1 {1:1} These [be] the words which Moses spake unto all
Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over
against the Red [sea,] between Paran, and Tophel, and
Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. {1:2} ([There are]
eleven days’ [journey] from Horeb by the way of mount
Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) {1:3} 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; {1:4} 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: {1:5}
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to
declare this law, saying, {1:6} The LORD our God spake
unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this
mount: {1:7} 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.
{1:8} 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.
{1:9} And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not
able to bear you myself alone: {1:10} The LORD your God
hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye [are] this day as the
stars of heaven for multitude. {1:11} (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!) {1:12} How
can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden,
and your strife? {1:13} Take you wise men, and
understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will
make them rulers over you. {1:14} And ye answered me,
and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good [for us]
to do. {1:15} 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. {1:16} 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. {1:17} 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. {1:18} And I
commanded you at that time all the things which ye should
do.
{1:19} 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.
{1:20} And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain
of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto
us. {1:21} 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.
{1:22} 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. {1:23} And the
saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one
of a tribe: {1:24} And they turned and went up into the
mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched
it out. {1:25} 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. {1:26} Notwithstanding ye would not go
up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD
your God: {1:27} 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. {1:28} 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. {1:29} Then I said unto you, Dread not,
neither be afraid of them. {1:30} 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; {1:31}
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. {1:32}
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
{1:33} 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. {1:34}
And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was
wroth, and sware, saying, {1:35} Surely there shall not one
of these men of this evil generation see that good land,
which I sware to give unto your fathers, {1:36} 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. {1:37} Also
the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou
also shalt not go in thither. {1:38} [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. {1:39}
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. {1:40} But [as
for] you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness
by the way of the Red sea. {1:41} 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. {1:42}
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. {1:43} 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.
{1:44} 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. {1:45} And ye
returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would
not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. {1:46} So
ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that
ye abode [there.]

2 {2:1} Then we turned, and took our journey into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake
unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. {2:2}
And the LORD spake unto me, saying, {2:3} Ye have
compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
{2:4} 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: {2:5} Meddle not with
them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much
as a footbreadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau
[for] a possession. {2:6} 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. {2:7} 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. {2:8} 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. {2:9}
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. {2:10} The
Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and
many, and tall, as the Anakims; {2:11} Which also were
accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call
them Emims. {2:12} 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. {2:13} Now rise up, [said
I,] and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the
brook Zered. {2:14} 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. {2:15} For indeed the hand of the
LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the
host, until they were consumed.
{2:16} So it came to pass, when all the men of war were
consumed and dead from among the people, {2:17} That
the LORD spake unto me, saying, {2:18} Thou art to pass
over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: {2:19} 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. {2:20} (That also was accounted a land
of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the
Ammonites call them Zamzummims; {2:21} 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: {2:22} 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: {2:23} 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.)
{2:24} 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. {2:25} 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.
{2:26} And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of
Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of
peace, saying, {2:27} 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. {2:28} 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; {2:29} (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.
{2:30} 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. {2:31} 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.
{2:32} Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his
people, to fight at Jahaz. {2:33} And the LORD our God
delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons,
and all his people. {2:34} 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: {2:35}
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the
spoil of the cities which we took. {2:36} 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: {2:37} 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.

3 {3:1} Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan:
and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all
his people, to battle at Edrei. {3:2} 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. {3:3} 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. {3:4} 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. {3:5} All these cities [were] fenced with high
walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
{3:6} And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon
king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and
children, of every city. {3:7} But all the cattle, and the spoil
of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. {3:8} 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; {3:9} ([Which]
Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it
Shenir;) {3:10} All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead,
and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the
kingdom of Og in Bashan. {3:11} 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. {3:12}
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. {3:13} 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. {3:14} 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. {3:15} And I gave
Gilead unto Machir. {3:16} 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
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Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon;
{3:17} 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.
{3:18} 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. {3:19} 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; {3:20} 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.
{3:21} 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. {3:22} Ye shall not fear
them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you. {3:23}
And I besought the LORD at that time, saying, {3:24} 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? {3:25} I pray thee, let me go over,
and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly
mountain, and Lebanon. {3:26} 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. {3:27} 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. {3:28} 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. {3:29} So we abode in
the valley over against Beth-peor.

4 {4:1} Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes
and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do [them,]
that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the
LORD God of your fathers giveth you. {4:2} 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. {4:3} Your eyes have seen what the LORD did
because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor,
the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among
you. {4:4} But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God
[are] alive every one of you this day. {4:5} 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. {4:6} 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. {4:7} 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?]
{4:8} 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? {4:9} 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; {4:10} [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. {4:11} 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.
{4:12} 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. {4:13} 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.
{4:14} 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. {4:15} 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: {4:16} Lest ye corrupt
[yourselves,] and make you a graven image, the similitude
of any figure, the likeness of male or female, {4:17} The
likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the likeness of
any winged fowl that flieth in the air, {4:18} The likeness
of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any
fish that [is] in the waters beneath the earth: {4:19} 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. {4:20} 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. {4:21} 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: {4:22} But I must die in this land, I must not go
over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good
land. {4:23} 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.
{4:24} For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even]
a jealous God.
{4:25} 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: {4:26} 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. {4:27} 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. {4:28} And there ye shall serve gods, the
work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see,
nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. {4:29} 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. {4:30}
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;
{4:31} (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. {4:32}
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? {4:33} Did [ever] people hear the
voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou
hast heard, and live? {4:34} 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? {4:35} Unto thee it was
shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he [is]
God; [there is] none else beside him. {4:36} 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. {4:37} 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; {4:38} 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. {4:39} 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. {4:40}
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.
{4:41} Then Moses severed three cities on this side
Jordan toward the sunrising; {4:42} 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: {4:43} [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.
{4:44} And this is the law which Moses set before the
children of Israel: {4:45} 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, {4:46}
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: {4:47} 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; {4:48} From Aroer, which [is] by the
bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is]
Hermon, {4:49} And all the plain on this side Jordan
eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs
of Pisgah.

5 {5:1} And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them,
Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in
your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do
them. {5:2} The LORD our God made a covenant with us
in Horeb. {5:3} The LORD made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive
this day. {5:4} The LORD talked with you face to face in
the mount out of the midst of the fire, {5:5} (I stood
between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the
word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire,
and went not up into the mount;) saying,
{5:6} I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. {5:7}
Thou shalt have none other gods before me. {5:8} 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:
{5:9} 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, {5:10} And
shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and
keep my commandments. {5:11} 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. {5:12}
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God
hath commanded thee. {5:13} Six days thou shalt labour,
and do all thy work: {5:14} 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. {5:15} 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.
{5:16} 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. {5:17} Thou shalt
not kill. {5:18} Neither shalt thou commit adultery. {5:19}
Neither shalt thou steal. {5:20} Neither shalt thou bear false
witness against thy neighbour. {5:21} 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.
{5:22} 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. {5:23} 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;
{5:24} 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. {5:25} 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. {5:26} 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? {5:27}
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. ]{5:28}
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. {5:29} 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! {5:30} Go say to them, Get you into your
tents again. {5:31} 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. {5:32} 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. {5:33} 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.

6 {6:1} Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes,
and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded
to teach you, that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye
go to possess it: {6:2} 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.
{6:3} 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. {6:4} Hear, O Israel:
The LORD our God [is] one LORD: {6:5} And thou shalt
love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy might. {6:6} And these words, which
I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: {6:7} 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. {6:8} And thou shalt bind them for a sign
upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine
eyes. {6:9} And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy
house, and on thy gates. {6:10} 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, {6:11} 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; {6:12} [Then]
beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth
out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. {6:13}
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt
swear by his name. {6:14} Ye shall not go after other gods,
of the gods of the people which [are] round about you;
{6:15} (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.
{6:16} Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye
tempted [him] in Massah. {6:17} Ye shall diligently keep
the commandments of the LORD your God, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded
thee. {6:18} 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, {6:19} To cast out
all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath
spoken. {6:20} [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? {6:21} 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: {6:22} And the
LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon
Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before
our eyes: {6:23} And he brought us out from thence, that he
might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto
our fathers. {6:24} 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.
{6:25} And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to
do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as
he hath commanded us.

7 {7:1} When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the
land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many
nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the
Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and
mightier than thou; {7:2} 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: {7:3} 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.
{7:4} 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.
{7:5} 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. {7:6}
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. {7:7} 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: {7:8} 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. {7:9} 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; {7:10} 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. {7:11} Thou shalt therefore keep the
commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
I command thee this day, to do them.
{7:12} 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: {7:13} 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. {7:14} Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there
shall not be male or female barren among you, or among
your cattle. {7:15} 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. {7:16} 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. {7:17} If
thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations [are] more than
I; how can I dispossess them? {7:18} Thou shalt not be
afraid of them: [but] shalt well remember what the LORD
thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; {7:19} 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. {7:20} Moreover the LORD thy God will send the
hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide
themselves from thee, be destroyed. {7:21} Thou shalt not
be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God [is] among
you, a mighty God and terrible. {7:22} 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. {7:23} But the LORD thy God
shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a
mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. {7:24} 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.
{7:25} 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. {7:26} 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.

8 {8:1} All the commandments which I command thee this
day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply,
and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto
your fathers. {8:2} 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. {8:3} 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. {8:4} Thy raiment waxed not old
upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
{8:5} Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man
chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
{8:6} Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the
LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. {8:7}
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; {8:8} A land of wheat, and barley,
and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil
olive, and honey; {8:9} 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. {8:10} When thou hast eaten and art full,
then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land
which he hath given thee. {8:11} 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: {8:12} Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full,
and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein;] {8:13}
And [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy
silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is
multiplied; {8:14} 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; {8:15} 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; {8:16} 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; {8:17} And thou say in thine heart, My power
and the might of [mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth.
{8:18} 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. {8:19} 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. {8:20} 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.

9 {9:1} Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan this
day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than
thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, {9:2} 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! {9:3} 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. {9:4} 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. {9:5} 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. {9:6} 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.
{9:7} 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.
{9:8} Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so
that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
{9:9} 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:
{9:10} 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. {9:11} 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.
{9:12} 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. {9:13}
Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen
this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people: {9:14}
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. {9:15} 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.
{9:16} 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. {9:17} And I took the two tables, and cast
them out of my two hands, and brake them before your
eyes. {9:18} 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. {9:19} 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. {9:20} And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to
have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same
time. {9:21} 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. {9:22} And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at
Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. {9:23}
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. {9:24} Ye have been rebellious against the LORD
from the day that I knew you. {9:25} 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. {9:26} 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.
{9:27} Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;
look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their
wickedness, nor to their sin: {9:28} 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. {9:29} Yet they [are] thy people and
thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty
power and by thy stretched out arm.

10 {10:1} At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee
two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me
into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. {10:2} 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.
{10:3} 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. {10:4} 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. {10:5} 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.
{10:6} 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. {10:7} From
thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah
to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
{10:8} 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. {10:9} Wherefore Levi hath no part nor
inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance,
according as the LORD thy God promised him. {10:10}
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.
{10:11} 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.
{10:12} 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, {10:13} To keep the
commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I
command thee this day for thy good? {10:14} Behold, the
heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the LORD’S thy
God, the earth [also,] with all that therein [is.] {10:15} 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. {10:16} Circumcise therefore the foreskin of
your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. {10:17} 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: {10:18} He doth execute the judgment of
the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving
him food and raiment. {10:19} Love ye therefore the
stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. {10:20}
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve,
and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
{10:21} He [is] thy praise, and he [is] thy God, that hath
done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine
eyes have seen. {10:22} 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.

11 {11:1} Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and
keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his
commandments, alway. {11:2} 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, {11:3} 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; {11:4} 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; {11:5} And what he did unto you in the
wilderness, until ye came into this place; {11:6} 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: {11:7} But your eyes have seen all the great acts of
the LORD which he did. {11:8} 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; {11:9} 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.
{11:10} 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: {11:11} But the land, whither ye
go to possess it, [is] a land of hills [and] valleys, and
drinketh water of the rain of heaven: {11:12} 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.
{11:13} 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, {11:14} 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. {11:15} And I will send grass in
thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
{11:16} Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not
deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and
worship them; {11:17} 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.
{11:18} 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.
{11:19} 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. {11:20} And thou shalt write them upon the door
posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: {11:21} 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.
{11:22} 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; {11:23} Then will the LORD drive out all these
nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater
nations and mightier than yourselves. {11:24} 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.
{11:25} 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.
{11:26} Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a
curse; {11:27} A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of
the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
{11:28} 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. {11:29} 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. {11:30} [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? {11:31} 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. {11:32} And ye shall observe to do all the
statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

12 {12:1} These [are] the statutes and judgments, which
ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of
thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye
live upon the earth. {12:2} 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: {12:3} 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. {12:4} Ye
shall not do so unto the LORD your God. {12:5} 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: {12:6} 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: {12:7} 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. {12:8} Ye
shall not do after all [the things] that we do here this day,
every man whatsoever [is] right in his own eyes. {12:9} For
ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
which the LORD your God giveth you. {12:10} 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; {12:11} 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: {12:12} 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. {12:13} Take heed to
thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place
that thou seest: {12:14} 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. {12:15} 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. {12:16} Only ye shall
not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
{12:17} 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: {12:18} 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. {12:19} Take heed to
thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest
upon the earth.
{12:20} 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. {12:21} 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. {12:22} Even as the roebuck and the
hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the
clean shall eat [of] them alike. {12:23} 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. {12:24} Thou shalt
not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. {12:25}
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. {12:26} Only thy holy
things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and
go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: {12:27}
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. {12:28}
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.
{12:29} 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; {12:30}
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following
them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that
thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these
nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. {12:31}
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. {12:32} What thing
soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.

13 {13:1} If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer
of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, {13:2} 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; {13:3} 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. {13:4} 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.
{13:5} 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.
{13:6} 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; {13:7} [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; {13:8} 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:
{13:9} 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. {13:10} 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. {13:11} And
all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such
wickedness as this is among you.
{13:12} If thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which
the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
{13:13} [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; {13:14} Then shalt thou enquire, and
make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth,
[and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought
among you; {13:15} 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. {13:16} 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. {13:17} 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; {13:18} 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.

14 {14:1} Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye
shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between
your eyes for the dead. {14:2} 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.
{14:3} Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. {14:4}
These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, [See Leviticus 11]
and the goat, {14:5} The hart, and the roebuck, and the
fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild
ox, and the chamois. {14:6} 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. {14:7}
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.
{14:8} 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.
{14:9} These ye shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all
that have fins and scales shall ye eat: {14:10} And
whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is]
unclean unto you.
{14:11} [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat. {14:12} But
these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and
ossifrage, and the ospray, {14:13} And the glede, and the
kite, and the vulture after his kind, {14:14} And every raven
after his kind, {14:15} And the owl, and the night hawk,
and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, {14:16} The
little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, {14:17} And the
pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, {14:18} And
the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and
the bat. {14:19} And every creeping thing that flieth [is]
unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. {14:20} [But of]
all clean fowls ye may eat.
{14:21} 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. {14:22} Thou shalt truly [See Exodus 23:18]
tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth
year by year. {14:23} 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.
{14:24} 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: {14:25}
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: {14:26} 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,
{14:27} And the Levite that [is] within thy gates; thou shalt
not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with
thee.
{14:28} 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: {14:29} 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.

15 {15:1} At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt
make a release. {15:2} 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. {15:3} Of
a foreigner thou mayest exact [it again:] but [that] which is
thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; {15:4} 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: {15:5} 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. {15:6} 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.
{15:7} 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: {15:8} But
thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely
lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he wanteth.
{15:9} 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. {15:10} 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. {15:11} 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.
{15:12} [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.
{15:13} And when thou sendest him out free from thee,
thou shalt not let him go away empty: {15:14} 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. {15:15}
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. {15:16} 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; {15:17} 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. {15:18} 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.
{15:19} 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. {15:20} Thou shalt eat [it]
before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which
the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. {15:21}
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. {15:22} Thou shalt eat it within
thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it]
alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. {15:23} Only thou
shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the
ground as water.

16 {16:1} Observe the month of Abib, and keep the pass-
over unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the
LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
{16:2} 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.
{16:3} 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.
{16:4} And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee
in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there [any thing] of
the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even,
remain all night until the morning. {16:5} Thou mayest not
sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee: {16:6} 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.
{16:7} 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. {16:8} 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.]
{16:9} 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. {16:10} 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: {16:11} 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. {16:12} And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these
statutes.
{16:13} Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven
days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
{16:14} 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. {16:15} 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.
{16:16} 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: {16:17} Every man [shall
give] as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD
thy God which he hath given thee.
{16:18} 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. {16:19} Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou [See Exodus 23:6-8]
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. {16:20} That which is altogether just shalt thou
follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee.
{16:21} Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees
near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt
make thee. {16:22} Neither shalt thou set thee up [any]
image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

17 {17:1} Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy
God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, [or] any
evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the
LORD thy God.
{17:2} 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, {17:3} 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; {17:4} And it be told thee, and thou hast heard
[of it,] and enquired diligently, and, behold, [it be] true,
[and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought
in Israel: {17:5} 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. {17:6} 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. {17:7} 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.
{17:8} 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; {17:9} And thou shalt come unto the priests the
Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and
enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
{17:10} 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: {17:11} 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. {17:12} 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. {17:13} And all the people shall
hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
{17:14} 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; {17:15} 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. {17:16} 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. {17:17} Neither shall he multiply wives to
himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly
multiply to himself silver and gold. {17:18} 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: {17:19} 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: {17:20} 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.

18 {18:1} The priests the Levites, [and] all the tribe of Levi,
shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat
the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
{18:2} Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their
brethren: the LORD [is] their inheritance, as he hath said
unto them.
{18:3} 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. {18:4} 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. {18:5} 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.
{18:6} 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;
{18:7} 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. {18:8} They shall have like portions to
eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
{18:9} 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. {18:10} 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,
{18:11} Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or
a wizard, or a necromancer. {18:12} 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. {18:13} Thou shalt be perfect with the
LORD thy God. {18:14} 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.]
{18:15} 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; {18:16} 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. {18:17} And the LORD said unto me,
They have well [spoken that] which they have spoken.
{18:18} 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. {18:19} 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. {18:20} 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. {18:21} And if thou say in thine heart, How shall
we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
{18:22} 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.

19 {19:1} When the LORD thy God hath cut off the na-
tions, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou
succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their
houses; {19:2} Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in
the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee
to possess it. {19:3} 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.
{19:4} 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; {19:5} 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: {19:6} 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. {19:7}
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate
three cities for thee. {19:8} 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; {19:9} 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:
{19:10} 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.
{19:11} 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: {19:12} 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. {19:13} 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.
{19:14} 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.
{19:15} 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.
{19:16} If a false witness rise up against any man to
testify against him [that which is] wrong; {19:17} 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; {19:18} And the judges shall
make diligent inquisition: and, behold, [if] the witness [be]
a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his
brother; {19:19} 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. {19:20} And those which
remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no
more any such evil among you. {19:21} And thine eye shall
not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

20 {20:1} When thou goest out to battle against thine
enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more
than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is]
with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
{20:2} And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the
battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the
people, {20:3} 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; {20:4} For the LORD your God
[is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your
enemies, to save you.
{20:5} 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. {20:6} 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. {20:7}
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. {20:8} 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. {20:9} 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.
{20:10} When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight
against it, then proclaim peace unto it. {20:11} 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. {20:12}
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war
against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: {20:13} And when
the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou
shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
{20:14} But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle,
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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.
{20:15} Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are]
very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these
nations. {20:16} 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: {20:17} 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: {20:18} 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.
{20:19} 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: {20:20} 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.

21 {21:1} If [one] be found slain in the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field,
[and] it be not known who hath slain him: {21:2} Then thy
elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall
measure unto the cities which [are] round about him that is
slain: {21:3} 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; {21:4} 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: {21:5} 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: ]{21:6} 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: {21:7} And they shall
answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither
have our eyes seen [it.] {21:8} 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. {21:9} 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.
{21:10} 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, {21:11} And
seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a
desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
{21:12} Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and
she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; {21:13} 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. {21:14} 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.
{21:15} 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: {21:16} 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: {21:17} 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.
{21:18} 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: {21:19} 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; {21:20}
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. {21:21} 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.
{21:22} 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: {21:23} 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.

22 {22:1} Thou shalt not see the brother’s ox or his sheep
go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case
bring them again unto thy brother. {22:2} 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. {22:3} In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and
so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost things of
thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt
thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
{22:4} 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.
{22:5} 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.
{22:6} 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: {22:7}
[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.
{22:8} 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.
{22:9} 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.
{22:10} Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass
together.
{22:11} Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts,
[as] of woollen and linen together.
{22:12} Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four
quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself.]
{22:13} If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and
hate her, {22:14} 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:
{22:15} 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: {22:16} And the
damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my
daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; {22:17}
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. {22:18} And
the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
{22:19} 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. {22:20} But if this thing be true, [and the tokens
of] virginity be not found for the damsel: {22:21} 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.
{22:22} 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.
{22:23} If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an
husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
{22:24} 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.
{22:25} 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: {22:26} 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: {22:27} For he found
her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there
was] none to save her.
{22:28} 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; {22:29} 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.
{22:30} A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor
discover his father’s skirt.

23 {23:1} He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his
privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation
of the LORD. {23:2} 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.
{23:3} 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: {23:4} 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. {23:5} 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. {23:6} Thou shalt
not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
{23:7} 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. {23:8} The children that are
begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the
LORD in their third generation.
{23:9} When the host goeth forth against thine enemies,
then keep thee from every wicked thing.
{23:10} 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: {23:11} 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.]
{23:12} Thou shalt have a place also without the camp,
whither thou shalt go forth abroad: {23:13} 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: {23:14}
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.
{23:15} Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant
which is escaped from his master unto thee: {23:16} 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.
{23:17} There shall be no whore of the daughters of
Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. {23:18} 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.
{23:19} Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother;
usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is
lent upon usury: {23:20} 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.
{23:21} 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.
{23:22} But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in
thee. {23:23} 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.
{23:24} 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. {23:25} 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.

24 {24:1} When a man hath taken a wife, and married her,
and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes,
because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him
write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand,
and send her out of his house. {24:2} And when she is
departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s
[wife.] {24:3} 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; {24:4} 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.
{24:5} 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.
{24:6} No man shall take the nether or the upper
millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man’s] life to pledge.
{24:7} 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.
{24:8} 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. {24:9} Remember what the LORD thy
God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come
forth out of Egypt.
{24:10} When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou
shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. {24:11} Thou
shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend
shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. {24:12} And if
the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
{24:13} 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.
{24:14} 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: {24:15} 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. {24:16} 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.
{24:17} Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the
stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment
to pledge: {24:18} 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.
{24:19} 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. {24:20} 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. {24:21} 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.
{24:22} And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman
in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this
thing.

25 {25:1} If there be a controversy between men, and they
come unto judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then
they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
{25:2} 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. {25:3} 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.
{25:4} Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out
[the corn.]
{25:5} 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. {25:6} 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. {25:7} 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. {25:8} 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; {25:9} 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. {25:10}
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him
that hath his shoe loosed.
{25:11} 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: {25:12} Then thou
shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her.]
{25:13} Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a
great and a small. {25:14} Thou shalt not have in thine
house divers measures, a great and a small. {25:15} [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. {25:16} For
all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are]
an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
{25:17} Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the
way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; {25:18} 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. {25:19} 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.]

26 {26:1} And it shall be, when thou [art] come in unto
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an
inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; {26:2}
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. {26:3} 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.
{26:4} And the priest shall take the basket out of thine
hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
{26:5} 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: {26:6}
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and
laid upon us hard bondage: {26:7} 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: {26:8} 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: {26:9} And he hath brought us into this place, and
hath given us this land, [even] a land that floweth with milk
and honey. {26:10} 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: {26:11} 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.
{26:12} 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; {26:13} 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:] {26:14} 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. {26:15} 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.
{26:16} 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.
{26:17} 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: {26:18} 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; {26:19}
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.

27 {27:1} And Moses with the elders of Israel command-
ed the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I
command you this day. {27:2} 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: {27:3} 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. {27:4} 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. {27:5} 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. {27:6}
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: {27:7} And thou shalt offer peace
offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD
thy God. {27:8} And thou shalt write upon the stones all the
words of this law very plainly.
{27:9} 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. {27:10}
Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God,
and do his commandments and his statutes, which I
command thee this day.
{27:11} And Moses charged the people the same day,
saying, {27:12} 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: {27:13} And these shall stand upon mount Ebal
to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and
Naphtali.
{27:14} And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the
men of Israel with a loud voice, {27:15} 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. {27:16} Cursed [be] he
that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the
people shall say, Amen. {27:17} Cursed [be] he that
removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people
shall say, Amen. {27:18} Cursed [be] he that maketh the
blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say,
Amen. {27:19} Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment
of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people
shall say, Amen. {27:20} Cursed [be] he that lieth with his
father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And
all the people shall say, Amen. {27:21} Cursed [be] he that
lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say,
Amen. {27:22} 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. {27:23} Cursed [be] he that
lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say,
Amen. {27:24} Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour
secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. {27:25}
Cursed [be] he that taketh reward to slay an innocent
person. And all the people shall say, Amen. {27:26} Cursed
[be] he that confirmeth not [all] the words of this law to do
them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

28 {28:1} And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken
diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe
[and] to do all his commandments which I command thee
this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above
all nations of the earth: {28:2} And all these blessings shall
come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto
the voice of the LORD thy God. {28:3} Blessed [shalt] thou
[be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
{28:4} 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. {28:5} Blessed [shall be]
thy basket and thy store. {28:6} Blessed [shalt] thou [be]
when thou comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when
thou goest out. {28:7} 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. {28:8} 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. {28:9} 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. {28:10} 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. {28:11} 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. {28:12} 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.
{28:13} 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:] {28:14} 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.
{28:15} 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: {28:16} Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city,
and cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. {28:17} Cursed
[shall be] thy basket and thy store. {28:18} 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. {28:19}
Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed
[shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out. {28:20} 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.
{28:21} The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto
thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither
thou goest to possess it. {28:22} 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. {28:23} And thy heaven that
[is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under
thee [shall be] iron. {28:24} The LORD shall make the rain
of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come
down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. {28:25} 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. {28:26} 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. {28:27} 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.
{28:28} The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and
blindness, and astonishment of heart: {28:29} 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] {28:30} 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. {28:31} 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.]
{28:32} 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. {28:33} 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:
{28:34} So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes
which thou shalt see. {28:35} 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.
{28:36} 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. {28:37} And thou shalt become an
astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations
whither the LORD shall lead thee. {28:38} Thou shalt carry
much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but] little in;
for the locust shall consume it. {28:39} Thou shalt plant
vineyards, and dress [them,] but shalt neither drink [of] the
wine, nor gather [the grapes;] for the worms shall eat them.
{28:40} 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.] {28:41} Thou shalt beget
sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they
shall go into captivity. {28:42} All thy trees and fruit of thy
land shall the locust consume. {28:43} The stranger that [is]
within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt
come down very low. {28:44} He shall lend to thee, and
thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou
shalt be the tail. {28:45} 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: {28:46} And
they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and
upon thy seed for ever. {28:47} Because thou servedst not
the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of
heart, for the abundance of all [things;] {28:48} 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. {28:49} 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; {28:50} A nation of fierce
countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old,
nor shew favour to the young: {28:51} 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. {28:52} 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. {28:53}
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: {28:54} [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: {28:55} 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.
{28:56} 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, {28:57} 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.
{28:58} 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; {28:59}
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.
{28:60} Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases
of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave
unto thee. {28:61} 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. {28:62}
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. {28:63} 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. {28:64} 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.
{28:65} 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: {28:66} And thy life shall hang in
doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and
shalt have none assurance of thy life: {28:67} 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. {28:68} 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.]

29 {29:1} These [are] the words of the covenant, which
the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of
Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he
made with them in Horeb.
{29:2} 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; {29:3} The great temptations which
thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
{29:4} Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to
perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
{29:5} 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. {29:6} Ye have not eaten
bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye
might know that I [am] the LORD your God. {29:7} 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: {29:8} 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. {29:9} Keep
therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye
may prosper in all that ye do.
{29:10} 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, {29:11} 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: {29:12} 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: {29:13} 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. {29:14} Neither with you only do I make this
covenant and this oath; {29:15} 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:
{29:16} (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of
Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye
passed by; {29:17} And ye have seen their abominations,
and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which
[were] among them:) {29:18} 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; {29:19} 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: {29:20} 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. {29:21} 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: {29:22} 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; {29:23} [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:
{29:24} Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the
LORD done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of
this great anger? {29:25} 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: {29:26} For they went and
served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they
knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them: {29:27}
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land,
to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
{29:28} 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. {29:29} 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.

30 {30:1} And it shall come to pass, when all these things
are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have
set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among
all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
{30:2} 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; {30:3} 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. {30:4} 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: {30:5} 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. {30:6} 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. {30:7} And the LORD thy God will put all
these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee,
which persecuted thee. {30:8} And thou shalt return and
obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments
which I command thee this day. {30:9} 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:
{30:10} 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.
{30:11} For this commandment which I command thee
this day, it [is] not hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off.
{30:12} 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? {30:13} 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?
{30:14} But the word [is] very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth,
and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
{30:15} See, I have set before thee this day life and good,
and death and evil; {30:16} 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.
{30:17} But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not
hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and
serve them; {30:18} 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. {30:19} 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: {30:20} 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.

31 {31:1} And Moses went and spake these words unto
all Israel. {31:2} 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. {31:3} 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. {31:4}
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. {31:5} 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.
{31:6} 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.
{31:7} 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. {31:8} 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.
{31:9} 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.
{31:10} 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, {31:11} 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. {31:12} 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: {31:13} 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.
{31:14} 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.
{31:15} 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.
{31:16} 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.
{31:17} 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? {31:18} 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. {31:19} 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. {31:20} 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. {31:21} 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.
{31:22} Moses therefore wrote this song the same day,
and taught it the children of Israel. {31:23} 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.
{31:24} 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, {31:25} That Moses commanded the Levites,
which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
{31:26} 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. {31:27} 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?
{31:28} 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. {31:29} 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. {31:30} And
Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the
words of this song, until they were ended.

32 {32:1} Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear,
O earth, the words of my mouth. {32:2} 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: {32:3} Because I will publish the name of the LORD:
ascribe ye greatness unto our God. {32:4} [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. {32:5}
They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not [the
spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked
generation. {32:6} 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?
{32:7} 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. {32:8} 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. {32:9} For the
LORD’S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his
inheritance. {32:10} 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. {32:11}
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on
her wings: {32:12} [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and
[there was] no strange god with him. {32:13} 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; {32:14} 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.
{32:15} 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. {32:16} They provoked
him to jealousy with strange [gods,] with abominations
provoked they him to anger. {32:17} 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.
{32:18} Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful,
and hast forgotten God that formed thee. {32:19} And when
the LORD saw [it,] he abhorred [them,] because of the
provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. {32:20} 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. {32:21} 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. {32:22} 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. {32:23} I will
heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
them. {32:24} [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. {32:25} The sword without, and
terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the
virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
{32:26} I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would
make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
{32:27} 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. {32:28} For they [are] a nation void
of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.
{32:29} O that they were wise, [that] they understood this,
[that] they would consider their latter end! {32:30} 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? {32:31} For their rock [is] not as our Rock,
even our enemies themselves [being] judges. {32:32} 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: {32:33} Their wine [is] the poison of dragons,
and the cruel venom of asps. {32:34} [Is] not this laid up in
store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?
{32:35} 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. {32:36} 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. {32:37} And he shall say, Where [are] their gods,
[their] rock in whom they trusted, {32:38} 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. {32:39} 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. {32:40} For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I
live for ever. {32:41} 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.
{32:42} 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. {32:43} 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.
{32:44} And Moses came and spake all the words of this
song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of
Nun. {32:45} And Moses made an end of speaking all these
words to all Israel: {32:46} 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. {32:47} 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. {32:48} And the LORD spake unto Moses that
selfsame day, saying, {32:49} 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: {32:50} 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: {32:51} 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. {32:52} Yet thou shalt see
the land before [thee;] but thou shalt not go thither unto the
land which I give the children of Israel.

33 {33:1} And this [is] the blessing, wherewith Moses the
man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
{33:2} 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. {33:3} 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. {33:4}
Moses commanded us a law, [even] the inheritance of the
congregation of Jacob. {33:5} And he was king in Jeshurun,
when the heads of the people [and] the tribes of Israel were
gathered together.
{33:6} Let Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men
be few.
{33:7} 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. {33:8} 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; {33:9} 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.
{33:10} They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel
thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt
sacrifice upon thine altar. {33:11} 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.
{33:12} [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.
{33:13} 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, {33:14} And for the
precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun, and for the
precious things put forth by the moon, {33:15} And for the
chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious
things of the lasting hills, {33:16} 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. {33:17} 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.
{33:18} And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy
going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. {33:19} 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.
{33:20} 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. {33:21} 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.
{33:22} And of Dan he said, Dan [is] a lion’s whelp: he
shall leap from Bashan.
{33:23} 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.
{33:24} 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. {33:25} Thy shoes [shall be] iron
and brass; and as thy days, [so shall] thy strength [be.]
{33:26} [There is] none like unto the God of Jeshurun,
[who] rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his
excellency on the sky. {33:27} 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.] {33:28} 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. {33:29}
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.

34 {34:1} And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto
the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over
against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of
Gilead, unto Dan, {34:2} And all Naphtali, and the land of
Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the
utmost sea, {34:3} And the south, and the plain of the
valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. {34:4}
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.
{34:5} So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in
the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
{34:6} 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.
{34:7} And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old
when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force
abated.
{34:8} 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.
{34:9} 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.
{34:10} And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like
unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, {34:11} 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, {34:12} And in all that mighty hand, and
in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all
Israel.

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