Deuteronomy
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[1]
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side
Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea,
between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
[2]
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir
unto Kadesh-barnea.)
[3] And it came to pass in the
fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month,
that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that
the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
[4] After
he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon,
and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
[5]
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this
law, saying,
[6] The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb,
saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
[7] Turn
you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and
unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and
in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of
the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river
Euphrates.
[8] Behold, I have set the land before you: go
in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after
them.
[9] And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am
not able to bear you myself alone:
[10] The LORD your God
hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of
heaven for multitude.
[11] (The LORD God of your fathers
make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as
he hath promised you!)
[12] How can I myself alone bear
your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
[13] Take
you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I
will make them rulers over you.
[14] And ye answered me,
and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
[15]
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made
them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and
officers among your tribes.
[16] And I charged your judges
at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and
judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger
that is with him.
[17] Ye shall not respect persons in
judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall
not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the
cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear
it.
[18] And I commanded you at that time all the things
which ye should do.
[19] And when we departed from Horeb,
we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw
by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God
commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
[20] And I said
unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the
LORD our God doth give unto us.
[21] Behold, the LORD thy
God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD
God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be
discouraged.
[22] And ye came near unto me every one of
you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us
out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and
into what cities we shall come.
[23] And the saying pleased
me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
[24]
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the
valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
[25] And they took
of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us,
and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD
our God doth give us.
[26] Notwithstanding ye would not go
up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
[27]
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us,
he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into
the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
[28] Whither shall
we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people
is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to
heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
[29]
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
[30]
The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you,
according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
[31]
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God
bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went,
until ye came into this place.
[32] Yet in this thing ye
did not believe the LORD your God,
[33] Who went in the way
before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire
by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by
day.
[34] And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and
was wroth, and sware, saying,
[35] Surely there shall not
one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I
sware to give unto your fathers,
[36] Save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he
hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly
followed the LORD.
[37] Also the LORD was angry with me for
your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
[38]
But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in
thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
[39]
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your
children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil,
they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they
shall possess it.
[40] But as for you, turn you, and take
your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
[41]
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD,
we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God
commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war,
ye were ready to go up into the hill.
[42] And the LORD
said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not
among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
[43] So
I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the
commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the
hill.
[44] And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain,
came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you
in Seir, even unto Hormah.
[45] And ye returned and wept
before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor
give ear unto you.
[46] So ye abode in Kadesh many days,
according unto the days that ye abode there.
[1]
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way
of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount
Seir many days.
[2] And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
[3]
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
[4]
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast
of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they
shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves
therefore:
[5] Meddle not with them; for I will not give
you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have
given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
[6] Ye shall
buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy
water of them for money, that ye may drink.
[7] For the
LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he
knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years
the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
[8]
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which
dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from
Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of
Moab.
[9] And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the
Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give
thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the
children of Lot for a possession.
[10] The Emims dwelt
therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the
Anakims;
[11] Which also were accounted giants, as the
Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
[12] The Horims
also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded
them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in
their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the
LORD gave unto them.
[13] Now rise up, said I, and get you
over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
[14]
And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come
over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the
generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as
the LORD sware unto them.
[15] For indeed the hand of the
LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until
they were consumed.
[16] So it came to pass, when all the
men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
[17]
That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
[18] Thou art to pass
over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
[19] And when
thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them
not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of
the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto
the children of Lot for a possession.
[20] (That also was
accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the
Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
[21] A people great, and
many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before
them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
[22]
As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he
destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and
dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
[23] And the Avims
which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came
forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
[24]
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold,
I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and
his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
[25]
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee
upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear
report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of
thee.
[26] And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of
Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
[27]
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will
neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
[28] Thou
shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for
money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
[29]
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which
dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the
land which the LORD our God giveth us.
[30] But Sihon king
of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God
hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might
deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
[31] And
the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his
land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his
land.
[32] Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his
people, to fight at Jahaz.
[33] And the LORD our God
delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his
people.
[34] And we took all his cities at that time, and
utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of
every city, we left none to remain:
[35] Only the cattle we
took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we
took.
[36] From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river
of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead,
there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered
all unto us:
[37] Only unto the land of the children of
Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor
unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our
God forbad us.
[1]
Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of
Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at
Edrei.
[2] And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I
will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand;
and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the
Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
[3] So the LORD our God
delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his
people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
[4]
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which
we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob,
the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
[5] All these cities were
fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a
great many.
[6] And we utterly destroyed them, as we did
unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and
children, of every city.
[7] But all the cattle, and the
spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
[8]
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the
Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of
Arnon unto mount Hermon;
[9] (Which Hermon the Sidonians
call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
[10] All the
cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and
Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
[11] For only
Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his
bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children
of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the
breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
[12] And this
land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the
river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I
unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
[13] And the rest
of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the
half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan,
which was called the land of giants.
[14] Jair the son of
Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and
Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair,
unto this day.
[15] And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
[16]
And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even
unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the
river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
[17]
The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth
even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under
Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
[18] And I commanded you at that
time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess
it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of
Israel, all that are meet for the war.
[19] But your wives,
and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much
cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
[20]
Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto
you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God
hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man
unto his possession, which I have given you.
[21] And I
commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that
the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD
do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
[22] Ye
shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for
you.
[23] And I besought the LORD at that time,
saying,
[24] O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy
servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in
heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according
to thy might?
[25] I pray thee, let me go over, and see the
good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and
Lebanon.
[26] But the LORD was wroth with me for your
sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it
suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
[27]
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward,
and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine
eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
[28] But
charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go
over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land
which thou shalt see.
[29] So we abode in the valley over
against Beth-peor.
[1]
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and
go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth
you.
[2] Ye shall not add unto the word which I command
you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the
commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
[3]
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all
the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them
from among you.
[4] But ye that did cleave unto the LORD
your God are alive every one of you this day.
[5] Behold, I
have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God
commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to
possess it.
[6] Keep therefore and do them; for this is
your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which
shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a
wise and understanding people.
[7] For what nation is there
so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in
all things that we call upon him for?
[8] And what nation
is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as
all this law, which I set before you this day?
[9] Only
take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget
the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy
heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy
sons' sons;
[10] Specially the day that thou stoodest
before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather
me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they
may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the
earth, and that they may teach their children.
[11] And ye
came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with
fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick
darkness.
[12] And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst
of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude;
only ye heard a voice.
[13] And he declared unto you his
covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments;
and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
[14] And the
LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments,
that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess
it.
[15] Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for
ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto
you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
[16] Lest ye
corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of
any figure, the likeness of male or female,
[17] The
likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any
winged fowl that flieth in the air,
[18] The likeness of
any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that
is in the waters beneath the earth:
[19] And lest thou lift
up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon,
and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to
worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided
unto all nations under the whole heaven.
[20] But the LORD
hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even
out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this
day.
[21] Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your
sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should
not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for
an inheritance:
[22] But I must die in this land, I must
not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good
land.
[23] Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the
covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a
graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God
hath forbidden thee.
[24] For the LORD thy God is a
consuming fire, even a jealous God.
[25] When thou shalt
beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained
long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven
image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight
of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
[26] I call
heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon
utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to
possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly
be destroyed.
[27] And the LORD shall scatter you among the
nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen,
whither the LORD shall lead you.
[28] And there ye shall
serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither
see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
[29] But if from thence
thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek
him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
[30] When
thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee,
even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt
be obedient unto his voice;
[31] (For the LORD thy God is a
merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor
forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
[32]
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since
the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one
side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing
as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
[33]
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of
the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
[34] Or hath God
assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation,
by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty
hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to
all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your
eyes?
[35] Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know
that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
[36]
Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct
thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest
his words out of the midst of the fire.
[37] And because he
loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and
brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of
Egypt;
[38] To drive out nations from before thee greater
and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land
for an inheritance, as it is this day.
[39] Know therefore
this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in
heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
[40]
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I
command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the
earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
[41]
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
sunrising;
[42] That the slayer might flee thither, which
should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past;
and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
[43]
Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the
Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in
Bashan, of the Manassites.
[44] And this is the law which
Moses set before the children of Israel:
[45] These are the
testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake
unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
[46]
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the
land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses
and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of
Egypt:
[47] And they possessed his land, and the land of Og
king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side
Jordan toward the sunrising;
[48] From Aroer, which is by
the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is
Hermon,
[49] And all the plain on this side Jordan
eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of
Pisgah.
[1]
And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the
statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye
may learn them, and keep, and do them.
[2] The LORD our God
made a covenant with us in Horeb.
[3] The LORD made not
this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of
us here alive this day.
[4] The LORD talked with you face
to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
[5] (I
stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the work of
the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up
into the mount;) saying,
[6] I am the LORD thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
[7]
Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
[8] Thou shalt
not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is
in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
waters beneath the earth:
[9] Thou shalt not bow down
thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
[10]
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments.
[11] Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD
thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh
his name in vain.
[12] Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it,
as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
[13] Six days thou
shalt labour, and do all thy work:
[14] But the seventh day
is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work,
thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor
thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy
maidservant may rest as well as thou.
[15] And remember
that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy
God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched
out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the
sabbath day.
[16] Honour thy father and thy mother, as the
LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and
that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee.
[17] Thou shalt not kill.
[18]
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
[19] Neither shalt thou
steal.
[20] Neither shalt thou bear false witness against
thy neighbour.
[21] Neither shalt thou desire thy
neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his
field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or
any thing that is thy neighbour's.
[22] These words the
LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of
the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great
voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of
stone, and delivered them unto me.
[23] And it came to
pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for
the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all
the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
[24] And ye
said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his
greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire:
we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he
liveth.
[25] Now therefore why should we die? for this
great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God
any more, then we shall die.
[26] For who is there of all
flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of
the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
[27] Go thou
near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou
unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will
hear it, and do it.
[28] And the LORD heard the voice of
your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have
heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken
unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
[29]
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and
keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and
with their children for ever!
[30] Go say to them, Get you
into your tents again.
[31] But as for thee, stand thou
here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they
may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
[32]
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded
you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
[33]
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded
you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye
may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
[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.
[1]
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the
Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
greater and mightier than thou;
[2] And when the LORD thy
God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and
utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew
mercy unto them:
[3] Neither shalt thou make marriages with
them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter
shalt thou take unto thy son.
[4] For they will turn away
thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will
the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee
suddenly.
[5] But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall
destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their
groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
[6] For
thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath
chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people
that are upon the face of the earth.
[7] The LORD did not
set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number
than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
[8]
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath
which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out
with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen,
from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
[9] Know therefore
that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth
covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations;
[10] And repayeth them that hate
him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that
hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
[11] Thou shalt
therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments,
which I command thee this day, to do them.
[12] Wherefore
it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep,
and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant
and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
[13] And he
will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless
the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy
wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy
sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
[14]
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or
female barren among you, or among your cattle.
[15] And the
LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the
evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay
them upon all them that hate thee.
[16] And thou shalt
consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee;
thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve
their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
[17] If
thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can
I dispossess them?
[18] Thou shalt not be afraid of them:
but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and
unto all Egypt;
[19] The great temptations which thine eyes
saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the
stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so
shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art
afraid.
[20] Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet
among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee,
be destroyed.
[21] Thou shalt not be affrighted at them:
for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
[22]
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little
and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of
the field increase upon thee.
[23] But the LORD thy God
shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty
destruction, until they be destroyed.
[24] And he shall
deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their
name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before
thee, until thou have destroyed them.
[25] The graven
images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire
the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou
be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
[26]
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou
be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou
shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
[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.
[1]
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to
possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and
fenced up to heaven,
[2] A people great and tall, the
children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast
heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
[3]
Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which
goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them,
and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive
them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto
thee.
[4] Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the
LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my
righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but
for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from
before thee.
[5] Not for thy righteousness, or for the
uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but
for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them
out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD
sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
[6]
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good
land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked
people.
[7] Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst
the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou
didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place,
ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
[8] Also in Horeb
ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to
have destroyed you.
[9] When I was gone up into the mount
to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which
the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and
forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
[10]
And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the
finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words,
which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the
fire in the day of the assembly.
[11] And it came to pass
at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the
two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
[12]
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence;
for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have
corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way
which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
[13]
Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people,
and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
[14] Let me alone,
that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven:
and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
[15]
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with
fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
[16]
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God,
and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of
the way which the LORD had commanded you.
[17] And I took
the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them
before your eyes.
[18] And I fell down before the LORD, as
at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread,
nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing
wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
[19]
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD
was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me
at that time also.
[20] And the LORD was very angry with
Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same
time.
[21] And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made,
and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small,
even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into
the brook that descended out of the mount.
[22] And at
Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the
LORD to wrath.
[23] Likewise when the LORD sent you from
Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given
you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God,
and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
[24]
Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew
you.
[25] Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and
forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said
he would destroy you.
[26] I prayed therefore unto the
LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which
thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
[27]
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the
stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their
sin:
[28] Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say,
Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he
promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to
slay them in the wilderness.
[29] Yet they are thy people
and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power
and by thy stretched out arm.
[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.
[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.
[1]
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in
the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess
it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
[2] Ye shall
utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall
possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the
hills, and under every green tree:
[3] And ye shall
overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their
groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their
gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
[4]
Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
[5] But unto the
place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to
put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and
thither thou shalt come:
[6] And thither ye shall bring
your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave
offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings,
and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
[7]
And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice
in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein
the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
[8] Ye shall not do
after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever
is right in his own eyes.
[9] For ye are not as yet come to
the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth
you.
[10] But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land
which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you
rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in
safety;
[11] Then there shall be a place which the LORD
your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall
ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all
your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
[12] And ye
shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your
daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the
Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor
inheritance with you.
[13] Take heed to thyself that thou
offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
[14]
But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes,
there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do
all that I command thee.
[15] Notwithstanding thou mayest
kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth
after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath
given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the
roebuck, and as of the hart.
[16] Only ye shall not eat the
blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
[17] Thou
mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy
wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock,
nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or
heave offering of thine hand:
[18] But thou must eat them
before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and
thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou
shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine
hands unto.
[19] Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not
the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
[20] When
the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee,
and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat
flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
[21]
If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there
be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy
flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and
thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
[22]
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them:
the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
[23]
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life;
and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
[24] Thou
shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
[25]
Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the
sight of the LORD.
[26] Only thy holy things which thou
hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the
LORD shall choose:
[27] And thou shalt offer thy burnt
offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy
God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the
altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
[28]
Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go
well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou
doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy
God.
[29] When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations
from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou
succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
[30] Take heed
to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they
be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their
gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I
do likewise.
[31] Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy
God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they
done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they
have burnt in the fire to their gods.
[32] What thing
soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto,
nor diminish from it.
[1]
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and
giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
[2] And the sign or the
wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go
after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve
them;
[3] Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that
prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth
you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart
and with all your soul.
[4] Ye shall walk after the LORD
your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his
voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
[5] And
that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death;
because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy
God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from
the midst of thee.
[6] If thy brother, the son of thy
mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy
friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let
us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy
fathers;
[7] Namely, of the gods of the people which are
round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one
end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
[8]
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall
thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou
conceal him:
[9] But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand
shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand
of all the people.
[10] And thou shalt stone him with
stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from
the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from
the house of bondage.
[11] And all Israel shall hear, and
fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among
you.
[12] If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
[13]
Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and
have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and
serve other gods, which ye have not known;
[14] Then shalt
thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it
be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought
among you;
[15] Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of
that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all
that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the
sword.
[16] And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into
the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city,
and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it
shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
[17]
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that
the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee
mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath
sworn unto thy fathers;
[18] When thou shalt hearken to the
voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I
command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the
LORD thy God.
[1]
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
[2]
for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath
chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the
nations that are upon the earth.
[3] Thou shalt not eat any
abominable thing.
[4] These are the beasts which ye shall
eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
[5] The hart, and the
roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and
the wild ox, and the chamois.
[6] And every beast that
parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth
the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
[7]
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of
them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the
coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they
are unclean unto you.
[8] And the swine, because it
divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you:
ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
[9]
These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins
and scales shall ye eat:
[10] And whatsoever hath not fins
and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
[11] Of
all clean birds ye shall eat.
[12] But these are they of
which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and ossifrage, and the
ospray,
[13] And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture
after his kind,
[14] And every raven after his kind,
[15]
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after
his kind,
[16] The little owl, and the great owl, and the
swan,
[17] And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the
cormorant,
[18] And the stork, and the heron after her
kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
[19] And every creeping
thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
[20]
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
[21] Ye shall not eat of
any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger
that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto
an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou
shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
[22] Thou
shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field
bringeth forth year by year.
[23] And thou shalt eat before
the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his
name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and
the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn
to fear the LORD thy God always.
[24] And if the way be too
long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place
be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his
name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
[25]
Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine
hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose:
[26] And thou shalt bestow that money for
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for
wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and
thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice,
thou, and thine household,
[27] And the Levite that is
within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor
inheritance with thee.
[28] At the end of three years thou
shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and
shalt lay it up within thy gates:
[29] And the Levite,
(because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy
gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy
God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
[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.
[1]
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy
God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out
of Egypt by night.
[2] Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the
passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the
place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
[3]
Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat
unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou
camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest
remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all
the days of thy life.
[4] And there shall be no leavened
bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there
anything of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even,
remain all night until the morning.
[5] Thou mayest not
sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy
God giveth thee:
[6] But at the place which the LORD thy
God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the
passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that
thou camest forth out of Egypt.
[7] And thou shalt roast
and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou
shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
[8] Six
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be
a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work
therein.
[9] Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin
to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the
sickle to the corn.
[10] And thou shalt keep the feast of
weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of
thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as
the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
[11] And thou shalt
rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter,
and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is
within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the
widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath
chosen to place his name there.
[12] And thou shalt
remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe
and do these statutes.
[13] Thou shalt observe the feast of
tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and
thy wine:
[14] And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou,
and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy
maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and
the widow, that are within thy gates.
[15] Seven days shalt
thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the
LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all
thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou
shalt surely rejoice.
[16] Three times in a year shall all
thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall
choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks,
and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the
LORD empty:
[17] Every man shall give as he is able,
according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given
thee.
[18] Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all
thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes:
and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
[19]
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,
neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and
pervert the words of the righteous.
[20] That which is
altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
[21] Thou
shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the
LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
[22] Neither
shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.
[1]
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep,
wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
[2] If there be found
among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the
LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
[3] And hath
gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or
moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
[4]
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
[5] Then shalt thou bring
forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing,
unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them
with stones, till they die.
[6] At the mouth of two
witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be
put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to
death.
[7] The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon
him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people.
So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
[8] If
there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and
blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being
matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and
get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
[9]
And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge
that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee
the sentence of judgment:
[10] And thou shalt do according
to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose
shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that
they inform thee:
[11] According to the sentence of the law
which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they
shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the
sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the
left.
[12] And the man that will do presumptuously, and
will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there
before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die:
and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
[13] And all
the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
[14]
When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will
set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
[15]
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God
shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over
thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy
brother.
[16] But he shall not multiply horses to himself,
nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should
multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall
henceforth return no more that way.
[17] Neither shall he
multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither
shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
[18]
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that
he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is
before the priests the Levites:
[19] And it shall be with
him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may
learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and
these statutes, to do them:
[20] That his heart be not
lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the
commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he
may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the
midst of Israel.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[1]
Thou shalt not see the brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide
thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy
brother.
[2] And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or
if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house,
and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou
shalt restore it to him again.
[3] In like manner shalt
thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with
all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast
found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
[4]
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way,
and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them
up again.
[5] The woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment:
for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
[6]
If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or
on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam
sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam
with the young:
[7] But thou shalt in any wise let the dam
go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and
that thou mayest prolong thy days.
[8] When thou buildest a
new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou
bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
[9]
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of
thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be
defiled.
[10] Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass
together.
[11] Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers
sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
[12] Thou shalt
make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith
thou coverest thyself.
[13] If any man take a wife, and go
in unto her, and hate her,
[14] And give occasions of
speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I
took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
[15]
Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring
forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the
city in the gate:
[16] And the damsel's father shall say
unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he
hateth her;
[17] And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech
against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these
are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the
cloth before the elders of the city.
[18] And the elders of
that city shall take that man and chastise him;
[19] And
they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them
unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil
name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not
put her away all his days.
[20] But if this thing be true,
and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
[21]
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's
house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she
die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in
her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
[22]
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they
shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the
woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
[23] If a
damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find
her in the city, and lie with her;
[24] Then ye shall bring
them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them
with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being
in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's
wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
[25] But
if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her,
and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
[26]
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no
sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour,
and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
[27] For he found
her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none
to save her.
[28] If a man find a damsel that is a virgin,
which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and
they be found;
[29] Then the man that lay with her shall
give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall
be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all
his days.
[30] A man shall not take his father's wife, nor
discover his father's skirt.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[1]
These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses
to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the
covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
[2] And Moses
called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the
LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto
all his servants, and unto all his land;
[3] The great
temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great
miracles:
[4] Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to
perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
[5]
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are
not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy
foot.
[6] Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk
wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your
God.
[7] And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king
of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto
battle, and we smote them:
[8] And we took their land, and
gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites,
and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
[9] Keep therefore the
words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that
ye do.
[10] Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD
your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your
officers, with all the men of Israel,
[11] Your little
ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the
hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
[12] That
thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into
his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
[13]
That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that
he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath
sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
[14]
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
[15]
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our
God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
[16]
(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came
through the nations which ye passed by;
[17] And ye have
seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and
gold, which were among them:)
[18] Lest there should be
among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth
away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of
these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth
gall and wormwood;
[19] And it come to pass, when he
heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart,
saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine
heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
[20] The LORD will not
spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall
smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this
book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from
under heaven.
[21] And the LORD shall separate him unto
evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of
the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
[22]
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up
after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall
say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which
the LORD hath laid upon it;
[23] And that the whole land
thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor
beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom,
and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his
anger, and in his wrath:
[24] Even all nations shall say,
Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the
heat of this great anger?
[25] Then men shall say, Because
they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers,
which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt:
[26] For they went and served other gods, and
worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given
unto them:
[27] And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written
in this book:
[28] And the LORD rooted them out of their
land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them
into another land, as it is this day.
[29] The secret
things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are
revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do
all the words of this law.
[1]
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee,
the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou
shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy
God hath driven thee,
[2] And shalt return unto the LORD
thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command
thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with
all thy soul;
[3] That then the LORD thy God will turn thy
captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather
thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered
thee.
[4] If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost
parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and
from thence will he fetch thee:
[5] And the LORD thy God
will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou
shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above
thy fathers.
[6] And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine
heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
[7]
And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies,
and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
[8] And
thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his
commandments which I command thee this day.
[9] And the
LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in
the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the
fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over
thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
[10] If
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul.
[11] For this commandment which I
command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far
off.
[12] It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who
shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear
it, and do it?
[13] Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou
shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto
us, that we may hear it, and do it?
[14] But the word is
very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest
do it.
[15] See, I have set before thee this day life and
good, and death and evil;
[16] In that I command thee this
day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his
commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest
live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land
whither thou goest to possess it.
[17] But if thine heart
turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and
worship other gods, and serve them;
[18] I denounce unto
you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not
prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to
go to possess it.
[19] I call heaven and earth to record
this day against you, that I have set before you life and death,
blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy
seed may live:
[20] That thou mayest love the LORD thy God,
and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto
him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest
dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
[1]
And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
[2]
And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day;
I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me,
Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
[3] The LORD thy God,
he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from
before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go
over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
[4] And the LORD
shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the
Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
[5]
And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto
them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded
you.
[6] Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be
afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with
thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
[7] And
Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all
Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this
people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to
give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
[8] And
the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he
will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be
dismayed.
[9] And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it
unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant
of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
[10] And
Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the
solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
[11]
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the
place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all
Israel in their hearing.
[12] Gather the people together,
men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy
gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD
your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
[13]
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear,
and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land
whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
[14] And the LORD
said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call
Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation,
that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and
presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
[15]
And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and
the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
[16]
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the
gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them,
and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with
them.
[17] Then my anger shall be kindled against them in
that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them,
and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall
them; so that they will say in that day. Are not these evils come
upon us, because our God is not among us?
[18] And I will
surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall
have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
[19]
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children
of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness
for me against the children of Israel.
[20] For when I
shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their
fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten
and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other
gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
[21]
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen
them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it
shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know
their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have
brought them into the land which I sware.
[22] Moses
therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of
Israel.
[23] And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge,
and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the
children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will
be with thee.
[24] And it came to pass, when Moses had made
an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were
finished,
[25] That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare
the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
[26] Take this
book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of
the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against
thee.
[27] For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck:
behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been
rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
[28]
Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that
I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to
record against them.
[29] For I know that after my death ye
will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I
have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days;
because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to
anger through the work of your hands.
[30] And Moses spake
in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song,
until they were ended.
[1]
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the
words of my mouth.
[2] My doctrine shall drop as the rain,
my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender
herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
[3] Because I will
publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
[4]
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a
God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
[5]
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
[6]
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he
thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and
established thee?
[7] Remember the days of old, consider
the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee;
thy elders, and they will tell thee.
[8] When the most High
divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons
of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of
the children of Israel.
[9] For the LORD's portion is his
people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
[10] He found
him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him
about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
[11]
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her
wings:
[12] So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was
no strange god with him.
[13] He made him ride on the high
places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields;
and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the
flinty rock;
[14] Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with
fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the
fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the
grape.
[15] But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art
waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then
he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his
salvation.
[16] They provoked him to jealousy with strange
gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
[17]
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not,
to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
[18]
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten
God that formed thee.
[19] And when the LORD saw it, he
abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his
daughters.
[20] And he said, I will hide my face from them,
I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward
generation, children in whom is no faith.
[21] They have
moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked
me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy
with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with
a foolish nation.
[22] For a fire is kindled in mine anger,
and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with
her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
[23]
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
them.
[24] They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured
with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the
teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the
dust.
[25] The sword without, and terror within, shall
destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the
man of gray hairs.
[26] I said, I would scatter them into
corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among
men:
[27] Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest
they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all
this.
[28] For they are a nation void of counsel, neither
is there any understanding in them.
[29] O that they were
wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their
latter end!
[30] How should one chase a thousand, and two
put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the
LORD had shut them up?
[31] For their rock is not as our
Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
[32] For
their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah:
their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
[33]
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of
asps.
[34] Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed
up among my treasures?
[35] To me belongeth vengeance, and
recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their
calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make
haste.
[36] For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent
himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and
there is none shut up, or left.
[37] And he shall say,
Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
[38]
Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of
their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your
protection.
[39] See now that I, even I, am he, and there
is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:
neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
[40]
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
[41]
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I
will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate
me.
[42] I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my
sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of
the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
[43]
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood
of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and
will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
[44] And
Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the
people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
[45] And Moses made
an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
[46] And
he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify
among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe
to do, all the words of this law.
[47] For it is not a vain
thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye
shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to
possess it.
[48] And the LORD spake unto Moses that
selfsame day, saying,
[49] Get thee up into this mountain
Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over
against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the
children of Israel for a possession:
[50] And die in the
mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as
Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his
people:
[51] Because ye trespassed against me among the
children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness
of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of
Israel.
[52] Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but
thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of
Israel.
[1]
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the
children of Israel before his death.
[2] And he said, The
LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined
forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints:
from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
[3] Yea, he
loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down
at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
[4]
Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of
Jacob.
[5] And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of
the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
[6]
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
[7]
And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice
of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient
for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
[8]
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy
one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive
at the waters of Meribah;
[9] Who said unto his father and
to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his
brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word,
and kept thy covenant.
[10] They shall teach Jacob thy
judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee,
and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
[11] Bless,
LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through
the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him,
that they rise not again.
[12] And of Benjamin he said, The
beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall
cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his
shoulders.
[13] And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD
be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for
the deep that coucheth beneath,
[14] And for the precious
fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put
forth by the moon,
[15] And for the chief things of the
ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting
hills,
[16] And for the precious things of the earth and
fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush:
let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of
the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
[17]
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are
like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people
together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of
Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
[18] And
of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and,
Issachar, in thy tents.
[19] They shall call the people
unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of
righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and
of treasures hid in the sand.
[20] And of Gad he said,
Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth
the arm with the crown of the head.
[21] And he provided
the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the
lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he
executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
[22]
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from
Bashan.
[23] And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied
with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the
west and the south.
[24] And of Asher he said, Let Asher be
blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let
him dip his foot in oil.
[25] Thy shoes shall be iron and
brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
[26]
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the
heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
[27]
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting
arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall
say, Destroy them.
[28] Israel then shall dwell in safety
alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine;
also his heavens shall drop down dew.
[29] Happy art thou,
O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the
shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine
enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon
their high places.
[1]
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo,
to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD
shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
[2] And all
Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of
Judah, unto the utmost sea,
[3] And the south, and the
plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto
Zoar.
[4] And the LORD said unto him, This is the land
which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I
will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine
eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
[5] So Moses the
servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the
word of the LORD.
[6] And he buried him in a valley in the
land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his
sepulchre unto this day.
[7] And Moses was an hundred and
twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural
force abated.
[8] And the children of Israel wept for Moses
in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and
mourning for Moses were ended.
[9] And Joshua the son of
Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands
upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as
the LORD commanded Moses.
[10] And there arose not a
prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to
face,
[11] In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD
sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his
servants, and to all his land,
[12] And in all that mighty
hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of
all Israel.