DEUTERONOMY
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Deuteronomy 1
1 These [be] the words which Moses
spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over
against the Red [sea], between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and
Dizahab.
2 ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye [are] this day as the
stars of heaven for multitude.
11 (Yahweh, 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 Yahweh
our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which
Yahweh our God doth give unto us.
21 Behold, Yahweh thy God hath set the land before thee: go up [and] possess
[it], as Yahweh, 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
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 Yahweh
our God doth give us.
26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of
Yahweh your God:
27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh.
37 Also Yahweh 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
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
41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go
up and fight, according to all that Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh; but Yahweh would not hearken to your
voice, nor give ear unto you.
46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode [there].
1 Then we turned, and took our
journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as Yahweh spake unto me:
and we compassed
2 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: He knoweth
thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh thy God
[hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in
Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned
and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 And Yahweh 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
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
13 Now rise up, [said I], and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over
the brook Zered.
14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over
the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the
men of war were wasted out from among the host, as Yahweh sware unto them.
15 For indeed the hand of Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh our God giveth us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for Yahweh thy God
hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him
into thy hand, as [appeareth] this day.
31 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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: Yahweh 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 Yahweh our God forbad us.
1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of
2 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of
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
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
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
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of
Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair,
unto this day.
15 And I gave
16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto
the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok,
[which is] the border of the children of Ammon;
17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast [thereof], from Chinnereth even
unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God hath given you
this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the
children of
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 Yahweh have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and
[until] they also possess the land which Yahweh 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
Yahweh your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall Yahweh do unto all the
kingdoms whither thou passest.
22 Ye shall not fear them: for Yahweh your God, He shall fight for you.
23 And I besought Yahweh at that time, saying,
24 O Lord Yahweh, 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
26 But Yahweh was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and
Yahweh said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto Me of this matter.
27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and
northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for
thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go
over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou
shalt see.
29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh your God which I
command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that
followed Baalpeor, Yahweh thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
4 But ye that did cleave unto Yahweh your God [are] alive every one of you this
day.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Yahweh 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
Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God in Horeb, when
Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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] Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God hath divided unto all
nations under the whole heaven.
20 But Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh
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 Yahweh your God,
which He made with you, and make you a graven image, [or] the likeness of any
[thing], which Yahweh thy God hath forbidden thee.
24 For Yahweh 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
Yahweh 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 Yahweh shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in
number among the heathen, whither Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God, and shalt be
obedient unto His voice;
31 (For Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
Yahweh thy God giveth thee, for ever.
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour
unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these
cities he might live:
43 [Namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites;
and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
44 And this [is] the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
45 These [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of
Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children
of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of
the Amorites, which [were] on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
48 From Aroer, which [is] by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion,
which [is] Hermon,
49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the
plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
1 And Moses called all
2 Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 Yahweh made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who
[are] all of us here alive this day.
4 Yahweh talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the
fire,
5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to shew you the word of Yahweh:
for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;)
saying,
6 I [am] Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 consider the name of Yahweh thy God to be a vain thing: for
Yahweh will not hold him guiltless that considers His name meaningless.
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as Yahweh thy God hath commanded thee;
that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land
which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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, Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh our God shall say: and speak thou
unto us all that Yahweh our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear [it],
and do [it].
28 And Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and Yahweh
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God hath commanded you, that
ye may live, and [that it may be] well with you, and [that] ye may prolong
[your] days in the land which ye shall possess.
1 Now these [are] the commandments,
the statutes, and the judgments, which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh, God of thy fathers, hath
promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel: Yahweh [is] our God, Yahweh [is] One:
5 And thou shalt love Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh, Which brought thee forth out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 Thou shalt fear Yahweh thy God, and serve Him, and 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 Yahweh thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest the anger of Yahweh
thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the
earth.
16 Ye shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as ye tempted [Him] in Massah.
17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh 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 Yahweh:
that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good
land which Yahweh sware unto thy fathers,
19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as Yahweh 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 Yahweh our God hath
commanded you?
21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and
Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
22 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh 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 Yahweh our God, as He hath commanded us.
1 When Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God: Yahweh thy God hath chosen
thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that [are] upon the
face of the earth.
7 Yahweh 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 Yahweh loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had
sworn unto your fathers, hath Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God brought
thee out: so shall Yahweh thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art
afraid.
20 Moreover Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God [is] among you, a
mighty God and terrible.
22 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God.
26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a
cursed thing like it: [but] thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt
utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed thing.
1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do,
that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh
sware unto your fathers.
2 And thou shalt remember all the way which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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] Yahweh thy God chasteneth thee.
6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of Yahweh thy God, to walk in His
ways, and to fear Him.
7 For Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God for
the good land which He hath given thee.
11 Beware that thou forget not Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish;
because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of Yahweh your God.
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to
pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier
than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and
[of whom] thou hast heard [say], Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that Yahweh 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 Yahweh hath said unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that Yahweh thy God hath cast them out
from before thee, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh hath brought me in to
possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy
God doth drive them out from before
thee, and that He may perform the word which Yahweh sware unto thy fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God to wrath in
the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked Yahweh to wrath, so that Yahweh 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 Yahweh made with you, then I abode in the mount
forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And Yahweh delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of
God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Yahweh 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] Yahweh
gave me the two tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant.
12 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God, [and] had
made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh
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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, to provoke Him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Yahweh was
wroth against you to destroy you. But Yahweh hearkened unto me at that time
also.
20 And Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for
Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and
stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust:
and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked Yahweh
to wrath.
23 Likewise when Yahweh sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess
the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of
Yahweh your God, and ye believed Him not, nor hearkened to His voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before Yahweh forty days and forty nights, as I fell down
[at the first]; because Yahweh had said He would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore unto Yahweh, and said, O Lord Yahweh, destroy not Thy
people and Thine inheritance, which Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness,
which Thou hast brought forth out of
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 Yahweh was not able
to bring them into the land which He promised them, and because He hated them,
He hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
29 Yet they [are] Thy people and Thine inheritance, which Thou broughtest out
by Thy mighty power and by Thy stretched out arm.
1 At that time Yahweh 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 Yahweh spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the
fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh 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 Yahweh commanded me.
6 And the children of
7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a
land of rivers of waters.
8 At that time Yahweh separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister unto Him, and to bless
in His name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; Yahweh [is]
his inheritance, according as Yahweh thy God promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty
nights; and Yahweh hearkened unto me at that time also, [and] Yahweh would not
destroy thee.
11 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God require of thee, but to fear
Yahweh thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Yahweh
thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of Yahweh, and His statutes, which I command thee
this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] Yahweh's thy God, the
earth [also], with all that therein [is].
15 Only Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
20 Thou shalt fear Yahweh 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
1 Therefore thou shalt love Yahweh thy God, and keep His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commandments, always.
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 Yahweh 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] Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God careth for: the eyes of Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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] Yahweh'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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave
unto Him;
23 Then will Yahweh 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
25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: [for] Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God, which I command you this day:
28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God hath brought thee in unto the
land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon
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 Yahweh your
God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before
you this day.
1 These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in
the land, which Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God.
5 But unto the place which Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God, and ye shall rejoice in all
that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein Yahweh 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 Yahweh
your God giveth you.
10 But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh:
12 And ye shall rejoice before Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God in the place which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh
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 Yahweh.
26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go
unto the place which Yahweh shall choose:
27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the
altar of Yahweh thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out
upon the altar of Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God.
29 When Yahweh thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou
goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that
they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods,
saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
31 Thou shalt not do so unto Yahweh thy God: for every abomination to Yahweh,
which He hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their
daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.
1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth
thee a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying,
Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams: for Yahweh your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Yahweh your
God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 Ye shall walk after Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God, Which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11 And all
12 If thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which Yahweh thy God hath
given thee to dwell there, saying,
13 [Certain] men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have
withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other
gods, which ye have not known;
14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold,
[if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought
among you;
15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the
sword, destroying it utterly, and all that [is] therein, and the cattle
thereof, with the edge of the sword.
16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street
thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every
whit, for Yahweh 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 Yahweh
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 Yahweh thy God, to keep all His
commandments which I command thee this day, to do [that which is] right in the
eyes of Yahweh thy God.
1 Ye [are] the children of Yahweh
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 Yahweh thy God, and Yahweh hath chosen
thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations that [are]
upon the earth.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the
pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws,
[and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them
that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for
they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto
you.
8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it [is]
unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead
carcase.
9 These ye shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all that have fins and scales
shall ye eat:
10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean unto
you.
11 [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.
12 But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the
ossifrage, and the ospray,
13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
14 And every raven after his kind,
15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his
kind,
16 The little owl, and the great
owl, and the swan,
17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19 And every creeping thing that flieth [is] unclean unto you: they shall not
be eaten.
20 [But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.
21 Ye shall not eat [of] 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God shall choose to set
His name there, when Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God may bless thee
in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
1 At the end of [every] seven years
thou shalt make a release.
2 And this [is] the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth [ought]
unto his neighbour shall release [it]; he shall not exact [it] of his
neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called Yahweh'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 Yahweh shall greatly bless
thee in the land which Yahweh thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to
possess it:
5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to observe
to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
6 For Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God hath blessed thee thou
shalt give unto him.
15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God year by year in the place which
Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God.
22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall
eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto Yahweh thy God: for
in the month of Abib Yahweh thy God brought thee forth out of
2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto Yahweh thy God, of the flock
and the herd, in the place which Yahweh 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
4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven
days; neither shall there [any thing] of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the
first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which Yahweh
thy God giveth thee:
6 But at the place which Yahweh 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
7 And thou shalt roast and eat [it] in the place which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God with a tribute of
a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto Yahweh thy God],
according as Yahweh thy God hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God hath chosen to place His name
there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in
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 Yahweh thy God in the place
which Yahweh shall choose: because Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh empty:
17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh thy
God which He hath given thee.
18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God giveth thee.
21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of Yahweh
thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
22 Neither shalt thou set thee up [any] image; which Yahweh thy God hateth.
1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto Yahweh thy God [any] bullock, or sheep,
wherein is blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination
unto Yahweh thy God.
2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which Yahweh thy God
giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of Yahweh
thy God, in transgressing His covenant,
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or
moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard [of it], and enquired diligently,
and, behold, [it be] true, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is
wrought in Israel:
5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that
wicked thing, unto thy gates, [even] that man or that woman, and shalt stone
them with stones, till they die.
6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of
death be put to death; [but] at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to
death.
7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from
among you.
8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and
blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, [being] matters of
controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the
place which Yahweh thy God shall choose;
9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that
shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of
judgment:
10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which
Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God, or unto the
judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from
13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14 When thou art come unto the land which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
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 Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this
law and these statutes, to do them:
20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not
aside from the commandment, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left: to the end
that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst
of Israel.
1 The priests the Levites, [and]
all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with
2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: Yahweh [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 Yahweh thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to
minister in the name of Yahweh, 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 Yahweh
shall choose;
7 Then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brethren the
Levites [do], which stand there before Yahweh.
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh: and because
of these abominations Yahweh thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with Yahweh thy God.
14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of
times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, Yahweh thy God hath not suffered
thee so [to do].
15 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God in Horeb in the day
of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God,
neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh hath
not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of Yahweh, if the thing follow not, nor
come to pass, that [is] the thing which Yahweh hath not spoken, [but] the
prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
1 When Yahweh thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh 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
Yahweh thy God giveth thee to possess it.
3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which
Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
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 Yahweh 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
Yahweh, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, [if] the
witness [be] a false witness, [and] hath testified falsely against his brother;
19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother:
so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no
more any such evil among you.
21 And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for life, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and
chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for Yahweh thy
God [is] with thee, Which brought thee up out of the
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God.
19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take
it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them:
for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of
the field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:
20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they [be] not trees for meat, thou
shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city
that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
1 If [one] be found slain in the land which Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God
hath chosen to minister unto Him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; 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 Yahweh, unto Thy people
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 Yahweh.
10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and Yahweh 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
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 Yahweh thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.
1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's
ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case
bring them again unto thy brother.
2 And if thy brother [be] not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then
thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy
brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his
raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou
hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide
thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift [them] up again.
5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a
man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto Yahweh
thy God.
6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the
ground, [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the
young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
7 [But] thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that
it may be well with thee, and [that] thou mayest prolong [thy] days.
8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy
roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed
which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of woollen and linen
together.
12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture,
wherewith thou coverest [thyself].
13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
14 And give occasions of speech
against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman,
and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth
[the tokens of] the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto
this man to wife, and he hateth her;
17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found
not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's
virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them]
unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a
virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his
days.
20 But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for
the damsel:
21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and
the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath
wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou
put evil away from among you.
22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall
both of them die, [both] the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so
shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23 If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find
her in the city, and lie with her;
24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall
stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being]
in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou
shalt put away evil from among you.
25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her,
and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin
[worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth
him, even so [is] this matter:
27 For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there
was] none to save her.
28 If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay
hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty
[shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he
may not put her away all his days.
30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall
not enter into the congregation of Yahweh.
2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of Yahweh; even to his tenth
generation shall he not enter into the congregation of Yahweh.
3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of Yahweh; even
to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of Yahweh
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 Yahweh thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but Yahweh thy God
turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because Yahweh 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
Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the
house of Yahweh thy God for any vow: for even both these [are] abomination unto
Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay
it: for Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God, which thou
hast promised with thy mouth.
24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes
thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put [any] in thy vessel.
25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest
pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy
neighbour's standing corn.
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that
she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her:
then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and
send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's
[wife].
3 And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement,
and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter
husband die, which took her [to be] his wife;
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his
wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is] abomination before Yahweh: and
thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh 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
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 Yahweh thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were
come forth out of
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh, 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
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 Yahweh 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
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
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
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 Yahweh thy
God giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an
abomination unto Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God hath given thee rest from all
thine enemies round about, in the land which Yahweh thy God giveth thee [for]
an inheritance to possess it, [that] thou shalt blot out the remembrance of
Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it].
1 And it shall be, when thou [art] come in unto the land which Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God giveth thee, and shalt put [it] in
a basket, and shalt go unto the place which Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God, that I am come unto the country
which Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God.
5 And thou shalt speak and say before Yahweh 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 Yahweh, God of our fathers, Yahweh heard our voice,
and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
8 And Yahweh 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
Yahweh, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before Yahweh thy God, and worship
before Yahweh thy God:
11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
16 This day Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy
God, as He hath spoken.
1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
2 And it shall be on the day when
ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God giveth
thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as Yahweh, 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 Yahweh thy God, an altar of stones:
thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool] upon them.
6 Thou shalt build the altar of Yahweh thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt
offer burnt offerings thereon unto Yahweh thy God:
7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before
Yahweh 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
10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of Yahweh 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 Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a]
secret [place]. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
16 Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
17 Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people
shall say, Amen.
18 Cursed [be] he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
19 Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and
widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
20 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his
father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
21 Cursed [be] he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall
say, Amen.
22 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or
the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
23 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall
say, Amen.
24 Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall
say, Amen.
25 Cursed [be] he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
26 Cursed [be] he that confirmeth not [all] the words of this law to do them.
And all the people shall say, Amen.
1 And it shall come to pass, if
thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to observe
[and] to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
Yahweh thy God giveth thee.
9 Yahweh shall establish thee an holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn
unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of Yahweh thy God, and walk in
His ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of
Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And Yahweh 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
Yahweh sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed
thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 Yahweh 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 Yahweh shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it
come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25 Yahweh 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 Yahweh will smite thee with the
botch of
28 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness
of heart, for the abundance of all [things];
48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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, YAHWEH THY
GOD;
59 Then Yahweh 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
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not written in the book of
this law, them will Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God.
63 And it shall come to pass, [that] as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you
good, and to multiply you; so Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh shall bring thee into
1 These [are] the words of the
covenant, which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that
Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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] Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God, and into His
oath, which Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh will not spare him, but then the anger of Yahweh and His jealousy
shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book
shall lie upon him, and Yahweh shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh overthrew in
His anger, and in His wrath:
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath Yahweh 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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all
the curses that are written in this book:
28 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh our God: but those [are] revealed
unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this
law.
1 And it shall come to pass, when
all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have
set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations,
whither Yahweh thy God hath driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon
thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither Yahweh thy
God hath scattered thee.
4 If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of heaven, from
thence will Yahweh thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to
love Yahweh thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou
mayest live.
7 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh, and do all His commandments which I command thee this day.
9 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh will
again rejoice over thee for good, as He rejoiced over thy fathers:
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to keep His
commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, [and]
if thou turn unto Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh sware unto thy
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all
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 Yahweh hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go
over this
3 Yahweh 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 Yahweh hath said.
4 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh
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
8 And Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, and unto all the elders of
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go
over Jordan to possess it.
14 And Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
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
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
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
Yahweh, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh 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 Yahweh; 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 Yahweh, to provoke Him
to anger through the work of your hands.
30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of
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 Yahweh: 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 Yahweh, 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
9 For Yahweh'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] Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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
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 Yahweh 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
48 And Yahweh 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 Meribahkadesh, 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
1 And this [is] the blessing,
wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of
2 And he said, Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He
shined forth from
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
6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men be few.
7 And this [is the blessing] of
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
11 Bless, Yahweh, 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 Yahweh shall dwell in safety by
him; [and Yahweh] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between
His shoulders.
13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Yahweh [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 a portion of the
lawgiver [was] reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed
the justice of Yahweh, and His judgments with
22 And of Dan he said, Dan [is] a lion's whelp: he shall leap from
23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with
the blessing of Yahweh: 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
29 Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O people saved by
Yahweh, the shield of thy help, and Who [is] the sword of thy excellency! and
thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their
high places.
1 And Moses went up from the plains of
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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh died there in the
6 And He buried him in a valley in the
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
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
10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom Yahweh
knew face to face,
11 In all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh 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.