Bible (American Standard)/Deuteronomy

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