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Deuteronomy 1: 1-46
1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the
Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
3It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month,
on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of
Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them;
4after he had struck Sihon the king of the
Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
5Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
6'Yahweh our GodElohim
spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain:
7turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country
of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in
the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the
seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8Behold, I have set the land before
you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.'
9I spoke to you at that time, saying, 'I am not able to bear you myself alone:
10Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and
behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.
11Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as
you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
12How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes,
and I will make them heads over you.'
14You answered me, and said, 'The thing which you have spoken is good to do.'
15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men,
and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and
captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
16I commanded your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear cases between your brothers, and judge
righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you
shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of
the face of man; for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard
for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
18I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
19We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness
which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as
Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
20I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which
Yahweh our God gives to us.
21Behold, Yahweh your God has set the
land before you: go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.'
22You came near to me everyone 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 to which we shall come.'
23The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
24and they turned and went up into the hill
country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
25They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down
to us, and brought us word again, and said, 'It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.'
26Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God:
27and you murmured in your tents, and said,
'Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of
Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt,
saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are
great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.''
29Then I said to you, 'Don't dread, neither be afraid of them.
30Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you,
according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
31and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God
bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.'
32Yet in this thing you didn't believe Yahweh your God,
33who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your
tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
34Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
35'Surely not one of these men of
this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,
36except Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see
it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his
children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.'
37Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, 'You also shall not go in there:
38Joshua the son of Nun, who stands
before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39Moreover your little ones, whom you said
should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of
good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
40But as for you, turn, and take your
journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'
41Then you answered and said to me, 'We have sinned against
Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God
commanded us.' Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.
42Yahweh said to me, 'Tell them, 'Don't go up, neither fight;
for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.''
43So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled
against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.
44The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you
down in Seir, even to Hormah.
45You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you.
46So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.
Deuteronomy 2:1-37
1Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by
the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.
2Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
3'You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.
4Command the people, saying,
'You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of
Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed
to yourselves therefore;
5don't contend 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 to Esau for a possession.
6You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and
you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.''
7For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your
hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these
forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.
8So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who
dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion
Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9Yahweh said to me, 'Don't bother Moab, neither contend with
them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession;
because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.'
10(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and
tall, as the Anakim:
11these also are accounted Rephaim, as the
Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
12The Horites also lived
in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they
destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel
did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
13'Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered.' We went over the brook Zered.
14The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea,
until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until
all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of
the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
15Moreover the hand of Yahweh
was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until
they were consumed.
16So it happened, when all the men of war were
consumed and dead from among the people,
17that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
18'You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:
19and when you come near over against the children of Ammon,
don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of
the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have
given it to the children of Lot for a possession.'
20(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived
therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
21a people
great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them
before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
22
as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he
destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and
lived in their place even to this day:
23and the Avvim, who lived
in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of
Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)
24'Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the
Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
25This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the
fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear
the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.'
26I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon
king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27'Let me pass
through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither
to the right hand nor to the left.
28You shall 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,
29as the children of Esau who
dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I
shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.'
30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for
Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that
he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.
31Yahweh said to me, 'Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon
and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.'
32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
33Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and
we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.
34We took all his
cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with
the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
35only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities
which we had taken.
36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the
valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to
Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:
37only to the land of the children of Ammon you
didn't come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of
the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
Deuteronomy 3:1-29
1Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king
of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
2Yahweh said to me, 'Don't fear him; for I have delivered
him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do
to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.'
3So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of
Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to him remaining.
4We took all his cities at that time; there was not
a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of
Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
6We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king
of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
7But all the livestock, and the spoil of the
cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
8We took the land at that
time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond
the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.
9(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
10We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to
Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold,
his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children
of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)
12This 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 its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
13and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the
kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of
Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of
the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
15I gave Gilead to Machir.
16To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead
even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its
border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
17the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from
Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
18I commanded you at that time, saying, 'Yahweh your God has
given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before
your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
19But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you
have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,
20until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they
also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the
Jordan: then you shall return every man to his possession, which I have given you.'
21I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, 'Your eyes have seen
all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh
do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
22You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you.'
23I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
24'LordAdonai Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your
strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do
according to your works, and according to your mighty acts?
25Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan,
that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.'
26But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't
listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, 'Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.
27Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up
your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see
with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.
28But commission 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 you shall see.'
29So we stayed in the valley over against Beth Peor.
Deuteronomy 4:1-49
1Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances,
which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess
the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
2You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you
diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
3Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because
of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.
4But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive this day.
5Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God
commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your
wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall
hear all these statutes, and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
7For what great nation is there, that
has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
8What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances
so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
9Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently,
lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart
from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
10the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to 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 on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'
11You came near and stood under the
mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky,
with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
12Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words,
but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
13He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments;
and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
14Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances,
that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
15Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh
spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.
16Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of
any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth,
the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground,
the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and
the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn
away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has
allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
20But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt,
to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
21Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I
should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good
land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance:
22but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go
over, and possess that good land.
23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you,
and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
24For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire,
Hebrews 12:29
a jealous God.
25When you shall father children, and children's
children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt
yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and
shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;
26I call heaven and earth to witness against you
this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong
your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
27Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number
among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.
28There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which
neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search
after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter
days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:
31for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you,
neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
32For ask now of the days that are past, which were
before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from
the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
33Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire,
as you have heard, and live?
34Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself 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 Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God.
There is no one else besides him.
36Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that
he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire;
and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
37Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and
brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
38to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than
you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
39Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart,
that Yahweh he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else.
40You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments,
which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you,
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
41Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
42that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and
didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
43Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country,
for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
44This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
45these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances,
which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,
46beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.
47They 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 sunrise;
48from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),
49and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan
eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
Deuteronomy 5:1-33
1Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel,
the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day,
that you may learn them, and observe to do them.
2Yahweh our God
made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3Yahweh didn't make this
covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
4Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire,
5(I stood between Yahweh
and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were
afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying,
6'I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
7'You shall have no other gods before me.
8'You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, any
likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth:
9you shall not bow down
yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the
third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
10and
showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
11'You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: for
Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
12'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
13You shall labor six days, and do all your work;
14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which
you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor
your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your
donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your
gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
15You shall remember that you were a servant in the land
of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand
and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16'Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God
commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with
you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Matthew 15:04
Mark 7:10
17'You shall not murder.
18'Neither shall you commit adultery.
19'Neither shall you steal.
Romans 13:9
20'Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.
Matthew 19:18-19
Mark 10:19
21'Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall
you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or
his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
Romans 13:9
22These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain
out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness,
with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables
of stone, and gave them to me.
23It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning
with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
24and you said, 'Behold, Yahweh our God has shown
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 does speak with man, and he lives.
25Now therefore why should we die? For this great
fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.
26For who is there of all flesh, that has heard
the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
27Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God
shall say: and tell us all that Yahweh our God shall tell you; and we will hear it, and do it.'
28Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me;
and Yahweh said to me, 'I have heard the voice of the words of this
people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken.
29Oh that there were such a heart in them, that
they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might
be well with them, and with their children forever!
30'Go tell them, Return to your tents.
31But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the
statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.'
32You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has
commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has
commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and
that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
Deuteronomy 6:1-25
1Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances,
which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
2that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I
command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
3Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that
you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
4Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one:
5and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Matthew 22:37
Mark 12:30
6These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;
7and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when
you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
9You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
10It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,
11and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig,
vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;
12then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you
forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him
Matthew 4:10
, and shall swear by his name.
14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;
15for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled
against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
16You shall not tempt Yahweh your God
Matthew 4:7
,as you tempted him in Massah.
17You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God,
and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
18You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of
Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and
possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
19to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
20When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What do the
testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?'
21then you shall tell your son, 'We were
Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
22and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs
and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
23and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us
in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
24Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our
good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
25It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment
before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.'
Deuteronomy 7:1-26
1When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you
go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, 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 you;
2and when Yahweh your God shall deliver
them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly
destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
3neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter
you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
4For he will turn away your son from following me, that they
may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against
you, and he would destroy you quickly.
5But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their
pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
6For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God:
Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession,
above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
7Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number
than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
8but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he
swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God,
the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who
love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
10and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.
11You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
12It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do
them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the
loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:
13and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of
your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine
and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your
flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
14You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or
female barren among you, or among your livestock.
15Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of
Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
16You shall consume all the peoples whom
Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them:
neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
17If you shall say in your heart, 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'
18you shall not be afraid of them: you
shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
19the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and
the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which
Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
20Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide
themselves, perish from before you.
21You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
22Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by
little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
23But Yahweh your God will deliver
them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
24He will deliver their kings into your hand,
and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man
shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
25You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You
shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for
yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
26You shall not bring an abomination into your house,
and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and
you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Deuteronomy 8:1-20
1You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command
you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the
wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in
your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
3He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna,
which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might
make you know that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by
everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh.
Matthew 4:4
Luke 4:4
4Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
5You shall consider in your heart that as a man
chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.
6You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
8a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees
and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
9a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack
anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
10You shall eat and be full, and you shall
bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
11Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
12lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
13and when your herds and your
flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
14then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
15who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions,
and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
16who fed you in the wilderness with
manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and
that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
17and lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.'
18But you shall remember Yahweh your God,
for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish
his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.
19It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk
after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
20As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you
wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 9:1-29
1Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go
in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
2a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, 'Who
can stand before the sons of Anak?'
3Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he
will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall
drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
4Don't say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them
out from before you, saying, 'For my righteousness Yahweh has brought
me in to possess this land;' because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
5Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to
possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your
God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the
word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this
good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
7Remember, don't forget, how you provoked
Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went
forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
8Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
9When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the
tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the
mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.
10Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written
with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which Yahweh
spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights,
that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12Yahweh said to me, 'Arise, get down quickly from here;
for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted
themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I
commanded them; they have made them a molten image.'
13Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 'I have seen this
people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
14let me alone,
that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky;
and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
15So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain
was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh
your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside
quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
17I took
hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke
them before your eyes.
18I fell down before Yahweh, as at the
first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank
water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which
was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure,
Hebrews 12:21
with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
20Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I
prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21I took your sin, the
calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it,
grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast its
dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
22At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
23When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go
up and possess the land which I have given you;' then you rebelled
against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice.
24You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
25So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down,
because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
26I prayed to Yahweh, and said, 'Lord
Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have
redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob; don't look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
28lest the land you brought us out from say, 'Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land
which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.'
29Yet they are your people and your inheritance,
which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.'
Deuteronomy 10:1-22
1At that time Yahweh said to me, 'Cut two tables of stone like
the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
2I will write on the tables the words that were on the
first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.'
3So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone
like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.
4He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing,
the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of
the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.
5I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the
tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
6(The children of Israel traveled 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 place.
7From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a
land of brooks of water.
8At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe
of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before
Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
9Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers;
Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
10I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and
forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
11Yahweh said to me, 'Arise, take your journey
before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I
swore to their fathers to give to them.'
12Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but
to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and
to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I
command you this day for your good?
14Behold, to Yahweh your God
belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
15Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love
them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
17For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the
awesome, who doesn't respect persons, nor takes reward.
18He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner,
in giving him food and clothing.
19Therefore love the foreigner;
for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
20You shall fear
Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
21He is your praise, and he is your
God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
22Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy
persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
Deuteronomy 11:1-32
1Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his
instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
2Know this day: for I don't speak with your
children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of
Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
3and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of
Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to 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 Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
5and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
6and what he did to 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:
7but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did.
8Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that
you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
9and that you may prolong your days in the land,
which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10For the land, where you go in
to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from,
where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
11but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a
land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the sky,
12a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your
God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
13It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my
commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and
to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the
latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
15I will give grass in your fields for your livestock,
and you shall eat and be full.
16Take heed to yourselves, lest
your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
17and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you,
and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land
shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
18Therefore you shall lay up these
my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a
sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
19You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you
sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
20You shall write them on the door posts of
your house, and on your gates;
21that your days may be
multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh
swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
22For if you shall diligently keep all this
commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to
walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;
23then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess
nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
24Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the
wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.
25No man shall be able to
stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the
dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.
26Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
27the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of
Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;
28and the curse,
if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but
turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
29It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess
it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on
Mount Ebal. 30Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of
the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in
the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
31For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which
Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
32You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances
which I set before you this day.
Deuteronomy 12:1-32
1These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall
observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has
given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
2You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations
that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
3and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their
Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.
4You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
5But to the place which
Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name
there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;
6and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and
your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:
7and there you shall eat before Yahweh your
God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and
your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
8You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man
whatever is right in his own eyes;
9for you haven't yet come to
the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
10But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which
Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all
your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;
11then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command
you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the
wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
12You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your
sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female
servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no
portion nor inheritance with you.
13Take heed to yourself that
you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
14but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your
tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
15Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul,
according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you:
the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it
out on the earth as water.
17You may not eat within your gates
the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the
firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you
vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
18but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place
which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your
daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the
Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh
your God in all that you put your hand to.
19Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
20When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has
promised you, and you shall say, 'I want to eat meat,' because your
soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.
21If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your
herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded
you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
22Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you
shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
23Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life;
and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after
you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
26Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall
take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:
27and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar
of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured
out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.
28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it
may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when
you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
29When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before
you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
30take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you;
and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'
31You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates,
have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy 13:1-18
1If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,
2and the sign or the
wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after
other gods' (which you have not known) 'and let us serve them;'
3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer
of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love
Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his
commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.
5That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to
death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house
of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God
commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own
soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,'
which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
7of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from
the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
8you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye
pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him
to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw
you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
11All Israel shall hear, and
fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
12If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which
Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,
13Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the
inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known;
14then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing
certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,
15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the
sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its
livestock, with the edge of the sword.
16You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city,
and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
17Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the
fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on
you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
18when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his
commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 14:1-29
1You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God,
and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
3You shall not eat any abominable thing.
4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck,
and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.
6Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two
and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
7Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of
those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the
rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
8The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't
chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and
their carcasses you shall not touch.
9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;
10and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
11Of all clean birds you may eat.
12But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,
13and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,
14and every raven after its kind,
15and the
ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,
16the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
17and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
18and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
19All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.
20Of all clean birds you may eat.
21You shall not
eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner
living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you
may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your
God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
22You
shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes
forth from the field year by year.
23You shall eat before Yahweh
your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your
oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may
learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
24If the way is too long
for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too
far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name
there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
25then you shall
turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:
26and you shall
bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for
sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks
of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall
rejoice, you and your household.
27The Levite who is within your
gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
28At the end of every three years you shall bring forth
all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up
within your gates:
29and the Levite, because he has no portion
nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the
fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and
shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all
the work of your hand which you do.
Deuteronomy 15:1-23
1At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
2This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release
that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.
3Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with
your brother your hand shall release.
4However there shall be no
poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which
Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)
5if
only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe
to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
6For
Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend
to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many
nations, but they shall not rule over you.
7If a poor man, one of
your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which
Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut
your hand from your poor brother;
8but you shall surely open your
hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart,
saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;' and your
eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he
cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
10You shall
surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to
him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all
your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You
shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
12If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew
woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh
year you shall let him go free from you.
13When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
14you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing
floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
15You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you:
therefore I command you this thing today.
16It shall be, if he tells you, 'I will not go out from you;' because he loves you and your
house, because he is well with you;
17then you shall take an awl,
and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant
forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
18It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to
the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and
Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
19All the
firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall
sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of
your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
20You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall
choose, you and your household.
21If it has any blemish, is lame
or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
22You shall eat it within your gates: the
unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
23Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
Deuteronomy 16:1-22
1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh
your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth
out of Egypt by night.
2You shall sacrifice the Passover to
Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
3You shall eat no
leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven
days, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land
of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth
out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4No yeast
shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall
any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain
all night until the morning.
5You may not sacrifice the Passover
within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;
6but
at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the
going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.
7You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.
8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day
shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work.
9You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you
begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number
seven weeks.
10You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your
God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall
give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:
11and you shall
rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter,
and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is
within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the
widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
12You shall
remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe
and do these statutes.
13You shall keep the feast of tents seven
days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and
from your winepress:
14and you shall rejoice in your feast, you,
and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female
servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the
widow, who are within your gates.
15You shall keep a feast to
Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh shall choose;
because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all
the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
16
Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your
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 tents; and they
shall not appear before Yahweh empty:
17every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.
18You shall make judges and officers in all your
gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
19You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you
take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
20You shall follow that which is
altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
21You shall not plant for yourselves an
Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which
you shall make for yourselves.
22Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.
Deuteronomy 17:1-20
1You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep,
in which is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
2If there is found in the midst of you, within
any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who
does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,
3and has gone and served other gods,
and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;
4and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it
be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
5then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who
has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death;
at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
7The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and
afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
1 Corinthians 5:13
8If there arises a matter too hard for you
in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and
between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your
gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;
9and you shall come to the priests the Levites,
and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and
they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
10You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from
that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do
according to all that they shall teach you:
11according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the
judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn
aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
12The man who does presumptuously, in not
listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your
God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.
13All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives
you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, 'I
will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;'
15you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your
God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over
you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
16Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses;
because Yahweh has said to you, 'You shall not go back that way again.'
17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not
turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
18It shall be, when he sits on 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:
19and it shall be with him, and
he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to
fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
20that his heart not be lifted up above his
brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right
hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his
kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy 18:1-22
1The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no
portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.
2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers:
Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
3This shall be the priests' due from the
people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep,
that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
4The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine,
and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall
give him.
5For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your
tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons
for ever.
6If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all
Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of
his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
7then he shall
minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites
do, who stand there before Yahweh.
8They shall have like portions
to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.
9
When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you
shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
10
There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who
practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
11or a
charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a
necromancer.
12For whoever does these things is an abomination to
Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive
them out from before you.
13You shall be perfect with Yahweh your
God. 14For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to
those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh
your God has not allowed you so to do.
15Yahweh your God will
raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me.
Acts 7:37
You shall listen to him.
Acts 3:23
16This is according to all that you
desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying,
'Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see
this great fire any more, that I not die.'
17Yahweh said to me, 'They have well said that which they have spoken.
18I will raise them up a prophet from among their
brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall
speak to them all that I shall command him.
19It shall happen,
that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my
name, I will require it of him.
Acts 3:23
20But the prophet, who shall
speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him
to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same
prophet shall die.'
21If you say in your heart, 'How shall we know the word which
Yahweh has not spoken?'
22when a prophet speaks in the name of
Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing
which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously,
you shall not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 19:1-21
1When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land
Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their
cities, and in their houses;
2you shall set apart three cities
for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to
possess it.
3You shall prepare you the way, and divide the
borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into
three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.
4This is the
case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills
his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;
5as when
a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand
fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips
from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall
flee to one of these cities and live:
6lest the avenger of blood
pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because
the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of
death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
7Therefore I
command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.
8If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your
fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
9if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I
command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his
ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides
these three:
10that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of
your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so
blood be on you.
11But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in
wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so
that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
12then the
elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into
the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from
Israel, that it may go well with you.
14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your
inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
15One witness shall not rise up against
a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the
mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
Matthew 18:16
16If an unrighteous witness rise up
against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh,
before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
18and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the
witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
19then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to
his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
1 Corinthians 5:13
20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
21Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Matthew 5:38
Deuteronomy 20:1-20
1When you go forth to battle against your enemies,
and see horses, chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid
of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
2It shall be, when you draw near to the battle,
that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
3and shall tell them, 'Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle
against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor
tremble, neither be scared of them;
4for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'
5The officers shall speak to the people, saying, 'What man is
there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
dedicate it. 6What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and
has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die
in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
7What man is there
who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
take her.' 8The officers shall speak further to the people, and
they shall say, 'What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let
him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his
heart.' 9It shall be, when the officers have made an end of
speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at
the head of the people.
10When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then
proclaim peace to it. 11It shall be, if it makes you answer of
peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are
found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against
you, then you shall besiege it: 13and when Yahweh your God
delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the
edge of the sword: 14but the women, and the little ones, and the
livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall
take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your
enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
15Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16But of the cities of these peoples,
that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive
nothing that breathes; 17but you shall utterly destroy them: the
Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite,
and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you; 18that
they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have
done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
19When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to
take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against
them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is
the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
20Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you
shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against
the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
Deuteronomy 21:1-23
1If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives
you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;
2then your elders and your judges shall come forth,
and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:
3and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain
man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd,
which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
4and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a
valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shallbreak the heifer's neck there in the valley.
5The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to
minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to
their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.
6All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their
hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
7and they shall answer and say, 'Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
8Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom
you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood in the midst of your
people Israel.' The blood shall be forgiven them.
9So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do
that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
10When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh
your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,
11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you
have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
12then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
13and she shall put the clothing of her
captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her
father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to
her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
14It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she
will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal
with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have
borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
16then it shall be, in the
day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may
not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:
17but he shall acknowledge the
firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all
that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son,
who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
19then
shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to
the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
20and they shall tell 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.'
21All the men of his city shall stone him to death
with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you;
1 Corinthians 5:13
and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
22If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
23his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for
he who is hanged is accursed of God;
Galatians 3:13
that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 22:1-30
1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.
2If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know
him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with
you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
3So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his
garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's,
which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
4You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by
the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
5A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither
shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
6If a bird's nest chance to be
before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or
eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:
7you shall surely let the hen go,
but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
8When you build a new house,
then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring
blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
9You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be
forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
10You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
11You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
12You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders
of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
13If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
14and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name
on her, and says, 'I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;'
15then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the
tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
16and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, 'I
gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
17and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, 'I didn't find
in your daughter the tokens of virginity;' and yet these are the tokens
of my daughter's virginity.' They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
18The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
19and they shall fine him one hundred shekels
of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he
has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his
wife; he may not put her away all his days.
20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;
21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city
shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put
away the evil from the midst of you.
1 Corinthians 5:13
22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die,
the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
23If there is a young lady who is a virgin
pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of
that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady,
because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has
humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
25But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be
married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:
26but to the lady you shall
do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a
man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;
27for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady
cried, and there was none to save her.
28If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and
lie with her, and they be found;
29then the man who lay with her
shall give to the lady's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall
be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy 23:1-25
1He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut
off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
2A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth
generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
3An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh;
even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:
4because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt,
and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
5Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a
blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
6You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
7You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
8The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
9When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.
10If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp.
He shall not come within the camp:
11but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is
down, he shall come within the camp.
12You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall go forth abroad:
13and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you
sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:
14for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before
you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
15You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:
16he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall
choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.
17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters
of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
18You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a
dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
19You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest
of anything that is lent on interest:
e20to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest,
that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
21When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh
your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
22But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
23That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do;
according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.
24When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your
own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.
25When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the
ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
Deuteronomy 24:1-22
1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be,
if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly
thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Matthew 5:31
2When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
3If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, 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;
4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is
defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
5When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army,
neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.
7If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the
children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then
that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
1 Corinthians 5:13
8Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe
diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall
teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
9Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
10When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.
12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
13you shall surely restore to him the
pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and
bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:
15in his day you shall give him his hire,
neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart
on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall
the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
17You shall not deprive the foreigner, or
the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow's clothing in pledge;
18but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt,
and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have
forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall
be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that
Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again:
it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after
yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
22You shall remember that you were a bondservant in
the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
Deuteronomy 25:1-19
1If there is a controversy between men, and they come to
judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
2and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to
lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
3Forty stripes he may give him, he shall
not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with
many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
1 Corinthians 6:16
5If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife
of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform
the duty of a husband's brother to her.
6It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who
is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
7If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his
brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, 'My
husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel;
he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he
stand, and say, 'I don't want to take her;'
9then his brother's wife shall come to 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 to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
10His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.
11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of
the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who
strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
12then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
13You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
14You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
15You shall have a perfect and just weight.
You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long
in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
16For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
17Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;
18how he met you by the way, and struck
the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.
19Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all
around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance
to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
Deuteronomy 26:1-19
1It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh
your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
2that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of
the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your
God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
3You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days,
and tell him, 'I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to
the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.'
4The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before
the altar of Yahweh your God.
5You shall answer and say before
Yahweh your God, 'A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went
down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a
nation, great, mighty, and populous.
6The Egyptians dealt ill
with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:
7and we
cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice,
and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;
8and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders;
9and he has brought us into this place, and has given us
this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10Now, behold, I
have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh,
have given me.' You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and
worship before Yahweh your God.
11You shall rejoice in all the
good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you,
and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.
12When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your
increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you
shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and
to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
13You shall say before Yahweh your God, 'I have put away the holy
things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to
the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all
your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed
any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being
unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of
Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless
your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you
swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'
16This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes
and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your
heart, and with all your soul.
17You have declared Yahweh this
day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his
statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:
18and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for
his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;
19and to make you high above all nations
that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you
may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
Deuteronomy 27:1-26
1Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
'Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.
2It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which
Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones,
and plaster them with plaster:
3and you shall write on them all
the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to
the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and
honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
4It shall be, when you have passed over the Jordan, that you shall set up
these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and you
shall plaster them with plaster.
5There you shall build an altar
to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron on them.
6You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut
stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:
7and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there;
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
8You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.'
9Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel,
saying, 'Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become the
people of Yahweh your God. 10You shall therefore obey the voice
of Yahweh your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.'
11Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,
12'These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have
passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
13These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the
curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
14The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
15'Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten
image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the
craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' All the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'
16'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his
mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
17'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
18'Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way.'
All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
19'Cursed is he who the
foreigner, fatherless, and widow of justice.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
20'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because
he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
21'Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
22'Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the
daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
23'Cursed is he who lies with his
mother-in-law.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
24'Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
25'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.'
All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
26'Cursed is he who doesn't
confirm the words of this law to do them.'
Galatians 3:10
All the people shall say, 'Amen.''
Deuteronomy 28:1-68
1It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice
of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I
command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above
all the nations of the earth:
2and all these blessings shall come
on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
3You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be
blessed in the field.
4You shall be blessed in the fruit of your
body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase
of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
5Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
6You shall be blessed when
you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
7Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before
you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
8Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your
barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in
the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
9Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall
keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
10All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name
of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.
11Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of
your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which
Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
12Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its
season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.
13Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall
not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your
God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do,
14and shall 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.
15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the
voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come
on you, and overtake you.
16You shall be cursed in the city, and
you shall be cursed in the field.
17Your basket and your kneading
trough shall be cursed.
18The fruit of your body, the fruit of
your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your
flock shall be cursed.
19You shall be cursed when you come in,
and you shall be cursed when you go out.
20Yahweh will send on
you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to
do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of
the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
21Yahweh
will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from
off the land, where you go in to possess it.
22Yahweh will strike
you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with
fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and
they shall pursue you until you perish.
23Your sky that is over
your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
24Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust:
from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
25Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you
shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before
them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
26Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the
sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
27Yahweh will strike you with the boil of
Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of
which you can not be healed.
28Yahweh will strike you with
madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
29and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and
you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and
robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
30You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a
house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and
shall not use its fruit.
31Your ox shall be slain before your
eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken
away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your
sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
32Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another
people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all
the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.
33
The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you
don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;
34so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
35Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the
legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole
of your foot to the crown of your head.
36Yahweh will bring you,
and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have
not known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.
37You shall become an astonishment, a proverb,
and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather
little in; for the locust shall consume it.
39You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor
harvest; for the worm shall eat them.
40You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself
with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
41You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
42All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
43The foreigner who is in the midst of you
shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
44He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend
to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you,
until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of
Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:
46and they shall be on you for a sign and for a
wonder, and on your seed forever.
47Because you didn't serve
Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason
of the abundance of all things;
48therefore you shall serve your
enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst,
and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of
iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
49Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the
eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;
50a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not respect the
person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
51and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you
are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil,
the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52They shall besiege you in all your
gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you
trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all
your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
53You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of
your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in
the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
54The man who 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 has remaining;
55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children
whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in
the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not
adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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,
57and toward her
young one who comes 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 with which your enemy shall
distress you in your gates.
58If you will not observe to do all
the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear
this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
59then Yahweh
will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even
great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.
60He will bring on you again all the diseases
of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you.
61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in
the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.
62You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as
the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
63It shall happen that as Yahweh
rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will
rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you
shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.
64Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of
the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve
other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
65Among these nations you shall find no ease, and
there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give
you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
66and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall
fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
67In the morning you shall say, 'I wish it were evening!' and at evening
you shall say, 'I wish it were morning!' for the fear of your heart
which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
68Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the
way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there
you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for
bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
Deuteronomy 29:1-29
1These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before
your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
3the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
4but Yahweh has not given you a
heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
Romans 11:8
5I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown
old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
6You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that
you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
7When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out
against us to battle, and we struck them:
8and we took their
land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
9Keep therefore the words of this covenant,
and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
10You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your
God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
11your little ones, your wives, and your
foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your
wood to the one who draws your water;
12that you may enter into
the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your
God makes with you this day;
13that he may establish you this day
to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke
to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
15but with him who stands here with us this day before
Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we
came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
17and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone,
silver and gold, which were among them);
18lest there should be
among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away
this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations;
lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
19and it happen, when he hears 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.'
20Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and
his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is
written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
21Yahweh will set him apart to 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.
22The generation to come, your children who shall rise up
after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say,
when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;
23and that the whole land of it is
sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any
grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah
and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
24even all the nations shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to
this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?'
25Then men shall say, 'Because they forsook the covenant of
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
26and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and
that he had not given to them:
27therefore the anger of Yahweh
was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
28and Yahweh 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.'
29The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things
that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 30:1-20
1It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call
them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
2and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his
voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your
children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
3that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you,
and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
4If your outcasts are in the uttermost
parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, and
from there he will bring you back:
5and Yahweh your God will
bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall
possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the
heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and
with all your soul, that you may live.
7Yahweh your God will put
all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
8You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh,
and do all his commandments which I command you this day.
9Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the
fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the
fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you
for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;
10if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes
which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
11For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not
too hard for you, neither is it far off.
12It is not in heaven,
that you should say, 'Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to
us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?'
Romans 10:6
13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who shall go over the sea for us,
and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?'
Romans 10:7
14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
Romans 10:8
15Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
16in that I command you this day to
love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments
and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply,
and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
17But if your heart turns away, and you will not
hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you
shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
19I call heaven and earth to witness
against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the
blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
20to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and
to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that
you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy 31:1-30
1Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
2He said to them, 'I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no
more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.'
3Yahweh your God, he will go over before you;
he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess
them. Joshua shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
4Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the
Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
5Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all
the commandment which I have commanded you.
6Be strong and courageous, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your
God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.'
Hebrews 13:5
7Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all
Israel, 'Be strong and courageous: for you shall go with this people
into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and
you shall cause them to inherit it.
8Yahweh, he it is who does go
before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake
you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.'
9Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the
sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all
the elders of Israel.
10Moses commanded them, saying, 'At the end
of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents,
11when all Israel has come to appear before
Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this
law before all Israel in their hearing.
12Assemble the people,
the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is
within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and
fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;
13and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and
learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where
you go over the Jordan to possess it.'
14Yahweh said to Moses, 'Behold, your days approach that you
must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting,
that I may commission him.' Moses and Joshua went, and presented
themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
15Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the
pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
16Yahweh said to
Moses, 'Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will
rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land,
where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my
covenant which I have made with them.
17Then my anger shall be
kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will
hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and
troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day,
'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?'
18I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which
they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
19'Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it
to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may
be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
20For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers,
flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled
themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve
them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
21It shall happen,
when many evils and troubles have come on 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 swore.'
22So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
23He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, 'Be strong
and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the
land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.'
24It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words
of this law in a book, until they were finished,
25that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,
26'Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of
the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff
neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been
rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?
28Assemble to 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.
29For I know that after my death you will
utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have
commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because
you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him
to anger through the work of your hands.'
30Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the
words of this song, until they were finished.
Deuteronomy 32:1-52
1Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2My doctrine shall drop as the rain.
My speech shall condense as the dew,
as the small rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.
3For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh.
Ascribe greatness to our God!
4The Rock, his work is perfect,
for all his ways are justice:
a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children,
because of their defect.
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
6Do you thus requite Yahweh,
foolish people and unwise?
Isn't he your father who has bought you?
He has made you, and established you.
7Remember the days of old.
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
your elders, and they will tell you.
8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the children of men,
he set the bounds of the peoples
according to the number of the children of Israel.
9For Yahweh's portion is his people.
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10He found him in a desert land,
in the waste howling wilderness.
He surrounded him.
He cared for him.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
11As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
that flutters over her young,
he spread abroad his wings, he took them,
he bore them on his feathers.
12Yahweh alone led him.
There was no foreign god with him.
13He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
He ate the increase of the field.
He caused him to suck honey out of the rock,
oil out of the flinty rock;
14Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,
with fat of lambs,
rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
with the finest of the wheat.
Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
You have grown fat.
You have grown thick.
You have become sleek.
Then he forsook God who made him,
and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
They provoked him to anger with abominations.
17They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods that they didn't know,
to new gods that came up recently,
which your fathers didn't dread.
18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
19Yahweh saw and abhorred,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
20He 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.
21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22For a fire is kindled in my anger,
Burns to the lowest Sheol1,
Devours the earth with its increase,
and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
23'I will heap evils on them.
I will spend my arrows on them.
24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat
and bitter destruction.
I will send the teeth of animals on them,
With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
25Outside the sword shall bereave,
and in the rooms, terror;
on both young man and virgin,
The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
26I said, I would scatter them afar.
I would make their memory to cease from among men;
27were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted,
Yahweh has not done all this.''
28For they are a nation void of counsel.
There is no understanding in them.
29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
that they would consider their latter end!
30How could one chase a thousand,
and two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and Yahweh had delivered them up?
31For their rock is not as our Rock,
even our enemies themselves being judges.
32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
of the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter.
33Their wine is the poison of serpents,
The cruel venom of asps.
34'Isn't this laid up in store with me,
sealed up among my treasures?
35Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
Romans 12:19
Hebrews 10:30
at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand.
The things that are to come on them shall make haste.'
36For Yahweh will judge his people,
Hebrews 10:30
and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
There is none remaining, shut up or left at large.
37He will say, 'Where are their gods,
The rock in which they took refuge;
38Which ate 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.
39'See now that I, even I, am he,
There is no god with me.
I kill, and I make alive.
I wound, and I heal.
There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
40For I lift up my hand to heaven,
And say, As I live forever,
41if I whet my glittering sword,
My hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to my adversaries,
and will recompense those who hate me.
42I will make my arrows drunk with blood.
My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the head of the leaders of the enemy.'
43Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants.
He will render vengeance to his adversaries,
And will make expiation for his land, for his people.
Romans 15:10
44Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears
of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
45Moses made an end
of speaking all these words to all Israel;
46He said to them,
'Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which
you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
47For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life,
and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where
you go over the Jordan to possess it.'
48Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
49'Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of
Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I
give to the children of Israel for a possession;
50and die on the
mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your
brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
51
because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of
Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin;
because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.
52For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go
there into the land which I give the children of Israel.'
Deuteronomy 33:1-29
1This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed
the children of Israel before his death.
2He said, 'Yahweh came from Sinai,
And rose from Seir to them.
He shone forth from Mount Paran.
He came from the ten thousands of holy ones.
At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
3Yes, he loves the people.
All his saints are in your hand.
They sat down at your feet;
each receives your words.
4Moses commanded us a law,
An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
5He was king in Jeshurun,
When the heads of the people were gathered,
All the tribes of Israel together.
6'Let Reuben live, and not die;
Nor let his men be few.'
7This is for Judah. He said,
'Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah.
Bring him in to his people.
With his hands he contended for himself.
You shall be a help against his adversaries.'
8Of Levi he said,
'Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
whom you proved at Massah,
with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah;
9who said of his father, and of his mother, 'I have not seen him;'
Neither did he acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he know his own children:
For they have observed your word,
and keep your covenant.
10They shall teach Jacob your ordinances,
and Israel your law.
They shall put incense before you,
and whole burnt offering on your altar.
11Yahweh, bless his substance.
Accept the work of his hands.
Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him,
of those who hate him, that they not rise again.'
12Of Benjamin he said,
'The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him.
He covers him all the day long.
He dwells between his shoulders.'
13Of Joseph he said, 'His land is blessed by Yahweh,
for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew,
for the deep that couches beneath,
14for the precious things of the fruits of the sun,
for the precious things of the growth of the moons,
15for the chief things of the ancient mountains,
for the precious things of the everlasting hills,
16for the precious things of the earth and its fullness,
the good will of him who lived in the bush2.
Let this come on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
17The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his.
His horns are the horns of the wild ox.
With them he shall push all of the peoples, to the ends of the earth:
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim.
They are the thousands of Manasseh.'
18Of Zebulun he said,
'Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
and Issachar, in your tents.
19They shall call the peoples to the mountain.
There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness,
for they shall draw out the abundance of the seas,
the hidden treasures of the sand.'
20Of Gad he said,
'He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
He dwells as a lioness,
and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
21He provided the first part for himself,
for there was the lawgiver's portion reserved.
He came with the heads of the people.
He executed the righteousness of Yahweh,
His ordinances with Israel.'
22Of Dan he said,
'Dan is a lion's cub
that leaps out of Bashan.'
23Of Naphtali he said,
'Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
full of the blessing of Yahweh,
Possess the west and the south.'
24Of Asher he said,
'Asher is blessed with children.
Let him be acceptable to his brothers.
Let him dip his foot in oil.
25Your bars shall be iron and brass.
As your days, so your strength will be.
26'There is none like God, Jeshurun,
who rides on the heavens for your help,
In his excellency on the skies.
27The eternal God is your dwelling place.
Underneath are the everlasting arms.
He thrust out the enemy from before you,
and said, 'Destroy!'
28Israel dwells in safety;
the fountain of Jacob alone,
In a land of grain and new wine.
Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
29You are happy, Israel.
Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
the shield of your help,
the sword of your excellency!
Your enemies shall submit themselves to you.
You shall tread on their high places.'
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
1Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the
top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
2and all Naphtali, and the land of
Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the hinder sea,
3and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
4Yahweh said to him, 'This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give
it to your seed.' I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.'
5So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh.
6He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day.
7Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
8The 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.
9Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
10There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
11in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
12and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.
| Deuteronomy Footnotes: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deuteronomy 32:22 | Sheol is the place of the dead. |
| 2 | Deuteronomy 33:16 | i. e. the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4. |