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.

1:2 ([There are] eleven days' [journey] from Horeb by the way of

mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh

month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spake unto

the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had

given him in commandment unto them;

1:4 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:

1:5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to

declare this law, saying,

1:6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have

dwelt long enough in this mount:

1:7 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.

1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess

the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after

them.

1:9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to

bear you myself alone:

1:10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye

[are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

1:11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so

many more as ye [are], and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your

burden, and your strife?

1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your

tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast

spoken [is] good [for us] to do.

1:15 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.

1:16 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.

1:17 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.

1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye

should do.

1:19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that

great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the

mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and

we came to Kadeshbarnea.

1:20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the

Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

1:21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go

up [and] possess [it], as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said

unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.

1:22 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.

1:23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of

you, one of a tribe:

1:24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came

unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and

brought [it] down unto us, and brought us word again, and said,

[It is] a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

1:26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against

the commandment of the LORD your God:

1:27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD

hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to

deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

1:28 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.

1:29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

1:30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight

for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before

your eyes;

1:31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the

LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the

way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

1:33 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.

1:34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth,

and sware, saying,

1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil

generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your

fathers,

1:36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to

him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his

children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.

1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying,

Thou also shalt not go in thither.

1:38 [But] Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he

shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel

to inherit it.

1:39 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.

1:40 But [as for] you, turn you, and take your journey into the

wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against

the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the

LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man

his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

1:42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up,

neither fight; for I [am] not among you; lest ye be smitten

before your enemies.

1:43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled

against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up

into the hill.

1:44 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.

1:45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD

would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days

that ye abode [there].

2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by

the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we

compassed mount Seir many days.

2:2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,

2:3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you

northward.

2:4 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:

2:5 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.

2:6 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.

2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of

thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness:

these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou

hast lacked nothing.

2:8 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.

2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites,

neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee

of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto

the children of Lot [for] a possession.

2:10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and

many, and tall, as the Anakims;

2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the

Moabites call them Emims.

2:12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children

of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from

before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the

land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.

2:13 Now rise up, [said I], and get you over the brook Zered.

And we went over the brook Zered.

2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we

were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years;

until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from

among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

2:15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to

destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed

and dead from among the people,

2:17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,

2:18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this

day:

2:19 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.

2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt

therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the

LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and

dwelt in their stead:

2:22 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:

2:23 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.)

2:24 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.

2:25 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.

2:26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth

unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

2:27 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.

2:28 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;

2:29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the

Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass

over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.

2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for

the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart

obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as

[appeareth] this day.

2:31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give

Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou

mayest inherit his land.

2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to

fight at Jahaz.

2:33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote

him, and his sons, and all his people.

2:34 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:

2:35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the

spoil of the cities which we took.

2:36 From Aroer, which [is] by the brink of the river of Arnon,

and [from] the city that [is] by the river, even unto Gilead,

there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God

delivered all unto us:

2:37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest

not, [nor] unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the

cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God

forbad us.

3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the

king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to

battle at Edrei.

3:2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver

him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou

shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the

Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

3:3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the

king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none

was left to him remaining.

3:4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a

city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the

region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

3:5 All these cities [were] fenced with high walls, gates, and

bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of

Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of

every city.

3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for

a prey to ourselves.

3:8 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;

3:9 ([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites

call it Shenir;)

3:10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all

Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in

Bashan.

3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of

giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it

not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the

length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the

cubit of a man.

3:12 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.

3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, [being] the kingdom

of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region

of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.

3:14 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.

3:15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.

3:16 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;

3:17 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.

3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God

hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over

armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all [that

are] meet for the war.

3:19 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;

3:20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well

as unto you, and [until] they also possess the land which the

LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and [then] shall

ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given

you.

3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes

have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two

kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou

passest.

3:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall

fight for you.

3:23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,

3:24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy

greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [is there] in

heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and

according to thy might?

3:25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that

[is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

3:26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would

not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee;

speak no more unto me of this matter.

3:27 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.

3:28 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.

3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.

4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto

the judgments, which I teach you, for to do [them], that ye may

live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your

fathers giveth you.

4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither

shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the

commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor:

for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath

destroyed them from among you.

4:4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God [are] alive

every one of you this day.

4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as

the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land

whither ye go to possess it.

4:6 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.

4:7 For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so]

nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that]

we call upon him [for]?

4:8 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?

4:9 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;

4:10 [Specially] the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy

God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people

together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may

learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the

earth, and [that] they may teach their children.

4:11 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.

4:12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire:

ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only

[ye heard] a voice.

4:13 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.

4:14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you

statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land

whither ye go over to possess it.

4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no

manner of similitude on the day [that] the LORD spake unto you

in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

4:16 Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and make you a graven image,

the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

4:17 The likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the

likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the

likeness of any fish that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:

4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou

seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host

of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them,

which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the

whole heaven.

4:20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of

the iron furnace, [even] out of Egypt, to be unto him a people

of inheritance, as [ye are] this day.

4:21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and

sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not

go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee

[for] an inheritance:

4:22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but

ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of

the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a

graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], which the LORD

thy God hath forbidden thee.

4:24 For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a

jealous God.

4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children,

and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt

[yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any

[thing], and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to

provoke him to anger:

4:26 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.

4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye

shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD

shall lead you.

4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands,

wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor

smell.

4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou

shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with

all thy soul.

4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come

upon thee, [even] in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD

thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

4:31 (For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will not

forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of

thy fathers which he sware unto them.

4:32 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?

4:33 Did [ever] people hear the voice of God speaking out of the

midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

4:34 Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the

midst of [another] nation, by temptations, by signs, and by

wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched

out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD

your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

4:35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the

LORD he [is] God; [there is] none else beside him.

4:36 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.

4:37 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;

4:38 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.

4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider [it] in thine heart,

that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and upon the earth

beneath: [there is] none else.

4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his

commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go

well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou

mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy

God giveth thee, for ever.

4:41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward

the sunrising;

4:42 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:

4:43 [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.

4:44 And this [is] the law which Moses set before the children

of Israel:

4:45 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,

4:46 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:

4:47 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;

4:48 From Aroer, which [is] by the bank of the river Arnon, even

unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon,

4:49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto

the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O

Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears

this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.

5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

5:3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with

us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day.

5:4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of

the midst of the fire,

5:5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you

the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire,

and went not up into the mount;) saying,

5:6 I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land

of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

5:7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

5:8 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:

5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them:

for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the

iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and

fourth [generation] of them that hate me,

5:10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and

keep my commandments.

5:11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain:

for the LORD will not hold [him] guiltless that taketh his name

in vain.

5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God

hath commanded thee.

5:13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

5:14 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God:

[in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy

daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine

ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that

[is] within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant

may rest as well as thou.

5:15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt,

and [that] the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a

mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy

God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

5:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath

commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may

go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth

thee.

5:17 Thou shalt not kill.

5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

5:19 Neither shalt thou steal.

5:20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy

neighbour.

5:21 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.

5:22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the

mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the

thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And

he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto

me.

5:23 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;

5:24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his

glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the

midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk

with man, and he liveth.

5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will

consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more,

then we shall die.

5:26 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?

5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say:

and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak

unto thee; and we will hear [it], and do [it].

5:28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake

unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of

the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee:

they have well said all that they have spoken.

5:29 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!

5:30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.

5:31 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.

5:32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath

commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to

the left.

5:33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath

commanded you, that ye may live, and [that it may be] well with

you, and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye

shall possess.

6:1 Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the

judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that

ye might do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it:

6:2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his

statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and

thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that

thy days may be prolonged.

6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it

may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as

the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land

that floweth with milk and honey.

6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:

6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,

and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in

thine heart:

6:7 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.

6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and

they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and

on thy gates.

6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought

thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham,

to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities,

which thou buildedst not,

6:11 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;

6:12 [Then] beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee

forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

6:13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt

swear by his name.

6:14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people

which [are] round about you;

6:15 (For the LORD thy God [is] a jealous God among you) lest

the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and

destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him]

in Massah.

6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your

God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath

commanded thee.

6:18 And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the

sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou

mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware

unto thy fathers,

6:19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD

hath spoken.

6:20 [And] when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying,

What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the

judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

6:21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen

in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty

hand:

6:22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon

Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our

eyes:

6:23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us

in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.

6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear

the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve

us alive, as [it is] at this day.

6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all

these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath

commanded us.

7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither

thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before

thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and

the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the

Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee;

thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt

make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

7:3 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.

7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they

may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled

against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

7:5 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.

7:6 For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the

LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto

himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the

earth.

7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,

because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were]

the fewest of all people:

7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep

the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD

brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the

house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the

faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that

love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

7:10 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.

7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the

statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to

do them.

7:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these

judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall

keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto

thy fathers:

7:13 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.

7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be

male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

7:15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and

will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou

knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all [them] that hate

thee.

7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy

God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them:

neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare

unto thee.

7:17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations [are] more

than I; how can I dispossess them?

7:18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: [but] shalt well remember

what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

7:19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs,

and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out

arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the

LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them,

until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be

destroyed.

7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God

[is] among you, a mighty God and terrible.

7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee

by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once,

lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

7:23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and

shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be

destroyed.

7:24 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.

7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire:

thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor

take [it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is]

an abomination to the LORD thy God.

7:26 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.

8:1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye

observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and

possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God

led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee,

[and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether

thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed

thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy

fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not

live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of

the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot

swell, these forty years.

8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man

chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy

God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

8:7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land

of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of

valleys and hills;

8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and

pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

8:9 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.

8:10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless

the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

8:11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not

keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes,

which I command thee this day:

8:12 Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built

goodly houses, and dwelt [therein];

8:13 And [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy

silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is

multiplied;

8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy

God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from

the house of bondage;

8:15 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;

8:16 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;

8:17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of

[mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth.

8:18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] he

that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his

covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.

8:19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God,

and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I

testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

8:20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face,

so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the

voice of the LORD your God.

9:1 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,

9:2 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!

9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he

which goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall

destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so

shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the

LORD hath said unto thee.

9:4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God

hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my

righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land:

but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive

them out from before thee.

9:5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine

heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the

wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them

out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which

the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not

this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou

[art] a stiffnecked people.

9:7 Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy

God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst

depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place,

ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

9:8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the

LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of

stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made

with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty

nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

9:10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written

with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to

all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out

of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty

nights, [that] the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, [even]

the tables of the covenant.

9:12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly

from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of

Egypt have corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned

aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made

them a molten image.

9:13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen

this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people:

9:14 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.

9:15 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.

9:16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD

your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside

quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

9:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two

hands, and brake them before your eyes.

9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty

days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink

water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing

wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure,

wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But

the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.

9:20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed

him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

9:21 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.

9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye

provoked the LORD to wrath.

9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying,

Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye

rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye

believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

9:24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that

I knew you.

9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty

nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had

said he would destroy you.

9:26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD,

destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast

redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth

out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

9:27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not

unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness,

nor to their sin:

9:28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because

the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he

promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them

out to slay them in the wilderness.

9:29 Yet they [are] thy people and thine inheritance, which thou

broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out

arm.

10:1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of

stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount,

and make thee an ark of wood.

10:2 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.

10:3 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.

10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing,

the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the

mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly:

and the LORD gave them unto me.

10:5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put

the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as

the LORD commanded me.

10:6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth

of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and

there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the

priest's office in his stead.

10:7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah

to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear

the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD

to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

10:9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his

brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD

thy God promised him.

10:10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time,

forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at

that time also, [and] the LORD would not destroy thee.

10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take [thy] journey

before the people, that they may go in and possess the land,

which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of

thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways,

and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy

heart and with all thy soul,

10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes,

which I command thee this day for thy good?

10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the

LORD'S thy God, the earth [also], with all that therein [is].

10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them,

and he chose their seed after them, [even] you above all

people, as [it is] this day.

10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no

more stiffnecked.

10:17 For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords,

a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not

persons, nor taketh reward:

10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow,

and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

10:19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in

the land of Egypt.

10:20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve,

and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

10:21 He [is] thy praise, and he [is] thy God, that hath done

for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have

seen.

10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten

persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars

of heaven for multitude.

11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his

charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his

commandments, alway.

11:2 And know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your children

which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement

of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his

stretched out arm,

11:3 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;

11:4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses,

and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to

overflow them as they pursued after you, and [how] the LORD

hath destroyed them unto this day;

11:5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came

into this place;

11:6 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:

11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD

which he did.

11:8 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;

11:9 And that ye may prolong [your] days in the land, which the

LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their

seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

11:10 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:

11:11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of

hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

11:12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the

LORD thy God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the

year even unto the end of the year.

11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently

unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the

LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with

all your soul,

11:14 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.

11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that

thou mayest eat and be full.

11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived,

and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

11:17 And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he

shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land

yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the

good land which the LORD giveth you.

11:18 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.

11:19 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.

11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine

house, and upon thy gates:

11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your

children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to

give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments

which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to

walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

11:23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before

you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than

yourselves.

11:24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread

shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the

river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall

your coast be.

11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: [for] the

LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you

upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said

unto you.

11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your

God, which I command you this day:

11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the

LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command

you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath

brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it,

that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the

curse upon mount Ebal.

11:30 [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?

11:31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land

which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it,

and dwell therein.

11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments

which I set before you this day.

12:1 These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall

observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers

giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the

earth.

12:2 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:

12:3 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.

12:4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

12:5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out

of all your tribes to put his name there, [even] unto his

habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

12:6 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:

12:7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye

shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your

households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

12:8 Ye shall not do after all [the things] that we do here this

day, every man whatsoever [is] right in his own eyes.

12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the

inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.

12:10 But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which

the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth

you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in

safety;

12:11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall

choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring

all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your

sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand,

and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

12:12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and

your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your

maidservants, and the Levite that [is] within your gates;

forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.

12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt

offerings in every place that thou seest:

12:14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy

tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there

thou shalt do all that I command thee.

12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy

gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the

blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the

unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and

as of the hart.

12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the

earth as water.

12:17 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:

12:18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the

place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son,

and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and

the Levite that [is] within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice

before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands

unto.

12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as

long as thou livest upon the earth.

12:20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath

promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because

thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh,

whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

12:21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his

name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy

herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I

have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever

thy soul lusteth after.

12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt

eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.

12:23 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.

12:24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth

as water.

12:25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and

with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do [that which

is] right in the sight of the LORD.

12:26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou

shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:

12:27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and

the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of

thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD

thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee,

that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee

for ever, when thou doest [that which is] good and right in the

sight of the LORD thy God.

12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from

before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou

succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

12:30 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.

12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every

abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto

their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have

burnt in the fire to their gods.

12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou

shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,

and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

13:2 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;

13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or

that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to

know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and

with all your soul.

13:4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and

keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve

him, and cleave unto him.

13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put

to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the

LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and

redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of

the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So

shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

13:6 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;

13:7 [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;

13:8 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:

13:9 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.

13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because

he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which

brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of

bondage.

13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more

any such wickedness as this is among you.

13:12 If thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which the

LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

13:13 [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;

13:14 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;

13:15 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.

13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst

of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and

all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it

shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine

hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger,

and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and

multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

13:18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God,

to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to

do [that which is] right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

14:1 Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not

cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the

dead.

14:2 For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and

the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself,

above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.

14:3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

14:4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the

sheep, and the goat,

14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the

wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

14:6 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.

14:7 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.

14:8 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.

14:9 These ye shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all

that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

14:10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it

[is] unclean unto you.

14:11 [Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.

14:12 But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle,

and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his

kind,

14:14 And every raven after his kind,

14:15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the

hawk after his kind,

14:16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

14:17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

14:18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the

lapwing, and the bat.

14:19 And every creeping thing that flieth [is] unclean unto

you: they shall not be eaten.

14:20 [But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.

14:21 Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou

shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he

may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou

[art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not

seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that

the field bringeth forth year by year.

14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place

which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy

corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy

herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the

LORD thy God always.

14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not

able to carry it; [or] if the place be too far from thee, which

the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the

LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

14:25 Then shalt thou turn [it] into money, and bind up the

money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD

thy God shall choose:

14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul

lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for

strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou

shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt

rejoice, thou, and thine household,

14:27 And the Levite that [is] within thy gates; thou shalt not

forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

14:28 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:

14:29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance

with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the

widow, which [are] within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat

and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all

the work of thine hand which thou doest.

15:1 At the end of [every] seven years thou shalt make a

release.

15:2 And this [is] the manner of the release: Every creditor

that lendeth [ought] unto his neighbour shall release [it]; he

shall not exact [it] of his neighbour, or of his brother;

because it is called the LORD'S release.

15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact [it again]: but [that]

which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

15:4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD

shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God

giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it:

15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD

thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I

command thee this day.

15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee:

and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not

borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall

not reign over thee.

15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren

within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God

giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine

hand from thy poor brother:

15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt

surely lend him sufficient for his need, [in that] which he

wanteth.

15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,

saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and

thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him

nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin

unto thee.

15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be

grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing

the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all

that thou puttest thine hand unto.

15:11 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.

15:12 [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.

15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt

not let him go away empty:

15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out

of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the

LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the

land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I

command thee this thing to day.

15:16 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;

15:17 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.

15:18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him

away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired

servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy

God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

15:19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy

flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do

no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the

firstling of thy sheep.

15:20 Thou shalt eat [it] before the LORD thy God year by year

in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy

household.

15:21 And if there be [any] blemish therein, [as if it be] lame,

or blind, [or have] any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice

it unto the LORD thy God.

15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the

clean [person shall eat it] alike, as the roebuck, and as the

hart.

15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour

it upon the ground as water.

16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the

LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought

thee forth out of Egypt by night.

16:2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD

thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD

shall choose to place his name there.

16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt

thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of

affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in

haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth

out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

16:4 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.

16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy

gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

16:6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to

place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at

even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou

camest forth out of Egypt.

16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat [it] in the place which the

LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning,

and go unto thy tents.

16:8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the

seventh day [shall be] a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God:

thou shalt do no work [therein].

16:9 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.

16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy

God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which

thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD

thy God hath blessed thee:

16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and

thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy

maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within thy gates, and the

stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that [are] among

you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place

his name there.

16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt:

and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days,

after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

16:14 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.

16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD

thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the

LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all

the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before

the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the

feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in

the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the

LORD empty:

16:17 Every man [shall give] as he is able, according to the

blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,

which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and

they shall judge the people with just judgment.

16:19 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.

16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou

mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth

thee.

16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto

the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up [any] image; which the LORD

thy God hateth.

17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any]

bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, [or] any

evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD

thy God.

17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which

the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought

wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing

his covenant,

17:3 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;

17:4 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:

17:5 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.

17:6 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.

17:7 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.

17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment,

between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between

stroke and stroke, [being] matters of controversy within thy

gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place

which the LORD thy God shall choose;

17:9 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:

17:10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of

that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and

thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform

thee:

17:11 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.

17:12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not

hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before

the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die:

and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more

presumptuously.

17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God

giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and

shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations

that [are] about me;

17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the

LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt

thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over

thee, which [is] not thy brother.

17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the

people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply

horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall

henceforth return no more that way.

17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart

turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself

silver and gold.

17:18 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:

17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all

the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his

God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to

do them:

17:20 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.

18:1 The priests the Levites, [and] all the tribe of Levi, shall

have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the

offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.

18:2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their

brethren: the LORD [is] their inheritance, as he hath said unto

them.

18:3 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.

18:4 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.

18:5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes,

to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons

for ever.

18:6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all

Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his

mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

18:7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as

all his brethren the Levites [do], which stand there before the

LORD.

18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which

cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God

giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations

of those nations.

18:10 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,

18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a

wizard, or a necromancer.

18:12 For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto the

LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth

drive them out from before thee.

18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

18:14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened

unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee,

the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do].

18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from

the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye

shall hearken;

18:16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God

in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear

again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this

great fire any more, that I die not.

18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well [spoken that]

which they have spoken.

18:18 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.

18:19 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.

18:20 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.

18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word

which the LORD hath not spoken?

18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the

thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which

the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it

presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

19:1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land

the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and

dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

19:2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of

thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy

land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three

parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

19:4 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;

19:5 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:

19:6 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.

19:7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three

cities for thee.

19:8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn

unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised

to give unto thy fathers;

19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which

I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk

ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for

thee, beside these three:

19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the

LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and [so] blood

be upon thee.

19:11 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:

19:12 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.

19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away [the

guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with

thee.

19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they

of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt

inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to

possess it.

19:15 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.

19:16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify

against him [that which is] wrong;

19:17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is],

shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges,

which shall be in those days;

19:18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and,

behold, [if] the witness [be] a false witness, [and] hath

testified falsely against his brother;

19:19 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.

19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall

henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; [but] life [shall go] for

life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for

foot.

20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and

seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be

not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, which

brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

20:2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle,

that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

20:3 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;

20:4 For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight

for you against your enemies, to save you.

20:5 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.

20:6 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.

20:7 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.

20:8 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.

20:9 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.

20:10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it,

then proclaim peace unto it.

20:11 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.

20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war

against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine

hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the

sword:

20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and

all that is in the city, [even] all the spoil thereof, shalt

thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine

enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

20:15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very

far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these

nations.

20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God

doth give thee [for] an inheritance, thou shalt save alive

nothing that breatheth:

20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; [namely], the

Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites,

the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath

commanded thee:

20:18 That they teach you not to do after all their

abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should

ye sin against the LORD your God.

20:19 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:

20:20 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.

21:1 If [one] be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God

giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not

known who hath slain him:

21:2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they

shall measure unto the cities which [are] round about him that

is slain:

21:3 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;

21:4 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:

21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them

the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless

in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every

controversy and every stroke be [tried]:

21:6 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:

21:7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this

blood, neither have our eyes seen [it].

21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast

redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of

Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

21:9 So shalt thou put away the [guilt of] innocent blood from

among you, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in the

sight of the LORD.

21:10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and

the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou

hast taken them captive,

21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a

desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

21:12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she

shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

21:13 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.

21:14 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.

21:15 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:

21:16 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:

21:17 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.

21:18 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:

21:19 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;

21:20 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.

21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones,

that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and

all Israel shall hear, and fear.

21:22 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:

21:23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but

thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is

hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled,

which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

22:1 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.

22:2 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.

22:3 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.

22:4 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.

22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man,

neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do

so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

22:6 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:

22:7 [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.

22:8 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.

22:9 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.

22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of

woollen and linen together.

22:12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy

vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself].

22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

22:14 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:

22:15 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:

22:16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave

my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

22:17 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.

22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and

chastise him;

22:19 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.

22:20 But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity

be not found for the damsel:

22:21 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.

22:22 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.

22:23 If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an

husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

22:24 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.

22:25 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:

22:26 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:

22:27 For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel

cried, and [there was] none to save her.

22:28 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;

22:29 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.

22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his

father's skirt.

23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member

cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the

LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the

congregation of the LORD.

23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the

congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall

they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

23:4 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.

23:5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto

Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing

unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all

thy days for ever.

23:7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he [is] thy brother:

thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger

in his land.

23:8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the

congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

23:9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep

thee from every wicked thing.

23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason

of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go

abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

23:11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash

[himself] with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come

into the camp [again].

23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither

thou shalt go forth abroad:

23:13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall

be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig

therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from

thee:

23:14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to

deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee;

therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing

in thee, and turn away from thee.

23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which

is escaped from his master unto thee:

23:16 He shall dwell with thee, [even] among you, in that place

which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him

best: thou shalt not oppress him.

23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a

sodomite of the sons of Israel.

23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of

a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even

both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of

money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon

usury:

23:20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy

brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God

may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the

land whither thou goest to possess it.

23:21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou

shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely

require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

23:22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in

thee.

23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and

perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast

vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy

mouth.

23:24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou

mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou

shalt not put [any] in thy vessel.

23:25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour,

then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt

not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come

to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath

found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of

divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his

house.

24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and

be another man's [wife].

24:3 And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill

of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her

out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her

[to be] his wife;

24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her

again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is]

abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land

to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an

inheritance.

24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to

war, neither shall he be charged with any business: [but] he

shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife

which he hath taken.

24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to

pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.

24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the

children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth

him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away

from among you.

24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe

diligently, and do according to all that the priests the

Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, [so] ye shall

observe to do.

24:9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way,

after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

24:10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not

go into his house to fetch his pledge.

24:11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost

lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

24:12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his

pledge:

24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when

the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and

bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the

LORD thy God.

24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant [that is] poor and

needy, [whether he be] of thy brethren, or of thy strangers

that [are] in thy land within thy gates:

24:15 At his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither shall

the sun go down upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth his

heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it

be sin unto thee.

24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,

neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers:

every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor]

of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

24:18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt,

and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command

thee to do this thing.

24:19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and

hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to

fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and

for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the

work of thine hands.

24:20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over

the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the

fatherless, and for the widow.

24:21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt

not glean [it] afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the

fatherless, and for the widow.

24:22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the

land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto

judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall

justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be

beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be

beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain

number.

25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest, [if]

he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes,

then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the

corn].

25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have

no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a

stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take

her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's

brother unto her.

25:6 And it shall be, [that] the firstborn which she beareth

shall succeed in the name of his brother [which is] dead, that

his name be not put out of Israel.

25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then

let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and

say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother

a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's

brother.

25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto

him: and [if] he stand [to it], and say, I like not to take

her;

25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence

of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit

in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto

that man that will not build up his brother's house.

25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him

that hath his shoe loosed.

25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of

the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand

of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh

him by the secrets:

25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity

[her].

25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and

a small.

25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a

great and a small.

25:15 [But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect

and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be

lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

25:16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do

unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye

were come forth out of Egypt;

25:18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of

thee, [even] all [that were] feeble behind thee, when thou

[wast] faint and weary; and he feared not God.

25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given

thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which

the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess

it, [that] thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from

under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it].

26:1 And it shall be, when thou [art] come in unto the land

which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and

possessest it, and dwellest therein;

26:2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the

earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God

giveth thee, and shalt put [it] in a basket, and shalt go unto

the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name

there.

26:3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those

days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy

God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto

our fathers for to give us.

26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and

set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

26:5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A

Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into

Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a

nation, great, mighty, and populous:

26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and

laid upon us hard bondage:

26:7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the

LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our

labour, and our oppression:

26:8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty

hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great

terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

26:9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us

this land, [even] a land that floweth with milk and honey.

26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the

land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it

before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:

26:11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the

LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou,

and the Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you.

26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of

thine increase the third year, [which is] the year of tithing,

and hast given [it] unto the Levite, the stranger, the

fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates,

and be filled;

26:13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have

brought away the hallowed things out of [mine] house, and also

have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the

fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments

which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy

commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]:

26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I

taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use], nor given

[ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the

voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done according to all that

thou hast commanded me.

26:15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless

thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as

thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk

and honey.

26:16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these

statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them

with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

26:17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to

walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his

commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his

peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou]

shouldest keep all his commandments;

26:19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath

made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou

mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath

spoken.

27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people,

saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

27:2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan

unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou

shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with

plaister:

27:3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law,

when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land

which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with

milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised

thee.

27:4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, [that]

ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in

mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.

27:5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God,

an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool]

upon them.

27:6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole

stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the

LORD thy God:

27:7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there,

and rejoice before the LORD thy God.

27:8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this

law very plainly.

27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all

Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou

art become the people of the LORD thy God.

27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God,

and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee

this day.

27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people,

when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and

Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben,

Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

27:14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of

Israel with a loud voice,

27:15 Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten

image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of

the craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all

the people shall answer and say, Amen.

27:16 Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his

mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

27:17 Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And

all the people shall say, Amen.

27:18 Cursed [be] he that maketh the blind to wander out of the

way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

27:19 Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the

stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say,

Amen.

27:20 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his father's wife; because

he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say,

Amen.

27:21 Cursed [be] he that lieth with any manner of beast. And

all the people shall say, Amen.

27:22 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of

his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people

shall say, Amen.

27:23 Cursed [be] he that lieth with his mother in law. And all

the people shall say, Amen.

27:24 Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And

all the people shall say, Amen.

27:25 Cursed [be] he that taketh reward to slay an innocent

person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

27:26 Cursed [be] he that confirmeth not [all] the words of this

law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently

unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all

his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD

thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake

thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

28:3 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt]

thou [be] in the field.

28:4 Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of

thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy

kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

28:5 Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.

28:6 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and blessed

[shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.

28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against

thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against

thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy

storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and

he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth

thee.

28:9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself,

as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments

of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.

28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called

by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

28:11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the

fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the

fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy

fathers to give thee.

28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the

heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to

bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many

nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail;

and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if

that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God,

which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]:

28:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I

command thee this day, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left,

to go after other gods to serve them.

28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto

the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his

commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day;

that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

28:16 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and cursed [shalt]

thou [be] in the field.

28:17 Cursed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.

28:18 Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of

thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy

sheep.

28:19 Cursed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and cursed

[shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.

28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and

rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do,

until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because

of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until

he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to

possess it.

28:22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a

fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning,

and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and

they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

28:23 And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and

the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.

28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust:

from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be

destroyed.

28:25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine

enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven

ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of

the earth.

28:26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air,

and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray [them]

away.

28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with

the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou

canst not be healed.

28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and

astonishment of heart:

28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in

darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou

shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall

save [thee].

28:30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with

her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell

therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the

grapes thereof.

28:31 Thine ox [shall be] slain before thine eyes, and thou

shalt not eat thereof: thine ass [shall be] violently taken

away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee:

thy sheep [shall be] given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt

have none to rescue [them].

28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto another

people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail [with longing] for

them all the day long: and [there shall be] no might in thine

hand.

28:33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation

which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed

and crushed alway:

28:34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes

which thou shalt see.

28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs,

with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy

foot unto the top of thy head.

28:36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt

set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers

have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and

stone.

28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a

byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt

gather [but] little in; for the locust shall consume it.

28:39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress [them], but shalt

neither drink [of] the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the

worms shall eat them.

28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but

thou shalt not anoint [thyself] with the oil; for thine olive

shall cast [his fruit].

28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not

enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust

consume.

28:43 The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee

very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he

shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall

pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because

thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to

keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder,

and upon thy seed for ever.

28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with

joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of

all [things];

28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD

shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in

nakedness, and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke

of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from

the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation

whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the

person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of

thy land, until thou be destroyed: which [also] shall not leave

thee [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy

kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high

and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout

all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates

throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given

thee.

28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh

of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath

given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith

thine enemies shall distress thee:

28:54 [So that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very

delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward

the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children

which he shall leave:

28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of

his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left

him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine

enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not

adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for

delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the

husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her

daughter,

28:57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her

feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she

shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege

and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in

thy gates.

28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law

that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this

glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the

plagues of thy seed, [even] great plagues, and of long

continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

28:60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of

Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto

thee.

28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not

written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon

thee, until thou be destroyed.

28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the

stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey

the voice of the LORD thy God.

28:63 And it shall come to pass, [that] as the LORD rejoiced

over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will

rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought;

and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to

possess it.

28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the

one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt

serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have

known, [even] wood and stone.

28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither

shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give

thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow

of mind:

28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou

shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy

life:

28:67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and

at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear

of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of

thine eyes which thou shalt see.

28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships,

by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more

again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen

and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you].

29:1 These [are] the words of the covenant, which the LORD

commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land

of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye

have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of

Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his

land;

29:3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the

signs, and those great miracles:

29:4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and

eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your

clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen

old upon thy foot.

29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or

strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.

29:7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of

Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto

battle, and we smote them:

29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto

the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of

Manasseh.

29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,

that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

29:10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God;

your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers,

[with] all the men of Israel,

29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is]

in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy

water:

29:12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy

God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee

this day:

29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto

himself, and [that] he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said

unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham,

to Isaac, and to Jacob.

29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this

oath;

29:15 But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before

the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here with

us this day:

29:16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and

how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

29:17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood

and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:)

29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family,

or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our

God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there

should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this

curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have

peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add

drunkenness to thirst:

29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the

LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the

curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and

the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

29:21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the

tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant

that are written in this book of the law:

29:22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall

rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far

land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and

the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

29:23 [And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and

salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor

any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and

Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his

anger, and in his wrath:

29:24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done

thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great

anger?

29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the

covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with

them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

29:26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them,

gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them:

29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land,

to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and

in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another

land, as [it is] this day.

29:29 The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but

those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our

children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.

30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come

upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before

thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations,

whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

30:2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his

voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and

thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

30:3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and

have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from

all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

30:4 If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of

heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from

thence will he fetch thee:

30:5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which

thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will

do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the

heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine

heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

30:7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine

enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and

do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

30:9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work

of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of

thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the

LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over

thy fathers:

30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God,

to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in

this book of the law, [and] if thou turn unto the LORD thy God

with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it

[is] not hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off.

30:12 It [is] not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall

go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear

it, and do it?

30:13 Neither [is] it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say,

Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we

may hear it, and do it?

30:14 But the word [is] very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and

in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and

death and evil;

30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God,

to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his

statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply:

and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou

goest to possess it.

30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear,

but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve

them;

30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish,

[and that] ye shall not prolong [your] days upon the land,

whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,

[that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and

cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may

live:

30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou

mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him:

for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou

mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,

to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.

31:2 And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty years

old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD

hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

31:3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, [and] he

will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt

possess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as

the LORD hath said.

31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to

Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he

destroyed.

31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye

may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I

have commanded you.

31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of

them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee;

he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the

sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou

must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath

sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause

them to inherit it.

31:8 And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will

be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear

not, neither be dismayed.

31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests

the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the

LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.

31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every]

seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the

feast of tabernacles,

31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God

in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law

before all Israel in their hearing.

31:12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children,

and thy stranger that [is] within thy gates, that they may

hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and

observe to do all the words of this law:

31:13 And [that] their children, which have not known [any

thing], may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long

as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach

that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the

tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge.

And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the

tabernacle of the congregation.

31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a

cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the

tabernacle.

31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep

with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a

whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither

they go [to be] among them, and will forsake me, and break my

covenant which I have made with them.

31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day,

and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and

they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall

befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these

evils come upon us, because our God [is] not among us?

31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the

evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned

unto other gods.

31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the

children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may

be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I

sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and

they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat;

then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and

provoke me, and break my covenant.

31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles

are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as

a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of

their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about,

even now, before I have brought them into the land which I

sware.

31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught

it the children of Israel.

31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be

strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children

of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be

with thee.

31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing

the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of

the covenant of the LORD, saying,

31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the

ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there

for a witness against thee.

31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold,

while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious

against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your

officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call

heaven and earth to record against them.

31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt

[yourselves], and turn aside from the way which I have

commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days;

because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke

him to anger through the work of your hands.

31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of

Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O

earth, the words of my mouth.

32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil

as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the

showers upon the grass:

32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye

greatness unto our God.

32:4 [He is] the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways

[are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and

right [is] he.

32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not [the

spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked

generation.

32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise?

[is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not

made thee, and established thee?

32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many

generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders,

and they will tell thee.

32:8 When the most High divided to the nations their

inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the

bounds of the people according to the number of the children of

Israel.

32:9 For the LORD'S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot

of his inheritance.

32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling

wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as

the apple of his eye.

32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her

young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on

her wings:

32:12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no

strange god with him.

32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he

might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck

honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

32:14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and

rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys

of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat,

thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he

forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of

his salvation.

32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with

abominations provoked they him to anger.

32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they

knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers

feared not.

32:18 Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast

forgotten God that formed thee.

32:19 And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of

the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see

what their end [shall be]: for they [are] a very froward

generation, children in whom [is] no faith.

32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not

God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I

will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto

the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase,

and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows

upon them.

32:24 [They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with

burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the

teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the

dust.

32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both

the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man

of gray hairs.

32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make

the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest

their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and]

lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not

done all this.

32:28 For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there

any] understanding in them.

32:29 O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that]

they would consider their latter end!

32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand

to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had

shut them up?

32:31 For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies

themselves [being] judges.

32:32 For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the

fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their

clusters [are] bitter:

32:33 Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom

of asps.

32:34 [Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up

among my treasures?

32:35 To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot

shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is]

at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself

for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and

[there is] none shut up, or left.

32:37 And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in

whom they trusted,

32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, [and] drank the

wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you,

[and] be your protection.

32:39 See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god

with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither

[is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.

32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on

judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will

reward them that hate me.

32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword

shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and

of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will

avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to

his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, [and] to

his people.

32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the

ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all

Israel:

32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words

which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your

children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

32:47 For it [is] not a vain thing for you; because it [is] your

life: and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in

the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

32:48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

32:49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, [unto] mount Nebo,

which [is] in the land of Moab, that [is] over against Jericho;

and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children

of Israel for a possession:

32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be

gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount

Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of

Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of

Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children

of Israel.

32:52 Yet thou shalt see the land before [thee]; but thou shalt

not go thither unto the land which I give the children of

Israel.

33:1 And this [is] the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God

blessed the children of Israel before his death.

33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from

Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came

with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a

fiery law for them.

33:3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints [are] in thy hand:

and they sat down at thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy

words.

33:4 Moses commanded us a law, [even] the inheritance of the

congregation of Jacob.

33:5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people

[and] the tribes of Israel were gathered together.

33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men be few.

33:7 And this [is the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear,

LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let

his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help [to him]

from his enemies.

33:8 And of Levi he said, [Let] thy Thummim and thy Urim [be]

with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, [and with]

whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

33:9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen

him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own

children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy

covenant.

33:10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law:

they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice

upon thine altar.

33:11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his

hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him,

and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

33:12 [And] of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall

dwell in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the

day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

33:13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] his land,

for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the

deep that coucheth beneath,

33:14 And for the precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun,

and for the precious things put forth by the moon,

33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for

the precious things of the lasting hills,

33:16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness

thereof, and [for] the good will of him that dwelt in the bush:

let [the blessing] come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the

top of the head of him [that was] separated from his brethren.

33:17 His glory [is like] the firstling of his bullock, and his

horns [are like] the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push

the people together to the ends of the earth: and they [are]

the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of

Manasseh.

33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going

out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.

33:19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they

shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck

[of] the abundance of the seas, and [of] treasures hid in the

sand.

33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed [be] he that enlargeth Gad: he

dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the

head.

33:21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there,

[in] a portion of the lawgiver, [was he] seated; and he came

with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the

LORD, and his judgments with Israel.

33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan [is] a lion's whelp: he shall leap

from Bashan.

33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with

favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou

the west and the south.

33:24 And of Asher he said, [Let] Asher [be] blessed with

children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him

dip his foot in oil.

33:25 Thy shoes [shall be] iron and brass; and as thy days, [so

shall] thy strength [be].

33:26 [There is] none like unto the God of Jeshurun, [who]

rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on

the sky.

33:27 The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the

everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before

thee; and shall say, Destroy [them].

33:28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of

Jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens

shall drop down dew.

33:29 Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O

people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is]

the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found

liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain

of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho.

And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

34:2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh,

and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,

34:3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the

city of palm trees, unto Zoar.

34:4 And the LORD said unto him, This [is] the land which I

sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will

give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see [it] with

thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.

34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of

Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

34:6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over

against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this

day.

34:7 And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he

died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of

Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for

Moses were ended.

34:9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom;

for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of

Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto

Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

34:11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him

to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants,

and to all his land,

34:12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror

which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.