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