The World English Bible (WEB) Part 30

Deuteronomy

1:1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 1:2 It is eleven days' journey from h.o.r.eb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. 1:3 It happened in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them; 1:4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

1:5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 1:6 Yahweh our G.o.d spoke to us in h.o.r.eb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain: 1:7 turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seash.o.r.e, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them. 1:9 I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 1:10 Yahweh your G.o.d has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for mult.i.tude. 1:11 Yahweh, the G.o.d of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you! 1:12 How can I myself alone bear your enc.u.mbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 1:13 Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. 1:14 You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. 1:15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 1:16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. 1:17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is G.o.d's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. 1:18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do. 1:19 We traveled from h.o.r.eb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our G.o.d commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

1:20 I said to you, You are come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our G.o.d gives to us. 1:21 Behold, Yahweh your G.o.d has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the G.o.d of your fathers, has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. 1:22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come. 1:23 The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe: 1:24 and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 1:25 They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Yahweh our G.o.d gives to us. 1:26 Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your G.o.d: 1:27 and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 1:28 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 1:29 Then I said to you, Don't dread, neither be afraid of them. 1:30 Yahweh your G.o.d who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 1:31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your G.o.d bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place. 1:32 Yet in this thing you didn't believe Yahweh your G.o.d, 1:33 who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day. 1:34 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, 1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers, 1:36 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh. 1:37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also shall not go in there: 1:38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 1:39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 1:40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. 1:41 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our G.o.d commanded us. You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill country. 1:42 Yahweh said to me, Tell them, Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies. 1:43 So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country. 1:44 The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah. 1:45 You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you. 1:46 So you abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you abode there.

2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days. 2:2 Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 2:3 You have encircled this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 2:4 Command you the people, saying, You are to pa.s.s through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore; 2:5 don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

2:6 You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink. 2:7 For Yahweh your G.o.d has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your G.o.d has been with you; you have lacked nothing. 2:8 So we pa.s.sed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and pa.s.sed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 2:9 Yahweh said to me, Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession. 2:10 (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim: 2:11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. 2:12 The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.) 2:13 Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. We went over the brook Zered. 2:14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them. 2:15 Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed. 2:16 So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 2:17 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 2:18 You are this day to pa.s.s over Ar, the border of Moab: 2:19 and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession. 2:20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 2:21 a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place; 2:22 as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day: 2:23 and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.) 2:24 Rise up, take your journey, and pa.s.s over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you. 2:26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 2:27 Let me pa.s.s through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left. 2:28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pa.s.s through on my feet, 2:29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pa.s.s over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our G.o.d gives us. 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pa.s.s by him; for Yahweh your G.o.d hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day. 2:31 Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land. 2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 2:33 Yahweh our G.o.d delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people. 2:34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining: 2:35 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 2:36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our G.o.d delivered up all before us: 2:37 only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our G.o.d forbade us.

3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

3:2 Yahweh said to me, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon. 3:3 So Yahweh our G.o.d delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to him remaining. 3:4 We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many. 3:6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. 3:7 But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 3:8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon; 3:9 (which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;) 3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.) 3:12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites: 3:13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Mana.s.seh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim. 3:14 Jair the son of Mana.s.seh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.) 3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir. 3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of it, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 3:17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border of it, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. 3:18 I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your G.o.d has given you this land to possess it: you shall pa.s.s over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor. 3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall abide in your cities which I have given you, 3:20 until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives them beyond the Jordan: then you shall return every man to his possession, which I have given you. 3:21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your G.o.d has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over. 3:22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your G.o.d, he it is who fights for you. 3:23 I begged Yahweh at that time, saying, 3:24 Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what G.o.d is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts? 3:25 Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. 3:26 But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter. 3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan. 3:28 But commission 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 you shall see. 3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth Peor.

4:1 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the G.o.d of your fathers, gives you. 4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your G.o.d which I command you. 4:3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your G.o.d has destroyed them from the midst of you. 4:4 But you who did cleave to Yahweh your G.o.d are alive everyone of you this day. 4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my G.o.d commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it. 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 4:7 For what great nation is there, that has a G.o.d so near to them, as Yahweh our G.o.d is whenever we call on him? 4:8 What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children; 4:10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your G.o.d in h.o.r.eb, when Yahweh said to me, a.s.semble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children. 4:11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 4:12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only you heard a voice. 4:13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone. 4:14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. 4:15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in h.o.r.eb out of the midst of the fire. 4:16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 4:17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, 4:18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; 4:19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and wors.h.i.+p them, and serve them, which Yahweh your G.o.d has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky. 4:20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day. 4:21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you for an inheritance: 4:22 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land. 4:23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your G.o.d, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your G.o.d has forbidden you. 4:24 For Yahweh your G.o.d is a devouring fire, a jealous G.o.d. 4:25 When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your G.o.d, to provoke him to anger; 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

4:27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away. 4:28 There you shall serve G.o.ds, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 4:29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your G.o.d, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 4:30 When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your G.o.d, and listen to his voice: 4:31 for Yahweh your G.o.d is a merciful G.o.d; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that G.o.d created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? 4:33 Did ever a people hear the voice of G.o.d speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 4:34 Or has G.o.d tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your G.o.d did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 4:35 To you it was shown, that you might know that Yahweh he is G.o.d; there is none else besides him. 4:36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and on earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. 4:37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; 4:38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day. 4:39 Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh he is G.o.d in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is none else. 4:40 You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you, forever. 4:41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; 4:42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: 4:43 namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Mana.s.sites. 4:44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 4:45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, 4:46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt. 4:47 They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; 4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon), 4:49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

5:1 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them. 5:2 Yahweh our G.o.d made a covenant with us in h.o.r.eb. 5:3 Yahweh didn't make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

5:4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, 5:5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying, 5:6 "I am Yahweh your G.o.d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 5:7 You shall have no other G.o.ds before me.

5:8 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5:9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your G.o.d, am a jealous G.o.d, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me; 5:10 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

5:11 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your G.o.d in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

5:12 "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your G.o.d commanded you. 5:13 You shall labor six days, and do all your work; 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your G.o.d, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 5:15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your G.o.d brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your G.o.d commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

5:16 "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your G.o.d commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you.

5:17 "You shall not murder.

5:18 "Neither shall you commit adultery.

5:19 "Neither shall you steal.

5:20 "Neither shall you give false testimony against your neighbor.

5:21 "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

5:22 These words Yahweh spoke to all your a.s.sembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me. 5:23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 5:24 and you said, Behold, Yahweh our G.o.d has shown 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 G.o.d does speak with man, and he lives. 5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our G.o.d any more, then we shall die. 5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living G.o.d speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 5:27 Go you near, and hear all that Yahweh our G.o.d shall say: and speak you to us all that Yahweh our G.o.d shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it. 5:28 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken. 5:29 Oh that there were such a 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 forever! 5:30 Go tell them, Return you to your tents. 5:31 But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it. 5:32 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your G.o.d has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 5:33 You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your G.o.d has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

6:1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your G.o.d commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; 6:2 that you might fear Yahweh your G.o.d, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. 6:3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the G.o.d of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 6:4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our G.o.d; Yahweh is one: 6:5 and you shall love Yahweh your G.o.d with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6:6 These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; 6:7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 6:8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. 6:9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.

6:10 It shall be, when Yahweh your G.o.d shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build, 6:11 and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full; 6:12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 6:13 You shall fear Yahweh your G.o.d; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name. 6:14 You shall not go after other G.o.ds, of the G.o.ds of the peoples who are around you; 6:15 for Yahweh your G.o.d in the midst of you is a jealous G.o.d; lest the anger of Yahweh your G.o.d be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. 6:16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your G.o.d, as you tempted him in Ma.s.sah. 6:17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your G.o.d, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 6:18 You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, 6:19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 6:20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our G.o.d has commanded you?

6:21 then you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 6:22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes; 6:23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. 6:24 Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our G.o.d, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. 6:25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our G.o.d, as he has commanded us.

7:1 When Yahweh your G.o.d shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hitt.i.te, and the Girgas.h.i.+te, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you; 7:2 and when Yahweh your G.o.d shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; 7:3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. 7:4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other G.o.ds: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. 7:5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire. 7:6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your G.o.d: Yahweh your G.o.d has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7:7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: 7:8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 7:9 Know therefore that Yahweh your G.o.d, he is G.o.d, the faithful G.o.d, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, 7:10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face. 7:11 You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

7:12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your G.o.d will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers: 7:13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. 7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock. 7:15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

7:16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your G.o.d shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their G.o.ds; for that will be a snare to you. 7:17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

7:18 you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your G.o.d did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; 7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your G.o.d brought you out: so shall Yahweh your G.o.d do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 7:20 Moreover Yahweh your G.o.d will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

7:21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your G.o.d is in the midst of you, a great and awesome G.o.d. 7:22 Yahweh your G.o.d will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. 7:23 But Yahweh your G.o.d will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed. 7:24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them. 7:25 You shall burn the engraved images of their G.o.ds with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your G.o.d. 7:26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

8:1 You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. 8:2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your G.o.d has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live. 8:4 Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. 8:5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your G.o.d chastens you. 8:6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your G.o.d, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 8:7 For Yahweh your G.o.d brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; 8:9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. 8:10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your G.o.d for the good land which he has given you.

8:11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your G.o.d, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day: 8:12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein; 8:13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 8:14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your G.o.d, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint; 8:16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end: 8:17 and lest you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. 8:18 But you shall remember Yahweh your G.o.d, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. 8:19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your G.o.d, and walk after other G.o.ds, and serve them, and wors.h.i.+p them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 8:20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your G.o.d.

9:1 Hear, Israel: you are to pa.s.s over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, 9:2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak? 9:3 Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your G.o.d is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you. 9:4 Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your G.o.d has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you. 9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your G.o.d does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 9:6 Know therefore, that Yahweh your G.o.d doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff- necked people. 9:7 Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your G.o.d to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. 9:8 Also in h.o.r.eb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you. 9:9 When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.

9:10 Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of G.o.d; and on them was written according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the a.s.sembly. 9:11 It came to pa.s.s at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. 9:12 Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 9:13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people: 9:14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they. 9:15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 9:16 I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your G.o.d; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you. 9:17 I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 9:18 I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also. 9:20 Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 9:21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain. 9:22 At Taberah, and at Ma.s.sah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath. 9:23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your G.o.d, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice. 9:24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you. 9:25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. 9:26 I prayed to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

9:27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin, 9:28 lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness. 9:29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.

10:1 At that time Yahweh said to me, Cut two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

10:2 I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark. 10:3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand. 10:4 He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the a.s.sembly: and Yahweh gave them to me. 10:5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me. 10:6 (The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his place. 10:7 From there they traveled to GudG.o.dah; and from GudG.o.dah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 10:8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day. 10:9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your G.o.d spoke to him.) 10:10 I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you. 10:11 Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them. 10:12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your G.o.d require of you, but to fear Yahweh your G.o.d, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your G.o.d with all your heart and with all your soul, 10:13 to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?

10:14 Behold, to Yahweh your G.o.d belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. 10:15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day. 10:16 Circ.u.mcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. 10:17 For Yahweh your G.o.d, he is G.o.d of G.o.ds, and Lord of lords, the great G.o.d, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't regard persons, nor takes reward. 10:18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing. 10:19 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 10:20 You shall fear Yahweh your G.o.d; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name. 10:21 He is your praise, and he is your G.o.d, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. 10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your G.o.d has made you as the stars of the sky for mult.i.tude.

11:1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your G.o.d, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always. 11:2 Know you this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastis.e.m.e.nt of Yahweh your G.o.d, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, 11:3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; 11:4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day; 11:5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; 11:6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel: 11:7 but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did. 11:8 Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it; 11:9 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. 11:10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; 11:11 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of the sky, 11:12 a land which Yahweh your G.o.d cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your G.o.d are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. 11:13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your G.o.d, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 11:14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. 11:15 I will give gra.s.s in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other G.o.ds, and wors.h.i.+p them; 11:17 and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you. 11:18 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

11:19 You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 11:20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates; 11:21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. 11:22 For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your G.o.d, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him; 11:23 then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 11:24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border. 11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: Yahweh your G.o.d shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you. 11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 11:27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your G.o.d, which I command you this day; 11:28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your G.o.d, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other G.o.ds, which you have not known. 11:29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your G.o.d shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal. 11:30 Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? 11:31 For you are to pa.s.s over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein. 11:32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.

12:1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the G.o.d of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth. 12:2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their G.o.ds, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree: 12:3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their G.o.ds; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. 12:4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your G.o.d. 12:5 But to the place which Yahweh your G.o.d shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come; 12:6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your t.i.thes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock: 12:7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your G.o.d, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your G.o.d has blessed you. 12:8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes; 12:9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you. 12:10 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your G.o.d causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety; 12:11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your G.o.d shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your t.i.thes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh. 12:12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your G.o.d, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 12:13 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 12:14 but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. 12:15 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your G.o.d which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. 12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. 12:17 You may not eat within your gates the t.i.the of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; 12:18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your G.o.d in the place which Yahweh your G.o.d shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your G.o.d in all that you put your hand to.

12:19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. 12:20 When Yahweh your G.o.d shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul. 12:21 If the place which Yahweh your G.o.d shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. 12:22 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike. 12:23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. 12:24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. 12:25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh. 12:26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose: 12:27 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your G.o.d; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your G.o.d; and you shall eat the flesh. 12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your G.o.d. 12:29 When Yahweh your G.o.d shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; 12:30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their G.o.ds, saying, How do these nations serve their G.o.ds? even so will I do likewise. 12:31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your G.o.d: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their G.o.ds; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their G.o.ds. 12:32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

13:1 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, 13:2 and the sign or the wonder come to pa.s.s, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other G.o.ds, which you have not known, and let us serve them; 13:3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your G.o.d proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your G.o.d with all your heart and with all your soul. 13:4 You shall walk after Yahweh your G.o.d, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him. 13:5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your G.o.d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your G.o.d commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other G.o.ds, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 13:7 of the G.o.ds of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; 13:8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: 13:9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 13:10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your G.o.d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 13:11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

13:12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you to dwell there, saying, 13:13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other G.o.ds, which you have not known; 13:14 then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you, 13:15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword. 13:16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your G.o.d: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. 13:17 There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compa.s.sion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; 13:18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your G.o.d, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your G.o.d.

14:1 You are the children of Yahweh your G.o.d: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 14:2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your G.o.d, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. 14:3 You shall not eat any abominable thing. 14:4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 14:5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois. 14:6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat. 14:7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you. 14:8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carca.s.ses you shall not touch. 14:9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat; 14:10 and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you. 14:11 Of all clean birds you may eat. 14:12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey, 14:13 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind, 14:14 and every raven after its kind, 14:15 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind, 14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, 14:17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, 14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 14:19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

14:20 Of all clean birds you may eat. 14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your G.o.d. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. 14:22 You shall surely t.i.the all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year. 14:23 You shall eat before Yahweh your G.o.d, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the t.i.the of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your G.o.d always. 14:24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your G.o.d shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your G.o.d shall bless you; 14:25 then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your G.o.d shall choose: 14:26 and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your G.o.d, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

14:27 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 14:28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the t.i.the of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: 14:29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your G.o.d may bless