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Deuteronomy 1:1-46
1 These be the words which Moses
spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the
Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 (There
are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto
Kadeshbarnea.) 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the
first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 After he had
slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan,
which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses
to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have
dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of
the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills,
and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and
unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land
before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
9 And I spake unto you at that time,
saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you,
and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The LORD God
of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as
he hath promised you!) 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and
your strife? 13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I
will make them rulers over you. 14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast
spoken is good for us to do. 15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise
men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your
tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between
your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the
stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye
shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for
the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto
me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should
do.
19 And when we departed from Horeb, we
went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the
mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our
God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and
possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not,
neither be discouraged. 22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will
send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what
way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. 23 And the saying pleased me well:
and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: 24 And they turned and went up into the
mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. 25 And they took of the
fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word
again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. 26
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your
God: 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath
brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to
destroy us. 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying,
The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up
to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. 29 Then I said unto
you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he
shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man
doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. 32 Yet in
this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went in the way before you, to
search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by
what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. 34 And the LORD heard the voice of your
words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of
this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, 36 Save
Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath
trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD. 37 Also the
LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither. 38 But
Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage
him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said
should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and
evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way
of the Red sea. 41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we
will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had
girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. 42 And the
LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you;
lest ye be smitten before your enemies. 43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill. 44
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as
bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah. 45 And ye returned and wept
before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. 46
So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there. (KJV)
2
Deuteronomy 2:1-37
1 Then we turned, and took our journey
into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed
mount Seir many days. 2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying, 3 Ye have compassed this
mountain long enough: turn you northward. 4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are
to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir;
and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: 5 Meddle not
with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth;
because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6 Ye shall buy meat of
them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye
may drink. 7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he
knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath
been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
8 And when we passed by from our brethren
the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and
from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the LORD
said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will
not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the
children of Lot for a possession. 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a
people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; 11 Which also were accounted giants, as
the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. 12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir
beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from
before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession,
which the LORD gave unto them. 13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook
Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the space in which we came from
Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years;
until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the
LORD sware unto them. 15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them
from among the host, until they were consumed. 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of
war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: 19 And when thou
comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them:
for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession;
because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession. 20 (That also
was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call
them Zamzummims; 21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD
destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: 22 As he
did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before
them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: 23 And the
Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out
of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass
over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 25 This
day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that
are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be
in anguish because of thee. 26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth
unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27 Let me pass through thy land: I
will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. 28
Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may
drink: only I will pass through on my feet; 29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in
Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan
into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let
us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate,
that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. 31 And the LORD
said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to
possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all
his people, to fight at Jahaz. 33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we
smote him, and his sons, and all his people. 34 And we took all his cities at that time,
and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left
none to remain: 35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the
cities which we took. 36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon,
and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one
city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us: 37 Only unto the land of
the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor
unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us. (KJV)
3
Deuteronomy 3:1-29
1 Then we turned, and went up the way to
Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at
Edrei. 2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his
people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon
king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our
hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was
left to him remaining. 4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city
which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og
in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside
unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of
Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. 7 But all the
cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8 And we took at
that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on
this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; 9 (Which Hermon the
Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) 10 All the cities of the plain,
and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in
Bashan. 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his
bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of
Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after
the cubit of a man.
12 And this land, which we
possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount
Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. 13 And the
rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe
of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of
giants. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of
Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this
day. 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I
gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the
river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 17 The plain also, and
Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even
the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward. 18 And I commanded you at that time,
saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed
before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. 19 But
your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much
cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 Until the LORD have given
rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land
which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return
every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
21 And I commanded Joshua at that time,
saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so
shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. 22 Ye shall not fear them:
for the LORD your God he shall fight for you. 23 And I besought the LORD at that time,
saying, 24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty
hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy
works, and according to thy might? 25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land
that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 26 But the LORD was wroth
with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice
thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. 27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and
lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with
thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage
him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them
to inherit the land which thou shalt see. 29 So we abode in the valley over against
Bethpeor. (KJV)
4
Deuteronomy 4:1-49
1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto
the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may
live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye
shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from
it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. 3 Your
eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed
Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you. 4 But ye that did cleave
unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. 5 Behold, I have taught
you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in
the land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your
wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as
the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And
what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous
as all this law, which I set before you this day? 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep
thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they
depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons'
sons; 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb,
when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my
words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth,
and that they may teach their children. 11 And ye came near and stood under the
mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness,
clouds, and thick darkness. 12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire:
ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. 13
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten
commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And the LORD commanded me at
that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither
ye go over to possess it. 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no
manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the
midst of the fire: 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the
similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast
that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is
in the waters beneath the earth: 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and
when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven,
shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided
unto all nations under the whole heaven. 20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you
forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of
inheritance, as ye are this day. 21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your
sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that
good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance: 22 But I must die
in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he
made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing,
which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. 24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming
fire, even a jealous God. 25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's
children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves,
and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in
the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: 26 I call heaven and earth to
witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it,
but shall utterly be destroyed. 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and
ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. 28 And
there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor
hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou
shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. 30 When
thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the
latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; 31
(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy
thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them. 32 For ask now of
the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon
the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath
been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? 33
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as
thou hast heard, and live? 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from
the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war,
and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all
that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 Unto thee it was shewed,
that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside
him. 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and
upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of
the fire. 37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them,
and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 38 To drive out
nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to
give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 39 Know
therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God
in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. 40 Thou shalt keep
therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may
go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days
upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
41 Then Moses severed three cities on this
side Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill
his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of
these cities he might live: 43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain
country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of
the Manassites. 44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of
Israel: 45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt, 46 On this
side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they
were come forth out of Egypt: 47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of
Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the
sunrising; 48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount
Sion, which is Hermon, 49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto
the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah. (KJV)
5
Deuteronomy 5:1-33
1 And Moses called all Israel, and said
unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day,
that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us
in Horeb. 3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us,
who are all of us here alive this day. 4 The LORD talked with you face to face in
the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time,
to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not
up into the mount;) saying,
6 I am the LORD thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none
other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow
down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me, 10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and
keep my commandments. 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the
LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 12 Keep the sabbath
day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Six days thou shalt
labour, and do all thy work: 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy
God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor
thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may
rest as well as thou. 15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that
the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out
arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. 16 Honour thy
father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be
prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee. 17 Thou shalt not kill. 18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. 19 Neither shalt thou
steal. 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. 21 Neither shalt
thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his
field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that
is thy neighbour's. 22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the
mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great
voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them
unto me.
23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the
voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye
came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye
said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have
heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk
with man, and he liveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will
consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die. 26 For
who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out
of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27 Go thou near, and hear all that
the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak
unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it. 28 And the LORD heard the voice
of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of
the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that
they have spoken. 29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and
keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children
for ever! 30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again. 31 But as for thee, stand thou
here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I
give them to possess it. 32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath
commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 Ye shall walk
in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that
it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land
which ye shall possess. (KJV)
6
Deuteronomy 6:1-25
1 Now these are the commandments,
the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye
might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest fear
the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee,
thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be
prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well
with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised
thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one
LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,
and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in
thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of
them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon
the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall
have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, 11 And houses
full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou
diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have
eaten and be full; 12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee
forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy
God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of
the gods of the people which are round about you; 15 (For the LORD thy God is a
jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and
destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as
ye tempted him in Massah.
17 Ye shall diligently keep the
commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath
commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of
the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before
thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come,
saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the
LORD our God hath commanded you? 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's
bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 And the LORD
shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
household, before our eyes: 23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us
in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to
do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might
preserve us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And it shall be our righteousness, if
we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
(KJV)
7
Deuteronomy 7:1-26
1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee
into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before
thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than
thou; 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and
utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his
son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For they will turn away thy son from
following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled
against you, and destroy thee suddenly. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall
destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn
their graven images with fire. 6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God:
the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people
that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor
choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest
of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which
he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know
therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth
covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand
generations; 10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 11 Thou shalt
therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee
this day, to do them.
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye
hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto
thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: 13 And he will love thee,
and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit
of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou
shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or
among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put
none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon
all them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD
thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou
serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thine
heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18 Thou shalt not
be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh,
and unto all Egypt; 19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought
thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. 20
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and
hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the
LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. 22 And the LORD thy God will
put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at
once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. 23 But the LORD thy God shall
deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be
destroyed. 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy
their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou
have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou
shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee,
lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 26
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like
it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is
a cursed thing. (KJV)
8
Deuteronomy 8:1-20
1 All the commandments which I command
thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and
possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the
way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and
to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with
manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know
that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of the LORD doth man live. 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy
foot swell, these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man
chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 6 Therefore thou shalt
keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the
LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and
depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and
fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt
eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose
stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then
thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 11 Beware
that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments,
and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and
art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy
herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that
thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy
God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 Who
led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents,
and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water
out of the rock of flint; 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers
knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy
latter end; 17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand
hath gotten me this wealth. 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he
that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware
unto thy fathers, as it is this day. 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget
the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify
against you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD
destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the
voice of the LORD your God. (KJV)
9
Deuteronomy 9:1-29
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass
over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself,
cities great and fenced up to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the
Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand
before the children of Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he
which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he
shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them
quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. 4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the
LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD
hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD
doth drive them out from before thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness
of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these
nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the
word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand
therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy
righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how
thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst
depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious
against the LORD. 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was
angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the
tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then
I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and
on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in
the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass
at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of
stone, even the tables of the covenant. 12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get
thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt
have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I
commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me,
saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: 14 Let me
alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make
of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 15 So I turned and came down from the
mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in
my two hands. 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and
had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD
had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and
brake them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty
days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins
which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against
you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also. 20 And the LORD was
very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and
ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the
dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. 22 And at Taberah, and at
Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewise when the LORD
sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you;
then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not,
nor hearkened to his voice. 24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that
I knew you. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell
down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed
therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth
out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look
not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 28
Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring
them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them
out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
(KJV)
10
Deuteronomy 10:1-22
1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew
thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make
thee an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first
tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of shittim
wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount,
having the two tables in mine hand. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first
writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst
of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. 5 And I turned
myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and
there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 6 And the children of Israel took their journey
from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was
buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 7 From thence
they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. 8
At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the
LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this
day. 9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his
inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him. 10 And I stayed in the mount,
according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me
at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. 11 And the LORD said unto
me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the
land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy
God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love
him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep
the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy
good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the
earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy
fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all
people, as it is this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and
be no more stiffnecked. 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords,
a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: 18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in
giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in
the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him
shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy
God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy
God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. (KJV)
11
Deuteronomy 11:1-32
1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy
God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments,
alway. 2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not
known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his
mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, 3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in
the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 4 And what he
did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the
water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD
hath destroyed them unto this day; 5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye
came into this place; 6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son
of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households,
and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst
of all Israel: 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
8 Therefore shall ye keep all the
commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess
the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the
land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land
that floweth with milk and honey. 10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is
not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and
wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to
possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain
of heaven: 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are
always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. 13 And
it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command
you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all
your soul, 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the
first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and
thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and
be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside,
and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled
against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not
her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth
you.
18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my
words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they
may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking
of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of
thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of
heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I
command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave
unto him; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall
possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of
your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the
river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be
able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the
dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
26 Behold, I set before you this day a
blessing and a curse; 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God,
which I command you this day: 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the
LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after
other gods, which ye have not known. 29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God
hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put
the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on
the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites,
which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31 For ye
shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you,
and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes
and judgments which I set before you this day. (KJV)
12
Deuteronomy 12:1-32
1 These are the statutes and
judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers
giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye shall utterly
destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon
the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall
overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye
shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that
place. 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
5 But unto the place which the LORD your
God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his
habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your
burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand,
and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your
flocks: 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all
that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee. 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man
whatsoever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and
to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you. 10 But when ye go over
Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he
giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; 11 Then
there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell
there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows
which ye vow unto the LORD: 12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your
sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that
is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you. 13
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou
seest: 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou
shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. 15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul
lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the
unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. 16 Only ye
shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. 17 Thou mayest not eat
within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings
of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill
offerings, or heave offering of thine hand: 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy
God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter,
and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates:
and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the
earth. 20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and
thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat
flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath
chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of
thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in
thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten,
so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 Only
be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not
eat the life with the flesh. 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth
as water. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children
after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 26
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place
which the LORD shall choose: 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and
the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be
poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. 28 Observe
and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the
sight of the LORD thy God. 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before
thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their
land; 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they
be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did
these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto
the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto
their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their
gods. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto,
nor diminish from it. (KJV)
13
Deuteronomy 13:1-18
1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a
dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come
to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast
not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet,
or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the
LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD
your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve
him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to
death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to
thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou
put the evil away from the midst of thee.
6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother,
or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as
thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou
hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are
round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the
earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor
hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither
shalt thou conceal him: 9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon
him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And thou shalt
stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the
LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 11
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is
among you.
12 If thou shalt hear say in one of
thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men,
the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of
their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 14 Then shalt
thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and
the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 15 Thou shalt
surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it
utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the
sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof,
and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy
God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 17 And there shall
cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the
fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply
thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the
LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that
which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. (KJV)
14
Deuteronomy 14:1-29
1 Ye are the children of the LORD
your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the
dead. 2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen
thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the
earth. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye
shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow
deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. 6 And every
beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the
cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them
that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the
hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they
are unclean unto you. 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth
not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch
their dead carcase. 9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that
have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not
eat; it is unclean unto you. 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat. 12 But
these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the
ospray, 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14 And every raven
after his kind, 15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his
kind, 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17 And the pelican, and the gier
eagle, and the cormorant, 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing,
and the bat. 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they
shall not be eaten. 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21 Ye shall not eat of
any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in
thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an
holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase
of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before the
LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy
corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks;
that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. 24 And if the way be too long for
thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee,
which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee: 25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine
hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: 26 And thou shalt
bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for
wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there
before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household, 27 And the
Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part
nor inheritance with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the
tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 And
the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the
fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat
and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which
thou doest. (KJV)
15
Deuteronomy 15:1-23
1 At the end of every seven years
thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor
that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it
of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release. 3 Of a
foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy
brother thine hand shall release; 4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the
LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance to possess it: 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. 6 For the LORD
thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but
thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign
over thee. 7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy
gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart,
nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him,
and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth. 9
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year
of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest
him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. 10 Thou shalt
surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because
that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that
thou puttest thine hand unto. 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore
I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and
to thy needy, in thy land.
12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew
man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh
year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13 And when thou sendest him out free from
thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy
flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I
command thee this thing to day. 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go
away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; 17
Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he
shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. 18 It
shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been
worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy
God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
19 All the firstling males that come of
thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work
with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. 20 Thou shalt eat
it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose,
thou and thy household. 21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame,
or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy
God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat
it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood
thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. (KJV)
16
Deuteronomy 16:1-22
1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the
passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee
forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD
thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his
name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat
unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out
of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth
out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread
seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the
flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God
giveth thee: 6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in,
there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the
season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in
the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go
unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall
be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein. 9
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time
as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. 10 And thou shalt keep the
feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand,
which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee: 11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and
thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within
thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you,
in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. 12 And thou shalt
remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered
in thy corn and thy wine: 14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and
thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and
the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shalt thou
keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose:
because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of
thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. 16 Three times in a year shall all thy
males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they
shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man shall give as he is able,
according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
18 Judges and officers shalt thou make
thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they
shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt
not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and
pervert the words of the righteous. 20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow,
that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 21 Thou
shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which
thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD
thy God hateth. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 17:1-20
1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD
thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness:
for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 2 If there be found among you,
within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath
wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, 3 And
hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of
the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard
of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the
thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then shalt thou bring
forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even
that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. 6 At the
mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to
death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hands of
the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all
the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
8 If there arise a matter too hard for
thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and
stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and
get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9 And thou shalt come unto
the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and
they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the
sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou
shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11 According to the sentence
of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall
tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew
thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And the man that will do
presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there
before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put
away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.
14 When thou art come unto the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt
say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; 15 Thou
shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one
from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger
over thee, which is not thy brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses to
himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply
horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that
way. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither
shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth
upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out
of that which is before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with him, and
he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his
God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart
be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to
the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days
in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
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