the D (Deuteronomic) source of the Pentateuch

chapter/verse text
Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan.—Through the wilderness, in the Arabah near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab,
Deuteronomy 1:2 it is eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the Mount Seir route.—
Deuteronomy 1:4 after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth [and] Edrei.
Deuteronomy 1:5 On the other side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this Teaching. He said:
Deuteronomy 1:6 The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying: You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
Deuteronomy 1:7 Start out and make your way to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, and the Lebanon, as far as the Great River, the river Euphrates.
Deuteronomy 1:8 See, I place the land at your disposal. Go, take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to assign to them and to their heirs after them.
Deuteronomy 1:9 Thereupon I said to you, “I cannot bear the burden of you by myself.
Deuteronomy 1:10 The LORD your God has multiplied you until you are today as numerous as the stars in the sky.—
Deuteronomy 1:11 May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase your numbers a thousandfold, and bless you as He promised you.—
Deuteronomy 1:12 How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering!
Deuteronomy 1:13 Pick from each of your tribes men who are wise, discerning, and experienced, and I will appoint them as your heads.”
Deuteronomy 1:14 You answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”
Deuteronomy 1:15 So I took your tribal leaders, wise and experienced men, and appointed them heads over you: chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, and officials for your tribes.
Deuteronomy 1:16 I charged your magistrates at that time as follows, “Hear out your fellow men, and decide justly between any man and a fellow Israelite or a stranger.
Deuteronomy 1:17 You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike. Fear no man, for judgment is God’s. And any matter that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me and I will hear it.”
Deuteronomy 1:18 Thus I instructed you, at that time, about the various things that you should do.
Deuteronomy 1:19 We set out from Horeb and traveled the great and terrible wilderness that you saw, along the road to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
Deuteronomy 1:20 I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the LORD our God is giving to us.
Deuteronomy 1:21 See, the LORD your God has placed the land at your disposal. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you. Fear not and be not dismayed.”
Deuteronomy 1:22 Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to reconnoiter the land for us and bring back word on the route we shall follow and the cities we shall come to.”
Deuteronomy 1:23 I approved of the plan, and so I selected twelve of your men, one from each tribe.
Deuteronomy 1:24 They made for the hill country, came to the wadi Eshcol, and spied it out.
Deuteronomy 1:25 They took some of the fruit of the land with them and brought it down to us. And they gave us this report: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving to us.”
Deuteronomy 1:26 Yet you refused to go up, and flouted the command of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 1:27 You sulked in your tents and said, “It is because the LORD hates us that He brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to wipe us out.
Deuteronomy 1:28 What kind of place are we going to? Our kinsmen have taken the heart out of us, saying, ‘We saw there a people stronger and taller than we, large cities with walls sky-high, and even Anakites.’”
Deuteronomy 1:29 I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them.
Deuteronomy 1:30 None other than the LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as He did for you in Egypt before your very eyes,
Deuteronomy 1:31 and in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you traveled until you came to this place.
Deuteronomy 1:32 Yet for all that, you have no faith in the LORD your God,
Deuteronomy 1:33 who goes before you on your journeys—to scout the place where you are to encamp—in fire by night and in cloud by day, in order to guide you on the route you are to follow.”
Deuteronomy 1:34 When the LORD heard your loud complaint, He was angry. He vowed:
Deuteronomy 1:35 Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers—
Deuteronomy 1:36 none except Caleb son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his descendants will I give the land on which he set foot, because he remained loyal to the LORD.—
Deuteronomy 1:37 Because of you the LORD was incensed with me too, and He said: You shall not enter it either.
Deuteronomy 1:38 Joshua son of Nun, who attends you, he shall enter it. Imbue him with strength, for he shall allot it to Israel.—
Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover, your little ones who you said would be carried off, your children who do not yet know good from bad, they shall enter it; to them will I give it and they shall possess it.
Deuteronomy 1:40 As for you, turn about and march into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.
Deuteronomy 1:41 You sulked in your tents and said, “It is because the LORD hates us that He brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to wipe us out.
Deuteronomy 1:42 But the LORD said to me, “Warn them: Do not go up and do not fight, since I am not in your midst; else you will be routed by your enemies.”
Deuteronomy 1:43 I spoke to you, but you would not listen; you flouted the LORD’s command and willfully marched into the hill country.
Deuteronomy 1:44 Then the Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you like so many bees and chased you, and they crushed you at Hormah in Seir.
Deuteronomy 1:45 Again you wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not heed your cry or give ear to you.
Deuteronomy 1:46 Thus, after you had remained at Kadesh all that long time,
Deuteronomy 2:1 we marched back into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds, as the LORD had spoken to me, and skirted the hill country of Seir a long time.
Deuteronomy 2:2 Then the LORD said to me:
Deuteronomy 2:3 You have been skirting this hill country long enough; now turn north.
Deuteronomy 2:4 And charge the people as follows: You will be passing through the territory of your kinsmen, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. Though they will be afraid of you, be very careful
Deuteronomy 2:5 not to provoke them. For I will not give you of their land so much as a foot can tread on; I have given the hill country of Seir as a possession to Esau.
Deuteronomy 2:6 What food you eat you shall obtain from them for money; even the water you drink you shall procure from them for money.
Deuteronomy 2:7 Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all your undertakings. He has watched over your wanderings through this great wilderness; the LORD your God has been with you these past forty years: you have lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy 2:8 We then moved on, away from our kinsmen, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the road of the Arabah, away from Elath and Ezion-geber; and we marched on in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:9 And the LORD said to me: Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war. For I will not give you any of their land as a possession; I have assigned Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.—
Deuteronomy 2:10 It was formerly inhabited by the Emim, a people great and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.
Deuteronomy 2:11 Like the Anakites, they are counted as Rephaim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deuteronomy 2:12 Similarly, Seir was formerly inhabited by the Horites; but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, wiping them out and settling in their place, just as Israel did in the land they were to possess, which the LORD had given to them.—
Deuteronomy 2:13 Up now! Cross the wadi Zered!So we crossed the wadi Zered.
Deuteronomy 2:14 The time that we spent in travel from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, until that whole generation of warriors had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn concerning them.
Deuteronomy 2:15 Indeed, the hand of the LORD struck them, to root them out from the camp to the last man.
Deuteronomy 2:16 When all the warriors among the people had died off,
Deuteronomy 2:17 the LORD spoke to me, saying:
Deuteronomy 2:18 You are now passing through the territory of Moab, through Ar.
Deuteronomy 2:19 You will then be close to the Ammonites; do not harass them or start a fight with them. For I will not give any part of the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession; I have assigned it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.—
Deuteronomy 2:20 It, too, is counted as Rephaim country. It was formerly inhabited by Rephaim, whom the Ammonites call Zamzummim,
Deuteronomy 2:21 a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakites. The LORD wiped them out, so that [the Ammonites] dispossessed them and settled in their place,
Deuteronomy 2:22 as He did for the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, when He wiped out the Horites before them, so that they dispossessed them and settled in their place, as is still the case.
Deuteronomy 2:23 So, too, with the Avvim who dwelt in villages in the vicinity of Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came from Crete, wiped them out and settled in their place.—
Deuteronomy 2:24 Up! Set out across the wadi Arnon! See, I give into your power Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin the occupation: engage him in battle.
Deuteronomy 2:25 This day I begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under heaven, so that they shall tremble and quake because of you whenever they hear you mentioned.
Deuteronomy 2:26 Then I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace, as follows,
Deuteronomy 2:27 “Let me pass through your country. I will keep strictly to the highway, turning off neither to the right nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 2:28 What food I eat you will supply for money, and what water I drink you will furnish for money; just let me pass through—
Deuteronomy 2:29 as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir did for me, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar—that I may cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
Deuteronomy 2:30 But King Sihon of Heshbon refused to let us pass through, because the LORD had stiffened his will and hardened his heart in order to deliver him into your power—as is now the case.
Deuteronomy 2:31 And the LORD said to me: See, I begin by placing Sihon and his land at your disposal. Begin the occupation; take possession of his land.
Deuteronomy 2:32 Sihon with all his men took the field against us at Jahaz,
Deuteronomy 2:33 and the LORD our God delivered him to us and we defeated him and his sons and all his men.
Deuteronomy 2:34 At that time we captured all his towns, and we doomed every town—men, women, and children—leaving no survivor.
Deuteronomy 2:35 We retained as booty only the cattle and the spoil of the cities that we captured.
Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer on the edge of the Arnon valley, including the town in the valley itself, to Gilead, not a city was too mighty for us; the LORD our God delivered everything to us.
Deuteronomy 2:37 But you did not encroach upon the land of the Ammonites, all along the wadi Jabbok and the towns of the hill country, just as the LORD our God had commanded.
Deuteronomy 3:1 We made our way up the road toward Bashan, and King Og of Bashan with all his men took the field against us at Edrei.
Deuteronomy 3:2 But the LORD said to me: Do not fear him, for I am delivering him and all his men and his country into your power, and you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.
Deuteronomy 3:3 So the LORD our God also delivered into our power King Og of Bashan, with all his men, and we dealt them such a blow that no survivor was left.
Deuteronomy 3:4 At that time we captured all his towns; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty towns, the whole district of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan—
Deuteronomy 3:5 all those towns were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars—apart from a great number of unwalled towns.
Deuteronomy 3:6 We doomed them as we had done in the case of King Sihon of Heshbon; we doomed every town—men, women, and children—
Deuteronomy 3:7 and retained as booty all the cattle and the spoil of the towns.
Deuteronomy 3:8 Thus we seized, at that time, from the two Amorite kings, the country beyond the Jordan, from the wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon—
Deuteronomy 3:9 Sidonians called Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir—
Deuteronomy 3:10 all the towns of the Tableland and the whole of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salcah and Edrei, the towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.
Deuteronomy 3:11 Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaim. His bedstead, an iron bedstead, is now in Rabbah of the Ammonites; it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide, by the standard cubit!
Deuteronomy 3:12 And this is the land which we apportioned at that time: The part from Aroer along the wadi Arnon, with part of the hill country of Gilead and its towns, I assigned to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
Deuteronomy 3:13 The rest of Gilead, and all of Bashan under Og’s rule—the whole Argob district, all that part of Bashan which is called Rephaim country—I assigned to the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair son of Manasseh received the whole Argob district (that is, Bashan) as far as the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and named it after himself: Havvoth-jair—as is still the case.
Deuteronomy 3:15 To Machir I assigned Gilead.
Deuteronomy 3:16 And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I assigned the part from Gilead down to the wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi being the boundary, and up to the wadi Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites.
Deuteronomy 3:17 [We also seized] the Arabah, from the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east, to the edge of the Jordan, and from Chinnereth down to the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea.
Deuteronomy 3:18 At that time I charged you, saying, “The LORD your God has given you this country to possess. You must go as shock-troops, warriors all, at the head of your Israelite kinsmen.
Deuteronomy 3:19 Only your wives, children, and livestock—I know that you have much livestock—shall be left in the towns I have assigned to you,
Deuteronomy 3:20 until the LORD has granted your kinsmen a haven such as you have, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is assigning them, beyond the Jordan. Then you may return each to the homestead that I have assigned to him.”
Deuteronomy 3:21 I also charged Joshua at that time, saying, “You have seen with your own eyes all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings; so shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms into which you shall cross over.
Deuteronomy 3:22 Do not fear them, for it is the LORD your God who will battle for you.”
Deuteronomy 3:23 I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying,
Deuteronomy 3:24 “O Lord GOD, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal!
Deuteronomy 3:25 Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country, and the Lebanon.”
Deuteronomy 3:26 But the LORD was wrathful with me on your account and would not listen to me. The LORD said to me, “Enough! Never speak to Me of this matter again!
Deuteronomy 3:27 Go up to the summit of Pisgah and gaze about, to the west, the north, the south, and the east. Look at it well, for you shall not go across yonder Jordan.
Deuteronomy 3:28 Give Joshua his instructions, and imbue him with strength and courage, for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he shall allot to them the land that you may only see.”
Deuteronomy 3:29 Meanwhile we stayed on in the valley near Beth-peor.
Deuteronomy 4:1 And now, O Israel, give heed to the laws and rules that I am instructing you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deuteronomy 4:2 You shall not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it, but keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I enjoin upon you.
Deuteronomy 4:3 You saw with your own eyes what the LORD did in the matter of Baal-peor, that the LORD your God wiped out from among you every person who followed Baal-peor;
Deuteronomy 4:4 while you, who held fast to the LORD your God, are all alive today.
Deuteronomy 4:5 See, I have imparted to you laws and rules, as the LORD my God has commanded me, for you to abide by in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.
Deuteronomy 4:6 Observe them faithfully, for that will be proof of your wisdom and discernment to other peoples, who on hearing of all these laws will say, “Surely, that great nation is a wise and discerning people.”
Deuteronomy 4:7 For what great nation is there that has a god so close at hand as is the LORD our God whenever we call upon Him?
Deuteronomy 4:8 Or what great nation has laws and rules as perfect as all this Teaching that I set before you this day?
Deuteronomy 4:9 But take utmost care and watch yourselves scrupulously, so that you do not forget the things that you saw with your own eyes and so that they do not fade from your mind as long as you live. And make them known to your children and to your children’s children:
Deuteronomy 4:10 The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, “Gather the people to Me that I may let them hear My words, in order that they may learn to revere Me as long as they live on earth, and may so teach their children.”
Deuteronomy 4:11 You came forward and stood at the foot of the mountain. The mountain was ablaze with flames to the very skies, dark with densest clouds.
Deuteronomy 4:12 The LORD spoke to you out of the fire; you heard the sound of words but perceived no shape—nothing but a voice.
Deuteronomy 4:13 He declared to you the covenant that He commanded you to observe, the Ten Commandments; and He inscribed them on two tablets of stone.
Deuteronomy 4:14 At the same time the LORD commanded me to impart to you laws and rules for you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy.
Deuteronomy 4:15 For your own sake, therefore, be most careful—since you saw no shape when the LORD your God spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire—
Deuteronomy 4:16 not to act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness whatever: the form of a man or a woman,
Deuteronomy 4:17 the form of any beast on earth, the form of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Deuteronomy 4:18 the form of anything that creeps on the ground, the form of any fish that is in the waters below the earth.—
Deuteronomy 4:19 And when you look up to the sky and behold the sun and the moon and the stars, the whole heavenly host, you must not be lured into bowing down to them or serving them. These the LORD your God allotted to other peoples everywhere under heaven;
Deuteronomy 4:20 but you the LORD took and brought out of Egypt, that iron blast furnace, to be His very own people, as is now the case.
Deuteronomy 4:21 Now the LORD was angry with me on your account and swore that I should not cross the Jordan and enter the good land that the LORD your God is assigning you as a heritage.
Deuteronomy 4:22 For I must die in this land; I shall not cross the Jordan. But you will cross and take possession of that good land.
Deuteronomy 4:23 Take care, then, not to forget the covenant that the LORD your God concluded with you, and not to make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, against which the LORD your God has enjoined you.
Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, an impassioned God.
Deuteronomy 4:25 When you have begotten children and children’s children and are long established in the land, should you act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, causing the LORD your God displeasure and vexation,
Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you that you shall soon perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess; you shall not long endure in it, but shall be utterly wiped out.
Deuteronomy 4:27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a scant few of you shall be left among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 4:28 There you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, that cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
Deuteronomy 4:29 But if you search there for the LORD your God, you will find Him, if only you seek Him with all your heart and soul—
Deuteronomy 4:30 when you are in distress because all these things have befallen you and, in the end, return to the LORD your God and obey Him.
Deuteronomy 4:31 For the LORD your God is a compassionate God: He will not fail you nor will He let you perish; He will not forget the covenant which He made on oath with your fathers.
Deuteronomy 4:32 You have but to inquire about bygone ages that came before you, ever since God created man on earth, from one end of heaven to the other: has anything as grand as this ever happened, or has its like ever been known?
Deuteronomy 4:33 Has any people heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have, and survived?
Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has any god ventured to go and take for himself one nation from the midst of another by prodigious acts, by signs and portents, by war, by a mighty and an outstretched arm and awesome power, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
Deuteronomy 4:35 It has been clearly demonstrated to you that the LORD alone is God; there is none beside Him.
Deuteronomy 4:36 From the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; on earth He let you see His great fire; and from amidst that fire you heard His words.
Deuteronomy 4:37 And because He loved your fathers, He chose their heirs after them; He Himself, in His great might, led you out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 4:38 to drive from your path nations greater and more populous than you, to take you into their land and assign it to you as a heritage, as is still the case.
Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day and keep in mind that the LORD alone is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:40 Observe His laws and commandments, which I enjoin upon you this day, that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may long remain in the land that the LORD your God is assigning to you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:41 Then Moses set aside three cities on the east side of the Jordan
Deuteronomy 4:42 to which a manslayer could escape, one who unwittingly slew a fellow man without having been his enemy in the past; he could flee to one of these cities and live:
Deuteronomy 4:43 Bezer, in the wilderness in the Tableland, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth, in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; and Golan, in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 4:44 This is the Teaching that Moses set before the Israelites:
Deuteronomy 4:45 these are the decrees, laws, and rules that Moses addressed to the people of Israel, after they had left Egypt,
Deuteronomy 4:46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley at Beth-peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated after they had left Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:47 They had taken possession of his country and that of King Og of Bashan—the two kings of the Amorites—which were on the east side of the Jordan
Deuteronomy 4:48 from Aroer on the banks of the wadi Arnon, as far as Mount Sion, that is, Hermon;
Deuteronomy 4:49 also the whole Arabah on the east side of the Jordan, as far as the Sea of the Arabah, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.
Deuteronomy 5:1 Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the laws and rules that I proclaim to you this day! Study them and observe them faithfully!
Deuteronomy 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
Deuteronomy 5:3 It was not with our fathers that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, the living, every one of us who is here today.
Deuteronomy 5:4 Face to face the LORD spoke to you on the mountain out of the fire—
Deuteronomy 5:5 I stood between the LORD and you at that time to convey the LORD’s words to you, for you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain—saying:
Deuteronomy 5:6 I the LORD am your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage:
Deuteronomy 5:7 You shall have no other gods beside Me.
Deuteronomy 5:8 You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters below the earth.
Deuteronomy 5:9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I the LORD your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who reject Me,
Deuteronomy 5:10 but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:11 You shall not swear falsely by the name of the LORD your God; for the LORD will not clear one who swears falsely by His name.
Deuteronomy 5:12 Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 5:13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
Deuteronomy 5:14 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the stranger in your settlements, so that your male and female slave may rest as you do.
Deuteronomy 5:15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God freed you from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 5:16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may long endure, and that you may fare well, in the land that the LORD your God is assigning to you.
Deuteronomy 5:17 You shall not murder.You shall not commit adultery.You shall not steal.You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 5:18 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not crave your neighbor’s house, or his field, or his male or female slave, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s.
Deuteronomy 5:19 The LORD spoke those words—those and no more—to your whole congregation at the mountain, with a mighty voice out of the fire and the dense clouds. He inscribed them on two tablets of stone, which He gave to me.
Deuteronomy 5:20 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, you came up to me, all your tribal heads and elders,
Deuteronomy 5:21 and said, “The LORD our God has just shown us His majestic Presence, and we have heard His voice out of the fire; we have seen this day that man may live though God has spoken to him.
Deuteronomy 5:22 Let us not die, then, for this fearsome fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer, we shall die.
Deuteronomy 5:23 For what mortal ever heard the voice of the living God speak out of the fire, as we did, and lived?
Deuteronomy 5:24 You go closer and hear all that the LORD our God says, and then you tell us everything that the LORD our God tells you, and we will willingly do it.”
Deuteronomy 5:25 The LORD heard the plea that you made to me, and the LORD said to me, “I have heard the plea that this people made to you; they did well to speak thus.
Deuteronomy 5:26 May they always be of such mind, to revere Me and follow all My commandments, that it may go well with them and with their children forever!
Deuteronomy 5:27 Go, say to them, ‘Return to your tents.’
Deuteronomy 5:28 But you remain here with Me, and I will give you the whole Instruction—the laws and the rules—that you shall impart to them, for them to observe in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
Deuteronomy 5:29 Be careful, then, to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left:
Deuteronomy 5:30 follow only the path that the LORD your God has enjoined upon you, so that you may thrive and that it may go well with you, and that you may long endure in the land you are to possess.
Deuteronomy 6:1 And this is the Instruction—the laws and the rules—that the LORD your God has commanded [me] to impart to you, to be observed in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,
Deuteronomy 6:2 so that you, your children, and your children’s children may revere the LORD your God and follow, as long as you live, all His laws and commandments that I enjoin upon you, to the end that you may long endure.
Deuteronomy 6:3 Obey, O Israel, willingly and faithfully, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly [in] a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, spoke to you.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.
Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:6 Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.
Deuteronomy 6:7 Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol
Deuteronomy 6:9 inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:10 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to assign to you—great and flourishing cities that you did not build,
Deuteronomy 6:11 houses full of all good things that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and you eat your fill,
Deuteronomy 6:12 take heed that you do not forget the LORD who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 6:13 Revere only the LORD your God and worship Him alone, and swear only by His name.
Deuteronomy 6:14 Do not follow other gods, any gods of the peoples about you—
Deuteronomy 6:15 for the LORD your God in your midst is an impassioned God—lest the anger of the LORD your God blaze forth against you and He wipe you off the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 6:16 Do not try the LORD your God, as you did at Massah.
Deuteronomy 6:17 Be sure to keep the commandments, decrees, and laws that the LORD your God has enjoined upon you.
Deuteronomy 6:18 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you and that you may be able to possess the good land that the LORD your God promised on oath to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 6:19 and that all your enemies may be driven out before you, as the LORD has spoken.
Deuteronomy 6:20 When, in time to come, your children ask you, “What mean the decrees, laws, and rules that the LORD our God has enjoined upon you?”
Deuteronomy 6:21 you shall say to your children, “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt and the LORD freed us from Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 6:22 The LORD wrought before our eyes marvelous and destructive signs and portents in Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his household;
Deuteronomy 6:23 and us He freed from there, that He might take us and give us the land that He had promised on oath to our fathers.
Deuteronomy 6:24 Then the LORD commanded us to observe all these laws, to revere the LORD our God, for our lasting good and for our survival, as is now the case.
Deuteronomy 6:25 It will be therefore to our merit before the LORD our God to observe faithfully this whole Instruction, as He has commanded us.”
Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are about to enter and possess, and He dislodges many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations much larger than you—
Deuteronomy 7:2 and the LORD your God delivers them to you and you defeat them, you must doom them to destruction: grant them no terms and give them no quarter.
Deuteronomy 7:3 You shall not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons.
Deuteronomy 7:4 For they will turn your children away from Me to worship other gods, and the LORD’s anger will blaze forth against you and He will promptly wipe you out.
Deuteronomy 7:5 Instead, this is what you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred posts, and consign their images to the fire.
Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people consecrated to the LORD your God: of all the peoples on earth the LORD your God chose you to be His treasured people.
Deuteronomy 7:7 It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that the LORD set His heart on you and chose you—indeed, you are the smallest of peoples;
Deuteronomy 7:8 but it was because the LORD favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that the LORD freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know, therefore, that only the LORD your God is God, the steadfast God who keeps His covenant faithfully to the thousandth generation of those who love Him and keep His commandments,
Deuteronomy 7:10 but who instantly requites with destruction those who reject Him—never slow with those who reject Him, but requiting them instantly.
Deuteronomy 7:11 Therefore, observe faithfully the Instruction—the laws and the rules—with which I charge you today.
Deuteronomy 7:12 And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, the LORD your God will maintain faithfully for you the covenant that He made on oath with your fathers:
Deuteronomy 7:13 He will favor you and bless you and multiply you; He will bless the issue of your womb and the produce of your soil, your new grain and wine and oil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock, in the land that He swore to your fathers to assign to you.
Deuteronomy 7:14 You shall be blessed above all other peoples: there shall be no sterile male or female among you or among your livestock.
Deuteronomy 7:15 The LORD will ward off from you all sickness; He will not bring upon you any of the dreadful diseases of Egypt, about which you know, but will inflict them upon all your enemies.
Deuteronomy 7:16 You shall destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God delivers to you, showing them no pity. And you shall not worship their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
Deuteronomy 7:17 Should you say to yourselves, “These nations are more numerous than we; how can we dispossess them?”
Deuteronomy 7:18 You need have no fear of them. You have but to bear in mind what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all the Egyptians:
Deuteronomy 7:19 the wondrous acts that you saw with your own eyes, the signs and the portents, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm by which the LORD your God liberated you. Thus will the LORD your God do to all the peoples you now fear.
Deuteronomy 7:20 The LORD your God will also send a plague against them, until those who are left in hiding perish before you.
Deuteronomy 7:21 Do not stand in dread of them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.
Deuteronomy 7:22 The LORD your God will dislodge those peoples before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them at once, else the wild beasts would multiply to your hurt.
Deuteronomy 7:23 The LORD your God will deliver them up to you, throwing them into utter panic until they are wiped out.
Deuteronomy 7:24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall obliterate their name from under the heavens; no man shall stand up to you, until you have wiped them out.
Deuteronomy 7:25 You shall consign the images of their gods to the fire; you shall not covet the silver and gold on them and keep it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared thereby; for that is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 7:26 You must not bring an abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be proscribed like it; you must reject it as abominable and abhorrent, for it is proscribed.
Deuteronomy 8:1 You shall faithfully observe all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you today, that you may thrive and increase and be able to possess the land that the LORD promised on oath to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 8:2 Remember the long way that the LORD your God has made you travel in the wilderness these past forty years, that He might test you by hardships to learn what was in your hearts: whether you would keep His commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 8:3 He subjected you to the hardship of hunger and then gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had ever known, in order to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but that man may live on anything that the LORD decrees.
Deuteronomy 8:4 The clothes upon you did not wear out, nor did your feet swell these forty years.
Deuteronomy 8:5 Bear in mind that the LORD your God disciplines you just as a man disciplines his son.
Deuteronomy 8:6 Therefore keep the commandments of the LORD your God: walk in His ways and revere Him.
Deuteronomy 8:7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs and fountains issuing from plain and hill;
Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you may eat food without stint, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.
Deuteronomy 8:10 When you have eaten your fill, give thanks to the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.
Deuteronomy 8:11 Take care lest you forget the LORD your God and fail to keep His commandments, His rules, and His laws, which I enjoin upon you today.
Deuteronomy 8:12 When you have eaten your fill, and have built fine houses to live in,
Deuteronomy 8:13 and your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold have increased, and everything you own has prospered,
Deuteronomy 8:14 beware lest your heart grow haughty and you forget the LORD your God—who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage;
Deuteronomy 8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its <i>seraph</i> serpents and scorpions, a parched land with no water in it, who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy 8:16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers had never known, in order to test you by hardships only to benefit you in the end—
Deuteronomy 8:17 and you say to yourselves, “My own power and the might of my own hand have won this wealth for me.”
Deuteronomy 8:18 Remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to get wealth, in fulfillment of the covenant that He made on oath with your fathers, as is still the case.
Deuteronomy 8:19 If you do forget the LORD your God and follow other gods to serve them or bow down to them, I warn you this day that you shall certainly perish;
Deuteronomy 8:20 like the nations that the LORD will cause to perish before you, so shall you perish—because you did not heed the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 9:1 Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and more populous than you: great cities with walls sky-high;
Deuteronomy 9:2 a people great and tall, the Anakites, of whom you have knowledge; for you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the children of Anak?”
Deuteronomy 9:3 Know then this day that none other than the LORD your God is crossing at your head, a devouring fire; it is He who will wipe them out. He will subdue them before you, that you may quickly dispossess and destroy them, as the LORD promised you.
Deuteronomy 9:4 And when the LORD your God has thrust them from your path, say not to yourselves, “The LORD has enabled us to possess this land because of our virtues”; it is rather because of the wickedness of those nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you.
Deuteronomy 9:5 It is not because of your virtues and your rectitude that you will be able to possess their country; but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is dispossessing those nations before you, and in order to fulfill the oath that the LORD made to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:6 Know, then, that it is not for any virtue of yours that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess; for you are a stiffnecked people.
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, never forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the wilderness: from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have continued defiant toward the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9:8 At Horeb you so provoked the LORD that the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 9:9 I had ascended the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant that the LORD had made with you, and I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, eating no bread and drinking no water.
Deuteronomy 9:10 And the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God, with the exact words that the LORD had addressed to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the Assembly.
Deuteronomy 9:11 At the end of those forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant.
Deuteronomy 9:12 And the LORD said to me, “Hurry, go down from here at once, for the people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted wickedly; they have been quick to stray from the path that I enjoined upon them; they have made themselves a molten image.”
Deuteronomy 9:13 The LORD further said to me, “I see that this is a stiffnecked people.
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let Me alone and I will destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make you a nation far more numerous than they.”
Deuteronomy 9:15 I started down the mountain, a mountain ablaze with fire, the two Tablets of the Covenant in my two hands.
Deuteronomy 9:16 I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God: you had made yourselves a molten calf; you had been quick to stray from the path that the LORD had enjoined upon you.
Deuteronomy 9:17 Thereupon I gripped the two tablets and flung them away with both my hands, smashing them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 9:18 I threw myself down before the LORD—eating no bread and drinking no water forty days and forty nights, as before—because of the great wrong you had committed, doing what displeased the LORD and vexing Him.
Deuteronomy 9:19 For I was in dread of the LORD’s fierce anger against you, which moved Him to wipe you out. And that time, too, the LORD gave heed to me.—
Deuteronomy 9:20 Moreover, the LORD was angry enough with Aaron to have destroyed him; so I also interceded for Aaron at that time.—
Deuteronomy 9:21 As for that sinful thing you had made, the calf, I took it and put it to the fire; I broke it to bits and ground it thoroughly until it was fine as dust, and I threw its dust into the brook that comes down from the mountain.
Deuteronomy 9:22 Again you provoked the LORD at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Deuteronomy 9:23 And when the LORD sent you on from Kadesh-barnea, saying, “Go up and take possession of the land that I am giving you,” you flouted the command of the LORD your God; you did not put your trust in Him and did not obey Him.
Deuteronomy 9:24 As long as I have known you, you have been defiant toward the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9:25 When I lay prostrate before the LORD those forty days and forty nights, because the LORD was determined to destroy you,
Deuteronomy 9:26 I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not annihilate Your very own people, whom You redeemed in Your majesty and whom You freed from Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 9:27 Give thought to Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and pay no heed to the stubbornness of this people, its wickedness, and its sinfulness.
Deuteronomy 9:28 Else the country from which You freed us will say, ‘It was because the LORD was powerless to bring them into the land that He had promised them, and because He rejected them, that He brought them out to have them die in the wilderness.’
Deuteronomy 9:29 Yet they are Your very own people, whom You freed with Your great might and Your outstretched arm.”
Deuteronomy 10:1 Thereupon the LORD said to me, “Carve out two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain; and make an ark of wood.
Deuteronomy 10:2 I will inscribe on the tablets the commandments that were on the first tablets that you smashed, and you shall deposit them in the ark.”
Deuteronomy 10:3 I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two tablets of stone like the first; I took the two tablets with me and went up the mountain.
Deuteronomy 10:4 The LORD inscribed on the tablets the same text as on the first, the Ten Commandments that He addressed to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the Assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.
Deuteronomy 10:5 Then I left and went down from the mountain, and I deposited the tablets in the ark that I had made, where they still are, as the LORD had commanded me.
Deuteronomy 10:6 From Beeroth-bene-jaakan the Israelites marched to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried there; and his son Eleazar became priest in his stead.
Deuteronomy 10:7 From there they marched to Gudgod, and from Gudgod to Jotbath, a region of running brooks.
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant, to stand in attendance upon the LORD, and to bless in His name, as is still the case.
Deuteronomy 10:9 That is why the Levites have received no hereditary portion along with their kinsmen: the LORD is their portion, as the LORD your God spoke concerning them.
Deuteronomy 10:10 I had stayed on the mountain, as I did the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD heeded me once again: the LORD agreed not to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 10:11 And the LORD said to me, “Up, resume the march at the head of the people, that they may go in and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God demand of you? Only this: to revere the LORD your God, to walk only in His paths, to love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and soul,
Deuteronomy 10:13 keeping the LORD’s commandments and laws, which I enjoin upon you today, for your good.
Deuteronomy 10:14 Mark, the heavens to their uttermost reaches belong to the LORD your God, the earth and all that is on it!
Deuteronomy 10:15 Yet it was to your fathers that the LORD was drawn in His love for them, so that He chose you, their lineal descendants, from among all peoples—as is now the case.
Deuteronomy 10:16 Cut away, therefore, the thickening about your hearts and stiffen your necks no more.
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God supreme and Lord supreme, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe,
Deuteronomy 10:18 but upholds the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and befriends the stranger, providing him with food and clothing.—
Deuteronomy 10:19 You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:20 You must revere the LORD your God: only Him shall you worship, to Him shall you hold fast, and by His name shall you swear.
Deuteronomy 10:21 He is your glory and He is your God, who wrought for you those marvelous, awesome deeds that you saw with your own eyes.
Deuteronomy 10:22 Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons in all; and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Deuteronomy 11:1 Love, therefore, the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His laws, His rules, and His commandments.
Deuteronomy 11:2 Take thought this day that it was not your children, who neither experienced nor witnessed the lesson of the LORD your God—His majesty, His mighty hand, His outstretched arm;
Deuteronomy 11:3 the signs and the deeds that He performed in Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;
Deuteronomy 11:4 what He did to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots; how the LORD rolled back upon them the waters of the Sea of Reeds when they were pursuing you, thus destroying them once and for all;
Deuteronomy 11:5 what He did for you in the wilderness before you arrived in this place;
Deuteronomy 11:6 and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, their tents, and every living thing in their train, from amidst all Israel—
Deuteronomy 11:7 but that it was you who saw with your own eyes all the marvelous deeds that the LORD performed.
Deuteronomy 11:8 Keep, therefore, all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you today, so that you may have the strength to enter and take possession of the land that you are about to cross into and possess,
Deuteronomy 11:9 and that you may long endure upon the soil that the LORD swore to your fathers to assign to them and to their heirs, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land that you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come. There the grain you sowed had to be watered by your own labors, like a vegetable garden;
Deuteronomy 11:11 but the land you are about to cross into and possess, a land of hills and valleys, soaks up its water from the rains of heaven.
Deuteronomy 11:12 It is a land which the LORD your God looks after, on which the LORD your God always keeps His eye, from year’s beginning to year’s end.
Deuteronomy 11:13 If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving the LORD your God and serving Him with all your heart and soul,
Deuteronomy 11:14 I will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil—
Deuteronomy 11:15 I will also provide grass in the fields for your cattle—and thus you shall eat your fill.
Deuteronomy 11:16 Take care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them.
Deuteronomy 11:17 For the LORD’s anger will flare up against you, and He will shut up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce; and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is assigning to you.
Deuteronomy 11:18 Therefore impress these My words upon your symbol on your forehead,
Deuteronomy 11:19 and teach them to your children—reciting them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up;
Deuteronomy 11:20 and inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates—
Deuteronomy 11:21 to the end that you and your children may endure, in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to assign to them, as long as there is a heaven over the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:22 If, then, you faithfully keep all this Instruction that I command you, loving the LORD your God, walking in all His ways, and holding fast to Him,
Deuteronomy 11:23 the LORD will dislodge before you all these nations: you will dispossess nations greater and more numerous than you.
Deuteronomy 11:24 Every spot on which your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River—the Euphrates—to the Western Sea.
Deuteronomy 11:25 No man shall stand up to you: the LORD your God will put the dread and the fear of you over the whole land in which you set foot, as He promised you.
Deuteronomy 11:26 See, this day I set before you blessing and curse:
Deuteronomy 11:27 blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I enjoin upon you this day;
Deuteronomy 11:28 and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow other gods, whom you have not experienced.
Deuteronomy 11:29 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and possess, you shall pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.—
Deuteronomy 11:30 Both are on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the west road that is in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah—near Gilgal, by the terebinths of Moreh.
Deuteronomy 11:31 For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is assigning to you. When you have occupied it and are settled in it,
Deuteronomy 11:32 take care to observe all the laws and rules that I have set before you this day.
Deuteronomy 12:1 These are the laws and rules that you must carefully observe in the land that the LORD, God of your fathers, is giving you to possess, as long as you live on earth.
Deuteronomy 12:2 You must destroy all the sites at which the nations you are to dispossess worshiped their gods, whether on lofty mountains and on hills or under any luxuriant tree.
Deuteronomy 12:3 Tear down their altars, smash their pillars, put their sacred posts to the fire, and cut down the images of their gods, obliterating their name from that site.
Deuteronomy 12:4 Do not worship the LORD your God in like manner,
Deuteronomy 12:5 but look only to the site that the LORD your God will choose amidst all your tribes as His habitation, to establish His name there. There you are to go,
Deuteronomy 12:6 and there you are to bring your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions, your votive and freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks.
Deuteronomy 12:7 Together with your households, you shall feast there before the LORD your God, happy in all the undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12:8 You shall not act at all as we now act here, every man as he pleases,
Deuteronomy 12:9 because you have not yet come to the allotted haven that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 12:10 When you cross the Jordan and settle in the land that the LORD your God is allotting to you, and He grants you safety from all your enemies around you and you live in security,
Deuteronomy 12:11 then you must bring everything that I command you to the site where the LORD your God will choose to establish His name: your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions, and all the choice votive offerings that you vow to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 12:12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God with your sons and daughters and with your male and female slaves, along with the Levite in your settlements, for he has no territorial allotment among you.
Deuteronomy 12:13 Take care not to sacrifice your burnt offerings in any place you like,
Deuteronomy 12:14 but only in the place that the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories. There you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and there you shall observe all that I enjoin upon you.
Deuteronomy 12:15 But whenever you desire, you may slaughter and eat meat in any of your settlements, according to the blessing that the LORD your God has granted you. The unclean and the clean alike may partake of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
Deuteronomy 12:16 But you must not partake of the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 12:17 You may not partake in your settlements of the tithes of your new grain or wine or oil, or of the firstlings of your herds and flocks, or of any of the votive offerings that you vow, or of your freewill offerings, or of your contributions.
Deuteronomy 12:18 These you must consume before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD your God will choose—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite in your settlements—happy before the LORD your God in all your undertakings.
Deuteronomy 12:19 Be sure not to neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.
Deuteronomy 12:20 When the LORD enlarges your territory, as He has promised you, and you say, “I shall eat some meat,” for you have the urge to eat meat, you may eat meat whenever you wish.
Deuteronomy 12:21 If the place where the LORD has chosen to establish His name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of the cattle or sheep that the LORD gives you, as I have instructed you; and you may eat to your heart’s content in your settlements.
Deuteronomy 12:22 Eat it, however, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten: the unclean may eat it together with the clean.
Deuteronomy 12:23 But make sure that you do not partake of the blood; for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 12:24 You must not partake of it; you must pour it out on the ground like water:
Deuteronomy 12:25 you must not partake of it, in order that it may go well with you and with your descendants to come, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 12:26 But such sacred and votive donations as you may have shall be taken by you to the site that the LORD will choose.
Deuteronomy 12:27 You shall offer your burnt offerings, both the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and of your other sacrifices, the blood shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.
Deuteronomy 12:28 Be careful to heed all these commandments that I enjoin upon you; thus it will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 12:29 When the LORD your God has cut down before you the nations that you are about to enter and dispossess, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their land,
Deuteronomy 12:30 beware of being lured into their ways after they have been wiped out before you! Do not inquire about their gods, saying, “How did those nations worship their gods? I too will follow those practices.”
Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not act thus toward the LORD your God, for they perform for their gods every abhorrent act that the LORD detests; they even offer up their sons and daughters in fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 13:1 Be careful to observe only that which I enjoin upon you: neither add to it nor take away from it.
Deuteronomy 13:2 If there appears among you a prophet or a dream-diviner and he gives you a sign or a portent,
Deuteronomy 13:3 saying, “Let us follow and worship another god”—whom you have not experienced—even if the sign or portent that he named to you comes true,
Deuteronomy 13:4 do not heed the words of that prophet or that dream-diviner. For the LORD your God is testing you to see whether you really love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.
Deuteronomy 13:5 Follow none but the LORD your God, and revere none but Him; observe His commandments alone, and heed only His orders; worship none but Him, and hold fast to Him.
Deuteronomy 13:6 As for that prophet or dream-diviner, he shall be put to death; for he urged disloyalty to the LORD your God—who freed you from the land of Egypt and who redeemed you from the house of bondage—to make you stray from the path that the LORD your God commanded you to follow. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 13:7 If your brother, —
Deuteronomy 13:8 from among the gods of the peoples around you, either near to you or distant, anywhere from one end of the earth to the other:
Deuteronomy 13:9 do not assent or give heed to him. Show him no pity or compassion, and do not shield him;
Deuteronomy 13:10 but take his life. Let your hand be the first against him to put him to death, and the hand of the rest of the people thereafter.
Deuteronomy 13:11 Stone him to death, for he sought to make you stray from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 13:12 Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not be done again in your midst.
Deuteronomy 13:13 If you hear it said, of one of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you to dwell in,
Deuteronomy 13:14 that some scoundrels from among you have gone and subverted the inhabitants of their town, saying, “Come let us worship other gods”—whom you have not experienced—
Deuteronomy 13:15 you shall investigate and inquire and interrogate thoroughly. If it is true, the fact is established—that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in your midst—
Deuteronomy 13:16 put the inhabitants of that town to the sword and put its cattle to the sword. Doom it and all that is in it to destruction:
Deuteronomy 13:17 gather all its spoil into the open square, and burn the town and all its spoil as a holocaust to the LORD your God. And it shall remain an everlasting ruin, never to be rebuilt.
Deuteronomy 13:18 Let nothing that has been doomed stick to your hand, in order that the LORD may turn from His blazing anger and show you compassion, and in His compassion increase you as He promised your fathers on oath—
Deuteronomy 13:19 for you will be heeding the LORD your God, obeying all His commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 14:1 You are children of the LORD your God. You shall not gash yourselves or shave the front of your heads because of the dead.
Deuteronomy 14:2 For you are a people consecrated to the LORD your God: the LORD your God chose you from among all other peoples on earth to be His treasured people.
Deuteronomy 14:3 You shall not eat anything abhorrent.
Deuteronomy 14:4 These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
Deuteronomy 14:5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, the mountain sheep,
Deuteronomy 14:6 and any other animal that has true hoofs which are cleft in two and brings up the cud—such you may eat.
Deuteronomy 14:7 But the following, which do bring up the cud or have true hoofs which are cleft through, you may not eat: the camel, the hare, and the daman—for although they bring up the cud, they have no true hoofs—they are unclean for you;
Deuteronomy 14:8 also the swine—for although it has true hoofs, it does not bring up the cud—is unclean for you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their carcasses.
Deuteronomy 14:9 These you may eat of all that live in water: you may eat anything that has fins and scales.
Deuteronomy 14:10 But you may not eat anything that has no fins and scales: it is unclean for you.
Deuteronomy 14:11 You may eat any clean bird.
Deuteronomy 14:12 The following you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, and the black vulture;
Deuteronomy 14:13 the kite, the falcon, and the buzzard of any variety;
Deuteronomy 14:14 every variety of raven;
Deuteronomy 14:15 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, and the hawk of any variety;
Deuteronomy 14:16 the little owl, the great owl, and the white owl;
Deuteronomy 14:17 the pelican, the bustard, and the cormorant;
Deuteronomy 14:18 the stork, any variety of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Deuteronomy 14:19 All winged swarming things are unclean for you: they may not be eaten.
Deuteronomy 14:20 You may eat only clean winged creatures.
Deuteronomy 14:21 You shall not eat anything that has died a natural death; give it to the stranger in your community to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people consecrated to the LORD your God.You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
Deuteronomy 14:22 You shall set aside every year a tenth part of all the yield of your sowing that is brought from the field.
Deuteronomy 14:23 You shall consume the tithes of your new grain and wine and oil, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God, in the place where He will choose to establish His name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God forever.
Deuteronomy 14:24 Should the distance be too great for you, should you be unable to transport them, because the place where the LORD your God has chosen to establish His name is far from you and because the LORD your God has blessed you,
Deuteronomy 14:25 you may convert them into money. Wrap up the money and take it with you to the place that the LORD your God has chosen,
Deuteronomy 14:26 and spend the money on anything you want—cattle, sheep, wine, or other intoxicant, or anything you may desire. And you shall feast there, in the presence of the LORD your God, and rejoice with your household.
Deuteronomy 14:27 But do not neglect the Levite in your community, for he has no hereditary portion as you have.
Deuteronomy 14:28 Every third year you shall bring out the full tithe of your yield of that year, but leave it within your settlements.
Deuteronomy 14:29 Then the Levite, who has no hereditary portion as you have, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your settlements shall come and eat their fill, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the enterprises you undertake.
Deuteronomy 15:1 Every seventh year you shall practice remission of debts.
Deuteronomy 15:2 This shall be the nature of the remission: every creditor shall remit the due that he claims from his fellow; he shall not dun his fellow or kinsman, for the remission proclaimed is of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 15:3 You may dun the foreigner; but you must remit whatever is due you from your kinsmen.
Deuteronomy 15:4 There shall be no needy among you—since the LORD your God will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as a hereditary portion—
Deuteronomy 15:5 if only you heed the LORD your God and take care to keep all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day.
Deuteronomy 15:6 For the LORD your God will bless you as He has promised you: you will extend loans to many nations, but require none yourself; you will dominate many nations, but they will not dominate you.
Deuteronomy 15:7 If, however, there is a needy person among you, one of your kinsmen in any of your settlements in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kinsman.
Deuteronomy 15:8 Rather, you must open your hand and lend him sufficient for whatever he needs.
Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware lest you harbor the base thought, “The seventh year, the year of remission, is approaching,” so that you are mean to your needy kinsman and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will incur guilt.
Deuteronomy 15:10 Give to him readily and have no regrets when you do so, for in return the LORD your God will bless you in all your efforts and in all your undertakings.
Deuteronomy 15:11 For there will never cease to be needy ones in your land, which is why I command you: open your hand to the poor and needy kinsman in your land.
Deuteronomy 15:12 If a fellow Hebrew, man or woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall set him free.
Deuteronomy 15:13 When you set him free, do not let him go empty-handed:
Deuteronomy 15:14 Furnish him out of the flock, threshing floor, and vat, with which the LORD your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 15:15 Bear in mind that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I enjoin this commandment upon you today.
Deuteronomy 15:16 But should he say to you, “I do not want to leave you”—for he loves you and your household and is happy with you—
Deuteronomy 15:17 you shall take an awl and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall become your slave in perpetuity. Do the same with your female slave.
Deuteronomy 15:18 When you do set him free, do not feel aggrieved; for in the six years he has given you double the service of a hired man. Moreover, the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
Deuteronomy 15:19 You shall consecrate to the LORD your God all male firstlings that are born in your herd and in your flock: you must not work your firstling ox or shear your firstling sheep.
Deuteronomy 15:20 You and your household shall eat it annually before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD will choose.
Deuteronomy 15:21 But if it has a defect, lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 15:22 Eat it in your settlements, the unclean among you no less than the clean, just like the gazelle and the deer.
Deuteronomy 15:23 Only you must not partake of its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib and offer a passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, for it was in the month of Abib, at night, that the LORD your God freed you from Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:2 You shall slaughter the passover sacrifice for the LORD your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD will choose to establish His name.
Deuteronomy 16:3 You shall not eat anything leavened with it; for seven days thereafter you shall eat unleavened bread, bread of distress—for you departed from the land of Egypt hurriedly—so that you may remember the day of your departure from the land of Egypt as long as you live.
Deuteronomy 16:4 For seven days no leaven shall be found with you in all your territory, and none of the flesh of what you slaughter on the evening of the first day shall be left until morning.
Deuteronomy 16:5 You are not permitted to slaughter the passover sacrifice in any of the settlements that the LORD your God is giving you;
Deuteronomy 16:6 but at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish His name, there alone shall you slaughter the passover sacrifice, in the evening, at sundown, the time of day when you departed from Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:7 You shall cook and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose; and in the morning you may start back on your journey home.
Deuteronomy 16:8 After eating unleavened bread six days, you shall hold a solemn gathering for the LORD your God on the seventh day: you shall do no work.
Deuteronomy 16:9 You shall count off seven weeks; start to count the seven weeks when the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
Deuteronomy 16:10 Then you shall observe the Feast of Weeks for the LORD your God, offering your freewill contribution according as the LORD your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 16:11 You shall rejoice before the LORD your God with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite in your communities, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your midst, at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish His name.
Deuteronomy 16:12 Bear in mind that you were slaves in Egypt, and take care to obey these laws.
Deuteronomy 16:13 After the ingathering from your threshing floor and your vat, you shall hold the Feast of Booths for seven days.
Deuteronomy 16:14 You shall rejoice in your festival, with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your communities.
Deuteronomy 16:15 You shall hold a festival for the LORD your God seven days, in the place that the LORD will choose; for the LORD your God will bless all your crops and all your undertakings, and you shall have nothing but joy.
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times a year—on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on the Feast of Booths—all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place that He will choose. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed,
Deuteronomy 16:17 but each with his own gift, according to the blessing that the LORD your God has bestowed upon you.
Deuteronomy 16:18 You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that the LORD your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice.
Deuteronomy 16:19 You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.
Deuteronomy 16:20 Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 16:21 You shall not set up a sacred post—any kind of pole beside the altar of the LORD your God that you may make—
Deuteronomy 16:22 or erect a stone pillar; for such the LORD your God detests.
Deuteronomy 17:1 You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect of a serious kind, for that is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 17:2 If there is found among you, in one of the settlements that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or woman who has affronted the LORD your God and transgressed His covenant—
Deuteronomy 17:3 turning to the worship of other gods and bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, something I never commanded—
Deuteronomy 17:4 and you have been informed or have learned of it, then you shall make a thorough inquiry. If it is true, the fact is established, that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in Israel,
Deuteronomy 17:5 you shall take the man or the woman who did that wicked thing out to the public place, and you shall stone them, man or woman, to death.—
Deuteronomy 17:6 A person shall be put to death only on the testimony of two or more witnesses; he must not be put to death on the testimony of a single witness.—
Deuteronomy 17:7 Let the hands of the witnesses be the first against him to put him to death, and the hands of the rest of the people thereafter. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 17:8 If a case is too baffling for you to decide, be it a controversy over homicide, civil law, or assault—matters of dispute in your courts—you shall promptly repair to the place that the LORD your God will have chosen,
Deuteronomy 17:9 and appear before the levitical priests, or the magistrate in charge at the time, and present your problem. When they have announced to you the verdict in the case,
Deuteronomy 17:10 you shall carry out the verdict that is announced to you from that place that the LORD chose, observing scrupulously all their instructions to you.
Deuteronomy 17:11 You shall act in accordance with the instructions given you and the ruling handed down to you; you must not deviate from the verdict that they announce to you either to the right or to the left.
Deuteronomy 17:12 Should a man act presumptuously and disregard the priest charged with serving there the LORD your God, or the magistrate, that man shall die. Thus you will sweep out evil from Israel:
Deuteronomy 17:13 all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.
Deuteronomy 17:14 If, after you have entered the land that the LORD your God has assigned to you, and taken possession of it and settled in it, you decide, “I will set a king over me, as do all the nations about me,”
Deuteronomy 17:15 you shall be free to set a king over yourself, one chosen by the LORD your God. Be sure to set as king over yourself one of your own people; you must not set a foreigner over you, one who is not your kinsman.
Deuteronomy 17:16 Moreover, he shall not keep many horses or send people back to Egypt to add to his horses, since the LORD has warned you, “You must not go back that way again.”
Deuteronomy 17:17 And he shall not have many wives, lest his heart go astray; nor shall he amass silver and gold to excess.
Deuteronomy 17:18 When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this Teaching written for him on a scroll by the levitical priests.
Deuteronomy 17:19 Let it remain with him and let him read in it all his life, so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God, to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching as well as these laws.
Deuteronomy 17:20 Thus he will not act haughtily toward his fellows or deviate from the Instruction to the right or to the left, to the end that he and his descendants may reign long in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy 18:1 The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no territorial portion with Israel. They shall live only off the LORD’s offerings by fire as their portion,
Deuteronomy 18:2 and shall have no portion among their brother tribes: the LORD is their portion, as He promised them.
Deuteronomy 18:3 This then shall be the priests’ due from the people: Everyone who offers a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep, must give the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach to the priest.
Deuteronomy 18:4 You shall also give him the first fruits of your new grain and wine and oil, and the first shearing of your sheep.
Deuteronomy 18:5 For the LORD your God has chosen him and his descendants, out of all your tribes, to be in attendance for service in the name of the LORD for all time.
Deuteronomy 18:6 If a Levite would go, from any of the settlements throughout Israel where he has been residing, to the place that the LORD has chosen, he may do so whenever he pleases.
Deuteronomy 18:7 He may serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who are there in attendance before the LORD.
Deuteronomy 18:8 They shall receive equal shares of the dues, without regard to personal gifts or patrimonies.
Deuteronomy 18:9 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.
Deuteronomy 18:10 Let no one be found among you who consigns his son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer,
Deuteronomy 18:11 one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead.
Deuteronomy 18:12 For anyone who does such things is abhorrent to the LORD, and it is because of these abhorrent things that the LORD your God is dispossessing them before you.
Deuteronomy 18:13 You must be wholehearted with the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 18:14 Those nations that you are about to dispossess do indeed resort to soothsayers and augurs; to you, however, the LORD your God has not assigned the like.
Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your own people, like myself; him you shall heed.
Deuteronomy 18:16 This is just what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, saying, “Let me not hear the voice of the LORD my God any longer or see this wondrous fire any more, lest I die.”
Deuteronomy 18:17 Whereupon the LORD said to me, “They have done well in speaking thus.
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise up a prophet for them from among their own people, like yourself: I will put My words in his mouth and he will speak to them all that I command him;
Deuteronomy 18:19 and if anybody fails to heed the words he speaks in My name, I Myself will call him to account.
Deuteronomy 18:20 But any prophet who presumes to speak in My name an oracle that I did not command him to utter, or who speaks in the name of other gods—that prophet shall die.”
Deuteronomy 18:21 And should you ask yourselves, “How can we know that the oracle was not spoken by the LORD?”—
Deuteronomy 18:22 if the prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the oracle does not come true, that oracle was not spoken by the LORD; the prophet has uttered it presumptuously: do not stand in dread of him.
Deuteronomy 19:1 When the LORD your God has cut down the nations whose land the LORD your God is assigning to you, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their towns and homes,
Deuteronomy 19:2 you shall set aside three cities in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19:3 You shall survey the distances, and divide into three parts the territory of the country that the LORD your God has allotted to you, so that any manslayer may have a place to flee to.—
Deuteronomy 19:4 Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: one who has killed another unwittingly, without having been his enemy in the past.
Deuteronomy 19:5 For instance, a man goes with his neighbor into a grove to cut wood; as his hand swings the ax to cut down a tree, the ax-head flies off the handle and strikes the other so that he dies. That man shall flee to one of these cities and live.—
Deuteronomy 19:6 Otherwise, when the distance is great, the blood-avenger, pursuing the manslayer in hot anger, may overtake him and kill him; yet he did not incur the death penalty, since he had never been the other’s enemy.
Deuteronomy 19:7 That is why I command you: set aside three cities.
Deuteronomy 19:8 And when the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land that He promised to give your fathers—
Deuteronomy 19:9 if you faithfully observe all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day, to love the LORD your God and to walk in His ways at all times—then you shall add three more towns to those three.
Deuteronomy 19:10 Thus blood of the innocent will not be shed, bringing bloodguilt upon you in the land that the LORD your God is allotting to you.
Deuteronomy 19:11 If, however, a person who is the enemy of another lies in wait for him and sets upon him and strikes him a fatal blow and then flees to one of these towns,
Deuteronomy 19:12 the elders of his town shall have him brought back from there and shall hand him over to the blood-avenger to be put to death;
Deuteronomy 19:13 you must show him no pity. Thus you will purge Israel of the blood of the innocent, and it will go well with you.
Deuteronomy 19:14 You shall not move your countryman’s landmarks, set up by previous generations, in the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19:15 A single witness may not validate against a person any guilt or blame for any offense that may be committed; a case can be valid only on the testimony of two witnesses or more.
Deuteronomy 19:16 If a man appears against another to testify maliciously and gives false testimony against him,
Deuteronomy 19:17 the two parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests or magistrates in authority at the time,
Deuteronomy 19:18 and the magistrates shall make a thorough investigation. If the man who testified is a false witness, if he has testified falsely against his fellow,
Deuteronomy 19:19 you shall do to him as he schemed to do to his fellow. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst;
Deuteronomy 19:20 others will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not again be done in your midst.
Deuteronomy 19:21 Nor must you show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy 20:1 When you take the field against your enemies, and see horses and chariots—forces larger than yours—have no fear of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, is with you.
Deuteronomy 20:2 Before you join battle, the priest shall come forward and address the troops.
Deuteronomy 20:3 He shall say to them, “Hear, O Israel! You are about to join battle with your enemy. Let not your courage falter. Do not be in fear, or in panic, or in dread of them.
Deuteronomy 20:4 For it is the LORD your God who marches with you to do battle for you against your enemy, to bring you victory.”
Deuteronomy 20:5 Then the officials shall address the troops, as follows: “Is there anyone who has built a new house but has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another dedicate it.
Deuteronomy 20:6 Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard but has never harvested it? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another harvest it.
Deuteronomy 20:7 Is there anyone who has paid the bride-price for a wife, but who has not yet married her? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another marry her.”
Deuteronomy 20:8 The officials shall go on addressing the troops and say, “Is there anyone afraid and disheartened? Let him go back to his home, lest the courage of his comrades flag like his.”
Deuteronomy 20:9 When the officials have finished addressing the troops, army commanders shall assume command of the troops.
Deuteronomy 20:10 When you approach a town to attack it, you shall offer it terms of peace.
Deuteronomy 20:11 If it responds peaceably and lets you in, all the people present there shall serve you at forced labor.
Deuteronomy 20:12 If it does not surrender to you, but would join battle with you, you shall lay siege to it;
Deuteronomy 20:13 and when the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:14 You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children, the livestock, and everything in the town—all its spoil—and enjoy the use of the spoil of your enemy, which the LORD your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 20:15 Thus you shall deal with all towns that lie very far from you, towns that do not belong to nations hereabout.
Deuteronomy 20:16 In the towns of the latter peoples, however, which the LORD your God is giving you as a heritage, you shall not let a soul remain alive.
Deuteronomy 20:17 No, you must proscribe them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
Deuteronomy 20:18 lest they lead you into doing all the abhorrent things that they have done for their gods and you stand guilty before the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 20:19 When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees, wielding the ax against them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human to withdraw before you into the besieged city?
Deuteronomy 20:20 Only trees that you know do not yield food may be destroyed; you may cut them down for constructing siegeworks against the city that is waging war on you, until it has been reduced.
Deuteronomy 21:1 If, in the land that the LORD your God is assigning you to possess, someone slain is found lying in the open, the identity of the slayer not being known,
Deuteronomy 21:2 your elders and magistrates shall go out and measure the distances from the corpse to the nearby towns.
Deuteronomy 21:3 The elders of the town nearest to the corpse shall then take a heifer which has never been worked, which has never pulled in a yoke;
Deuteronomy 21:4 and the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to an everflowing wadi, which is not tilled or sown. There, in the wadi, they shall break the heifer’s neck.
Deuteronomy 21:5 The priests, sons of Levi, shall come forward; for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to pronounce blessing in the name of the LORD, and every lawsuit and case of assault is subject to their ruling.
Deuteronomy 21:6 Then all the elders of the town nearest to the corpse shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi.
Deuteronomy 21:7 And they shall make this declaration: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.
Deuteronomy 21:8 Absolve, O LORD, Your people Israel whom You redeemed, and do not let guilt for the blood of the innocent remain among Your people Israel.” And they will be absolved of bloodguilt.
Deuteronomy 21:9 Thus you will remove from your midst guilt for the blood of the innocent, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 21:10 When you take the field against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive,
Deuteronomy 21:11 and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her to wife,
Deuteronomy 21:12 you shall bring her into your house, and she shall trim her hair, pare her nails,
Deuteronomy 21:13 and discard her captive’s garb. She shall spend a month’s time in your house lamenting her father and mother; after that you may come to her and possess her, and she shall be your wife.
Deuteronomy 21:14 Then, should you no longer want her, you must release her outright. You must not sell her for money: since you had your will of her, you must not enslave her.
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, but the first-born is the son of the unloved one—
Deuteronomy 21:16 when he wills his property to his sons, he may not treat as first-born the son of the loved one in disregard of the son of the unloved one who is older.
Deuteronomy 21:17 Instead, he must accept the first-born, the son of the unloved one, and allot to him a double portion of all he possesses; since he is the first fruit of his vigor, the birthright is his due.
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man has a wayward and defiant son, who does not heed his father or mother and does not obey them even after they discipline him,
Deuteronomy 21:19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the public place of his community.
Deuteronomy 21:20 They shall say to the elders of his town, “This son of ours is disloyal and defiant; he does not heed us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 21:21 Thereupon the men of his town shall stone him to death. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst: all Israel will hear and be afraid.
Deuteronomy 21:22 If a man is guilty of a capital offense and is put to death, and you impale him on a stake,
Deuteronomy 21:23 you must not let his corpse remain on the stake overnight, but must bury him the same day. For an impaled body is an affront to God: you shall not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Deuteronomy 22:1 If you see your fellow’s ox or sheep gone astray, do not ignore it; you must take it back to your fellow.
Deuteronomy 22:2 If your fellow does not live near you or you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home and it shall remain with you until your fellow claims it; then you shall give it back to him.
Deuteronomy 22:3 You shall do the same with his ass; you shall do the same with his garment; and so too shall you do with anything that your fellow loses and you find: you must not remain indifferent.
Deuteronomy 22:4 If you see your fellow’s ass or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it; you must help him raise it.
Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman must not put on man’s apparel, nor shall a man wear woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 22:6 If, along the road, you chance upon a bird’s nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs and the mother sitting over the fledglings or on the eggs, do not take the mother together with her young.
Deuteronomy 22:7 Let the mother go, and take only the young, in order that you may fare well and have a long life.
Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.
Deuteronomy 22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with a second kind of seed, else the crop—from the seed you have sown—and the yield of the vineyard may not be used.
Deuteronomy 22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.
Deuteronomy 22:11 You shall not wear cloth combining wool and linen.
Deuteronomy 22:12 You shall make tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.
Deuteronomy 22:13 A man marries a woman and cohabits with her. Then he takes an aversion to her
Deuteronomy 22:14 and makes up charges against her and defames her, saying, “I married this woman; but when I approached her, I found that she was not a virgin.”
Deuteronomy 22:15 In such a case, the girl’s father and mother shall produce the evidence of the girl’s virginity before the elders of the town at the gate.
Deuteronomy 22:16 And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, “I gave this man my daughter to wife, but he has taken an aversion to her;
Deuteronomy 22:17 so he has made up charges, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter a virgin.’ But here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the town.
Deuteronomy 22:18 The elders of that town shall then take the man and flog him,
Deuteronomy 22:19 and they shall fine him a hundred [shekels of] silver and give it to the girl’s father; for the man has defamed a virgin in Israel. Moreover, she shall remain his wife; he shall never have the right to divorce her.
Deuteronomy 22:20 But if the charge proves true, the girl was found not to have been a virgin,
Deuteronomy 22:21 then the girl shall be brought out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her town shall stone her to death; for she did a shameful thing in Israel, committing fornication while under her father’s authority. Thus you will sweep away evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both of them—the man and the woman with whom he lay—shall die. Thus you will sweep away evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:23 In the case of a virgin who is engaged to a man—if a man comes upon her in town and lies with her,
Deuteronomy 22:24 you shall take the two of them out to the gate of that town and stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry for help in the town, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. Thus you will sweep away evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 22:25 But if the man comes upon the engaged girl in the open country, and the man lies with her by force, only the man who lay with her shall die,
Deuteronomy 22:26 but you shall do nothing to the girl. The girl did not incur the death penalty, for this case is like that of a man attacking another and murdering him.
Deuteronomy 22:27 He came upon her in the open; though the engaged girl cried for help, there was no one to save her.
Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man comes upon a virgin who is not engaged and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
Deuteronomy 22:29 the man who lay with her shall pay the girl’s father fifty [shekels of] silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has violated her, he can never have the right to divorce her.
Deuteronomy 23:1 No man shall marry his father’s former wife, so as to remove his father’s garment.
Deuteronomy 23:2 No one whose testes are crushed or whose member is cut off shall be admitted into the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 23:3 No one misbegotten shall be admitted into the congregation of the LORD; none of his descendants, even in the tenth generation, shall be admitted into the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 23:4 No Ammonite or Moabite shall be admitted into the congregation of the LORD; none of their descendants, even in the tenth generation, shall ever be admitted into the congregation of the LORD,
Deuteronomy 23:5 because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse you.—
Deuteronomy 23:6 But the LORD your God refused to heed Balaam; instead, the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, for the LORD your God loves you.—
Deuteronomy 23:7 You shall never concern yourself with their welfare or benefit as long as you live.
Deuteronomy 23:8 You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your kinsman. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land.
Deuteronomy 23:9 Children born to them may be admitted into the congregation of the LORD in the third generation.
Deuteronomy 23:10 When you go out as a troop against your enemies, be on your guard against anything untoward.
Deuteronomy 23:11 If anyone among you has been rendered unclean by a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp, and he must not reenter the camp.
Deuteronomy 23:12 Toward evening he shall bathe in water, and at sundown he may reenter the camp.
Deuteronomy 23:13 Further, there shall be an area for you outside the camp, where you may relieve yourself.
Deuteronomy 23:14 With your gear you shall have a spike, and when you have squatted you shall dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.
Deuteronomy 23:15 Since the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you, let your camp be holy; let Him not find anything unseemly among you and turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 23:16 You shall not turn over to his master a slave who seeks refuge with you from his master.
Deuteronomy 23:17 He shall live with you in any place he may choose among the settlements in your midst, wherever he pleases; you must not ill-treat him.
Deuteronomy 23:18 No Israelite woman shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any Israelite man be a cult prostitute.
Deuteronomy 23:19 You shall not bring the fee of a whore or the pay of a dog into the house of the LORD your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both are abhorrent to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 23:20 You shall not deduct interest from loans to your countrymen, whether in money or food or anything else that can be deducted as interest;
Deuteronomy 23:21 but you may deduct interest from loans to foreigners. Do not deduct interest from loans to your countrymen, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 23:22 When you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not put off fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will require it of you, and you will have incurred guilt;
Deuteronomy 23:23 whereas you incur no guilt if you refrain from vowing.
Deuteronomy 23:24 You must fulfill what has crossed your lips and perform what you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, having made the promise with your own mouth.
Deuteronomy 23:25 When you enter another man’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want, until you are full, but you must not put any in your vessel.
Deuteronomy 23:26 When you enter another man’s field of standing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand; but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Deuteronomy 24:1 A man takes a wife and possesses her. She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house;
Deuteronomy 24:2 she leaves his household and becomes the wife of another man;
Deuteronomy 24:3 then this latter man rejects her, writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house; or the man who married her last dies.
Deuteronomy 24:4 Then the first husband who divorced her shall not take her to wife again, since she has been defiled—for that would be abhorrent to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as a heritage.
Deuteronomy 24:5 When a man has taken a bride, he shall not go out with the army or be assigned to it for any purpose; he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household, to give happiness to the woman he has married.
Deuteronomy 24:6 A handmill or an upper millstone shall not be taken in pawn, for that would be taking someone’s life in pawn.
Deuteronomy 24:7 If a man is found to have kidnapped a fellow Israelite, enslaving him or selling him, that kidnapper shall die; thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 24:8 In cases of a skin affection be most careful to do exactly as the levitical priests instruct you. Take care to do as I have commanded them.
Deuteronomy 24:9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:10 When you make a loan of any sort to your countryman, you must not enter his house to seize his pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:11 You must remain outside, while the man to whom you made the loan brings the pledge out to you.
Deuteronomy 24:12 If he is a needy man, you shall not go to sleep in his pledge;
Deuteronomy 24:13 you must return the pledge to him at sundown, that he may sleep in his cloth and bless you; and it will be to your merit before the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 24:14 You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger in one of the communities of your land.
Deuteronomy 24:15 You must pay him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is needy and urgently depends on it; else he will cry to the LORD against you and you will incur guilt.
Deuteronomy 24:16 Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime.
Deuteronomy 24:17 You shall not subvert the rights of the stranger or the fatherless; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pawn.
Deuteronomy 24:18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment.
Deuteronomy 24:19 When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf in the field, do not turn back to get it; it shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow—in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all your undertakings.
Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat down the fruit of your olive trees, do not go over them again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not pick it over again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:22 Always remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment.
Deuteronomy 25:1 When there is a dispute between men and they go to law, and a decision is rendered declaring the one in the right and the other in the wrong—
Deuteronomy 25:2 if the guilty one is to be flogged, the magistrate shall have him lie down and be given lashes in his presence, by count, as his guilt warrants.
Deuteronomy 25:3 He may be given up to forty lashes, but not more, lest being flogged further, to excess, your brother be degraded before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 25:4 You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.
Deuteronomy 25:5 When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married to a stranger, outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall unite with her: he shall take her as his wife and perform the levir’s duty.
Deuteronomy 25:6 The first son that she bears shall be accounted to the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out in Israel.
Deuteronomy 25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, his brother’s widow shall appear before the elders in the gate and declare, “My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name in Israel for his brother; he will not perform the duty of a levir.”
Deuteronomy 25:8 The elders of his town shall then summon him and talk to him. If he insists, saying, “I do not want to marry her,”
Deuteronomy 25:9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and make this declaration: Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house!
Deuteronomy 25:10 And he shall go in Israel by the name of “the family of the unsandaled one.”
Deuteronomy 25:11 If two men get into a fight with each other, and the wife of one comes up to save her husband from his antagonist and puts out her hand and seizes him by his genitals,
Deuteronomy 25:12 you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.
Deuteronomy 25:13 You shall not have in your pouch alternate weights, larger and smaller.
Deuteronomy 25:14 You shall not have in your house alternate measures, a larger and a smaller.
Deuteronomy 25:15 You must have completely honest weights and completely honest measures, if you are to endure long on the soil that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 25:16 For everyone who does those things, everyone who deals dishonestly, is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt—
Deuteronomy 25:18 how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear.
Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore, when the LORD your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
Deuteronomy 26:1 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it,
Deuteronomy 26:2 you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that the LORD your God is giving you, put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish His name.
Deuteronomy 26:3 You shall go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, “I acknowledge this day before the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to assign us.”
Deuteronomy 26:4 The priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 26:5 You shall then recite as follows before the LORD your God: “My father was a fugitive Aramean. He went down to Egypt with meager numbers and sojourned there; but there he became a great and very populous nation.
Deuteronomy 26:6 The Egyptians dealt harshly with us and oppressed us; they imposed heavy labor upon us.
Deuteronomy 26:7 We cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our plea and saw our plight, our misery, and our oppression.
Deuteronomy 26:8 The LORD freed us from Egypt by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm and awesome power, and by signs and portents.
Deuteronomy 26:9 He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 26:10 Wherefore I now bring the first fruits of the soil which You, O LORD, have given me.”You shall leave it before the LORD your God and bow low before the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 26:11 And you shall enjoy, together with the Levite and the stranger in your midst, all the bounty that the LORD your God has bestowed upon you and your household.
Deuteronomy 26:12 When you have set aside in full the tenth part of your yield—in the third year, the year of the tithe—and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat their fill in your settlements,
Deuteronomy 26:13 you shall declare before the LORD your God: “I have cleared out the consecrated portion from the house; and I have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, just as You commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor neglected any of Your commandments:
Deuteronomy 26:14 I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done just as You commanded me.
Deuteronomy 26:15 Look down from Your holy abode, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the soil You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.”
Deuteronomy 26:16 The LORD your God commands you this day to observe these laws and rules; observe them faithfully with all your heart and soul.
Deuteronomy 26:17 You have affirmed this day that the LORD is your God, that you will walk in His ways, that you will observe His laws and commandments and rules, and that you will obey Him.
Deuteronomy 26:18 And the LORD has affirmed this day that you are, as He promised you, His treasured people who shall observe all His commandments,
Deuteronomy 26:19 and that He will set you, in fame and renown and glory, high above all the nations that He has made; and that you shall be, as He promised, a holy people to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 27:1 Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying: Observe all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day.
Deuteronomy 27:2 As soon as you have crossed the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones. Coat them with plaster
Deuteronomy 27:3 and inscribe upon them all the words of this Teaching. When you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you—
Deuteronomy 27:4 upon crossing the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, about which I charge you this day, on Mount Ebal, and coat them with plaster.
Deuteronomy 27:5 There, too, you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not wield an iron tool over them;
Deuteronomy 27:6 you must build the altar of the LORD your God of unhewn stones. You shall offer on it burnt offerings to the LORD your God,
Deuteronomy 27:7 and you shall sacrifice there offerings of well-being and eat them, rejoicing before the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 27:8 And on those stones you shall inscribe every word of this Teaching most distinctly.
Deuteronomy 27:9 Moses and the levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying: Silence! Hear, O Israel! Today you have become the people of the LORD your God:
Deuteronomy 27:10 Heed the LORD your God and observe His commandments and His laws, which I enjoin upon you this day.
Deuteronomy 27:11 Thereupon Moses charged the people, saying:
Deuteronomy 27:12 After you have crossed the Jordan, the following shall stand on Mount Gerizim when the blessing for the people is spoken: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Deuteronomy 27:13 And for the curse, the following shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deuteronomy 27:14 The Levites shall then proclaim in a loud voice to all the people of Israel:
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be anyone who makes a sculptured or molten image, abhorred by the LORD, a craftsman’s handiwork, and sets it up in secret.—And all the people shall respond, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he who insults his father or mother.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he who moves his fellow countryman’s landmark.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:18 Cursed be he who misdirects a blind person on his way.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed be he who subverts the rights of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:20 Cursed be he who lies with his father’s wife, for he has removed his father’s garment.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:21 Cursed be he who lies with any beast.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:22 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, whether daughter of his father or of his mother.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:23 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:24 Cursed be he who strikes down his fellow countryman in secret.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:25 Cursed be he who accepts a bribe in the case of the murder of an innocent person.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he who will not uphold the terms of this Teaching and observe them.—And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 28:1 Now, if you obey the LORD your God, to observe faithfully all His commandments which I enjoin upon you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:2 All these blessings shall come upon you and take effect, if you will but heed the word of the LORD your God:
Deuteronomy 28:3 Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the country.
Deuteronomy 28:4 Blessed shall be the issue of your womb, the produce of your soil, and the offspring of your cattle, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28:5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
Deuteronomy 28:6 Blessed shall you be in your comings and blessed shall you be in your goings.
Deuteronomy 28:7 The LORD will put to rout before you the enemies who attack you; they will march out against you by a single road, but flee from you by many roads.
Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD will ordain blessings for you upon your barns and upon all your undertakings: He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 28:9 The LORD will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
Deuteronomy 28:10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the LORD’s name is proclaimed over you, and they shall stand in fear of you.
Deuteronomy 28:11 The LORD will give you abounding prosperity in the issue of your womb, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to assign to you.
Deuteronomy 28:12 The LORD will open for you His bounteous store, the heavens, to provide rain for your land in season and to bless all your undertakings. You will be creditor to many nations, but debtor to none.
Deuteronomy 28:13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail; you will always be at the top and never at the bottom—if only you obey and faithfully observe the commandments of the LORD your God that I enjoin upon you this day,
Deuteronomy 28:14 and do not deviate to the right or to the left from any of the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day and turn to the worship of other gods.
Deuteronomy 28:15 But if you do not obey the LORD your God to observe faithfully all His commandments and laws which I enjoin upon you this day, all these curses shall come upon you and take effect:
Deuteronomy 28:16 Cursed shall you be in the city and cursed shall you be in the country.
Deuteronomy 28:17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
Deuteronomy 28:18 Cursed shall be the issue of your womb and the produce of your soil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28:19 Cursed shall you be in your comings and cursed shall you be in your goings.
Deuteronomy 28:20 The LORD will let loose against you calamity, panic, and frustration in all the enterprises you undertake, so that you shall soon be utterly wiped out because of your evildoing in forsaking Me.
Deuteronomy 28:21 The LORD will make pestilence cling to you, until He has put an end to you in the land that you are entering to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew; they shall hound you until you perish.
Deuteronomy 28:23 The skies above your head shall be copper and the earth under you iron.
Deuteronomy 28:24 The LORD will make the rain of your land dust, and sand shall drop on you from the sky, until you are wiped out.
Deuteronomy 28:25 The LORD will put you to rout before your enemies; you shall march out against them by a single road, but flee from them by many roads; and you shall become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:26 Your carcasses shall become food for all the birds of the sky and all the beasts of the earth, with none to frighten them off.
Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will strike you with the Egyptian inflammation, with hemorrhoids, boil-scars, and itch, from which you shall never recover.
Deuteronomy 28:28 The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and dismay.
Deuteronomy 28:29 You shall grope at noon as a blind man gropes in the dark; you shall not prosper in your ventures, but shall be constantly abused and robbed, with none to give help.
Deuteronomy 28:30 If you pay the bride-price for a wife, another man shall enjoy her. If you build a house, you shall not live in it. If you plant a vineyard, you shall not harvest it.
Deuteronomy 28:31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be seized in front of you, and it shall not be returned to you; your flock shall be delivered to your enemies, with none to help you.
Deuteronomy 28:32 Your sons and daughters shall be delivered to another people, while you look on; and your eyes shall strain for them constantly, but you shall be helpless.
Deuteronomy 28:33 A people you do not know shall eat up the produce of your soil and all your gains; you shall be abused and downtrodden continually,
Deuteronomy 28:34 until you are driven mad by what your eyes behold.
Deuteronomy 28:35 The LORD will afflict you at the knees and thighs with a severe inflammation, from which you shall never recover—from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Deuteronomy 28:36 The LORD will drive you, and the king you have set over you, to a nation unknown to you or your fathers, where you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:37 You shall be a consternation, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:38 Though you take much seed out to the field, you shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:39 Though you plant vineyards and till them, you shall have no wine to drink or store, for the worm shall devour them.
Deuteronomy 28:40 Though you have olive trees throughout your territory, you shall have no oil for anointment, for your olives shall drop off.
Deuteronomy 28:41 Though you beget sons and daughters, they shall not remain with you, for they shall go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28:42 The cricket shall take over all the trees and produce of your land.
Deuteronomy 28:43 The stranger in your midst shall rise above you higher and higher, while you sink lower and lower:
Deuteronomy 28:44 he shall be your creditor, but you shall not be his; he shall be the head and you the tail.
Deuteronomy 28:45 All these curses shall befall you; they shall pursue you and overtake you, until you are wiped out, because you did not heed the LORD your God and keep the commandments and laws that He enjoined upon you.
Deuteronomy 28:46 They shall serve as signs and proofs against you and your offspring for all time.
Deuteronomy 28:47 Because you would not serve the LORD your God in joy and gladness over the abundance of everything,
Deuteronomy 28:48 you shall have to serve—in hunger and thirst, naked and lacking everything—the enemies whom the LORD will let loose against you. He will put an iron yoke upon your neck until He has wiped you out.
Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, which will swoop down like the eagle—a nation whose language you do not understand,
Deuteronomy 28:50 a ruthless nation, that will show the old no regard and the young no mercy.
Deuteronomy 28:51 It shall devour the offspring of your cattle and the produce of your soil, until you have been wiped out, leaving you nothing of new grain, wine, or oil, of the calving of your herds and the lambing of your flocks, until it has brought you to ruin.
Deuteronomy 28:52 It shall shut you up in all your towns throughout your land until every mighty, towering wall in which you trust has come down. And when you are shut up in all your towns throughout your land that the LORD your God has assigned to you,
Deuteronomy 28:53 you shall eat your own issue, the flesh of your sons and daughters that the LORD your God has assigned to you, because of the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you.
Deuteronomy 28:54 He who is most tender and fastidious among you shall be too mean to his brother and the wife of his bosom and the children he has spared
Deuteronomy 28:55 to share with any of them the flesh of the children that he eats, because he has nothing else left as a result of the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you in all your towns.
Deuteronomy 28:56 And she who is most tender and dainty among you, so tender and dainty that she would never venture to set a foot on the ground, shall begrudge the husband of her bosom, and her son and her daughter,
Deuteronomy 28:57 the afterbirth that issues from between her legs and the babies she bears; she shall eat them secretly, because of utter want, in the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you in your towns.
Deuteronomy 28:58 If you fail to observe faithfully all the terms of this Teaching that are written in this book, to reverence this honored and awesome Name, the LORD your God,
Deuteronomy 28:59 the LORD will inflict extraordinary plagues upon you and your offspring, strange and lasting plagues, malignant and chronic diseases.
Deuteronomy 28:60 He will bring back upon you all the sicknesses of Egypt that you dreaded so, and they shall cling to you.
Deuteronomy 28:61 Moreover, the LORD will bring upon you all the other diseases and plagues that are not mentioned in this book of Teaching, until you are wiped out.
Deuteronomy 28:62 You shall be left a scant few, after having been as numerous as the stars in the skies, because you did not heed the command of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 28:63 And as the LORD once delighted in making you prosperous and many, so will the LORD now delight in causing you to perish and in wiping you out; you shall be torn from the land that you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 28:64 The LORD will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, whom neither you nor your ancestors have experienced.
Deuteronomy 28:65 Yet even among those nations you shall find no peace, nor shall your foot find a place to rest. The LORD will give you there an anguished heart and eyes that pine and a despondent spirit.
Deuteronomy 28:66 The life you face shall be precarious; you shall be in terror, night and day, with no assurance of survival.
Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning you shall say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening you shall say, “If only it were morning!”—because of what your heart shall dread and your eyes shall see.
Deuteronomy 28:68 The LORD will send you back to Egypt in galleys, by a route which I told you you should not see again. There you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but none will buy.
Deuteronomy 28:69 These are the terms of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to conclude with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:1 Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:You have seen all that the LORD did before your very eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his courtiers and to his whole country:
Deuteronomy 29:2 the wondrous feats that you saw with your own eyes, those prodigious signs and marvels.
Deuteronomy 29:3 Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
Deuteronomy 29:4 I led you through the wilderness forty years; the clothes on your back did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet;
Deuteronomy 29:5 you had no bread to eat and no wine or other intoxicant to drink—that you might know that I the LORD am your God.
Deuteronomy 29:6 When you reached this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to engage us in battle, but we defeated them.
Deuteronomy 29:7 We took their land and gave it to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh as their heritage.
Deuteronomy 29:8 Therefore observe faithfully all the terms of this covenant, that you may succeed in all that you undertake.
Deuteronomy 29:9 You stand this day, all of you, before the LORD your God—your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy 29:10 your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer—
Deuteronomy 29:11 to enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions;
Deuteronomy 29:12 to the end that He may establish you this day as His people and be your God, as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 29:13 I make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone,
Deuteronomy 29:14 but both with those who are standing here with us this day before the LORD our God and with those who are not with us here this day.
Deuteronomy 29:15 Well you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we passed through the midst of various other nations;
Deuteronomy 29:16 and you have seen the detestable things and the fetishes of wood and stone, silver and gold, that they keep.
Deuteronomy 29:17 Perchance there is among you some man or woman, or some clan or tribe, whose heart is even now turning away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations—perchance there is among you a stock sprouting poison weed and wormwood.
Deuteronomy 29:18 When such a one hears the words of these sanctions, he may fancy himself immune, thinking, “I shall be safe, though I follow my own willful heart”—to the utter ruin of moist and dry alike.
Deuteronomy 29:19 The LORD will never forgive him; rather will the LORD’s anger and passion rage against that man, till every sanction recorded in this book comes down upon him, and the LORD blots out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for misfortune, in accordance with all the sanctions of the covenant recorded in this book of Teaching.
Deuteronomy 29:21 And later generations will ask—the children who succeed you, and foreigners who come from distant lands and see the plagues and diseases that the LORD has inflicted upon that land,
Deuteronomy 29:22 all its soil devastated by sulfur and salt, beyond sowing and producing, no grass growing in it, just like the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger—
Deuteronomy 29:23 all nations will ask, “Why did the LORD do thus to this land? Wherefore that awful wrath?”
Deuteronomy 29:24 They will be told, “Because they forsook the covenant that the LORD, God of their fathers, made with them when He freed them from the land of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 29:25 they turned to the service of other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not experienced to them.
Deuteronomy 29:26 So the LORD was incensed at that land and brought upon it all the curses recorded in this book.
Deuteronomy 29:27 The LORD uprooted them from their soil in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as is still the case.”
Deuteronomy 29:28 Concealed acts concern the LORD our God; but with overt acts, it is for us and our children ever to apply all the provisions of this Teaching.
Deuteronomy 30:1 When all these things befall you—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—and you take them to heart amidst the various nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
Deuteronomy 30:2 and you return to the LORD your God, and you and your children heed His command with all your heart and soul, just as I enjoin upon you this day,
Deuteronomy 30:3 then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and take you back in love. He will bring you together again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 30:4 Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the LORD your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you.
Deuteronomy 30:5 And the LORD your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.
Deuteronomy 30:6 Then the LORD your God will open up your heart and the hearts of your offspring to love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul, in order that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30:7 The LORD your God will inflict all those curses upon the enemies and foes who persecuted you.
Deuteronomy 30:8 You, however, will again heed the LORD and obey all His commandments that I enjoin upon you this day.
Deuteronomy 30:9 And the LORD your God will grant you abounding prosperity in all your undertakings, in the issue of your womb, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the LORD will again delight in your well-being, as He did in that of your fathers,
Deuteronomy 30:10 since you will be heeding the LORD your God and keeping His commandments and laws that are recorded in this book of the Teaching—once you return to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.
Deuteronomy 30:11 Surely, this Instruction which I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach.
Deuteronomy 30:12 It is not in the heavens, that you should say, “Who among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?”
Deuteronomy 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who among us can cross to the other side of the sea and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?”
Deuteronomy 30:14 No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I set before you this day life and prosperity, death and adversity.
Deuteronomy 30:16 For I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His laws, and His rules, that you may thrive and increase, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 30:17 But if your heart turns away and you give no heed, and are lured into the worship and service of other gods,
Deuteronomy 30:18 I declare to you this day that you shall certainly perish; you shall not long endure on the soil that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day: I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life—if you and your offspring would live—
Deuteronomy 30:20 by loving the LORD your God, heeding His commands, and holding fast to Him. For thereby you shall have life and shall long endure upon the soil that the LORD swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.
Deuteronomy 31:1 Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:2 He said to them:I am now one hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer be active. Moreover, the LORD has said to me, “You shall not go across yonder Jordan.”
Deuteronomy 31:3 The LORD your God Himself will cross over before you; and He Himself will wipe out those nations from your path and you shall dispossess them.—Joshua is the one who shall cross before you, as the LORD has spoken.—
Deuteronomy 31:4 The LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their countries, when He wiped them out.
Deuteronomy 31:5 The LORD will deliver them up to you, and you shall deal with them in full accordance with the Instruction that I have enjoined upon you.
Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and resolute, be not in fear or in dread of them; for the LORD your God Himself marches with you: He will not fail you or forsake you.
Deuteronomy 31:7 Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel: “Be strong and resolute, for it is you who shall go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and it is you who shall apportion it to them.
Deuteronomy 31:8 And the LORD Himself will go before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you or forsake you. Fear not and be not dismayed!”
Deuteronomy 31:9 Moses wrote down this Teaching and gave it to the priests, sons of Levi, who carried the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:10 And Moses instructed them as follows: Every seventh year, the year set for remission, at the Feast of Booths,
Deuteronomy 31:11 when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place that He will choose, you shall read this Teaching aloud in the presence of all Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:12 Gather the people—men, women, children, and the strangers in your communities—that they may hear and so learn to revere the LORD your God and to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching.
Deuteronomy 31:13 Their children, too, who have not had the experience, shall hear and learn to revere the LORD your God as long as they live in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.
Deuteronomy 31:16 The LORD said to Moses: You are soon to lie with your fathers. This people will thereupon go astray after the alien gods in their midst, in the land that they are about to enter; they will forsake Me and break My covenant that I made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:17 Then My anger will flare up against them, and I will abandon them and hide My countenance from them. They shall be ready prey; and many evils and troubles shall befall them. And they shall say on that day, “Surely it is because our God is not in our midst that these evils have befallen us.”
Deuteronomy 31:18 Yet I will keep My countenance hidden on that day, because of all the evil they have done in turning to other gods.
Deuteronomy 31:19 Therefore, write down this poem and teach it to the people of Israel; put it in their mouths, in order that this poem may be My witness against the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:20 When I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey that I promised on oath to their fathers, and they eat their fill and grow fat and turn to other gods and serve them, spurning Me and breaking My covenant,
Deuteronomy 31:21 and the many evils and troubles befall them—then this poem shall confront them as a witness, since it will never be lost from the mouth of their offspring. For I know what plans they are devising even now, before I bring them into the land that I promised on oath.
Deuteronomy 31:22 That day, Moses wrote down this poem and taught it to the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 31:24 When Moses had put down in writing the words of this Teaching to the very end,
Deuteronomy 31:25 Moses charged the Levites who carried the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, saying:
Deuteronomy 31:26 Take this book of Teaching and place it beside the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD your God, and let it remain there as a witness against you.
Deuteronomy 31:27 Well I know how defiant and stiffnecked you are: even now, while I am still alive in your midst, you have been defiant toward the LORD; how much more, then, when I am dead!
Deuteronomy 31:28 Gather to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, that I may speak all these words to them and that I may call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that, when I am dead, you will act wickedly and turn away from the path that I enjoined upon you, and that in time to come misfortune will befall you for having done evil in the sight of the LORD and vexed Him by your deeds.
Deuteronomy 31:30 Then Moses recited the words of this poem to the very end, in the hearing of the whole congregation of Israel:
Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O heavens, let me speak;Let the earth hear the words I utter!
Deuteronomy 32:2 May my discourse come down as the rain,My speech distill as the dew,Like showers on young growth,Like droplets on the grass.
Deuteronomy 32:3 For the name of the LORD I proclaim;Give glory to our God!
Deuteronomy 32:4 The Rock!—His deeds are perfect,Yea, all His ways are just;A faithful God, never false,True and upright is He.
Deuteronomy 32:5 Children unworthy of Him—That crooked, perverse generation—Their baseness has played Him false.
Deuteronomy 32:6 Do you thus requite the LORD,O dull and witless people?Is not He the Father who created you—Fashioned you and made you endure!
Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old,Consider the years of ages past;Ask your father, he will inform you,Your elders, they will tell you:
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave nations their homesAnd set the divisions of man,He fixed the boundaries of peoplesIn relation to Israel’s numbers.
Deuteronomy 32:9 For the LORD’s portion is His people,Jacob His own allotment.
Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert region,In an empty howling waste.He engirded him, watched over him,Guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
Deuteronomy 32:11 Like an eagle who rouses his nestlings,Gliding down to his young,So did He spread His wings and take him,Bear him along on His pinions;
Deuteronomy 32:12 The LORD alone did guide him,No alien god at His side.
Deuteronomy 32:13 He set him atop the highlands,To feast on the yield of the earth;He fed him honey from the crag,And oil from the flinty rock,
Deuteronomy 32:14 Curd of kine and milk of flocks;With the bestvery finest wheat—And foaming grape-blood was your drink.
Deuteronomy 32:15 So Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—You grew fat and gross and coarse—He forsook the God who made himAnd spurned the Rock of his support.
Deuteronomy 32:16 They incensed Him with alien things,Vexed Him with abominations.
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed to demons, no-gods,Gods they had never known,New ones, who came but lately,Who stirred not your fathers’ fears.
Deuteronomy 32:18 You neglected the Rock that begot you,Forgot the God who brought you forth.
Deuteronomy 32:19 The LORD saw and was vexedAnd spurned His sons and His daughters.
Deuteronomy 32:20 He said:I will hide My countenance from them,And see how they fare in the end.For they are a treacherous breed,Children with no loyalty in them.
Deuteronomy 32:21 They incensed Me with no-gods,Vexed Me with their futilities;I’ll incense them with a no-folk,Vex them with a nation of fools.
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire has flared in My wrathAnd burned to the bottom of Sheol,Has consumed the earth and its increase,Eaten down to the base of the hills.
Deuteronomy 32:23 I will sweep misfortunes on them,Use up My arrows on them:
Deuteronomy 32:24 Wasting famine, ravaging plague,Deadly pestilence, and fanged beastsWill I let loose against them,With venomous creepers in dust.
Deuteronomy 32:25 The sword shall deal death without,As shall the terror within,To youth and maiden alike,The suckling as well as the aged.
Deuteronomy 32:26 I might have reduced them to naught,Made their memory cease among men,
Deuteronomy 32:27 But for fear of the taunts of the foe,Their enemies who might misjudgeAnd say, “Our own hand has prevailed;None of this was wrought by the LORD!”
Deuteronomy 32:28 For they are a folk void of sense,Lacking in all discernment.
Deuteronomy 32:29 Were they wise, they would think upon this,Gain insight into their future:
Deuteronomy 32:30 “How could one have routed a thousand,Or two put ten thousand to flight,Unless their Rock had sold them,The LORD had given them up?”
Deuteronomy 32:31 For their rock is not like our Rock, estimation.
Deuteronomy 32:32 Ah! The vine for them is from Sodom,From the vineyards of Gomorrah;The grapes for them are poison,A bitter growth their clusters.
Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the venom of asps,The pitiless poison of vipers.
Deuteronomy 32:34 Lo, I have it all put away,Sealed up in My storehouses,
Deuteronomy 32:35 To be My vengeance and recompense,At the time that their foot falters.Yea, their day of disaster is near,And destiny rushes upon them.
Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD will vindicate His peopleAnd take revenge for His servants,When He sees that their might is gone,And neither bond nor free is left.
Deuteronomy 32:37 He will say: Where are their gods,The rock in whom they sought refuge,
Deuteronomy 32:38 Who ate the fat of their offeringsAnd drank their libation wine?Let them rise up to your help,And let them be a shield unto you!
Deuteronomy 32:39 See, then, that I, I am He;There is no god beside Me.I deal death and give life;I wounded and I will heal:None can deliver from My hand.
Deuteronomy 32:40 Lo, I raise My hand to heavenAnd say: As I live forever,
Deuteronomy 32:41 When I whet My flashing bladeAnd My hand lays hold on judgment,Vengeance will I wreak on My foes,Will I deal to those who reject Me.
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood—As My sword devours flesh—Blood of the slain and the captiveFrom the long-haired enemy chiefs.
Deuteronomy 32:43 O nations, acclaim His people!For He’ll avenge the blood of His servants,Wreak vengeance on His foes,And cleanse the land of His people.
Deuteronomy 32:44 Moses came, together with Hosea son of Nun, and recited all the words of this poem in the hearing of the people.
Deuteronomy 32:45 And when Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,
Deuteronomy 32:46 he said to them: Take to heart all the words with which I have warned you this day. Enjoin them upon your children, that they may observe faithfully all the terms of this Teaching.
Deuteronomy 32:47 For this is not a trifling thing for you: it is your very life; through it you shall long endure on the land that you are to possess upon crossing the Jordan.
Deuteronomy 33:1 This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, bade the Israelites farewell before he died.
Deuteronomy 33:2 He said:The LORD came from Sinai;He shone upon them from Seir;He appeared from Mount Paran,And approached from Ribeboth-kodesh,
Deuteronomy 33:3 Lover, indeed, of the people,Their hallowed are all in Your hand.They followed in Your steps,Accepting Your pronouncements,
Deuteronomy 33:4 When Moses charged us with the TeachingAs the heritage of the congregation of Jacob.
Deuteronomy 33:5 Then He became King in Jeshurun,When the heads of the people assembled,The tribes of Israel together.
Deuteronomy 33:6 May Reuben live and not die,Though few be his numbers.
Deuteronomy 33:7 And this he said of Judah:Hear, O LORD, the voice of JudahAnd restore him to his people.Though his own hands strive for him,Help him against his foes.
Deuteronomy 33:8 And of Levi he said:Let Your Thummim and UrimBe with Your faithful one,Whom You tested at Massah,Challenged at the waters of Meribah;
Deuteronomy 33:9 Who said of his father and mother,“I consider them not.”His brothers he disregarded,Ignored his own children.Your precepts alone they observed,And kept Your covenant.
Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Your laws to JacobAnd Your instructions to Israel.They shall offer You incense to savorAnd whole-offerings on Your altar.
Deuteronomy 33:11 Bless, O LORD, his substance,And favor his undertakings.Smite the loins of his foes;Let his enemies rise no more.
Deuteronomy 33:12 Of Benjamin he said:Beloved of the LORD,He rests securely beside Him;Ever does He protect him,As he rests between His shoulders.
Deuteronomy 33:13 And of Joseph he said:Blessed of the LORD be his landWith the bounty of dew from heaven,And of the deep that couches below;
Deuteronomy 33:14 With the bounteous yield of the sun,And the bounteous crop of the moons;
Deuteronomy 33:15 With the best from the ancient mountains,And the bounty of hills immemorial;
Deuteronomy 33:16 With the bounty of earth and its fullness,And the favor of the Presence in the Bush.May these rest on the head of Joseph,On the crown of the elect of his brothers.
Deuteronomy 33:17 Like a firstling bull in his majesty,He has horns like the horns of the wild-ox;With them he gores the peoples,The ends of the earth one and all.These are the thousands of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 33:18 And of Zebulun he said:Rejoice, O Zebulun, on your journeys,And Issachar, in your tents.
Deuteronomy 33:19 They invite their kin to the mountain,Where they offer sacrifices of success.For they draw from the riches of the seaAnd the hidden hoards of the sand.
Deuteronomy 33:20 And of Gad he said:Blessed be He who enlarges Gad!Poised is he like a lionTo tear off arm and scalp.
Deuteronomy 33:21 He chose for himself the best,For there is the portion of the revered chieftain,Where the heads of the people come.He executed the LORD’s judgmentsAnd His decisions for Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said:Dan is a lion’s whelpThat leaps forth from Bashan.
Deuteronomy 33:23 And of Naphtali he said:O Naphtali, sated with favorAnd full of the LORD’s blessing,Take possession on the west and south.
Deuteronomy 33:24 And of Asher he said:Most blessed of sons be Asher;May he be the favorite of his brothers,May he dip his foot in oil.
Deuteronomy 33:25 May your doorbolts be iron and copper,And your security last all your days.
Deuteronomy 33:26 O Jeshurun, there is none like God,Riding through the heavens to help you,Through the skies in His majesty.
Deuteronomy 33:27 The ancient God is a refuge,A support are the arms everlasting.He drove out the enemy before youBy His command: Destroy!
Deuteronomy 33:28 Thus Israel dwells in safety,Untroubled is Jacob’s abode,In a land of grain and wine,Under heavens dripping dew.
Deuteronomy 33:29 O happy Israel! Who is like you,A people delivered by the LORD,Your protecting Shield, your Sword triumphant!Your enemies shall come cringing before you,And you shall tread on their backs.
Deuteronomy 34:2 all Naphtali; the land of Ephraim and Manasseh; the whole land of Judah as far as the Western Sea;
Deuteronomy 34:3 the Negeb; and the Plain—the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees—as far as Zoar.
Deuteronomy 34:6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day.
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