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