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