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            "These are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan.—<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">The rest of this verse and v. 2 are unclear; cf. v. 19 and Num. 33.16–36.</i>Through the wilderness, in the Arabah near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab,",
            "it is eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the Mount Seir route.—",
            "It was in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, that Moses addressed the Israelites in accordance with the instructions that the L<small>ORD</small> had given him for them,",
            "after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth [and<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. Josh. 12.4; 13.12, 31.</i>] Edrei.",
            "On the other side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this Teaching. He said:",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying: You have stayed long enough at this mountain.",
            "Start out and make your way to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Others “Lowland.”</i> the Negeb, the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., Phoenicia.</i> and the Lebanon, as far as the Great River, the river Euphrates.",
            "See, I place the land at your disposal. Go, take possession of the land that the L<small>ORD</small> swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to assign to them and to their heirs after them.",
            "Thereupon I said to you, “I cannot bear the burden of you by myself.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> your God has multiplied you until you are today as numerous as the stars in the sky.—",
            "May the L<small>ORD</small>, the God of your fathers, increase your numbers a thousandfold, and bless you as He promised you.—",
            "How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering!",
            "Pick from each of your tribes men who are wise, discerning, and experienced, and I will appoint them as your heads.”",
            "You answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”",
            "So I took your tribal leaders, wise and experienced men, and appointed them heads over you: chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, and officials for your tribes.",
            "I charged your magistrates at that time as follows, “Hear out your fellow men, and decide justly between any man and a fellow Israelite or a stranger.",
            "You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike. Fear no man, for judgment is God’s. And any matter that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me and I will hear it.”",
            "Thus I instructed you, at that time, about the various things that you should do.",
            "We set out from Horeb and traveled the great and terrible wilderness that you saw, along the road to the hill country of the Amorites, as the L<small>ORD</small> our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,",
            "I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the L<small>ORD</small> our God is giving to us.",
            "See, the L<small>ORD</small> your God has placed the land at your disposal. Go up, take possession, as the L<small>ORD</small>, the God of your fathers, promised you. Fear not and be not dismayed.”",
            "Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to reconnoiter the land for us and bring back word on the route we shall follow and the cities we shall come to.”",
            "I approved of the plan, and so I selected twelve of your men, one from each tribe.",
            "They made for the hill country, came to the wadi Eshcol, and spied it out.",
            "They took some of the fruit of the land with them and brought it down to us. And they gave us this report: “It is a good land that the L<small>ORD</small> our God is giving to us.”",
            "Yet you refused to go up, and flouted the command of the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "You sulked<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Precise meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> in your tents and said, “It is because the L<small>ORD</small> hates us that He brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to wipe us out.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “Where.”</i>What kind of place<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-f</sup> are we going to? Our kinsmen have taken the heart out of us, saying, ‘We saw there a people stronger and taller than we, large cities with walls sky-high, and even Anakites.’”",
            "I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them.",
            "None other than the L<small>ORD</small> your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as He did for you in Egypt before your very eyes,",
            "and in the wilderness, where you saw how the L<small>ORD</small> your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you traveled until you came to this place.",
            "Yet for all that, you have no faith in the L<small>ORD</small> your God,",
            "who goes before you on your journeys—to scout the place where you are to encamp—in fire by night and in cloud by day, in order to guide you on the route you are to follow.”",
            "When the L<small>ORD</small> heard your loud complaint, He was angry. He vowed:",
            "Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers—",
            "none except Caleb son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his descendants will I give the land on which he set foot, because he remained loyal to the L<small>ORD</small>.—",
            "Because of you the L<small>ORD</small> was incensed with me too, and He said: You shall not enter it either.",
            "Joshua son of Nun, who attends you, he shall enter it. Imbue him with strength, for he shall allot it to Israel.—",
            "Moreover, your little ones who you said would be carried off, your children who do not yet know good from bad, they shall enter it; to them will I give it and they shall possess it.",
            "As for you, turn about and march into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds.",
            "You replied to me, saying, “We stand guilty before the L<small>ORD</small>. We will go up now and fight, just as the L<small>ORD</small> our God commanded us.” And you all girded yourselves with war gear and recklessly<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> started for the hill country.",
            "But the L<small>ORD</small> said to me, “Warn them: Do not go up and do not fight, since I am not in your midst; else you will be routed by your enemies.”",
            "I spoke to you, but you would not listen; you flouted the L<small>ORD</small>’s command and willfully marched into the hill country.",
            "Then the Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you like so many bees and chased you, and they crushed you at Hormah in Seir.",
            "Again you wept before the L<small>ORD</small>; but the L<small>ORD</small> would not heed your cry or give ear to you.",
            "Thus, after you had remained at Kadesh <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “many days, like the days that you remained.”</i>all that long time,<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-h</sup> "
        ],
        [
            "we marched back into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds, as the L<small>ORD</small> had spoken to me, and skirted the hill country of Seir a long time.",
            "Then the L<small>ORD</small> said to me:",
            "You have been skirting this hill country long enough; now turn north.",
            "And charge the people as follows: You will be passing through the territory of your kinsmen, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. Though they will be afraid of you, be very careful",
            "not to provoke them. For I will not give you of their land so much as a foot can tread on; I have given the hill country of Seir as a possession to Esau.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Or “You may obtain food from them to eat for money; and you may also procure water from them to drink for money.”</i>What food you eat you shall obtain from them for money; even the water you drink you shall procure from them for money.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup>",
            "Indeed, the L<small>ORD</small> your God has blessed you in all your undertakings. He has watched over your wanderings through this great wilderness; the L<small>ORD</small> your God has been with you these past forty years: you have lacked nothing.",
            "We then moved on, away from our kinsmen, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the road of the Arabah, away from Elath and Ezion-geber; and we marched on in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> said to me: Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war. For I will not give you any of their land as a possession; I have assigned Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.—",
            "It was formerly inhabited by the Emim, a people great and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.",
            "Like the Anakites, they are counted as Rephaim; but the Moabites call them Emim.",
            "Similarly, Seir was formerly inhabited by the Horites; but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, wiping them out and settling in their place, just as Israel did in the land they were to possess, which the L<small>ORD</small> had given to them.—",
            "Up now! Cross the wadi Zered!<br>So we crossed the wadi Zered.",
            "The time that we spent in travel from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, until that whole generation of warriors had perished from the camp, as the L<small>ORD</small> had sworn concerning them.",
            "Indeed, the hand of the L<small>ORD</small> struck them, to root them out from the camp to the last man.",
            "When all the warriors among the people had died off,",
            "the L<small>ORD</small> spoke to me, saying:",
            "You are now passing through the territory of Moab, through Ar.",
            "You will then be close to the Ammonites; do not harass them or start a fight with them. For I will not give any part of the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession; I have assigned it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.—",
            "It, too, is counted as Rephaim country. It was formerly inhabited by Rephaim, whom the Ammonites call Zamzummim,",
            "a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakites. The L<small>ORD</small> wiped them out, so that [the Ammonites] dispossessed them and settled in their place,",
            "as He did for the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, when He wiped out the Horites before them, so that they dispossessed them and settled in their place, as is still the case.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “until this day.”</i>",
            "So, too, with the Avvim who dwelt in villages in the vicinity of Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came from Crete,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Heb. “Caphtor.”</i> wiped them out and settled in their place.—",
            "Up! Set out across the wadi Arnon! See, I give into your power Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin the occupation: engage him in battle.",
            "This day I begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under heaven, so that they shall tremble and quake because of you whenever they hear you mentioned.",
            "Then I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace, as follows,",
            "“Let me pass through your country. I will keep strictly to the highway, turning off neither to the right nor to the left.",
            "What food I eat you will supply for money, and what water I drink you will furnish for money; just let me pass through<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “with my feet.”</i>—",
            "as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir did for me, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar—that I may cross the Jordan into the land that the L<small>ORD</small> our God is giving us.”",
            "But King Sihon of Heshbon refused to let us pass through, because the L<small>ORD</small> had stiffened his will and hardened his heart in order to deliver him into your power—as is now the case.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> said to me: See, I begin by placing Sihon and his land at your disposal. Begin the occupation; take possession of his land.",
            "Sihon with all his men took the field against us at Jahaz,",
            "and the L<small>ORD</small> our God delivered him to us and we defeated him and his sons and all his men.",
            "At that time we captured all his towns, and we doomed<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., placed under ḥerem, which meant the annihilation of the population. Cf. note b at Num. 21.2; Josh. 6.24.</i> every town—men, women, and children—leaving no survivor.",
            "We retained as booty only the cattle and the spoil of the cities that we captured.",
            "From Aroer on the edge of the Arnon valley, including the town<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> in the valley itself, to Gilead, not a city was too mighty for us; the L<small>ORD</small> our God delivered everything to us.",
            "But you did not encroach upon the land of the Ammonites, all along the wadi Jabbok and the towns of the hill country, just as the L<small>ORD</small> our God had commanded."
        ],
        [
            "We made our way up the road toward Bashan, and King Og of Bashan with all his men took the field against us at Edrei.",
            "But the L<small>ORD</small> said to me: Do not fear him, for I am delivering him and all his men and his country into your power, and you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.",
            "So the L<small>ORD</small> our God also delivered into our power King Og of Bashan, with all his men, and we dealt them such a blow that no survivor was left.",
            "At that time we captured all his towns; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty towns, the whole district of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan—",
            "all those towns were fortified with high walls, gates,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., two-leaf doors.</i> and bars—apart from a great number of unwalled towns.",
            "We doomed them as we had done in the case of King Sihon of Heshbon; we doomed every town—men, women, and children—",
            "and retained as booty all the cattle and the spoil of the towns.",
            "Thus we seized, at that time, from the two Amorite kings, the country beyond the Jordan, from the wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon—",
            "Sidonians called Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir—",
            "all the towns of the Tableland and the whole of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salcah<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Others “Salecah” or “Salchah.”</i> and Edrei, the towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.",
            "Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaim. His bedstead, an iron bedstead, is now in Rabbah of the Ammonites; it is nine cubits long and four cubits wide, by <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “by a man’s forearm.”</i>the standard cubit!<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-c</sup>",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Vv. 12–13 proceed from south to north; vv. 14–16 from north to south.</i>And this is the land which we apportioned at that time: The part from Aroer along the wadi Arnon, with part of the hill country of Gilead and its towns, I assigned to the Reubenites and the Gadites.",
            "The rest of Gilead, and all of Bashan under Og’s rule—the whole Argob district, all that part of Bashan which is called Rephaim country—I assigned to the half-tribe of Manasseh.",
            "Jair son of Manasseh received the whole Argob district (that is, Bashan) as far as the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and named it after himself: Havvoth-jair<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., “villages of Jair.”</i>—as is still the case.",
            "To Machir I assigned Gilead.",
            "And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I assigned the part from Gilead down to the wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi being the boundary, and up to the wadi Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Continuing vv. 8–10; cf. 4.47–49.</i> [We also seized] the Arabah, from the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east, to the edge of the Jordan, and from Chinnereth down to the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea.",
            "At that time I charged you,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the two and a half tribes.</i> saying, “The L<small>ORD</small> your God has given you this country to possess. You must go as shock-troops, warriors all, at the head of your Israelite kinsmen.",
            "Only your wives, children, and livestock—I know that you have much livestock—shall be left in the towns I have assigned to you,",
            "until the L<small>ORD</small> has granted your kinsmen a haven such as you have, and they too have taken possession of the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is assigning them, beyond the Jordan. Then you may return each to the homestead that I have assigned to him.”",
            "I also charged Joshua at that time, saying, “You have seen with your own eyes all that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has done to these two kings; so shall the L<small>ORD</small> do to all the kingdoms into which you shall cross over.",
            "Do not fear them, for it is the L<small>ORD</small> your God who will battle for you.”",
            "I pleaded with the L<small>ORD</small> at that time, saying,",
            "“O Lord G<small>OD</small>, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal!",
            "Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country, and the Lebanon.”",
            "But the L<small>ORD</small> was wrathful with me on your account and would not listen to me. The L<small>ORD</small> said to me, “Enough! Never speak to Me of this matter again!",
            "Go up to the summit of Pisgah and gaze about, to the west, the north, the south, and the east. Look at it well, for you shall not go across yonder Jordan.",
            "Give Joshua his instructions, and imbue him with strength and courage, for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he shall allot to them the land that you may only see.”",
            "Meanwhile we stayed on in the valley near Beth-peor."
        ],
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            "And now, O Israel, give heed to the laws and rules that I am instructing you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the L<small>ORD</small>, the God of your fathers, is giving you.",
            "You shall not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it, but keep the commandments of the L<small>ORD</small> your God that I enjoin upon you.",
            "You saw with your own eyes what the L<small>ORD</small> did in the matter of Baal-peor, that the L<small>ORD</small> your God wiped out from among you every person who followed Baal-peor;",
            "while you, who held fast to the L<small>ORD</small> your God, are all alive today.",
            "See, I have imparted to you laws and rules, as the L<small>ORD</small> my God has commanded me, for you to abide by in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.",
            "Observe them faithfully, for that will be proof of your wisdom and discernment to other peoples, who on hearing of all these laws will say, “Surely, that great nation is a wise and discerning people.”",
            "For what great nation is there that has a god so close at hand as is the L<small>ORD</small> our God whenever we call upon Him?",
            "Or what great nation has laws and rules as perfect as all this Teaching that I set before you this day?",
            "But take utmost care and watch yourselves scrupulously, so that you do not forget the things that you saw with your own eyes and so that they do not fade from your mind as long as you live. And make them known to your children and to your children’s children:",
            "The day you stood before the L<small>ORD</small> your God at Horeb, when the L<small>ORD</small> said to me, “Gather the people to Me that I may let them hear My words, in order that they may learn to revere Me as long as they live on earth, and may so teach their children.”",
            "You came forward and stood at the foot of the mountain. The mountain was ablaze with flames to the very skies, dark with densest clouds.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> spoke to you out of the fire; you heard the sound of words but perceived no shape—nothing but a voice.",
            "He declared to you the covenant that He commanded you to observe, the Ten Commandments; and He inscribed them on two tablets of stone.",
            "At the same time the L<small>ORD</small> commanded me to impart to you laws and rules for you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy.",
            "For your own sake, therefore, be most careful—since you saw no shape when the L<small>ORD</small> your God spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire—",
            "not to act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness whatever: the form of a man or a woman,",
            "the form of any beast on earth, the form of any winged bird that flies in the sky,",
            "the form of anything that creeps on the ground, the form of any fish that is in the waters below the earth.—",
            "And when you look up to the sky and behold the sun and the moon and the stars, the whole heavenly host, you must not be lured into bowing down to them or serving them. These the L<small>ORD</small> your God allotted to other peoples everywhere under heaven;",
            "but you the L<small>ORD</small> took and brought out of Egypt, that iron blast furnace, to be His very own people, as is now the case.",
            "Now the L<small>ORD</small> was angry with me on your account and swore that I should not cross the Jordan and enter the good land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is assigning you as a heritage.",
            "For I must die in this land; I shall not cross the Jordan. But you will cross and take possession of that good land.",
            "Take care, then, not to forget the covenant that the L<small>ORD</small> your God concluded with you, and not to make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, against which the L<small>ORD</small> your God has enjoined you.",
            "For the L<small>ORD</small> your God is a consuming fire, an impassioned God.",
            "When you have begotten children and children’s children and are long established in the land, should you act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, causing the L<small>ORD</small> your God displeasure and vexation,",
            "I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you that you shall soon perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess; you shall not long endure in it, but shall be utterly wiped out.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will scatter you among the peoples, and only a scant few of you shall be left among the nations to which the L<small>ORD</small> will drive you.",
            "There you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, that cannot see or hear or eat or smell.",
            "But if you search there for the L<small>ORD</small> your God, you will find Him, if only you seek Him with all your heart and soul—",
            "when you are in distress because all these things have befallen you and, in the end, return to the L<small>ORD</small> your God and obey Him.",
            "For the L<small>ORD</small> your God is a compassionate God: He will not fail you nor will He let you perish; He will not forget the covenant which He made on oath with your fathers.",
            "You have but to inquire about bygone ages that came before you, ever since God created man on earth, from one end of heaven to the other: has anything as grand as this ever happened, or has its like ever been known?",
            "Has any people heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have, and survived?",
            "Or has any god ventured to go and take for himself one nation from the midst of another by prodigious acts, by signs and portents, by war, by a mighty and an outstretched arm and awesome power, as the L<small>ORD</small> your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “You have been shown to know.”</i>It has been clearly demonstrated to you<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> that the L<small>ORD</small> alone is God; there is none beside Him.",
            "From the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; on earth He let you see His great fire; and from amidst that fire you heard His words.",
            "And because He loved your fathers, He chose their heirs after them; He Himself,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “With His face (or Presence)”; cf. note at Exod. 33.14.</i> in His great might, led you out of Egypt,",
            "to drive from your path nations greater and more populous than you, to take you into their land and assign it to you as a heritage, as is still the case.",
            "Know therefore this day and keep in mind that the L<small>ORD</small> alone is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.",
            "Observe His laws and commandments, which I enjoin upon you this day, that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may long remain in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is assigning to you for all time.",
            "Then Moses set aside three cities on the east side of the Jordan",
            "to which a manslayer could escape, one who unwittingly slew a fellow man without having been his enemy in the past; he could flee to one of these cities and live:",
            "Bezer, in the wilderness in the Tableland, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth, in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; and Golan, in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.",
            "This is the Teaching that Moses set before the Israelites:",
            "these are the decrees, laws, and rules that Moses addressed to the people of Israel, after they had left Egypt,",
            "beyond the Jordan, in the valley at Beth-peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated after they had left Egypt.",
            "They had taken possession of his country and that of King Og of Bashan—the two kings of the Amorites—which were on the east side of the Jordan",
            "from Aroer on the banks of the wadi Arnon, as far as Mount Sion,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. “Sirion,” 3.9.</i> that is, Hermon;",
            "also the whole Arabah on the east side of the Jordan, as far as the Sea of the Arabah, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah."
        ],
        [
            "Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the laws and rules that I proclaim to you this day! Study them and observe them faithfully!",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.",
            "It was not with our fathers that the L<small>ORD</small> made this covenant, but with us, the living, every one of us who is here today.",
            "Face to face the L<small>ORD</small> spoke to you on the mountain out of the fire—",
            "I stood between the L<small>ORD</small> and you at that time to convey the L<small>ORD</small>’s words to you, for you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain—saying:",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Tradition varies as to the divisions of the Commandments in vv. 6–18 and the numbering of the verses. Cf. Exod. 20, note a.</i>I the L<small>ORD</small> am your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage:",
            "You shall have no other gods beside Me.",
            "You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters below the earth.",
            "You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I the L<small>ORD</small> your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who reject Me,",
            "but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments.",
            "You shall not swear falsely by the name of the L<small>ORD</small> your God; for the L<small>ORD</small> will not clear one who swears falsely by His name.",
            "Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the L<small>ORD</small> your God has commanded you.",
            "Six days you shall labor and do all your work,",
            "but the seventh day is a sabbath of the L<small>ORD</small> your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the stranger in your settlements, so that your male and female slave may rest as you do.",
            "Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the L<small>ORD</small> your God freed you from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the L<small>ORD</small> your God has commanded you to observe the sabbath day.",
            "Honor your father and your mother, as the L<small>ORD</small> your God has commanded you, that you may long endure, and that you may fare well, in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is assigning to you.",
            "You shall not murder.<br>You shall not commit adultery.<br>You shall not steal.<br>You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.",
            "You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not crave your neighbor’s house, or his field, or his male or female slave, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> spoke those words—those and no more—to your whole congregation at the mountain, with a mighty voice out of the fire and the dense clouds. He inscribed them on two tablets of stone, which He gave to me.",
            "When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, you came up to me, all your tribal heads and elders,",
            "and said, “The L<small>ORD</small> our God has just shown us His majestic Presence, and we have heard His voice out of the fire; we have seen this day that man may live though God has spoken to him.",
            "Let us not die, then, for this fearsome fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the L<small>ORD</small> our God any longer, we shall die.",
            "For what mortal ever heard the voice of the living God speak out of the fire, as we did, and lived?",
            "You go closer and hear all that the L<small>ORD</small> our God says, and then you tell us everything that the L<small>ORD</small> our God tells you, and we will willingly do it.”",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> heard the plea that you made to me, and the L<small>ORD</small> said to me, “I have heard the plea that this people made to you; they did well to speak thus.",
            "May they always be of such mind, to revere Me and follow all My commandments, that it may go well with them and with their children forever!",
            "Go, say to them, ‘Return to your tents.’",
            "But you remain here with Me, and I will give you the whole Instruction—the laws and the rules—that you shall impart to them, for them to observe in the land that I am giving them to possess.”",
            "Be careful, then, to do as the L<small>ORD</small> your God has commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left:",
            "follow only the path that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has enjoined upon you, so that you may thrive and that it may go well with you, and that you may long endure in the land you are to possess."
        ],
        [
            "And this is the Instruction—the laws and the rules—that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has commanded [me] to impart to you, to be observed in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,",
            "so that you, your children, and your children’s children may revere the L<small>ORD</small> your God and follow, as long as you live, all His laws and commandments that I enjoin upon you, to the end that you may long endure.",
            "Obey, O Israel, willingly and faithfully, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly [in] <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">According to Ibn Ezra this phrase connects with the end of v. 1.</i>a land flowing with milk and honey,<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> as the L<small>ORD</small>, the God of your fathers, spoke to you.",
            "Hear, O Israel! The L<small>ORD</small> is our God, the L<small>ORD</small> alone.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. Rashbam and Ibn Ezra; see Zech. 14.9. Others “The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”</i>",
            "You shall love the L<small>ORD</small> your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.",
            "Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.",
            "Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.",
            "Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Others “frontlet”; cf. Exod. 13.16.</i> on your forehead;<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “between your eyes”; cf. Exod. 13.9.</i>",
            "inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.",
            "When the L<small>ORD</small> your God brings you into the land that He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to assign to you—great and flourishing cities that you did not build,",
            "houses full of all good things that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and you eat your fill,",
            "take heed that you do not forget the L<small>ORD</small> who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage.",
            "Revere only the L<small>ORD</small> your God and worship Him alone, and swear only by His name.",
            "Do not follow other gods, any gods of the peoples about you—",
            "for the L<small>ORD</small> your God in your midst is an impassioned God—lest the anger of the L<small>ORD</small> your God blaze forth against you and He wipe you off the face of the earth.",
            "Do not try the L<small>ORD</small> your God, as you did at Massah.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. Exod. 17.1–7.</i>",
            "Be sure to keep the commandments, decrees, and laws that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has enjoined upon you.",
            "Do what is right and good in the sight of the L<small>ORD</small>, that it may go well with you and that you may be able to possess the good land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God promised on oath to your fathers,",
            "and that all your enemies may be driven out before you, as the L<small>ORD</small> has spoken.",
            "When, in time to come, your children ask you, “What mean the decrees, laws, and rules that the L<small>ORD</small> our God has enjoined upon you?”<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Septuagint and rabbinic quotations read “us.”</i>",
            "you shall say to your children, “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt and the L<small>ORD</small> freed us from Egypt with a mighty hand.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> wrought before our eyes marvelous and destructive signs and portents in Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his household;",
            "and us He freed from there, that He might take us and give us the land that He had promised on oath to our fathers.",
            "Then the L<small>ORD</small> commanded us to observe all these laws, to revere the L<small>ORD</small> our God, for our lasting good and for our survival, as is now the case.",
            "It will be therefore to our merit before the L<small>ORD</small> our God to observe faithfully this whole Instruction, as He has commanded us.”"
        ],
        [
            "When the L<small>ORD</small> your God brings you to the land that you are about to enter and possess, and He dislodges many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations much larger than you—",
            "and the L<small>ORD</small> your God delivers them to you and you defeat them, you must doom them to destruction: grant them no terms and give them no quarter.",
            "You shall not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons.",
            "For they will turn your children away from Me to worship other gods, and the L<small>ORD</small>’s anger will blaze forth against you and He will promptly wipe you out.",
            "Instead, this is what you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred posts, and consign their images to the fire.",
            "For you are a people consecrated to the L<small>ORD</small> your God: of all the peoples on earth the L<small>ORD</small> your God chose you to be His treasured people.",
            "It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that the L<small>ORD</small> set His heart on you and chose you—indeed, you are the smallest of peoples;",
            "but it was because the L<small>ORD</small> favored you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that the L<small>ORD</small> freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.",
            "Know, therefore, that only the L<small>ORD</small> your God is God, the steadfast God who keeps His covenant faithfully to the thousandth generation of those who love Him and keep His commandments,",
            "but who instantly requites with destruction those who reject Him—never slow with those who reject Him, but requiting them instantly.",
            "Therefore, observe faithfully the Instruction—the laws and the rules—with which I charge you today.",
            "And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, the L<small>ORD</small> your God will maintain faithfully for you the covenant that He made on oath with your fathers:",
            "He will favor you and bless you and multiply you; He will bless the issue of your womb and the produce of your soil, your new grain and wine and oil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock, in the land that He swore to your fathers to assign to you.",
            "You shall be blessed above all other peoples: there shall be no sterile male or female among you or among your livestock.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will ward off from you all sickness; He will not bring upon you any of the dreadful diseases of Egypt, about which you know, but will inflict them upon all your enemies.",
            "You shall destroy all the peoples that the L<small>ORD</small> your God delivers to you, showing them no pity. And you shall not worship their gods, for that would be a snare to you.",
            "Should you say to yourselves, “These nations are more numerous than we; how can we dispossess them?”",
            "You need have no fear of them. You have but to bear in mind what the L<small>ORD</small> your God did to Pharaoh and all the Egyptians:",
            "the wondrous acts that you saw with your own eyes, the signs and the portents, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm by which the L<small>ORD</small> your God liberated you. Thus will the L<small>ORD</small> your God do to all the peoples you now fear.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> your God will also send a plague<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Others “hornet”; meaning of Heb. uncertain. Cf. note at Exod. 23.28.</i> against them, until those who are left in hiding perish before you.",
            "Do not stand in dread of them, for the L<small>ORD</small> your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> your God will dislodge those peoples before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them at once, else the wild beasts would multiply to your hurt.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> your God will deliver them up to you, throwing them into utter panic until they are wiped out.",
            "He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall obliterate their name from under the heavens; no man shall stand up to you, until you have wiped them out.",
            "You shall consign the images of their gods to the fire; you shall not covet the silver and gold on them and keep it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared thereby; for that is abhorrent to the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "You must not bring an abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be proscribed like it; you must reject it as abominable and abhorrent, for it is proscribed."
        ],
        [
            "You shall faithfully observe all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you today, that you may thrive and increase and be able to possess the land that the L<small>ORD</small> promised on oath to your fathers.",
            "Remember the long way that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has made you travel in the wilderness these past forty years, that He might test you by hardships to learn what was in your hearts: whether you would keep His commandments or not.",
            "He subjected you to the hardship of hunger and then gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had ever known, in order to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but that man may live on anything that the L<small>ORD</small> decrees.",
            "The clothes upon you did not wear out, nor did your feet swell these forty years.",
            "Bear in mind that the L<small>ORD</small> your God disciplines you just as a man disciplines his son.",
            "Therefore keep the commandments of the L<small>ORD</small> your God: walk in His ways and revere Him.",
            "For the L<small>ORD</small> your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs and fountains issuing from plain and hill;",
            "a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey;",
            "a land where you may eat food without stint, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.",
            "When you have eaten your fill, give thanks to the L<small>ORD</small> your God for the good land which He has given you.",
            "Take care lest you forget the L<small>ORD</small> your God and fail to keep His commandments, His rules, and His laws, which I enjoin upon you today.",
            "When you have eaten your fill, and have built fine houses to live in,",
            "and your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold have increased, and everything you own has prospered,",
            "beware lest<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Heb. pen moved down from v. 12 for clarity.</i> your heart grow haughty and you forget the L<small>ORD</small> your God—who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage;",
            "who led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its <i>seraph</i><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See note at Num. 21.6.</i> serpents and scorpions, a parched land with no water in it, who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock;",
            "who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers had never known, in order to test you by hardships only to benefit you in the end—",
            "and you say to yourselves, “My own power and the might of my own hand have won this wealth for me.”",
            "Remember that it is the L<small>ORD</small> your God who gives you the power to get wealth, in fulfillment of the covenant that He made on oath with your fathers, as is still the case.",
            "If you do forget the L<small>ORD</small> your God and follow other gods to serve them or bow down to them, I warn you this day that you shall certainly perish;",
            "like the nations that the L<small>ORD</small> will cause to perish before you, so shall you perish—because you did not heed the L<small>ORD</small> your God."
        ],
        [
            "Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and more populous than you: great cities with walls sky-high;",
            "a people great and tall, the Anakites, of whom you have knowledge; for you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the children of Anak?”",
            "Know then this day that none other than the L<small>ORD</small> your God is crossing at your head, a devouring fire; it is He who will wipe them out. He will subdue them before you, that you may quickly dispossess and destroy them, as the L<small>ORD</small> promised you.",
            "And when the L<small>ORD</small> your God has thrust them from your path, say not to yourselves, “The L<small>ORD</small> has enabled us to possess this land because of our virtues”; it is rather because of the wickedness of those nations that the L<small>ORD</small> is dispossessing them before you.",
            "It is not because of your virtues and your rectitude that you will be able to possess their country; but it is because of their wickedness that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is dispossessing those nations before you, and in order to fulfill the oath that the L<small>ORD</small> made to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.",
            "Know, then, that it is not for any virtue of yours that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you this good land to possess; for you are a stiffnecked people.",
            "Remember, never forget, how you provoked the L<small>ORD</small> your God to anger in the wilderness: from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have continued defiant toward the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "At Horeb you so provoked the L<small>ORD</small> that the L<small>ORD</small> was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.",
            "I had ascended the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant that the L<small>ORD</small> had made with you, and I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, eating no bread and drinking no water.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> gave me the two tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God, with the exact words that the L<small>ORD</small> had addressed to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the Assembly.",
            "At the end of those forty days and forty nights, the L<small>ORD</small> gave me the two tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> said to me, “Hurry, go down from here at once, for the people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted wickedly; they have been quick to stray from the path that I enjoined upon them; they have made themselves a molten image.”",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> further said to me, “I see that this is a stiffnecked people.",
            "Let Me alone and I will destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make you a nation far more numerous than they.”",
            "I started down the mountain, a mountain ablaze with fire, the two Tablets of the Covenant in my two hands.",
            "I saw how you had sinned against the L<small>ORD</small> your God: you had made yourselves a molten calf; you had been quick to stray from the path that the L<small>ORD</small> had enjoined upon you.",
            "Thereupon I gripped the two tablets and flung them away with both my hands, smashing them before your eyes.",
            "I threw myself down before the L<small>ORD</small>—eating no bread and drinking no water forty days and forty nights, as before—because of the great wrong you had committed, doing what displeased the L<small>ORD</small> and vexing Him.",
            "For I was in dread of the L<small>ORD</small>’s fierce anger against you, which moved Him to wipe you out. And that time, too, the L<small>ORD</small> gave heed to me.—",
            "Moreover, the L<small>ORD</small> was angry enough with Aaron to have destroyed him; so I also interceded for Aaron at that time.—",
            "As for that sinful thing you had made, the calf, I took it and put it to the fire; I broke it to bits and ground it thoroughly until it was fine as dust, and I threw its dust into the brook that comes down from the mountain.",
            "Again you provoked the L<small>ORD</small> at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.",
            "And when the L<small>ORD</small> sent you on from Kadesh-barnea, saying, “Go up and take possession of the land that I am giving you,” you flouted the command of the L<small>ORD</small> your God; you did not put your trust in Him and did not obey Him.",
            "As long as I have known you, you have been defiant toward the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "When I lay prostrate before the L<small>ORD</small> <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate.”</i>those forty days and forty nights,<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> because the L<small>ORD</small> was determined to destroy you,",
            "I prayed to the L<small>ORD</small> and said, “O Lord G<small>OD</small>, do not annihilate Your very own people, whom You redeemed in Your majesty and whom You freed from Egypt with a mighty hand.",
            "Give thought to Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and pay no heed to the stubbornness of this people, its wickedness, and its sinfulness.",
            "Else the country from which You freed us will say, ‘It was because the L<small>ORD</small> was powerless to bring them into the land that He had promised them, and because He rejected them, that He brought them out to have them die in the wilderness.’",
            "Yet they are Your very own people, whom You freed with Your great might and Your outstretched arm.”"
        ],
        [
            "Thereupon the L<small>ORD</small> said to me, “Carve out two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain; and make an ark of wood.",
            "I will inscribe on the tablets the commandments that were on the first tablets that you smashed, and you shall deposit them in the ark.”",
            "I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two tablets of stone like the first; I took the two tablets with me and went up the mountain.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> inscribed on the tablets the same text as on the first, the Ten Commandments that He addressed to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the Assembly; and the L<small>ORD</small> gave them to me.",
            "Then I left and went down from the mountain, and I deposited the tablets in the ark that I had made, where they still are, as the L<small>ORD</small> had commanded me.",
            "From Beeroth-bene-jaakan<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “wells of Bene-jaakan”; cf. Num. 33.31–32.</i> the Israelites marched to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried there; and his son Eleazar became priest in his stead.",
            "From there they marched to Gudgod,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">“Hor-haggidgad” in Num. 33.32–33.</i> and from Gudgod to Jotbath, a region of running brooks.",
            "At that time the L<small>ORD</small> set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the Ark of the L<small>ORD</small>’s Covenant, to stand in attendance upon the L<small>ORD</small>, and to bless in His name, as is still the case.",
            "That is why the Levites have received no hereditary portion along with their kinsmen: the L<small>ORD</small> is their portion, as the L<small>ORD</small> your God spoke concerning them.",
            "I had stayed on the mountain, as I did the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the L<small>ORD</small> heeded me once again: the L<small>ORD</small> agreed not to destroy you.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> said to me, “Up, resume the march at the head of the people, that they may go in and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”",
            "And now, O Israel, what does the L<small>ORD</small> your God demand of you? Only this: to revere the L<small>ORD</small> your God, to walk only in His paths, to love Him, and to serve the L<small>ORD</small> your God with all your heart and soul,",
            "keeping the L<small>ORD</small>’s commandments and laws, which I enjoin upon you today, for your good.",
            "Mark, the heavens <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “and the heaven of heavens.”</i>to their uttermost reaches<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-c</sup> belong to the L<small>ORD</small> your God, the earth and all that is on it!",
            "Yet it was to your fathers that the L<small>ORD</small> was drawn in His love for them, so that He chose you, their lineal descendants, from among all peoples—as is now the case.",
            "Cut away, therefore, the thickening about your hearts and stiffen your necks no more.",
            "For the L<small>ORD</small> your God is <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “the God of gods and the Lord of lords.”</i>God supreme and Lord supreme,<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-d</sup> the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe,",
            "but upholds the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and befriends the stranger, providing him with food and clothing.—",
            "You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.",
            "You must revere the L<small>ORD</small> your God: only Him shall you worship, to Him shall you hold fast, and by His name shall you swear.",
            "He is your glory and He is your God, who wrought for you those marvelous, awesome deeds that you saw with your own eyes.",
            "Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons in all; and now the L<small>ORD</small> your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven."
        ],
        [
            "Love, therefore, the L<small>ORD</small> your God, and always keep His charge, His laws, His rules, and His commandments.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Syntax of Heb. uncertain.</i>Take thought this day that it was not your children, who neither experienced nor witnessed the lesson of the L<small>ORD</small> your God—<br>His majesty, His mighty hand, His outstretched arm;",
            "the signs and the deeds that He performed in Egypt against Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;",
            "what He did to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots; how the L<small>ORD</small> rolled back upon them the waters of the Sea of Reeds when they were pursuing you, thus destroying them <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “to this day.”</i>once and for all;<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-b</sup>",
            "what He did for you in the wilderness before you arrived in this place;",
            "and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, their tents, and every living thing in their train, from amidst all Israel—",
            "but that it was you who saw with your own eyes all the marvelous deeds that the L<small>ORD</small> performed.",
            "Keep, therefore, all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you today, so that you may have the strength to enter and take possession of the land that you are about to cross into and possess,",
            "and that you may long endure upon the soil that the L<small>ORD</small> swore to your fathers to assign to them and to their heirs, a land flowing with milk and honey.",
            "For the land that you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come. There the grain you sowed had to be watered by your own labors,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “by your foot.”</i> like a vegetable garden;",
            "but the land you are about to cross into and possess, a land of hills and valleys, soaks up its water from the rains of heaven.",
            "It is a land which the L<small>ORD</small> your God looks after, on which the L<small>ORD</small> your God always keeps His eye, from year’s beginning to year’s end.",
            "If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving the L<small>ORD</small> your God and serving Him with all your heart and soul,",
            "I<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the Lord; Samaritan reads “He.”</i> will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late. You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil—",
            "I<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the Lord; Samaritan reads “He.”</i> will also provide grass in the fields for your cattle—and thus you shall eat your fill.",
            "Take care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them.",
            "For the L<small>ORD</small>’s anger will flare up against you, and He will shut up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce; and you will soon perish from the good land that the L<small>ORD</small> is assigning to you.",
            "Therefore impress these My words upon your <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “heart and self.”</i>very heart:<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-e</sup> bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See notes on 6.8.</i>symbol on your forehead,<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-f</sup>",
            "and teach them to your children—reciting them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up;",
            "and inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates—",
            "to the end that you and your children may endure, in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> swore to your fathers to assign to them, as long as there is a heaven over the earth.",
            "If, then, you faithfully keep all this Instruction that I command you, loving the L<small>ORD</small> your God, walking in all His ways, and holding fast to Him,",
            "the L<small>ORD</small> will dislodge before you all these nations: you will dispossess nations greater and more numerous than you.",
            "Every spot on which your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River—the Euphrates—to the Western<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., Mediterranean.</i> Sea.",
            "No man shall stand up to you: the L<small>ORD</small> your God will put the dread and the fear of you over the whole land in which you set foot, as He promised you.",
            "See, this day I set before you blessing and curse:",
            "blessing, if you obey the commandments of the L<small>ORD</small> your God that I enjoin upon you this day;",
            "and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the L<small>ORD</small> your God, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow other gods, <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., who have not proved themselves to you; cf. Hos. 13.4.</i>whom you have not experienced.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-h</sup>",
            "When the L<small>ORD</small> your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and possess, you shall pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.—",
            "Both are on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the west road that is in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah—near Gilgal, by the terebinths of Moreh.",
            "For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is assigning to you. When you have occupied it and are settled in it,",
            "take care to observe all the laws and rules that I have set before you this day."
        ],
        [
            "These are the laws and rules that you must carefully observe in the land that the L<small>ORD</small>, God of your fathers, is giving you to possess, as long as you live on earth.",
            "You must destroy all the sites at which the nations you are to dispossess worshiped their gods, whether on lofty mountains and on hills or under any luxuriant tree.",
            "Tear down their altars, smash their pillars, put their sacred posts to the fire, and cut down the images of their gods, obliterating their name from that site.",
            "Do not worship the L<small>ORD</small> your God in like manner,",
            "but look only to the site that the L<small>ORD</small> your God will choose amidst all your tribes as His habitation, to establish His name there. There you are to go,",
            "and there you are to bring your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “the contribution(s) of your hands.”</i> your votive and freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks.",
            "Together with your households, you shall feast there before the L<small>ORD</small> your God, happy in all the undertakings in which the L<small>ORD</small> your God has blessed you.",
            "You shall not act at all as we now act here, every man as he pleases,",
            "because you have not yet come to the allotted haven that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you.",
            "When you cross the Jordan and settle in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is allotting to you, and He grants you safety from all your enemies around you and you live in security,",
            "then you must bring everything that I command you to the site where the L<small>ORD</small> your God will choose to establish His name: your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “the contribution(s) of your hands.”</i> and all the choice votive offerings that you vow to the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "And you shall rejoice before the L<small>ORD</small> your God with your sons and daughters and with your male and female slaves, along with the Levite in your settlements, for he has no territorial allotment among you.",
            "Take care not to sacrifice your burnt offerings in any place you like,",
            "but only in the place that the L<small>ORD</small> will choose in one of your tribal territories. There you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and there you shall observe all that I enjoin upon you.",
            "But whenever you desire, you may slaughter and eat meat in any of your settlements, according to the blessing that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has granted you. The unclean and the clean alike may partake of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., animals that may be eaten (cf. 14.5; Lev. 11.1 ff.), but not specified (Lev. 1.1 ff.).</i>",
            "But you must not partake of the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.",
            "You may not partake in your settlements of the tithes of your new grain or wine or oil, or of the firstlings of your herds and flocks, or of any of the votive offerings that you vow, or of your freewill offerings, or of your contributions.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “the contribution(s) of your hands.”</i>",
            "These you must consume before the L<small>ORD</small> your God in the place that the L<small>ORD</small> your God will choose—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite in your settlements—happy before the L<small>ORD</small> your God in all your undertakings.",
            "Be sure not to neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.",
            "When the L<small>ORD</small> enlarges your territory, as He has promised you, and you say, “I shall eat some meat,” for you have the urge to eat meat, you may eat meat whenever you wish.",
            "If the place where the L<small>ORD</small> has chosen to establish His name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of the cattle or sheep that the L<small>ORD</small> gives you, as I have instructed you; and you may eat to your heart’s content in your settlements.",
            "Eat it, however, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten: the unclean may eat it together with the clean.",
            "But make sure that you do not partake of the blood; for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the life with the flesh.",
            "You must not partake of it; you must pour it out on the ground like water:",
            "you must not partake of it, in order that it may go well with you and with your descendants to come, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "But such sacred and votive donations as you may have <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “you shall pick up and come.”</i>shall be taken by you<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-c</sup> to the site that the L<small>ORD</small> will choose.",
            "You shall offer your burnt offerings, both the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the L<small>ORD</small> your God; and of your other sacrifices, the blood shall be poured out on the altar of the L<small>ORD</small> your God, and you shall eat the flesh.",
            "Be careful to heed all these commandments that I enjoin upon you; thus it will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "When the L<small>ORD</small> your God has cut down before you the nations that you are about to enter and dispossess, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their land,",
            "beware of being lured into their ways after they have been wiped out before you! Do not inquire about their gods, saying, “How did those nations worship their gods? I too will follow those practices.”",
            "You shall not act thus toward the L<small>ORD</small> your God, for they perform for their gods every abhorrent act that the L<small>ORD</small> detests; they even offer up their sons and daughters in fire to their gods. "
        ],
        [
            "Be careful to observe only that which I enjoin upon you: neither add to it nor take away from it.",
            "If there appears among you a prophet or a dream-diviner and he gives you a sign or a portent,",
            "saying, “Let us follow and worship another god”—whom you have not experienced<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See note on 11.28.</i>—even if the sign or portent that he named to you comes true,",
            "do not heed the words of that prophet or that dream-diviner. For the L<small>ORD</small> your God is testing you to see whether you really love the L<small>ORD</small> your God with all your heart and soul.",
            "Follow none but the L<small>ORD</small> your God, and revere none but Him; observe His commandments alone, and heed only His orders; worship none but Him, and hold fast to Him.",
            "As for that prophet or dream-diviner, he shall be put to death; for he urged disloyalty to the L<small>ORD</small> your God—who freed you from the land of Egypt and who redeemed you from the house of bondage—to make you stray from the path that the L<small>ORD</small> your God commanded you to follow. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.",
            "If your brother, <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Samaritan reads, “the son of your father or the son of your mother.”</i>your own mother’s son,<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-b</sup> or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “your friend who is as yourself.”</i>closest friend<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-c</sup> entices you in secret, saying, “Come let us worship other gods”—whom neither you nor your fathers have experienced<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See note on 11.28.</i>—",
            "from among the gods of the peoples around you, either near to you or distant, anywhere from one end of the earth to the other:",
            "do not assent or give heed to him. Show him no pity or compassion, and do not shield him;",
            "but take his life. Let your hand be the first against him to put him to death, and the hand of the rest of the people thereafter.",
            "Stone him to death, for he sought to make you stray from the L<small>ORD</small> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.",
            "Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not be done again in your midst.",
            "If you hear it said, of one of the towns that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you to dwell in,",
            "that some scoundrels from among you have gone and subverted the inhabitants of their town, saying, “Come let us worship other gods”—whom you have not experienced—",
            "you shall investigate and inquire and interrogate thoroughly. If it is true, the fact is established—that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in your midst—",
            "put the inhabitants of that town to the sword and put its cattle to the sword. Doom it and all that is in it to destruction:",
            "gather all its spoil into the open square, and burn the town and all its spoil as a holocaust to the L<small>ORD</small> your God. And it shall remain an everlasting ruin, never to be rebuilt.",
            "Let nothing that has been doomed stick to your hand, in order that the L<small>ORD</small> may turn from His blazing anger and show you compassion, and in His compassion increase you as He promised your fathers on oath—",
            "for you will be heeding the L<small>ORD</small> your God, obeying all His commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, doing what is right in the sight of the L<small>ORD</small> your God."
        ],
        [
            "You are children of the L<small>ORD</small> your God. You shall not gash yourselves or shave the front of your heads because of the dead.",
            "For you are a people consecrated to the L<small>ORD</small> your God: the L<small>ORD</small> your God chose you from among all other peoples on earth to be His treasured people.",
            "You shall not eat anything abhorrent.",
            "These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">A number of these creatures cannot be identified with certainty.</i> the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, the mountain sheep,",
            "and any other animal that has true hoofs which are cleft in two and brings up the cud—such you may eat.",
            "But the following, which do bring up the cud or have true hoofs which are cleft through, you may not eat: the camel, the hare, and the daman—for although they bring up the cud, they have no true hoofs—they are unclean for you;",
            "also the swine—for although it has true hoofs, it does not bring up the cud—is unclean for you. You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their carcasses.",
            "These you may eat of all that live in water: you may eat anything that has fins and scales.",
            "But you may not eat anything that has no fins and scales: it is unclean for you.",
            "You may eat any clean bird.",
            "The following you may not eat: <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">A number of these creatures cannot be identified with certainty.</i>the eagle, the vulture, and the black vulture;",
            "the kite, the falcon, and the buzzard of any variety;",
            "every variety of raven;",
            "the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, and the hawk of any variety;",
            "the little owl, the great owl, and the white owl;",
            "the pelican, the bustard, and the cormorant;",
            "the stork, any variety of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.",
            "All winged swarming things are unclean for you: they may not be eaten.",
            "You may eat only clean winged creatures.",
            "You shall not eat anything that has died a natural death; give it to the stranger in your community to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people consecrated to the L<small>ORD</small> your God.<br>You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.",
            "You shall set aside every year a tenth part of all the yield of your sowing that is brought from the field.",
            "You shall consume the tithes of your new grain and wine and oil, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the L<small>ORD</small> your God, in the place where He will choose to establish His name, so that you may learn to revere the L<small>ORD</small> your God forever.",
            "Should the distance be too great for you, should you be unable to transport them, because the place where the L<small>ORD</small> your God has chosen to establish His name is far from you and because the L<small>ORD</small> your God has blessed you,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., with abundant crops.</i>",
            "you may convert them into money. Wrap up the money and take it with you to the place that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has chosen,",
            "and spend the money on anything you want—cattle, sheep, wine, or other intoxicant, or anything you may desire. And you shall feast there, in the presence of the L<small>ORD</small> your God, and rejoice with your household.",
            "But do not neglect the Levite in your community, for he has no hereditary portion as you have.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “After a period of three years”; cf. Deut. 26.12.</i>Every third year<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-c</sup> you shall bring out the full tithe of your yield of that year, but leave it within your settlements.",
            "Then the Levite, who has no hereditary portion as you have, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your settlements shall come and eat their fill, so that the L<small>ORD</small> your God may bless you in all the enterprises you undertake."
        ],
        [
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. 14.28.</i>Every seventh year<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> you shall practice remission of debts.",
            "This shall be the nature of the remission: every creditor shall remit the due that he claims from his fellow; he shall not dun his fellow or kinsman, for the remission proclaimed is of the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "You may dun the foreigner; but you must remit whatever is due you from your kinsmen.",
            "There shall be no needy among you—since the L<small>ORD</small> your God will bless you in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you as a hereditary portion—",
            "if only you heed the L<small>ORD</small> your God and take care to keep all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day.",
            "For the L<small>ORD</small> your God will bless you as He has promised you: you will extend loans to many nations, but require none yourself; you will dominate many nations, but they will not dominate you.",
            "If, however, there is a needy person among you, one of your kinsmen in any of your settlements in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you, do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kinsman.",
            "Rather, you must open your hand and lend him sufficient for whatever he needs.",
            "Beware lest you harbor the base thought, “The seventh year, the year of remission, is approaching,” so that you are mean to your needy kinsman and give him nothing. He will cry out to the L<small>ORD</small> against you, and you will incur guilt.",
            "Give to him readily and have no regrets when you do so, for in return the L<small>ORD</small> your God will bless you in all your efforts and in all your undertakings.",
            "For there will never cease to be needy ones in your land, which is why I command you: open your hand to the poor and needy kinsman in your land.",
            "If a fellow Hebrew, man or woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall set him free.",
            "When you set him free, do not let him go empty-handed:",
            "Furnish him out of the flock, threshing floor, and vat, with which the L<small>ORD</small> your God has blessed you.",
            "Bear in mind that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and the L<small>ORD</small> your God redeemed you; therefore I enjoin this commandment upon you today.",
            "But should he say to you, “I do not want to leave you”—for he loves you and your household and is happy with you—",
            "you shall take an awl and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall become your slave in perpetuity. Do the same with your female slave.",
            "When you do set him free, do not feel aggrieved; for in the six years he has given you double the service of a hired man. Moreover, the L<small>ORD</small> your God will bless you in all you do.",
            "You shall consecrate to the L<small>ORD</small> your God all male firstlings that are born in your herd and in your flock: you must not work your firstling ox or shear your firstling sheep.",
            "You and your household shall eat it annually before the L<small>ORD</small> your God in the place that the L<small>ORD</small> will choose.",
            "But if it has a defect, lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "Eat it in your settlements, the unclean among you no less than the clean, just like the gazelle and the deer.",
            "Only you must not partake of its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water."
        ],
        [
            "Observe the month<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. Exod. 13.4; 23.15; 34.18.</i> of Abib and offer a passover sacrifice to the L<small>ORD</small> your God, for it was in the month<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> of Abib, at night, that the L<small>ORD</small> your God freed you from Egypt.",
            "You shall slaughter the passover sacrifice for the L<small>ORD</small> your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where the L<small>ORD</small> will choose to establish His name.",
            "You shall not eat anything leavened with it; for seven days thereafter<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “upon it.”</i> you shall eat unleavened bread, bread of distress—for you departed from the land of Egypt hurriedly—so that you may remember the day of your departure from the land of Egypt as long as you live.",
            "For seven days no leaven shall be found with you in all your territory, and none of the flesh of what you slaughter on the evening of the first day shall be left until morning.",
            "You are not permitted to slaughter the passover sacrifice in any of the settlements that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you;",
            "but at the place where the L<small>ORD</small> your God will choose to establish His name, there alone shall you slaughter the passover sacrifice, in the evening, at sundown, the time of day when you departed from Egypt.",
            "You shall cook and eat it at the place that the L<small>ORD</small> your God will choose; and in the morning you may start back on your journey home.",
            "After eating unleavened bread six days, you shall hold a solemn gathering<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See note at Lev. 23.36.</i> for the L<small>ORD</small> your God on the seventh day: you shall do no work.",
            "You shall count off seven weeks; start to count the seven weeks when the sickle is first put to the standing grain.",
            "Then you shall observe the Feast of Weeks for the L<small>ORD</small> your God, offering your freewill contribution according as the L<small>ORD</small> your God has blessed you.",
            "You shall rejoice before the L<small>ORD</small> your God with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite in your communities, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your midst, at the place where the L<small>ORD</small> your God will choose to establish His name.",
            "Bear in mind that you were slaves in Egypt, and take care to obey these laws.",
            "After the ingathering from your threshing floor and your vat, you shall hold the Feast of Booths for seven days.",
            "You shall rejoice in your festival, with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow in your communities.",
            "You shall hold a festival for the L<small>ORD</small> your God seven days, in the place that the L<small>ORD</small> will choose; for the L<small>ORD</small> your God will bless all<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “you in all.”</i> your crops and all your undertakings, and you shall have nothing but joy.",
            "Three times a year—on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on the Feast of Booths—all your males shall appear before the L<small>ORD</small> your God in the place that He will choose. They shall not appear before the L<small>ORD</small> empty-handed,",
            "but each with his own gift, according to the blessing that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has bestowed upon you.",
            "You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice.",
            "You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.",
            "Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you.",
            "You shall not set up a sacred post—any kind of pole beside the altar of the L<small>ORD</small> your God that you may make—",
            "or erect a stone pillar; for such the L<small>ORD</small> your God detests."
        ],
        [
            "You shall not sacrifice to the L<small>ORD</small> your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect of a serious kind, for that is abhorrent to the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "If there is found among you, in one of the settlements that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you, a man or woman who has affronted the L<small>ORD</small> your God and transgressed His covenant—",
            "turning to the worship of other gods and bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, something I never commanded—",
            "and you have been informed or have learned of it, then you shall make a thorough inquiry. If it is true, the fact is established, that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in Israel,",
            "you shall take the man or the woman who did that wicked thing out to the public place, and you shall stone them, man or woman, to death.—",
            "A person shall be put to death only on the testimony of two or more<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “three.”</i> witnesses; he must not be put to death on the testimony of a single witness.—",
            "Let the hands of the witnesses be the first against him to put him to death, and the hands of the rest of the people thereafter. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.",
            "If a case is too baffling for you to decide, be it a controversy over homicide, civil law, or assault—matters of dispute in your courts—you shall promptly repair to the place that the L<small>ORD</small> your God will have chosen,",
            "and appear before the levitical priests, or the magistrate in charge at the time, and present your problem. When they have announced to you the verdict in the case,",
            "you shall carry out the verdict that is announced to you from that place that the L<small>ORD</small> chose, observing scrupulously all their instructions to you.",
            "You shall act in accordance with the instructions given you and the ruling handed down to you; you must not deviate from the verdict that they announce to you either to the right or to the left.",
            "Should a man act presumptuously and disregard the priest charged with serving there the L<small>ORD</small> your God, or the magistrate, that man shall die. Thus you will sweep out evil from Israel:",
            "all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.",
            "If, after you have entered the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has assigned to you, and taken possession of it and settled in it, you decide, “I will set a king over me, as do all the nations about me,”",
            "you shall be free to set a king over yourself, one chosen by the L<small>ORD</small> your God. Be sure to set as king over yourself one of your own people; you must not set a foreigner over you, one who is not your kinsman.",
            "Moreover, he shall not keep many horses or send people back to Egypt to add to his horses, since the L<small>ORD</small> has warned you, “You must not go back that way again.”",
            "And he shall not have many wives, lest his heart go astray; nor shall he amass silver and gold to excess.",
            "When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this Teaching written for him on a scroll by<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Nuance of Heb. milliphne uncertain.</i> the levitical priests.",
            "Let it remain with him and let him read in it all his life, so that he may learn to revere the L<small>ORD</small> his God, to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching as well as these laws.",
            "Thus he will not act haughtily toward his fellows or deviate from the Instruction to the right or to the left, to the end that he and his descendants may reign long in the midst of Israel."
        ],
        [
            "The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no territorial portion with Israel. They shall live only off the L<small>ORD</small>’s offerings by fire as their<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “its,” i.e., the tribe’s.</i> portion,",
            "and shall have no portion among their brother tribes: the L<small>ORD</small> is their portion, as He promised them.",
            "This then shall be the priests’ due from the people: Everyone who offers a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep, must give the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach to the priest.",
            "You shall also give him the first fruits of your new grain and wine and oil, and the first shearing of your sheep.",
            "For the L<small>ORD</small> your God has chosen him and his descendants, out of all your tribes, to be in attendance for service in the name of the L<small>ORD</small> for all time.",
            "If a Levite would go, from any of the settlements throughout Israel where he has been residing, to the place that the L<small>ORD</small> has chosen, he may do so whenever he pleases.",
            "He may serve in the name of the L<small>ORD</small> his God like all his fellow Levites who are there in attendance before the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "They shall receive equal shares of the dues, <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>without regard to personal gifts or patrimonies.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-b</sup>",
            "When you enter the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations.",
            "Let no one be found among you who consigns his son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer,",
            "one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead.",
            "For anyone who does such things is abhorrent to the L<small>ORD</small>, and it is because of these abhorrent things that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is dispossessing them before you.",
            "You must be wholehearted with the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "Those nations that you are about to dispossess do indeed resort to soothsayers and augurs; to you, however, the L<small>ORD</small> your God has not assigned the like.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your own people, like myself; him you shall heed.",
            "This is just what you asked of the L<small>ORD</small> your God at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, saying, “Let me not hear the voice of the L<small>ORD</small> my God any longer or see this wondrous fire any more, lest I die.”",
            "Whereupon the L<small>ORD</small> said to me, “They have done well in speaking thus.",
            "I will raise up a prophet for them from among their own people, like yourself: I will put My words in his mouth and he will speak to them all that I command him;",
            "and if anybody fails to heed the words he speaks in My name, I Myself will call him to account.",
            "But any prophet who presumes to speak in My name an oracle that I did not command him to utter, or who speaks in the name of other gods—that prophet shall die.”",
            "And should you ask yourselves, “How can we know that the oracle was not spoken by the L<small>ORD</small>?”—",
            "if the prophet speaks in the name of the L<small>ORD</small> and the oracle does not come true, that oracle was not spoken by the L<small>ORD</small>; the prophet has uttered it presumptuously: do not stand in dread of him."
        ],
        [
            "When the L<small>ORD</small> your God has cut down the nations whose land the L<small>ORD</small> your God is assigning to you, and you have dispossessed them and settled in their towns and homes,",
            "you shall set aside three cities in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you to possess.",
            "You shall survey the distances, and divide into three parts the territory of the country that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has allotted to you, so that any manslayer may have a place to flee to.—",
            "Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: one who has killed another unwittingly, without having been his enemy in the past.",
            "For instance, a man goes with his neighbor into a grove to cut wood; as his hand swings the ax to cut down a tree, the ax-head flies off the handle and strikes the other so that he dies. That man shall flee to one of these cities and live.—",
            "Otherwise, when the distance is great, the blood-avenger, pursuing the manslayer in hot anger, may overtake him and kill him; yet he did not incur the death penalty, since he had never been the other’s enemy.",
            "That is why I command you: set aside three cities.",
            "And when the L<small>ORD</small> your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land that He promised to give your fathers—",
            "if you faithfully observe all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day, to love the L<small>ORD</small> your God and to walk in His ways at all times—then you shall add three more towns to those three.",
            "Thus blood of the innocent will not be shed, bringing bloodguilt upon you in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is allotting to you.",
            "If, however, a person who is the enemy of another lies in wait for him and sets upon him and strikes him a fatal blow and then flees to one of these towns,",
            "the elders of his town shall have him brought back from there and shall hand him over to the blood-avenger to be put to death;",
            "you must show him no pity. Thus you will purge Israel of the blood of the innocent,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. Num. 35.33–34.</i> and it will go well with you.",
            "You shall not move your countryman’s landmarks, set up by previous generations, in the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you to possess.",
            "A single witness may not validate against a person any guilt or blame for any offense that may be committed; a case can be valid only on the testimony of two witnesses or more.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See note at 17.6.</i>",
            "If a man appears against another to testify maliciously and gives false testimony against him,",
            "the two parties to the dispute shall appear before the L<small>ORD</small>, before the priests or magistrates in authority at the time,",
            "and the magistrates shall make a thorough investigation. If the man who testified is a false witness, if he has testified falsely against his fellow,",
            "you shall do to him as he schemed to do to his fellow. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst;",
            "others will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not again be done in your midst.",
            "Nor must you show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
        ],
        [
            "When you take the field against your enemies, and see horses and chariots—forces larger than yours—have no fear of them, for the L<small>ORD</small> your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, is with you.",
            "Before you join battle, the priest shall come forward and address the troops.",
            "He shall say to them, “Hear, O Israel! You are about to join battle with your enemy. Let not your courage falter. Do not be in fear, or in panic, or in dread of them.",
            "For it is the L<small>ORD</small> your God who marches with you to do battle for you against your enemy, to bring you victory.”",
            "Then the officials shall address the troops, as follows: “Is there anyone who has built a new house but has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another dedicate it.",
            "Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard but has never harvested it? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another harvest it.",
            "Is there anyone who has paid the bride-price for a wife,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Thereby making her his wife legally, even though the marriage has not yet taken place.</i> but who has not yet married her? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another marry her.”",
            "The officials shall go on addressing the troops and say, “Is there anyone afraid and disheartened? Let him go back to his home, lest the courage of his comrades flag like his.”",
            "When the officials have finished addressing the troops, army commanders shall assume command of the troops.",
            "When you approach a town to attack it, you shall <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Or “call on it to surrender.”</i>offer it terms of peace.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-b</sup>",
            "If it responds peaceably and lets you in, all the people present there shall serve you at forced labor.",
            "If it does not surrender to you, but would join battle with you, you shall lay siege to it;",
            "and when the L<small>ORD</small> your God delivers it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword.",
            "You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children, the livestock, and everything in the town—all its spoil—and enjoy the use of the spoil of your enemy, which the L<small>ORD</small> your God gives you.",
            "Thus you shall deal with all towns that lie very far from you, towns that do not belong to nations hereabout.",
            "In the towns of the latter peoples, however, which the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you as a heritage, you shall not let a soul remain alive.",
            "No, you must proscribe<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See Lev. 27.29.</i> them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—as the L<small>ORD</small> your God has commanded you,",
            "lest they lead you into doing all the abhorrent things that they have done for their gods and you stand guilty before the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees, wielding the ax against them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human to withdraw before you into the besieged city?",
            "Only trees that you know do not yield food may be destroyed; you may cut them down for constructing siegeworks against the city that is waging war on you, until it has been reduced."
        ],
        [
            "If, in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is assigning you to possess, someone slain is found lying in the open, the identity of the slayer not being known,",
            "your elders and magistrates shall go out and measure the distances from the corpse to the nearby towns.",
            "The elders of the town nearest to the corpse shall then take a heifer which has never been worked, which has never pulled in a yoke;",
            "and the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to an everflowing wadi, which is not tilled or sown. There, in the wadi, they shall break the heifer’s neck.",
            "The priests, sons of Levi, shall come forward; for the L<small>ORD</small> your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to pronounce blessing in the name of the L<small>ORD</small>, and every lawsuit and case of assault<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. 17.8. Or “skin affection”; cf. 24.8.</i> is subject to their ruling.",
            "Then all the elders of the town nearest to the corpse shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi.",
            "And they shall make this declaration: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.",
            "Absolve, O L<small>ORD</small>, Your people Israel whom You redeemed, and do not let guilt for the blood of the innocent remain among Your people Israel.” And they will be absolved of bloodguilt.",
            "Thus you will remove from your midst guilt for the blood of the innocent, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "When you take the field against your enemies, and the L<small>ORD</small> your God delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive,",
            "and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her to wife,",
            "you shall bring her into your house, and she shall trim her hair, pare her nails,",
            "and discard her captive’s garb. She shall spend a month’s time in your house lamenting her father and mother; after that you may come to her and possess her, and she shall be your wife.",
            "Then, should you no longer want her, you must release her outright. You must not sell her for money: since you had your will of her, you must not enslave her.",
            "If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, but the first-born is the son of the unloved one—",
            "when he wills his property to his sons, he may not treat as first-born the son of the loved one in disregard of the son of the unloved one who is older.",
            "Instead, he must accept the first-born, the son of the unloved one, and allot to him a double portion<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. two-thirds.</i> of all he possesses; since he is the first fruit of his vigor, the birthright is his due.",
            "If a man has a wayward and defiant son, who does not heed his father or mother and does not obey them even after they discipline him,",
            "his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the public place of his community.",
            "They shall say to the elders of his town, “This son of ours is disloyal and defiant; he does not heed us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”",
            "Thereupon the men of his town shall stone him to death. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst: all Israel will hear and be afraid.",
            "If a man is guilty of a capital offense and is put to death, and you impale him on a stake,",
            "you must not let his corpse remain on the stake overnight, but must bury him the same day. For an impaled body is an affront to God: you shall not defile the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you to possess."
        ],
        [
            "If you see your fellow’s ox or sheep gone astray, do not ignore it; you must take it back to your fellow.",
            "If your fellow does not live near you or you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home and it shall remain with you until your fellow claims it; then you shall give it back to him.",
            "You shall do the same with his ass; you shall do the same with his garment; and so too shall you do with anything that your fellow loses and you find: you must not remain indifferent.",
            "If you see your fellow’s ass or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it; you must help him raise it.",
            "A woman must not put on man’s apparel, nor shall a man wear woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is abhorrent to the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "If, along the road, you chance upon a bird’s nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs and the mother sitting over the fledglings or on the eggs, do not take the mother together with her young.",
            "Let the mother go, and take only the young, in order that you may fare well and have a long life.",
            "When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.",
            "You shall not sow your vineyard with a second kind of seed, else the crop—from the seed you have sown—and the yield of the vineyard may not be used.",
            "You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.",
            "You shall not wear cloth combining wool and linen.",
            "You shall make tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.",
            "A man marries a woman and cohabits with her. Then he takes an aversion to her",
            "and makes up charges against her and defames her, saying, “I married this woman; but when I approached her, I found that she was not a virgin.”",
            "In such a case, the girl’s father and mother shall produce the evidence of the girl’s virginity before the elders of the town at the gate.",
            "And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, “I gave this man my daughter to wife, but he has taken an aversion to her;",
            "so he has made up charges, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter a virgin.’ But here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the town.",
            "The elders of that town shall then take the man and flog him,",
            "and they shall fine him a hundred [shekels of] silver and give it to the girl’s father; for the man has defamed a virgin in Israel. Moreover, she shall remain his wife; he shall never have the right to divorce her.",
            "But if the charge proves true, the girl was found not to have been a virgin,",
            "then the girl shall be brought out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her town shall stone her to death; for she did a shameful thing in Israel, committing fornication while under her father’s authority. Thus you will sweep away evil from your midst.",
            "If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both of them—the man and the woman with whom he lay—shall die. Thus you will sweep away evil from Israel.",
            "In the case of a virgin who is <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., for whom a bride-price has been paid; see 20.7.</i>engaged to a man<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup>—if a man comes upon her in town and lies with her,",
            "you shall take the two of them out to the gate of that town and stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry for help in the town, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. Thus you will sweep away evil from your midst.",
            "But if the man comes upon the engaged girl in the open country, and the man lies with her by force, only the man who lay with her shall die,",
            "but you shall do nothing to the girl. The girl did not incur the death penalty, for this case is like that of a man attacking another and murdering him.",
            "He came upon her in the open; though the engaged girl cried for help, there was no one to save her.",
            "If a man comes upon a virgin who is not engaged and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,",
            "the man who lay with her shall pay the girl’s father fifty [shekels of] silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has violated her, he can never have the right to divorce her."
        ],
        [
            "No man shall marry his father’s former wife, so as <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., lay claim to what his father had possessed. Cf. Lev. 18.8, 20.11; Ezek. 16.8; Ruth 3.9.</i>to remove his father’s garment.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup>",
            "No one whose testes are crushed or whose member is cut off shall be admitted into the congregation of the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "No one misbegotten<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. mamzer uncertain; in Jewish law, the offspring of adultery or incest between Jews.</i> shall be admitted into the congregation of the L<small>ORD</small>; none of his descendants, even in the tenth generation, shall be admitted into the congregation of the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "No Ammonite or Moabite shall be admitted into the congregation of the L<small>ORD</small>; none of their descendants, even in the tenth generation, shall ever be admitted into the congregation of the L<small>ORD</small>,",
            "because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse you.—",
            "But the L<small>ORD</small> your God refused to heed Balaam; instead, the L<small>ORD</small> your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, for the L<small>ORD</small> your God loves you.—",
            "You shall never concern yourself with their welfare or benefit as long as you live.",
            "You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your kinsman. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land.",
            "Children born to them may be admitted into the congregation of the L<small>ORD</small> in the third generation.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., of residence in Israel’s territory.</i>",
            "When you go out as a troop against your enemies, be on your guard against anything untoward.",
            "If anyone among you has been rendered unclean by a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp, and he must not reenter the camp.",
            "Toward evening he shall bathe in water, and at sundown he may reenter the camp.",
            "Further, there shall be an area for you outside the camp, where you may relieve yourself.",
            "With your gear you shall have a spike, and when you have squatted you shall dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.",
            "Since the L<small>ORD</small> your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you, let your camp be holy; let Him not find anything unseemly among you and turn away from you.",
            "You shall not turn over to his master a slave who seeks refuge with you from his master.",
            "He shall live with you in any place he may choose among the settlements in your midst, wherever he pleases; you must not ill-treat him.",
            "No Israelite woman shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any Israelite man be a cult prostitute.",
            "You shall not bring the fee of a whore or the pay of a dog<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., a male prostitute.</i> into the house of the L<small>ORD</small> your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both are abhorrent to the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "You shall not deduct interest from loans to your countrymen, whether in money or food or anything else that can be deducted as interest;",
            "but you may deduct interest from loans to foreigners. Do not deduct interest from loans to your countrymen, so that the L<small>ORD</small> your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land that you are about to enter and possess.",
            "When you make a vow to the L<small>ORD</small> your God, do not put off fulfilling it, for the L<small>ORD</small> your God will require it of you, and you will have incurred guilt;",
            "whereas you incur no guilt if you refrain from vowing.",
            "You must fulfill what has crossed your lips and perform what you have voluntarily vowed to the L<small>ORD</small> your God, having made the promise with your own mouth.",
            "When you enter another man’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want, until you are full, but you must not put any in your vessel.",
            "When you enter another man’s field of standing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand; but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain."
        ],
        [
            "A man takes a wife and possesses her. She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house;",
            "she leaves his household and becomes the wife of another man;",
            "then this latter man rejects her, writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house; or the man who married her last dies.",
            "Then the first husband who divorced her shall not take her to wife again, since she has been defiled<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., disqualified for him.</i>—for that would be abhorrent to the L<small>ORD</small>. You must not bring sin upon the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you as a heritage.",
            "When a man has taken a bride, he shall not go out with the army or be assigned to it for any purpose; he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household, to give happiness to the woman he has married.",
            "A handmill or an upper millstone shall not be taken in pawn, for that would be taking someone’s life in pawn.",
            "If a man is found to have kidnapped a fellow Israelite, enslaving him or selling him, that kidnapper shall die; thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.",
            "In cases of a skin affection<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. Lev. 13.1 ff.</i> be most careful to do exactly as the levitical priests instruct you. Take care to do as I have commanded them.",
            "Remember what the L<small>ORD</small> your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See Num. 12.10 ff.</i>",
            "When you make a loan of any sort to your countryman, you must not enter his house to seize his pledge.",
            "You must remain outside, while the man to whom you made the loan brings the pledge out to you.",
            "If he is a needy man, you shall not go to sleep in his pledge;",
            "you must return the pledge to him at sundown, that he may sleep in his cloth and bless you; and it will be to your merit before the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger in one of the communities of your land.",
            "You must pay him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is needy and urgently depends on it; else he will cry to the L<small>ORD</small> against you and you will incur guilt.",
            "Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime.",
            "You shall not subvert the rights of the stranger or the fatherless; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pawn.",
            "Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that the L<small>ORD</small> your God redeemed you from there; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment.",
            "When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf in the field, do not turn back to get it; it shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow—in order that the L<small>ORD</small> your God may bless you in all your undertakings.",
            "When you beat down the fruit of your olive trees, do not go over them again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.",
            "When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not pick it over again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.",
            "Always remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment."
        ],
        [
            "When there is a dispute between men and they go to law, and a decision is rendered declaring the one in the right and the other in the wrong—",
            "if the guilty one is to be flogged, the magistrate shall have him lie down and be given lashes in his presence, by count, as his guilt warrants.",
            "He may be given up to forty lashes, but not more, lest being flogged further, to excess, your brother be degraded before your eyes.",
            "You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.",
            "When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married to a stranger, outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall unite with her: he shall take her as his wife and perform the levir’s duty.",
            "The first son that she bears shall be accounted to the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out in Israel.",
            "But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, his brother’s widow shall appear before the elders in the gate and declare, “My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name in Israel for his brother; he will not perform the duty of a levir.”",
            "The elders of his town shall then summon him and talk to him. If he insists, saying, “I do not want to marry her,”",
            "his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and make this declaration: Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house!",
            "And he shall go in Israel by the name of “the family of the unsandaled one.”",
            "If two men get into a fight with each other, and the wife of one comes up to save her husband from his antagonist and puts out her hand and seizes him by his genitals,",
            "you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.",
            "You shall not have in your pouch alternate weights, larger and smaller.",
            "You shall not have in your house alternate measures, a larger and a smaller.",
            "You must have completely honest weights and completely honest measures, if you are to endure long on the soil that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you.",
            "For everyone who does those things, everyone who deals dishonestly, is abhorrent to the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt—",
            "how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear.",
            "Therefore, when the L<small>ORD</small> your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!"
        ],
        [
            "When you enter the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it,",
            "you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you, put it in a basket and go to the place where the L<small>ORD</small> your God will choose to establish His name.",
            "You shall go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, “I acknowledge this day before the L<small>ORD</small> your God that I have entered the land that the L<small>ORD</small> swore to our fathers to assign us.”",
            "The priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down in front of the altar of the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "You shall then recite as follows before the L<small>ORD</small> your God: “My father was a fugitive Aramean. He went down to Egypt with meager numbers and sojourned there; but there he became a great and very populous nation.",
            "The Egyptians dealt harshly with us and oppressed us; they imposed heavy labor upon us.",
            "We cried to the L<small>ORD</small>, the God of our fathers, and the L<small>ORD</small> heard our plea and saw our plight, our misery, and our oppression.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> freed us from Egypt by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm and awesome power, and by signs and portents.",
            "He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.",
            "Wherefore I now bring the first fruits of the soil which You, O L<small>ORD</small>, have given me.”<br>You shall leave it<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the basket of v. 4.</i> before the L<small>ORD</small> your God and bow low before the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "And you shall enjoy, together with the Levite and the stranger in your midst, all the bounty that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has bestowed upon you and your household.",
            "When you have set aside in full the tenth part of your yield—in the third year, the year of the tithe<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See Deut. 14.28–29.</i>—and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat their fill in your settlements,",
            "you shall declare before the L<small>ORD</small> your God: “I have cleared out the consecrated portion from the house; and I have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, just as You commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor neglected any of Your commandments:",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of first part of verse uncertain.</i> I have not eaten of it while in mourning, I have not cleared out any of it while I was unclean, and I have not deposited any of it with the dead.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">No part of the tithe may be left as food for the dead.</i> I have obeyed the L<small>ORD</small> my God; I have done just as You commanded me.",
            "Look down from Your holy abode, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the soil You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.”",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> your God commands you this day to observe these laws and rules; observe them faithfully with all your heart and soul.",
            "You have affirmed<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Exact nuance of Heb. uncertain.</i> this day that the L<small>ORD</small> is your God, that you will walk in His ways, that you will observe His laws and commandments and rules, and that you will obey Him.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> has affirmed<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Exact nuance of Heb. uncertain.</i> this day that you are, as He promised you, His treasured people who shall observe all His commandments,",
            "and that He will set you, in fame and renown and glory, high above all the nations that He has made; and that you shall be, as He promised, a holy people to the L<small>ORD</small> your God."
        ],
        [
            "Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying: Observe all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Construction of vv. 2–4 uncertain.</i>As soon as you have crossed the Jordan into the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones. Coat them with plaster",
            "and inscribe upon them all the words of this Teaching. When you cross over to enter the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the L<small>ORD</small>, the God of your fathers, promised you—",
            "upon crossing the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, about which I charge you this day, on Mount Ebal, and coat them with plaster.",
            "There, too, you shall build an altar to the L<small>ORD</small> your God, an altar of stones. Do not wield an iron tool over them;",
            "you must build the altar of the L<small>ORD</small> your God of unhewn<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “whole.”</i> stones. You shall offer on it burnt offerings to the L<small>ORD</small> your God,",
            "and you shall sacrifice there offerings of well-being and eat them, rejoicing before the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "And on those stones you shall inscribe every word of this Teaching most distinctly.",
            "Moses and the levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying: Silence! Hear, O Israel! Today you have become the people of the L<small>ORD</small> your God:",
            "Heed the L<small>ORD</small> your God and observe His commandments and His laws, which I enjoin upon you this day.",
            "Thereupon Moses charged the people, saying:",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Construction of vv. 12–13 uncertain.</i>After you have crossed the Jordan, the following shall stand on Mount Gerizim when the blessing for the people is spoken: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.",
            "And for the curse, the following shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.",
            "The Levites shall then proclaim in a loud voice to all the people of Israel:",
            "Cursed be anyone who makes a sculptured or molten image, abhorred by the L<small>ORD</small>, a craftsman’s handiwork, and sets it up in secret.—And all the people shall respond, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who insults his father or mother.—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who moves his fellow countryman’s landmark.—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who misdirects a blind person on his way.—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who subverts the rights of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who lies with his father’s wife, for he has removed his father’s garment.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See note at 23.1.</i>—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who lies with any beast.—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who lies with his sister, whether daughter of his father or of his mother.—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law.—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who strikes down his fellow countryman in secret.—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who accepts a bribe <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., to acquit the murderer; others “to slay.”</i>in the case of the murder of<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-e</sup> an innocent person.—And all the people shall say, Amen.",
            "Cursed be he who will not uphold the terms of this Teaching and observe them.—And all the people shall say, Amen."
        ],
        [
            "Now, if you obey the L<small>ORD</small> your God, to observe faithfully all His commandments which I enjoin upon you this day, the L<small>ORD</small> your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.",
            "All these blessings shall come upon you and take effect, if you will but heed the word of the L<small>ORD</small> your God:",
            "Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the country.",
            "Blessed shall be the issue of your womb, the produce of your soil, and the offspring of your cattle, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock.",
            "Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.",
            "Blessed shall you be in your comings and blessed shall you be in your goings.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will put to rout before you the enemies who attack you; they will march out against you by a single road, but flee from you by many<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “seven.”</i> roads.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will ordain blessings for you upon your barns and upon all your undertakings: He will bless you in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God is giving you.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the L<small>ORD</small> your God and walk in His ways.",
            "And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the L<small>ORD</small>’s name is proclaimed over you,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the Lord recognizes you as His own; cf. Isa. 4.1.</i> and they shall stand in fear of you.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will give you abounding prosperity in the issue of your womb, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil in the land that the L<small>ORD</small> swore to your fathers to assign to you.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will open for you His bounteous store, the heavens, to provide rain for your land in season and to bless all your undertakings. You will be creditor to many nations, but debtor to none.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will make you the head, not the tail; you will always be at the top and never at the bottom—if only you obey and faithfully observe the commandments of the L<small>ORD</small> your God that I enjoin upon you this day,",
            "and do not deviate to the right or to the left from any of the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day and turn to the worship of other gods.",
            "But if you do not obey the L<small>ORD</small> your God to observe faithfully all His commandments and laws which I enjoin upon you this day, all these curses shall come upon you and take effect:",
            "Cursed shall you be in the city and cursed shall you be in the country.",
            "Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.",
            "Cursed shall be the issue of your womb and the produce of your soil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock.",
            "Cursed shall you be in your comings and cursed shall you be in your goings.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will let loose against you calamity, panic, and frustration in all the enterprises you undertake, so that you shall soon be utterly wiped out because of your evildoing in forsaking Me.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will make pestilence cling to you, until He has put an end to you in the land that you are entering to possess.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will strike you with <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Exact nature of these afflictions uncertain.</i>consumption, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew; they shall hound you until you perish.",
            "The skies above your head shall be copper and the earth under you iron.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will make the rain of your land dust, and sand shall drop on you from the sky, until you are wiped out.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will put you to rout before your enemies; you shall march out against them by a single road, but flee from them by many<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “seven.”</i> roads; and you shall become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.",
            "Your carcasses shall become food for all the birds of the sky and all the beasts of the earth, with none to frighten them off.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will strike you with the Egyptian inflammation,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See Exod. 9.9–10.</i> with hemorrhoids, boil-scars, and itch, from which you shall never recover.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will strike you with madness, blindness, and dismay.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “numbness of heart.”</i>",
            "You shall grope at noon as a blind man gropes in the dark; you shall not prosper in your ventures, but shall be constantly abused and robbed, with none to give help.",
            "If you pay the bride-price for a wife, another man shall enjoy her. If you build a house, you shall not live in it. If you plant a vineyard, you shall not harvest it.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. 20.6.</i>",
            "Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be seized in front of you, and it shall not be returned to you; your flock shall be delivered to your enemies, with none to help you.",
            "Your sons and daughters shall be delivered to another people, while you look on; and your eyes shall strain for them constantly, but you shall be helpless.",
            "A people you do not know shall eat up the produce of your soil and all your gains; you shall be abused and downtrodden continually,",
            "until you are driven mad by what your eyes behold.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will afflict you at the knees and thighs with a severe inflammation, from which you shall never recover—from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will drive you, and the king you have set over you, to a nation unknown to you or your fathers, where you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.",
            "You shall be a consternation, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to which the L<small>ORD</small> will drive you.",
            "Though you take much seed out to the field, you shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.",
            "Though you plant vineyards and till them, you shall have no wine to drink or store, for the worm shall devour them.",
            "Though you have olive trees throughout your territory, you shall have no oil for anointment, for your olives shall drop off.",
            "Though you beget sons and daughters, they shall not remain with you, for they shall go into captivity.",
            "The cricket shall take over all the trees and produce of your land.",
            "The stranger in your midst shall rise above you higher and higher, while you sink lower and lower:",
            "he shall be your creditor, but you shall not be his; he shall be the head and you the tail.",
            "All these curses shall befall you; they shall pursue you and overtake you, until you are wiped out, because you did not heed the L<small>ORD</small> your God and keep the commandments and laws that He enjoined upon you.",
            "They shall serve as signs and proofs against you and your offspring for all time.",
            "Because you would not serve the L<small>ORD</small> your God in joy and gladness over the abundance of everything,",
            "you shall have to serve—in hunger and thirst, naked and lacking everything—the enemies whom the L<small>ORD</small> will let loose against you. He will put an iron yoke upon your neck until He has wiped you out.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, which will swoop down like the eagle—a nation whose language you do not understand,",
            "a ruthless nation, that will show the old no regard and the young no mercy.",
            "It shall devour the offspring of your cattle and the produce of your soil, until you have been wiped out, leaving you nothing of new grain, wine, or oil, of the calving of your herds and the lambing of your flocks, until it has brought you to ruin.",
            "It shall shut you up in all your towns throughout your land until every mighty, towering wall in which you trust has come down. And when you are shut up in all your towns throughout your land that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has assigned to you,",
            "you shall eat your own issue, the flesh of your sons and daughters that the L<small>ORD</small> your God has assigned to you, because of the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you.",
            "He who is most tender and fastidious among you shall be too mean to his brother and the wife of his bosom and the children he has spared",
            "to share with any of them the flesh of the children that he eats, because he has nothing else left as a result of the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you in all your towns.",
            "And she who is most tender and dainty among you, so tender and dainty that she would never venture to set a foot on the ground, shall begrudge the husband of her bosom, and her son and her daughter,",
            "the afterbirth that issues from between her legs and the babies she bears; she shall eat them secretly, because of utter want, in the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you in your towns.",
            "If you fail to observe faithfully all the terms of this Teaching that are written in this book, to reverence this honored and awesome Name, the L<small>ORD</small> your God,",
            "the L<small>ORD</small> will inflict extraordinary plagues upon you and your offspring, strange and lasting plagues, malignant and chronic diseases.",
            "He will bring back upon you all the sicknesses of Egypt that you dreaded so, and they shall cling to you.",
            "Moreover, the L<small>ORD</small> will bring upon you all the other diseases and plagues that are not mentioned in this book of Teaching, until you are wiped out.",
            "You shall be left a scant few, after having been as numerous as the stars in the skies, because you did not heed the command of the L<small>ORD</small> your God.",
            "And as the L<small>ORD</small> once delighted in making you prosperous and many, so will the L<small>ORD</small> now delight in causing you to perish and in wiping you out; you shall be torn from the land that you are about to enter and possess.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, whom neither you nor your ancestors have experienced.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See note at 11.28.</i>",
            "Yet even among those nations you shall find no peace, nor shall your foot find a place to rest. The L<small>ORD</small> will give you there an anguished heart and eyes that pine and a despondent spirit.",
            "The life you face shall be precarious; you shall be in terror, night and day, with no assurance of survival.",
            "In the morning you shall say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening you shall say, “If only it were morning!”—because of what your heart shall dread and your eyes shall see.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will send you back to Egypt in galleys, by a route which I told you you should not see again. There you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but none will buy.",
            "These are the terms of the covenant which the L<small>ORD</small> commanded Moses to conclude with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb."
        ],
        [
            "Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:<br>You have seen all that the L<small>ORD</small> did before your very eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his courtiers and to his whole country:",
            "the wondrous feats that you saw with your own eyes, those prodigious signs and marvels.",
            "Yet to this day the L<small>ORD</small> has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.",
            "I led you through the wilderness forty years; the clothes on your back did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet;",
            "you had no bread to eat and no wine or other intoxicant to drink—that you might know that I the L<small>ORD</small> am your God.",
            "When you reached this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to engage us in battle, but we defeated them.",
            "We took their land and gave it to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh as their heritage.",
            "Therefore observe faithfully all the terms of this covenant, that you may succeed in all that you undertake.",
            "You stand this day, all of you, before the L<small>ORD</small> your God—your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel,",
            "your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer—",
            "to enter into the covenant of the L<small>ORD</small> your God, which the L<small>ORD</small> your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions;<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the curses that violations of the covenant will entail.</i>",
            "to the end that He may establish you this day as His people and be your God, as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.",
            "I make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone,",
            "but both with those who are standing here with us this day before the L<small>ORD</small> our God and with those who are not with us here this day.",
            "Well you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we passed through the midst of various other nations;",
            "and you have seen the detestable things and the fetishes of wood and stone, silver and gold, that they keep.",
            "Perchance there is among you some man or woman, or some clan or tribe, whose heart is even now turning away from the L<small>ORD</small> our God to go and worship the gods of those nations—perchance there is among you a stock sprouting poison weed and wormwood.",
            "When such a one hears the words of these sanctions, he may fancy himself immune, thinking, “I shall be safe, though I follow my own willful heart”—to the utter ruin of moist and dry alike.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., everything.</i>",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will never forgive him; rather will the L<small>ORD</small>’s anger and passion rage against that man, till every sanction recorded in this book comes down upon him, and the L<small>ORD</small> blots out his name from under heaven.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will single them<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., clan or tribe, v. 17.</i> out from all the tribes of Israel for misfortune, in accordance with all the sanctions of the covenant recorded in this book of Teaching.",
            "And later generations will ask—the children who succeed you, and foreigners who come from distant lands and see the plagues and diseases that the L<small>ORD</small> has inflicted upon that land,",
            "all its soil devastated by sulfur and salt, beyond sowing and producing, no grass growing in it, just like the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the L<small>ORD</small> overthrew in His fierce anger—",
            "all nations will ask, “Why did the L<small>ORD</small> do thus to this land? Wherefore that awful wrath?”",
            "They will be told, “Because they forsook the covenant that the L<small>ORD</small>, God of their fathers, made with them when He freed them from the land of Egypt;",
            "they turned to the service of other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not experienced<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See note at 11.28.</i> and whom He had not allotted<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See 4.19–20.</i> to them.",
            "So the L<small>ORD</small> was incensed at that land and brought upon it all the curses recorded in this book.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> uprooted them from their soil in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as is still the case.”",
            "Concealed acts concern the L<small>ORD</small> our God; but with overt acts, it is for us and our children ever to apply all the provisions of this Teaching."
        ],
        [
            "When all these things befall you—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—and you take them to heart amidst the various nations to which the L<small>ORD</small> your God has banished you,",
            "and you return to the L<small>ORD</small> your God, and you and your children heed His command with all your heart and soul, just as I enjoin upon you this day,",
            "then the L<small>ORD</small> your God will restore your fortunes<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Others “captivity.”</i> and take you back in love. He will bring you together again from all the peoples where the L<small>ORD</small> your God has scattered you.",
            "Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “sky.”</i> from there the L<small>ORD</small> your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.",
            "Then the L<small>ORD</small> your God will open up<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Others “circumcise.”</i> your heart and the hearts of your offspring to love the L<small>ORD</small> your God with all your heart and soul, in order that you may live.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> your God will inflict all those curses upon the enemies and foes who persecuted you.",
            "You, however, will again heed the L<small>ORD</small> and obey all His commandments that I enjoin upon you this day.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> your God will grant you abounding prosperity in all your undertakings, in the issue of your womb, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the L<small>ORD</small> will again delight in your well-being, as He did in that of your fathers,",
            "since you will be heeding the L<small>ORD</small> your God and keeping His commandments and laws that are recorded in this book of the Teaching—once you return to the L<small>ORD</small> your God with all your heart and soul.",
            "Surely, this Instruction which I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach.",
            "It is not in the heavens, that you should say, “Who among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?”",
            "Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who among us can cross to the other side of the sea and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?”",
            "No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it.",
            "See, I set before you this day life and prosperity, death and adversity.",
            "For<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Septuagint reads “If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which.”</i> I command you this day, to love the L<small>ORD</small> your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His laws, and His rules, that you may thrive and increase, and that the L<small>ORD</small> your God may bless you in the land that you are about to enter and possess.",
            "But if your heart turns away and you give no heed, and are lured into the worship and service of other gods,",
            "I declare to you this day that you shall certainly perish; you shall not long endure on the soil that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.",
            "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day: I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life—if you and your offspring would live—",
            "by loving the L<small>ORD</small> your God, heeding His commands, and holding fast to Him. For thereby you shall have life and shall long endure upon the soil that the L<small>ORD</small> swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them."
        ],
        [
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">An ancient Heb. ms. and the Septuagint read: “When Moses had finished speaking …”; cf. 29.1.</i>Moses went and spoke<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-a</sup> these things to all Israel.",
            "He said to them:<br>I am now one hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “come and go.”</i>be active.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-b</sup> Moreover, the L<small>ORD</small> has said to me, “You shall not go across yonder Jordan.”",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> your God Himself will cross over before you; and He Himself will wipe out those nations from your path and you shall dispossess them.—Joshua is the one who shall cross before you, as the L<small>ORD</small> has spoken.—",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their countries, when He wiped them out.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> will deliver them up to you, and you shall deal with them in full accordance with the Instruction that I have enjoined upon you.",
            "Be strong and resolute, be not in fear or in dread of them; for the L<small>ORD</small> your God Himself marches with you: He will not fail you or forsake you.",
            "Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel: “Be strong and resolute, for it is you who shall go with this people into the land that the L<small>ORD</small> swore to their fathers to give them, and it is you who shall apportion it to them.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> Himself will go before you. He will be with you; He will not fail you or forsake you. Fear not and be not dismayed!”",
            "Moses wrote down this Teaching and gave it to the priests, sons of Levi, who carried the Ark of the L<small>ORD</small>’s Covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.",
            "And Moses instructed them as follows: Every seventh year,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See note at 15.1.</i> the year set for remission, at the Feast of Booths,",
            "when all Israel comes to appear before the L<small>ORD</small> your God in the place that He will choose, you shall read this Teaching aloud in the presence of all Israel.",
            "Gather the people—men, women, children, and the strangers in your communities—that they may hear and so learn to revere the L<small>ORD</small> your God and to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching.",
            "Their children, too, who have not had the experience, shall hear and learn to revere the L<small>ORD</small> your God as long as they live in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> said to Moses: The time is drawing near for you to die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may instruct him. Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> appeared in the Tent, in a pillar of cloud, the pillar of cloud having come to rest at the entrance of the tent.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> said to Moses: You are soon to lie with your fathers. This people will thereupon go astray after the alien gods in their midst, in the land that they are about to enter; they will forsake Me and break My covenant that I made with them.",
            "Then My anger will flare up against them, and I will abandon them and hide My countenance from them. They shall be ready prey; and many evils and troubles shall befall them. And they shall say on that day, “Surely it is because our God is not in our midst that these evils have befallen us.”",
            "Yet I will keep My countenance hidden on that day, because of all the evil they have done in turning to other gods.",
            "Therefore, write down this poem and teach it to the people of Israel; put it in their mouths, in order that this poem may be My witness against the people of Israel.",
            "When I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey that I promised on oath to their fathers, and they eat their fill and grow fat and turn to other gods and serve them, spurning Me and breaking My covenant,",
            "and the many evils and troubles befall them—then this poem shall confront them as a witness, since it will never be lost from the mouth of their offspring. For I know what plans they are devising even now, before I bring them into the land that I promised on oath.",
            "That day, Moses wrote down this poem and taught it to the Israelites.",
            "And He charged Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and resolute: for you shall bring the Israelites into the land that I promised them on oath, and I will be with you.”",
            "When Moses had put down in writing the words of this Teaching to the very end,",
            "Moses charged the Levites who carried the Ark of the Covenant of the L<small>ORD</small>, saying:",
            "Take this book of Teaching and place it beside the Ark of the Covenant of the L<small>ORD</small> your God, and let it remain there as a witness against you.",
            "Well I know how defiant and stiffnecked you are: even now, while I am still alive in your midst, you have been defiant toward the L<small>ORD</small>; how much more, then, when I am dead!",
            "Gather to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, that I may speak all these words to them and that I may call heaven and earth to witness against them.",
            "For I know that, when I am dead, you will act wickedly and turn away from the path that I enjoined upon you, and that in time to come misfortune will befall you for having done evil in the sight of the L<small>ORD</small> and vexed Him by your deeds.",
            "Then Moses recited the words of this poem to the very end, in the hearing of the whole congregation of Israel:"
        ],
        [
            "Give ear, O heavens, let me speak;<br>Let the earth hear the words I utter!",
            "May my discourse come down as the rain,<br>My speech distill as the dew,<br>Like showers on young growth,<br>Like droplets on the grass.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., may my words be received eagerly; cf. Job 29.22–23.</i>",
            "For the name of the L<small>ORD</small> I proclaim;<br>Give glory to our God!",
            "The Rock!—His deeds are perfect,<br>Yea, all His ways are just;<br>A faithful God, never false,<br>True and upright is He.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>Children unworthy of Him—<br>That crooked, perverse generation—<br>Their baseness has played Him false.",
            "Do you thus requite the L<small>ORD</small>,<br>O dull and witless people?<br>Is not He the Father who created you—<br>Fashioned you and made you endure!",
            "Remember the days of old,<br>Consider the years of ages past;<br>Ask your father, he will inform you,<br>Your elders, they will tell you:",
            "When the Most High gave nations their homes<br>And set the divisions of man,<br>He fixed the boundaries of peoples<br>In relation to Israel’s numbers.",
            "For the L<small>ORD</small>’s portion is His people,<br>Jacob His own allotment.",
            "He found him in a desert region,<br>In an empty howling waste.<br>He engirded him, watched over him,<br>Guarded him as the pupil of His eye.",
            "Like an eagle who rouses his nestlings,<br>Gliding down to his young,<br>So did He spread His wings and take him,<br>Bear him along on His pinions;",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> alone did guide him,<br>No alien god at His side.",
            "He set him atop the highlands,<br>To feast on the yield of the earth;<br>He fed him honey from the crag,<br>And oil from the flinty rock,",
            "Curd of kine and milk of flocks;<br>With the best<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “fat.”</i> of lambs,<br>And rams of Bashan, and he-goats;<br>With the <sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">“kidney fat of.”</i>very finest<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-d</sup> wheat—<br>And foaming grape-blood was your drink.",
            "So Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—<br>You grew fat and gross and coarse<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>—<br>He forsook the God who made him<br>And spurned the Rock of his support.",
            "They incensed Him with alien things,<br>Vexed Him with abominations.",
            "They sacrificed to demons, no-gods,<br>Gods they had never known,<br>New ones, who came but lately,<br><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain; Arabic sha‘ara suggests the rendering “Whom your fathers did not know.”</i>Who stirred not your fathers’ fears.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-f</sup>",
            "You neglected the Rock that begot you,<br>Forgot the God who brought you forth.",
            "The L<small>ORD</small> saw and was vexed<br>And spurned His sons and His daughters.",
            "He said:<br>I will hide My countenance from them,<br>And see how they fare in the end.<br>For they are a treacherous breed,<br>Children with no loyalty in them.",
            "They incensed Me with no-gods,<br>Vexed Me with their futilities;<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., idols.</i><br>I’ll incense them with a no-folk,<br>Vex them with a nation of fools.",
            "For a fire has flared in My wrath<br>And burned to the bottom of Sheol,<br>Has consumed the earth and its increase,<br>Eaten down to the base of the hills.",
            "I will sweep<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i> misfortunes on them,<br>Use up My arrows on them:",
            "Wasting famine, ravaging plague,<br>Deadly pestilence, and fanged beasts<br>Will I let loose against them,<br>With venomous creepers in dust.",
            "The sword shall deal death without,<br>As shall the terror within,<br>To youth and maiden alike,<br>The suckling as well as the aged.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “I said, I will reduce…”; meaning of Heb. ’aph’ehem uncertain.</i>I might have reduced them to naught,<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-h</sup><br>Made their memory cease among men,",
            "But for fear of the taunts of the foe,<br>Their enemies who might misjudge<br>And say, “Our own hand has prevailed;<br>None of this was wrought by the L<small>ORD</small>!”",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Here, apparently, Moses is the speaker; God resumes in v. 32.</i>For they are a folk void of sense,<br>Lacking in all discernment.",
            "Were they wise, they would think upon this,<br>Gain insight into their future:",
            "“How could one have routed a thousand,<br>Or two put ten thousand to flight,<br>Unless their Rock had sold them,<br>The L<small>ORD</small> had given them up?”",
            "For their rock is not like our Rock,<br><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">j</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., as everyone must admit.</i>In our enemies’ own<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">k</sup><i class=\"footnote\">For Heb. pelilim see Exod. 21.22; cf. Gen. 48.11.</i> estimation.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-j</sup>",
            "Ah! The vine for them is from Sodom,<br>From the vineyards of Gomorrah;<br>The grapes for them are poison,<br>A bitter growth their clusters.",
            "Their wine is the venom of asps,<br>The pitiless poison of vipers.",
            "Lo, I have it all put away,<br>Sealed up in My storehouses,",
            "To be My vengeance and recompense,<br>At the time that their foot falters.<br>Yea, their day of disaster is near,<br>And destiny rushes upon them.",
            "For the L<small>ORD</small> will vindicate His people<br><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">l</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. Isa. 1.24. Others “and repent Himself concerning.”</i>And take revenge for<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-l</sup> His servants,<br>When He sees that their might is gone,<br>And neither bond nor free is left.",
            "He will say: Where are their gods,<br>The rock in whom they sought refuge,",
            "Who ate the fat of their offerings<br>And drank their libation wine?<br>Let them rise up to your help,<br>And let them be a shield unto you!",
            "See, then, that I, I am He;<br>There is no god beside Me.<br>I deal death and give life;<br>I wounded and I will heal:<br>None can deliver from My hand.",
            "Lo, I raise My hand to heaven<br>And say: As I live forever,",
            "When I whet My flashing blade<br>And My hand lays hold on judgment,<br>Vengeance will I wreak on My foes,<br>Will I deal to those who reject Me.",
            "I will make My arrows drunk with blood—<br>As My sword devours flesh—<br>Blood of the slain and the captive<br>From the long-haired enemy chiefs.",
            "O nations, acclaim His people!<br>For He’ll avenge the blood of His servants,<br>Wreak vengeance on His foes,<br>And cleanse the land of His people.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">m</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. Num. 35.33. Meaning of Heb. uncertain; Ugaritic ’udm‘t “tears” suggests the rendering “And wipe away His people’s tears.” Cf. Isa. 25.8.</i>",
            "Moses came, together with Hosea son of Nun, and recited all the words of this poem in the hearing of the people.",
            "And when Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,",
            "he said to them: Take to heart all the words with which I have warned you this day. Enjoin them upon your children, that they may observe faithfully all the terms of this Teaching.",
            "For this is not a trifling thing for you: it is your very life; through it you shall long endure on the land that you are to possess upon crossing the Jordan.",
            "That very day the L<small>ORD</small> spoke to Moses:",
            "Ascend these heights of Abarim to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab facing Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving the Israelites as their holding.",
            "You shall die on the mountain that you are about to ascend, and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his kin;",
            "for you both broke faith with Me among the Israelite people, at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to uphold My sanctity among the Israelite people.",
            "You may view the land from a distance, but you shall not enter it—the land that I am giving to the Israelite people."
        ],
        [
            "This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, bade the Israelites farewell before he died.",
            "He said:<br>The L<small>ORD</small> came from Sinai;<br>He shone upon them from Seir;<br>He appeared from Mount Paran,<br>And approached from Ribeboth-kodesh,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Cf. Meribath-kadesh, 32.51.</i><br>Lightning flashing at them from His right.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">b</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. mimino ’eshdath uncertain, perhaps a place name.</i>",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">c</sup><i class=\"footnote\">The meaning of vv. 3–5 is uncertain. An alternative rendering, with v. 3 apostrophizing Moses, is: 3Then were, O lover of the people, / All His worshipers in your care; / They followed your lead, / Accepted your precepts. / 4Moses charged us with the Teaching / As the heritage of the congregation of Jacob. / 5Thus was he king in Jeshurun…</i>Lover, indeed, of the people,<br>Their hallowed are all in Your hand.<br>They followed in Your steps,<br>Accepting Your pronouncements,",
            "When Moses charged us with the Teaching<br>As the heritage of the congregation of Jacob.",
            "Then He became King in Jeshurun,<br>When the heads of the people assembled,<br>The tribes of Israel together.",
            "May Reuben live and not die,<br>Though few be his numbers.",
            "And this he said of Judah:<br>Hear, O L<small>ORD</small>, the voice of Judah<br>And restore him to his people.<br><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">d</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Better (vocalizing rab with pathaḥ)“Make his hands strong for him.” Cf. rabbeh, Judg. 9.29.</i>Though his own hands strive for him,<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-d</sup><br>Help him against his foes.",
            "And of Levi he said:<br>Let Your Thummim and Urim<br>Be with Your faithful one,<br>Whom You tested at Massah,<br>Challenged at the waters of Meribah;",
            "Who said of his father and mother,<br>“I consider them not.”<br>His brothers he disregarded,<br>Ignored his own children.<br>Your precepts alone they observed,<br>And kept Your covenant.",
            "They shall teach Your laws to Jacob<br>And Your instructions to Israel.<br><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">e</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “They shall place incense in Your nostril.”</i>They shall offer You incense to savor<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-e</sup><br>And whole-offerings on Your altar.",
            "Bless, O L<small>ORD</small>, his substance,<br>And favor his undertakings.<br>Smite the loins of his foes;<br>Let his enemies rise no more.",
            "Of Benjamin he said:<br>Beloved of the L<small>ORD</small>,<br>He rests securely beside Him;<br>Ever does He protect him,<br><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">f</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Or “He dwells amid his slopes.”</i>As he rests between His shoulders.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-f</sup>",
            "And of Joseph he said:<br>Blessed of the L<small>ORD</small> be his land<br>With the bounty of dew<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">g</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Targum Onkelos and two Hebrew manuscripts read: “With the bounty of heaven above” (me‘al for mit·t·al, cf. Gen. 49.25).</i> from heaven,<br>And of the deep that couches below;",
            "With the bounteous yield of the sun,<br>And the bounteous crop of the moons;",
            "With the best from the ancient mountains,<br>And the bounty of hills immemorial;",
            "With the bounty of earth and its fullness,<br>And the favor of the Presence<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">h</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Lit. “Dweller”; cf. Exod. 3.1 ff.</i> in the Bush.<br>May these rest on the head of Joseph,<br>On the crown of the elect of his brothers.",
            "Like a firstling bull in his majesty,<br>He has horns like the horns of the wild-ox;<br>With them he gores the peoples,<br>The ends of the earth one and all.<br>These<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">i</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the one horn.</i> are the myriads of Ephraim,<br>Those<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">j</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., the other horn.</i> are the thousands of Manasseh.",
            "And of Zebulun he said:<br>Rejoice, O Zebulun, on your journeys,<br>And Issachar, in your tents.",
            "They invite their kin to the mountain,<br>Where they offer sacrifices of success.<br>For they draw from the riches of the sea<br>And the hidden hoards of the sand.",
            "And of Gad he said:<br>Blessed be He who enlarges Gad!<br>Poised is he like a lion<br>To tear off arm and scalp.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">k</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain; cf. vv. 3–5 (with note c) above, and saphun “esteemed” in post-biblical Heb.</i>He chose for himself the best,<br>For there is the portion of the revered chieftain,<br>Where the heads of the people come.<br>He executed the L<small>ORD</small>’s judgments<br>And His decisions for Israel.<sup class=\"endFootnote\">-k</sup>",
            "And of Dan he said:<br>Dan is a lion’s whelp<br>That leaps forth from Bashan.",
            "And of Naphtali he said:<br>O Naphtali, sated with favor<br>And full of the L<small>ORD</small>’s blessing,<br>Take possession on the west and south.",
            "And of Asher he said:<br>Most blessed of sons be Asher;<br>May he be the favorite of his brothers,<br>May he dip his foot in oil.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">l</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>May your doorbolts be iron and copper,<br>And your security last all your days.",
            "O Jeshurun, there is none like God,<br>Riding through the heavens to help you,<br>Through the skies in His majesty.",
            "<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">l</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Meaning of Heb. uncertain.</i>The ancient God is a refuge,<br>A support are the arms everlasting.<br>He drove out the enemy before you<br>By His command: Destroy!",
            "Thus Israel dwells in safety,<br>Untroubled is Jacob’s abode,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">m</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Others “fountain.”</i><br>In a land of grain and wine,<br>Under heavens dripping dew.",
            "O happy Israel! Who is like you,<br>A people delivered by the L<small>ORD</small>,<br>Your protecting Shield, your Sword triumphant!<br>Your enemies shall come cringing before you,<br>And you shall tread on their backs."
        ],
        [
            "Moses went up from the steppes of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, opposite Jericho, and the L<small>ORD</small> showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan;",
            "all Naphtali; the land of Ephraim and Manasseh; the whole land of Judah as far as the Western<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">a</sup><i class=\"footnote\">I.e., Mediterranean; cf. note at 11.24.</i> Sea;",
            "the Negeb; and the Plain—the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees—as far as Zoar.",
            "And the L<small>ORD</small> said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ‘I will assign it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross there.”",
            "So Moses the servant of the L<small>ORD</small> died there, in the land of Moab, at the command of the L<small>ORD</small>.",
            "He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day.",
            "Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated.",
            "And the Israelites bewailed Moses in the steppes of Moab for thirty days.<br>The period of wailing and mourning for Moses came to an end.",
            "Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the Israelites heeded him, doing as the L<small>ORD</small> had commanded Moses.",
            "Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses—whom the L<small>ORD</small> singled out, face to face,",
            "for the various signs and portents that the L<small>ORD</small> sent him to display in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his courtiers and his whole country,",
            "and for all the great might and awesome power that Moses displayed before all Israel."
        ]
    ],
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        "Chapter",
        "Verse"
    ]
}