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