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