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Deuteronomy 1
1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan
in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and
Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 (There are eleven days'
journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) 3 And 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 the
LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 After he had slain Sihon the
king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which
dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began
Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb,
saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your
journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh
thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by
the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great
river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in
and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. 9 And I spake unto
you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10 The LORD
your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of
heaven for multitude. 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand
times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) 12 How
can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will
make them rulers over you. 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which
thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 15 So I took the chief of your tribes,
wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and
captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and
officers among your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time,
saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between
every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not
respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great;
ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the
cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it. 18 And
I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 19 And when
we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness,
which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God
commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are
come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto
us. 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and
possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not,
neither be discouraged. 22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and
said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and
bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall
come. 23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of
a tribe: 24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the
valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. 25 And they took of the fruit of the
land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and
said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. 26
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the
LORD your God: 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD
hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into
the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whither shall we go up? our
brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller
than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen
the sons of the Anakims there. 29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be
afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight
for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee,
as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this
place. 32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who
went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in
fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by
day. 34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware,
saying, 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation
see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, 36 Save 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 the
LORD. 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also
shalt not go in thither. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before
thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to
inherit it. 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and
your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they
shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess
it. 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by
the way of the Red sea. 41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned
against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our
God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye
were ready to go up into the hill. 42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto
them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten
before your enemies. 43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into
the hill. 44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against
you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto
Hormah. 45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not
hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. 46 So ye abode in Kadesh many
days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
Deuteronomy 2
1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the
Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. 2
And the LORD spake unto me, saying, 3 Ye have compassed this mountain long
enough: turn you northward. 4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to
pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in
Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves
therefore: 5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no,
not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a
possession. 6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye
shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. 7 For the LORD thy
God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking
through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with
thee; thou hast lacked nothing. 8 And when we passed by from our brethren
the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from
Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of
Moab. 9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend
with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession;
because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. 10 The
Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the
Anakims; 11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the
Moabites call them Emims. 12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but
the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before
them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession,
which the LORD gave unto them. 13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the
brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the space in which we
came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and
eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from
among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. 15 For indeed the hand of the
LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were
consumed. 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and
dead from among the people, 17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying, 18
Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: 19 And when
thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor
meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon
any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a
possession. 20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt
therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; 21 A people
great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before
them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: 22 As he did to the
children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before
them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this
day: 23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the
Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their
stead.) 24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon:
behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his
land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 25 This day will I
begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are
under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be
in anguish because of thee. 26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of
Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27 Let me
pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto
the right hand nor to the left. 28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I
may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through
on my feet; 29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites
which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land
which the LORD our God giveth us. 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let
us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart
obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. 31
And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land
before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. 32 Then
Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. 33 And
the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and
all his people. 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly
destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left
none to remain: 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the
spoil of the cities which we took. 36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of
the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead,
there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto
us: 37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto
any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto
whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
Deuteronomy 3
1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan
came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2 And the
LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver 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, which dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the LORD our God delivered
into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him
until none was left to him remaining. 4 And we took all his cities at that
time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all
the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these cities were
fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great
many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon,
utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. 7 But all the
cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8 And
we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land
that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; 9
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) 10
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and
Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11 For only Og king of Bashan
remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron;
is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length
thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. 12 And
this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river
Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites
and to the Gadites. 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the
kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob,
with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants. 14 Jair the son of
Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi;
and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day. 15 And I
gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I
gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even
unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 17 The
plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea
of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward. 18 And I
commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land
to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of
Israel, all that are meet for the war. 19 But your wives, and your little
ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in
your cities which I have given you; 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto
your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which
the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every
man unto his possession, which I have given you. 21 And I commanded Joshua
at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done
unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou
passest. 22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for
you. 23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, 24 O Lord GOD, thou
hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God
is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and
according to thy might? 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land
that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But the LORD was
wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me,
Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. 27 Get thee up
into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and
southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go
over this Jordan. 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen
him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit
the land which thou shalt see. 29 So we abode in the valley over against
Bethpeor.
Deuteronomy 4
1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments,
which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the
land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto
the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye
may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. 3 Your
eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that
followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you. 4 But
ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this
day. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my
God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess
it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes,
and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For
what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our
God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so
great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I
set before you this day? 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul
diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest
they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons,
and thy sons' sons; 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD
thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and
I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that
they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. 11
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire
unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. 12 And
the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the
words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. 13 And he declared unto
you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and
he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And the LORD commanded me at that
time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land
whither ye go over to possess it. 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto
yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake
unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16 Lest ye corrupt
yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the
likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the
earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18 The
likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that
is in the waters beneath the earth: 19 And 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, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the
LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. 20 But the
LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of
Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. 21
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should
not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance: 22 But I must die in this land,
I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good
land. 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD
your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness
of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. 24 For the LORD thy
God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. 25 When thou shalt beget
children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land,
and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any
thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to
anger: 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye
shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to
possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be
destroyed. 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall
be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. 28
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which
neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 But if from thence thou shalt
seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart
and with all thy soul. 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things
are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God,
and shalt be obedient unto his voice; 31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful
God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of
thy fathers which he sware unto them. 32 For ask now of the days that are
past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth,
and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any
such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? 33 Did ever
people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast
heard, and live? 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the
midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war,
and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors,
according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your
eyes? 35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is
God; there is none else beside him. 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his
voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great
fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And
because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and
brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 38 To drive
out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee
in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 Know
therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in
heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. 40 Thou shalt
keep therefore 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 upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
for ever. 41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
sunrising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his
neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one
of these cities he might live: 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the
plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and
Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. 44 And this is the law which Moses set
before the children of Israel: 45 These are the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
after they came forth out of Egypt, 46 On this side Jordan, in the valley
over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at
Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth
out of Egypt: 47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of
Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the
sunrising; 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto
mount Sion, which is Hermon, 49 And all the plain on this side Jordan
eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
Deuteronomy 5
1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the
statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn
them, and keep, and do them. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in
Horeb. 3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even
us, who are all of us here alive this day. 4 The LORD talked with you face to
face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5 (I stood between the LORD
and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by
reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying, 6 I am the LORD
thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not
make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the
earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the
LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 10 And
shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments. 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain:
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 12
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded
thee. 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: 14 But the
seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any
work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may
rest as well as thou. 15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of
Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand
and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep
the sabbath day. 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God
hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well
with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 17 Thou shalt not
kill. 18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. 19 Neither shalt thou
steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. 21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy
neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or
his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. 22 These words the LORD 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 in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. 23 And it
came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the
mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of
your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath
shewed 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 talk with man, and he
liveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume
us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die. 26
For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God
speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27 Go thou
near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all
that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do
it. 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and
the LORD 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. 29
O that there were such an 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! 30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again. 31 But as for
thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments,
and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may
do them in the land which I give them to possess it. 32 Ye shall observe to
do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to
the right hand or to the left. 33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the
LORD your God 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.
Deuteronomy 6
1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the
LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither
ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest fear the LORD 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. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be
well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy
fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD
thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine
heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt
talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them
for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine
eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy
gates. 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought 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 buildedst not, 11 And houses
full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou
diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou
shalt have eaten and be full; 12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which
brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his
name. 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which
are round about you; 15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you)
lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee
from off the face of the earth. 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as
ye tempted him in Massah. 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of
the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath
commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the
sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and
possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, 19 To cast out
all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 20 And when thy
son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you? 21
Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the
LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 And the LORD shewed signs
and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
household, before our eyes: 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he
might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. 24
And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God,
for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this
day. 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Deuteronomy 7
1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to
possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the
Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them,
and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy
unto them: 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou
shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other
gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee
suddenly. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars,
and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven
images with fire. 6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the
LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love
upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye
were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because
he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD
brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of
bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the
LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with
them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 10
And 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. 11 Thou shalt
therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I
command thee this day, to do them. 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye
hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall
keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: 13
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the
fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine
oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he
sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all
people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your
cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put
none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay
them upon all them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt consume all the people
which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon
them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto
thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how
can I dispossess them? 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well
remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 19 The
great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the
mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee
out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art
afraid. 20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until
they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. 21 Thou
shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God
and terrible. 22 And the LORD thy God will put 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. 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto
thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be
destroyed. 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou
shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand
before thee, until thou have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their
gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is
on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an
abomination to the LORD thy God. 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination
into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly
detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Deuteronomy 8
1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do,
that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD
sware unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD
thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to
prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or no. 3 And 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 every word
that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 4 Thy raiment
waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so
the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the
commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For
the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of
fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat,
and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and
honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt
not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills
thou mayest dig brass. 10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt
bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 11 Beware
that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his
judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12 Lest when thou
hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is
multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be
lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 Who led thee through that great
and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and
drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock
of flint; 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers
knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee
good at thy latter end; 17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the
might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. 18 But thou shalt remember the
LORD 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 it is this day. 19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other
gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye
shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your
face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the
LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 9
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess
nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to
heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou
knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of
Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which
goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall
bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them
quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. 4 Speak not thou in thine heart,
after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my
righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the
wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 5
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go
to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God
doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the
LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand
therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it
for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people. 7 Remember, and
forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness:
from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto
this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Also in Horeb ye
provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have
destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of
stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I
abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor
drink water: 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written
with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words,
which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the
day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and
forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of
the covenant. 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from
hence; for thy people which 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. 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me,
saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 14
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under
heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 15
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and
the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and,
behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf:
ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded
you. 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and
brake them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the
first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water,
because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the
LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot
displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the
LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with
Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and
stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I
cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And
at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to
wrath. 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up
and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the
commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his
voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew
you. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I
fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I
prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and
thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou
hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy servants,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to
their wickedness, nor to their sin: 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest
us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he
promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them
in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which
thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
Deuteronomy 10
1 At that time the LORD 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. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first
tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3 And I made
an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and
went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 4 And he wrote on
the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD
spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. 5 And I turned myself and came down
from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they
be, as the LORD commanded me. 6 And the children of Israel took their journey
from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he
was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his
stead. 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. 8 At that time the LORD separated the
tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the
LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. 9
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his
inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him. 10 And I stayed in
the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the
LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy
thee. 11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their
fathers to give unto them. 12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God
require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to
love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I
command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of
heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15
Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed
after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 16 Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. 17 For the
LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a
terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: 18 He doth execute
the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him
food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in
the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve,
and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. 21 He is thy praise, and
he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which
thine eyes have seen. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and
ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for
multitude.
Deuteronomy 11
1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his
statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. 2 And know ye this
day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not
seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and
his stretched out arm, 3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the
midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 4 And
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 the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 5 And what he did unto
you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; 6 And what he did unto
Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened
her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all
the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: 7 But
your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did. 8 Therefore
shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be
strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9 And
that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your
fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and
honey. 10 For 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 But the land, whither ye
go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain
of heaven: 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD
thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of
the year. 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto
my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to
serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 That I will give you
the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain,
that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I
will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be
full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye
turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORD'S
wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain,
and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the
good land which the LORD giveth you. 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my
words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand,
that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them
your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And
thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy
gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in
the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of
heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these
commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk
in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all
these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier
than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread
shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river
Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25 There shall no
man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you
and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said
unto you. 26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command
you this day: 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the
LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go
after other gods, which ye have not known. 29 And it shall come to pass, when
the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to
possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse
upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where
the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign
over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31 For ye shall pass over
Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye
shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the
statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
Deuteronomy 12
1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the
land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days
that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places,
wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high
mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall
overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with
fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the
names of them out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your
God. 5 But unto the place which the LORD 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: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings,
and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your
vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your
flocks: 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall
rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the
LORD thy God hath blessed thee. 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that
we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye
are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God
giveth you. 10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the
LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your
enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; 11 Then there shall be a
place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there;
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 the LORD: 12 And ye shall rejoice before the
LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and
your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he
hath no part nor inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to thyself that thou
offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest: 14 But in the
place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer
thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. 15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy
soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath
given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as
of the hart. 16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the
earth as water. 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy
corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy
flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or
heave offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy
God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within
thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou
puttest thine hands unto. 19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the
Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. 20 When the LORD thy God shall
enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat
flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever
thy soul lusteth after. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to
put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of
thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou
shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 22 Even as the
roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean
shall eat of them alike. 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the
blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. 24 Thou
shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. 25 Thou 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 sight of the LORD. 26 Only thy
holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the
place which the LORD shall choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt
offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the
blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God,
and thou shalt eat the flesh. 28 Observe 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 sight of the LORD
thy God. 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee,
whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in
their land; 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following
them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not
after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I
do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every
abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for
even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their
gods. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not
add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy 13
1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth
thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And 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; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that
prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know
whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his
commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto
him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death;
because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought
you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to
thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So
shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. 6 If thy brother, the
son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy
friend, which 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; 7 Namely,
of the gods of the people which 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; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall
thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal
him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to
put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou
shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee
away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from
the house of bondage. 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no
more any such wickedness as this is among you. 12 If thou shalt hear say in
one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there,
saying, 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you,
and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which ye have not known; 14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make
search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain,
that such abomination is wrought among you; 15 Thou 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. 16
And 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, for the
LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built
again. 17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand:
that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy,
and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy
fathers; 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep
all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in
the eyes of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy 14
1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor
make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art an holy
people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar
people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 3 Thou
shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall
eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the
fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the
chamois. 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into
two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 7
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that
divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew
the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. 8 And
the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean
unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase. 9
These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales
shall ye eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it
is unclean unto you. 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But these are
they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the
ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14
And every raven after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the
cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl,
and the swan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the
cormorant, 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing,
and the bat. 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you:
they shall not be eaten. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye shall
not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger
that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien:
for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid
in his mother's milk. 22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy
seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat
before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name
there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings
of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God
always. 24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to
carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall
choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 25
Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and
shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 26 And thou
shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for
sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth:
and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou,
and thine household, 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt
not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end
of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same
year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 And the Levite, (because he
hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless,
and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand
which thou doest.
Deuteronomy 15
1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this
is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his
neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his
brother; because it is called the LORD'S release. 3 Of a foreigner thou
mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall
release; 4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall
greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance to possess it: 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee
this day. 6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou
shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign
over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. 7 If there be among
you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine
hand from thy poor brother: 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him,
and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he
wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying,
The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against
thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against
thee, and it be sin unto thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart
shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the
LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest
thine hand unto. 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore
I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy
poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. 12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man,
or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the
seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13 And when thou sendest
him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt
furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy
winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give
unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing
to day. 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from
thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with
thee; 17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the
door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou
shalt do likewise. 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him
away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in
serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou
doest. 19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock
thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the
firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. 20 Thou shalt
eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall
choose, thou and thy household. 21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if
it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto
the LORD thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the
clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. 23 Only
thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as
water.
Deuteronomy 16
1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God:
for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by
night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God,
of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his
name there. 3 Thou 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. 4 And
there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days;
neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first
day at even, remain all night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not sacrifice
the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6
But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name 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. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it
in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the
morning, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread:
and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou
shalt do no work therein. 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to
number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the
corn. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a
tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the
LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 11 And thou
shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and
thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates,
and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the
place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. 12 And thou
shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do
these statutes. 13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days,
after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: 14 And thou shalt
rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant,
and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the
widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn
feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because
the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of
thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. 16 Three times in a year
shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall
choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the
feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy
God which he hath given thee. 18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in
all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and
they shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 Thou shalt not wrest
judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth
blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. 20 That
which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a
grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt
make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy
God hateth.
Deuteronomy 17
1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep,
wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the
LORD thy God. 2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the
sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and
served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the
host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it be told thee, and thou
hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the
thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then shalt thou
bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto
thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till
they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that
is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not
be put to death. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put
him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the
evil away from among you. 8 If 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 into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And
thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be
in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of
judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that
place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do
according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence of the
law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall
tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they
shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And the man that will
do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to
minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall
die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people
shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. 14 When thou art come
unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and
shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the
nations that are about me; 15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee,
whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set
king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy
brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people
to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the
LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. 17
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away:
neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And 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: 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days
of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words
of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart 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.
Deuteronomy 18
1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor
inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire,
and his inheritance. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their
brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 3 And
this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a
sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the
shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4 The firstfruit also of thy corn,
of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt
thou give him. 5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes,
to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he
sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the
LORD shall choose; 7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God,
as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD. 8 They
shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his
patrimony. 9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter
to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or
an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are
an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God
doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD
thy God. 14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath
not suffered thee so to do. 15 The LORD 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; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb
in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD
my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And
the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and
will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall
command him. 19 And 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. 20
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have
not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even
that prophet shall die. 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know
the word which the LORD hath not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaketh in the
name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing
which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously:
thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 19
1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy
God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in
their houses; 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy
land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare
thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 4 And
this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live:
Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; 5 As
when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour 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 neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one
of those cities, and live: 6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer,
while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him;
whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time
past. 7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities
for thee. 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto
thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy
fathers; 9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I
command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways;
then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: 10 That
innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for
an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. 11 But if any man hate his
neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him
mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: 12 Then 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. 13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but
thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well
with thee. 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of
old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land
that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 15 One witness shall not
rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he
sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses,
shall the matter be established. 16 If a false witness rise up against any
man to testify against him that which is wrong; 17 Then both the men, between
whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the
judges, which shall be in those days; 18 And the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified
falsely against his brother; 19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought
to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among
you. 20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but
life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot.
Deuteronomy 20
1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and
chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy
God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 2 And it
shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach
and speak unto the people, 3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye
approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint,
fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; 4 For
the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your
enemies, to save you. 5 And 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. 6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not
yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man eat of it. 7 And 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. 8 And the officers shall
speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is
fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his
brethren's heart faint as well as his heart. 9 And it shall be, when the
officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make
captains of the armies to lead the people. 10 When thou comest nigh unto a
city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 11 And it shall be, if
it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the
people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall
serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war
against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 13 And when the LORD thy God hath
delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge
of the sword: 14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all
that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself;
and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given
thee. 15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from
thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 But of the cities of
these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou
shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy
them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded
thee: 18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which
they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your
God. 19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it
to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against
them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the
tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the
trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and
cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war
with thee, until it be subdued.
Deuteronomy 21
1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the
cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the
city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take
an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the
yoke; 4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough
valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck
there in the valley: 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for
them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name
of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be
tried: 6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: 7 And
they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our
eyes seen it. 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast
redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the
blood shall be forgiven them. 9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent
blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the
LORD. 10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD
thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them
captive, 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire
unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring
her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in
thine 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. 14
And 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
make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her. 15 If a man have two
wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the
beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: 16
Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he
may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which
is indeed the firstborn: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for
the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the
beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his. 18 If a man
have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father,
or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not
hearken unto them: 19 Then 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; 20 And 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 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he
die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and
fear. 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be
put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all
night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that
is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 22
1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide
thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy
brother. 2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not,
then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until
thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. 3 In like
manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and
with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found,
shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. 4 Thou shalt not see
thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them:
thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. 5 The woman shall not wear
that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment:
for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 6 If a bird's nest
chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they
be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs,
thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 7 But thou shalt in any wise let
the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that
thou mayest prolong thy days. 8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou
shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine
house, if any man fall from thence. 9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with
divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of
thy vineyard, be defiled. 10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass
together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and
linen together. 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy
vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13 If any man take a wife, and go
in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and
bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to
her, I found her not a maid: 15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her
mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the
elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the
elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; 17 And,
lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy
daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And
they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders
of that city shall take that man and chastise him; 19 And they shall amerce
him in an 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. 20 But if this thing
be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: 21 Then
they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men
of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought
folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil
away from among you. 22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an
husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman,
and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. 23 If a damsel that
is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and
lie with her; 24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that
city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she
cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his
neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. 25 But if a man
find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her:
then the man only that lay with her shall die: 26 But 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 neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: 27
For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was
none to save her. 28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not
betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 29 Then
the man that lay with her shall give 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. 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor
discover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy 23
1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall
not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 2 A bastard shall not enter into
the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter
into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter
into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not
enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 Because 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 of Pethor of Mesopotamia,
to curse thee. 5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam;
but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the
LORD thy God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their
prosperity all thy days for ever. 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he
is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger
in his land. 8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the
congregation of the LORD in their third generation. 9 When the host goeth
forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. 10 If
there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that
chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not
come within the camp: 11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall
wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp
again. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt
go forth abroad: 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it
shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and
shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: 14 For the LORD 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 see no unclean
thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his
master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 16 He shall
dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of
thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There
shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of
Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog,
into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are
abomination unto the LORD thy God. 19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy
brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon
usury: 20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother
thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that
thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 21
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it:
for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in
thee. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 23
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill
offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast
promised with thy mouth. 24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard,
then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not
put any in thy vessel. 25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy
neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not
move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
Deuteronomy 24
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that
she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her:
then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send
her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go
and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write
her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his
house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; 4 Her
former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife,
after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou
shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance. 5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war,
neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one
year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. 6 No man shall take
the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to
pledge. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of
Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall
die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. 8 Take heed in the plague
of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the
priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to
do. 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that
ye were come forth out of Egypt. 10 When thou dost lend thy brother any
thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 Thou shalt
stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge
abroad unto thee. 12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his
pledge: 13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun
goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall
be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 14 Thou shalt not
oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren,
or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 At 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 the LORD, and it be
sin unto thee. 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be
put to death for his own sin. 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the
stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: 18 But
thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God
redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 19 When thou
cuttest down thine 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 stranger, for the
fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the
work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go
over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for
the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not
glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for
the widow. 22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deuteronomy 25
1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that
the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn
the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that
the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face,
according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him,
and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many
stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. 4 Thou shalt not muzzle
the ox when he treadeth out the corn. 5 If brethren dwell together, and one
of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry 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 an husband's brother unto her. 6 And it
shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his
brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the
man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife 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 my husband's
brother. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him:
and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; 9 Then 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 shall answer and say, So shall it
be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. 10 And his
name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe
loosed. 11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one
draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him,
and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 Then thou shalt
cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. 13 Thou shalt not have in
thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine
house divers measures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect
and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may
be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that
do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD
thy God. 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come
forth out of Egypt; 18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of
thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and
he feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given
thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD 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 it.
Deuteronomy 26
1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest
therein; 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth,
which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt
put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that
shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy
God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for
to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set
it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And thou shalt speak and say
before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went
down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation,
great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and
afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 And when we cried unto the
LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction,
and our labour, and our oppression: 8 And the LORD 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: 9 And he hath brought us into
this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and
honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which
thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and
worship before the LORD thy God: 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good
thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou,
and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you. 12 When thou hast made
an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the
year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be
filled; 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away
the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite,
and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy
commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy
commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in
my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor
given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD
my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look
down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the
land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that
floweth with milk and honey. 16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded
thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD
this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and
his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18 And
the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath
promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 And to
make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and
in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he
hath spoken.
Deuteronomy 27
1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all
the commandments which I command you this day. 2 And it shall be on the day
when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister: 3
And 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 the LORD thy God giveth thee, a
land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath
promised thee. 4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye
shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou
shalt plaister them with plaister. 5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto
the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon
them. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and
thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God: 7 And thou
shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD
thy God. 8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law
very plainly. 9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,
saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of
the LORD thy God. 10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God,
and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. 11
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 12 These shall stand upon
mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and
Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 And these shall
stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and
Naphtali. 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel
with a loud voice, 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten
image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say,
Amen. 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all
the people shall say, Amen. 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's
landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. 18 Cursed be he that maketh the
blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed
be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And
all the people shall say, Amen. 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's
wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say,
Amen. 21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people
shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed 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. 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people
shall say, Amen. 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all
the people shall say, Amen. 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an
innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed be he that
confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall
say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 28
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice
of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command
thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of
the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee,
if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt
thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall
be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy
cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed
shall be thy basket and thy store. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest
in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7 The LORD shall cause
thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they
shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8 The
LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that
thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee. 9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto
himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the
LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all people of the earth shall see
that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of
thee. 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 The LORD shall
open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in
his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto
many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the LORD shall make thee the
head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be
beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I
command thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14 And thou shalt not go
aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or
to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15 But it shall come to
pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to
do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all
these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be
in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy
basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit
of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19 Cursed
shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest
out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all
that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until
thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast
forsaken me. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he
have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 22
The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an
inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with
blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 23
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under
thee shall be iron. 24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and
dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 25
The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out
one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into
all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all
fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them
away. 27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
healed. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart: 29 And 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 spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. 30 Thou
shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an
house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt
not gather the grapes thereof. 31 Thine 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 rescue them. 32 Thy sons and
thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and
fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in
thine hand. 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation
which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed
alway: 34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see. 35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy
head. 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over
thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there
shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And thou shalt become an
astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall
lead thee. 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather
but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant
vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the
grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive trees
throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for
thine olive shall cast his fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but
thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees
and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. 43 The stranger that is
within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very
low. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be
the head, and thou shalt be the tail. 45 Moreover 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 the LORD thy God, to
keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: 46 And they
shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for
ever. 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48 Therefore shalt thou
serve thine enemies which the LORD 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. 49 The LORD shall bring a
nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle
flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50 A nation of
fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew
favour to the young: 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the
fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee
either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep,
until he have destroyed thee. 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates,
until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout
all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy
land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit
of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine
enemies shall distress thee: 54 So that the 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 which he shall leave: 55 So
that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall
eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness,
wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender
and delicate woman among you, which 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, 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet,
and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of
all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall
distress thee in thy gates. 58 If 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, THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues
wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long
continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover he
will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and
they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which
is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee,
until thou be destroyed. 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye
were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the
voice of the LORD thy God. 63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD
rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice
over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked
from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 64 And the LORD shall
scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the
other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers
have known, even wood and stone. 65 And among these nations shalt thou find
no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give
thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 66 And
thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and
shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 In the morning thou shalt say,
Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning!
for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of
thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt
again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no
more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and
bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Deuteronomy 29
1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to
make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which
he made with them in Horeb. 2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto
them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt
unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 The great
temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great
miracles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to
see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the
wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen
old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or
strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 7 And 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: 8 And we took their land, and
gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the
half tribe of Manasseh. 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do
them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 10 Ye stand this day all of you
before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your
officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and
thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of
thy water: 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God,
and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 That
he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto
thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I make this
covenant and this oath; 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day
before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this
day: 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came
through the nations which ye passed by; 17 And ye have seen their
abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among
them:) 18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe,
whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the
gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall
and wormwood; 19 And 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 imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 20 The
LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall
smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall
lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And
the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according
to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the
law: 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up
after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when
they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid
upon it; 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and
burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like
the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD
overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say,
Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this
great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant
of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and
worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto
them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring
upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted
them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and
cast them into another land, as it is this day. 29 The secret things belong
unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to
our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 30
1 And 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 the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2
And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to
all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul; 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity,
and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the
nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4 If any of thine be
driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God
gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5 And the LORD 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. 6 And the LORD
thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD
thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7
And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them
that hate thee, which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the
voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this
day. 9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine
hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit
of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he
rejoiced over thy fathers: 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in
this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul. 11 For this commandment which I command thee
this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in
heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it
unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea,
that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us,
that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in
thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15 See, I have set
before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command
thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his
commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and
multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest
to possess it. 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear,
but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I
denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not
prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to
possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life,
that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy
God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him:
for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
to give them.
Deuteronomy 31
1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. 2 And he said
unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out
and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this
Jordan. 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy
these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he
shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. 4 And the LORD shall do
unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land
of them, whom he destroyed. 5 And the LORD shall give them up before your
face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have
commanded you. 6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of
them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee. 7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in
the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with
this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give
them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8 And the LORD, 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. 9 And Moses wrote this law, and
delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses
commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the
year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11 When all Israel is come to
appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt
read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people
together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy
gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God,
and observe to do all the words of this law: 13 And that their children,
which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God,
as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 14
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die:
call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that
I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in
the tabernacle of the congregation. 15 And the LORD appeared in the
tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the
door of the tabernacle. 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt
sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the
gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will
forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my
anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I
will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and
troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these
evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? 18 And I will surely
hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in
that they are turned unto other gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for
you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song
may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall
have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth
with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen
fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and
break my covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles
are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for
it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their
imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the
land which I sware. 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and
taught it the children of Israel. 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a
charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the
children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with
thee. 24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words
of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 That Moses commanded the
Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, 26 Take this
book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD
your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. 27 For I know thy
rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day,
ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my
death? 28 Gather 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 record
against them. 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt
yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil
will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the
LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 30 And Moses
spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song,
until they were ended.
Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of
my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the
dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the
grass: 3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness
unto our God. 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are
judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 5 They
have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are
a perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish
people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made
thee, and established thee? 7 Remember the days of old, consider the years
of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they
will tell thee. 8 When the most High divided to the nations their
inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people
according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the LORD'S portion
is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a
desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he
instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As an eagle stirreth
up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was
no strange god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out
of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of
sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the
fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. 15
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick,
thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly
esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with
strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They
sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that
came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18 Of the Rock that begat thee
thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. 19 And when the
LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his
daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what
their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is
no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they
have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy
with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish
nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the
lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the
foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will
spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured
with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of
beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword
without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the
suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 I said, I would scatter them
into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among
men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our
hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. 28 For they are a nation
void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they
were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter
end! 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight,
except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31 For their
rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For
their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes
are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of
dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with
me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35 To me belongeth vengeance, and
recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is
at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD
shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that
their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. 37 And he shall say,
Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the
fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them
rise up and help you, and be your protection. 39 See now that I, even I, am
he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:
neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my
hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword,
and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies,
and will reward them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with
blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and
of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O
ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and
will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land,
and to his people. 44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in
the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45 And Moses made an
end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46 And he said unto them, Set
your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye
shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47
For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this
thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to
possess it. 48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 49
Get thee up into this mountain 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: 50 And 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: 51 Because ye trespassed against
me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the
wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of
Israel. 52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go
thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 33
1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the
children of Israel before his death. 2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai,
and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came
with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for
them. 3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they
sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. 4 Moses commanded
us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. 5 And he was
king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were
gathered together. 6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be
few. 7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice
of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him;
and be thou an help to him from his enemies. 8 And of Levi he said, Let thy
Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and
with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said unto his
father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his
brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept
thy covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law:
they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine
altar. 11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite
through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that
they rise not again. 12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD
shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and
he shall dwell between his shoulders. 13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of
the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for
the deep that coucheth beneath, 14 And for the precious fruits brought forth
by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 15 And for the
chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the
lasting hills, 16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness
thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing
come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was
separated from his brethren. 17 His glory is like the firstling of his
bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push
the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of
Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. 18 And of Zebulun he said,
Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. 19 They
shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of
righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of
treasures hid in the sand. 20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that
enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the
head. 21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a
portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the
people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with
Israel. 22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from
Bashan. 23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and
full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south. 24
And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable
to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. 25 Thy shoes shall be iron
and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. 26 There is none like
unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his
excellency on the sky. 27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are
the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and
shall say, Destroy them. 28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the
fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall
drop down dew. 29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people
saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy
excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt
tread upon their high places.
Deuteronomy 34
1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to
the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the
land of Gilead, unto Dan, 2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and
Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, 3 And the south,
and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. 4
And the LORD 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. 5 So Moses
the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of
the LORD. 6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against
Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. 7 And Moses was
an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his
natural force abated. 8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the
plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were
ended. 9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for
Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto
him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. 10 And there arose not a prophet
since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, 11 In all
the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to
Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, 12 And in all that
mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all
Israel.
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Church schedule
Sunday
Prayer time: 10:00-11:00
Sermon time: 11:00-12:00
Kids & youth: 18:00-19:00
Sermon time: 19:00-20:00
Wednesday
Prayer time: 18:00-19:00
Bible study: 19:00-19:30
Friday
Choir practice: 17:00-18:30
Saturday:
Youth meeting: 18:00-20:00
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