The Fifth Book of Moses, called Deuteronomy
1:1These are the words which Moses spake
unto all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over
against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and
Di-zahab. 1:2It is eleven days' journey from
Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea. 1:3And it came to pass in
the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month,
that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that
Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them; 1:4after he had smitten
Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of
Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. 1:5Beyond the Jordan, in
the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 1:6Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb,
saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain: 1:7turn you, and take your
journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the
places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the
lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the
Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
1:8Behold, I have set the land before you:
go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after
them.
1:9And I spake unto you at that time,
saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 1:10Jehovah your God hath
multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for
multitude. 1:11Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make
you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised
you! 1:12How can I myself alone bear your
cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 1:13Take you wise men, and
understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them
heads over you. 1:14And ye answered me, and said, The
thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 1:15So
I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads
over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of
fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 1:16And
I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between
your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and
the sojourner that is with him. 1:17Ye shall not respect persons in
judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be
afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that
is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it. 1:18And
I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 1:19And
we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible
wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites,
as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 1:20And
I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which
Jehovah our God giveth unto us. 1:21Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the
land before thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah, the God of thy
fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed. 1:22And
ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before
us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the
way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come. 1:23And
the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every
tribe: 1:24and they turned and went up into the
hill-country, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 1:25And
they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down
unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which
Jehovah our God giveth unto us.
1:26Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled
against the commandment of Jehovah your God: 1:27and ye murmured in
your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth
out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to
destroy us. 1:28Whither are we going up? our brethren
have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller
than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we
have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 1:29Then I said unto you,
Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 1:30Jehovah your God who
goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for
you in Egypt before your eyes, 1:31and in the wilderness, where thou hast
seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in
all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place. 1:32Yet
in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God, 1:33who went before you in
the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night,
to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.
1:34And Jehovah heard the voice of your
words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 1:35Surely there shall not
one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware
to give unto your fathers, 1:36save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he
shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon,
and to his children, because he hath wholly followed Jehovah. 1:37Also Jehovah was angry with me for
your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither: 1:38Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth
before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall
cause Israel to inherit it. 1:39Moreover your little ones, that ye
said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge
of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it,
and they shall possess it. 1:40But as for you, turn you, and take
your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
1:41Then ye answered and said unto me, We
have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all
that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons
of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country. 1:42And
Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am
not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. 1:43So
I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the
commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the
hill-country. 1:44And the Amorites, that dwelt in that
hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat
you down in Seir, even unto Hormah. 1:45And ye returned and wept before
Jehovah; but Jehovah hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you.
1:46So ye abode in Kadesh many days,
according unto the days that ye abode there.
2:1Then we turned, and took our journey
into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me;
and we compassed mount Seir many days. 2:2And Jehovah spake unto
me, saying, 2:3Ye have compassed this mountain long
enough: turn you northward. 2:4And command thou the people, saying, Ye
are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that
dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto
yourselves therefore; 2:5contend not with them; for I will not
give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to
tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 2:6Ye
shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also
buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. 2:7For Jehovah thy God
hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; he hath known thy walking
through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been
with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. 2:8So we passed by from our brethren the
children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from
Elath and from Ezion-geber.
And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 2:9And
Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle;
for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have
given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. 2:10(The Emim dwelt
therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim: 2:11these also are accounted Rephaim, as
the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. 2:12The Horites also dwelt
in Seir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they
destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did
unto the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave unto them.) 2:13Now
rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook
Zered. 2:14And the days in which we came from
Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and
eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from
the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them. 2:15Moreover the hand of
Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp,
until they were consumed.
2:16So it came to pass, when all the men
of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 2:17that Jehovah spake
unto me, saying, 2:18Thou art this day to pass over Ar, the
border of Moab: 2:19and when thou comest nigh over against
the children of Ammon, vex them not, nor contend with them; for I will not
give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I
have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession. 2:20(That also is accounted a land of
Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them
Zamzummim, 2:21a people great, and many, and tall, as
the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded
them, and dwelt in their stead; 2:22as he did for the children of Esau,
that dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and
they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: 2:23and
the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came
forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 2:24Rise ye up, take your journey, and
pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand
Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and
contend with him in battle. 2:25This day will I begin to put the dread
of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole
heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in
anguish because of thee.
2:26And I sent messengers out of the
wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace,
saying, 2:27Let me pass through thy land: I will
go along by the highway, I will turn neither unto the right hand nor to
the left. 2:28Thou shalt sell me food for money,
that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me
pass through on my feet, 2:29as the children of Esau that dwell in
Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass
over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us. 2:30But
Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Jehovah thy God
hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver
him into thy hand, as at this day. 2:31And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I
have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess,
that thou mayest inherit his land. 2:32Then Sihon came out against us, he and
all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. 2:33And Jehovah our God
delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his
people. 2:34And we took all his cities at that
time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the
little ones; we left none remaining: 2:35only the cattle we took for a prey
unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 2:36From Aroer, which is on the edge of
the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley,
even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Jehovah our God
delivered up all before us: 2:37only to the land of the children of
Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the
cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever Jehovah our God forbade us.
3:1Then we turned, and went up the way to
Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his
people, unto battle at Edrei. 3:2And Jehovah said unto me, Fear him not;
for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand;
and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites,
who dwelt at Heshbon. 3:3So Jehovah our God delivered into our
hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him
until none was left to him remaining. 3:4And we took all his cities at that
time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities,
all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:5All these were cities
fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a
great many. 3:6And we utterly destroyed them, as we
did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city,
with the women and the little ones. 3:7But all the cattle, and the spoil of
the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves. 3:8And we took the land at
that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were
beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon; 3:9(which Hermon the Sidonians call
Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;) 3:10all the cities of the
plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salecah and Edrei, cities of
the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:11(For only Og king of Bashan remained
of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of
iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the
length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a
man.)
3:12And this land we took in possession at
that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the
hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites
and to the Gadites: 3:13and the rest of Gilead, and all
Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the
region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
3:14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the
region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites,
and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this
day.) 3:15And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 3:16And
unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the
valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border
thereof, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the
children of Ammon; 3:17the Arabah also, and the Jordan and
the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the
Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
3:18And I commanded you at that time,
saying, Jehovah your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall
pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men
of valor. 3:19But your wives, and your little ones,
and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your
cities which I have given you, 3:20until Jehovah give rest unto your
brethren, as unto you, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your
God giveth them beyond the Jordan: then shall ye return every man unto his
possession, which I have given you. 3:21And I commanded Joshua at that time,
saying, Thine eyes have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto
these two kings: so shall Jehovah do unto all the kingdoms whither thou
goest over. 3:22Ye shall not fear them; for Jehovah
your God, he it is that fighteth for you.
3:23And I besought Jehovah at that time,
saying, 3:24O Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to
show thy servant thy greatness, and thy strong hand: for what god is there
in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according
to thy mighty acts? 3:25Let me go over, I pray thee, and see
the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and
Lebanon. 3:26But Jehovah was wroth with me for your
sakes, and hearkened not unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, Let it suffice
thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. 3:27Get thee up unto the
top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and
southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go
over this Jordan. 3:28But charge Joshua, and encourage him,
and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall
cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. 3:29So we abode in the
valley over against Beth-peor.
4:1And now, O Israel, hearken unto the
statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye
may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your
fathers, giveth you. 4:2Ye shall not add unto the word which I
command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the
commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you. 4:3Your eyes have seen
what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed
Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee. 4:4But
ye that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this
day. 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and
ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in
the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it. 4:6Keep therefore and do
them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the
peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great
nation is a wise and understanding people. 4:7For what great nation
is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is
whensoever we call upon him? 4:8And what great nation is there, that
hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set
before you this day?
4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy
soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and
lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them
known unto thy children and thy children's children; 4:10the day that thou
stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said unto me,
Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may
learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they
may teach their children. 4:11And ye came near and stood under the
mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with
darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 4:12And Jehovah spake unto you out of the
midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form; only
ye heard a voice. 4:13And he declared unto you his covenant,
which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote
them upon two tables of stone. 4:14And Jehovah commanded me at that time
to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land
whither ye go over to possess it.
4:15Take ye therefore good heed unto
yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake
unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. 4:16Lest ye corrupt
yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the
likeness of male or female, 4:17the likeness of any beast that is on
the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flieth in the heavens, 4:18the
likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish
that is in the water under the earth; 4:19and lest thou lift up
thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the
stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them,
and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples
under the whole heaven. 4:20But Jehovah hath taken you, and
brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a
people of inheritance, as at this day. 4:21Furthermore Jehovah
was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over the
Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which Jehovah thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance: 4:22but I must die in this land, I must
not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye
forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make
you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath
forbidden thee. 4:24For Jehovah thy God is a devouring
fire, a jealous God.
4:25When thou shalt beget children, and
children's children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall
corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and
shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke
him to anger; 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness
against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your
days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 4:27And Jehovah will
scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among
the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away. 4:28And there ye shall
serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see,
nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 4:29But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah
thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all
thy heart and with all thy soul. 4:30When thou art in tribulation, and all
these things are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt return to
Jehovah thy God, and hearken unto his voice: 4:31for Jehovah thy God is
a merciful God; he will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget
the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
4:32For ask now of the days that are past,
which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth,
and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been
any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
4:33Did ever a people hear the voice of
God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
4:34Or hath God assayed to go and take him
a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and
by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm,
and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you
in Egypt before your eyes? 4:35Unto thee it was showed, that thou
mightest know that Jehovah he is God; there is none else besides him. 4:36Out
of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and
upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words
out of the midst of the fire. 4:37And because he loved thy fathers,
therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his
presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; 4:38to drive out nations
from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give
thee their land for an inheritance, as at this day. 4:39Know therefore this
day, and lay it to thy heart, that Jehovah he is God in heaven above and
upon the earth beneath; there is none else. 4:40And thou shalt keep
his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it
may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou
mayest prolong thy days in the land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee,
for ever.
4:41Then Moses set apart three cities
beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; 4:42that the manslayer
might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbor unawares, and hated him not
in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 4:43namely, Bezer in the
wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in
Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
4:44And this is the law which Moses set
before the children of Israel: 4:45these are the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spake unto the children of
Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, 4:46beyond the Jordan, in
the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel
smote, when they came forth out of Egypt. 4:47And they took his land
in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the
Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; 4:48from Aroer, which is on the edge of
the valley of the Arnon, even unto mount Sion (the same is Hermon), 4:49and
all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the
Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
5:1And Moses called unto all Israel, and
said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I
speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do
them. 5:2Jehovah our God made a covenant with us
in Horeb. 5:3Jehovah made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 5:4Jehovah spake with you face to face in
the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5:5(I stood between
Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were
afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
5:6I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
5:7Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
5:8Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven
image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5:9thou shalt not bow down thyself unto
them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon
the fourth generation of them that hate me; 5:10and showing
lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments.
5:11Thou shalt not take the name of
Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that
taketh his name in vain.
5:12Observe the sabbath day, to keep it
holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee. 5:13Six days shalt thou
labor, and do all thy work; 5:14but the seventh day is a sabbath unto
Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor
thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as
well as thou. 5:15And thou shalt remember that thou wast
a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out
thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jehovah thy
God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
5:16Honor thy father and thy mother, as
Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may
go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
5:17Thou shalt not kill.
5:18Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
5:19Neither shalt thou steal.
5:20Neither shalt thou bear false witness
against thy neighbor.
5:21Neither shalt thou covet thy
neighbor's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's house, his
field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or
anything that is thy neighbor's.
5:22These words Jehovah spake unto all
your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and
of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he
wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me. 5:23And
it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,
while the mountain was burning with fire, that ye came near unto me, even
all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 5:24and ye said, Behold,
Jehovah our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have
heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that
God doth speak with man, and he liveth. 5:25Now therefore why
should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice
of Jehovah our God any more, then we shall die. 5:26For who is there of
all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the
midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 5:27Go thou near, and hear
all that Jehovah our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that
Jehovah our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
5:28And Jehovah heard the voice of your
words, when ye spake unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, I have heard the
voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they
have well said all that they have spoken. 5:29Oh that there were
such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my
commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their
children for ever! 5:30Go say to them, Return ye to your
tents. 5:31But as for thee, stand thou here by
me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the
land which I give them to possess it. 5:32Ye shall observe to do
therefore as Jehovah your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside
to the right hand or to the left. 5:33Ye shall walk in all the way which
Jehovah your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be
well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye
shall possess.
6:1Now this is the commandment, the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach
you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it;
6:2that thou mightest fear Jehovah thy
God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee,
thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that
thy days may be prolonged. 6:3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe
to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase
mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in
a land flowing with milk and honey. 6:4Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one
Jehovah: 6:5and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6:6And
these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; 6:7and
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them
when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when
thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 6:8And thou shalt bind
them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between
thine eyes. 6:9And thou shalt write them upon the
door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
6:10And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God
shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee, great and goodly cities,
which thou buildest not, 6:11and houses full of all good things,
which thou filledst not, and cisterns hewn out, which thou hewedst not,
vineyards and olive-trees, which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt eat
and be full; 6:12then beware lest thou forget Jehovah,
who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. 6:13Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; and
him shalt thou serve, and shalt swear by his name. 6:14Ye shall not go after
other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you; 6:15for
Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of
Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the
face of the earth.
6:16Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God,
as ye tempted him in Massah. 6:17Ye shall diligently keep the
commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes,
which he hath commanded thee. 6:18And thou shalt do that which is right
and good in the sight of Jehovah; that it may be well with thee, and that
thou mayest go in and possess the good land which Jehovah sware unto thy
fathers, 6:19to thrust out all thine enemies from
before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
6:20When thy son asketh thee in time to
come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you? 6:21then thou shalt say unto thy son, We
were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with
a mighty hand; 6:22and Jehovah showed signs and wonders,
great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before
our eyes; 6:23and he brought us out from thence,
that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our
fathers. 6:24And Jehovah commanded us to do all
these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good always, that he
might preserve us alive, as at this day. 6:25And it shall be
righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before
Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us.
7:1When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee
into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many
nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and
the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven
nations greater and mightier than thou; 7:2and when Jehovah thy
God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then
thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor show mercy unto them; 7:3neither shalt thou make marriages with
them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter
shalt thou take unto thy son. 7:4For he will turn away thy son from
following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah
be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly. 7:5But
thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash
in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven
images with fire.
7:6For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah
thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own
possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 7:7Jehovah did not set his love upon you,
nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye
were the fewest of all peoples: 7:8but because Jehovah loveth you, and
because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath
Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 7:9Know
therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth
covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his
commandments to a thousand generations, 7:10and repayeth them that
hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that
hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 7:11Thou shalt therefore
keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I
command thee this day, to do them.
7:12And it shall come to pass, because ye
hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God
will keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware
unto thy fathers: 7:13and he will love thee, and bless thee,
and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit
of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of
thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy
fathers to give thee. 7:14Thou shalt be blessed above all
peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your
cattle. 7:15And Jehovah will take away from thee
all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest,
will he put upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 7:16And
thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto
thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods;
for that will be a snare unto thee.
7:17If thou shalt say in thy heart, These
nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 7:18thou shalt not be
afraid of them: thou shalt well remember what Jehovah thy God did unto
Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 7:19the great trials which thine eyes saw,
and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched
arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out: so shall Jehovah thy God do
unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid. 7:20Moreover Jehovah thy
God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide
themselves, perish from before thee. 7:21Thou shalt not be affrighted at them;
for Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a great God and a terrible.
7:22And Jehovah thy God will cast out
those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume
them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. 7:23But
Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before thee, and will discomfit them
with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. 7:24And he will deliver
their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from
under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou
have destroyed them. 7:25The graven images of their gods shall
ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on
them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an
abomination to Jehovah thy God. 7:26And thou shalt not bring an
abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou
shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a
devoted thing.
8:1All the commandment which I command
thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and
go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers. 8:2And
thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these
forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee,
to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or not. 8:3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee
to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did
thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by
bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah
doth man live. 8:4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee,
neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 8:5And thou shalt consider
in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God
chasteneth thee. 8:6And thou shalt keep the commandments of
Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 8:7For
Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water,
of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8:8a
land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land
of olive-trees and honey; 8:9a land wherein thou shalt eat bread
without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose
stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper. 8:10And
thou shalt eat and be full, and thou shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the
good land which he hath given thee.
8:11Beware lest thou forget Jehovah thy
God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day: 8:12lest, when thou hast
eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 8:13and
when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is
multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 8:14then thy heart be
lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 8:15who led thee through
the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and
scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth
water out of the rock of flint; 8:16who fed thee in the wilderness with
manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he
might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end: 8:17and lest thou
say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this
wealth. 8:18But thou shalt remember Jehovah thy
God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth; that he may
establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as at this day. 8:19And
it shall be, if thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, and walk after other
gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day
that ye shall surely perish. 8:20As the nations that Jehovah maketh to
perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto
the voice of Jehovah your God.
9:1Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over
the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier
than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 9:2a
people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of
whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak? 9:3Know
therefore this day, that Jehovah thy God is he who goeth over before thee
as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down
before thee: so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish
quickly, as Jehovah hath spoken unto thee. 9:4Speak not thou in thy
heart, after that Jehovah thy God hath thrust them out from before thee,
saying, For my righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this
land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah doth drive them
out from before thee. 9:5Not for thy righteousness, or for the
uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for
the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from
before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto
thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
9:6Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God
giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for
thou art a stiffnecked people. 9:7Remember, forget thou not, how thou
provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that
thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this
place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah. 9:8Also in Horeb ye
provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
9:9When I was gone up into the mount to
receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah
made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I
did neither eat bread nor drink water. 9:10And Jehovah delivered
unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on
them was written according to all the words, which Jehovah speak
with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly. 9:11And it came to pass at the end of
forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone,
even the tables of the covenant. 9:12And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get
thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth
out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out
of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 9:13Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me,
saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
9:14let me alone, that I may destroy them,
and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a
nation mightier and greater than they. 9:15So I turned and came
down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two
tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 9:16And I looked, and,
behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten
calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had
commanded you. 9:17And I took hold of the two tables, and
cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 9:18And
I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights;
I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye
sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke
him to anger. 9:19For I was afraid of the anger and hot
displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But
Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also. 9:20And Jehovah was very
angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same
time. 9:21And I took your sin, the calf which ye
had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small,
until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook
that descended out of the mount.
9:22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at
Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath. 9:23And when Jehovah sent
you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have
given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God,
and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 9:24Ye have been
rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.
9:25So I fell down before Jehovah the
forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he
would destroy you. 9:26And I prayed unto Jehovah, and said, O
Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, that thou hast
redeemed through thy greatness, that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt
with a mighty hand. 9:27Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their
wickedness, nor to their sin, 9:28lest the land whence thou broughtest
us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which
he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out
to slay them in the wilderness. 9:29Yet they are thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy great power and by thine
outstretched arm.
10:1At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew
thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the
mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 10:2And I will write on the tables the
words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put
them in the ark. 10:3So I made an ark of acacia wood, and
hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount,
having the two tables in my hand. 10:4And he wrote on the tables, according
to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Jehovah spake unto you
in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and
Jehovah gave them unto me. 10:5And I turned and came down from the
mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are
as Jehovah commanded me. 10:6(And the children of Israel journeyed
from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was
buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his
stead. 10:7From thence they journeyed unto
Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 10:8At
that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to minister unto him, and to
bless in his name, unto this day. 10:9Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor
inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as
Jehovah thy God spake unto him.) 10:10And I stayed in the mount, as at the
first time, forty days and forty nights: and Jehovah hearkened unto me
that time also; Jehovah would not destroy thee. 10:11And Jehovah said unto
me, Arise, take thy journey before the people; and they shall go in and
possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
10:12And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah
thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his
ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy soul, 10:13to keep the commandments of Jehovah,
and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 10:14Behold, unto Jehovah thy God
belongeth heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is
therein. 10:15Only Jehovah had a delight in thy
fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above
all peoples, as at this day. 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of
your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. 10:17For Jehovah your God,
he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the
terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. 10:18He doth execute justice for the
fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and
raiment. 10:19Love ye therefore the sojourner; for
ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 10:20Thou shalt fear
Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and
by his name shalt thou swear. 10:21He is thy praise, and he is thy God,
that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes
have seen. 10:22Thy fathers went down into Egypt with
threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the
stars of heaven for multitude.
11:1Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy
God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his
commandments, alway. 11:2And know ye this day: for I
speak not with your children that have not known, and that have not
seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, his greatness, his mighty hand,
and his outstretched arm, 11:3and his signs, and his works, which he
did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his
land; 11:4and what he did unto the army of
Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of
the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Jehovah
hath destroyed them unto this day; 11:5and what he did unto you in the
wilderness, until ye came unto this place; 11:6and what he did unto
Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth
opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their
tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all
Israel: 11:7but your eyes have seen all the great
work of Jehovah which he did.
11:8Therefore shall ye keep all the
commandment which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go
in and possess the land, whither ye go over to possess it; 11:9and
that ye may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah sware unto your
fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and
honey. 11:10For the land, whither thou goest in
to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where
thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of
herbs; 11:11but the land, whither ye go over to
possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of
the rain of heaven, 11:12a land which Jehovah thy God careth
for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of
the year even unto the end of the year.
11:13And it shall come to pass, if ye
shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this
day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and
with all your soul, 11:14that I will give the rain of your
land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest
gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil. 11:15And I will give grass in thy fields
for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be full. 11:16Take heed to
yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve
other gods, and worship them; 11:17and the anger of Jehovah be kindled
against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain,
and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the
good land which Jehovah giveth you.
11:18Therefore shall ye lay up these my
words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign
upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 11:19And ye shall teach them your
children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou
walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 11:20And thou shalt write them upon the
door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates; 11:21that your days may be
multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah sware
unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the
earth. 11:22For if ye shall diligently keep all
this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God,
to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 11:23then will Jehovah
drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess
nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 11:24Every place whereon
the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and
Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea
shall be your border. 11:25There shall no man be able to stand
before you: Jehovah your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of
you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath spoken unto you.
11:26Behold, I set before you this day a
blessing and a curse: 11:27the blessing, if ye shall hearken
unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day;
11:28and the curse, if ye shall not
hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of
the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye
have not known. 11:29And it shall come to pass, when
Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to
possess it, that thou shalt set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the
curse upon mount Ebal. 11:30Are they not beyond the Jordan,
behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites
that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
11:31For ye are to pass over the Jordan to
go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God giveth you, and ye shall
possess it, and dwell therein. 11:32And ye shall observe to do all the
statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.
12:1These are the statutes and the
ordinances which ye shall observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God
of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live
upon the earth. 12:2Ye shall surely destroy all the places
wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the
high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 12:3and
ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and
burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of
their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place. 12:4Ye
shall not do so unto Jehovah your God. 12:5But unto the place
which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his
name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt
come; 12:6and thither ye shall bring your
burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the
heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings,
and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock: 12:7and there ye shall eat
before Jehovah your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand
unto, ye and your households, wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.
12:8Ye shall not do after all the things
that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;
12:9for ye are not as yet come to the rest
and to the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. 12:10But when ye go over the Jordan, and
dwell in the land which Jehovah your God causeth you to inherit, and he
giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in
safety; 12:11then it shall come to pass that to
the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your
burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering
of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto Jehovah. 12:12And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah
your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants,
and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates,
forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you. 12:13Take heed to thyself that thou offer
not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest; 12:14but in the place which Jehovah shall
choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings,
and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
12:15Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and
eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul,
according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the
unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the
hart. 12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou
shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. 12:17Thou mayest not eat
within thy gates the tithe of thy grain, or of thy new wine, or of thine
oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows
which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of
thy hand; 12:18but thou shalt eat them before
Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and
thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and
the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah
thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. 12:19Take heed to thyself
that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.
12:20When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge
thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat
flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh,
after all the desire of thy soul. 12:21If the place which Jehovah thy God
shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt
kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I
have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the
desire of thy soul. 12:22Even as the gazelle and as the hart
is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat
thereof alike. 12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the
blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the
flesh. 12:24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt
pour it out upon the earth as water. 12:25Thou shalt not eat
it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when
thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah. 12:26Only thy holy things which thou hast,
and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall
choose: 12:27and thou shalt offer thy
burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thy
God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of
Jehovah thy God; and thou shalt eat the flesh. 12:28Observe and hear all
these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with
thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and
right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.
12:29When Jehovah thy God shall cut off
the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them,
and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; 12:30take heed to thyself that thou be not
ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee;
and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations
serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 12:31Thou shalt not do so
unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth,
have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do
they burn in the fire to their gods.
12:32What thing soever I command you, that
shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
13:1If there arise in the midst of thee a
prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder, 13:2and
the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying,
Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve
them; 13:3thou shalt not hearken unto the words
of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God
proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart
and with all your soul. 13:4Ye shall walk after Jehovah your God,
and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall
serve him, and cleave unto him. 13:5And that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams, shall be put to death, because he hath spoken rebellion against
Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed
thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which
Jehovah thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil
from the midst of thee.
13:6If thy brother, the son of thy mother,
or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that
is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 13:7of
the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far
off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of
the earth; 13:8thou shalt not consent unto him, nor
hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou
spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 13:9but thou shalt surely
kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterwards the hand of all the people. 13:10And thou shalt stone
him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from
Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage. 13:11And all Israel shall hear, and fear,
and shall do not more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.
13:12If thou shalt hear tell concerning
one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there,
saying, 13:13Certain base fellows are gone out
from the midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city,
saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 13:14then shalt thou inquire, and make
search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing
certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee, 13:15thou shalt surely smite the
inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it
utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of
the sword. 13:16And thou shalt gather all the spoil
of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the
city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto Jehovah thy God: and it
shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 13:17And there shall cleave nought of the
devoted thing to thy hand; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of
his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and
multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 13:18when thou shalt
hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep all his commandments
which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of
Jehovah thy God.
14:1Ye are the children of Jehovah your
God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes
for the dead. 14:2For thou art a holy people unto
Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own
possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
14:3Thou shalt not eat any abominable
thing. 14:4These are the beasts which ye may eat:
the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 14:5the hart, and the gazelle, and the
roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the
chamois. 14:6And every beast that parteth the hoof,
and hath the hoof cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the
beasts, that may ye eat. 14:7Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of
them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel,
and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the
hoof, they are unclean unto you. 14:8And the swine, because he parteth the
hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye
shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.
14:9These ye may eat of all that are in
the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat; 14:10and whatsoever hath not fins and
scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
14:11Of all clean birds ye may eat. 14:12But these are they of which ye shall
not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray, 14:13and the glede, and the falcon, and
the kite after its kind, 14:14and every raven after its kind, 14:15and the ostrich, and the night-hawk,
and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind, 14:16the little owl, and
the great owl, and the horned owl, 14:17and the pelican, and the vulture, and
the cormorant, 14:18and the stork, and the heron after
its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 14:19And all winged
creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 14:20Of all clean birds ye may eat.
14:21Ye shall not eat of anything that
dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy
gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for
thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in
its mother's milk.
14:22Thou shalt surely tithe all the
increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth from the field year by year.
14:23And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy
God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there,
the tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the
firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear
Jehovah thy God always. 14:24And if the way be too long for thee,
so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from
thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when
Jehovah thy God shall bless thee; 14:25then shalt thou turn it into money,
and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which
Jehovah thy God shall choose: 14:26and thou shalt bestow the money for
whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for
strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt
eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy
household. 14:27And the Levite that is within thy
gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance
with thee.
14:28At the end of every three years thou
shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and
shalt lay it up within thy gates: 14:29and the Levite, because he hath no
portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless,
and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand
which thou doest.
15:1At the end of every seven years thou
shalt make a release. 15:2And this is the manner of the release:
every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he
shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah's
release hath been proclaimed. 15:3Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it:
but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release. 15:4Howbeit there shall be no poor with
thee; (for Jehovah will surely bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it;) 15:5if only thou
diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all
this commandment which I command thee this day. 15:6For Jehovah thy God
will bless thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many
nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations,
but they shall not rule over thee.
15:7If there be with thee a poor man, one
of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy
poor brother; 15:8but thou shalt surely open thy hand
unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that
which he wanteth. 15:9Beware that there be not a base
thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at
hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him
nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee. 15:10Thou shalt surely give him, and thy
heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for
this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all
that thou puttest thy hand unto. 15:11For the poor will never cease out of
the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy
hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
15:12If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a
Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the
seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 15:13And when thou lettest
him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty: 15:14thou shalt furnish him liberally out
of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; as
Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15:15And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee:
therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 15:16And it shall be, if
he say unto thee, I will not go out from thee; because he loveth thee and
thy house, because he is well with thee; 15:17then thou shalt take
an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy
servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise.
15:18It shall not seem hard unto thee,
when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of
a hireling hath he served thee six years: and Jehovah thy God will bless
thee in all that thou doest.
15:19All the firstling males that are born
of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto Jehovah thy God:
thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the
firstling of thy flock. 15:20Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy
God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy
household. 15:21And if it have any blemish, as if
it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not
sacrifice it unto Jehovah thy God. 15:22Thou shalt eat it within thy gates:
the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and
as the hart. 15:23Only thou shalt not eat the blood
thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.
16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep
the passover unto Jehovah thy God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy
God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 16:2And thou shalt
sacrifice the passover unto Jehovah thy God, of the flock and the herd, in
the place which Jehovah shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 16:3Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with
it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread
of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:
that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land
of Egypt all the days of thy life. 16:4And there shall be no leaven seen with
thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which
thou sacrificest the first day at even, remain all night until the
morning. 16:5Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover
within any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee; 16:6but
at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going
down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 16:7And
thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God shall
choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 16:8Six
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a
solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God; thou shalt do no work therein.
16:9Seven weeks shalt thou number unto
thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain
shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. 16:10And thou shalt keep
the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a
freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah
thy God blesseth thee: 16:11and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah
thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy
maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the
place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there. 16:12And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
16:13Thou shalt keep the feast of
tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy
threshing-floor and from thy winepress: 16:14and thou shalt
rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and
the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 16:15Seven days shalt thou keep a feast
unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; because
Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work
of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful. 16:16Three times in a year
shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he
shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks,
and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah
empty: 16:17every man shall give as he is able,
according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee.
16:18Judges and officers shalt thou make
thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy
tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 16:19Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou
shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe
doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
16:20That which is altogether just shalt
thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which Jehovah thy
God giveth thee.
16:21Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah
of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt
make thee. 16:22Neither shalt thou set thee up a
pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth.
17:1Thou shalt not sacrifice unto Jehovah
thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, or anything evil;
for that is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
17:2If there be found in the midst of
thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or
woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in
transgressing his covenant, 17:3and hath gone and served other gods,
and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of
heaven, which I have not commanded; 17:4and it be told thee, and thou hast
heard of it, then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be
true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,
17:5then shalt thou bring forth that man
or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man
or the woman; and thou shalt stone them to death with stones. 17:6At
the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be
put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 17:7The
hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shalt put away the evil from
the midst of thee.
17:8If there arise a matter too hard for
thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and
between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates;
then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy
God shall choose; 17:9and thou shalt come unto the priests
the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and thou
shalt inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment. 17:10And thou shalt do according to the
tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which
Jehovah shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that
they shall teach thee: 17:11according to the tenor of the law
which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they
shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the
sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
17:12And the man that doeth
presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to
minister there before Jehovah thy God, or unto the judge, even that man
shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 17:13And all the people shall hear, and
fear, and do no more presumptuously.
17:14When thou art come unto the land
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell
therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations
that are round about me; 17:15thou shalt surely set him king over
thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt
thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is
not thy brother. 17:16Only he shall not multiply horses to
himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may
multiply horses; forasmuch as Jehovah hath said unto you, Ye shall
henceforth return no more that way. 17:17Neither shall he multiply wives to
himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply
to himself silver and gold.
17:18And it shall be, when he sitteth upon
the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a
book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 17:19and it shall be with him, and he
shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear
Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to
do them; 17:20that his heart be not lifted up above
his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the
right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his
kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
18:1The priests the Levites, even
all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel:
they shall eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and his inheritance.
18:2And they shall have no inheritance
among their brethren: Jehovah is their inheritance, as he hath spoken unto
them. 18:3And this shall be the priests' due
from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or
sheep, that they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two
cheeks, and the maw. 18:4The first-fruits of thy grain, of thy
new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep,
shalt thou give him. 18:5For Jehovah thy God hath chosen him
out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him
and his sons for ever.
18:6And if a Levite come from any of thy
gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire
of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose; 18:7then he shall minister in the name of
Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there
before Jehovah. 18:8They shall have like portions to eat,
besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. 18:9When thou art come into the land which
Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the
abominations of those nations. 18:10There shall not be found with thee
any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one
that useth divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a
sorcerer, 18:11or a charmer, or a consulter with a
familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 18:12For whosoever doeth
these things is an abomination unto Jehovah: and because of these
abominations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 18:13Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah
thy God. 18:14For these nations, that thou shalt
dispossess, hearken unto them that practise augury, and unto diviners; but
as for thee, Jehovah thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
18:15Jehovah thy God will raise up unto
thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto
him ye shall hearken; 18:16according to all that thou desiredst
of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not
hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire
any more, that I die not. 18:17And Jehovah said unto me, They have
well said that which they have spoken. 18:18I will raise them up
a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my
words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command
him. 18:19And it shall come to pass, that
whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name,
I will require it of him.
18:20But the prophet, that shall speak a
word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak,
or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall
die. 18:21And if thou say in thy heart, How
shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken? 18:22when a prophet speaketh in the name
of Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing
which Jehovah hath not spoken: the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously,
thou shalt not be afraid of him.
19:1When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the
nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them,
and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 19:2thou shalt set apart
three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God
giveth thee to possess it. 19:3Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and
divide the borders of thy land, which Jehovah thy God causeth thee to
inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither.
19:4And this is the case of the manslayer,
that shall flee thither and live: whoso killeth his neighbor unawares, and
hated him not in time past; 19:5as when a man goeth into the forest
with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe
to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth
upon his neighbor, so that he dieth; he shall flee unto one of these
cities and live: 19:6lest the avenger of blood pursue the
manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is
long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch
as he hated him not in time past. 19:7Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou
shalt set apart three cities for thee. 19:8And if Jehovah thy God
enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all
the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; 19:9if thou shalt keep all
this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah
thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities
more for thee, besides these three: 19:10that innocent blood be not shed in
the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
19:11But if any man hate his neighbor, and
lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so
that he dieth, and he flee into one of these cities; 19:12then the elders of his city shall
send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of
blood, that he may die. 19:13Thine eye shall not pity him, but
thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well
with thee.
19:14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's
landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou
shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.
19:15One witness shall not rise up against
a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the
mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter
be established. 19:16If an unrighteous witness rise up
against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, 19:17then both the men, between whom the
controversy is, shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the
judges that shall be in those days; 19:18and the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and have
testified falsely against his brother; 19:19then shall ye do unto
him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the
evil from the midst of thee. 19:20And those that remain shall hear, and
fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of
thee. 19:21And thine eyes shall not pity; life
shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot.
20:1When thou goest forth to battle
against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people
more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is
with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 20:2And
it shall be, when ye draw nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall
approach and speak unto the people, 20:3and shall say unto them, Hear, O
Israel, ye draw nigh this day unto battle against your enemies: let not
your heart faint; fear not, nor tremble, neither be ye affrighted at them;
20:4for Jehovah your God is he that goeth
with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. 20:5And
the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that
hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return
to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. 20:6And
what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the
fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man use the fruit thereof. 20:7And what man is there
that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return
unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. 20:8And
the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What
man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto
his house, lest his brethren's heart melt as his heart. 20:9And
it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the
people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the
people.
20:10When thou drawest nigh unto a city to
fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 20:11And it shall be, if
it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that
all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee,
and shall serve thee. 20:12And if it will make no peace with
thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 20:13and when Jehovah thy God delivereth
it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the
sword: 20:14but the women, and the little ones,
and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof,
shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of
thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee. 20:15Thus shalt thou do unto all the
cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of
these nations. 20:16But of the cities of these peoples,
that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive
nothing that breatheth; 20:17but thou shalt utterly destroy them:
the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; 20:18that they teach you not to do after
all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye
sin against Jehovah your God.
20:19When thou shalt besiege a city a long
time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the
trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of
them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man,
that it should be besieged of thee? 20:20Only the trees of which thou knowest
that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down;
and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee,
until it fall.
21:1If one be found slain in the land
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and
it be not known who hath smitten him; 21:2then thy elders and
thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which
are round about him that is slain: 21:3and it shall be, that the city which
is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a
heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not
drawn in the yoke; 21:4and the elders of that city shall
bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither
plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 21:5And
the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah thy God
hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and
according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. 21:6And
all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall
wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 21:7and
they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither
have our eyes seen it. 21:8Forgive, O Jehovah, thy people Israel,
whom thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in
the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them. 21:9So
shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou
shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.
21:10When thou goest forth to battle
against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands,
and thou carriest them away captive, 21:11and seest among the
captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest
take her to thee to wife; 21:12then thou shalt bring her home to thy
house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 21:13and she shall put the raiment of her
captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her
father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto
her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 21:14And it shall be, if
thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will;
but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her
as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.
21:15If a man have two wives, the one
beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the
beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;
21:16then it shall be, in the day that he
causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the
son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the
first-born: 21:17but he shall acknowledge the
first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all
that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
first-born is his.
21:18If a man have a stubborn and
rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice
of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;
21:19then shall his father and his mother
lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto
the gate of his place; 21:20and they shall say unto the elders of
his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our
voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21:21And all the men of
his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the
evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
21:22And if a man have committed a sin
worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; 21:23his body shall not remain all night
upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is
hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance.
22:1Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or
his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring
them again unto thy brother. 22:2And if thy brother be not nigh unto
thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house,
and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt
restore it to him. 22:3And so shalt thou do with his ass; and
so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost
thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou
mayest not hide thyself. 22:4Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass
or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt
surely help him to lift them up again.
22:5A woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for
whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
22:6If a bird's nest chance to be before
thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs,
and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take
the dam with the young: 22:7thou shalt surely let the dam go, but
the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee,
and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
22:8When thou buildest a new house, then
thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon
thy house, if any man fall from thence.
22:9Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with
two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which thou
hast sown, and the increase of the vineyard. 22:10Thou shalt not plow
with an ox and an ass together. 22:11Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff,
wool and linen together.
22:12Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the
four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
22:13If any man take a wife, and go in
unto her, and hate her, 22:14and lay shameful things to her
charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman,
and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;
22:15then shall the father of the damsel,
and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity
unto the elders of the city in the gate; 22:16and the damsel's
father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to
wife, and he hateth her; 22:17and, lo, he hath laid shameful things
to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of
virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And
they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. 22:18And the elders of that city shall
take the man and chastise him; 22:19and they shall fine him a hundred
shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel,
because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she
shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 22:20But if this thing be true, that the
tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel; 22:21then they shall bring
out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city
shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in
Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put away
the evil from the midst of thee.
22:22If a man be found lying with a woman
married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay
with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.
22:23If there be a damsel that is a virgin
betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with
her; 22:24then ye shall bring them both out
unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones;
the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because
he hath humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from
the midst of thee.
22:25But if the man find the damsel that
is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then
the man only that lay with her shall die: 22:26but unto the damsel
thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for
as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is
this matter; 22:27for he found her in the field, the
betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
22:28If a man find a damsel that is a
virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and
they be found; 22:29then the man that lay with her shall
give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she
shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away
all his days.
22:30A man shall not take his father's
wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
23:1He that is wounded in the stones, or
hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of
Jehovah.
23:2A bastard shall not enter into the
assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter
into the assembly of Jehovah.
23:3An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not
enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall
none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Jehovah for ever: 23:4because they met you not with bread
and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because
they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia,
to curse thee. 23:5Nevertheless Jehovah thy God would not
hearken unto Balaam; but Jehovah thy God turned the curse into a blessing
unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee. 23:6Thou shalt not seek
their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
23:7Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for
he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a
sojourner in his land. 23:8The children of the third generation
that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.
23:9When thou goest forth in camp against
thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing. 23:10If there be among you any man, that
is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he
go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 23:11but it shall be, when evening cometh
on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall
come within the camp. 23:12Thou shalt have a place also without
the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: 23:13and thou shalt have a
paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad,
thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh
from thee: 23:14for Jehovah thy God walketh in the
midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before
thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean
thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
23:15Thou shalt not deliver unto his
master a servant that is escaped from his master unto thee: 23:16he shall dwell with thee, in the
midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates,
where it pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
23:17There shall be no prostitute of the
daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of
Israel. 23:18Thou shalt not bring the hire of a
harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any
vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
23:19Thou shalt not lend upon interest to
thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything
that is lent upon interest: 23:20unto a foreigner thou mayest lend
upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest,
that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand
unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
23:21When thou shalt vow a vow unto
Jehovah thy God, thou shalt not be slack to pay it: for Jehovah thy God
will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. 23:22But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it
shall be no sin in thee. 23:23That which is gone out of thy lips
thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed unto Jehovah thy
God, a freewill-offering, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
23:24When thou comest into thy neighbor's
vineyard, then thou mayest eat of grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure;
but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. 23:25When thou comest into
thy neighbor's standing grain, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thy
hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing grain.
24:1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth
her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath
found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of
divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 24:2And
when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's
wife. 24:3And if the latter husband hate her,
and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her
out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his
wife; 24:4her former husband, who sent her away,
may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that
is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin,
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
24:5When a man taketh a new wife, he shall
not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he
shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath
taken.
24:6No man shall take the mill or the
upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
24:7If a man be found stealing any of his
brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or
sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from
the midst of thee.
24:8Take heed in the plague of leprosy,
that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the
Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
24:9Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto
Miriam, by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt.
24:10When thou dost lend thy neighbor any
manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 24:11Thou shalt stand without, and the man
to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. 24:12And if he be a poor man, thou shalt
not sleep with his pledge; 24:13thou shalt surely restore to him the
pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and
bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.
24:14Thou shalt not oppress a hired
servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy
sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates: 24:15in his day thou shalt
give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor,
and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and
it be sin unto thee.
24:16The fathers shall not be put to death
for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the
fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
24:17Thou shalt not wrest the justice
due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the
widow's raiment to pledge; 24:18but thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee thence:
therefore I command thee to do this thing.
24:19When thou reapest thy harvest in thy
field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to
fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the
widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.
24:20When thou beatest thine olive-tree,
thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner,
for the fatherless, and for the widow. 24:21When thou gatherest
the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it
shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 24:22And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this
thing.
25:1If there be a controversy between men,
and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them; then they
shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; 25:2and it shall be, if
the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to
lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness,
by number. 25:3Forty stripes he may give him, he
shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with
many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
25:4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he
treadeth out the grain.
25:5If brethren dwell together, and one of
them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married
without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and
take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto
her. 25:6And it shall be, that the first-born
that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead,
that his name be not blotted out of Israel. 25:7And if the man like
not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the
gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up
unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a
husband's brother unto me. 25:8Then the elders of his city shall call
him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;
25:9then shall his brother's wife come
unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his
foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be
done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house. 25:10And his name shall be called in
Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
25:11When men strive together one with
another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out
of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and
taketh him by the secrets; 25:12then thou shalt cut off her hand,
thine eye shall have no pity.
25:13Thou shalt not have in thy bag
diverse weights, a great and a small. 25:14Thou shalt not have
in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small. 25:15A perfect and just
weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that
thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. 25:16For all that do such things,
even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy
God.
25:17Remember what Amalek did unto thee by
the way as ye came forth out of Egypt; 25:18how he met thee by
the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee,
when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. 25:19Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah
thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the
land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it,
that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou
shalt not forget.
26:1And it shall be, when thou art come in
unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and
possessest it, and dwellest therein, 26:2that thou shalt take of the first of
all the fruit of the ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that
Jehovah thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt
go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell there. 26:3And thou shalt come unto the priest
that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto
Jehovah thy God, that I am come unto the land which Jehovah sware unto our
fathers to give us. 26:4And the priest shall take the basket
out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God. 26:5And
thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A Syrian ready to perish
was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in
number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 26:6And
the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard
bondage: 26:7and we cried unto Jehovah, the God of
our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our
toil, and our oppression; 26:8and Jehovah brought us forth out of
Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great
terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders; 26:9and he hath brought us
into this place, and hath given us this land, a land flowing with milk and
honey. 26:10And now, behold, I have brought the
first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O Jehovah, hast given me.
And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God, and worship before
Jehovah thy God: 26:11and thou shalt rejoice in all the
good which Jehovah thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thy house, thou,
and the Levite, and the sojourner that is in the midst of thee.
26:12When thou hast made an end of tithing
all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of
tithing, then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, to the sojourner, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be
filled. 26:13And thou shalt say before Jehovah thy
God, I have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have
given them unto the Levite, and unto the sojourner, to the fatherless, and
to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded
me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I
forgotten them: 26:14I have not eaten thereof in my
mourning, neither have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given
thereof for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I
have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 26:15Look down from thy holy habitation,
from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the ground which thou hast
given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and
honey.
26:16This day Jehovah thy God commandeth
thee to do these statutes and ordinances: thou shalt therefore keep and do
them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 26:17Thou hast avouched
Jehovah this day to be thy God, and that thou wouldest walk in his ways,
and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and
hearken unto his voice: 26:18and Jehovah hath avouched thee this
day to be a people for his own possession, as he hath promised thee, and
that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 26:19and to make thee high
above all nations that he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor;
and that thou mayest be a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, as he hath
spoken.
27:1And Moses and the elders of Israel
commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you
this day. 27:2And it shall be on the day when ye
shall pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth
thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with
plaster: 27:3and thou shalt write upon them all the
words of this law, when thou art passed over; that thou mayest go in unto
the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk and
honey, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised thee. 27:4And
it shall be, when ye are passed over the Jordan, that ye shall set up
these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt
plaster them with plaster. 27:5And there shalt thou build an altar
unto Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt lift up no iron
tool upon them. 27:6Thou shalt build the altar of Jehovah
thy God of unhewn stones; and thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon
unto Jehovah thy God: 27:7and thou shalt sacrifice
peace-offerings, and shalt eat there; and thou shalt rejoice before
Jehovah thy God. 27:8And thou shalt write upon the stones
all the words of this law very plainly.
27:9And Moses and the priests the Levites
spake unto all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and hearken, O Israel: this
day thou art become the people of Jehovah thy God. 27:10Thou shalt therefore
obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, and do his commandments and his
statutes, which I command thee this day.
27:11And Moses charged the people the same
day, saying, 27:12These shall stand upon mount Gerizim
to bless the people, when ye are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi,
and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. 27:13And these shall stand
upon mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan,
and Naphtali. 27:14And the Levites shall answer, and say
unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
27:15Cursed be the man that maketh a
graven or molten image, an abomination unto Jehovah, the work of the hands
of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret. And all the people shall
answer and say, Amen.
27:16Cursed be he that setteth light by
his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:17Cursed be he that removeth his
neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:18Cursed be he that maketh the blind to
wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:19Cursed be he that wresteth the
justice due to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
27:20Cursed be he that lieth with his
father's wife, because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
27:21Cursed be he that lieth with any
manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:22Cursed be he that lieth with his
sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all
the people shall say, Amen.
27:23Cursed be he that lieth with his
mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:24Cursed be he that smiteth his
neighbor in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:25Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to
slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
27:26Cursed be he that confirmeth not the
words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
28:1And it shall come to pass, if thou
shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to
do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy
God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: 28:2and
all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt
hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God. 28:3Blessed shalt thou be
in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 28:4Blessed shall be the
fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy
beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock. 28:5Blessed shall be thy basket and thy
kneading-trough. 28:6Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest
in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
28:7Jehovah will cause thine enemies that
rise up against thee to be smitten before thee: they shall come out
against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways. 28:8Jehovah will command the blessing upon
thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and he will
bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. 28:9Jehovah will establish thee for a holy
people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the
commandments of Jehovah thy God, and walk in his ways. 28:10And all the peoples of the earth
shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah; and they shall be
afraid of thee. 28:11And Jehovah will make thee plenteous
for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in
the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers
to give thee. 28:12Jehovah will open unto thee his good
treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to
bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and
thou shalt not borrow. 28:13And Jehovah will make thee the head,
and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be
beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God,
which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them, 28:14and shalt not turn aside from any of
the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left,
to go after other gods to serve them.
28:15But it shall come to pass, if thou
wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all
his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all
these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. 28:16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and
cursed shalt thou be in the field. 28:17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy
kneading-trough. 28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy
body, and the fruit of thy ground, the increase of thy cattle, and the
young of thy flock. 28:19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest
in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
28:20Jehovah will send upon thee cursing,
discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do,
until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the
evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 28:21Jehovah will make the
pestilence cleave unto thee, until he hath consumed thee from off the
land, whither thou goest in to possess it. 28:22Jehovah will smite
thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with
fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and
they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 28:23And thy heaven that
is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be
iron. 28:24Jehovah will make the rain of thy
land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou
be destroyed.
28:25Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten
before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt
flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and from among
all the kingdoms of the earth. 28:26And thy dead body shall be food unto
all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there
shall be none to frighten them away. 28:27Jehovah will smite
thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy,
and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28:28Jehovah will smite thee with madness,
and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; 28:29and thou shalt grope
at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper
in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there
shall be none to save thee. 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and
another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt
not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the
fruit thereof. 28:31Thine ox shall be slain before thine
eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken
away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep
shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save thee.
28:32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be
given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with
longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of
thy hand. 28:33The fruit of thy ground, and all thy
labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be
only oppressed and crushed alway; 28:34so that thou shalt be mad for the
sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 28:35Jehovah will smite
thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst
not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head.
28:36Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king
whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known,
thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and
stone. 28:37And thou shalt become an
astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither
Jehovah shall lead thee away. 28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into
the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. 28:39Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress
them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the
grapes; for the worm shall eat them. 28:40Thou shalt have
olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself
with the oil; for thine olive shall cast its fruit. 28:41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters,
but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity. 28:42All thy trees and the fruit of thy
ground shall the locust possess. 28:43The sojourner that is in the midst of
thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down
lower and lower. 28:44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt
not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 28:45And all these curses shall come upon
thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed;
because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep
his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: 28:46and they shall be upon thee for a
sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
28:47Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy
God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the
abundance of all things; 28:48therefore shalt thou serve thine
enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst,
and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of
iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 28:49Jehovah will bring a
nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle
flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 28:50a
nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old,
nor show favor to the young, 28:51and shall eat the fruit of thy
cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also
shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle,
or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish. 28:52And they shall besiege thee in all
thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou
trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy
gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee. 28:53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine
own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Jehovah thy God
hath given thee, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemies
shall distress thee. 28:54The man that is tender among you, and
very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the
wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he hath
remaining; 28:55so that he will not give to any of
them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath
nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy
shall distress thee in all thy gates. 28:56The tender and
delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her
foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be
evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her
daughter, 28:57and toward her young one that cometh
out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear;
for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and
in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
28:58If thou wilt not observe to do all
the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear
this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD; 28:59then Jehovah will
make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great
plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long
continuance. 28:60And he will bring upon thee again all
the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave
unto thee. 28:61Also every sickness, and every
plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah
bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 28:62And ye shall be left
few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude;
because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God. 28:63And it shall come to pass, that, as
Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah
will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye
shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it. 28:64And Jehovah will scatter thee among
all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the
earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known,
thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone. 28:65And among these
nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole
of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and
failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 28:66and thy life shall
hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt
have no assurance of thy life. 28:67In the morning thou shalt say, Would
it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the
fear of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes
which thou shalt see. 28:68And Jehovah will bring thee into
Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt
see it no more again: and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies
for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
29:1These are the words of the covenant
which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the
land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
29:2And Moses called unto all Israel, and
said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the
land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his
land; 29:3the great trials which thine eyes saw,
the signs, and those great wonders: 29:4but Jehovah hath not given you a heart
to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 29:5And
I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed
old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot. 29:6Ye
have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye
may know that I am Jehovah your God. 29:7And when ye came unto this place,
Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us
unto battle, and we smote them: 29:8and we took their land, and gave it
for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the
half-tribe of the Manassites. 29:9Keep therefore the words of this
covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
29:10Ye stand this day all of you before
Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers,
even all the men of Israel, 29:11your little ones, your wives, and thy
sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood
unto the drawer of thy water; 29:12that thou mayest enter into the
covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God
maketh with thee this day; 29:13that he may establish thee this day
unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake
unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob.
29:14Neither with you only do I make this
covenant and this oath, 29:15but with him that standeth here with
us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here
with us this day 29:16(for ye know how we dwelt in the land
of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which
ye passed; 29:17and ye have seen their abominations,
and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
29:18lest there should be among you man,
or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from
Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there
should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 29:19and it come to pass, when he heareth
the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I
shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to
destroy the moist with the dry. 29:20Jehovah will not pardon him, but then
the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all
the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah
will blot out his name from under heaven. 29:21And Jehovah will set
him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the
curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
29:22And the generation to come, your
children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come
from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and
the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick; 29:23and that the
whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning,
that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein,
like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah
overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 29:24even all the nations
shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth
the heat of this great anger? 29:25Then men shall say, Because they
forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made
with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 29:26and went and served other gods, and
worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto
them: 29:27therefore the anger of Jehovah was
kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written
in this book; 29:28and Jehovah rooted them out of their
land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into
another land, as at this day. 29:29The secret things belong unto Jehovah
our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our
children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
30:1And it shall come to pass, when all
these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have
set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,
whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee, 30:2and shalt return unto
Jehovah thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command
thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul; 30:3that then Jehovah thy God will turn
thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather
thee from all the peoples, whither Jehovah thy God hath scattered thee. 30:4If
any of thine outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from
thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch
thee: 30:5and Jehovah thy God will bring thee
into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and
he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. 30:6And
Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to
love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou
mayest live. 30:7And Jehovah thy God will put all these
curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted
thee. 30:8And thou shalt return and obey the
voice of Jehovah, and do all his commandments which I command thee this
day. 30:9And Jehovah thy God will make thee
plenteous in all the work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in
the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good: for
Jehovah will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy
fathers; 30:10if thou shalt obey the voice of
Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are
written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto Jehovah thy God with
all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
30:11For this commandment which I command
thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. 30:12It is not in heaven, that thou
shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and
make us to hear it, that we may do it? 30:13Neither is it beyond
the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and
bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? 30:14But the word is very nigh unto thee,
in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
30:15See, I have set before thee this day
life and good, and death and evil; 30:16in that I command thee this day to
love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments
and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply,
and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in
to possess it. 30:17But if thy heart turn away, and thou
wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve
them; 30:18I denounce unto you this day, that ye
shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days in the land, whither
thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 30:19I
call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set
before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose
life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; 30:20to love Jehovah thy
God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and
the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah
sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
31:1And Moses went and spake these words
unto all Israel. 31:2And he said unto them, I am a hundred
and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and
Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 31:3Jehovah thy God, he will go over
before thee; he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou
shalt dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as
Jehovah hath spoken. 31:4And Jehovah will do unto them as he
did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land;
whom he destroyed. 31:5And Jehovah will deliver them up
before you, and ye shall do unto them according unto all the commandment
which I have commanded you. 31:6Be strong and of good courage, fear
not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go
with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 31:7And Moses called unto
Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of
good courage: for thou shalt go with this people into the land which
Jehovah hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause
them to inherit it. 31:8And Jehovah, he it is that doth go
before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake
thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
31:9And Moses wrote this law, and
delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, that bare the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah, and unto all the elders of Israel. 31:10And Moses commanded them, saying, At
the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of
release, in the feast of tabernacles, 31:11when all Israel is
come to appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose,
thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 31:12Assemble the people, the men and the
women and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates,
that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God,
and observe to do all the words of this law; 31:13and that their
children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your
God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to
possess it.
31:14And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold,
thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves
in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua
went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. 31:15And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a
pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
31:16And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold,
thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play
the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among
them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with
them. 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled
against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face
from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall
come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils
come upon us because our God is not among us? 31:18And I will surely
hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have wrought,
in that they are turned unto other gods. 31:19Now therefore write
ye this song for you, and teach thou it the children of Israel: put it in
their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children
of Israel. 31:20For when I shall have brought them
into the land which I sware unto their fathers, flowing with milk and
honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat;
then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and
break my covenant. 31:21And it shall come to pass, when many
evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before
them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of
their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before
I have brought them into the land which I sware. 31:22So Moses wrote this
song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 31:23And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a
charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the
children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be
with thee.
31:24And it came to pass, when Moses had
made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were
finished, 31:25that Moses commanded the Levites,
that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying, 31:26Take this book of the law, and put it
by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be
there for a witness against thee. 31:27For I know thy rebellion, and thy
stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been
rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death? 31:28Assemble unto me all the elders of
your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their
ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 31:29For I know that after my death ye
will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have
commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye
will do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to
anger through the work of your hands.
31:30And Moses spake in the ears of all
the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
32:1Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
32:2My doctrine shall drop as the rain;
My speech shall distil as the dew,
As the small rain upon the tender grass,
And as the showers upon the herb.
32:3For I will proclaim the name of
Jehovah:
Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
32:4The Rock, his work is perfect;
For all his ways are justice:
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
Just and right is he.
32:5They have dealt corruptly with him,
they are not his children, it is their blemish;
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
32:6Do ye thus requite Jehovah,
O foolish people and unwise?
Is not he thy father that hath bought thee?
He hath made thee, and established thee.
32:7Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations:
Ask thy father, and he will show thee;
Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
32:8When the Most High gave to the nations
their inheritance,
When he separated the children of men,
He set the bounds of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Israel.
32:9For Jehovah's portion is his people;
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
32:10He found him in a desert land,
And in the waste howling wilderness;
He compassed him about, he cared for him,
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
32:11As an eagle that stirreth up her nest,
That fluttereth over her young,
He spread abroad his wings, he took them,
He bare them on his pinions.
32:12Jehovah alone did lead him,
And there was no foreign god with him.
32:13He made him ride on the high places
of the earth,
And he did eat the increase of the field;
And he made him to suck honey out of the rock,
And oil out of the flinty rock;
32:14Butter of the herd, and milk of the
flock,
With fat of lambs,
And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the finest of the wheat;
And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.
32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:
Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek;
Then he forsook God who made him,
And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
32:16They moved him to jealousy with
strange gods;
With abominations provoked they him to anger.
32:17They sacrificed unto demons, which
were no God,
To gods that they knew not,
To new gods that came up of late,
Which your fathers dreaded not.
32:18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art
unmindful,
And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.
32:19And Jehovah saw it, and
abhorred them,
Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
32:20And he said, I will hide my face from
them,
I will see what their end shall be:
For they are a very perverse generation,
Children in whom is no faithfulness.
32:21They have moved me to jealousy with
that which is not God;
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities:
And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a
people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger,
And burneth unto the lowest Sheol,
And devoureth the earth with its increase,
And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
32:23I will heap evils upon them;
I will spend mine arrows upon them:
32:24They shall be wasted with
hunger, and devoured with burning heat
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them,
With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
32:25Without shall the sword bereave,
And in the chambers terror;
It shall destroy both young man and virgin,
The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
32:26I said, I would scatter them afar,
I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
32:27Were it not that I feared the
provocation of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should judge amiss,
Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted,
And Jehovah hath not done all this.
32:28For they are a nation void of counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.
32:29Oh that they were wise, that they
understood this,
That they would consider their latter end!
32:30How should one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Except their Rock had sold them,
And Jehovah had delivered them up?
32:31For their rock is not as our Rock,
Even our enemies themselves being judges.
32:32For their vine is of the vine of
Sodom,
And of the fields of Gomorrah:
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter:
32:33Their wine is the poison of serpents,
And the cruel venom of asps.
32:34Is not this laid up in store with me,
Sealed up among my treasures?
32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
At the time when their foot shall slide:
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
32:36For Jehovah will judge his people,
And repent himself for his servants;
When he seeth that their power is gone,
And there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.
32:37And he will say, Where are their gods,
The rock in which they took refuge;
32:38Which did eat the fat of their
sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink-offering?
Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your protection.
32:39See now that I, even I, am he,
And there is no god with me:
I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
32:40For I lift up my hand to heaven,
And say, As I live for ever,
32:41If I whet my glittering sword,
And my hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to mine adversaries,
And will recompense them that hate me.
32:42I will make mine arrows drunk with
blood,
And my sword shall devour flesh;
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
32:43Rejoice, O ye nations, with
his people:
For he will avenge the blood of his servants,
And will render vengeance to his adversaries,
And will make expiation for his land, for his people.
32:44And Moses came and spake all the
words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of
Nun. 32:45And Moses made an end of speaking all
these words to all Israel; 32:46And he said unto them, Set your heart
unto all the words which I testify unto you this day, which ye shall
command your children to observe to do, even all the words of this
law. 32:47For it is no vain thing for you;
because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days
in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
32:48And Jehovah spake unto Moses that
selfsame day, saying, 32:49Get thee up into this mountain of
Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over
against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the
children of Israel for a possession; 32:50and die in the mount
whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy
brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: 32:51because ye trespassed against me in
the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in
the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the
children of Israel. 32:52For thou shalt see the land before
thee; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the
children of Israel.
33:1And this is the blessing, wherewith
Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 33:2And
he said,
Jehovah came from Sinai,
And rose from Seir unto them;
He shined forth from mount Paran,
And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones:
At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
33:3Yea, he loveth the people;
All his saints are in thy hand:
And they sat down at thy feet;
Every one shall receive of thy words.
33:4Moses commanded us a law,
An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
33:5And he was king in Jeshurun,
When the heads of the people were gathered,
All the tribes of Israel together.
33:6Let Reuben live, and not die;
Nor let his men be few.
33:7And this is the blessing of
Judah: and he said,
Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah,
And bring him in unto his people.
With his hands he contended for himself;
And thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.
33:8And of Levi he said,
Thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy godly one,
Whom thou didst prove at Massah,
With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
33:9Who said of his father, and of his
mother, I have not seen him;
Neither did he acknowledge his brethren,
Nor knew he his own children:
For they have observed thy word,
And keep thy covenant.
33:10They shall teach Jacob thine
ordinances,
And Israel thy law:
They shall put incense before thee,
And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar.
33:11Bless, Jehovah, his substance,
And accept the work of his hands:
Smite through the loins of them that rise up against him,
And of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
33:12Of Benjamin he said,
The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell in safety by him;
He covereth him all the day long,
And he dwelleth between his shoulders.
33:13And of Joseph he said,
Blessed of Jehovah be his land,
For the precious things of heaven, for the dew,
And for the deep that coucheth beneath,
33:14And for the precious things of the
fruits of the sun,
And for the precious things of the growth of the moons,
33:15And for the chief things of the
ancient mountains,
And for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
33:16And for the precious things of the
earth and the fulness thereof,
And the good will of him that dwelt in the bush.
Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph,
And upon the crown of the head of him that was separate from his
brethren.
33:17The firstling of his herd, majesty is
his;
And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox:
With them he shall push the peoples all of them, even the
ends of the earth:
And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
33:18And of Zebulun he said,
Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out;
And, Issachar, in thy tents.
33:19They shall call the peoples unto the
mountain;
There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness:
For they shall suck the abundance of the seas,
And the hidden treasures of the sand.
33:20And of Gad he said,
Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad:
He dwelleth as a lioness,
And teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head.
33:21And he provided the first part for
himself,
For there was the lawgiver's portion reserved;
And he came with the heads of the people;
He executed the righteousness of Jehovah,
And his ordinances with Israel.
33:22And of Dan he said,
Dan is a lion's whelp,
That leapeth forth from Bashan.
33:23And of Naphtali he said,
O Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
And full with the blessing of Jehovah,
Possess thou the west and the south.
33:24And of Asher he said,
Blessed be Asher with children;
Let him be acceptable unto his brethren,
And let him dip his foot in oil.
33:25Thy bars shall be iron and brass;
And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
33:26There is none like unto God, O
Jeshurun,
Who rideth upon the heavens for thy help,
And in his excellency on the skies.
33:27The eternal God is thy
dwelling-place,
And underneath are the everlasting arms.
And he thrust out the enemy from before thee,
And said, Destroy.
33:28And Israel dwelleth in safety,
The fountain of Jacob alone,
In a land of grain and new wine;
Yea, his heavens drop down dew.
33:29Happy art thou, O Israel:
Who is like unto thee, a people saved by Jehovah,
The shield of thy help,
And the sword of thy excellency!
And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee;
And thou shalt tread upon their high places.
34:1And Moses went up from the plains of
Moab unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.
And Jehovah showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, 34:2and
all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of
Judah, unto the hinder sea, 34:3and the South, and the Plain of the
valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, unto Zoar. 34:4And Jehovah said unto
him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it
with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. 34:5So Moses the servant
of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of
Jehovah. 34:6And he buried him in the valley in the
land of Moab over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre
unto this day. 34:7And Moses was a hundred and twenty
years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
34:8And the children of Israel wept for
Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the
mourning for Moses were ended.
34:9And Joshua the son of Nun was full of
the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the
children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as Jehovah commanded Moses.
34:10And there hath not arisen a prophet
since in Israel like unto Moses, whom Jehovah knew face to face, 34:11in all the signs and the wonders,
which Jehovah sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all
his servants, and to all his land, 34:12and in all the mighty hand, and in
all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.
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