1 Scroll 05 Deuteronomy.
These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on the east side of the Jordan in the wilderness,
in the plain opposed to Suf, 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 Kadesh-barnea).
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And it came to pass 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 Commandment to them;
4 after he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
5 on the east side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this Law, saying,
6 The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
7 turn ye, and take your journey, and go to the Mount of the Amorites, and to all the places near to it, in the plain, on the hills, and in the valley, 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 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, ye are this day as the stars of Heaven for multitude.
11 May the LORD, God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He has promised you!
12 How can I alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13 Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them chiefs over you.
14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which Thou 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 I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17 Ye shall not respect of persons[favouritism] in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man;
for the judgment of GOD: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring to Me, and I will hear it.
18 I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20 I said to you, Ye have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God does give to us.
21 Behold, the LORD Thy God has set the land before Thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD, God of Thy fathers has said to Thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
22 And ye came near to me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall explore the land for us, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
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And the saying pleased me well: and I took Twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
24 and they turned and ascended the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and explored it;
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 does give us.
26 Nevertheless ye would not go up, but rebelled against the Commandment of the LORD your God:
27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, He has brought us forth from the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28 Where shall we go up? Our brethren 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, neither be afraid of them.
30 The LORD your God who goes before you; He shall fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
31 and in the wilderness, where Thou have seen how the LORD Thy God bore Thee, as a man bears his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
33 who went in the way before you, to search out for you a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
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The LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, 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 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he has trod upon, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD.
37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shall not go in there.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before Thee, he shall go in there. Encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39 Moreover, your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children,
which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
40 But as for you, turn ye, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
41 Then ye 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 ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to ascend the mountain.
42 The LORD said to me, Say to them, Go not up, neither fight; for I AM not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
43 So I spoke to you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the Commandment of the LORD, and presumptuously ascended the mountain.
44 And the Amorites, who dwelt on that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even to Hormah.
45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not listen to your voice, nor give ear to you.
46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that ye abode there. Num 13:25
1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me: and we went around Mount Seir many days.
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The LORD spoke to me, saying,
3 Ye have gone around this mountain long enough: turn ye northward.
4 And command Thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: therefore take ye good heed to yourselves:
5 meddle not 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 Ye shall buy food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
7 For the LORD Thy God has blessed Thee in all the works of Thy hand: He knows Thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD Thy God has been with Thee: Thou have lacked nothing.
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And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir,
through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-geber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 The LORD said to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give Thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession;
10 (the Emim dwelt in it 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 dwelt formerly in Seir, but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them).
13 Now rise, I said, and pass over the brook Zered: and we went over the brook Zered.
14 And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we passed the brook Zered, was thirty eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted 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 And it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people.
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That the LORD spoke to me, saying,
18 Thou are to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
19 and when Thou come near opposed to the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them:
for I will not give Thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession;
because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession;
20 (that also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt in it 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 dwelt in their stead:
22 as He did to the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horim from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead until this day:
23 and the Avim who dwelt in Hazerim even to Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth from Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead).
24 Arise ye, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into Thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
25 This day will I begin to put the dread of Thee and the fear of Thee upon the nations that are under the whole Heaven, who shall hear report of Thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of Thee.
26 I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27 Let me pass through Thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn to the right hand or to the left.
28 Thou shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will 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 the Jordan into 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 Thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into Thy hand, as appears this day.
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The LORD said to me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before Thee: begin to possess, that Thou may inherit his land.
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33 The LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote 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 of every city, we left none to remain.
35 Only the cattle we took 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 only to the land of the children of Ammon Thou came not, nor to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities on the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God forbad us.
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.
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The LORD said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into Thy hand; and Thou shall do to him as Thou did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.
3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number.
6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to 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 to ourselves.
8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side of the Jordan, 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.
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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 the length of it, four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half Mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
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, Bashan-Havoth-Jair, to this day.
15 I gave Gilead to Machir.
16 And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave 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 the Jordan, and the coast of it, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the plain, even the Salt Sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
18 I commanded you at that time, saying,
The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have many cattle), shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
20 until the LORD shall have given rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God has given them beyond the Jordan:
and then shall ye return every man to his possession which I have given you.
21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thy eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings: so shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms where Thou pass.
22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God He shall fight for you.
23 I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
24 Lord JeHoVaH, Thou have begun to show Thy servant Thy greatness, and Thy mighty hand:
for what God is there in Heaven or in Earth, that can do according to Thy works, and according to Thy might?
25 I pray Thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said to me, Let it suffice Thee; speak no more to me of this matter.
27 Ascend to the top of Pisgah, and lift up Thy eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with Thy eyes: for Thou shall not go over this the Jordan.
28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which Thou shall see.
29 So we abode in the valley opposed to Beth-Peor.
1 Now therefore listen, Israel, to the Statutes and to the Judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD, God of your fathers gives you.
2 Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the Commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD Thy God has destroyed them from among you.
4 But ye who adhered to the LORD your God, are alive every one of you this day.
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Behold, I have taught you Statutes, and Judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land where ye go to possess it.
6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which will hear all these Statutes, and say, Surely, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
7 For what nation is there so great, which has GOD so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon 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 thyself, and keep Thy soul diligently, lest Thou should forget the things which Thy eyes have seen,
and lest they depart from Thy heart all the days of Thy life: but teach them to Thy sons, and Thy grandsons:
10 specially the day that Thou stood before the LORD Thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Assemble the people to Me,
and I will make them hear My words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the Earth, and that they may teach their children.
11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of Heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12 The LORD spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
13 He declared to you His Covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even Ten Commandments; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone.
14 The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you Statutes and Judgments, that ye might do them in the land where ye go over to possess it.
15 Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire;
16 lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure,
the likeness of male or female,
17 the likeness of any beast that is on the Earth,
the likeness of any winged bird 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 Thou should lift up Thy eyes to Heaven, and when Thou see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the Host of Heaven,
should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD Thy God has divided to all nations under the whole Heaven.
20 But the LORD has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, even from Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan,
and that I should not enter that good land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee for an inheritance:
22 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
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Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the Covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you,
and make you a graven image, or the likeness of anything which the LORD Thy God has forbidden Thee.
24 For the LORD Thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
25 When Thou shall beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land,
and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of anything,
and shall do evil in the eyes of the LORD Thy God, to provoke Him to anger:
26 I call the Heaven and the Earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from the land to which ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed.
27 The LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.
28 And there ye shall serve GODS, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 But if from thence Thou shall seek the LORD Thy God, Thou shall find him, if Thou shall seek Him with all Thy heart, and with all Thy soul.
30 When Thou are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon Thee, even in the Latter Days, if Thou shall turn to the LORD Thy God, and shall be obedient to His voice;
31 (for the LORD Thy God is a merciful God); He will not forsake Thee, neither destroy Thee, nor forget the Covenant of Thy fathers, which He swore to them.
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before Thee, since the day that GOD created man upon the Earth,
and ask from the one side of Heaven to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
33 Did ever people hear the voice of GOD speaking from the middle of the fire, as Thou have heard, and live?
34 Or has GOD essayed to go and take him a nation from the middle of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an out-stretched arm,
and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 To Thee it has been shown, that Thou might know that the LORD He is GOD; there is none besides Him.
36 Out of Heaven He made Thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct Thee; and upon Earth He showed Thee His great fire; and Thou heard His words from the middle of the fire.
37 And because He loved Thy fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought Thee out of Egypt in His sight with His mighty power.
38 To drive out nations from before Thee, greater and mightier than Thou are, to bring Thee in, to give Thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in Thy heart, that the LORD He is GOD in Heaven above, and upon the Earth beneath: there is none else.
40 Thou shall keep therefore His Statutes and His Commandments which I command Thee this day,
that it may be well with Thee, and with Thy children after Thee, and that Thou may prolong Thy days upon the Earth, which the LORD Thy God gives Thee, forever.
41 Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of the Jordan, towards the sun-rising;
42 that the slayer might flee there, who should kill his neighbour unawares, and when he had not hated him in times 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 forth from Egypt,
46 on the east side of the Jordan, in the valley opposed to Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites,
who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they had come forth from Egypt:
47 and they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites,
who were on the side of the Jordan, towards the sun-rising;
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 the side of the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
1 Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the Statutes and Judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
2 The LORD our God made a Covenant with us in Horeb.
3 The LORD made not 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 on the Mount, from the middle of the fire,
5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD:
for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up upon the Mount); saying,
[Ten Commandments 2].
6 I AM the LORD Thy God, who brought Thee out of the land of Egypt, from the House of Bondage,
7 Thou shall have no other GODS before Me!
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Thou shall not make to Thee a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above,
or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth:
9 Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD Thy God AM a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of them that hate Me;
10 and showing mercy to thousands of them that loving Me, and keep My Commandments!
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Thou shall not take the Name of the LORD Thy God in vain:
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes His Name in vain!
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Keep the Sabbath day Holy, as the LORD Thy God has commanded Thee;
13 six days Thou shall labour, and do all Thy work:
14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD Thy God: in it Thou shall not do any work,
Thou, nor Thy son, nor Thy daughter, nor Thy man-servant, nor Thy maid-servant, nor Thy ox, nor Thy ass, nor any of Thy cattle, nor Thy stranger that is within Thy gates;
that Thy man-servant and Thy maid-servant may rest as well as Thou;
15 and remember that Thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt,
and that the LORD Thy God brought Thee out thence with a mighty hand and by an out-stretched arm:
therefore the LORD Thy God commanded Thee to keep the Sabbath day!
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Honour Thy father and Thy mother, as the LORD Thy God has commanded Thee;
that Thy days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with Thee, in the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee!
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Thou shall not murder!
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And Thou shall not commit adultery!
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And Thou shall not steal!
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And Thou shall not bear false witness against Thy neighbour!
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And Thou shall not covet:
Thy neighbour's wife, neither shall Thou covet Thy neighbour's house, his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is Thy neighbour's!
22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the Mount from the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness,
with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me.
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And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice from the middle of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire), that ye came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
24 and ye said, Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His Greatness, and we have heard His voice from the middle of the fire: we have seen this day that GOD does talk 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 middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?
27 Go Thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say; and speak Thou to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to Thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
28 The LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye 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 Thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
29 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!
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Go, say to them, Return to your tents.
31 But as for Thee, stand Thou here by Me, and I will speak to Thee all the Commandments,
and the Statutes, and the Judgments, which Thou shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
1 Now these are the Commandments, the Statutes, and the Judgments which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye may do them in the land where ye go to possess it:
2 that Thou may fear the LORD Thy God, to keep all His Statutes and His Commandments which I command Thee, Thou, and Thy son, and Thy grandson, all the days of Thy life: and that Thy days may be prolonged.
3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with Thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD, God of Thy fathers has promised Thee, in the land that flows with milk and honey.
4 [Mezuzah 1].
Hear, Israel, the LORD our God is One LORD. Mar 12:29
5 Thou shall love the LORD Thy God with all Thy heart,
and with all Thy soul, and with all Thy strength, and with all Thy mind. Luk 10:27 Mar 12:30 Mat 22:37
6 And these words which I command Thee this day, shall be in Thy heart:
7 Thou shall teach them diligently to Thy children, and shall talk of them when Thou sit in Thy house, and when Thou walk by the way, and when Thou lies down, and when Thou rise up.
8 Thou shall bind them for a sign upon Thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between Thy eyes.
9 Thou shall write them upon the posts of Thy house, and on Thy gates.
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And it shall be, when the LORD Thy God shall have brought Thee into the land which He swore to Thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give Thee great and goodly cities, which Thou did not build,
11 and houses full of all good things, which Thou did not fill,
and wells dig, which Thou did not dig,
vineyards and olive-trees, which Thou did not plant;
when Thou shall have eaten and be full;
12 then beware lest Thou should forget the LORD,
who brought Thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the House of Bondage.
13 Thou shall worship the LORD Thy God, and Him only shall Thou serve. Mat 4:10
and shall swear by His Name.
14 Ye shall not go after other GODS, of the gods of the peoples which are around you;
15 (for the LORD Thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD Thy God should be kindled against Thee,
and destroy Thee from off the face of the Earth.
16 Thou shall not tempt the LORD Thy God. Mat 4:7
As ye tempted Him in Massah.
17 Ye shall diligently keep the Commandments of the LORD your God,
and His Testimonies, and His Statutes, which He has commanded Thee.
18 Thou shall do that which is right and good in the eyes of the LORD: that it may be well with Thee,
and that Thou may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to Thy fathers,
19 to cast out all Thy enemies from before Thee, as the LORD has spoken.
20 And when Thy son shall ask Thee in time to come, saying, What mean the Testimonies, and the Statutes, and the Judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you?
21 Then Thou shall say to Thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22 The LORD showed signs and wonders, great and distressing, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
23 He brought us out from thence, that He might bring us in, to give us the land which He swore to our fathers.
24 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.
1 When the LORD Thy God shall bring Thee into the land where Thou go to possess it, and has cast out many nations before Thee,
the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perrizites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than Thou;
2 and when the LORD Thy God shall deliver them before Thee, Thou shall smite them and utterly destroy them, Thou shall make no Covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:
3 neither shall Thou make marriages with them; Thy daughter Thou shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall Thou take to Thy son.
4 For they will turn away Thy son from following Me, that they may serve other GODS: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy Thee suddenly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their Altars, and break down their pillars, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
6 For Thou are a Holy people[Saints] to the LORD Thy God: the LORD Thy God has chosen Thee to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all peoples that are upon the face of the Earth.
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:
8 but because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand,
and redeemed you from the House of Bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the LORD Thy God, He is GOD, the faithful God, who keeps Covenant and mercy with them that loving Him and keep His Commandments to a thousand generations:
10 and repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: He will not be slack to him that hates him, He will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shall therefore keep the Commandments, and the Statutes, and the Judgments, which I command Thee this day, to do them.
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Therefore it shall come to pass, if ye listen to these Judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD Thy God will keep to Thee the Covenant and the mercy which He swore to Thy fathers:
13 He will love Thee, and bless Thee, and multiply Thee: He will also bless Thy children, and the fruit of Thy land, Thy grain, and Thy new wine, and Thy oil, the increase of Thy cows, and the flocks of Thy sheep,
in the land which He swore to Thy fathers to give Thee.
14 Thou shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 The LORD will take away from Thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which Thou know) upon Thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate Thee.
16 Thou shall consume all the people which the LORD Thy God shall deliver to Thee;
Thy eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shall Thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare to Thee.
17 If Thou shall say in Thy heart, These nations are more than I, how can I dispossess them?
18 Thou shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what the LORD Thy God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
19 the great temptations which Thy eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the out-stretched arm,
by which the LORD Thy God brought Thee out: so shall the LORD Thy God do to all the people of whom Thou are afraid.
20 Moreover, the LORD Thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from Thee, shall be destroyed.
21 Thou shall not be affrighted at them: for the LORD Thy God is among you, a Mighty God and awesome.
22 The LORD Thy God will drive out those nations before Thee by little and little: Thou may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon Thee.
23 But the LORD Thy God shall deliver them to Thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.
24 He shall deliver their kings into Thy hand, and Thou shall destroy their name from under Heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before Thee, until Thou shall have destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: Thou shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to Thee, lest Thou should be snared in it: for it is an abomination to the LORD Thy God;
26 neither shall Thou bring an abomination into Thy house, lest Thou should be a cursed thing like it: but Thou shall utterly detest it, and Thou shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
1 All the Commandments which I command Thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.
2 Thou shall remember all the way which the LORD Thy God has led Thee these forty years in the wilderness,
to humble Thee, and to prove Thee, to know what was in Thy heart,
whether Thou would keep His Commandments, or not.
3 He humbled Thee, and allowed Thee to hunger, and fed Thee with manna,
which Thou knew not, neither did Thy fathers know;
that He might make Thee know,
that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word going forth through the mouth of GOD (does man live). Mat 4:4
4 Thy clothing has not become old upon Thee, neither has Thy foot swelled these forty years.
5 Thou shall also consider in Thy heart, that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD Thy God chastens Thee.
6 Therefore Thou shall keep the Commandments of the LORD Thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.
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For the LORD Thy God brings Thee into a good land,
a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and abysses that spring out of valleys and mountains;
8 a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive-oil, and honey;
9 a land in which Thou shall eat bread without scarceness,
Thou shall not lack anything in it, a land whose stones are iron,
and out of whose hills Thou may dig copper.
10 When Thou have eaten and are full, then Thou shall bless the LORD Thy God for the good land which He has given Thee.
11 Beware that Thou forget not the LORD Thy God, in not keeping His Commandments, and His Judgments, and His Statutes, which I command Thee this day;
12 lest when Thou have eaten, and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in them.
13 And when Thy herds and Thy flocks multiply, and Thy silver and Thy gold are increased, and all that Thou have is increased.
14 Then Thy heart shall be lifted up, and Thou shall forget the LORD Thy God (who brought Thee out of the land of Egypt, from the House of Bondage).
15 Who led Thee through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought Thee forth water out of the rock of flint.
16 Who fed Thee in the wilderness with manna, which Thy fathers knew not, that He might humble Thee, and that He might prove Thee, to do Thee good at Thy latter end.
17 Thou shall say in Thy heart, my power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
18 But Thou shall remember the LORD Thy God: for it is He who gives Thee power to get wealth, that He may establish His Covenant which He swore to Thy fathers, as it is this day.
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And it shall be, if Thou shall at all forget the LORD Thy God, and walk after other GODS, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which the LORD destroys before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.
1 Hear, Israel: Thou are to pass over the Jordan this day,
to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to Heaven,
2 a people great and tall, the children of the Anakim, whom Thou know,
and of whom Thou have heard it said, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD Thy God is He who goes over before Thee;
as a consuming fire He shall destroy them, and He shall bring them down before Thy face:
so shall Thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to Thee.
4 Speak not Thou in Thy heart, after that the LORD Thy God has cast them out from before Thee,
saying, For My righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land:
but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before Thee.
5 Not for Thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of Thy heart do Thou go to possess their land:
but for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD Thy God does drive them out from before Thee,
and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to Thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the LORD Thy God gives Thee not this good land to possess it for Thy righteousness; for Thou are a stiff-necked people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how Thou provoked the LORD Thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that Thou did depart from the land of Egypt,
until ye came to this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
9 When I ascended the Mount, to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the Covenant which the LORD made with you,
then I abode in the Mount forty days and forty nights, I neither ate bread, nor drank water.
10 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,
from the middle of the fire, in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass 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 The LORD said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence; for Thy people which Thou have brought forth out of Egypt,
have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made them 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 Thee 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 I looked, and behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18 I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I neither ate bread, nor drank water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing evil in the eyes of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger;
19 (for I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you). But the LORD listened to me at that time also.
20 The LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21 I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust of it into the brook that descended from the Mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the Commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed Him not, nor listened to His voice.
24 Ye 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, Lord JeHoVaH, destroy not Thy people and Thy inheritance, which Thou have redeemed through Thy greatness, which Thou have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember Thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 lest the land whence Thou have brought us should say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into 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 Thy people and Thy inheritance which Thou have brought out by Thy mighty power and by Thy out-stretched arm.
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At that time the LORD said to me, Hew Thee two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me upon the Mount, and make Thee an Ark of wood.
2 I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which Thou did break, and Thou shall put them in the Ark.
3 I made an Ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and ascended the Mount, having the two tables in my hand.
4 He wrote on the tables according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD spoke to you in the Mount, from the middle of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me.
5 I turned myself 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 Jakan to Mosira: there Aaron died, and there he was buried;
and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
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From thence 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 brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD Thy God promised him.
10 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 would not destroy Thee.
11 The LORD said to me, Arise, take Thy 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 Thy God require of Thee, but to fear the LORD Thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him,
and to serve the LORD Thy God with all Thy heart and with all Thy soul, Deu 6:5
13 to keep the Commandments of the LORD, and His Statutes, which I command Thee this day for Thy good?
14 Behold, the Heaven and the Heavens of Heavens belongs to the LORD Thy God, the Earth also, with all that it contains.
15 Only the LORD had a delight in Thy fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
17 For the LORD GOD is the God of gods, and Lord of lords, the Great God, the Mighty, and the awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward:
18 he executes the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.
19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shall fear the LORD Thy God; Him shall Thou serve, and to Him shall Thou cleave, and swear by His Name.
21 He is Thy praise, and He is Thy God, that has done for Thee these great and awesome things which Thy eyes have seen.
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD Thy God has made Thee as the stars of Heaven for multitude.
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Therefore Thou shall love the LORD Thy God, and keep His charge, and His Statutes, and His Judgments, and His Commandments, always.
2 And know ye this day: for I speak not 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 out-stretched arm,
3 and His miracles, and His acts, which He did in the middle 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 ye 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 feet, in the middle of all Israel:
7 but your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which He did.
8 Therefore shall ye keep all the Commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where ye go to possess it;
9 and that ye 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.
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For the land, where Thou go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence ye came out, where Thou did sow Thy seed, and water it with Thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
11 but the land, where ye go to possess it, is a land of mountains and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of Heaven:
12 a land which the LORD Thy God cares for: the eyes of the LORD Thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year until the end of the year.
13 [Mezuzah 2].
And it shall come to pass, if ye 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 Former Rain and the Latter Rain, that Thou may gather in Thy grain, and Thy new wine and Thy oil.
15 I will give grass in Thy fields for Thy cattle, that Thou may eat and be full.
16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other GODS, and worship them;
17 and then the LORD's wrath shall be kindled against you, and He shall shut up the Heaven, that there shall be no rain,
and the land shall not yield her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.
18 Therefore shall ye lay up these My words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when Thou sit in Thy house, and when Thou walk by the way, when Thou lie down, and when Thou rise up.
20 Thou shall write them upon the door-posts of Thy house, and upon Thy 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 upon the Earth.
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For if ye 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 ye 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 limit be.
25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you, and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as He has said to you.
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Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
27 the blessing, if ye obey the Commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day;
28 and the curse, if ye will not obey the Commandments of the LORD your God,
but turn aside from the way which I command you this day,
to go after other GODS which ye have not known.
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And it shall come to pass, when the LORD Thy God has brought Thee in to the land where Thou go to possess it, that Thou shall put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Mount Ebal.
30 Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, by the way where the sun goes down in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain opposed to Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
31 For ye shall pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell in it.
32 And ye shall observe to do all the Statutes and Judgments which I set before you this day.
1 These are the Statutes and Judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, God of Thy fathers gives Thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the Earth.
2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places in which the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
3 and ye shall overthrow their Altars, and break their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
4 Ye shall not do so to the LORD your God.
5 But the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even his habitation shall ye seek, and there Thou shall come:
6 and there ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and of your flocks:
7 and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand to, ye and your households, in which the LORD Thy God has blessed Thee.
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Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes.
9 For now ye have not come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God gives you.
10 But when ye go over the 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 on every side, so that ye dwell in safety:
11 then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; there shall ye bring all that I command you;
your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand,
and all your choice vows which ye vow to the LORD:
12 and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he has no part nor inheritance with you.
13 Take heed to thyself that Thou offer not Thy burnt-offerings in every place that Thou see:
14 but in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of Thy tribes, there Thou shall offer Thy burnt-offerings, and there Thou shall do all that I command Thee.
15 Nevertheless Thou may kill and eat flesh in all Thy gates, whatever Thy soul desires, according to the blessing of the LORD Thy God which He has given Thee:
the unclean and the clean may eat of it as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the Earth as water.
17 Thou may not eat within Thy gates the tithe of Thy grain, or of Thy new wine, or of Thy oil, or the firstlings of Thy herds or of Thy flock, nor any of Thy vows which Thou vow, nor Thy free-will-offerings, or heave-offering of Thy hand:
18 but Thou must eat them before the LORD Thy God in the place which the LORD Thy God shall choose,
Thou, and Thy son, and Thy daughter, and Thy man-servant, and Thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within Thy gates: and Thou shall rejoice before the LORD Thy God in all that Thou put Thy hands to.
19 Take heed to thyself that Thou forsake not the Levite as long as Thou live upon the Earth.
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When the LORD Thy God shall enlarge Thy border, as He has promised Thee, and Thou shall say, I will eat flesh, because Thy soul longs to eat flesh; Thou may eat flesh, whatever Thy soul desires.
21 If the place which the LORD Thy God has chosen to put his name there, shall be too far from Thee, then Thou shall kill of Thy herd and of Thy flock, which the LORD has given Thee, as I have commanded Thee,
and Thou shall eat in Thy gates whatever Thy soul desires.
22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so Thou shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
23 Only be sure that Thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and Thou may not eat the life with the flesh.
24 Thou shall not eat it: Thou shall pour it upon the Earth as water.
25 Thou shall not eat it; that it may be well with Thee, and with Thy children after Thee, when Thou shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.
26 Only Thy Holy things which Thou have, and Thy vows, Thou shall take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:
27 Thou shall offer Thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the Altar of the LORD Thy God: and the blood of Thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the Altar of the LORD Thy God, and Thou shall eat the flesh.
28 Observe and hear all these words which I command Thee, that it may be well with Thee, and with Thy children after Thee forever, when Thou do that which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD Thy God.
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When the LORD Thy God shall cut off the nations from before Thee, where Thou go to possess them, and Thou succeed them, and dwell in their land.
30 Take heed to thyself that Thou be not snared by following them, after that they are destroyed from before Thee; and that Thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise.
31 Thou shall not do so to the LORD Thy God; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates, they have done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
32 Whatever thing I command you, observe to do it: Thou shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.
1 If there shall arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and give Thee a sign or a wonder.
2 And the sign or the wonder shall come to pass, of which He spoke to Thee, saying, Let us go after other GODS, which Thou have not known, and let us serve them;
3 Thou shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear Him, and keep His Commandments, and obey His voice, and ye 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 ye away from the LORD your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the House of Bondage,
to thrust Thee out of the way which the LORD Thy God commanded Thee to walk in.
So shall Thou remove the evil from the middle of Thee.
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If Thy brother, the son of Thy mother, or Thy son, or Thy daughter, or the wife of Thy bosom, or Thy friend,
who is as Thy own soul, shall entice Thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other GODS, which Thou have not known, Thou, nor Thy fathers;
7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to Thee, or far off from Thee, from one end of the Earth even to the other end of the Earth;
8 Thou shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall Thy eye pity him, neither shall Thou spare, neither shall Thou conceal him:
9 but Thou shall surely kill him; Thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10 Thou shall stone him with stones that he shall die; because he has sought to thrust Thee away from the LORD Thy God, who brought Thee out of the land of Egypt from the House of Bondage.
11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is, among you.
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If Thou shall hear, in one of Thy cities, which the LORD Thy God has given Thee to dwell there, saying,
13 Certain men, the children of Belial[the Worthless], have gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city,
saying, Let us go and serve other GODS, which ye have not known;
14 then shall Thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently;
and behold, if it is truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
15 Thou shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword,
destroying it utterly, and all that is in it, and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.
16 Thou shall gather all the spoil of it into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it completely,
for the LORD Thy God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
17 And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing to Thy hand:
that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show Thee mercy, and have compassion upon Thee, and multiply Thee, as He has sworn to Thy fathers;
18 when Thou shall listen to the voice of the LORD Thy God, to keep all His Commandments which I command Thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD Thy God.
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Ye are the children of the LORD your God:
ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 For Thou are a Holy people[Saints] to the LORD Thy God,
and the LORD has chosen Thee to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are upon the Earth.
3
Thou shall not eat any abominable thing.
4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 the hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow-deer, and the antelope, and the pygarg, and the oryx, and the chamois.
6 And every beast that parts the hoof, and cleaves the cleft into two claws, and chews the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; the camel, and the hare, and the hyrax:
for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean to you.
8 And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet chews not the cud, is unclean to you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their carcass.
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These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat.
10 and whatever has not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean to you.
11 Of all clean fowls ye shall eat.
12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey,
13 and the buzzard, and the kite, and the falcon after his kind,
14 and every raven after his kind,
15 and the ostrich, and the crow, and the gull, and the hawk after his kind,
16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the barn owl,
17 and the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant,
18 and the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
19 And every creeping animal that flies is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.
20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: Thou shall give it to the stranger that is in Thy gates, that he may eat it;
or Thou may sell it to an alien: for Thou are a Holy people[Saints] to the LORD Thy God.
Thou shall not boil a kid in his mother's milk.
22
Thou shall truly tithe all the increase of Thy seed, that the field brings forth year by year.
23 Thou shall eat before the LORD Thy God, in the place which He shall choose to place His Name there,
the tithe of Thy grain, of Thy new wine, and of Thy oil, and the firstlings of Thy herds and of Thy flocks;
that Thou may learn to fear the LORD Thy God always.
24 And if the way is too long for Thee, so that Thou are not able to carry it; or if the place is too far from Thee, which the LORD Thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD Thy God has blessed Thee:
25 then shall Thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in Thy hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD Thy God shall choose:
26 Thou shall bestow that money for whatever Thy soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for shekar[strong drink], or for whatever Thy soul desires:
and Thou shall eat there before the LORD Thy God, and Thou shall rejoice, Thou, and Thy household.
27 And the Levite that is within Thy gates, Thou shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with Thee.
28 At the end of three years Thou shall bring forth all the tithe of Thy increase the same year, and shall lay it up within Thy gates:
29 and the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with Thee) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within Thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied;
that the LORD Thy God may bless Thee in all the work of Thy hand which Thou do.
1
At the end of every seven years Thou shall make a release.
2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends aught to his neighbour shall release;
he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
3 Of a stranger Thou may exact it: but that which is Thy with Thy brother Thy hand shall release:
4 only when there shall be no poor among you;
for the LORD shall greatly bless Thee in the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee for an inheritance to possess it.
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Only if Thou shall carefully listen to the voice of the LORD Thy God, to observe to do all these Commandments which I command Thee this day.
6 For the LORD Thy God shall bless Thee, as He promised Thee: and Thou shall lend to many nations, but Thou shall not borrow; and Thou shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over Thee.
7 If there shall be among you a poor man of one of Thy brethren within any of Thy gates in Thy land which the LORD the God gives Thee, Thou shall not harden Thy heart, nor shut Thy hand from Thy poor brother:
8 but Thou shall open Thy hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks.
9 Beware that there be not a thought in Thy worthless heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and Thy eye shall be evil against Thy poor brother,
and Thou shall give him naught; and he shall cry to the LORD against Thee, and it shall be sin to Thee.
10 Thou shall surely give him, and Thy heart shall not be grieved when Thou give to him: because that for this thing the LORD Thy God shall bless Thee in all Thy works, and in all that Thou put Thy hand to.
11 For the poor shall never cease from the land: therefore I command Thee, saying, Thou shall open Thy hand wide to Thy brother, to Thy poor, and to Thy needy, in Thy land.
12
And if Thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, shall be sold to Thee, and serve Thee six years; then in the seventh year Thou shall let him go free from Thee.
13 And when Thou send him out free from Thee, Thou shall not let him depart empty:
14 Thou shall furnish him liberally out of Thy flock, and out of Thy threshing-floor, and out of Thy winepress: of that with which the LORD Thy God has blessed Thee Thou shall give to him.
15 Thou shall remember that Thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD Thy God redeemed Thee: therefore I command Thee this thing this day.
16 And it shall be, if He shall say to Thee, I will not leave Thee; because He loves Thee and Thy house, because He is well with Thee;
17 then Thou shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear into the door, and he shall be Thy servant forever. And also to Thy maid-servant Thou shall do likewise.
18 It shall not seem hard to Thee, when Thou send him away free from Thee; for he has been of double the worth of a hired servant to Thee, in serving Thee six years:
and the LORD Thy God shall bless Thee in all that Thou do.
19
All the firstling males that come of Thy herd and of Thy flock Thou shall sanctify to the LORD Thy God:
Thou shall do no work with the firstling of Thy bull, nor shear the firstling of Thy sheep.
20 Thou shall eat it before the LORD Thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, Thou and Thy household.
21 And if there is any blemish in it, as if it is lame, or blind, or has any ill blemish, Thou shall not sacrifice it to the LORD Thy God.
22 Thou shall eat it within Thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
23 Only Thou shall not eat its blood; Thou shall pour it upon the ground as water.
1 Observe the month Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD Thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD Thy God brought Thee forth from Egypt by night.
2 Thou shall therefore sacrifice the Passover to the LORD Thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
3 Thou shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall Thou eat Unleavened Bread with it, even the bread of affliction;
for Thou came forth from the land of Egypt in haste: that Thou may remember the day when Thou came forth from the land of Egypt, all the days of Thy life.
4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with Thee in all Thy borders seven days; neither shall there anything of the flesh, which Thou did sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
5 Thou may not sacrifice the Passover within any of Thy gates, which the LORD Thy God gives Thee.
6 But at the place which the LORD Thy God shall choose to place his name in, there Thou shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the setting of the sun, at the time of Thy departure from Egypt.
7 Thou shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD Thy God shall choose: and Thou shall turn in the morning, and go to Thy tents.
8 Six days Thou shall eat Unleavened Bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD Thy God: in it Thou shall do no work.
9
Seven weeks shall Thou number to Thee: begin to number the seven weeks from the time when Thou begin to put the sickle to the standing-grain.
10 Thou shall keep the Festival of Weeks[Pentecost] to the LORD Thy God with a tribute of a free-will-offering of Thy hand,
which Thou shall give according as the LORD Thy God has blessed Thee:
11 Thou shall rejoice before the LORD Thy God,
Thou, and Thy son, and Thy daughter, and Thy man-servant, and Thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within Thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you,
in the place which the LORD Thy God has chosen to place his name there.
12
Thou shall remember that Thou were a bondman in Egypt: and Thou shall observe and do these Statutes.
13
Thou shall observe the Festival of Tabernacles seven days, after that Thou have gathered in Thy threshing-floor, and Thy winepress.
14 Thou shall rejoice in Thy Festival, Thou, and Thy son, and Thy daughter, and Thy man-servant, and Thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within Thy gates:
15 Seven days shall Thou keep a solemn Festival to the LORD Thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose:
because the LORD Thy God shall bless Thee in all Thy increase, and in all the works of Thy hands, therefore Thou shall surely rejoice.
16 Three times in a year shall all Thy males appear before the LORD Thy God in the place which He shall choose;
in the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and in the Festival of Weeks[Pentecost], and in the Festival 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 Thy God which He has given Thee.
18
Judges and officers shall Thou make Thee in all Thy gates, which the LORD Thy God gives Thee, throughout Thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
19 Thou shall not wrest judgment; Thou shall not respect of persons[favouritism], neither take a gift; for a gift does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
20 That which is altogether just shall Thou follow, that Thou may live, and inherit the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee.
21 Thou shall not plant Thee an Asherah of any trees near to the Altar of the LORD Thy God, which Thou shall make for Thee.
22 neither shall Thou set Thee up any pillar; which the LORD Thy God hates;
1
Thou shall not sacrifice to the LORD Thy God any bull, or sheep, in which is blemish, or anything bad: for that is an abomination to the LORD Thy God.
2
If there shall be found among you, within any of Thy gates which the LORD Thy God gives Thee, man or woman that has wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD Thy God, in transgressing His Covenant,
3 and has gone and served other GODS, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the Host of Heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 and it has been told to Thee, and Thou have heard of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
5 then shall Thou bring forth to Thy gates that man or that woman, who have committed that wicked thing, even that man or that woman, and shall stone them with stones, until they die.
6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So Thou shall remove the evil from among you.
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If there shall arise a matter too hard for Thee in judgment,
between blood and blood,
between plea and plea,
and between stroke and stroke,
being matters of controversy within Thy gates:
then shall Thou arise, and go up to the place which the LORD Thy God shall choose;
9
Thou shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show Thee the sentence of judgment:
10 Thou shall do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall show Thee; and Thou shall observe to do according to all that they inform Thee:
11 according to the sentence of the Law which they shall teach Thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell Thee, Thou shall do:
Thou shall not decline from the sentence which they shall show Thee, to the right hand or to the left.
12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not listen to the priest that stands to minister there before the LORD Thy God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and Thou shall remove the evil from Israel.
13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14
When Thou are come into the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee, and shall possess it, and shall dwell in it, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
15 Thou shall in any wise set him king over Thee whom the LORD Thy God shall choose: one from among Thy brethren shall Thou set king over Thee: Thou may not set a stranger over Thee, who is not Thy brother;
16 but he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD has said to you, ye shall henceforth return no more that way;
17 neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart may turn not away: neither shall he greatly accumulate to himself silver and gold.
18 And it shall be when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this Law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
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 that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, and that he may not turn aside from the Commandment to the right hand or to the left:
to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the middle of Israel.
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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, and his inheritance.
2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he has said to them.
3 And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep; and they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
4 The first-fruit also of Thy grain, of Thy new wine, and of Thy oil, and the first of the fleece of Thy sheep, shall Thou give him.
5 For the LORD Thy God has chosen him out of all Thy tribes, to stand to minister in the Name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.
6 And if a Levite shall come from any of Thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come 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 brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.
8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which comes of the sale of their fathers'[patrimony].
9 When Thou are come into the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee, Thou shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you anyone that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of clouds, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer.
11 that cast a spell, a medium or spiritist that call up the dead.
12 For all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD Thy God does drive them out from before Thee.
13 Thou shall be perfect with the LORD Thy God.
14 For these nations, which Thou shall possess, listened to observers of clouds, and to diviners: but as for Thee, the LORD Thy God has not permitted Thee so to do.
15 A Prophet from among of Thee, will the LORD Thy God raise up to Thee of Thy brethren like to Me; to Him shall ye listen. Act 3:22 Act 7:37
16 According to all that Thou desired of the LORD Thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying,
Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I may not die.
17
The LORD said to me, They have well spoken of that which they have spoken.
18 I will raise up to them a Prophet from among their brethren, like Thee, 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 Thou shall say in Thy 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,
but the prophet has spoken presumptuously: Thou shall not be afraid of him.
1 When the LORD Thy God has cut off the nations, whose land the LORD Thy God gives Thee, and Thou succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
2 Thou shall separate three cities for Thee in the middle of Thy land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee to possess it.
3 Thou shall prepare Thee a way, and divide the limits of Thy land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee there.
4 And this is the case of the slayer, who shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not yesterday and before;
5 as when a man goes into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand makes a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree,
and the iron slips from the helve, and falls upon his neighbour, that he dies: he shall flee to one of these cities, and live:
6 lest the avenger of blood shall pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he whomhated him not yesterday and before.
7 Therefore I command Thee, saying, Thou shall separate three cities for Thee.
8 And if the LORD Thy God shall enlarge Thy limits, as He has sworn to Thy fathers, and give Thee all the land which He promised to give to Thy fathers;
9 if Thou shall keep all these Commandments to do them, which I command Thee this day, to love the LORD Thy God, and to walk ever in His ways; then shall Thou add three cities more for Thee, besides these three:
10 that innocent blood may not be shed in Thy land, which the LORD Thy God gives Thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon Thee.
11
But if any man shall hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite his life, that he dies, and he shall flee into one of these cities:
12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13 Thy eye shall not pity him, but Thou shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with Thee.
14 Thou shall not remove Thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in Thy inheritance, which Thou shall inherit in the land that the LORD Thy God gives Thee to possess it.
15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins;
by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses every word shall be established. 2Co 13:1
16 If a false witness shall rise up against any man to testify against him 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, who 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 shall ye do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother:
so shall Thou remove the evil from among you.
20 And those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
21 Thy eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
1 When Thou go out to battle against Thy enemies, and see horses, and chariots, and a people more than Thou,
be not afraid of them: for the LORD Thy God is with Thee, who brought Thee up out of the land of Egypt.
2 And it shall be when ye are come near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
3 and shall say to them, Hear, Israel, ye approach this day to battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye 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 that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle, and another man should dedicate it.
6 And what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and has not yet eaten of it? Let him also go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle, and another man should eat of it.
7 And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he should die in battle, and another man should take her.
8 And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brethren's heart should 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.
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When Thou come near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
11 And it shall be, if it shall make Thee answer of peace, and open to Thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found in it, shall be tributaries to Thee, and they shall serve Thee.
12 And if it will make no peace with Thee, but will make war against Thee, then Thou shall besiege it:
13 and when the LORD Thy God has delivered it into Thy hands, Thou shall smite 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 the spoil of it, shall Thou take to thyself: and Thou shall eat the spoil of Thy enemies,
which the LORD Thy God has given Thee.
15 Thus shall Thou do to all the cities which are very distant from Thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 But of the cities of these people which the LORD Thy God does give Thee for an inheritance, Thou shall save alive nothing that breathes:
17 but Thou shall utterly destroy them, namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites and the Girgashites,
as the LORD Thy God has commanded Thee:
18 that they may not teach you to do after all their abominations which they have done to their gods; so would ye sin against the LORD your God.
19
When Thou shall besiege a city a long time in making war against it to take it, Thou shall not destroy the trees of it by forcing an axe against them;
for Thou may eat of them: and Thou shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
20 only the trees which Thou know that they are not trees for food, Thou shall destroy and cut them down;
and Thou shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with Thee, until it shall be subdued.
1
If one shall be found slain,
in the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee to possess it,
lying in the field, and it be not known who has slain him:
2 then Thy elders and Thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain:
3 and it shall be that the city which is next to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer which has not been wrought 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 tilled 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 (for them the LORD Thy God has chosen 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 next to the slain 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, neither have our eyes seen it.
8 Be merciful, LORD, to Thy people Israel, whom Thou have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to the charge of Thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
9 So shall Thou remove the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when Thou shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.
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When Thou go forth to war against Thy enemies, and the LORD Thy God has delivered them into Thy hands, and Thou have taken them captive,
11 Thou see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to her, that Thou would have her for Thy wife:
12 then Thou shall bring her home to Thy house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails:
13 and she shall put off from her the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in Thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month:
and after that, Thou shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be Thy wife.
14 And it shall be, if Thou shall have no delight in her, then Thou shall let her go where she will; but Thou shall not sell her at all for money;
Thou shall not make merchandise of her, because Thou have humbled her.
15
If a man shall have two wives, one beloved, and another less loved, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the less loved; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated:
16 then it shall be, in the day he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not prefer the son of the beloved first-born, before the son of the hated, which is indeed the first-born:
17 but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the first-born, by giving him a double portion of all that he has: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
18
If a man shall have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them:
19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
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, that he may die:
so shall Thou remove evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
22
And if a man shall have committed a sin worthy of death, and he must be put to death, and Thou shall hang him on a tree.
23 His carcass shall not remain all night upon the tree, but Thou shall in any wise bury him that day;
every one who hanging on a tree: is accursed of GOD; Gal 3:13
that Thy land may not be defiled, which the LORD Thy God gives Thee for an inheritance.
1
Thou shall not see Thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: Thou shall in any case bring them back to Thy brother.
2 And if Thy brother shall not be near to Thee, or if Thou shall not know him, then Thou shall bring it to Thy own house, and it shall be with Thee until Thy brother shall seek after it, and Thou shall restore it to him.
3
In like manner shall Thou do with his ass; and so shall Thou do with his clothing; and with any lost thing of Thy brother's, which he has lost, and Thou have found, shall Thou do likewise: Thou may not hide thyself.
4 Thou shall not see Thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: Thou shall surely help him to lift them up again.
5
A woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination to the LORD Thy God.
6
If a bird's nest shall chance to be before Thee in the way on any tree, or on the ground, whether with young ones, or eggs, and the mother[dam] sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, Thou shall not take the mother[dam] with the young:
7 but Thou shall in any wise let the mother[dam] go, and take the young to Thee; that it may be well with Thee, and that Thou may prolong Thy days.
8
When Thou build a new house, then Thou shall make a parapet for Thy roof, that Thou may not bring blood upon Thy house, if any man shall fall from thence.
9
Thou shall not sow Thy vineyard with diverse seeds: lest the fruit of Thy seed which Thou have sown, and the fruit of Thy vineyard, should be defiled.
10 Thou shall not plough with an ox and an ass together.
11 Thou shall not wear a garment of diverse sorts, wool and linen together.
12
Thou shall make Thee fringes upon the four quarters of Thy vesture, with which Thou cover thyself.
13
If any man shall take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,
14 and give occasions of speech against her, and bring an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
15 then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate:
16 and the damsel's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, and he hates her,
17 and behold, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not Thy 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 chastise him;
19 and they shall fine him in a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
20
But if this thing shall be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she may die:
because she has wrought folly in Israel, to be guilty of whoredom in her father's house:
so shall Thou remove evil from among you.
22
If a man shall 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 shall Thou remove evil from Israel.
23 If a damsel that is a virgin shall be betrothed to a husband, and a man shall find her in the city, and lie with her;
24 then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they may die;
the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbour's wife:
so Thou shall remove the evil from among you.
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But if a man shall find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man shall rape her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:
26 but to the damsel Thou shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbour, and slays him, even so is this matter:
27 for he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
28
If a man shall find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29 then the man that lay with her shall give to the damsel'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.
1
He who is wounded or mutilated in his privy member, 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 shall he 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 shall they not enter into the Congregation of the LORD forever:
4 because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth from Egypt;
and because they hired against Thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse Thee.
5 Nevertheless the LORD Thy God would not listen to Balaam: but the LORD Thy God turned the curse into a blessing to Thee, because the LORD Thy God loved Thee.
6 Thou shall not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all Thy days forever.
7 Thou shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is Thy brother: Thou shall not abhor an Egyptian, because Thou were a stranger in his land.
8 The children that are begotten by them shall enter into the Congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
9 When the host goes forth against Thy enemies, then keep Thee from every wicked thing.
10
If there shall be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chances to him by night, then shall he go outside the camp, he shall not come inside the camp:
11 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp.
12 Thou shall have a place also outside the camp, where Thou shall go forth abroad:
13 Thou shall have a paddle upon Thy weapon: and it shall be when Thou will ease thyself abroad, Thou shall dig with it, and shall turn back, and cover that which comes from Thee:
14 for the LORD Thy God walks in the middle of Thy camp, to deliver Thee, and to give up Thy enemies before Thee;
therefore shall Thy camp be Holy: that he may see no shameful thing in Thee, and turn away from Thee.
15 Thou shall not deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to Thee.
16
He shall dwell with Thee, even among you in that place which he shall choose in one of Thy gates where it pleases him best: Thou shall not oppress him.
17 There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
18
Thou shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog into the House of the LORD Thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination to the LORD Thy God.
19 Thou shall not lend upon interest to Thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest.
20
To a stranger Thou may lend upon interest; but to Thy brother Thou shall not lend upon interest; that the LORD Thy God may bless Thee in all that Thou sets Thy hand to in the land where Thou go to possess it.
21
When Thou shall vow a vow to the LORD Thy God, Thou shall not defer to pay it: for the LORD Thy God will surely require it of Thee; and it would be sin in Thee.
22 But if Thou shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in Thee.
23 That which is uttered by Thy lips Thou shall keep and perform; even a free-will-offering, according as Thou have vowed to the LORD Thy God, which Thou have promised with Thy mouth.
24
When Thou come into Thy neighbour's vineyard, then Thou may satisfy Thy appetite with grapes at Thy own pleasure; but Thou shall not put any in Thy vessel.
25 When Thou come into the standing-grain of Thy neighbour, then Thou may pluck the ears with Thy hand: but Thou shall not move a sickle to Thy neighbour's standing-grain.
1
When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it may come to pass that she finds no favour in his eyes,
because he has found some shameful thing in her: and he writes her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she has departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
3 And if the latter husband shall hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband shall 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 Thou shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD Thy God gives Thee for an inheritance.
5
When a man has newly taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife which he has taken.
6
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he takes a man's life for a pledge.
7
If a man shall be found stealing any person of his brethren of the children of Israel, and shall make merchandise of him, or sell him; then that thief shall die;
so Thou shall remove the evil from among you.
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that Thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
9 Remember what the LORD Thy God did to Miriam by the way, after that ye come forth from Egypt.
10
When Thou do lend Thy brother any thing, Thou shall not go into his house to take his pledge:
11 Thou shall stand abroad, and the man to whom Thou do lend shall bring out the pledge abroad to Thee:
12 and if the man is poor, Thou shall not sleep with his pledge:
13 in any case Thou shall deliver to him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless Thee; and it shall be righteousness to Thee before the LORD Thy God.
14
Thou shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he is of Thy brethren, or of Thy strangers that are in Thy land within Thy gates:
15 at his day Thou shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it, for he is poor, and lifted his soul upon it: lest he should cry against Thee to the LORD, and it be sin to Thee.
16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
17 Thou shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow's clothing for a pledge:
18 but Thou shall remember that Thou were a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD Thy God redeemed Thee thence: therefore I command Thee to do this thing.
19
When Thou reap Thy harvest in Thy field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, Thou shall not go back to fetch it:
it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD Thy God may bless Thee in all the work of Thy hands.
20 When Thou beat Thy olive-tree, Thou shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21 When Thou gather the grapes of Thy vineyard, Thou shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
22 Thou shall remember that Thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command Thee to do this thing.
1
If there shall be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, 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 be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then Thy brother should seem vile to Thee.
4 Thou shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that is threshing. 1Co 9:9 1Ti 5:18
5
If brethren shall dwell together, and one of them shall die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her,
and take her to him for a wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
6 And it shall be, that the first-born which she bears, shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not become extinct in Israel.
7 And if the man shall 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 to his brother a name in Israel, 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 shall stand to it, and say, I like not 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 from the hand of him that smites him,
and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets:
12 then Thou shall cut off her hand, Thy eye shall not pity her.
13
Thou shall not have in Thy bag a stone and a stone[diverse weights], a great and a small:
14 Thou shall not have in Thy house an ephah and an ephah[diverse measures], a great and a small:
15 but Thou shall have a perfect and just weight-stones, a perfect and just ephah[measure] shall Thou have;
that Thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee.
16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD Thy God.
17 Remember what Amalek did to Thee by the way, when ye had come forth from Egypt;
18 how he met Thee by the way, and smote the rearmost of Thee, even all that were feeble behind Thee,
when Thou were faint and weary; and he feared not GOD.
19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD Thy God has given Thee rest from all Thy enemies on all sides,
in the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee for an inheritance to possess it,
that Thou shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven; Thou shall not forget it.
1 And it shall be, when Thou have come in to the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee for an inheritance, and possesses it, and dwell in it;
2 that Thou shall take of the first of all the fruit of the Earth, which Thou shall bring of Thy land that the LORD Thy God gives Thee,
and shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD Thy God shall choose to place his name there.
3 Thou shall go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD Thy God, that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.
4 And the priest shall take the basket from Thy hand, and set it down before the Altar of the LORD Thy God.
5 Thou shall speak and say before the LORD Thy God, a Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down to Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
6 and the Egyptians ill-treated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
7 and when we cried to the LORD, God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression.
8 The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an out-stretched arm, and with great awesomeness, and with signs, and with wonders;
9 He has brought us into 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 first-fruit of the land, which Thou, LORD, have given me: and Thou shall set it before the LORD Thy God, and worship before the LORD Thy God.
11 Thou shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD Thy God has given to Thee,
and to Thy house, Thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
12 When Thou have made an end of tithing all the tithes of Thy increase the third year, which is the year of tithing,
and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within Thy gates, and be filled:
13 then Thou shall say before the LORD Thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of My house,
and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow,
according to all Thy Commandments which Thou have commanded me: I have not transgressed Thy Commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I taken away aught of it for any unclean use, nor given aught of it for the dead: but I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God,
and have done according to all that Thou have commanded me.
15 Look down from Thy Holy habitation, from Heaven, and bless Thy people Israel, and the land which Thou have given us, as Thou did swear to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.
16 This day the LORD Thy God has commanded Thee to perform these Statutes and Judgments: Thou shall therefore keep and do them with all Thy heart, and with all Thy soul. Deu 6:5
17 Thou have avouched the LORD this day to be Thy 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 The LORD has avouched Thee this day to be his peculiar people, as He has promised Thee, and that Thou should keep all His Commandments;
19 and to make Thee high above all nations which He has made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that Thou may be a Holy people[Saints] to the LORD Thy God, as He has spoken.
1 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 ye shall pass over the Jordan to the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee, that Thou shall set Thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
3 Thou shall write upon them all the words of this Law, when Thou have passed over, that Thou may enter in to the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee,
a land that flows with milk and honey; as the LORD, God of Thy fathers has promised Thee.
4 Therefore it shall be when ye have gone over the Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and Thou shall plaster them with plaster.
5 And there shall Thou build an Altar to the LORD Thy God, an Altar of stones: Thou shall not lift up any iron tool upon them.
6 Thou shall build the Altar of the LORD Thy God of whole stones: and Thou shall offer on it burnt-offerings to the LORD Thy God.
7 Thou shall offer peace-offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the LORD Thy God.
8 Thou shall write upon the stones all the words of this Law, very plainly.
9
Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Take heed and listen, Israel, this day Thou are become the people of the LORD Thy God.
10 Thou shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD Thy God, and do His Commandments and His Statutes which I command Thee this day.
11
Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
12 These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye have come over the Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
13 and these shall stand upon 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 great voice,
15
Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the artificer, and puts it in a secret place! And all the people shall answer, and say Amen!
16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen!
17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbour's landmark! And all the people shall say, Amen!
18 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way! And all the people shall say, Amen!
19 Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen!
20 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife; because he uncovers his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen!
21 Cursed be he who lies with any manner of beast! And all the people shall say, Amen!
22 Cursed be 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 be he who lies with his mother-in-law! And all the people shall say, Amen!
24 Cursed be he who smites his neighbour secretly! And all the people shall say, Amen!
25 Cursed be he who takes reward to slay a person: innocent blood! And all the people shall say, Amen!
26 Cursed be all that continues not in all things which has been written in the Book of the Law to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen! Gal 3:10
1 And it shall come to pass, if Thou shall listen diligently to the voice of the LORD Thy God,
to observe and to do all His Commandments which I command Thee this day; that the LORD Thy God will set Thee on high above all nations of the Earth:
2 and all these blessings shall come on Thee, and overtake Thee, if Thou shall listen to the voice of the LORD Thy God.
3 Blessed shall Thou be in the city, and blessed shall Thou be in the field!
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of Thy body, and the fruit of Thy ground, and the fruit of Thy cattle, the increase of Thy cattle, and the flocks of Thy sheep!
5 Blessed shall be Thy basket and Thy store!
6 Blessed shall Thou be when Thou come in, and blessed shall Thou be when Thou go out!
7 The LORD shall cause Thy enemies that rise up against Thee to be smitten before Thy face: they shall come out against Thee one way, and flee before Thee seven ways.
8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon Thee in Thy store-houses,
and in all that Thou sets Thy hand to: and He shall bless Thee in the land which the LORD Thy God gives Thee.
9 The LORD shall establish Thee a Holy people[Saints] to Himself, as He has sworn to Thee, if Thou shall keep the Commandments of the LORD Thy God, and walk in His ways.
10 And all the people of the Earth shall see that Thou are called by the Name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of Thee.
11 The LORD shall make Thee to abound in goods, in the fruit of Thy body, and in the fruit of Thy cattle, and in the fruit of Thy ground, in the land which the LORD swore to Thy fathers to give Thee.
12 The LORD shall open to Thee his good treasure, the Heaven to give rain to Thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of Thy hand: and Thou shall lend to many nations, and Thou shall not borrow.
13 The LORD shall make Thee the head, and not the tail; and Thou shall be above only, and Thou shall not be beneath;
if Thou shall listen to the Commandments of the LORD Thy God, which I command Thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 Thou shall not go aside from any of the words which I command Thee 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 Thou will not listen to the voice of the LORD Thy God,
to observe to do all His Commandments and His Statutes which I command Thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon Thee, and overtake Thee.
16 Cursed shall Thou be in the city, and cursed shall Thou be in the field!
17 Cursed shall be Thy basket and Thy store!
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of Thy body, and the fruit of Thy land, the increase of Thy cows, and the flocks of Thy sheep!
19 Cursed shall Thou be when Thou come in, and cursed shall Thou be when Thou go out!
20 The LORD shall send upon Thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that Thou set your hand, until Thou shall be destroyed, and until Thou shall perish quickly; because of the wickedness of Thy doings by which Thou have forsaken Me.
21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave to Thee, until He shall have consumed Thee from off the land, where Thou go to possess it.
22 The LORD shall smite Thee 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 Thee until Thou do perish.
23 Thy Heaven that is over Thy head shall be bronze, and the Earth that is under Thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of Thy land powder and dust: from Heaven shall it come down upon Thee, until Thou are destroyed.
25 The LORD shall cause Thee to be smitten before Thy enemies: Thou shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the World.
26 Thy carcass shall be food to all fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the Earth, and no man shall drive them away.
27 The LORD shall smite Thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the haemorrhoids, and with the scab, and with the itch, of which Thou cannot be healed.
28 The LORD shall smite Thee with the madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
29 Thou shall grope at noon, as the blind gropes in darkness, and Thou shall not prosper in Thy ways: and Thou shall be only oppressed and spoiled all the days, and no man shall save Thee.
30 Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: Thou shall build a house, and Thou shall not dwell in it: Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it.
31 Thy ox shall be slain before Thy eyes, and Thou shall not eat of it: Thy ass shall be violently taken away from before Thy face,
and shall not be restored to Thee: Thy sheep shall be given to Thy enemies, and Thou shall have none to rescue them.
32 Thy sons and Thy daughters shall be given to another people, and Thy eyes shall look,
and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no power in Thy hand.
33 The fruit of Thy land, and all Thy labours, shall be eaten by a nation which Thou know not: and Thou shall be only oppressed and crushed always:
34 so that Thou shall be mad for the sight of Thy eyes which Thou shall see.
35 The LORD shall smite Thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of Thy foot to the top of Thy head.
36 The LORD shall bring Thee, and Thy king which Thou shall set over Thee,
to a nation which neither Thou nor Thy fathers have known; and there shall Thou serve other GODS, wood and stone.
37 Thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all nations where the LORD shall lead Thee.
38 Thou shall carry much seed into the field, and shall gather but little: for the locust shall consume it.
39 Thou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the worm shall eat them.
40 Thou shall have olive-trees throughout all Thy coasts, but Thou shall not anoint thyself with the oil: for Thy olive shall cast its fruit.
41 Thou shall beget sons and daughters, but Thou shall not enjoy them: for they shall go into captivity.
42 All Thy trees and fruit of Thy land shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger that is within Thee shall rise above Thee very high; and Thou shall come down very low.
44 He shall lend to Thee, and Thou shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and Thou shall be the tail.
45
Moreover, all these curses shall come upon Thee, and shall pursue Thee, and overtake Thee, until Thou are destroyed:
because Thou listened not to the voice of the LORD Thy God, to keep His Commandments and His Statutes which He commanded Thee:
46 and they shall be upon Thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon Thy seed forever.
47
Because Thou did not serve the LORD Thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:
48 therefore shall Thou serve Thy enemies which the LORD shall send against Thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things: and He shall put a yoke of iron upon Thy neck, until He has destroyed Thee.
49 The LORD shall bring a nation against Thee from far, from the end of the Earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language Thou shall not understand:
50 a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young:
51 he shall eat the fruit of Thy cattle, and the fruit of Thy land, until Thou are destroyed:
which also shall not leave Thee either grain, new wine, or oil, or the increase of Thy cattle, or flocks of Thy sheep, until He has destroyed Thee;
52 he shall besiege Thee in all Thy gates, until Thy high and fortified walls come down, in which Thou did trust, throughout all Thy land;
and he shall besiege Thee in all Thy gates throughout all Thy land which the LORD Thy God has given Thee.
53 Thou shall eat the fruit of Thy own body, the flesh of Thy sons and of Thy daughters which the LORD Thy God has given Thee, in the siege and in the straitness with which Thy enemies shall distress Thee:
54 so that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil towards his brother, and towards the wife of his bosom, and towards 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 him in the siege and in the straitness with which Thy enemies shall distress Thee in all Thy gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,
her eye shall be evil towards the husband of her bosom, and towards her son, and towards her daughter,
57 and towards her afterbirth, (that comes out from between her feet), and towards her children which she shall bear:
for she shall eat them for lack of all things secretly in the siege and straitness with which Thy enemy shall distress Thee in Thy gates.
58 If Thou will not observe to do all the words of this Law that are written in this Book, that Thou may fear this glorious and fearful Name, the LORD Thy God;
59 then the LORD will make Thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of Thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.
60 Moreover, he will bring upon Thee all the diseases of Egypt, of which Thou were afraid; and they shall cleave to Thee.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the Book of this Law, them will the LORD bring upon Thee, until Thou are destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of Heaven for multitude; because Thou would not obey the voice of the LORD Thy 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 bring you to naught; and ye shall be plucked from off the land where Thou go to possess it.
64 The LORD shall scatter Thee among all peoples from the one end of the Earth even to the other;
and there Thou shall serve other GODS, which neither Thou nor Thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
65 And among these nations shall Thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of Thy foot have rest:
but the LORD shall give Thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
66 Thy life shall hang in doubt before Thee; and Thou shall fear day and night, and shall have no assurance of Thy life:
67 in the morning Thou shall say, that it were evening,
and at evening Thou shall say, that it were morning!
For the fear of Thy heart with which Thou shall fear,
and for the sight of Thy eyes which Thou shall see.
68 The LORD shall bring Thee back into Egypt with ships, by the way of which I have said to Thee, Thou shall see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
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, besides the Covenant which He made with them in Horeb.
2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
3 the great temptations which Thy eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
4 yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. Rom 11:8
5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not become old upon you, and Thy shoe has not become old upon Thy foot.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drank wine or shekar[strong drink]:
that ye might know that I AM the LORD your God.
7 And when ye came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote 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 ye may prosper in all that ye do.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your chiefs of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
11 your little ones, your wives, and Thy stranger that is in Thy camp, from the hewer of Thy wood to the drawer of Thy water:
12 that Thou should enter into Covenant with the LORD Thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD Thy God makes with Thee this day:
13 that He may establish Thee today for a people to himself, and that He may be to Thee a GOD, as He has said to Thee, and as He has sworn to Thy 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 that stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16 (for ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by.
17 And ye 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 should come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless 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 upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under Heaven.
21 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 that shall arise after you, and the stranger that shall come from a distant land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it;
23 and that the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow 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 the nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What means the heat of this great anger?
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 forth from the land of Egypt:
26 for they went and served other GODS, and worshiped them, GODS which they knew not, and which He had not given to them:
27 and the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this Book.
28 The LORD rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into 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 forever, that we may do all the words of this Law.
1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things have come upon Thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before Thee,
and Thou shall call them back to Thy heart, among all the nations where the LORD Thy God has driven Thee,
2 and shall return to the LORD Thy God, and shall obey His voice according to all that I command Thee this day, Thou and Thy children, with all Thy heart, and with all Thy soul; Deu 6:5
3 that then the LORD Thy God will turn Thy captivity, and have compassion upon Thee, and will return and gather Thee from all the nations where the LORD Thy God has scattered Thee.
4 If any of Thy shall be driven out to the outmost parts of Heaven, from thence will the LORD Thy God gather Thee, and from thence will He bring Thee.
5 The LORD Thy God will bring Thee into the land which Thy fathers possessed, and Thou shall possess it: and He will do Thee good, and multiply Thee above Thy fathers.
6 The LORD Thy God will circumcise Thy heart, and the heart of Thy seed, to love the LORD Thy God with all Thy heart, and with all Thy soul, that Thou may live. Deu 6:5
7 The LORD Thy God will put all these curses upon Thy enemies, and on them that hate Thee, who persecuted Thee.
8 Thou shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all His Commandments which I command Thee this day.
9 The LORD Thy God will make Thee to abound in every work of Thy hand, in the fruit of Thy body, and in the fruit of Thy cattle, and in the fruit of Thy land,
for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over Thee for good, as He rejoiced over Thy fathers.
10
If Thou shall listen to the voice of the LORD Thy God, to keep His Commandments and His Statutes which are written in this Book of the Law,
and if Thou shall turn to the LORD Thy God with all Thy heart and with all Thy soul. Deu 6:5
11 For this Commandment which I command Thee this day, it is not hid from Thee, neither is it far off.
12 It is not in Heaven, that Thou should say, Who shall ascend 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 Thou 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 Thee, in Thy mouth, and in Thy heart, that Thou may do it.
15 See, I have set before Thee this day life and good, and death and evil.
16
In that I command Thee this day to love the LORD Thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His Commandments, and His Statutes, and His Judgments,
that Thou may live and multiply: and the LORD Thy God shall bless Thee in the land where Thou go to possess it.
17
But if Thy heart shall turn away, so that Thou will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other GODS, and serve them;
18 I denounce to you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, where Thou pass over the Jordan to go to possess it.
19 I call the Heaven and the Earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that both Thou and Thy seed may live:
20 that Thou may love the LORD Thy God, and that Thou may obey His voice, and that Thou may cleave to him (for he is Thy life, and the length of Thy days);
that Thou may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to Thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
2 He said to them, I am a hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD has said to me, Thou shall not go over this the Jordan.
3 The LORD Thy God, He will go over before Thee, and He will destroy these nations from before Thee, and Thou shall possess them: and Joshua He shall go over before Thee, as the LORD has said.
4 The LORD shall do to them as He did to Sihon, and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom He destroyed.
5 The LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do to them according to all the Commandments which I have commanded you.
6 Be strong and courageous, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD Thy God, He it is that does go with Thee, He will not fail Thee, nor forsake Thee.
7
Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and courageous:
for Thou must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and Thou shall cause them to inherit it.
8 The LORD, He it is that does go before Thee; He will be with Thee, He will not fail Thee, neither forsake Thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
9 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 Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the Festival of Tabernacles,
11 when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD Thy God in the place which He shall choose, Thou shall read this Law before all Israel in their hearing.
12 Convene the people, men, and women, and children, and Thy stranger that is within Thy 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 who have not known anything, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land where ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
14 The LORD said to Moses,
Behold, Thy days approach that Thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tabernacle of the Congregation,
that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
15 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
The LORD said to Moses,
Behold, Thou shall sleep with Thy fathers,
and this people will rise up, and commit idolatry with the gods of the strangers 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 evil things and troubles shall befall them,
so that they will say in that day, Have not these evil things come upon us, because our God is not among us?
18 I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evil things which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned to other GODS.
19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, 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 into the land which I swore to their fathers,
that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and became 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 evil things and troubles have 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 form, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
22
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
23 He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and courageous:
for Thou shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with Thee.
24
And it came to pass, 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 in the side of the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against Thee.
27 For I know Thy rebellion, and Thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call the Heaven and the Earth to record against them.
29 For I know that after my death ye 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 ye will do evil in the eyes of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.
30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the Congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were ended.
1
[Song of Moses]. Rev 15:3
Give ear, ye Heavens, and I will speak;
and hear, Earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain,
My speech shall drop as the dew,
as the small rain upon the tender herb,
and as the showers upon the grass.
3
Because I will publish the Name of the LORD:
ascribe ye 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:
just and right is He.
5
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of His children:
they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, foolish people and unwise?
Is not He Thy Father that has bought Thee?
Has He not made Thee, and established Thee?
7
Remember the days of old,
consider the years of many generations:
ask Thy father, and He will show Thee;
Thy elders, and they will tell Thee.
8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
when He separated the children of men,
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 pupil 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 did lead him,
and there was no strange 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 Thou did drink the pure blood of the grape.
15
But Jeshurun[upright] became fat,
and kicked: Thou have become fat,
Thou are grown thick,
Thou are 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 strange gods,
with abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17
They sacrificed to demons, not to God;
to GODS which they knew not,
to new ones that came newly up,
whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat Thee Thou are unmindful,
and have forgotten God that formed Thee.
19
And when the LORD saw it, He abhorred them,
because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 He said, I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will 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:
I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no nation,
and by a foolish nation I will anger you. Rom 10:19
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 evil things upon them;
I will spend My arrows upon them.
24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat,
and with bitter destruction:
I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them,
with the poison of serpents of the dust.
25
The sword outside, and terror inside,
shall destroy both the young man and the virgin,
the suckling also with the man of grey hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners,
I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
27 were 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 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 a myriad 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 monsters,
and the cruel venom of asps.
34
Is not this laid up in store with Me,
and sealed up among My treasures?
35 Vengeance is Mine, I will recompense, says the LORD; Rom 12:19 Heb 10:30
their foot shall slide in due time:
for the day of their calamity is near,
and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 The LORD will judge His people, Heb 10:30
and have compassion for His servants:
when He sees that their power is gone,
and there is none shut up, or left.
37
He shall say, Where are their gods,
their rock in whom they trusted,
38 which 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 forever.
41 If I shall whet My glittering sword,
and My hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to My enemies,
and them that hate Me shall pay.
42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
and My sword shall devour flesh;
and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives,
from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43
Rejoice, ye Gentiles with His people: Rom 15:10
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.
[End song].
44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, He and Hoshea[Joshua] the son of Nun.
45 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;
46 he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye 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 ye shall prolong your days in the land where ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
48 The LORD spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
49 Ascend this mountain Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is opposed to 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 Thou go, and be gathered to Thy people; as Aaron Thy brother died in Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
51 because ye trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin and because ye sanctified Me not in the middle of the children of Israel.
52 Yet Thou shall see the land before Thee, but Thou shall not go there to the land which I give the children of Israel.
1 [The Blessing of Moses].
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses, the man of GOD,
blessed the children of Israel before his death.
2 He said, the LORD came from Sinai,
and rose up from Seir to them;
He shined forth from Mount Paran,
and He came with myriads of Saints:
from His right hand went a fiery Law for them.
3 Yes, He loved the people;
all His Saints are in Thy hand:
and they sat down at Thy feet;
every one shall receive of Thy words.
4 Moses commanded us a law;
even the inheritance of the Congregation of Jacob.
5 He was king in Jeshurun[upright],
when the heads of the people,
and the tribes of Israel were assembled.
6 Let Reuben live, and not die;
and let not his men 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 Thou a Help to him from his enemies.
8
And of Levi he said,
Let Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy Holy one,
whom Thou did tempted at Massah,
and with whom Thou did strive at the waters of Meribah;
9 who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him,
neither did he acknowledge his brethren,
nor know his own children:
for they have observed Thy word,
and kept Thy Covenant.
10 They shall teach Jacob Thy Judgments,
and Israel Thy Law;
they shall put incense before Thee,
and whole burnt-sacrifice upon Thy Altar.
11 Bless, LORD, His substance,
and accept the work of His hands:
smite through the loins of them that rise against him,
and of them that hate Him, that they rise not again.
12
And of Benjamin he said,
The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him;
and He shall cover him all the day long,
and he shall dwell between His shoulders.
13
And of Joseph he said,
Blessed of the LORD be his land,
for the precious things of Heaven, for the dew,
and for the Abyss that couches beneath,
14 and for the precious fruits brought forth 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 lasting hills,
16 and for the precious things of the Earth and fullness of it,
and for the good-will of him that dwelt in the bush;
let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph,
and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren!
17 His glory is like the firstling of His bull,
and His horns are like the horns of a rhino:
with them He shall push the people together to the ends of the Earth:
and they are the myriads of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
18
And of Zebulun he said,
Rejoice, Zebulun, in Thy going out;
and Issachar, in Thy tents.
19 They shall call the people to the mountain;
there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness:
for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas,
and of treasures hid in the sand.
20
And of Gad he said,
Blessed be he who enlarges Gad!
He dwells as a lion, and tears the arm with the crown of the head.
21 He provided the first part for himself,
because there, in a portion of the Lawgiver, was he seated:
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,
Naphtali, satisfied with favour,
and full with the blessing of the LORD:
possess Thou the west and the south.
24 And of Asher he said,
Let Asher be blessed with children;
let him be acceptable to his brethren,
and let him dip his foot in oil.
25 Thy shoes shall be iron and bronze;
and as Thy days, so shall Thy strength be.
26
There is none like to the God of Jeshurun[upright],
who rides upon the Heaven in Thy help,
and in His excellence on the skies.
27 The Eternal God is Thy Refuge,
and underneath are the everlasting arms:
and He shall thrust out the enemy from before Thee,
and shall say, Destroy them.
28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone;
the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of grain and new wine,
also his Heavens shall drop down dew.
29 Blessed are Thou, Israel:
who is like to Thee, people saved by the LORD,
the Shield of Thy help,
and who is the Sword of Thy excellence!
And Thy enemies shall be found liars to Thee;
and Thou shall tread upon their high places.
1 [The death of Moses].
Moses went up from the plains of Moab, upon the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposed to 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 utmost sea,
3 and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-trees, to Zoar.
4 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 Thy seed: I have caused Thee to see it with Thy eyes, but Thou 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 He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposed to Beth-Peor: but no man knows of his sepulchre to this day.
7 Moses was a 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 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the Spirit of Wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
10 And there arose not a prophet afterwards in Israel like to Moses, 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.