The Fifth Book of Moses, called Deuteronomy
1:1These are the words which Moses spake
unto all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over
against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and
Di-zahab. 1:2It is eleven days' journey from
Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea. 1:3And 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
Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them; 1:4after he had smitten
Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of
Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. 1:5Beyond the Jordan, in
the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 1:6Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb,
saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain: 1:7turn you, and take your
journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the
places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the
lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the
Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
1:8Behold, I have set the land before you:
go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after
them.
1:9And I spake unto you at that time,
saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 1:10Jehovah your God hath
multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for
multitude. 1:11Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make
you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised
you! 1:12How can I myself alone bear your
cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 1:13Take you wise men, and
understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them
heads over you. 1:14And ye answered me, and said, The
thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 1:15So
I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads
over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of
fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 1:16And
I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between
your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and
the sojourner that is with him. 1:17Ye shall not respect persons in
judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; 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 ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it. 1:18And
I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 1:19And
we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible
wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites,
as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 1:20And
I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which
Jehovah our God giveth unto us. 1:21Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the
land before thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah, the God of thy
fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed. 1:22And
ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before
us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the
way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come. 1:23And
the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every
tribe: 1:24and they turned and went up into the
hill-country, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 1:25And
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
Jehovah our God giveth unto us.
1:26Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled
against the commandment of Jehovah your God: 1:27and ye murmured in
your tents, and said, Because Jehovah 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. 1:28Whither are we going up? our brethren
have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller
than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we
have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 1:29Then I said unto you,
Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 1:30Jehovah your God who
goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for
you in Egypt before your eyes, 1:31and in the wilderness, where thou hast
seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in
all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place. 1:32Yet
in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God, 1:33who went before you in
the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night,
to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.
1:34And Jehovah heard the voice of your
words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 1:35Surely there shall not
one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware
to give unto your fathers, 1:36save 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 Jehovah. 1:37Also Jehovah was angry with me for
your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither: 1:38Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth
before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall
cause Israel to inherit it. 1:39Moreover your little ones, that ye
said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge
of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it,
and they shall possess it. 1:40But as for you, turn you, and take
your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
1:41Then ye answered and said unto me, We
have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all
that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons
of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country. 1:42And
Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am
not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. 1:43So
I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the
commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the
hill-country. 1:44And the Amorites, that dwelt in that
hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat
you down in Seir, even unto Hormah. 1:45And ye returned and wept before
Jehovah; but Jehovah hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you.
1:46So ye abode in Kadesh many days,
according unto the days that ye abode there.
2:1Then we turned, and took our journey
into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me;
and we compassed mount Seir many days. 2:2And Jehovah spake unto
me, saying, 2:3Ye have compassed this mountain long
enough: turn you northward. 2:4And command thou the people, saying, Ye
are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that
dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto
yourselves therefore; 2:5contend not with them; for I will not
give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to
tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 2:6Ye
shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also
buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. 2:7For Jehovah thy God
hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; he hath known thy walking
through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been
with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. 2:8So we passed by from our brethren the
children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from
Elath and from Ezion-geber.
And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 2:9And
Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle;
for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have
given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. 2:10(The Emim dwelt
therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim: 2:11these also are accounted Rephaim, as
the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. 2:12The Horites also dwelt
in Seir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they
destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did
unto the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave unto them.) 2:13Now
rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook
Zered. 2:14And the days in which we came from
Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and
eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from
the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them. 2:15Moreover the hand of
Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp,
until they were consumed.
2:16So it came to pass, when all the men
of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 2:17that Jehovah spake
unto me, saying, 2:18Thou art this day to pass over Ar, the
border of Moab: 2:19and when thou comest nigh over against
the children of Ammon, vex them not, nor contend with them; for I will not
give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I
have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession. 2:20(That also is accounted a land of
Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them
Zamzummim, 2:21a people great, and many, and tall, as
the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded
them, and dwelt in their stead; 2:22as he did for the children of Esau,
that dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and
they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: 2:23and
the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came
forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) 2:24Rise ye up, take your journey, and
pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand
Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and
contend with him in battle. 2:25This day will I begin to put the dread
of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole
heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in
anguish because of thee.
2:26And I sent messengers out of the
wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace,
saying, 2:27Let me pass through thy land: I will
go along by the highway, I will turn neither unto the right hand nor to
the left. 2:28Thou shalt sell me food for money,
that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me
pass through on my feet, 2:29as the children of Esau that dwell in
Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass
over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us. 2:30But
Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Jehovah thy God
hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver
him into thy hand, as at this day. 2:31And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I
have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess,
that thou mayest inherit his land. 2:32Then Sihon came out against us, he and
all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. 2:33And Jehovah our God
delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his
people. 2:34And we took all his cities at that
time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the
little ones; we left none remaining: 2:35only the cattle we took for a prey
unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 2:36From Aroer, which is on the edge of
the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley,
even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Jehovah our God
delivered up all before us: 2:37only to the land of the children of
Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the
cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever Jehovah our God forbade us.
3:1Then we turned, and went up the way to
Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his
people, unto battle at Edrei. 3:2And Jehovah said unto me, Fear him not;
for I have delivered 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,
who dwelt at Heshbon. 3:3So Jehovah our God delivered into our
hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him
until none was left to him remaining. 3:4And we took all his cities at that
time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities,
all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:5All these were cities
fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a
great many. 3:6And we utterly destroyed them, as we
did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city,
with the women and the little ones. 3:7But all the cattle, and the spoil of
the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves. 3:8And we took the land at
that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were
beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon; 3:9(which Hermon the Sidonians call
Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;) 3:10all the cities of the
plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salecah and Edrei, cities of
the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3:11(For only Og king of Bashan remained
of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of
iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the
length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a
man.)
3:12And this land we took in possession at
that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the
hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites
and to the Gadites: 3:13and the rest of Gilead, and all
Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the
region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
3:14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the
region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites,
and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this
day.) 3:15And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 3:16And
unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the
valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border
thereof, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the
children of Ammon; 3:17the Arabah also, and the Jordan and
the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the
Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
3:18And I commanded you at that time,
saying, Jehovah your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall
pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men
of valor. 3:19But your wives, and your little ones,
and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your
cities which I have given you, 3:20until Jehovah give rest unto your
brethren, as unto you, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your
God giveth them beyond the Jordan: then shall ye return every man unto his
possession, which I have given you. 3:21And I commanded Joshua at that time,
saying, Thine eyes have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto
these two kings: so shall Jehovah do unto all the kingdoms whither thou
goest over. 3:22Ye shall not fear them; for Jehovah
your God, he it is that fighteth for you.
3:23And I besought Jehovah at that time,
saying, 3:24O Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to
show thy servant thy greatness, and thy strong hand: for what god is there
in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according
to thy mighty acts? 3:25Let me go over, I pray thee, and see
the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and
Lebanon. 3:26But Jehovah was wroth with me for your
sakes, and hearkened not unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, Let it suffice
thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. 3:27Get thee up unto the
top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and
southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go
over this Jordan. 3:28But 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. 3:29So we abode in the
valley over against Beth-peor.
4:1And now, O Israel, hearken unto the
statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye
may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your
fathers, giveth you. 4:2Ye shall not add unto the word which I
command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the
commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you. 4:3Your eyes have seen
what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed
Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee. 4:4But
ye that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this
day. 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and
ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in
the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it. 4:6Keep therefore and do
them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the
peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great
nation is a wise and understanding people. 4:7For what great nation
is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is
whensoever we call upon him? 4:8And what great nation is there, that
hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set
before you this day?
4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy
soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and
lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them
known unto thy children and thy children's children; 4:10the day that thou
stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said unto me,
Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may
learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they
may teach their children. 4:11And ye came near and stood under the
mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with
darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 4:12And Jehovah spake unto you out of the
midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form; only
ye heard a voice. 4:13And he declared unto you his covenant,
which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote
them upon two tables of stone. 4:14And Jehovah commanded me at that time
to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land
whither ye go over to possess it.
4:15Take ye therefore good heed unto
yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake
unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. 4:16Lest ye corrupt
yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the
likeness of male or female, 4:17the likeness of any beast that is on
the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flieth in the heavens, 4:18the
likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish
that is in the water under the earth; 4:19and 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, thou be drawn away and worship them,
and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples
under the whole heaven. 4:20But Jehovah hath taken you, and
brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a
people of inheritance, as at this day. 4:21Furthermore Jehovah
was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over the
Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which Jehovah thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance: 4:22but I must die in this land, I must
not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye
forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make
you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath
forbidden thee. 4:24For Jehovah thy God is a devouring
fire, a jealous God.
4:25When thou shalt beget children, and
children's children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall
corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and
shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke
him to anger; 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness
against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your
days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 4:27And Jehovah will
scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among
the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away. 4:28And there ye shall
serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see,
nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 4:29But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah
thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all
thy heart and with all thy soul. 4:30When thou art in tribulation, and all
these things are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt return to
Jehovah thy God, and hearken unto his voice: 4:31for Jehovah thy God is
a merciful God; he will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget
the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
4:32For ask now of the days that are past,
which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth,
and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been
any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
4:33Did ever a people hear the voice of
God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
4:34Or hath God assayed to go and take him
a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and
by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm,
and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you
in Egypt before your eyes? 4:35Unto thee it was showed, that thou
mightest know that Jehovah he is God; there is none else besides him. 4:36Out
of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and
upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words
out of the midst of the fire. 4:37And because he loved thy fathers,
therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his
presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; 4:38to drive out nations
from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give
thee their land for an inheritance, as at this day. 4:39Know therefore this
day, and lay it to thy heart, that Jehovah he is God in heaven above and
upon the earth beneath; there is none else. 4:40And thou shalt keep
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 in the land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee,
for ever.
4:41Then Moses set apart three cities
beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; 4:42that the manslayer
might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbor unawares, and hated him not
in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: 4:43namely, Bezer in the
wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in
Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
4:44And this is the law which Moses set
before the children of Israel: 4:45these are the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spake unto the children of
Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, 4:46beyond the Jordan, in
the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel
smote, when they came forth out of Egypt. 4:47And they took his land
in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the
Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; 4:48from Aroer, which is on the edge of
the valley of the Arnon, even unto mount Sion (the same is Hermon), 4:49and
all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the
Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
5:1And Moses called unto all Israel, and
said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I
speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do
them. 5:2Jehovah our God made a covenant with us
in Horeb. 5:3Jehovah made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 5:4Jehovah spake with you face to face in
the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5:5(I stood between
Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were
afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
5:6I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
5:7Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
5:8Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven
image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5:9thou shalt not bow down thyself unto
them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon
the fourth generation of them that hate me; 5:10and showing
lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments.
5:11Thou shalt not take the name of
Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that
taketh his name in vain.
5:12Observe the sabbath day, to keep it
holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee. 5:13Six days shalt thou
labor, and do all thy work; 5:14but the seventh day is a sabbath unto
Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor
thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as
well as thou. 5:15And thou shalt remember that thou wast
a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out
thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jehovah thy
God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
5:16Honor thy father and thy mother, as
Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may
go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
5:17Thou shalt not kill.
5:18Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
5:19Neither shalt thou steal.
5:20Neither shalt thou bear false witness
against thy neighbor.
5:21Neither shalt thou covet thy
neighbor's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's house, his
field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or
anything that is thy neighbor's.
5:22These words Jehovah 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 upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me. 5:23And
it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,
while the mountain was burning with fire, that ye came near unto me, even
all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 5:24and ye said, Behold,
Jehovah our God hath showed 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 speak with man, and he liveth. 5:25Now therefore why
should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice
of Jehovah our God any more, then we shall die. 5:26For 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? 5:27Go thou near, and hear
all that Jehovah our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that
Jehovah our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
5:28And Jehovah heard the voice of your
words, when ye spake unto me; and Jehovah 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. 5:29Oh that there were
such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my
commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their
children for ever! 5:30Go say to them, Return ye to your
tents. 5:31But as for thee, stand thou here by
me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the
land which I give them to possess it. 5:32Ye shall observe to do
therefore as Jehovah your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside
to the right hand or to the left. 5:33Ye shall walk in all the way which
Jehovah 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.
6:1Now this is the commandment, the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach
you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it;
6:2that thou mightest fear Jehovah 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. 6:3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe
to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase
mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in
a land flowing with milk and honey. 6:4Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one
Jehovah: 6:5and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6:6And
these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; 6:7and
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them
when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when
thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 6:8And thou shalt bind
them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between
thine eyes. 6:9And thou shalt write them upon the
door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
6:10And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God
shall bring 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 buildest not, 6:11and houses full of all good things,
which thou filledst not, and cisterns hewn out, which thou hewedst not,
vineyards and olive-trees, which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt eat
and be full; 6:12then beware lest thou forget Jehovah,
who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. 6:13Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; and
him shalt thou serve, and shalt swear by his name. 6:14Ye shall not go after
other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you; 6:15for
Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of
Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the
face of the earth.
6:16Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God,
as ye tempted him in Massah. 6:17Ye shall diligently keep the
commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes,
which he hath commanded thee. 6:18And thou shalt do that which is right
and good in the sight of Jehovah; that it may be well with thee, and that
thou mayest go in and possess the good land which Jehovah sware unto thy
fathers, 6:19to thrust out all thine enemies from
before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
6:20When thy son asketh thee in time to
come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you? 6:21then thou shalt say unto thy son, We
were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with
a mighty hand; 6:22and Jehovah showed signs and wonders,
great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before
our eyes; 6:23and he brought us out from thence,
that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our
fathers. 6:24And Jehovah commanded us to do all
these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good always, that he
might preserve us alive, as at this day. 6:25And it shall be
righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before
Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us.
7:1When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee
into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many
nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and
the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven
nations greater and mightier than thou; 7:2and when Jehovah thy
God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then
thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor show mercy unto them; 7:3neither shalt thou make marriages with
them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter
shalt thou take unto thy son. 7:4For he will turn away thy son from
following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah
be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly. 7:5But
thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash
in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven
images with fire.
7:6For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah
thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own
possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 7:7Jehovah 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 peoples: 7:8but because Jehovah loveth you, and
because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath
Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 7:9Know
therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth
covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his
commandments to a thousand generations, 7:10and 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. 7:11Thou shalt therefore
keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I
command thee this day, to do them.
7:12And it shall come to pass, because ye
hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God
will keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware
unto thy fathers: 7:13and he will love thee, and bless thee,
and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit
of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of
thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy
fathers to give thee. 7:14Thou shalt be blessed above all
peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your
cattle. 7:15And Jehovah will take away from thee
all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest,
will he put upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 7:16And
thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto
thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods;
for that will be a snare unto thee.
7:17If thou shalt say in thy heart, These
nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 7:18thou shalt not be
afraid of them: thou shalt well remember what Jehovah thy God did unto
Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 7:19the great trials which thine eyes saw,
and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched
arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out: so shall Jehovah thy God do
unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid. 7:20Moreover Jehovah thy
God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide
themselves, perish from before thee. 7:21Thou shalt not be affrighted at them;
for Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a great God and a terrible.
7:22And Jehovah thy God will cast 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. 7:23But
Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before thee, and will discomfit them
with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. 7:24And he will deliver
their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from
under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou
have destroyed them. 7:25The graven images of their gods shall
ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on
them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an
abomination to Jehovah thy God. 7:26And thou shalt not bring an
abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou
shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a
devoted thing.
8:1All the commandment 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 Jehovah sware unto your fathers. 8:2And
thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these
forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee,
to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or not. 8:3And 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 everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah
doth man live. 8:4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee,
neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 8:5And thou shalt consider
in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God
chasteneth thee. 8:6And thou shalt keep the commandments of
Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 8:7For
Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water,
of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8:8a
land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land
of olive-trees and honey; 8:9a land wherein thou shalt eat bread
without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose
stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper. 8:10And
thou shalt eat and be full, and thou shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the
good land which he hath given thee.
8:11Beware lest thou forget Jehovah thy
God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day: 8:12lest, when thou hast
eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 8:13and
when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is
multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 8:14then thy heart be
lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 8:15who led thee through
the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and
scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth
water out of the rock of flint; 8:16who 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: 8:17and lest thou
say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this
wealth. 8:18But thou shalt remember Jehovah 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 at this day. 8:19And
it shall be, if thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, and walk after other
gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day
that ye shall surely perish. 8:20As the nations that Jehovah maketh to
perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto
the voice of Jehovah your God.
9:1Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over
the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier
than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 9:2a
people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of
whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak? 9:3Know
therefore this day, that Jehovah thy God is he who goeth over before thee
as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down
before thee: so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish
quickly, as Jehovah hath spoken unto thee. 9:4Speak not thou in thy
heart, after that Jehovah thy God hath thrust them out from before thee,
saying, For my righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this
land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah doth drive them
out from before thee. 9:5Not for thy righteousness, or for the
uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for
the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from
before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto
thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
9:6Know therefore, that Jehovah thy God
giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for
thou art a stiffnecked people. 9:7Remember, forget thou not, how thou
provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that
thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this
place, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah. 9:8Also in Horeb ye
provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
9:9When I was gone up into the mount to
receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah
made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I
did neither eat bread nor drink water. 9:10And Jehovah delivered
unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on
them was written according to all the words, which Jehovah speak
with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly. 9:11And it came to pass at the end of
forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone,
even the tables of the covenant. 9:12And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get
thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that 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. 9:13Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me,
saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
9:14let 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. 9:15So I turned and came
down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two
tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 9:16And I looked, and,
behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten
calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had
commanded you. 9:17And I took hold of the two tables, and
cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 9:18And
I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights;
I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye
sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke
him to anger. 9:19For I was afraid of the anger and hot
displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But
Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also. 9:20And Jehovah was very
angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same
time. 9:21And I took your sin, the calf which ye
had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small,
until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook
that descended out of the mount.
9:22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at
Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath. 9:23And when Jehovah sent
you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have
given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God,
and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 9:24Ye have been
rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.
9:25So I fell down before Jehovah the
forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he
would destroy you. 9:26And I prayed unto Jehovah, and said, O
Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, that thou hast
redeemed through thy greatness, that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt
with a mighty hand. 9:27Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their
wickedness, nor to their sin, 9:28lest the land whence thou broughtest
us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which
he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out
to slay them in the wilderness. 9:29Yet they are thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy great power and by thine
outstretched arm.
10:1At that time Jehovah 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. 10:2And I will write on the tables the
words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put
them in the ark. 10:3So I made an ark of acacia wood, and
hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount,
having the two tables in my hand. 10:4And he wrote on the tables, according
to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Jehovah spake unto you
in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and
Jehovah gave them unto me. 10:5And I turned and came down from the
mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are
as Jehovah commanded me. 10:6(And the children of Israel journeyed
from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was
buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his
stead. 10:7From thence they journeyed unto
Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 10:8At
that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to minister unto him, and to
bless in his name, unto this day. 10:9Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor
inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as
Jehovah thy God spake unto him.) 10:10And I stayed in the mount, as at the
first time, forty days and forty nights: and Jehovah hearkened unto me
that time also; Jehovah would not destroy thee. 10:11And Jehovah said unto
me, Arise, take thy journey before the people; and they shall go in and
possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
10:12And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah
thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his
ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy soul, 10:13to keep the commandments of Jehovah,
and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 10:14Behold, unto Jehovah thy God
belongeth heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is
therein. 10:15Only Jehovah had a delight in thy
fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above
all peoples, as at this day. 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of
your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. 10:17For Jehovah your God,
he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the
terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. 10:18He doth execute justice for the
fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and
raiment. 10:19Love ye therefore the sojourner; for
ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 10:20Thou shalt fear
Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and
by his name shalt thou swear. 10:21He is thy praise, and he is thy God,
that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes
have seen. 10:22Thy fathers went down into Egypt with
threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the
stars of heaven for multitude.
11:1Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy
God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his
commandments, alway. 11:2And know ye this day: for I
speak not with your children that have not known, and that have not
seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, his greatness, his mighty hand,
and his outstretched arm, 11:3and his signs, and his works, which he
did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his
land; 11:4and 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 Jehovah
hath destroyed them unto this day; 11:5and what he did unto you in the
wilderness, until ye came unto this place; 11:6and what he did unto
Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth
opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their
tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all
Israel: 11:7but your eyes have seen all the great
work of Jehovah which he did.
11:8Therefore shall ye keep all the
commandment which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go
in and possess the land, whither ye go over to possess it; 11:9and
that ye may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah sware unto your
fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and
honey. 11:10For 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; 11:11but the land, whither ye go over to
possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of
the rain of heaven, 11:12a land which Jehovah thy God careth
for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of
the year even unto the end of the year.
11:13And it shall come to pass, if ye
shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this
day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and
with all your soul, 11:14that I will give the rain of your
land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest
gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil. 11:15And I will give grass in thy fields
for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be full. 11:16Take heed to
yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve
other gods, and worship them; 11:17and the anger of Jehovah be kindled
against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain,
and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the
good land which Jehovah giveth you.
11:18Therefore shall ye lay up these my
words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign
upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 11:19And ye shall teach them your
children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou
walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 11:20And thou shalt write them upon the
door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates; 11:21that your days may be
multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah sware
unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the
earth. 11:22For if ye shall diligently keep all
this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God,
to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 11:23then will Jehovah
drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess
nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 11:24Every place whereon
the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and
Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea
shall be your border. 11:25There shall no man be able to stand
before you: Jehovah 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 spoken unto you.
11:26Behold, I set before you this day a
blessing and a curse: 11:27the blessing, if ye shall hearken
unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day;
11:28and the curse, if ye shall not
hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah 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. 11:29And it shall come to pass, when
Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to
possess it, that thou shalt set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the
curse upon mount Ebal. 11:30Are they not beyond the Jordan,
behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites
that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
11:31For ye are to pass over the Jordan to
go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God giveth you, and ye shall
possess it, and dwell therein. 11:32And ye shall observe to do all the
statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.
12:1These are the statutes and the
ordinances which ye shall observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God
of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live
upon the earth. 12:2Ye shall surely destroy all the places
wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the
high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 12:3and
ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and
burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of
their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place. 12:4Ye
shall not do so unto Jehovah your God. 12:5But unto the place
which Jehovah 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; 12:6and thither ye shall bring your
burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the
heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings,
and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock: 12:7and there ye shall eat
before Jehovah your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand
unto, ye and your households, wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.
12:8Ye shall not do after all the things
that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;
12:9for ye are not as yet come to the rest
and to the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. 12:10But when ye go over the Jordan, and
dwell in the land which Jehovah your God causeth you to inherit, and he
giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in
safety; 12:11then it shall come to pass that to
the place which Jehovah 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 Jehovah. 12:12And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah
your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants,
and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates,
forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you. 12:13Take heed to thyself that thou offer
not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest; 12:14but in the place which Jehovah shall
choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings,
and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
12:15Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and
eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul,
according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the
unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the
hart. 12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou
shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. 12:17Thou mayest not eat
within thy gates the tithe of thy grain, or of thy new wine, or of thine
oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows
which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of
thy hand; 12:18but thou shalt eat them before
Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and
thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and
the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah
thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. 12:19Take heed to thyself
that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.
12:20When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge
thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat
flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh,
after all the desire of thy soul. 12:21If the place which Jehovah thy God
shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt
kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I
have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the
desire of thy soul. 12:22Even as the gazelle and as the hart
is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat
thereof alike. 12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the
blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the
flesh. 12:24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt
pour it out upon the earth as water. 12:25Thou 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 eyes of Jehovah. 12:26Only thy holy things which thou hast,
and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall
choose: 12:27and thou shalt offer thy
burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thy
God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of
Jehovah thy God; and thou shalt eat the flesh. 12:28Observe 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 eyes of Jehovah thy God.
12:29When Jehovah thy God shall cut off
the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them,
and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; 12:30take heed to thyself that thou be not
ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee;
and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations
serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 12:31Thou shalt not do so
unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth,
have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do
they burn in the fire to their gods.
12:32What thing soever I command you, that
shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
13:1If there arise in the midst of thee a
prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder, 13:2and
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; 13:3thou shalt not hearken unto the words
of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God
proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart
and with all your soul. 13:4Ye shall walk after Jehovah your God,
and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall
serve him, and cleave unto him. 13:5And that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams, shall be put to death, because he hath spoken rebellion against
Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed
thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which
Jehovah thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil
from the midst of thee.
13:6If thy brother, the son of thy mother,
or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that
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; 13:7of
the gods of the peoples that 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; 13:8thou shalt not consent unto him, nor
hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou
spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 13:9but thou shalt surely
kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterwards the hand of all the people. 13:10And thou shalt stone
him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from
Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage. 13:11And all Israel shall hear, and fear,
and shall do not more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.
13:12If thou shalt hear tell concerning
one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there,
saying, 13:13Certain base fellows are gone out
from the midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city,
saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 13:14then shalt thou inquire, and make
search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing
certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee, 13:15thou 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. 13:16And 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, unto Jehovah thy God: and it
shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 13:17And there shall cleave nought of the
devoted thing to thy hand; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of
his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and
multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; 13:18when thou shalt
hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep all his commandments
which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of
Jehovah thy God.
14:1Ye are the children of Jehovah your
God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes
for the dead. 14:2For thou art a holy people unto
Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own
possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
14:3Thou shalt not eat any abominable
thing. 14:4These are the beasts which ye may eat:
the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 14:5the hart, and the gazelle, and the
roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the
chamois. 14:6And every beast that parteth the hoof,
and hath the hoof cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the
beasts, that may ye eat. 14:7Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of
them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel,
and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the
hoof, they are unclean unto you. 14:8And the swine, because he parteth the
hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye
shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.
14:9These ye may eat of all that are in
the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat; 14:10and whatsoever hath not fins and
scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
14:11Of all clean birds ye may eat. 14:12But these are they of which ye shall
not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray, 14:13and the glede, and the falcon, and
the kite after its kind, 14:14and every raven after its kind, 14:15and the ostrich, and the night-hawk,
and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind, 14:16the little owl, and
the great owl, and the horned owl, 14:17and the pelican, and the vulture, and
the cormorant, 14:18and the stork, and the heron after
its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 14:19And all winged
creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 14:20Of all clean birds ye may eat.
14:21Ye shall not eat of anything that
dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy
gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for
thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in
its mother's milk.
14:22Thou shalt surely tithe all the
increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth from the field year by year.
14:23And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy
God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there,
the tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the
firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear
Jehovah thy God always. 14:24And if the way be too long for thee,
so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from
thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when
Jehovah thy God shall bless thee; 14:25then shalt thou turn it into money,
and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which
Jehovah thy God shall choose: 14:26and thou shalt bestow the money for
whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for
strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt
eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy
household. 14:27And the Levite that is within thy
gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance
with thee.
14:28At the end of every three years thou
shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and
shalt lay it up within thy gates: 14:29and the Levite, because he hath no
portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless,
and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand
which thou doest.
15:1At the end of every seven years thou
shalt make a release. 15:2And this is the manner of the release:
every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he
shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah's
release hath been proclaimed. 15:3Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it:
but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release. 15:4Howbeit there shall be no poor with
thee; (for Jehovah will surely bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it;) 15:5if only thou
diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all
this commandment which I command thee this day. 15:6For Jehovah thy God
will bless thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many
nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations,
but they shall not rule over thee.
15:7If there be with thee a poor man, one
of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy
poor brother; 15:8but thou shalt surely open thy hand
unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that
which he wanteth. 15:9Beware that there be not a base
thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at
hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him
nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee. 15:10Thou shalt surely give him, and thy
heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for
this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all
that thou puttest thy hand unto. 15:11For the poor will never cease out of
the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy
hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
15:12If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a
Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the
seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 15:13And when thou lettest
him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty: 15:14thou shalt furnish him liberally out
of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; as
Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15:15And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee:
therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 15:16And it shall be, if
he say unto thee, I will not go out from thee; because he loveth thee and
thy house, because he is well with thee; 15:17then thou shalt take
an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy
servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise.
15:18It shall not seem hard unto thee,
when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of
a hireling hath he served thee six years: and Jehovah thy God will bless
thee in all that thou doest.
15:19All the firstling males that are born
of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto Jehovah thy God:
thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the
firstling of thy flock. 15:20Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy
God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy
household. 15:21And if it have any blemish, as if
it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not
sacrifice it unto Jehovah thy God. 15:22Thou shalt eat it within thy gates:
the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and
as the hart. 15:23Only thou shalt not eat the blood
thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.
16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep
the passover unto Jehovah thy God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy
God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 16:2And thou shalt
sacrifice the passover unto Jehovah thy God, of the flock and the herd, in
the place which Jehovah shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 16:3Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with
it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread
of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:
that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land
of Egypt all the days of thy life. 16:4And there shall be no leaven seen with
thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which
thou sacrificest the first day at even, remain all night until the
morning. 16:5Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover
within any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee; 16:6but
at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going
down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 16:7And
thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God shall
choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 16:8Six
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a
solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God; thou shalt do no work therein.
16:9Seven weeks shalt thou number unto
thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain
shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. 16:10And thou shalt keep
the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a
freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah
thy God blesseth thee: 16:11and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah
thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy
maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the
place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there. 16:12And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
16:13Thou shalt keep the feast of
tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy
threshing-floor and from thy winepress: 16:14and thou shalt
rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and
the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 16:15Seven days shalt thou keep a feast
unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; because
Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work
of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful. 16:16Three times in a year
shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he
shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks,
and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah
empty: 16:17every man shall give as he is able,
according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee.
16:18Judges and officers shalt thou make
thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy
tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 16:19Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou
shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe
doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
16:20That which is altogether just shalt
thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which Jehovah thy
God giveth thee.
16:21Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah
of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt
make thee. 16:22Neither shalt thou set thee up a
pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth.
17:1Thou shalt not sacrifice unto Jehovah
thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, or anything evil;
for that is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
17:2If there be found in the midst of
thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or
woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in
transgressing his covenant, 17:3and hath gone and served other gods,
and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of
heaven, which I have not commanded; 17:4and it be told thee, and thou hast
heard of it, then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be
true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,
17:5then shalt thou bring forth that man
or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man
or the woman; and thou shalt stone them to death with stones. 17:6At
the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be
put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 17:7The
hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shalt put away the evil from
the midst of thee.
17:8If 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 unto the place which Jehovah thy
God shall choose; 17:9and thou shalt come unto the priests
the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and thou
shalt inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment. 17:10And thou shalt do according to the
tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which
Jehovah shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that
they shall teach thee: 17:11according to the tenor of the law
which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they
shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the
sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
17:12And the man that doeth
presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to
minister there before Jehovah thy God, or unto the judge, even that man
shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 17:13And all the people shall hear, and
fear, and do no more presumptuously.
17:14When thou art come unto the land
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell
therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations
that are round about me; 17:15thou shalt surely set him king over
thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt
thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is
not thy brother. 17:16Only he shall not multiply horses to
himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may
multiply horses; forasmuch as Jehovah hath said unto you, Ye shall
henceforth return no more that way. 17:17Neither shall he multiply wives to
himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply
to himself silver and gold.
17:18And 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: 17:19and it shall be with him, and he
shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear
Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to
do them; 17:20that 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.
18:1The priests the Levites, even
all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel:
they shall eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and his inheritance.
18:2And they shall have no inheritance
among their brethren: Jehovah is their inheritance, as he hath spoken unto
them. 18:3And this shall be the priests' due
from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or
sheep, that they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two
cheeks, and the maw. 18:4The first-fruits of thy grain, of thy
new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep,
shalt thou give him. 18:5For Jehovah thy God hath chosen him
out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him
and his sons for ever.
18:6And if a Levite come from any of thy
gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire
of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose; 18:7then he shall minister in the name of
Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there
before Jehovah. 18:8They shall have like portions to eat,
besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. 18:9When thou art come into the land which
Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the
abominations of those nations. 18:10There shall not be found with thee
any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one
that useth divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a
sorcerer, 18:11or a charmer, or a consulter with a
familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 18:12For whosoever doeth
these things is an abomination unto Jehovah: and because of these
abominations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 18:13Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah
thy God. 18:14For these nations, that thou shalt
dispossess, hearken unto them that practise augury, and unto diviners; but
as for thee, Jehovah thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
18:15Jehovah 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; 18:16according to all that thou desiredst
of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not
hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire
any more, that I die not. 18:17And Jehovah said unto me, They have
well said that which they have spoken. 18:18I will raise them up
a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my
words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command
him. 18:19And 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.
18:20But the prophet, that shall speak a
word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak,
or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall
die. 18:21And if thou say in thy heart, How
shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken? 18:22when a prophet speaketh in the name
of Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing
which Jehovah hath not spoken: the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously,
thou shalt not be afraid of him.
19:1When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the
nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them,
and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 19:2thou shalt set apart
three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God
giveth thee to possess it. 19:3Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and
divide the borders of thy land, which Jehovah thy God causeth thee to
inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither.
19:4And this is the case of the manslayer,
that shall flee thither and live: whoso killeth his neighbor unawares, and
hated him not in time past; 19:5as when a man goeth into the forest
with his neighbor 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 neighbor, so that he dieth; he shall flee unto one of these
cities and live: 19:6lest the avenger of blood pursue the
manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is
long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch
as he hated him not in time past. 19:7Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou
shalt set apart three cities for thee. 19:8And if Jehovah thy God
enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all
the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; 19:9if thou shalt keep all
this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah
thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities
more for thee, besides these three: 19:10that innocent blood be not shed in
the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
19:11But if any man hate his neighbor, and
lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so
that he dieth, and he flee into one of these cities; 19:12then 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. 19:13Thine eye shall not pity him, but
thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well
with thee.
19:14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's
landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou
shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.
19:15One 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 a matter
be established. 19:16If an unrighteous witness rise up
against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, 19:17then both the men, between whom the
controversy is, shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the
judges that shall be in those days; 19:18and the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and have
testified falsely against his brother; 19:19then shall ye do unto
him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shalt thou put away the
evil from the midst of thee. 19:20And those that remain shall hear, and
fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of
thee. 19:21And thine eyes shall not pity; life
shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot.
20:1When thou goest forth to battle
against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people
more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is
with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 20:2And
it shall be, when ye draw nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall
approach and speak unto the people, 20:3and shall say unto them, Hear, O
Israel, ye draw nigh this day unto battle against your enemies: let not
your heart faint; fear not, nor tremble, neither be ye affrighted at them;
20:4for Jehovah your God is he that goeth
with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. 20:5And
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. 20:6And
what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the
fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man use the fruit thereof. 20:7And 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. 20:8And
the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What
man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto
his house, lest his brethren's heart melt as his heart. 20:9And
it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the
people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the
people.
20:10When thou drawest nigh unto a city to
fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 20:11And it shall be, if
it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that
all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee,
and shall serve thee. 20:12And if it will make no peace with
thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 20:13and when Jehovah thy God delivereth
it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the
sword: 20:14but the women, and the little ones,
and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof,
shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of
thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee. 20:15Thus shalt thou do unto all the
cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of
these nations. 20:16But of the cities of these peoples,
that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive
nothing that breatheth; 20:17but thou shalt utterly destroy them:
the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; 20:18that they teach you not to do after
all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye
sin against Jehovah your God.
20:19When thou shalt besiege a city a long
time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the
trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of
them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man,
that it should be besieged of thee? 20:20Only the trees of which thou knowest
that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down;
and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee,
until it fall.
21:1If one be found slain in the land
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and
it be not known who hath smitten him; 21:2then thy elders and
thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which
are round about him that is slain: 21:3and it shall be, that the city which
is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a
heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not
drawn in the yoke; 21:4and the elders of that city shall
bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither
plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 21:5And
the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah thy God
hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and
according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. 21:6And
all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall
wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 21:7and
they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither
have our eyes seen it. 21:8Forgive, O Jehovah, thy people Israel,
whom thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in
the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them. 21:9So
shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou
shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.
21:10When thou goest forth to battle
against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands,
and thou carriest them away captive, 21:11and seest among the
captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest
take her to thee to wife; 21:12then thou shalt bring her home to thy
house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 21:13and she shall put the raiment of her
captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy 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. 21:14And it shall be, if
thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she