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