice.
13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform,
even ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments,
that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. 15 Therefore
take good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of similitude on the
day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the
fire: 16 Lest you corrupt yourselves and make a graven image, the
similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness
of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl
that flies in the air, 18 The likeness of anything that creeps on the ground,
the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven and when you see the sun and
the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, you should
be driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided
to all nations under the whole heaven. 20 But the LORD has taken you, and
brought you out of an iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be a people
of inheritance to him, as you are this day. 21 Furthermore the LORD
was angry with me for your sakes and swore that I should not go over Jordan
and that I should not go in to that good land, which the LORD your God gives
you for an inheritance: 22 But I must die in this land, I must not
go over Jordan: but you shall go over and possess that good land. 23 Take
heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which
he made with you and lest you make a graven image, or the
likeness of any thing, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous
God. 25 When you shall beget children and children's children and you shall
have remained long in the land and shall corrupt yourselves and
make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing and shall
do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger: 26 I
call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon
completely perish from off the land where you are going over Jordan to possess;
you shall not prolong your days in it, but shall be completely
destroyed. 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations and you shall
be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you. 28
And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone,
who neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 But if you shall seek the
LORD your God from there, you shall find him, if you seek him with
all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are
in trouble and all these things are come on you, even in the latter
days, if you turn to the LORD your God and shall be obedient to his voice;
31 (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake
you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore
to them. 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you,
since the day that God created man on the earth and ask from the
one side of heaven to the other, whether there has been any such thing
as this great thing, or has been heard like it? 33 Did people ever
hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have
heard and live? 34 Or has God attempted to go to take to him a nation
from the midst of a nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders and
by war and by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm and by great terrors,
according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your
eyes? 35 It was shown to you, that you might know that the LORD is
God; there is no one else beside him. 36 He made you to hear his
voice out of heaven, that he might instruct you: and he showed you his great
fire on earth; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And
because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and
brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 38 To drive
out nations before you greater and mightier than you are, to bring
you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is
this day. 39 Know therefore this day and consider it in your heart,
that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath:
there is no one else. 40 Therefore you shall keep his statutes and
his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with
you and with your children after you and that you may prolong your days on
the earth, which the LORD your God gives you, for ever.
41Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
42 That the slayer might flee there, who might kill his neighbor unaware
and did not hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities
he might live: 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain
country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan
in Bashan, of the Manassites. 44 And this is the law which Moses
set before the children of Israel: 45 These are the testimonies
and the statutes and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the children of
Israel, after they came out of Egypt, 46 On this side of Jordan, in the valley
opposite Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelled
at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, after they were
come out of Egypt: 47 And they possessed his land and the land of Og king
of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of Jordan
toward the sunrising; 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the
river Arnon, even to Mount Sion, which is Hermon, 49 And all the
plain on this side of Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under
the springs of Pisgah.
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1 And Moses called all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes
and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them
and keep, and do them. 2 the LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us,
even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 4 the LORD
talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the
LORD: for you were afraid by reason of the fire, and did not go up to the
mount;) saying,
6 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage. 7 You shall have no other gods before me. 8 You
shall not make any graven image for yourselves, nor any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath
the earth: 9 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for
I The LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those
who hate me, 10 And showing mercy to thousands of those who love me and keep
my commandments. 11 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain:
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded
you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work: 14 But the seventh
day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall
not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant,
nor your maidservant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle,
nor your foreigner who is within your gates; that your manservant
and your maidservant may rest as well as you. 15 And remember that you were
a servant in the land of Egypt and that the LORD your God brought
you out from there through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore
the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day. 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, in the land which the LORD
your God gives you. 17 You shall not kill. 18 Nor shall you commit adultery.
19 Nor shall you steal. 20 Nor shall you bear false witness against your
neighbor. 21 Nor shall you desire your neighbor's wife, nor shall you covet
your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant,
his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is your neighbor's.
22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly in the mount out of the
midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick darkness, with a great voice:
and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered
them to me.
23 And it was, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,
(for the mountain burned with fire,) that you came near to me, even
all the heads of your tribes and your elders; 24 And you said, Behold, the
LORD our God has showed us his glory and his greatness and we have heard
his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God talks
with man and he lives. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great
fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more,
then we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard
the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we
have and lived? 27 You go near and hear all that the LORD our God
shall say: and speak to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you;
and we will hear it and do it. 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 well said all that they have spoken. 29 O that there were such
a heart in them, that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always,
that it might be well with them and with their children forever! 30 Go, say
to them, Go to your tents again. 31 But as for you, stand here by me and
I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes and the judgments,
which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which
I give them to possess. 32 you shall observe to do therefore as the LORD
your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or
to the left. 33 you shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has
commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you,
and that you may prolong your days in the land which you
shall possess.
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1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes and the judgments,
which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do
them in the land which you go to possess: 2 That you might fear
the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I
command you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and
that your days may be prolonged. 3 Therefore, hear O Israel and observe to
do it; that it may be well with you and that you may increase mightily,
as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows
with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one the LORD: 5 And you shall
love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with
all your might. 6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be
in your heart: 7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and
shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way
and when you lie down and when you rise up. 8 And you shall bind them for
a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 And
you shall write them on the posts of your house and on your gates. 10 And
it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you to the land which
he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give you
great and goodly cities, which you did not build, 11 And houses full of all
good things, which you did not fill and wells dug, which you did
not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant; when you shall
have eaten and are full; 12 Then beware lest you forget the LORD,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13 You
shall fear the LORD your God and serve him and shall swear by his name. 14
you shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which
are round about you; 15 (For the LORD your God is a jealous
God among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you
and destroy you from off the face of the earth. 16 you shall not tempt the
LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and his
testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18 And you shall
do that which 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 your fathers, 19 To cast out all your enemies before you,
as the LORD has spoken. 20 And when your son asks you in time to
come, saying, What do the testimonies mean and the statutes
and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you? 21 Then you
shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought
us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 And the LORD showed great and sore
signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh and on all his household, before our
eyes: 23 And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to
give us the land which he swore to our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded
us to do all these statutes, to fear The LORD our God, for our good always,
that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And it
shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before
the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.
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1 When the LORD your God shall bring you in to to possess the land where
you are going and has cast out 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 mightier than you;
2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike
them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with
them, nor show mercy to them: 3 nor shall you make marriages with them; you
shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter
to your son. 4 For they will turn away your son from following me, that they
may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you
and destroy you suddenly. 5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall
destroy their altars and break down their images and cut down their groves
and burn their graven images with fire. 6 For you are a holy people to the
LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people to
himself, above all people that are on the face of the earth. 7 The
LORD did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in
number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: 8
But because The LORD loved you and because he would keep the oath which he
had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand
and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king
of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the
faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love him and keep
his commandments to a thousand generations; 10 And repays those who hate
him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates
him, he will repay him to his face. 11 You shall therefore keep the commandments
and the statutes and the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them.
12 Therefore it shall come to pass, if you listen to these judgments and
keep and do them, that the LORD your God shall keep the covenant with you
and the mercy which he swore to your fathers: 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 land, your corn and your wine and your oil, the increase
of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which he swore to
your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all people: there
shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And
the LORD will take away from you all sickness and will put none of the evil
diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you; but will lay them on all
those who hate you. 16 And you shall consume all the people whom
the LORD your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall have no pity on them:
nor shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I;
how can I dispossess them? 18 You shall not be afraid of them: but
shall remember well what The LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
19 The great temptations which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders
and the mighty hand and the stretched out arm, by which the LORD your God
brought you out: so shall The LORD your God do to all the people of whom
you are afraid. 20 Moreover The LORD your God will send the hornet among
them, until those who are left hide themselves from you and are destroyed.
21 You shall not be afraid of them: for The LORD your God is a mighty
and terrible God among you,. 22 And the LORD your God will put out those
nations before you little by little: you will not consume them at once, lest
the animals of the field increase on you. 23 But the LORD your God shall
deliver them to you and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until
they are destroyed. 24 And he shall deliver their kings into your hand and
you shall destroy their name from under heaven: no man shall be able to stand
before you, until you have destroyed them. 25 You shall burn the graven images
of their gods with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that
is on them, nor take it to you, lest you are snared by it:
for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. 26 Nor shall you
bring an abomination into your house, lest you are a cursed thing like it:
but you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it;
for it is a cursed thing.
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1 You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you this day
so that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which The
LORD swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember all the way which The
LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you,
and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether
you would keep his commandments, or not. 3And he humbled you and suffered
you to hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your
fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread
only, but man does live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth
of the LORD. 4 Your raiment did not wear out, nor did your foot swell, these
forty years. 5 You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens
his son, so the LORD your God chastens you. 6 Therefore you shall
keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways and to fear
him. 7 For the LORD your God brings you to a good land, a land of brooks
of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8
A land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land
of oil olives and honey; 9 A land where you shall eat bread without scarceness,
you shall not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are
iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass.
10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God
for the good land which he has given to you. 11 Beware that you do not forget
The LORD your God, by not keeping his commandments and his judgments and
his statutes, which I command you this day: 12 Lest when you have
eaten and are full, and have built good houses and dwelled there;
13And when your herds and your flocks multiply and your silver and
your gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied; 14 And your
heart is lifted up and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out
of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 Who led you through that
great and terrible wilderness, where there were fiery serpents and
scorpions and drought, where there was no water; who brought water
out of the rock of flint; 16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which
your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and that he might prove
you, to do you good at your latter end; 17 And you say in your heart, My
power and the might of my hand has gotten this wealth for me.. 18
But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he who gives
you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore
to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 And it shall be, if you forget
the LORD your God at all and walk after other gods and serve them and worship
them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 20 As
the nations which the LORD is destroying before your face, so shall you perish;
because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.
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1 Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess
nations greater and mightier than yourself, great cities fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakim, whom you know and
of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children
of Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is
he who goes over before you; he shall destroy them as a consuming
fire and he shall bring them down before your face: so you shall drive them
out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you. 4 After that the
LORD your God has cast them out from before you, do not speak in your heart,
saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land:
but the LORD drives them out from before you for the wickedness of these
nations. 5 You are not going to possess their land for your righteousness,
nor for the uprightness of your heart: but the LORD your God drives them
out from before you for the wickedness of these nations and also that he
may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob. 6 Therefore understand that the LORD your God does not give you
this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff
necked people.
7 Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God
to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you departed out of the land
of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against
the LORD. 8 Also you provoked the LORD to wrath in Horeb, so that the LORD
was angry with you so as to destroy you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount
to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant
which the LORD made with you, then I stayed in the mount forty days and forty
nights, I neither ate bread nor drank water: 10 And the LORD delivered to
me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was
written according to all the words, which The LORD spoke with you in
the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11 And
it was at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD
gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said to me, Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people
who you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they
are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have
made themselves a molten image. 13 Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying,
I have seen this people and behold, it is a stiff necked people:
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. 15
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire:
and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And
I looked and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and
had made a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which
the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables and cast them out
of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before
the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did not eat bread,
nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly
in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of
the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against you
to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also. 20 And the
LORD was very angry with Aaron so as to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron
also the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which you had made and
burned it with fire and stamped it, and ground it very
small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast its dust into
the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberah, and at Massah
and at Kibrothhattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise when
the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which
I have given to you; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD
your God and you did not believe him, nor listen to his voice. 24 you have
been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25 Thus I
fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at
the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed
therefore to The LORD and said, O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and
your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you
have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember your servants,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look to the stubbornness of this people,
nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 28 Lest the land from which you
brought us out may say, Because The LORD was not able to bring them to the
land which he promised them and because he hated them, he has brought them
out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are your people
and your inheritance, who you brought out by your mighty power and by your
stretched out arm.
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1 At that time the LORD said to me, Hew two tables of stone like the first
and come up to me into the mount and make an ark of wood. 2 And I will write
on the tables the words that were in the first tables which you broke and
you shall put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of acasia wood
and hewed two tables of stone like to the first and went up into the mount,
having the two tables in my hand. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according
to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you in
the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the
LORD gave them to me. 5 And I turned and came down from the mount and put
the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded
me. 6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children
of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died and there he was buried; and Eleazar
his son ministered in the priest's office in his place. 7 From there they
journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of
waters. 8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the
ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to
him and to bless in his name, to this day. 9 Therefore Levi has no part nor
inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, according
as the LORD your God promised him. 10 And I stayed in the mount, according
to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD listened to
me at that time also, and the LORD did not destroy you. 11 And the
LORD said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people, that they may
go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.
12 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear
the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve The
LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 To keep the
commandments of the LORD and his statutes, which I command you this day for
your good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the
LORD'S your God, the earth also, with all that is in it.
15 Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them and he chose
their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is
this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart and do not be
stiff necked. 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of
lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible God, who does not regard
persons, nor takes a reward: 18 He executes the judgment of the fatherless
and widow and loves the foreigner, by giving him food and clothes. 19 Therefore
love the foreigner: for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 20 You
shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him and to him you shall cleave
and swear by his name. 21 He is your praise and he is your
God, who has done these great and terrible things for you which your eyes
have seen. 22 Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons; and now
the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.
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1 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God and keep his charge and his
statutes and his judgments and his commandments, always. 2 And know this
day: for I do not speak with your children who have not known and
who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his
mighty hand and his stretched out arm, 3 And his miracles and his acts, which
he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his
land; 4 And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their
chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued
after you and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day; 5 And
what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; 6 And
what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how
the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their households and
their tents and all the substance that was in their possession,
in the midst of all Israel: 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts
of The LORD which he did.
8 Therefore you shall keep all the commandments which I command you this
day, that you may be strong and go in and possess the land, where you go
to possess it; 9 And that you may prolong your days in the land,
which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a
land that flows with milk and honey. 10 For the land, where you go in to
possess, is not as the land of Egypt, from where you came out, where
you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of
herbs: 11 But the land, where you go to possess, is a land of hills
and valleys, and it drinks water of the rain of heaven: 12 A land
which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your God are
always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
13 And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments
which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God and to serve him
with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 That I will give you
the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain,
that you may gather in your corn and your wine, and your oil. 15 And I will
send grass in your fields for your cattle, that you may eat and be full.
16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart is not deceived and you turn
aside and serve other gods and worship them; 17 And then The LORD'S
wrath will be kindled against you and he will shut up the heaven, so that
there is no rain and so that the land will not yield her fruit; and
lest you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives
you.
18 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul,
and bind them for a sign on your hand, that they may be as frontlets between
your eyes. 19 And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them
when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, when you lie down
and when you rise up. 20 And you shall write them on the door posts of your
house and on your gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied and the days
of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give
to them, as the days of heaven on the earth. 22 For if you shall diligently
keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the
LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him; 23 Then will
the LORD drive out all these nations from before you and you shall possess
greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place on which the
soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon,
from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea shall your
border be. 25 No man shall be able to stand before you: for the
LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land
that you shall tread on, as he has said to you.
26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27 A blessing,
if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this
day: 28 And a curse, if you will not obey the commandments of the LORD your
God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after
other gods, who you have not known. 29 And it shall come to pass, when the
LORD your God has brought you in to the land where you go to possess it,
that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun
goes down, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain opposite
Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31 For you shall pass over Jordan to
go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you and you shall
possess it and dwell in it. 32 And you shall observe and do all the statutes
and judgments which I set before you this day.
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1 These are the statutes and judgments, which you shall observe
to do in the land, which the LORD God of your fathers gives you to possess,
all the days that you live on the earth. 2 You shall utterly destroy all
the places in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods,
on the high mountains and on the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And
you shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars and burn their groves
with fire; and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods and destroy
the names of them out of that place. 4 You shall not do so to the LORD your
God.
5 But to the place where the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes
to put his name, there shall you seek even to his habitation and
there you shall come: 6 Andyou shall bring your burnt offerings there and
your sacrifices, and your tithes and heave offerings of your hand and your
vows and your freewill offerings and the first born of your herds and of
your flocks: 7 And you shall eat before the LORD your God there and you shall
rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, by which
the LORD your God has blessed you. 8 You shall not do after all the
things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right
in his own eyes. 9 For you are not yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
which the LORD your God gives you. 10 But when you go over Jordan
and dwell in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit and
when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that
you dwell in safety; 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God
shall choose to cause his name to dwell; you shall bring all that I command
you there; your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the
heave offering of your hand and all your choice vows which you vow to the
LORD: 12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons
and your daughters and your menservants and your maidservants and the Levite
that is within your gates; forasmuch as he has no part nor inheritance
with you. 13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings
in every place that you see: 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose
in one of your tribes, you shall offer your burnt offerings there and you
shall do all that I command you there. 15 However you may kill and eat flesh
in all your gates, whatever your soul desires, according to the blessing
of the LORD your God which he has given to you: the unclean and the clean
may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer. 16 Only you shall not
eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth as water. 17 You may not eat
the tithe of your corn or of your wine within your gates, or of your oil,
or the first born of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your vows which
you vow, nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of your hand: 18
But you must eat them before The LORD your God in the place which the LORD
your God shall choose. You and your son and your daughter and your manservant
and your maidservant and the Levite that is within your gates: and
you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hands
to. 19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as
you live on the earth. 20 When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border,
as he has promised you and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your
soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires. 21If
the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name is too far from
you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has
given to you, as I have commanded you and you shall eat in your gates whatever
your soul desires. 22 Even as the gazelle and the hare is eaten, so you shall
eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the
life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh. 24 You shall not eat it;
you shall pour it on the earth as water. 25 You shall not eat it; that it
may go well with you and with your children after you, when you shall do
that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 26 Only your holy
things which you have and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which
the LORD shall choose: 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. 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command
you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you for ever,
when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD
your God. 29 When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before
you, where you go to possess them and you succeed them and dwell in their
land; 30 Take heed to yourself that after they are destroyed from before
you that you are not snared by following them,; and that you do not inquire
after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so
I will do likewise. 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for they
have done to their gods every abomination to the LORD which he hates; for
they have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their
gods. 32 Whatever thing I command you, observe to do: you shall not add to
it, nor diminish from it.
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1 If there arises among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams and he gives
you a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to
you, comes to pass, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not
known and let us serve them; 3 You shall not listen to the words of that
prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to
know whether you love The LORD your God with all your heart and with all
your soul. 4 You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep
his commandments and obey his voice and you shall serve him and cleave to
him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death;
because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of
bondage, to thrust you out of the way which The LORD your God commanded you
to walk in. So you shall put the evil away from the midst of you.
6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter,
or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul,
entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have
not known, you, nor your fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people
who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from
one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
8 You shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; nor shall your eye pity
him, nor shall you spare, nor shall you conceal him: 9 But you shall surely
kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death and afterward
the hand of all the people. 10 And you shall stone him with stones, so that
he dies; because he has sought to thrust you away from the LORD your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 11 And
all Israel shall hear and fear and shall not do such wickedness as this is
anymore among you.
12 If you shall hear said in one of your cities, which the LORD your God
has given to you to dwell in, 13 That certain men, the children
of Belial, are gone out from among you and have withdrawn the inhabitants
of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not
known; 14 Then you shall inquire, and make search and ask diligently; and
behold, if it is the truth, and the thing is certain,
that such abomination is worked among you; 15 You shall surely strike
the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying
it with the edge of the sword and all that is in it and its cattle.
16 And you shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street and shall
burn the city with fire and all its spoil, every whit for the LORD your God:
and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 17 And nothing
of the cursed thing shall cleave to your hand: so that the LORD may turn
from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion
on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; 18 When you shall
listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which
I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of
the LORD your God.
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1 You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For you
are a holy people to the LORD your God and the LORD has chosen you to be
a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that are on
the earth. 3 You shall not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are
the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep and the goat, 5 The deer
and the gazelle and the red deer and the wild goat and the antelope and the
wild ox and the mountain goat. 6 And every animal that parts the hoof and
cleaves the cleft into two hooves, and chews the cud among the animals,
that you may eat. 7 Nevertheless you shall not eat of these: of those that
chew the cud, or of those that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel
and the hare, and the rabbit: for they chew the cud, but do not divide the
hoof; therefore they are unclean to you. 8 And the swine,
because it divides the hoof, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean
to you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass. 9
These of all that are in the waters you may eat: you may eat all
that have fins and scales: 10 And whatever does not have fins and scales
you may not eat; it is unclean to you. 11 You may eat of
all clean birds. 12 But these are those of which you shall not eat:
the eagle and the ossifrage and the ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite
and the vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven after his kind, 15 And
the owl and the night hawk and the cuckow and the hawk after his kind, 16
The little owl and the great owl and the swan, 17 And the pelican and the
gier eagle and the cormorant, 18 And the stork and the heron after her kind
and the lapwing and the bat. 19 And every creeping thing that flies
is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten. 20 But of
all clean fowls you may eat. 21 You shall not eat of any thing that
dies of itself: you shall give it to the foreigner who is in your
gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a
holy people to The LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in his mother's
milk.
22 You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings
forth year by year. 23 And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the
place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of your corn,
of your wine, and of your oil and the first born of your herds and of your
flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. 24 And if the
way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or
if the place be too far from you, which The LORD your God shall choose to
set his name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you: 25 Then you shall
turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and shall
go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose: 26 And you shall bestow
that money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for
wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires: and you shall
eat there before the LORD your God and you shall rejoice; you and your household,
27 And the Levite who is within your gates; you shall not forsake
him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you. 28 At the end of three
years you shall bring out all the tithe of your increase the same year and
shall lay it up within your gates: 29 And the Levite, (because he
has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the foreigner, and the fatherless
and the widow, which are within your gates, shall come and shall
eat and be satisfied; so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the
work of your hand which you do.
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1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release. 2 And
this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends
anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not
exact it from his neighbor, or from his brother; because it is called
the LORD'S release. 3 You may exact it again of a foreigner: but
that which is yours with your brother your hand shall release; 4
Except when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly
bless you in the land which The LORD your God gives you for an
inheritance to possess it: 5 Only if you carefully listen to the voice of
the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command
you this day. 6 For the LORD your God blesses you, as he promised you: and
you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign
over many nations, but they shall not reign over you. 7 If there is among
you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land
which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut
your hand from your poor brother: 8 But you shall open your hand wide to
him and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which
he lacks. 9 Beware that there is not a thought in your wicked heart, saying,
The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against
your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against
you and it becomes sin to you. 10 You shall surely give him and your heart
shall not be grieved when you give to him: because that for this thing the
LORD your God shall bless you in all your works and in all that you put your
hand to. 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command
you, saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor
and to your needy in your land.
12 And if your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold
to you and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him
go free from you. 13 And when you send him out free from you, you shall not
let him go away empty: 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock
and out of your floor and out of your winepress: you shall give to him
from that which the LORD your God has blessed you. 15 And you shall
remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God
redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today. 16 And it shall be,
if he says to you, I will not go away from you; because he loves you and
your house, because he is well with you; 17 Then you shall take an awl and
thrust it through his ear to the door and he shall be your servant
for ever. And also you shall do likewise to your maidservant. 18 It shall
not seem hard to you, when you send him away free from you; for he has been
worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and
the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.
19 All the first born males that come from your herd and from your flock
you shall sanctify to the LORD your God: you shall not do any work with the
first born of your bullock, nor shear the first born of your sheep. 20 You
shall eat it before The LORD your God year by year in the place
which the LORD shall choose, you and your household. 21 And if there is
any blemish in it, if it is lame, or blind, or has
any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. 22 You
shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean alike, as the gazelle
and as the deer. 23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on
the ground as water.
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1 Observe the month of Abib and keep the passover to the LORD your God: for
in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth out of Egypt by
night. 2 You shall therefore sacrifice the passover to the LORD your God,
of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place
his name. 3 You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall
eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction; for
you came out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day
when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. 4 And there
shall be no leavened bread seen with you in all your border seven days; nor
shall any of the flesh remain all night until the morning, which
you sacrificed the first day at even. 5 You may not sacrifice the passover
within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives you: 6 But at the
place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name, there you shall
sacrifice the passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season
that you came forth out of Egypt. 7 And you shall roast and eat it
in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall return in
the morning and go to your tents. 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread:
and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your
God: you shall not do work. 9 You shall number to you seven weeks: begin
to number the seven weeks from when you begin to put the
sickle to the corn. 10 And you shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD
your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall
give to the LORD your God, according as the LORD your God has blessed
you: 11 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son
and your daughter and your manservant and your maidservant and the Levite
who is within your gates and the foreigner and the fatherless and
the widow, who are among you, in the place which the LORD your God
has chosen to place his name. 12 And you shall remember that you were a bondman
in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes. 13 You shall observe
the feast of tabernacles seven days, after you have gathered in your corn
and your wine: 14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and
your daughter and your manservant and your maidservant, and the Levite, the
foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your
gates. 15 You shall keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God seven days in
the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD your God shall bless
you in all your increase and in all the works of your hands, therefore you
shall surely rejoice. 16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear
before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast
of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles:
and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man shall
give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which
he has given to you.
18 You shall make Judges and officers for you in all your gates, which The
LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the
people with just judgment. 19 You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not
respect persons, nor take a gift: for a gift blinds the eyes of the wise
and perverts the words of the righteous. 20 You shall follow that which is
altogether just, so that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD
your God gives you. 21 You shall not plant a grove of any trees near to the
altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourselves. 22 Nor shall
you set up any image; which the LORD your God hates.
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1 You shall not sacrifice any bullock, or sheep, which has a blemish
to the LORD your God, or any injury: for that is an abomination
to the LORD your God. 2 If there is found among you, within any of your gates
which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman, that has worked wickedness
in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And has
gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon,
or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it is told
to you and you have heard it and inquired diligently and behold,
it is true, and the thing certain, that such an
abomination is worked in Israel: 5 Then you shall bring out to your gates
that man or that woman, who has committed that wicked thing, even
that man or that woman and you shall stone them with stones till they die.
6 At the mouth of two or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death
be put to death; but he shall not be put to death at the mouth of
one witness. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him
to death and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put the
evil away from among you.
8 If there arise a matter in judgment too hard for you, between blood and
blood, between plea and plea and between stroke and stroke, being
matters of controversy within your gates: then you shall arise and go up
to the place which the LORD your God shall choose; 9 And you shall come to
the priests the Levites and to the judge that shall be in those days and
inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment: 10 And you shall
do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall
choose shall show you; and you shall observe to do according to all that
they inform you: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall
teach you and you shall do according to the judgment which they shall tell
you,: you shall not decline from the sentence which they shall show you,
to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And the man who
will do presumptuously and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister
there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die:
and you shall put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall
hear and fear and not do presumptuously anymore.
14 When you are come to the land which the LORD your God gives you and shall
possess it and shall dwell in it and shall say, I will set a king over me,
like all the nations that are about me; 15 You shall surely set
him king over you, whom the LORD your God shall choose: one
you shall set a king over you from among your brothers: you may not set a
foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 But he shall not
multiply to himself horses, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, so that
he might multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD has said to you, you shall
not return from now on that way. 17 nor shall he multiply wives to himself,
so that his heart does not turn away: nor shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold. 18 And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom,
that he shall write a copy of this law in a book out of the book which
is before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with him and he
shall read in it all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the
LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do
them: 20 So that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers and that he
does not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or
to the left: so that he may prolong his days in his kingdom,
he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
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1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have
no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the
LORD made by fire, as their inheritance. 2 Therefore they shall have no
inheritance among their brothers: the LORD is their inheritance,
as he has said to them. 3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people,
from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is ox or sheep; and
they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two jawbones and the belly.
4 You shall also give him the firstfruit of your corn, of your wine
and of your oil and the first of the fleece of your sheep,. 5 For the LORD
your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the
name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6 And if a Levite comes from
any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned and comes with all
the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose; 7 Then he
shall minister in the name of The LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites
do, which stand there before The LORD. 8 They shall have like portions
to eat, beside that which comes of the sale of his forefathers goods.
9 When you are come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall
not learn to do the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be
found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through
the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times,
or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar
spirits, or a wizard, or a spirit medium. 12 For all who do these things
are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations
the LORD your God is driving them out from before you. 13 You shall be perfect
with the LORD your God. 14 For these nations, which you shall possess, listened
to observers of times and to diviners: but as for you, The LORD your God
has not suffered you to do so.
15 the LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet from the midst of you,
of your brothers, like me; you shall listen to him; 16 According to all that
you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying,
Let me not hear the voice of the LORD my God again, nor let me see this great
fire any more, so that I will not die. 17 And the LORD said to me, They have
said well that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise
them up a Prophet from among their brothers, like you and will put my words
in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. 19
And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen to my words
which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But
the prophet, who shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even
that prophet shall die. 21 And if you say in your heart, How shall we know
the word which the LORD has not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaks in the name
of The LORD, if the thing does not follow nor come to pass, that is
the thing which the LORD has not spoken, and the prophet has spoken
it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.
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1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations, whose land the LORD your
God gives you and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their
houses; 2 You shall separate three cities for you in the midst of your land,
which the LORD your God gives you to possess. 3 You shall prepare a way and
divide the borders of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit,
into three parts, that every slayer may flee there. 4 And this is
the case of the slayer, which shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever
kills his neighbor ignorantly, whom he did not hate in time past; 5 As when
a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand makes
a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree and the head slips from the handle
and hits his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of those cities
and live: 6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursues the slayer while his heart
is hot and overtakes him and kills him, because the way is long; whereas
he was not worthy of death, in that he did not hate him in time
past. 7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall separate three cities.
8 And if the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your
fathers and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
9 If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you
this day, to love the LORD your God and to walk ever in his ways; then you
shall add three more cities, beside these three: 10 So that innocent blood
will not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for
an inheritance and blood be on you. 11 But if any man hates his neighbor
and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes him mortally
so that he dies and flees to one of these cities: 12 Then the elders of his
city shall send and bring him from there and deliver him into the hand of
the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but
you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that
it may go well with you.
14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time
have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the
LORD your God gives you to possess. 15 One witness shall not rise up against
a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth
of two or three witnesses, shall the matter be established. 16 If a false
witness rises up against any man to testify against him in that which
is wrong; 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy
is, shall stand before The LORD, before the priests and the judges,
which shall be in those days; 18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition:
and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and
has testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then you shall do to him, as
he had thought to have done to his brother: so you shall put the evil away
from among you. 20 And those who remain shall hear and fear and shall from
then commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And your eye shall not pity;
but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,
hand for hand, foot for foot.
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1 When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots,
and a people more than yourself, do not be afraid of them: for the
LORD your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt is with
you. 2 And it shall be, when you are come near to the battle, that the priest
shall approach and speak to the people, 3 And shall say to them, Hear, O
Israel, this day you approach to battle against your enemies: let not your
hearts faint, do not fear and tremble, nor be terrified because of them;
4 For the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you. 5 And the officers shall speak to the
people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house and
has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in
the battle and another man dedicates it. 6 And what man is he who
has planted a vineyard and has not yet eaten of it? let him
also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another
man eat of it. 7 And what man is there who has betrothed a wife
and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in
the battle and another man take her. 8 And the officers shall speak further
to the people and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful
and fainthearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brothers'
heart faint as well as his heart. 9 And it shall be, when the officers have
made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the
armies to lead the people.
10 When you come near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace
to it. 11 And it shall be, if it makes an answer of peace to you and opens
to you, then it shall be, that all the people that are
found in it shall be tributaries to you and they shall serve you. 12 And
if it will not make peace with you, but will make war against you, then you
shall besiege it: 13 And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your
hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword: 14 But
the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city,
even all its spoil, you shall take for yourself; and you shall eat
the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given to you. 15 Thus
you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you,
which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 But you shall save
alive nothing that breathes of the cities of these people which the LORD
your God gives you for an inheritance: 17 But you shall utterly
destroy them; namely, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites
and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has
commanded you: 18 So that they do not teach you to do after all their
abominations, which they have done to their gods; so that you should sin
against the LORD your God. 19 When you shall besiege a city a long time,
in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees there
by forcing an axe against them: because you may eat of them and you shall
not cut them down to employ them in the siege: (for the tree of
the field is a man's life) 20 You shall destroy and cut
down only the trees which you know are not trees for food and you
shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it is
subdued.
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1 If a person is found killed in the land which the LORD your God
gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who
has killed him: 2 Then your elders and your judges shall come out and they
shall measure to the cities which are round about him who has been
killed: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is nearest
to the man killed, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which
has not been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; 4
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a rough valley,
which is neither eared nor sown and shall strike off the heifer's neck there
in the valley: 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; Because
the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the
name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke
be tried: 6 And all the elders of that city, that are near
to the killed man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is
beheaded in the valley: 7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not
shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it. 8 Be merciful, O LORD,
to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed and do not lay innocent blood
to your people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
9 So you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you,
when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
10 When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD your God has
delivered them into your hands and you have taken them captive, 11 And you
see among the captives a beautiful woman and have a desire for her, so that
you would have her for your wife; 12 Then you shall bring her home to your
house; and she shall shave her head and cut her nails; 13 And she shall put
the clothes of her captivity from her and shall remain in your house and
bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you may go
in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14 And it shall
be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will;
but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise
of her, because you have humbled her.
15 If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated and they have born
him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the
firstborn son is hers who was hated: 16 Then it shall be, when he makes his
sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make
the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is
indeed the firstborn: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated
for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he
has: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn
is his.
18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice
of his father, or his mother and when they have chastened him, will not listen
to them: 19 Then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring
him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place; 20 And they
shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and
rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, so that he dies:
so you shall put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and
fear. 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put
to death and you hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night
on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day; (for he that is hanged
is accursed of God;) so that your land is not defiled, which the
LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
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1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself
from them: you shall in any case bring them again to your brother. 2 And
if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then
you shall bring it to your own house and it shall be with you until your
brother seeks after it and you shall restore it to him again. 3 In like manner
you shall do with his ass; and so you shall do with his clothes; and with
all lost things of your brother's, which he has lost and you have found,
you shall do likewise: you may not hide yourself. 4 You shall not see your
brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way and hide yourself from them:
you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
5 The woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, nor shall a man
put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination to
the LORD your God. 6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way
in any tree, or on the ground, whether they are young ones, or eggs
and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the
hen with the young: 7 But you shall surely let the hen go and take
the young; that it may be well with you and that you may prolong
your days. 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement
for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house if any man falls
from there. 9 You shall not sow your vineyard with different seeds: lest
the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard,
is defiled. 10 You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together. 11 You
shall not wear a garment of different sorts, as of wool and linen
together. 12 You shall make fringes on the four quarters of your clothes,
with which you cover yourself.
13 If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her,
14 And gives occasions of speech against her and brings up an evil name on
her and says, I took this woman and when I came to her, I found her not a
maid: 15 Then shall the father of the maiden and her mother, take and bring
forth the tokens of the maiden's virginity to the elders of the
city in the gate: 16 And the maiden's father shall say to the elders, I gave
my daughter to this man as a wife and he hates her; 17 and lo, he has given
occasions of speech against her, saying, I did not find your daughter
a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.
And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 And the
elders of that city shall take that man and discipline him; 19 And they shall
fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to
the father of the maiden, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin
of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
20 But if this thing is true, and the tokens of virginity are not
found for the maiden: 21 Then they shall bring out the maiden to the door
of her father's house and the men of her city shall stone her with stones
so that she dies: because she has worked folly in Israel, to play the whore
in her father's house: so you shall put evil away from among you. 22 If a
man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both
of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the
woman: so you shall put away evil from Israel. 23 If
a maiden who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband and a man finds
her in the city and lies with her; 24 Then you shall bring them both
out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them with stones so that
they die; the maiden, because she did not cry out, being in the
city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall
put away evil from among you. 25 But if a man finds a betrothed maiden in
the field and the man forces her and lies with her: then the man only that
laid with her shall die: 26 But you shall do nothing to the maiden; there
is in the maiden no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against
his neighbor and slays him, even so is this matter: 27 For he found
her in the field, and the betrothed maiden cried and there
was no one to save her. 28 If a man finds a maiden who is a
virgin, who is not betrothed and lays hold on her, and lies with her and
they are found; 29 Then the man that laid with her shall give to the maiden's
father fifty shekels of silver and she shall be his wife; because
he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 30 A man shall
not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
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1 He that is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall
not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 2 A bastard shall not enter
into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation he shall
not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall
not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation
they shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever: 4 Because
they did not meet you with bread and with water in the way when you came
out of Egypt; and because they hired Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of
Mesopotamia against you, to curse you. 5 But the LORD your God would not
listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing
to you, because the LORD your God loved you. 6 You shall not seek their peace
nor their prosperity all your days for ever. 7 You shall not hate an Edomite;
for he is your brother: you shall not hate an Egyptian; because
you were a foreigner in his land. 8 The children that are begotten of them
shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
9 When the host goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every
wicked thing. 10 If there is among you any man, who is not clean by reason
of uncleanness which chances on him by night, then he shall go abroad out
of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 11 But it shall be, when
evening comes, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun
is down, he shall come to the camp again. 12 You shall have a place
also out side the camp, where you shall go abroad: 13 And you shall have
a paddle on your weapon; and it shall be, when you will ease yourself abroad,
you shall dig with it and shall turn back and cover that which comes from
you: 14 For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver
you and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be
holy: so that he sees no unclean thing in you and turns away from you.
15 You shall not deliver the servant to his master who is escaped from his
master: 16 He shall dwell with you, even among you, in that place
which he shall choose in one of your gates, where it seems best for him:
you shall not oppress him. 17 There shall be no whore
of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 You
shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a sodomite to the house
of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are abomination
to the LORD your God. 19 You shall not lend on usury to your brother; usury
of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent on usury: 20
You may lend on usury to a foreigner; but you shall not lend on usury to
your brother: so that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set
your hand to in the land where you go to possess. 21 When you shall vow a
vow to The LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for the LORD
your God will surely require it from you; and it will be sin to you. 22 But
if you shall forbear to vow, it shall not be sin to you. 23 You shall keep
and perform that which is gone out of your lips; even a freewill
offering, according as you have vowed to The LORD your God, which you have
promised with your mouth. 24 When you come to your neighbor's vineyard, then
you may eat grapes to your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put
any in your vessel. 25 When you come to the standing corn of your
neighbor, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move
a sickle to your neighbor's standing corn.
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1 When a man has taken a wife and married her and it comes to pass that she
finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her:
then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her
hand and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his
house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the
latter husband hates her and writes her a bill of divorcement and gives
it in her hand and sends her out of his house; or if the latter
husband die, who took her to be his wife; 4 Her former husband,
who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she
is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you shall
not cause the land to sin, which The LORD your God gives you for
an inheritance.
5 When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, nor shall
he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one
year and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken. 6 No man shall take the
lower or the upper millstone to pledge: for he takes a man's life
to pledge. 7 If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children
of Israel and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall
die; and you shall put evil away from among you. 8 Take heed in the plague
of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the
priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you
shall observe to do. 9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam by the
way, after you had come out of Egypt. 10 When you lend your brother any thing,
you shall not go into his house to take back his pledge. 11 You shall stand
abroad and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge abroad to
you. 12 And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:
13 In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down,
that he may sleep in his own clothes, and bless you: and it shall be
righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
whether he is of your brothers, or of your foreigners who
are in your land within your gates: 15 At his day you shall give
him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he
is poor and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to the
LORD and it is a sin to you. 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for
the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every
man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 You shall not pervert the judgment
of the foreigner, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothes
to pledge: 18 But you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt and
the LORD your God redeemed you from there: therefore I command you to do
this thing. 19 When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten
a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to retrieve it: it shall be
for the foreigner, for the fatherless and for the widow: that the LORD your
God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat your olive
tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner,
for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When you gather the grapes of your
vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the
foreigner, for the fatherless and for the widow. 22 And you shall remember
that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to
do this thing.
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1 If there is a controversy between men and they come to judgment, so that
the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous
and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man is
worthy to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten
before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 He may give
him forty stripes and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed
and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem
vile to you. 4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the
grain.
5 If brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no child, the wife
of the dead shall not marry outside to a foreigner: her husband's brother
shall go in to her and take her to him as a wife and perform the duty of
a husband's brother to her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn
which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is
dead, so that his name is not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man does not
like to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the
gate to the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name
in Israel to his brother, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him: and
if he stands to it and says, I do not like to take her;
9 Then shall his brother's wife come to him in the presence of the elders
and loose his shoe from off his foot and spit in his face and shall answer
and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother's
house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has
his shoe loosed. 11 When men strive together one with another and the wife
of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that
strikes him, and puts forth her hand and takes him by the genitals: 12 Then
you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her.
13 You shall not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small.
14 You shall not have in your house different measures, a great and a small.
15 But you shall have a perfect and just weight, you shall have
a perfect and just measure: so that your days may be lengthened in the land
which the LORD your God gives you. 16 For all that do such things,
and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the
LORD your God. 17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were
coming out of Egypt; 18 How he met you by the way, and struck your rear part,
even all that were feeble behind you, when you
were faint and weary; and he did not fear God. 19 Therefore it shall
be, when the LORD your God has given rest to you from all your enemies round
about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance
to possess, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from
under heaven; you shall not forget it.
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1 And it shall be, when you are come in to the land which the LORD your God
gives to you for an inheritance and you possess it and dwell in
it; 2 That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which
you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you and shall put
it in a basket and shall go to the place which the LORD your God
shall choose to place his name. 3 And you shall go to the priest that shall
be in those days and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD your God,
that I am come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give
us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down
before the altar of the LORD your God. 5 And you shall speak and say before
the LORD your God, My father wasa Syrian ready to perish and he
went down to Egypt and sojourned there with a few and became a nation there,
great, mighty and populous: 6 And the Egyptians entreated us evil and afflicted
us and laid hard bondage on us: 7 And when we cried to the LORD God of our
fathers, the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor
and our oppression: 8 And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty
hand, and with an outstretched arm and with great terribleness and with signs
and with wonders: 9 And he has brought us to this place and has given us
this land, even a land that flows with milk and honey. 10 And now,
behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have
given me. And you shall set it before the LORD your God and worship before
the LORD your God: 11 And you shall rejoice in every good thing
which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you and the
Levite and the foreigner who is among you.
12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the
third year, which is the year of tithing and have given it
to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, that they may
eat within your gates and be filled; 13 Then you shall say before the LORD
your God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of my house
and also have given them to the Levite and to the foreigner, to the fatherless
and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded
me: I have not transgressed your commandments, nor have I forgotten
them: 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, nor have I taken
away anything of it for any unclean use, nor given
anything of it for the dead: but I have listened to the
voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that you
have commanded me. 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven and
bless your people Israel and the land which you have given us, as you swore
to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.
16 This day the LORD your God has commanded you to do these statutes and
judgments: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with
all your soul. 17 You have promised the LORD this day that he is your God
and to walk in his ways and to keep his statutes and his commandments and
his judgments and to listen to his voice: 18 And the LORD has promised you
this day that you are his peculiar people, as he has promised you and that
you should keep all his commandments; 19 And to make you high above
all nations which he has made, in praise and in name and in honor; and that
you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.
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1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep
all the commandments which I command you this day. 2 And it shall be on the
day when you shall pass over Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives
you, that you shall set up great stones and plaster them with plaster: 3
And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed
over, that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a
land that flows with milk and honey; as the LORD God of your fathers has
promised you. 4 Therefore it shall be when you are gone over Jordan,
that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day,
in mount Ebal and you shall plaster them with plaster. 5 And you shall build
an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift
up any iron tool on them. 6 You shall build the altar of
the LORD your God of whole stones: and you shall offer burnt offerings on
it to the LORD your God: 7 And you shall offer peace offerings and shall
eat there and rejoice before the LORD your God. 8 And you shall write on
the stones all the words of this law very plainly. 9 And Moses and the priests
the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Take heed and listen, O Israel;
this day you are become the people of The LORD your God. 10 You shall therefore
obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do his commandments and his statutes,
which I command you this day.
11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 12 These shall stand
on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are come over Jordan; Simeon
and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin: 13 And these shall
stand on Mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad and Asher and Zebulun, Dan and
Naphtali. 14 And the Levites shall speak and say to all the men of Israel
with a loud voice, 15 Cursed is the man who makes any graven
or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the
craftsman and puts it in a secret place. And all
the people shall answer and say, Amen. 16 Cursed is he who sets
light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 17
Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people
shall say, Amen. 18 Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out
of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed is he
who perverts the judgment of the foreigner, fatherless and widow. And all
the people shall say, Amen. 20 Cursed is he who lies with his father's
wife; because he uncovers his father's skirt. And all the people shall say,
Amen. 21 Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal. And all
the people shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed is he who lies with his sister,
the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people
shall say, Amen. 23 Cursed is he who lies with his mother in law.
And all the people shall say, Amen. 24 Cursed is he who strikes
his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed
is he who takes a reward to slay an innocent person. And all the
people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed is he who does not confirm
all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say,
Amen.
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1 And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the voice
of The LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments
which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high
above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on you
and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
3 Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be
in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body and the
fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cows
and the flocks of your sheep. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and
your store. 6 Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed
shall you be when you go out. 7 The LORD shall cause your enemies
who rise up against you to be struck before your face: they shall come out
against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8 the LORD shall command
the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all that you set your hand
to; and he shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
9 the LORD shall establish you as a holy people to himself, as he has sworn
to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk
in his ways. 10 And all people of the earth shall see that you are called
by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you. 11 And the LORD
shall make you abound in goods, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit
of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD
swore to your fathers to give it to you. 12 The LORD shall open to you his
good treasure, the heaven to give the rain to your land in its season and
to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations and
you shall not borrow. 13 And The LORD shall make you the head and not the
tail; and you shall be above only and you shall not be beneath; if you listen
to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, to
observe and to do them: 14 And you shall not go aside from any of
the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or
to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the
LORD your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which
I command you this day; that all these curses shall come on you and overtake
you: 16 Cursed shall you be in the city and cursed shall you
be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your
store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of
your land, the increase of your kine and the flocks of your sheep. 19 Cursed
shall you be when you come in and cursed shall you be when
you go out. 20 the LORD shall send on you cursing, vexation and rebuke, in
all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish
quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, by which you have forsaken
me. 21 the LORD shall make the pestilence cleave to you, until he has consumed
you from off the land, where you go to possess it. 22 The LORD shall strike
you with a consumption and with a fever and with an inflammation and with
an extreme burning and with the sword and with blasting and with mildew;
and they shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And your heaven that
is over your head shall be brass and the earth that is under you
shall be iron. 24the LORD shall make the rain of your land powder
and dust: from heaven shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
25 the LORD shall cause you to be struck before your enemies: you shall go
out one way against them and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed
to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And your carcass shall be meat to all
fowls of the air and to the animals of the earth and no man shall fray
them away. 27 the LORD will strike you with the botch of Egypt and
with the hemorrhoids and with the scab and with the itch from which you can
not be healed. 28 the LORD shall strike you with madness and blindness and
astonishment of heart: 29 And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes
in darkness and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall only be
oppressed and spoiled evermore and no man shall save you. 30 You
shall betroth a wife and another man shall lie with her: you shall build
a house and you shall not dwell in it: you shall plant a vineyard and shall
not gather its grapes. 31 Your ox shall be killed before your eyes
and you shall not eat of it: your ass shall be violently taken away
from before your face and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall
be given to your enemies and you shall have no one to rescue
them. 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to
another people and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for
them all the day long: and there shall be no might in your hand.
33 The fruit of your land and all your labors, shall a nation which you know
not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always: 34 So that
you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 35 the LORD
shall strike you in the knees and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot
be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. 36 the LORD
shall bring you and your king which 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. 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb
and a byword, among all nations where The LORD shall lead you. 38 You shall
carry much seed out to the field and shall gather little in; for the locust
shall consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards, and dress them,
but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes;
for the worms shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all
your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for
your olive shall cast its fruit. 41 You shall beget sons and daughters,
but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. 42 All your
trees and fruit of your land the locust shall consume. 43 The foreigner who
is within you shall go up very high above you; and you shall come
down very low. 44 He shall lend to you and you shall not lend to him: he
shall be the head and you shall be the tail.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come on you and shall pursue you and overtake
you, till you are destroyed; because you did not listen to the voice of The
LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded
you: 46 And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder and on your
seed for ever. 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness
and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48
Therefore you shall serve your enemies who the LORD shall send against you,
in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things:
and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
49 The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the
earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall
not understand; 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard
the person of the old, nor show favor to the young: 51 And he shall eat the
fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed:
which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil,
or the increase of your cows, or flocks of your sheep, until he
has destroyed you. 52 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your
high and fenced walls which you trusted in come down through out all your
land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates through out all your land,
which the LORD your God has given to you. 53 And you shall eat the fruit
of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the
LORD your God has given to you, in the siege and in the straitness, with
which your enemies shall distress you: 54 So that the man who
is tender among you and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward
his brother and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his
children whom he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them
of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left
to him in the siege and in the straitness, with which your enemies shall
distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you,
who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for
delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of
her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young
one who comes out from between her feet and toward her children which she
shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly
in the siege and straitness, wherewith your enemy shall distress you in your
gates. 58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are
written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, the
LORD Your GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful and the
plagues of your seed, even great plagues and of long continuance
and sore sicknesses and of long continuance. 60 Moreover he will bring on
you all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cling
to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written
in the book of this law, those will the LORD bring on you, until you are
destroyed. 62 And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the
stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the
LORD your God. 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced
over you to do you good and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over
you to destroy you and to demolish you; and you shall be plucked from off
the land where you go to possess it. 64 And the LORD shall scatter you among
all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other; and there you
shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known,
even wood and stone. 65 And among these nations you shall find no
ease, nor shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give
you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind: 66 And
your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night
and shall have no assurance of your life: 67 In the morning you shall say,
O that it were evening! and at evening you shall say, O that it were morning!
for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear and for the sight of
your eyes which you shall see. 68 And the LORD shall bring you to Egypt again
with ships, by the way of which I spoke to you, You shall not see it any
more: and there you shall be sold to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen
and no man shall buy you. *
*
This was literally fulfilled after the overthrow of Bar Cochba in 135 CE.
There was a glut of Jews sold in the slave markets and Jews were sold for
half a loaf of bread.
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1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the
covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 And Moses called to all Israel
and said to them, you have seen all that the LORD did to Pharaoh before your
eyes in the land of Egypt, and to all his servants and to all his land; 3
The great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs and those great
miracles: 4 Yet the LORD has not given to you a heart to perceive and eyes
to see and ears to hear, to this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in
the wilderness: your clothes are not worn out on you and your shoe is not
worn out on your foot. 6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine
or strong drink: that you might know that I am The LORD your God.
7 And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the
king of Bashan, came out against us to battle and we struck them: 8 And we
took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the
Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 9 Keep therefore the words of
this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10 All of you stand this day before the LORD your God; your captains of your
tribes, your elders and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
11 Your little ones, your wives and your foreigner who is in your
camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water: 12 That you
should enter into covenant with the LORD your God and into his oath, which
the LORD your God makes with you this day: 13 That he may establish you today
for a people to himself and that he may be to you a God, as he has
said to you and as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and
to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15 But with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD
our God and also with him who is not here with us this
day: 16 (For you know how we have dwelled in the land of Egypt; and how we
came through the nations which you passed by; 17 And you have seen their
abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which
were among them:) 18 Lest there should be among you, man, or woman,
or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God,
to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be
among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; 19 And it is, when he hears
the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I
shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add
drunkenness to thirst: 20 the LORD will not spare him, but then the anger
of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man and all the curses
that are written in this book shall lie on him and the LORD shall blot out
his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD shall separate him to evil out
of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant
that are written in this book of the law: 22 So that the generation to come
of your children who shall rise up after you and the foreigner who shall
come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land and
the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it; 23 And that its whole
land is brimstone and salt, and burning, that
it is not sown and does not bear, nor does any grass grows in it, like the
overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew
in his anger and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the
LORD done this to this land? what does the heat of this great anger
mean? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant
of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought
them out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods and
worshiped them, gods whom they knew not and whom he had not given
to them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring
on it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted
them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and
cast them to another land, as it is this day. 29 The secret things
belong to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed
belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may
do all the words of this law.
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1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come on you, the blessing
and the curse, which I have set before you and you shall call them
to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you, 2
And shall return to the LORD your God and shall obey his voice according
to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your
heart and with all your soul; 3 That then the LORD your God will turn your
captivity and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from
all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you. 4 If any
of you are driven out to the utmost parts of heaven, the LORD your
God will gather you from there and he will retrieve you: 5 And the LORD your
God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed and you shall
possess it; and he will do you good and multiply you above your fathers.
6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your
seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
that you may live. 7 And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your
enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8 And you shall return
and obey the voice of the LORD and do all his commandments which I command
you this day. 9 And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work
of your hand, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle,
and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice
over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers: 10 If you shall listen
to the voice of The LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes
which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the
LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
11 For this commandment which I command you this day, is not hidden
from you, nor is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that
you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it to us, that
we may hear it and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that
you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that
we may hear it and do it? 14 But the word is very near to you, in
your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
15 See, I have set before you this day life and good and death and evil;
16 In that I command you this day 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 the LORD your God shall bless you in the land
where you go to possess it. 17 But if your heart turns away, so that you
will not hear, but shall be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them;
18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that
you shall not prolong your days on the land, where you pass over
Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day
against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing
and cursing: therefore choose life, so that both you and your seed may live:
20 So that you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey
his voice and that you may cleave to him: for he is your life and
the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore
to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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1 And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 2 And he said to them,
I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can not go out and
come in any more: also the LORD has said to me, You shall not go over this
Jordan. 3 The LORD your God will go over before you, and he will
destroy these nations before you, and you shall possess them: and
Joshua shall go over before you, as the LORD has said. 4 And the LORD shall
do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites and to their
land which he destroyed. 5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face,
that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded
you. 6 Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for
the LORD your God, is he who goes with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake
you. 7 And Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel,
Be strong and of a good courage: for you must go with this people to the
land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give to them; and you shall
cause them to inherit it. 8 And the LORD, is he who goes before
you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, nor forsake you: fear not,
nor be dismayed.
9 And Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi,
who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD and to all the elders of Israel.
10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years,
in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which
he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
12 Gather the people together, men and women and children and your foreigner
who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn
and fear the LORD your God and observe to do all the words of this law: 13
And that their children, which have not known anything,
may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the
land where you go over Jordan to possess it.
14 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die:
call Joshua and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation,
that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves
in the tabernacle of the congregation. 15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle
in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of
the tabernacle. 16 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with
your fathers; and this people will rise up and go a whoring after the gods
of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them and
will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then
my anger shall be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them
and I will hide my face from them and they shall be devoured and many evils
and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not
these evils come on us, because our God is not among us? 18 And
I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall
have worked, in that they are turned to other gods. 19 Now therefore write
this song for yourself and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in
their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children
of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them to the land which I swore
to their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten
and filled themselves and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods and
serve them and provoke me and break my covenant. 21 And it shall come to
pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall
testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the
mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even
now, before I have brought them to the land which I swore.
22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it the children
of Israel. 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge and said, Be strong
and of a good courage: for you shall bring the children of Israel to the
land which I swore to them: and I will be with you. 24 And it was, when Moses
had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were
finished, 25 That Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant
of the LORD, saying, 26 Take this book of the law and put it inside of the
ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness
against you. 27 For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck: behold, while
I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD;
and how much more after my death? 28 Gather to me all the elders of your
tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and
call heaven and earth as witness against them. 29 For
I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves and
turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall
you in the latter days; because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD,
to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 30 And Moses spoke
in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until
they were ended.
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1 Give ear, O you heavens and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words
of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil
as the dew, as the small rain on the tender herb and as the showers on the
grass: 3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe greatness to
our God. 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all
his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, he
isjust and right 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot
is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse
and crooked generation. 6 Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people
and unwise? is he not your father who has bought you? has
he not made you and established you?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your
father and he will show you; your elders and they will tell you. 8 When the
most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the
sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of
the children of Israel. 9 For the LORD'S portion is his people;
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert
land and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed
him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As an eagle stirs up her nest,
flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them
on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone led him and there was
no foreign god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey
out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of cows and milk
of sheep, with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and goats, with
the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you drank the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked: you have grown
fat, you have grown thick, you have covered with fatness; then he
forsook God who made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods, with abominations
they provoked him to anger. 17 They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to
gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came up newly, whom your
fathers did not fear. 18 You are unmindful of the Rock to whom you were born
and have forgotten God who formed you.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because
of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will
hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for
they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is
no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not
God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move
them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke
them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger
and shall burn to the lowest Sheol and shall consume the earth with her increase
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap mischiefs
on them; I will spend my arrows on them. 24 They shall be burnt
with hunger and devoured with burning heat and with bitter destruction: I
will also send the teeth of s on them, with the poison of serpents of the
dust. 25 The sword without and terror within, shall destroy both the young
man and the virgin, the suckling also animals with the man of gray
hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance
of them to cease from among men: 27 Was it not that I feared the wrath of
the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely,
and lest they should say, Our hand is high and the LORD
has not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel,
neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were
wise, that they understood this, that they would consider
their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand
to flight, except their Rock had sold them and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom
and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall,
their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison
of dragons and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up
in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35 Vengeance
and recompence belongs to me; their foot shall slide in due
time: for the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that
shall come on them hasten. 36 For the LORD shall judge his people and repent
himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone
and there is no one shut up, or left. 37 And he shall say, Where
are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Those
who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their
drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he and there is
no god with me: I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal: neither is
there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand
to heaven and say, I live for ever. 41 If I sharpen my glittering sword and
my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies and
will reward those who hate me. 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood
and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the
killed and of the captives, from the beginning of revenge on the enemy. 43
Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the
blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will
be merciful to his land, and to his people.
44 And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the
people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. 45 And Moses finished speaking all
these words to all Israel: 46 And he said to them, Set your hearts to all
the words which I testify among you this day, which you shall command your
children to observe to do all the words of this law. 47 For it is
not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this
thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over
Jordan to possess it. 48 And the LORD spoke to Moses that selfsame day, saying,
49 Go up to this mountain Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is
in the land of Moab, that is opposite Jericho; and behold the land
of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession: 50 And
die in the mount where you go and be gathered to your people; as Aaron your
brother died in mount Hor and was gathered to his people: 51 Because you
trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of
Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me
in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 Yet you shall see the land before
you; but you shall not go there to the land which I give the children
of Israel.
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1 And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed
the children of Israel before his death. 2 And he said, the LORD came from
Sinai, and rose up from Seir to them; he shined forth from mount Paran and
he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a
fiery law for them. 3 Yes, he loved the people; all his saints are
in your hand: and they sat down at your feet; every one shall receive
your words. 4 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of
the congregation of Jacob. 5 And he was king in Jeshurun,
when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered
together.
6 Let Reuben live and not die; and let his men not be few. 7 And
this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice
of Judah and bring him to his people: let his hands be sufficient for him;
and be a help to him from his enemies.
8 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be
with your holy one, whom you proved at Massah, and with whom you
strove at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said to his father and to his mother,
I have not seen him; nor did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew his own
children: for they have observed your word and kept your covenant. 10 They
shall teach Jacob your judgments and Israel your law: they shall put incense
before you and whole burnt sacrifice on your altar. 11 LORD, Bless his substance
and accept the work of his hands: strike through the loins of those who rise
against him and of those who hate him, so that they will not rise again.
12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell
in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long
and he shall dwell between his shoulders. 13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed
of the LORD is his land, for the precious things of heaven, for
the dew and for the deep that crouches beneath, 14 And for the precious fruits
brought out by the sun and for the precious things put forth by
the moon, 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains and for the
precious things of the everlasting hills, 16 And for the precious things
of the earth and its fullness and for the good will of him who dwelled
in the bush: let the blessing come on the head of Joseph and on
the top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.
17 His glory is like the first born of his bullock and his horns
are like the horns of wild bulls: with them he shall push the people
together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands
of Ephraim and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar,
in your tents. 19 They shall call the people to the mountain; there they
shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck the abundance
of the seas and of treasures hid in the sand. 20 And of Gad he said,
Blessed is he who enlarges Gad: he dwells as a lion and tears the
arm with the crown of the head. 21 And he provided the first part for himself,
because he was seated in a portion of the lawgiver; and
he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of The LORD
and his judgments with Israel.
22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from
Bashan. 23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor and
full with the blessing of the LORD: possess the west and the south. 24 And
of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let
him be acceptable to his brothers and let him dip his foot in oil. 25 Your
shoes shall be iron and brass; and as your days, so your
strength shall be.
26 There is none like to the God of Jeshurun, who rides
on the heaven in your help and in his excellency on the sky. 27 The eternal
God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms:
and he shall thrust out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy
them. 28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of
Jacob shall be on a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall
drop down dew. 29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like
you, O people saved by The LORD, the shield of your help and who is
the sword of your excellency! and your enemies shall be found liars; and
you shall tread on their high places.
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1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to the mountain of Nebo, to the
top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him
all the land of Gilead, to Dan, 2 And all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim
and Manasseh and all the land of Judah, to the further most sea, 3 And the
Negev and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to
Zoar. 4 And the LORD said to him, This is the land which I swore
to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: I
have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over
there.
5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according
to the word of the LORD. 6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab,
opposite Bethpeor: but no man knows of his sepulcher to this day. 7 And Moses
was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim,
nor his natural force abated. 8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses
in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning
for Moses were ended.
9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had
laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him and did
as The LORD commanded Moses. 10 And a prophet like Moses did not arise since
in Israel, whom the LORD knew face to face, 11 In all the signs and the wonders,
which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all
his servants and to all his land, 12 And in all that mighty hand and in all
the great terror which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.
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