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The Book of Deuteronomy

 

Deuteronomy 1

The Command to Leave Horeb
(Exodus 33:1–6)

1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on the east side of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against Suf, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 (There are eleven days journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to 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 spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them; 4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 5 On the east side of Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

6 The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and to all the places nigh to it, in the plain, on the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea-side, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.

Moses Appoints Leaders
(Exodus 18:13–27)

9 And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you 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 you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!) 12 How can I alone bear your encumbrance, 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 you answered me, and said, The thing which you have 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 You are not to respect persons in judgment; but you will hear the small as well as the great; you will not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

Twelve Spies Sent Out
(Numbers 13:1–33)

19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you 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 to you, You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give to us. 21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has said to you; fear not, neither be discouraged.

22 And you came near to me everyone of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they will explore the land for us, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we will come. 23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: 24 And they turned and ascended the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and explored it. 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

Israel’s Rebellion
(Numbers 14:1–12)

26 Notwithstanding, you would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: 27 And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth from the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whither will we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people are 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 to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God who goeth before you; he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 And in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God bore you, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came into this place. 32 Yet in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went in the way before you, to search out for you a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.

Israel’s Penalty
(Numbers 14:20–35)

34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, 35 Surely there will not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, 36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he will see it, and to him will I give the land that he has trod upon, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD. 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also are not to go in thither. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before you, he will go in thither. Encourage him: for he will cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover, your little ones, which you said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they will go in thither, and to them will I give it, and they will possess it. 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

The Defeat at Hormah
(Numbers 14:40–45)

41 Then you answered and said to 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 you had girded on every man his weapons of war, you were ready to ascend the hill. 42 And the LORD said to me, Say to them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be smitten before your enemies. 43 So I spoke to you; and you would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and presumptuously ascended the hill. 44 And the Amorites, who dwelt on that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even to Hormah. 45 And you returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not listen to your voice, nor give ear to you. 46 So you abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you abode there.

 

Deuteronomy 2

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Wanderings in the Wilderness

1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spoke to me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. 2 And the LORD spoke to me, saying, 3 You have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 4 And command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: therefore take you good heed to yourselves: 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 to Esau for a possession. 6 You will buy food of them for money, that you may eat; and you will also buy water of them for money, that you may drink. 7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand: he knoweth your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD your God has been with you: you have lacked nothing.

8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who 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 to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give you of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession. 10 (The Emims dwelt in it in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims; 11 Who also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. 12 The Horims also dwelt formerly in Seir, but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.) 13 Now rise, said I, and pass over the brook Zered: and we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we passed the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted from among the host, as the LORD swore to them. 15 For Truly 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 spoke to me, saying, 18 You are to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: 19 And when you comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession. 20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt in it 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, who dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even to this day: 23 And the Avims who dwelt in Hazerim even to Azzah, the Caphtorims, who came forth from Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

The Defeat of Sihon
(Numbers 21:21–30)

24 Arise you, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 25 This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who will hear report of you, and will tremble, and be in anguish because of you.

26 And I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27 Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left. 28 You shalt sell me food 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 who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me;) until I will 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 your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as appeareth this day. 31 And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may 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 to 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 to Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all to us: 37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon you camest not, nor to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities on the mountains, nor to whatever the LORD our God forbad us.

 

Deuteronomy 3

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The Defeat of Og
(Numbers 21:31–35)

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 to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you will do to him as you didst to Sihon king of the Amorites, who 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, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to 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 of Jordan, from the river of Arnon to 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, to 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 of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Land Division East of the Jordan
(Numbers 32:1–42; Joshua 13:8–14)

12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, I gave to 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, to the borders of Geshuri, and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, to this day. 15 And I gave Gilead to Machir. 16 And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon: 17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast of it, from Chinnereth even to 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 has given you this land to possess it; you will 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 you have many cattle,) will abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 Until the LORD will have given rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God has given them beyond Jordan: and then will you return every man to his possession which I have given you. 21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thy eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings: so will the LORD do to all the kingdoms whither you passest. 22 You are not to fear them: for the LORD your God he will fight for you.

Moses Forbidden to Cross the Jordan
(Numbers 27:12–17)

23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, 24 O Lord GOD, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your might? 25 I pray you, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter. 27 Ascend to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with your eyes: for you are not to go over this Jordan. 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he will go over before this people, and he will cause them to inherit the land which you will see. 29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.

 

Deuteronomy 4

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An Exhortation to Obedience
(Deuteronomy 11:1–7)

1 Now therefore listen, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, which I teach you, to do them, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. 2 You are not to add to the word which I command you, neither will you diminish aught from it, that you 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 your God has destroyed them from among you. 4 But you who adhered to the LORD your God, are alive everyone of you this day.

5 Behold, I have taught you statutes, and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land whither you 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 will hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there so great, which has God so nigh to 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 has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you shouldst forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons’ sons: 10 Specially the day that you stoodest before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they will live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. 11 And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. 12 And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only you heard a voice. 13 And he declared to 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 you might do them in the land whither you go over to possess it.

A Warning against Idolatry
(Deuteronomy 12:29–32; Ezekiel 6:1–7)

15 Take you therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; 16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make to 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 birds 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 you shouldst lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldst be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven. 20 But the LORD has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, even from Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as you are this day.

21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not enter that good land which the LORD your God giveth you for an inheritance: 22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but you will go over, and possess that good land. 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you 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 your God has forbidden you. 24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

25 When you will beget children, and children’s children, and you will have remained long in the land, and will corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and will do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger: 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land to which you go over Jordan to possess it; you will not prolong your days upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 And the LORD will scatter you among the nations, and you will be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD will lead you. 28 And there you will 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 you will seek the LORD your God, you will find him, if you will seek him with all your heart, and with all your soul. 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things have come upon you, even in the latter days, if you will turn to the LORD your God, and shalt be obedient to his voice; 31 (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers, which he swore to them.

The LORD Alone Is God

32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? 33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 Or has God essayed 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 an out-stretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 To you it was shown, that you mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none besides him. 36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you; and upon earth he showed you his great fire; and you heardst his words from the midst of the fire. 37 And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out of Egypt in his sight with his mighty power. 38 To drive out nations from before you, greater and mightier than you are, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. 40 You shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which I command you this day, that it may be well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days upon the earth, which the LORD your God giveth you, for ever.

Cities of Refuge
(Numbers 35:9–34; Deuteronomy 19:1–14; Joshua 20:1–9)

41 Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of Jordan, towards the sun-rising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, who should kill his neighbor unawares, and when he had not hated him in times past; and that fleeing to 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.

Introduction to the Law

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 spoke to the children of Israel, after they came forth from Egypt, 46 On the east side of 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 had come forth from Egypt: 47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on the side of Jordan, towards the sun-rising; 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even to mount Sion, which is Hermon, 49 And all the plain on the side of Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

 

Deuteronomy 5

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The Covenant at Horeb

1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that you 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 on the mount, from the midst of the fire,

The Ten Commandments
(Exodus 20:1–17)

5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the Word of the LORD: for you were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up upon the mount;) saying,

6 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

7 You shalt have no other gods before me.

8 You are not to make for you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 You are not to bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 10 And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

11 You are not to take the name of the LORD your 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 your God has commanded you. 13 Six days you will labor, and do all your work: 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you are not to do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you. 15 And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and by an out-stretched arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath-day.

16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may be well with you, in the land which the LORD your God giveth you.

17 You are not to kill.

18 Neither you will commit adultery.

19 Neither you will steal.

20 Neither you will bear false witness against your neighbor.

21 Neither you will desire your neighbor’s wife, neither you will covet your neighbor’s house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is your neighbor’s.

Moses Intercedes for the People
(Exodus 20:18–21; Hebrews 12:18–29)

22 These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount from 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 to me. 23 And it came to pass, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And you said, Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from 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 will die. 26 For who is there of all flesh that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27 Go you near, and hear all that the LORD our God will say; and speak you to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.

28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and the LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoke to you: they have well said all that they have spoken. 29 O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! 30 Go, say to them, Return to your tents again. 31 But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which you will teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it. 32 You will observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: you will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 You will walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

 

Deuteronomy 6

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The Greatest Commandment
(Matthew 22:34–40; Mark 12:28–34)

1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you may do them in the land whither you go to possess it: 2 That you mayst fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life: and that your days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.

4 Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And you will love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6 And these words which I command you this day, will be in your heart: 7 And you will teach them diligently to your children, and shalt talk of them when you sittest in your house, and when you walkest by the way, and when you liest down, and when you risest up. 8 And you will bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they will be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 And you will write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates.

10 And it will be, when the LORD your God will have brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and goodly cities, which you didst not build, 11 And houses full of all good things, which you didst not fill, and wells digged, which you didst not dig, vineyards and olive-trees, which you didst not plant; when you will have eaten and be full; 12 Then beware lest you shouldst forget the LORD, who brought you forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13 You shalt fear the LORD your God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. 14 You are not to go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are around you; 15 (For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God should be kindled against you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth.

16 You are not to tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah. 17 You will diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18 And you will do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers, 19 To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

Teach Your Children

20 And when your son will ask you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you? 21 Then you will say to your son, We were Pharoah’s bond-men in Egypt: and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and distressing, 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 swore to 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 will be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.

 

Deuteronomy 7

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Drive Out the Nations

1 When the LORD your God will bring you into the land whither you goest to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perrizites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you; 2 And when the LORD your God will deliver them before you, you will smite them and utterly destroy them, you will make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them: 3 Neither you will make marriages with them; your daughter you are not to give to his son, nor his daughter you will take to your son. 4 For they will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly. 5 But thus will you deal with them; you will destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. 6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people to 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 you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bond-men, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who 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 You shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them.

The Promises of God
(Exodus 23:20–33)

12 Wherefore it will come to pass, if you listen to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD your God will keep to you the covenant and the mercy which he swore to your fathers: 13 And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you: he will also bless your children, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shalt be blessed above all people: there will not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you knowest) upon you; but will lay them upon all them that hate you. 16 And you will consume all the people which the LORD your God will deliver to you; your eye will have no pity upon them: neither you will serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

17 If you will say in your heart, These nations are more than I, how can I dispossess them? 18 You are not to be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; 19 The great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the out-stretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out: so will the LORD your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid. 20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from you, will be destroyed. 21 You are not to be affrighted at them: for the LORD your God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. 22 And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you. 23 But the LORD your God will deliver them to you, and will destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed. 24 And he will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven: there will no man be able to stand before you, until you will have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods will you burn with fire: you are not to desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you shouldst be snared in it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. 26 Neither you will bring an abomination into your house, lest you shouldst be a cursed thing like it: but you will utterly detest it, and you will utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

 

Deuteronomy 8

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Remember the LORD Your God

1 All the commandments which I command you this day will you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers. 2 And you will remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you wouldst keep his commandments, or not. 3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knewest not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you 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 has not become old upon you, neither has your foot swelled these forty years. 5 You shalt also consider in your heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD your God chasteneth you. 6 Therefore you will keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the LORD your God bringeth you 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 olive-oil, and honey; 9 A land in which you will eat bread without scarceness, you are not to lack any thing in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass. 10 When you have eaten and are full, then you will bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.

11 Beware that you forget not the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day: 12 Lest when you have eaten, and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in them; 13 And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are increased, and all that you have is increased; 14 Then your heart will be lifted up, and you will forget the LORD your God (who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;) 15 Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drouth, where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end. 17 And you will say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. 18 But you will remember the LORD your God: for it is he that giveth you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 And it will be, if you will at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you will surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so will you perish; because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.

 

Deuteronomy 9

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Assurance of Victory

1 Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you knowest, and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the children of Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he who goeth over before you; as a consuming fire he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before your face: so you will drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.

4 Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before you. 5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart dost you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD your God doth drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God giveth you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

The Golden Calf
(Exodus 32:1–35; Acts 7:39–43)

7 Remember, and forget not, how you provokedst the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you didst depart from the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I ascended 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 ate bread, nor drank water: 10 And the LORD delivered to me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD spoke with you in the mount, from 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 to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence; for your people which you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 13 Furthermore, the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people: 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you 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, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I neither ate bread, nor drank water, because of all your sins which you 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 with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you.) But the LORD listened to me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which you 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 of it into the brook that descended from the mount.

22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah, you 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 you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you believed him not, nor listened to his voice. 24 You 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 to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 28 Lest the land from which you have brought us should say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance which you have brought out by your mighty power and by your out-stretched arm.

 

Deuteronomy 10

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New Stone Tablets
(Exodus 34:1–9)

1 At that time the LORD said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me upon the mount, and make you an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which you didst break, and you will put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and ascended the mount, having the two tables in my hand. 4 And he wrote on the tables according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you in the mount, from the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to 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 are, as the LORD commanded me.

6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jakan to Mosira: 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 to 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 to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. 9 Wherefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God promised him.

10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first-time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD listened to me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy you. 11 And the LORD said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.

A Call to Obedience
(Joshua 24:14–28)

12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belongeth to the LORD your God, the earth also, with all that it contains. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in your 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 stiff-necked. 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: 18 He executeth the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 You shalt fear the LORD your God; him you will serve, and to him you will cleave, and swear by his name. 21 He is your praise, and he is your God, that has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

 

Deuteronomy 11

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Obedience and Discipline
(Deuteronomy 4:1–14)

1 Therefore you will love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always. 2 And know you this day: for I speak not with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his out-stretched arm, 3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 4 And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day; 5 And what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; 6 And what he did to 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.

God’s Great Blessings
(Joshua 1:1–9)

8 Therefore will you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither you go to possess it; 9 And that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed, a land that flows with milk and honey. 10 For the land, whither you goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you didst sow your seed, and water it with your foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither you 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 your God careth for: the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

13 And it will come to pass, if you will listen diligently to 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 its due season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine and your oil. 15 And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, that you may eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORD’S wrath will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heaven, that there will be no rain, and the land will not yield her fruit; and lest you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

Remember God’s Words

18 Therefore will you 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 you will teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sittest in your house, and when you walkest by the way, when you liest down, and when you risest up. 20 And you will write them upon the door posts of your house, and upon your gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if you will 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 to him; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and you will possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place on which the soles of your feet will tread will be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea will your limit be. 25 There will no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God will lay the fear of you, and the dread of you upon all the land that you will tread upon, as he has said to you.

A Blessing and a Curse

26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27 A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day; 28 And a curse, if you will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which you have not known.

29 And it will come to pass when the LORD your God has brought you in to the land whither you goest to possess it, that you will put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side of Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31 For you will pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and you will possess it, and dwell in it. 32 And you will observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

 

Deuteronomy 12

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One Place for Worship

1 These are the statutes and judgments which you will observe to do in the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth. 2 You will utterly destroy all the places in which the nations which you will possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And you will overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you will hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 4 You are not to do so to the LORD your God. 5 But the place which the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even his habitation will you seek, and thither you will come: 6 And thither you will bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and of your flocks: 7 And there you will eat before the LORD your God, and you will rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

8 You are not to do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes. 9 For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you. 10 But when you 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 on every side, so that you dwell in safety: 11 Then there will be a place which the LORD your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither will you 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 you vow to the LORD: 12 And you will rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he has no part nor inheritance with you.

13 Take heed to thyself that you offer not your burnt-offerings in every place that you seest: 14 But in the place which the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you will offer your burnt-offerings, and there you will do all that I command you.

15 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul desireth, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. 16 Only you will not eat the blood; you will pour it upon the earth as water. 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your corn, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vowest, nor your free-will-offerings, or heave-offering of your hand: 18 But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God will choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you puttest thine hands to. 19 Take heed to thyself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you livest upon the earth.

20 When the LORD your God will enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you will say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longeth to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul desireth. 21 If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there, will be too far from you, then you will kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you will eat in your gates whatever your soul desireth. 22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so you will eat them: the unclean and the clean will eat of them alike. 23 Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh. 24 You are not to eat it: you will pour it upon the earth as water. 25 You are not to eat it; that it may be well with you, and with your children after you, when you will do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you will take, and go to the place which the LORD will choose: 27 And you will offer your burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD your God: and the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out upon the altar of the LORD your God, and you will eat the flesh.

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may be well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when you doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

A Warning against Idolatry
(Deuteronomy 4:15–31; Ezekiel 6:1–7)

29 When the LORD your God will cut off the nations from before you, whither you goest to possess them, and you succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; 30 Take heed to thyself that you be not snared by following them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 You are not to do so to the LORD your God; for every abomination to the LORD which he hateth have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

32 Whatever thing I command you, observe to do it: you are not to add to it, nor diminish from it.

 

Deuteronomy 13

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Idolaters to Be Put to Death

1 If there will arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and give you a sign or a wonder. 2 And the sign or the wonder will come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them; 3 You are not to listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You will walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you will serve him, and cleave to him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, will be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So you will remove the evil from the midst of you.

6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, will entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people who are around you, nigh to you, or far off from you, from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; 8 You are not to consent to him, nor listen to him; neither will your eye pity him, neither you will spare, neither you will conceal him: 9 But you will surely kill him; your hand will be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And you will stone him with stones that he will die; because he has sought to thrust you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage. 11 And all Israel will hear, and fear, and will do no more any such wickedness as this is, among you.

Idolatrous Cities to Be Destroyed

12 If you will hear, in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, have gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known; 14 Then you will inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it is truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 15 You shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is in it, and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 16 And you will gather all the spoil of it into the midst of its street, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, for the LORD your God: and it will be a heap forever; it are not to be built again. 17 And there will cleave naught of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; 18 When you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

 

Deuteronomy 14

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Clean and Unclean Animals
(Leviticus 11:1–47; Acts 10:9–16)

1 You are the children of the LORD your God: you will not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

3 You are not to eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which you will 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 you will eat. 7 Nevertheless, these you will not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean to you. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, is unclean to you: you will not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.

9 These you will eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales will you eat: 10 And whatever has not fins and scales you may not eat; it is unclean to you.

11 Of all clean birds you will eat. 12 But these are they of which you will not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vultur 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 animal that flieth is unclean to you: they will not be eaten. 20 But of all clean birds you may eat.

21 You are not to eat of any thing that dieth of itself: you will give it to the stranger that is in your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You are not to seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

Giving Tithes
(Leviticus 27:30–34; Deuteronomy 26:1–15; Nehemiah 13:10–14)

22 You shalt truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And you will eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he will choose to place his name there, the tithe of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. 24 And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God will choose to set his name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you: 25 Then you will turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shalt go to the place which the LORD your God will choose: 26 And you will bestow that money for whatever your soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desireth: and you will eat there before the LORD your God, and you will rejoice, you, and your household. 27 And the Levite that is within your gates, you are not to forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

28 At the end of three years you will bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within your gates: 29 And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, will come, and will eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you doest.

 

Deuteronomy 15

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The Seventh Year
(Exodus 23:10–13; Leviticus 25:1–7)

1 At the end of every seven years you will make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth aught to his neighbor will release it; he will not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’S release. 3 Of a foreigner you may exact it again: but that which is thine with your brother your hand will release: 4 Save when there will be no poor among you; for the LORD will greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God giveth you for an inheritance to possess it: 5 Only if you will carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day. 6 For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you will lend to many nations, but you are not to borrow; and you will reign over many nations, but they will not reign over you.

Generosity in Lending and Giving
(Matthew 6:1–4)

7 If there will be among you a poor man of one of your brethren within any of your gates in your land which the LORD the God giveth you, you are not to harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother: 8 But you will open your hand wide to him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye will be evil against your poor brother, and you will give him naught; and he will cry to the LORD against you, and it will be sin to you. 10 You shalt surely give him, and your heart will not be grieved when you givest to him: because that for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your works, and in all that you puttest your hand to. 11 For the poor will never cease from the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shalt open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.

Hebrew Servants
(Exodus 21:1–11)

12 And if your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, will be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you will let him go free from you. 13 And when you sendest him out free from you, you are not to let him depart empty: 14 You shalt furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your floor, and out of your wine-press: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you you will give to him. 15 And you will remember that you were a bond-man in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing this day. 16 And it will be, if he will say to you, I will not leave you; because he loveth you and your house, because he is well with you; 17 Then you will take an awl, and thrust it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And also to your maid-servant you will do likewise.

18 It will not seem hard to you, when you sendest him away free from you; for he has been of double the worth of a hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God will bless you in all that you doest.

Firstborn Animals
(Exodus 13:1–16)

19 All the firstling males that come of your herd and of your flock you will sanctify to the LORD your God: you will do no work with the firstling of your bullock, nor shear the firstling of your sheep. 20 You shalt eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD will choose, you and your household. 21 And if there is any blemish in it, as if it is lame, or blind, or has any ill blemish, you are not to sacrifice it to the LORD your God. 22 You shalt eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person will eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. 23 Only you are not to eat its blood; you will pour it upon the ground as water.

 

Deuteronomy 16

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Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
(Exodus 12:14–28; Leviticus 23:4–8; Numbers 28:16–25)

1 Observe the month Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth from Egypt by night. 2 You shalt therefore sacrifice the passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD will choose to place his name there. 3 You shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you will eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction; for you camest forth from the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you camest forth from the land of Egypt, all the days of your life. 4 And there will be no leavened bread seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither will there any thing of the flesh, which you didst sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. 5 You may not sacrifice the passover within any of your gates, which the LORD your God giveth you. 6 But at the place which the LORD your God will choose to place his name in, there you will sacrifice the passover at evening, at the setting of the sun, at the time of your departure from Egypt. 7 And you will roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God will choose: and you will turn in the morning, and go to your tents. 8 Six days you will eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day will be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God: in it you will do no work.

The Feast of Weeks
(Numbers 28:26–31)

9 Seven weeks you will number to you: begin to number the seven weeks from the time when you beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. 10 And you will keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a free-will-offering of your hand, which you will give to the LORD your God, according as the LORD your God has blessed you: 11 And you will rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there. 12 And you will remember that you were a bond-man in Egypt: and you will observe and do these statutes.

The Feast of Tabernacles
(Numbers 29:12–40)

13 You shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in your corn, and your wine. 14 And you will rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates: 15 Seven days you will keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD will choose: because the LORD your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you will surely rejoice.

16 Three times in a year will all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which he will choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they will not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man will give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.

Judges and Justice

18 Judges and officers you will make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God giveth you, throughout your tribes: and they will judge the people with just judgment. 19 You are not to wrest judgment; you are not to 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 you will follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God giveth you.

Forbidden Forms of Worship

21 You are not to plant you a grove of any trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you will make for you. 22 Neither you will set you up any image; which the LORD your God hateth.

 

Deuteronomy 17

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Detestable Sacrifices

1 You are not to sacrifice to the LORD your God any bullock, or sheep, in which is blemish, or any evil favoredness: for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Purge the Idolater

2 If there will be found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God giveth you, man or woman that has wrought wickedness in the sight of of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it will be told you, and you have heard of it, and inquired diligently, and behold, it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then you will bring forth to your gates that man or that woman, who have committed that wicked thing, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, until they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, will he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he will not be put to death. 7 The hands of the witnesses will be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you will remove the evil from among you.

Courts of Law

8 If there will arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates: then you will arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God will choose; 9 And you will come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that will be in those days, and inquire; and they will show you the sentence of judgment: 10 And you will do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD will choose will show you; and you will observe to do according to all that they inform you: 11 According to the sentence of the law which they will teach you, and according to the judgment which they will tell you, you will do: you are not to decline from the sentence which they will show you, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not listen to the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man will die: and you will remove the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people will hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Guidelines for a King
(1 Samuel 8:1–9)

14 When you are come into the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in it, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; 15 You shalt in any wise set him king over you whom the LORD your God will choose: one from among your brethren you will set king over you: you may not set a stranger over you, who is not your brother. 16 But he will 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 has said to you, you will henceforth return no more that way. 17 Neither will he multiply wives to himself, that his heart may turn not away: neither will he greatly accumulate to himself silver and gold.

18 And it will be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he will write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites. 19 And it will be with him, and he will read in it 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 may not be lifted above his brethren, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

 

Deuteronomy 18

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Provision for Priests and Levites
(1 Corinthians 9:1–18)

1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, will have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they will eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 Therefore will they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he has said to them.

3 And this will be the priest’s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether ox or sheep; and they will give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4 The first-fruit also of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you will give him. 5 For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

6 And if a Levite will come from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD will choose; 7 Then he will minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD. 8 They will have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

Sorcery Forbidden
(Acts 8:9–25)

9 When you are come into the land which the LORD your God giveth you, you are not to learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There will 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 to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God doth drive them out from before you. 13 You shalt be perfect with the LORD your God. 14 For these nations, which you will possess, listened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not suffered you so to do.

A Prophet Like Moses
(Acts 3:11–26)

15 The LORD your God will raise up to you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like to me; to him you will listen. 16 According to all that you desiredst of the LORD your 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 may not die. 17 And the LORD said to me, They have well spoken of that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise up to them a prophet from among their brethren, like you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he will speak to them all that I will command him. 19 And it will come to pass, that whoever will not listen to my words which he will speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet, who will presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that will speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet will die. 21 And if you will say in your heart, How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing doth not follow, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you are not to be afraid of him.

 

Deuteronomy 19

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Cities of Refuge
(Numbers 35:9–34; Deuteronomy 4:41–43; Joshua 20:1–9)

1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations, whose land the LORD your God giveth you, and you succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 2 You shalt separate three cities for you in the midst of your land which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it. 3 You shalt prepare you a way, and divide the limits of your land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

4 And this is the case of the slayer, who will flee thither, that he may live: Whoever killeth his neighbor ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; 5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand maketh a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and falleth upon his neighbor, that he dieth: he will flee to one of these cities, and live: 6 Lest the avenger of blood will 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 you, saying, You shalt separate three cities for you.

8 And if the LORD your God will enlarge your limits, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; 9 If you will keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you will add three cities more for you, besides these three: 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God giveth you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you.

11 But if any man will hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally, that he dieth, and he will flee into one of these cities: 12 Then the elders of his city will send and bring him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Thy eye will not pity him, but you will remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with you.

14 You are not to remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.

The Testimony of Two or Three Witnesses
(Matthew 18:15–20)

15 One witness will 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, will the matter be established. 16 If a false witness will rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; 17 Then both the men between whom the controversy is will stand before the LORD, before the priests, and the judges, who will be in those days; 18 And the judges will make diligent inquisition: and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then will you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so you will remove the evil from among you. 20 And those who remain will hear, and fear, and will henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And your eye will not pity; but life will go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

 

Deuteronomy 20

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Laws of Warfare

1 When you goest out to battle against your enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than you, be not afraid of them: for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 2 And it will be when you are come nigh to the battle, that the priest will approach and speak to the people, 3 And will say to them, Hear, O Israel, you approach this day to battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be you 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 will speak to the people, saying, What man is there that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle, and another man should dedicate it. 6 And what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and has not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle, and another man should eat of it. 7 And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he should die in battle, and another man should take her. 8 And the officers will speak further to the people, and they will say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brethren’s heart should faint as well as his heart. 9 And it will be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they will make captains of the armies to lead the people.

10 When you comest nigh to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. 11 And it will be, if it will make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it will be, that all the people that are found therein, will be tributaries to you, and they will serve you. 12 And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you will besiege it: 13 And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you will smite every male of it 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 of it, you will take to thyself: and you will eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. 15 Thus you will do to all the cities which are very distant from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 But of the cities of these people which the LORD your God doth give you for an inheritance, you will save alive nothing that breatheth: 17 But you will utterly destroy them, namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded you: 18 That they may not teach you to do after all their abominations which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.

19 When you will besiege a city a long time in making war against it to take it, you are not to destroy the trees of it by forcing an ax against them; for you may eat of them: and you are not to cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the trees which you knowest that they are not trees for food, you will destroy and cut them down; and you will build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with you, until it will be subdued.

 

Deuteronomy 21

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Atonement for an Unsolved Murder

1 If one will be found slain in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who has slain him: 2 Then your elders and your judges will come forth, and they will measure to the cities which are around him that is slain: 3 And it will be that the city which is next to the slain man, even the elders of that city will take a heifer which has not been wrought with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of that city will bring down the heifer to a rough valley, which is neither tilled nor sown, and will strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley; 5 And the priests the sons of Levi will come near (for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD) and by their word will every controversy and every stroke be tried; 6 And all the elders of that city that are next to the slain man, will wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: 7 And they will answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Be merciful, O LORD, to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to the charge of your people Israel. And the blood will be forgiven them. 9 So you will remove the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you will do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

Marrying a Captive Woman

10 When you goest forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive, 11 And you seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to her, that you wouldest have her for your wife: 12 Then you will bring her home to your house, and she will shave her head, and pare her nails: 13 And she will put off from her the raiment of her captivity, and will remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that, you will go in to her, and be her husband, and she will be your wife. 14 And it will be, if you will have no delight in her, then you will let her go whither she will; but you are not to sell her at all for money; you are not to make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.

Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn

15 If a man will have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated: 16 Then it will be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not prefer the son of the beloved first-born, before the son of the hated, which is Truly the first-born: 17 But he will acknowledge the son of the hated for the first-born, by giving him a double portion of all that he has: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

A Rebellious Son
(Luke 15:11–32)

18 If a man will have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them: 19 Then will his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 20 And they will say to 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 will stone him with stones, that he may die: so you will remove evil from among you, and all Israel will hear, and fear.

Cursed Is Anyone Hung on a Tree

22 And if a man will have committed a sin worthy of death, and he must be put to death, and you will hang him on a tree: 23 His body will not remain all night upon the tree, but you will in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that your land may not be defiled, which the LORD your God giveth you for an inheritance.

 

Deuteronomy 22

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Various Laws

1 You are not to see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: you will in any case bring them again to your brother. 2 And if your brother will not be nigh to you, or if you are not to know him, then you will bring it to your own house, and it will be with you until your brother will seek after it, and you will restore it to him again. 3 In like manner you will do with his ass; and so you will do with his raiment; and with all lost things of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found, you will do likewise: you may not hide thyself. 4 You are not to see your brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: you will surely help him to lift them up again.

5 A woman will not wear that which pertaineth to a man, neither will a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination to the LORD your God.

6 If a bird’s nest will chance to be before you in the way on any tree, or on the ground, whether with young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you are not to take the dam with the young: 7 But you will in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to you; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

8 When you buildest a new house, then you will make a battlement for your roof, that you may not bring blood upon your house, if any man will fall from thence.

9 You are not to sow your vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, should be defiled.

10 You are not to plow with an ox and an ass together.

11 You are not to wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together.

12 You shalt make you fringes upon the four quarters of your vesture, with which you coverest thyself.

Marriage Violations

13 If any man will take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring 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 will the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel’s father will say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, and he hateth her, 17 And lo, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not your daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they will spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city will take that man and chastise him; 19 And they will amerce him in a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she will be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

20 But if this thing will be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: 21 Then they will bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her with stones that she may die: because she has wrought folly in Israel, to be guilty of lewdness in her father’s house: so you will remove evil from among you.

22 If a man will be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they will both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so you will remove evil from Israel.

23 If a damsel that is a virgin will be betrothed to a husband, and a man will find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 Then you will bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you will stone them with stones that they may die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife: so you will remove evil from among you.

25 But if a man will find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man will force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her will die: 26 But to the damsel you will do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and kills 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 will find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 29 Then the man that lay with her will give to the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she will be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

30 A man will not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

 

Deuteronomy 23

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Exclusion from the Congregation

1 He that is wounded or mutilated in his secrets, will not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 2 A bastard will not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation will he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite will not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation will 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 you came forth from Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5 Nevertheless, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam: but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you. 6 You are not to seek their peace, nor their prosperity all your days for ever.

7 You are not to abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother: you are not to abhor an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land. 8 The children that are fathered by them will enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

Uncleanness in the Camp
(Leviticus 15:1–12)

9 When the host goeth forth against your enemies, then keep you from every wicked thing.

10 If there will be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth to him by night, then will he go abroad out of the camp, he will not come within the camp: 11 But it will be, when evening cometh on, he will wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he will come into the camp again.

12 You shalt have a place also without the camp, whither you will go forth abroad: 13 And you will have a paddle upon your weapon: and it will be when you wilt ease thyself abroad, you will dig with it, and shalt turn back, and cover that which cometh from you: 14 For the LORD your God walketh in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore will your camp be holy: that he may see no unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

Miscellaneous Laws

15 You are not to deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to you: 16 He will dwell with you, even among you in that place which he will choose in one of your gates where it pleaseth him best: you are not to oppress him.

17 There will be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 You are not to bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are abomination to the LORD your God.

19 You are not to lend upon interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest: 20 To a stranger you may lend upon interest; but to your brother you are not to lend upon interest; that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you settest your hand to in the land whither you goest to possess it.

21 When you will vow a vow to the LORD your God, you are not to defer to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. 22 But if you will forbear to vow, it will be no sin in you. 23 That which is uttered by your lips you will keep and perform; even a free-will-offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

24 When you comest into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may satisfy your appetite with grapes at your own pleasure; but you are not to put any in your vessel.

25 When you comest into the standing-corn of your neighbor, then you may pluck the ears with your hand: but you are not to move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing-corn.

 

Deuteronomy 24

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Marriage and Divorce Laws
(Matthew 5:31–32; Luke 16:18)

1 When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it will come to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has 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 has departed from his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. 3 And if the latter husband will hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband will die, who took her to be his wife; 4 Her former husband who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you are not to cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God giveth you for an inheritance.

5 When a man has newly taken a wife, he will not go out to war, neither will he be charged with any business: but he will be free at home one year, and will cheer his wife which he has taken.

Additional Laws

6 No man will take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he taketh a man’s life for a pledge.

7 If a man will be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and will make merchandise of him, or sell him; then that thief will die; and you will remove evil from among you.

8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites will teach you: as I commanded them, so you will observe to do. 9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam by the way, after that you come forth from Egypt.

10 When you dost lend your brother any thing, you are not to go into his house to take his pledge: 11 You shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom you dost lend will bring out the pledge abroad to you: 12 And if the man is poor, you are not to sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case you will deliver to him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless you; and it will be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

14 You are not to oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates: 15 At his day you will give him his hire, neither will the sun go down upon it, for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he should cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

16 The fathers will not be put to death for the children, neither will the children be put to death for the fathers: every man will be put to death for his own sin.

17 You are not to pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s raiment for a pledge: 18 But you will remember that you were a bond-man in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you thence: therefore I command you to do this thing.

19 When you cuttest down your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you are not to go again to fetch it: it will be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beatest your olive-tree, you are not to go over the boughs again: it will be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

21 When you gatherest the grapes of your vineyard, you are not to glean it afterward: it will be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 22 And you will remember that you were a bond-man in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

 

Deuteronomy 25

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Fairness and Mercy

1 If there will be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they will justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it will be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge will 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 your brother should seem vile to you.

4 You are not to muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

Widowhood and Marriage

5 If brethren will dwell together, and one of them will die and have no child, the wife of the dead will not marry without to a stranger: her husband’s brother will go in to her, and take her to him for a wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6 And it will be, that the first-born which she beareth, will succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not become extinct in Israel. 7 And if the man will not like to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother. 8 Then the elders of his city will call him, and speak to him: and if he will stand to it, and say, I like not to take her, 9 Then will his brother’s wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and will answer and say, So will it be done to that man that will not build up his brother’s house. 10 And his name will be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed.

11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband from the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 Then you will cut off her hand, your eye will not pity her.

Standard Weights and Measures
(Proverbs 11:1–3; Ezekiel 45:10–12)

13 You are not to have in your bag divers weights, a great and a small: 14 You are not to have in your house divers measures, a great and a small: 15 But you will have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you will have; that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God giveth you. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

Revenge on the Amalekites

17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you had come forth from Egypt; 18 How he met you by the way, and smote the hindmost of you, even all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God. 19 Therefore it will be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies on all sides, in the land which the LORD your God giveth you for an inheritance to possess it, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you are not to forget it.

 

Deuteronomy 26

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Offering Firstfruits and Tithes
(Leviticus 27:30–34; Deuteronomy 14:22–29; Nehemiah 13:10–14)

1 And it will be, when you have come in to the land which the LORD your God giveth you for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 That you will take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you will bring of your land that the LORD your God giveth you, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the LORD your God will choose to place his name there. 3 And you will go to the priest that will be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD your God, that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us. 4 And the priest will take the basket from your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. 5 And you will speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down to Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the Egyptians ill-treated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression: 8 And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an out-stretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders; 9 And he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, even a land that flows with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the first-fruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me: and you will set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God: 11 And you will rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled: 13 Then you will say before the LORD your God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I taken away aught of it for any unclean use, nor given aught of it for the dead: but I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that you have commanded me. 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given us, as you didst swear to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.

Obey the LORD’s Commands

16 This day the LORD your God has commanded you to perform these statutes and judgments: you will therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul. 17 You have avouched the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to listen to his voice: 18 And the LORD has avouched you this day to be his peculiar people, as he has promised you, and that you shouldst keep all his commandments; 19 And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.

 

Deuteronomy 27

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The Altar on Mount Ebal
(Joshua 8:30–35)

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 will be on the day when you will pass over Jordan to the land which the LORD your God giveth you, that you will set you up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: 3 And you will write upon them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may enter in to the land which the LORD your God giveth you, a land that flows with milk and honey; as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you. 4 Therefore it will be when you have gone over Jordan, that you will set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and you will plaster them with plaster. 5 And there you will build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you are not to lift up any iron tool upon them. 6 You shalt build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and you will offer on it burnt-offerings to the LORD your God. 7 And you will offer peace-offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God. 8 And you will write upon the stones all the words of this law, very plainly.

9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Take heed and listen, O Israel, this day you are become the people of the LORD your God. 10 You shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day.

Curses Pronounced from Ebal

11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 12 These will stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 And these will stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14 And the Levites will speak, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the artificer, and putteth it in a secret place: and all the people will answer, and say Amen.

16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people will say, Amen.

17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark: and all the people will say, Amen.

18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way: and all the people will say, Amen.

19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow: and all the people will say, Amen.

20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt: and all the people will say, Amen.

21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast: and all the people will 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 will say, Amen.

23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the people will say, Amen.

24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor secretly: and all the people will say, Amen.

25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person: and all the people will say, Amen.

26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them: and all the people will say, Amen.

 

Deuteronomy 28

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The Blessings of Obedience
(Leviticus 25:18–22)

1 And it will come to pass, if you will listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day; that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings will come on you, and overtake you, if you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

3 Blessed you will be in the city, and blessed you will be in the field.

4 Blessed will be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep.

5 Blessed will be your basket and your store.

6 Blessed you will be when you comest in, and blessed you will be when you goest out.

7 The LORD will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face: they will come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways. 8 The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your store-houses, and in all that you settest your hand to: and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your God giveth you. 9 The LORD will establish you a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you will keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all the people of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they will be afraid of you. 11 And the LORD will make you to abound in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The LORD will open to you his good treasure, the heaven to give rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you will lend to many nations, and you are not to borrow. 13 And the LORD will make you the head, and not the tail; and you will be above only, and you are not to be beneath; if you will listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them: 14 And you are not to go aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

The Curses of Disobedience
(Leviticus 20:1–9; Leviticus 26:14–39)

15 But it will come to pass, if you wilt not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses will come upon you, and overtake you:

16 Cursed you will be in the city, and cursed you will be in the field.

17 Cursed will be your basket and your store.

18 Cursed will be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep.

19 Cursed you will be when you comest in, and cursed you will be when you goest out.

20 The LORD will send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you undertakest to perform, until you will be destroyed, and until you will perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings by which you have forsaken me. 21 The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he will have consumed you from off the land, whither you goest to possess it. 22 The LORD will smite you 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 will pursue you until you dost perish. 23 And your heaven that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron. 24 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven will it come down upon you, until you are destroyed.

25 The LORD will cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you will 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 your carcass will be food to all birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, and no man will drive them away.

27 The LORD will smite you with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, of which you canst not be healed. 28 The LORD will smite you with the madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: 29 And you will grope at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and you are not to prosper in your ways: and you will be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man will save you. 30 You shalt betroth a wife, and another man will lie with her: you will build a house, and you are not to dwell in it: you will plant a vineyard, and are not to gather the grapes of it. 31 Thy ox will be slain before your eyes, and you are not to eat of it: your ass will be violently taken away from before your face, and will not be restored to you: your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have none to rescue them. 32 Thy sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there will be no might in your hand. 33 The fruit of your land, and all your labors, will be eaten by a nation which you knowest not: and you will be only oppressed and crushed always: 34 So that you will be mad for the sight of your eyes which you will see. 35 The LORD will smite you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. 36 The LORD will bring you, and your king which you will set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you will serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And you will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all nations whither the LORD will lead you.

38 You shalt carry much seed into the field, and shalt gather but little: for the locust will consume it. 39 You shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the worm will eat them. 40 You shalt have olive-trees throughout all your coasts, but you are not to anoint thyself with the oil: for your olive will cast its fruit. 41 You shalt beget sons and daughters, but you are not to enjoy them: for they will go into captivity. 42 All your trees and fruit of your land will the locust consume. 43 The stranger that is within you will rise above you very high; and you will come down very low. 44 He will lend to you, and you are not to lend to him: he will be the head, and you will be the tail.

45 Moreover, all these curses will come upon you, and will pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed: because you hearkenedst not to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: 46 And they will be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon your seed for ever.

47 Because you didst not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things: 48 Therefore you will serve your enemies which the LORD will send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.

49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, a nation whose language you are not to understand: 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which will not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young: 51 And he will eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: which also will not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your cattle, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you. 52 And he will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you didst trust, throughout all your land; and he will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you. 53 And you will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the straitness with which your enemies will distress you: 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil towards his brother, and towards the wife of his bosom, and towards the remnant of his children whom he will leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness with which your enemies will distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil towards the husband of her bosom, and towards her son, and towards her daughter, 57 And towards her young one, her own offspring, and towards her children which she will bear: for she will eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.

58 If you wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover, he will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid; and they will cleave to you. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 And you will be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you wouldst not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 63 And it will 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 naught; and you will be plucked from off the land whither you goest to possess it. 64 And the LORD will scatter you among all people from the one end of the earth even to the other; and there you will serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65 And among these nations you will find no ease, neither will the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 66 And your life will hang in doubt before you; and you will fear day and night, and shalt have no assurance of your life: 67 In the morning you will say, O that it were evening, and at evening you will say, O that it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you will fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 And the LORD will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I have said to you, You shalt see it no more again: and there you will be sold to your enemies for bond-men and bond-women, and no man will buy you.

 

Deuteronomy 29

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The Covenant in Moab

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, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2 And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; 3 The great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not become old upon you, and your shoe has not become old upon your foot. 6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drank wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God. 7 And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote them: 8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to 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 you may prosper in all that you do.

10 You 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 your stranger that is in your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water: 12 That you shouldst enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God maketh with you this day: 13 That he may establish you to-day for a people to himself, and that he may be to you a God, as he has said to you, and as he has sworn to your 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 you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by; 17 And you 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 should come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book will lie upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD will separate him to 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 will arise after you, and the stranger that will come from a distant land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it; 23 And that the whole land of it is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor doth it bear, nor doth any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath: 24 Even all the nations will say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men will say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth from the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not given to 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 to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

 

Deuteronomy 30

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The Promise of Restoration
(Nehemiah 1:1–11)

1 And it will come to pass, when all these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you will call them to mind among all the nations whither the LORD your God has driven you, 2 And shalt return to the LORD your God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3 That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations whither the LORD your God has scattered you. 4 If any of thine will be driven out to the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD your God gather you, and from thence will he bring you: 5 And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it: and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.

6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. 7 And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate you, who persecuted you. 8 And you will return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. 9 And the LORD your God will make you to abound in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers: 10 If you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you will turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

The Choice of Life or Death

11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hid from you, neither is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you shouldst say, Who will ascend for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you shouldst say, Who will go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

15 See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God will bless you in the land whither you goest to possess it. 17 But if your heart will turn away, so that you wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce to you this day, that you will surely perish, and that you will not prolong your days upon the land, whither you 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 you and your seed may live: 20 That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cleave to him (for he is your life, and the length of your days) that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

 

Deuteronomy 31

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Joshua to Succeed Moses
(Numbers 27:18–23)

1 And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 2 And he said to them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD has said to me, you are not to go over this Jordan. 3 The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy these nations from before you, and you will possess them: and Joshua he will go over before you, as the LORD has said. 4 And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon, and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed. 5 And the LORD will give them up before your face, that you may do to them according to 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 your God, he it is that doth go with you, he will not fail you, nor forsake you.

7 And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you will cause them to inherit it. 8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: fear not, neither be dismayed.

The Reading of the Law
(Nehemiah 8:1–8)

9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to 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 your God in the place which he will choose, you will read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Convene the people, men, and women, and children, and your stranger that is within your 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 who have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land whither you go over Jordan to possess it.

God Commissions Joshua

14 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you 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 to Moses, Behold, you will sleep with your fathers, and this people will rise up, and commit idolatry with 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 will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will befall them, so that they will say in that day, Have 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 will have wrought, in that they are turned to other gods.

19 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I will have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they will have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. 21 And it will come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song will testify against them as a witness: for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they form, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore. 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it to 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 you will bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.

The Law Placed in the Ark

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 who bore 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 you. 27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. 29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Moses Begins His Song

30 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were ended.

 

Deuteronomy 32

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The Song of Moses
(Revelation 15:1–4)

1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2 My doctrine will drop as the rain, my speech will distill 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 you greatness to 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 you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?

7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

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 cows, 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 you didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you have waxed fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

17 They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods which they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

18 Of the Rock that fathered you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that formed you.

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 will 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 who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and will burn to the lowest hell, and will 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 my arrows upon them.

24 They will 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, will 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 has 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 recompense; their foot will slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that will come upon them make haste.

36 For the LORD will judge his people, and repent for his servants: when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

37 And he will say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

38 Which ate 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 will whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will 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 you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his land, and to his people.

44 And Moses came and spoke 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 to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you this day, which you will 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 you will prolong your days in the land whither you go over Jordan to possess it.

Moses’ Death Foretold

48 And the LORD spoke to Moses that same day, saying, 49 Ascend this mountain Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan which I give to the children of Israel for a Possession: 50 And die in the mount whither you goest, and be gathered to your people; as Aaron your brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: 51 Because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 Yet you will see the land before you, but you are not to go thither to the land which I give the children of Israel.

 

Deuteronomy 33

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Moses Blesses the Twelve Tribes

1 And this is the with which 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 to 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 your hand: and they sat down at your feet; everyone will receive of your 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 assembled.

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 to his people: let his hands be sufficient for him, and be you a help to him from his enemies.

8 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your holy one, whom you didst prove at Massah, and with whom you didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

9 Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor know his own children: for they have observed your word, and kept your covenant.

10 They will teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law; they will put incense before you, and whole burnt sacrifice upon your 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 will dwell in safety by him; and the LORD will cover him all the day long, and he will 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 fullness of it, 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 will 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 your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.

19 They will call the people to the mountain; there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they will 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 will leap from Bashan.

23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess you 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 will be iron and brass; and as your days, so will your strength be.

26 There is none like to the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in your help, and in his excellence on the sky.

27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say, Destroy them.

28 Israel then will dwell in safety alone; the fountain of Jacob will be upon a land of corn and wine, also his heavens will drop down dew.

29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like to you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your excellence! and your enemies will be found liars to you; and you will tread upon their high places.

 

Deuteronomy 34

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The Death of Moses

1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab, upon the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho: and the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, 2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the utmost sea, 3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-trees, to Zoar. 4 And the LORD said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you are not to 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 sepulcher to this day. 7 And Moses was a 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 listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. 10 And there arose not a prophet afterwards in Israel like to 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 showed in the sight of all Israel.