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.
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by
the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
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;
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:
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab,
began Moses to declare this law, saying,
The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb,
saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
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.
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.
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I
am not able to bear you myself alone:
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and,
behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
(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!)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance,
and your burden, and your strife?
Take you wise men, and understanding, and
known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
And ye answered me, and said, The thing
which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
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.
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.
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.
And I commanded you at that time all the
things which ye should do.
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.
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the
mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto
us.
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.
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.
And the saying pleased me well: and I took
twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
And they turned and went up into the
mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it
out.
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.
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
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.
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.
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be
afraid of them.
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;
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.
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the
LORD your God,
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.
And the LORD heard the voice of your words,
and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Surely there shall not one of these men of
this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto
your fathers.
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.
Also the LORD was angry with me for your
sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
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.
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.
But as for you, turn you, and take your
journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And ye returned and wept before the LORD;
but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto
you.
So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according
unto the days that ye abode there.
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.
And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough:
turn you northward.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a
people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Which also were accounted giants, as the
Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.
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.
Now rise up, said I, and get you over the
brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
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.
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against
them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were
consumed.
So it came to pass, when all the men of war
were consumed and dead from among the people,
That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast
of Moab, this day:
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.
(That also was accounted a land of giants:
giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them
Zamzummims;
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:
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:
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.)
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.
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.
And I sent messengers out of the wilderness
of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace,
saying,
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.
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;
(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.
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.
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.
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all
his people, to fight at Jahaz.
And the LORD our God delivered him before
us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
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:
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto
ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All these cities were fenced with high walls,
gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto
Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and
children, of every city.
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the
cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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;
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and
the Amorites call it Shenir;)
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead,
and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og
in Bashan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
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;
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your
God he shall fight for you.
And I besought the LORD at that time,
saying,
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?
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the
good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and
Lebanon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God
are alive every one of you this day.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a
graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or
female,
The likeness of any beast that is on the
earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on
the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath
the earth:
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.
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.
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:
But I must die in this land, I must not go
over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
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.
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire,
even a jealous God.
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:
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.
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.
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of
men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat,
nor smell.
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.
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;
(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.
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?
Did ever people hear the voice of God
speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and
live?
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?
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest
know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
Then Moses severed three cities on this side
Jordan toward the sunrising;
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:
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.
And this is the law which Moses set before
the children of Israel:
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.
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:
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;
From Aroer, which is by the bank of the
river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
And all the plain on this side Jordan
eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of
Pisgah.
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.
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in
Horeb.
The LORD made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this
day.
The LORD talked with you face to face in the
mount out of the midst of the fire,
(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,
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have none other gods before
me.
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:
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,
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them
that love me and keep my commandments.
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.
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the
LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy
work:
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.
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.
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.
Thou shalt not kill.
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Neither shalt thou steal.
Neither shalt thou bear false witness
against thy neighbour.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
Go say to them, Get you into your tents
again.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one
LORD:
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
And these words, which I command thee this
day, shall be in thine heart:
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.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon
thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of
thy house, and on thy gates.
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,
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;
Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which
brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage.
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve
him, and shalt swear by his name.
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the
gods of the people which are round about you;
(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.
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye
tempted him in Massah.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of
the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he
hath commanded thee.
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.
To cast out all thine enemies from before
thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
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?
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:
And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great
and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household,
before our eyes:
And he brought us out from thence, that he
might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our
fathers.
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.
And it shall be our righteousness, if we
observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he
hath commanded us.
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;
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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;
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.
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments,
and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day,
to do them.
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:
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.
Thou shalt be blessed above all people:
there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your
cattle.
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.
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.
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These
nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt
well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all
Egypt;
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.
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the
hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves
from thee, be destroyed.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for
the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
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.
But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto
thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they
be destroyed.
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.
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 therin: for it is
an abomination to the LORD thy God.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither
did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart,
that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth
thee.
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of
the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
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;
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and
fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
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.
When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou
shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given
thee.
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:
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and
hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply,
and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast
is multiplied;
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;
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;
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;
And thou say in thine heart, My power and
the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath,
so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying,
I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked
people:
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.
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.
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.
And I took the two tables, and cast them out
of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
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.
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.
And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to
have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
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.
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at
Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
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.
Ye have been rebellious against the LORD
from the day that I knew you.
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.
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.
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their
wickedness, nor to their sin:
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.
Yet they are thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by
thy stretched out arm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah;
and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
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.
Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance
with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the
LORD thy God promised him.
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.
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.
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,
To keep the commandments of the LORD, and
his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of
heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that
therein is.
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.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your
heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
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:
He doth execute the judgment of the
fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food
and raiment.
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt
thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his
name.
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that
hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine
eyes have seen.
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.
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God,
and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his
commandments, alway.
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,
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;
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;
And what he did unto you in the wilderness,
until ye came into this place;
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:
But your eyes have seen all the great acts
of the LORD which he did.
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;
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.
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:
But the land, whither ye go to possess it,
is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of
heaven:
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.
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,
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.
And I will send grass in thy fields for thy
cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be
not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship
them;
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.
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.
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.
And thou shalt write them upon the door
posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
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.
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;
Then will the LORD drive out all these
nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and
mightier than yourselves.
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.
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.
Behold, I set before you this day a
blessing and a curse;
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of
the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
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.
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.
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?
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.
And ye shall observe to do all the statutes
and judgments which I set before you this day.
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.
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:
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.
Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your
God.
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:
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:
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.
Ye shall not do after all the things that we
do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own
eyes.
For ye are not as yet come to the rest and
to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
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;
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:
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.
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not
thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
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.
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.
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall
pour it upon the earth as water.
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:
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.
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not
the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
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.
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.
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten,
so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them
alike.
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.
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it
upon the earth as water.
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.
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and
thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD
shall choose:
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
What thing soever I command you, observe to
do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
If there arise among you a prophet, or a
dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
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;
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.
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.
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.
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;
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;
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.
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.
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and
shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
If thou shalt hear say in one of thy
cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there,
saying,
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;
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;
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.
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.
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;
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.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye
shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes
for the dead.
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.
Thou shalt not eat any abominable
thing.
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the
ox, the sheep, and the goat,
The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow
deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the
chamois.
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.
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.
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.
These ye shall eat of all that are in the
waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye
may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
But these are they of which ye shall not
eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
And the glede, and the kite, and the
vulture after his kind,
And every raven after his kind,
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the
cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
The little owl, and the great owl, and the
swan,
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and
the cormorant,
And the stork, and the heron after her
kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
And every creeping thing that flieth is
unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Ye shall not eat of anything 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.
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of
thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
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.
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:
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:
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,
And the Levite that is within thy gates;
thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance
with thee.
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:
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.
At the end of every seven years thou shalt
make a release.
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.
Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again:
but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall
release;
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:
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.
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.
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:
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto
him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that
which he wanteth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And when thou sendest him out free from
thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God
year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy
household.
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.
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the
unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck,
and as the hart.
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof;
thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover
within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these
statutes.
Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles
seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy
wine:
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.
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.
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:
Every man shall give as he is able,
according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given
thee.
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.
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.
That which is altogether just shalt thou
follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any
trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt
make thee.
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image;
which the LORD thy God hateth.
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.
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,
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;
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:
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.
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.
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.
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;
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:
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:
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.
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.
And all the people shall hear, and fear,
and do no more presumptuously.
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;
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.
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.
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself,
that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to
himself silver and gold.
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:
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:
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.
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.
Therefore shall they have no inheritance
among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath
said unto them.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
They shall have like portions to eat, beside
that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
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.
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.
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
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.
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy
God.
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.
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;
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.
And the LORD said unto me, They have well
spoken that which they have spoken.
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.
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.
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.
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall
we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
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.
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;
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in
the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it.
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.
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;
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:
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.
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt
separate three cities for thee.
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;
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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
If a false witness rise up against any man
to testify against him that which is wrong;
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;
And the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and
hath testified falsely against his brother;
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.
And those which remain shall hear, and
fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among
you.
And thine eye shall not pity; but life
shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot.
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.
And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto
the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the
people,
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;
For the LORD your God is he that goeth with
you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight
against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
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.
And if it will make no peace with thee, but
will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it
into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge
of the sword:
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.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities
which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of
these nations.
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:
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:
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.
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:
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.
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:
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come
forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about
him that is slain:
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;
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:
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:
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:
And they shall answer and say, Our hands
have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
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.
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.
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,
And seest among the captives a beautiful
woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to
thy wife;
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine
house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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:
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;
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass
together.
Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers
sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four
quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her,
and hate her,
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:
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:
And the damsel's father shall say unto the
elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth
her;
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.
And the elders of that city shall take that
man and chastise him;
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.
But if this thing be true, and the tokens
of virginity be not found for the damsel:
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.
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.
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed
unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with
her;
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.
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.
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:
For he found her in the field, and the
betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
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;
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.
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor
discover his father's skirt.
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath
his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of
the LORD.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their
prosperity all thy days for ever.
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.
The children that are begotten of them shall
enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third
generation.
When the host goeth forth against thine
enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
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:
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.
Thou shalt have a place also without the
camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
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:
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.
Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the
servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
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.
There shall be no whore of the daughters of
Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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.
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy
brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that
is lent upon usury:
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.
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.
But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall
be no sin in thee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And when she is departed out of his house,
she may go and be another man's wife.
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;
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.
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.
No man shall take the nether or the upper
millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
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.
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.
Remember what the LORD thy God did unto
Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing,
thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to
whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto
thee.
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not
sleep with his pledge:
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.
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:
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.
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.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the
stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to
pledge:
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.
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.
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.
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.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this
thing.
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.
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.
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.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he
treadeth out the corn.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
And his name shall be called in Israel, The
house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
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:
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye
shall not pity her.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers
weights, a great and a small.
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers
measures, a great and a small.
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.
For all that do such things, and all that
do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the
way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
And the priest shall take the basket out of
thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy
God.
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:
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and
afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
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:
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:
And he hath brought us into this place, and
hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and
honey.
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:
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
