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Deuteronomy 18:1-22
1 The priests the Levites, and all
the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 Therefore shall they have no
inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said
unto them. 3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a
sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the
shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of
thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the
name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates
out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the
place which the LORD shall choose; 7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his
God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD. 8 They
shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
9 When thou art come into the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those
nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer
of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an
abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive
them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 For these
nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners:
but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto
thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall
hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day
of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let
me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, They have
well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from
among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall
speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever
will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of
him. 20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet
shall die. 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD
hath not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow
not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the
prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 19:1-21
1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the
nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest
in their cities, and in their houses; 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the
midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare
thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 4 And this is the
case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his
neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; 5 As when a man goeth into the wood
with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down
the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he
die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: 6 Lest the avenger of the blood
pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and
slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time
past. 7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. 8 And
if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee
all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; 9 If thou shalt keep all these
commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to
walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. 11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and
lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and
fleeth into one of these cities: 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him
thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Thine
eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from
Israel, that it may go well with thee.
14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's
landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit
in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 15 One witness shall not rise
up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the
mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be
established. 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that
which is wrong; 17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall
stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; 18
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a
false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then shall ye do
unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away
from among you. 20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall
go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 20:1-20
1 When thou goest out to battle against
thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not
afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the
land of Egypt. 2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest
shall approach and speak unto the people, 3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye
approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not,
and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; 4 For the LORD your God is
he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. 5 And the
officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a
new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man dedicate it. 6 And what man is he that hath planted a
vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his
house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it. 7 And what man is there that
hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest
he die in the battle, and another man take her. 8 And the officers shall speak further
unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and
fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as
well as his heart. 9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto
the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to
fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer
of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found
therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make
no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 13 And
when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male
thereof with the edge of the sword: 14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle,
and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto
thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given
thee. 15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee,
which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 But of the cities of these people,
which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive
nothing that breatheth: 17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the
Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 18 That they teach you not to do after
all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the
LORD your God. 19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to
take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou
mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's
life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that
they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt
build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 21:1-23
1 If one be found slain in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not
known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they
shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it
shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of
that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath
not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a
rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck
there in the valley: 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD
thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by
their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried: 6 And all the elders
of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over
the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: 7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have
not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy
people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of
Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. 9 So shalt thou put away the guilt
of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the
sight of the LORD.
10 When thou goest forth to war against
thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast
taken them captive, 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire
unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to
thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 And she shall put the
raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her
father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her
husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her,
then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money,
thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
15 If a man have two wives, one beloved,
and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated;
and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: 16 Then it shall be, when he
maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son
of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the
firstborn: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by
giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his
strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious
son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that,
when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his
mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate
of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn
and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And
all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil
away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 22 And if a man have committed a
sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His
body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that
day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 22:1-30
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 the LORD thy God. 6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the
way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam
sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 7 But
thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well
with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 8 When thou buildest a new
house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon
thine house, if any man fall from thence. 9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers
seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be
defiled. 10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a
garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. 12 Thou shalt make thee
fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto
her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name
upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 15
Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of
the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's
father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth
her; 17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not
thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And
they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city
shall take that man and chastise him; 19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels
of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought
up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her
away all his days. 20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not
found for the damsel: 21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's
house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath
wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil
away from among you. 22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then
they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman:
so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. 23 If a damsel that is a virgin be
betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 Then ye
shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones
that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man,
because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with
her: then the man only that lay with her shall die: 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do
nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man
riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: 27 For he
found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none
to save her. 28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed,
and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 29 Then the man that lay with
her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be
his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. 30 A man
shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 23:1-25
1 He that is wounded in the stones, or
hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 2 A
bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation
shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not
enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not
enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread
and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against
thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 Nevertheless the
LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a
blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace
nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is
thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his
land. 8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the
LORD in their third generation.
9 When the host goeth forth against thine
enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. 10 If there be among you any man, that is
not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out
of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 11 But it shall be, when evening cometh
on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into
the camp again. 12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou
shalt go forth abroad: 13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be,
when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and
cover that which cometh from thee: 14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy
camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp
be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master
the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 16 He shall dwell with thee, even
among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh
him best: thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of
Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore,
or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these
are abomination unto the LORD thy God. 19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy
brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: 20
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon
usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the
land whither thou goest to possess it. 21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God,
thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and
it would be sin in thee. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill
offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised
with thy mouth. 24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat
grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. 25
When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears
with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
(KJV)
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Deuteronomy 24:1-22
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and
married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath
found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it
in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his
house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband
hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and
sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his
wife; 4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife,
after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt
not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he
shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he
shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. 6 No man
shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life
to pledge. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and
maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put
evil away from among you. 8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe
diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I
commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did
unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. 10 When thou dost lend
thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 Thou shalt
stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto
thee. 12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any
case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in
his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD
thy God.
14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant
that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers
that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 At his day thou shalt give him his
hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart
upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee. 16 The fathers
shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for
the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 Thou shalt not pervert
the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to
pledge: 18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God
redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 19 When thou cuttest down
thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again
to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the
LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine
olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the
fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou
shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and
for the widow. 22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt:
therefore I command thee to do this thing. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 25:1-19
1 If there be a controversy between men,
and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall
justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy
to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his
face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and
not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many
stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. 4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when
he treadeth out the corn.
5 If brethren dwell together, and one of
them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger:
her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the
duty of an husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which
she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name
be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let
his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother
refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my
husband's brother. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if
he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; 9 Then shall his brother's
wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot,
and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that
will not build up his brother's house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The
house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 11 When men strive together one with another, and
the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that
smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 Then thou shalt
cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers
weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a
great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and
just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously,
are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by
the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; 18 How he met thee by the way, and smote
the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast
faint and weary; and he feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy
God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot
out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 26:1-19
1 And it shall be, when thou art come
in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and
possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit
of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and
shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those
days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the
country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. 4 And the priest shall take
the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And
thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my
father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a
nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted
us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers,
the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our
oppression: 8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 9 And he
hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that
floweth with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the
land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God,
and worship before the LORD thy God: 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which
the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the
stranger that is among you.
12 When thou hast made an end of tithing
all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and
hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that
they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy
God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given
them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow,
according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed
thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my
mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use,
nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of
the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15
Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land
which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk
and honey.
16 This day the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be
thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his
judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to
be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all
his commandments; 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in
praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD
thy God, as he hath spoken. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 27:1-26
1 And Moses with the elders of Israel
commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. 2
And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with
plaister: 3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed
over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that
floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. 4
Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these
stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with
plaister. 5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones:
thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. 6 Thou shalt build the altar
of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the
LORD thy God: 7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice
before the LORD thy God. 8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law
very plainly. 9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take
heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. 10
Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his
statutes, which I command thee this day.
11 And Moses charged the people the same
day, saying, 12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come
over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 And
these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and
Naphtali. 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud
voice, 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an
abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in
a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. 16 Cursed be
he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall
say, Amen. 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all
the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the
stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. 20 Cursed be he
that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the
people shall say, Amen. 21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And
all the people shall say, Amen. 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the
daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say,
Amen. 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall
say, Amen. 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all
the people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the
words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 28:1-14
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt
hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his
commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high
above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake
thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou
be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall
be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle,
the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall be thy
basket and thy store. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and
blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7 The LORD shall cause thine
enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out
against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8 The LORD shall command the
blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and
he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 9 The LORD shall
establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep
the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all people of the earth
shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the
fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto
thy fathers to give thee. 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven
to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and
thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the LORD shall make
thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be
beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command
thee this day, to observe and to do them: 14 And thou shalt not go aside from any
of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the
left, to go after other gods to serve them. |
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Deuteronomy 28:15-68
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt
not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and
his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee,
and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou
be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall
be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed
shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing,
vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be
destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby
thou hast forsaken me. 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he
have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 22 The LORD shall
smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an
extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall
pursue thee until thou perish. 23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be
brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24 The LORD shall make the
rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be
destroyed. 25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go
out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all
the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and
unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. 27 The LORD will
smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the
itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and
blindness, and astonishment of heart: 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind
gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only
oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. 30 Thou shalt betroth a
wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not
dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. 31
Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine
ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored
to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to
rescue them. 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another
people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long:
and there shall be no might in thine hand. 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy
labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed
and crushed alway: 34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see. 35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch
that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. 36 The LORD
shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither
thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither
the LORD shall lead thee. 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt
gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant
vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the
grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all
thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall
cast his fruit. 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy
them; for they shall go into captivity. 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the
locust consume. 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very
high; and thou shalt come down very low. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend
to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come
upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou
hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his
statutes which he commanded thee: 46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a
wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with
joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in
hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall
put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 49 The LORD shall bring a
nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle
flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50 A nation of fierce
countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be
destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the
increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. 52 And he
shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein
thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates
throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 53 And thou shalt eat the
fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy
God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall
distress thee: 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very
delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and
toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to
any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left
him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in
all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to
set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be
evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And
toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which
she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege
and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 58 If thou wilt
not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou
mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD will make
thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long
continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 Moreover he will bring upon
thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto
thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of
this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 62 And ye shall be
left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou
wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. 63 And it shall come to pass, that as
the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice
over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the
land whither thou goest to possess it. 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all
people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve
other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have
rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and
sorrow of mind: 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day
and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: 67 In the morning thou shalt say,
Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the
fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see. 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way
whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold
unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. (KJV) |
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Deuteronomy 29:1-29
1 These are the words of the
covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land
of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 And Moses called unto all
Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the
land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 The great
temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the
LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this
day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old
upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither
have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan,
came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 And we took their land, and gave it
for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of
Manasseh. 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in
all that ye do.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before the
LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all
the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy
camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 12 That thou shouldest
enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God
maketh with thee this day: 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself,
and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn
unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I make
this covenant and this oath; 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day
before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this
day: 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the
nations which ye passed by; 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood
and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) 18 Lest there should be among
you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD
our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you
a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words
of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I
walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 20 The LORD will not
spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man,
and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall
blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of
all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in
this book of the law: 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise
up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see
the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; 23 And
that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that
it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of
Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his
wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land?
what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have
forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and
worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: 27
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses
that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and
in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this
day. 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which
are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do
all the words of this law. (KJV)
30
Deuteronomy 30:1-20
1 And it shall come to pass, when all
these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee,
and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God
hath driven thee, 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice
according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul; 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and
have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither
the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4 If any of thine be driven out unto the
outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from
thence will he fetch thee: 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy
fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee
above thy fathers. 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of
thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou
mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on
them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of
the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 9 And the LORD thy
God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in
the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again
rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 10 If thou shalt hearken unto
the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written
in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul.
11 For this commandment which I command
thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 12 It is
not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it
unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou
shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear
it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy
heart, that thou mayest do it.
15 See, I have set before thee this day
life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy
God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments,
that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land
whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not
hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto
you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days
upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and
earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death,
blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That
thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that
thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that
thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, to give them. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 31:1-30
1 And Moses went and spake these words
unto all Israel. 2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this
day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go
over this Jordan. 3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will
destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he
shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. 4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he
did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he
destroyed. 5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them
according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and of a good
courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth
go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and
said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must
go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give
them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8 And the LORD, he it is that doth
go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear
not, neither be dismayed.
9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered
it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and
unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every
seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall
choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather the people
together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates,
that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do
all the words of this law: 13 And that their children, which have not known any
thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land
whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold,
thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the
tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went,
and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. 15 And the LORD appeared
in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door
of the tabernacle. 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of
the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my
covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in
that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be
devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that
day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? 18 And I
will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in
that they are turned unto other gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and
teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness
for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land
which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have
eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve
them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils
and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness;
for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their
imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which
I sware.
22 Moses therefore wrote this song the
same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a
charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of
Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. 24 And it came to
pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they
were finished, 25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of
the LORD, saying, 26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the
covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. 27 For I
know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye
have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? 28 Gather unto me
all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their
ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. 29 For I know that after my death
ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have
commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 30 And Moses
spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they
were ended. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 32:1-52
1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will
speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my
speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers
upon the grass: 3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto
our God. 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment:
a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 5 They have corrupted
themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a
perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and
unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee,
and established thee?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the
years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they
will tell thee. 8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he
separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the
children of Israel. 9 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot
of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness;
he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As an eagle
stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her wings: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no
strange god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might
eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out
of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of
the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the
pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:
thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he
forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They
provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to
anger. 17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods
that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18 Of the Rock that begat
thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he
abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And
he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for
they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They
have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to
anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not
a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in
mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her
increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon
them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and
devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of
beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword without, and
terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with
the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into
corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that
I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves
strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not
done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding
in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten
thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31 For
their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes
are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the
poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store
with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35 To me belongeth vengeance, and
recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is
at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall
judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power
is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. 37 And he shall say, Where are their
gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their
sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help
you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he,
and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither
is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven,
and say, I live for ever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on
judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42 I
will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with
the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his
servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his
land, and to his people.
44 And Moses came and spake all the words
of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45 And Moses made
an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46 And he said unto them, Set your
hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your
children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing
for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days
in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 48 And the LORD spake unto Moses
that selfsame day, saying, 49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount
Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold
the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: 50 And die
in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother
died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: 51 Because ye trespassed against me
among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin;
because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. 52 Yet thou shalt see
the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the
children of Israel. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 33:1-29
1 And this is the blessing,
wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 2 And he
said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from
mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a
fiery law for them. 3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and
they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. 4 Moses commanded
us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. 5 And he was king in
Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered
together.
6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not
his men be few. 7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD,
the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him;
and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
8 And of Levi he said, Let thy
Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and
with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said unto his father and
to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his
own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. 10 They shall teach
Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole
burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. 11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of
his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate
him, that they rise not again.
12 And of Benjamin he said, The
beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all
the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. 13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed
of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for
the deep that coucheth beneath, 14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the
sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 15 And for the chief things of the
ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, 16 And for the
precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that
dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top
of the head of him that was separated from his brethren. 17 His glory is like the
firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them
he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten
thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice,
Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. 19 They shall call the people unto
the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of
the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand. 20 And of Gad he
said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm
with the crown of the head. 21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in
a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the
people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a
lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan. 23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied
with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be
acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. 25 Thy shoes shall be iron
and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
26 There is none like unto the God
of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the
sky. 27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting
arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a
land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. 29 Happy art thou, O
Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help,
and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto
thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places. (KJV)
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Deuteronomy 34:1-12
1 And Moses went up from the plains of
Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.
And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, 2 And all Naphtali, and the land
of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, 3 And the south,
and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. 4 And the LORD
said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with
thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died
there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 6 And he buried him in a
valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre
unto this day. 7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. 8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses
in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses
were ended.
9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of
the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel
hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. 10 And there arose not a prophet
since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, 11 In all the signs and
the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his
servants, and to all his land, 12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror
which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
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