GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:5urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:5These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side the Jordan , in the wilderness , in the plain , opposite to Suph , between Paran and Tophel , Laban , Hazeroth , and Dizahab . There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea . And it came to pass in the fortieth year , in the eleventh month , on the first of the month , that Moses spoke to the children of Israel , according to all that Jehovah had given him in command to them ; after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites , who dwelt at Heshbon , and Og the king of Bashan , who dwelt at Ashtaroth [ and ] at Edrei . On this side the Jordan , in the land of Moab , began Moses to unfold this law , saying , Jehovah our God spoke unto us in Horeb , saying , Ye have stayed long enough in this mountain . Turn and take your journey , and go to the hill-country of the Amorites , and unto all the neighbouring places in the plain , in the mountain , and in the lowland , and in the south , and by the seaside , the land of the Canaanites , and Lebanon , unto the great river , the river Euphrates . Behold , I have set the land before you : go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob , to give unto them and to their seed after them . And I spoke unto you at that time , saying , I am not able to bear you myself alone . Jehovah your God hath multiplied you , and behold , ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude . Jehovah , the God of your fathers , make you a thousand times so many more as ye are , and bless you as he hath said unto you ! How can I myself alone sustain your wear , and your burden , and your strife ? Provide you wise and understanding and known men , according to your tribes , that I may make them your chiefs . And ye answered me , and said , The thing that thou hast spoken is good [ for us ] to do . So I took the chiefs of your tribes , wise men and known , and made them chiefs over you , captains of thousands , and captains of hundreds , and captains of fifties , and captains of tens , and officers for your tribes . And I commanded your judges at that time , saying , Hear [ the causes ] between your brethren , and judge righteously between a man and his brother , and him also that sojourneth with him . Ye shall not respect persons in judgment : 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 matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me , that I may hear it . And I commanded you at that time all the things that ye should do . And we departed from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness , which ye saw , on the way to the mountain of the Amorites , as Jehovah our God had commanded us ; and we came to Kadesh-barnea . And I said unto you , Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites , which Jehovah our God giveth us . Behold , Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee : go up , take possession , as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee ; fear not , neither be dismayed . And ye came near to me all of you , and said , We will send men before us , who shall examine the land for us , and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up , and of the cities to which we shall come . And the matter was good in mine eyes ; and I took twelve men of you , one man for a tribe . And they turned and went up into the mountain , and came to the valley of Eshcol , and searched it out . And they took of the fruit of the land in their hand , and brought it down unto us , and brought us answer , and said , The land is good that Jehovah our God hath given us . But ye would not go up , and rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God ; and ye murmured in your tents , and said , Because Jehovah hated us , he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt , to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites , to destroy us . Whither shall we go up ? Our brethren have made our hearts melt , saying , [ They are ] a people greater and taller than we ; the cities are great and walled up to heaven ; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there . And I said unto you , Be not afraid , neither fear them ; Jehovah your God who goeth before you , he will fight for you , according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes ; and in the wilderness where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God bore thee , as a man doth bear his son , in all the way that ye went , until ye came to this place . But In this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God , who went in the way before you , to search you out a place for your encamping , in fire by night , to shew you by what way ye should go , and in the cloud by day . And Jehovah heard the voice of your words , and was wroth , and swore , saying , None among these men , this evil generation , shall in any wise see that good land , which I swore to give unto your fathers ! Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh , he shall see it , and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon , and to his children , because he hath wholly followed Jehovah . Also Jehovah was angry with me on your account , saying , Thou also shalt not go in thither . Joshua the son of Nun , who standeth before thee , he shall go in thither : strengthen him , for he shall cause Israel to inherit it . And your little ones , of whom ye said , They shall be a prey , and your children , who this day know neither good nor evil , they shall go in thither , and unto them will I give it , and they shall possess it . But ye , turn , and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea . -- And ye answered and said unto me , We have sinned against Jehovah , we will go up and fight , according to all that Jehovah our God hath commanded us . And ye girded on every man his weapons of war , and ye would go presumptuously up the hill . And Jehovah said to me , Say unto them , Go not up , neither fight ; for I am not among you ; lest ye be smitten before your enemies . And I spoke unto you , but ye would not hear , and ye rebelled against the word of Jehovah , and acted presumptuously , and went up the hill . And the Amorite that dwelt on that hill came out against you , and chased you , like as bees do , and cut you in pieces in Seir , as far as Hormah . And ye returned and wept before Jehovah , but Jehovah would not listen to your voice , nor give ear unto you . And ye abode in Kadesh many days , according unto the days that ye abode [ there ] . And we turned , and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea , as Jehovah had said unto me ; and we went round mount Seir many days . And Jehovah spoke to me , saying , Ye have gone round this mountain long enough : turn you northward . And command the people , saying , Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau , who dwell in Seir ; and they will be afraid of you ; and ye shall be very guarded : attack them not ; for I will not give you of their land , no , not so much as a foot-breadth ; for I have given mount Seir as a possession unto Esau . Ye shall buy of them food for money , that ye may eat ; and water shall ye also buy of them for money , that ye may drink ; for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand . He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness : these forty years hath Jehovah thy God been with thee ; thou hast lacked nothing . And we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau , who dwelt in Seir , by the plain , by Elath , and by Ezion-geber , and we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab . And Jehovah said to me , Distress not the Moabites , neither engage with them in battle ; for I will not give thee of their land a possession ; for unto the children of Lot have I given Ar as a possession . ( The Emim dwelt therein in times past , a people great , and many , and tall as the Anakim . They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim ; but the Moabites call them Emim . And in Seir dwelt the Horites in times past ; and the children of Esau dispossessed them , and destroyed them from before them , and dwelt in their stead ; as Israel did to the land of their possession , which Jehovah gave to them . ) Now rise up , and pass over the torrent Zered . And we passed over the torrent Zered . Now the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea , until we had come over the torrent Zered , were thirty-eight years ; until the whole generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp , as Jehovah had sworn unto them . Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to destroy them from the midst of the camp , until they were consumed . And it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed , having died off from among the people , that Jehovah spoke to me , saying , Thou art to pass this day over the border of Moab , [ which is ] Ar , and come near over against the children of Ammon ; thou shalt not distress them nor attack them ; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon a possession ; for unto the children of Lot have I given it as a possession . ( That also is reckoned a land of giants : giants dwelt therein in time past , and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim ; a people great , and many , and tall as the Anakim ; and Jehovah destroyed them before them , and they dispossessed them , and dwelt in their stead ; as he did to the children of Esau , who dwelt in Seir , from before whom he destroyed the Horites ; and they dispossessed them , and dwelt in their stead , even to this day . And the Avvites who dwelt in the hamlets as far as Gazah -- the Caphtorim , who came out of Caphtor , destroyed them , and dwelt in their stead . ) Rise up , take your journey , and pass over the river Arnon . Behold , I have given into thy hand Sihon the king of Heshbon , the Amorite , and his land : begin , take possession , and engage with him in battle . This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples under the whole heaven ; who will hear report of thee , and will tremble , and quake because of thee . And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon the king of Heshbon with words of peace , saying , Let me pass through thy land : by the highway alone will I go ; I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left . Thou shalt sell me food for money that I may eat ; and thou shalt give me water for money that I may drink ; I will only pass through on my feet , -- as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir , and the Moabites who dwell in Ar , did to me , -- until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us . But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him ; for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit , and made his heart obdurate , that he might give him into thy hand , as it is this day . And Jehovah said to me , Behold , I begin to give Sihon and his land before thee : begin , take possession , that thou mayest possess his land . And Sihon came out against us for battle , he and all his people , to Jahaz . But Jehovah our God gave him up before us ; and we smote him , and his sons , and his whole people . And we took all his cities at that time , and utterly destroyed every city , men , and women , and little ones : we let none escape . Only the cattle we took as booty for ourselves , and the spoil of the cities which we took . From Aroer , which is on the bank of the river Arnon , and the city that is in the ravine even to Gilead , there was not one city too strong for us : Jehovah our God delivered all before us . Only thou didst not approach the land of the children of Ammon , the whole border of the river Jabbok , nor the cities of the mountain , nor to whatsoever Jehovah our God had forbidden us . And we turned , and went up the way to Bashan ; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us , he and all his people , for battle at Edrei . And Jehovah said to me , Fear him not ; for into thy hand have I given him , and all his people , and his land ; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon the king of the Amorites , who dwelt at Heshbon . And Jehovah our God gave into our hand Og the king of Bashan also , 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 town which we took not from them , sixty cities , the whole region of Argob , the kingdom of Og in Bashan . All these cities were fortified with high walls , gates , and bars ; besides unwalled towns very many . And we utterly destroyed them , as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon , utterly destroying every city , men , women and little ones . But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves . And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites , that were on this side the Jordan , from the river Arnon to mount Hermon ( the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion , and the Amorites call it Senir ) : all the cities of the plateau , and all Gilead , and all Bashan , as far as Salchah and Edrei , the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan . For only Og the king of Bashan remained of the residue of giants : behold , his bedstead was a bedstead of iron ; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon ? its length was nine cubits , and its breadth four cubits , after the cubit of a man . And this land we took in possession at that time . From Aroer , which is by the river Arnon , and the half of mount Gilead , and its cities , I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites ; and the rest of Gilead , and all Bashan , the kingdom of Og , I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh . ( The whole region of Argob , even all Bashan , is called a land of giants . Jair the son of Manasseh took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites , and called Bashan after his own name , Havoth-Jair , to this day . ) And I gave Gilead to Machir . And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon , the middle of the ravine and its border , as far as the river Jabbok , the border of the children of Ammon ; the plain also , and the Jordan , and [ its ] border from Chinnereth as far as the sea of the plain , the salt sea , under the slopes of Pisgah eastward . And I commanded you at that time , saying , Jehovah your God hath given you this land to take possession of it : ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel , all [ who are ] combatants . Only your wives , and your little ones , and your cattle , -- I know that ye have much cattle , -- shall abide in your cities which I have given you , until Jehovah give rest to your brethren , as well as to you , and they also take possession of the land that Jehovah your God giveth them beyond the Jordan ; then shall ye return , each man to his possession , which I have given you . And I commanded Joshua at that time , saying , Thine eyes have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done to these two kings : so will Jehovah do to all the kingdoms to which thou shalt go . Ye shall not fear them ; for Jehovah your God , he will fight for you . And I besought Jehovah at that time , saying , Lord Jehovah , thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness , and thy powerful hand ; for what God is in the heavens or in the earth that can do like to thy works , and like to thy might ? Let me go over , I pray thee , and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan , that goodly mountain , and Lebanon . But Jehovah was wroth with me on your account , and did not hear me ; and Jehovah said to me , Let it suffice thee ; speak no more unto me of this matter ! Go up to 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 put them in possession of the land which thou shalt see . And we abode in the valley opposite to Beth-Peor . And now , Israel , hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you , to do [ them ] , that ye may live , and go in and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers giveth you . Ye shall not add to the word which I command you , neither shall ye take from it , that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you . Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-Peor ; for all the men that followed Baal-Peor , Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from among you ; but ye that did cleave to Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day . See , I have taught you statutes and ordinances , even as Jehovah my God commanded me , that ye may do so in the land into which ye enter to possess it . And ye shall keep and do them ; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes , and say , Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people . For what great nation is there that hath God near to them as Jehovah our God is in everything we call upon him for ? And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances , 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 that thine eyes have seen ( and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life ; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons ) , the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb , when Jehovah said to me , Gather me the people together , that I may cause them to hear my words , that they may learn them , and fear me all the days that they live upon the earth , and teach them to their children . And ye came near and stood under the mountain ; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven , with darkness , clouds , and obscurity . And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire : ye heard the voice of the words , but ye saw no form ; only [ ye heard ] a voice . And he declared to you his covenant , which he commanded you to do , the ten words ; and he wrote them on two tables of stone . And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances , that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it . And take great heed to your souls ( for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire ) , lest ye corrupt yourselves , and make you a graven image , the form of any figure , the pattern of male or female , the pattern of any beast that is on the earth , the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven , the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground , the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth ; and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens , and see the sun , and the moon , and the stars , the whole host of heaven , and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them , which Jehovah thy God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven . But you hath Jehovah taken , and hath brought you forth out of the iron furnace , out of Egypt , that ye might be to him a people of inheritance , as it is this day . And Jehovah was angry with me on your account , and swore that I should not go over the Jordan , and that I should not enter in to that good land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee [ for ] an inheritance ; for I shall die in this land , I shall not go over the Jordan ; but ye shall go over , and possess this good land . Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God , which he made with you , and make yourselves a graven image , the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee . For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire , a jealous God . When thou begettest sons , and sons' sons , and ye have remained long in the land , and shall corrupt yourselves , and make a graven image , the form of anything , and do evil in the sight of Jehovah 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 pass over the Jordan to possess it : ye shall not prolong your days on it , but shall be utterly destroyed . And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples , and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you . And ye shall there serve gods , the work of men's hands , wood and stone , which neither see , nor hear , nor eat , nor smell . And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God , and thou shalt find him , if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul . In thy tribulation , and when all these things shall come upon thee , at the end of days , thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God , and shalt hearken to his voice , -- for Jehovah thy God is a merciful God , -- he will not forsake thee , neither destroy thee , nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore unto them . For ask now of the days that are past , which were before thee , since the day that God created man on the earth , and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens , whether there hath been anything as this great thing is , or if anything hath been heard like it ? Did [ ever ] people hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire , as thou hast heard , and live ? Or hath God essayed to come to take him a nation from the midst of a nation , by trials , by signs , and by wonders , and by war , and by a powerful hand , and by a stretched-out arm , and by great terrors , according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ? Unto thee it was shewn , that thou mightest know that Jehovah , he is God -- there is none other besides him . From the heavens he made thee hear his voice , that he might instruct thee ; and on the earth he shewed thee his great fire ; and thou heardest his words from the midst of the fire . And because he loved thy fathers , and chose their seed after them , he brought thee out with his countenance , with his great power , out of Egypt , to dispossess 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 . Thou shalt know therefore this day , and consider it in thy heart , that Jehovah , he is God in the heavens above , and on the earth beneath : [ there is ] none else . And thou shalt keep his statutes , and his commandments , which I command thee this day , that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee , and that thou mayest prolong thy days on the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , for ever . Then Moses separated three cities on this side the Jordan toward the sun-rising , that the manslayer might flee thither , who should kill his neighbour unawares , and hated him not previously , that fleeing to one of these cities , he might live : Bezer in the wilderness , in the plateau , 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 ordinances that Moses declared to the children of Israel , when they came out of Egypt , on this side the Jordan , in the valley opposite to Beth-Peor , in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites , who dwelt in Heshbon , whom Moses and the children of Israel smote when they came out of Egypt ; and they took possession of his land , and the land of Og the king of Bashan , two kings of the Amorites , who were on this side the Jordan , toward the sun-rising ; from Aroer , which is on the bank of the river Arnon , as far as mount Sion , which is Hermon , and all the plain on this side the Jordan , eastward , and as far as the sea of the plain , under the slopes of Pisgah . And Moses called to all Israel , and said to them , Hear , Israel , the statutes and the ordinances that I speak in your ears this day , and learn them , and keep them to do them . Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb . Not with our fathers did Jehovah make this covenant , but with us , [ even ] us , those [ who are ] here alive all of us this day . Face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire Jehovah spoke with you ( I stood between Jehovah and you at that time , to declare to you the word of Jehovah ; for ye were afraid by reason of the fire , and went not up to the mountain ) , saying , I am Jehovah thy God who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage . Thou shalt have no other gods before me . Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image , any form of what is in the heavens above , or what is in the earth beneath , or what is in the waters under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them , nor serve them ; for I , Jehovah thy God , am a jealous God , visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons , and upon the third and upon the fourth [ generation ] of them that hate me , and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments . Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God ; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name . Keep the sabbath day to hallow it , as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee . Six days shalt thou labour , and do all thy work ; but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God : thou shalt not do any work , thou , nor thy son , nor thy daughter , nor thy bondman , nor thy handmaid , nor thine ox , nor thine ass , nor any of thy cattle , nor thy sojourner that is within thy gates ; that thy bondman and thy handmaid may rest as well as thou . And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt , and that Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence with a powerful hand and with a stretched-out arm ; therefore Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee to observe the sabbath day . Honour thy father and thy mother , as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee ; that thy days may be prolonged , and that it may be well with thee in the land which Jehovah 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 , nor his bondman , nor his handmaid , his ox , nor his ass , nor anything that is thy neighbour's . These words Jehovah spoke to all your congregation on the mountain from the midst of the fire , of the cloud , and of the obscurity , with a great voice , and he added no more ; and he wrote them on two tables of stone , and gave them to me . And it came to pass , when ye heard the voice from the midst of the darkness , and the mountain burned with fire , that ye came near to me , all the heads of your tribes , and your elders ; and ye said , Behold , Jehovah our God has shewn us his glory and his greatness , and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire : we have seen this day that God talks with man , and he lives . And now , why should we die ? for this great fire will consume us . If we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more , we shall die . For who is there of all flesh , that has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire , as we , and has lived ? Come thou near , and hear all that Jehovah our God will say ; and speak thou to us all that Jehovah our God will speak to thee ; and we will hear it , and do it . And Jehovah heard the voice of your words , when ye spoke to me ; and Jehovah said unto me , I have heard the voice of the words of this people that have spoken to thee : they have well spoken all that they have spoken . Oh that there were such a heart in them , that they would fear me , and keep all my commandments continually , that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever ! Go , say unto 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 ordinances , which thou shalt teach them , that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it . Take heed then to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you : turn not aside to the right hand or to the left . In all the way that Jehovah your God hath commanded you shall ye walk , 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 . And these are the commandments , the statutes , and the ordinances , which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you , that ye may do them in the land whereunto ye pass over to possess it , that thou mayest fear Jehovah thy God , to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee , thou , and thy son , and thy son's son , all the days of thy life ; and that thy days may be prolonged . And thou shalt hear , Israel , and take heed to do [ them ] ; that it may be well with thee , and that ye may increase greatly , as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee , in a land flowing with milk and honey . Hear , Israel : Jehovah our God is one Jehovah ; and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart , and with all thy soul , and with all thy strength . And these words , which I command thee this day , shall be in thy heart ; and thou shalt impress them on thy sons , and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou goest on the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou risest up . And thou shalt bind them for a sign on thy hand , and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes . And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house , and upon thy gates . And it shall be , when Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into the land which he swore unto thy fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob , to give thee : great and good cities which thou buildedst not , and houses full of everything good which thou filledst not , and wells digged which thou diggedst not , vineyards and oliveyards which thou plantedst not , and thou shalt have eaten and shalt be full ; [ then ] beware lest thou forget Jehovah who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage . Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God , and serve him , and shalt swear by his name . Ye shall not go after other gods , of the gods of the peoples that are round about you ; for Jehovah thy God is a jealous God in thy midst ; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee , and he destroy thee from the face of the earth . Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God , as ye tempted him in Massah . Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God , and his testimonies , and his statutes , which he hath commanded thee . And thou shalt do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah , that it may be well with thee , and that thou mayest enter in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers , thrusting out all thine enemies from before thee , as Jehovah hath spoken . When thy son shall ask thee in time to come , saying , What are the testimonies , and the statutes , and the ordinances , which Jehovah our God hath commanded you ? then thou shalt say unto thy son , We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt ; and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a powerful hand ; and Jehovah shewed signs and wonders , great and grievous , upon Egypt , upon Pharaoh , and upon all his household , before our eyes ; and he brought us out thence , that he might bring us in , to give us the land which he swore unto our fathers . And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes , to fear Jehovah our God , for our good continually , that he might preserve us alive , as it is this day . And it shall be our righteousness if we take heed to do all these commandments before Jehovah our God , as he hath commanded us . When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it , and shall cast out many nations from 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 Jehovah thy God shall give them up before thee and thou shalt smite them , then shalt thou utterly destroy them : thou shalt make no covenant with them , nor shew mercy unto them . And thou shalt make no marriages with them : thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son , nor take his daughter for thy son ; for he will turn away thy son from following me , and they will serve other gods , and the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you , and he will destroy thee quickly . But thus shall ye deal with them : ye shall break down their altars , and shatter their statues , and hew down their Asherahs , and burn their graven images with fire . For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God : Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession , above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth . Not because ye were more in number than all the peoples , hath Jehovah been attached to you and chosen you , for ye are the fewest of all the peoples ; but because Jehovah loved you , and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers , hath Jehovah brought you out with a powerful hand , and redeemed you out of the house of bondage , from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt . And thou shalt know that Jehovah thy God , he is God , the faithful God , who keepeth covenant and mercy to a thousand generations with them that love him and keep his commandments ; and repayeth them that hate him [ each ] to his face , to cause them to perish : he delayeth not with him that hateth him , he will repay him to his face . And thou shalt keep the commandment , and the statutes , and the ordinances , which I command thee this day , to do them . And it shall come to pass , if ye hearken to these ordinances , and keep and do them , that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which he swore unto thy fathers ; and he will love thee , and bless thee , and multiply thee , and will bless the fruit of thy womb , and the fruit of thy ground , thy corn and thy new wine , and thine oil , the offspring of thy kine , and the increase of thy sheep , in the land which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee . Thou shalt be blessed above all the peoples ; there shall not be male or female barren with thee , or with thy cattle ; and Jehovah will take away from thee all sickness , and none of the evil infirmities of Egypt , which thou knowest , will he put upon thee ; but he will lay them upon all them that hate thee . And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God will give up unto thee ; thine eye shall not spare them , and thou shalt not serve their gods ; for that would be a snare unto thee . If thou shouldest say in thy heart , These nations are greater than I ; how can I dispossess them ? fear them not ; remember well what Jehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh , and unto all the Egyptians ; the great trials which thine eyes saw , and the signs , and the wonders , and the powerful hand , and the stretched-out arm , whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out : so will Jehovah thy God do unto all the peoples whom thou fearest . Moreover , Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them , until they that are left , and they that hide themselves from thee , are destroyed . Thou shalt not be afraid of them ; for Jehovah thy God is in thy midst , a God great and terrible . And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations from before thee by little and little ; thou shalt not be able to make an end of them at once , lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee . But Jehovah thy God will give them up before thee , and will confound them with great consternation , until they are destroyed . And he will give their kings into thy hand , and thou shalt put out their name from under the heavens ; no man shall stand before thee , until thou hast destroyed them . The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire ; thou shalt not covet the silver and gold [ that is ] on them and take it unto thee , lest thou be ensnared therein ; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God . And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house , lest thou be a cursed thing like it : thou shalt utterly detest it , and thou shalt utterly abhor it ; for it is a cursed thing . Every commandment which I command thee this day shall ye take heed to do , that ye may live , and multiply , and enter in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers . And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness , to humble thee , and to prove thee , to know what was in thy heart , whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not . And he humbled thee , and suffered thee to hunger , and fed thee with the manna , which thou hadst not known , and which thy fathers knew not ; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone , but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live . Thy clothing grew not old upon thee , neither did thy foot swell , these forty years . And know in thy heart that , as a man chasteneth his son , so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee ; and thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God , to walk in his ways , and to fear him . For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land , a land of water-brooks , of springs , and of deep waters , that gush forth in the valleys and hills ; a land of wheat , and barley , and vines , and fig-trees , and pomegranates ; a land of olive-trees and honey ; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness , where thou shalt lack nothing ; a land whose stones are iron , and out of whose mountains thou wilt dig copper . And thou shalt eat and be filled , and shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he hath given thee . Beware that thou forget not Jehovah thy God , in not keeping his commandments , and his ordinances , and his statutes , which I command thee this day ; lest when thou hast eaten and art full , and hast built and inhabited fine houses , and thy herds and thy flocks multiply , and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied , and all that thou hast is multiplied , then thy heart be lifted up , and thou forget Jehovah thy God , who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage ; who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness , [ a wilderness of ] fiery serpents , and scorpions , and drought , where there is 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 thy heart , My power and the might of my hand has procured me this wealth . But thou shalt remember Jehovah thy God , that it is he who giveth thee power to get wealth , that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers , as it is this day . And it shall be , if thou do at all forget Jehovah thy God , and go after other gods , and serve them , and bow down to them , I testify against you this day that ye shall utterly perish . As the nations which Jehovah is causing to perish before you , so shall ye perish ; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God . Hear , Israel ! Thou art to pass over the Jordan this day , to enter in to possess nations greater and mightier than thou , cities great and walled up to heaven , a people great and tall , the sons of the Anakim , whom thou knowest , and of whom thou hast heard [ say ] , Who can stand before the sons of Anak ! Know then this day , that Jehovah thy God is he that goeth over before thee , a consuming fire ; he will destroy them , and he will cast them down before thee , and thou shalt dispossess them and cause them to perish quickly , as Jehovah hath said unto thee . Thou shalt not say in thy heart , when Jehovah thy God thrusteth them out from before thee , saying , For my righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this land ; but for the wickedness of these nations doth Jehovah dispossess them from before thee . Not for thy righteousness , or for the uprightness of thy heart , dost thou enter in to possess their land , but for the wickedness of these nations doth Jehovah thy God dispossess them from before thee , and that he may perform the word which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob . Know therefore that Jehovah thy God doth not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness ; for thou art a stiff-necked people . Remember , forget not , how thou provokedst Jehovah thy God to wrath in the wilderness . From the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt , until ye came to this place , ye have been rebellious against Jehovah . And at Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath , and Jehovah was angry with you , to destroy you , when I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone , the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you , and I abode in the mountain forty days and forty nights , -- I ate no bread and drank no water , -- -- and Jehovah delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God ; and on them [ was written ] according to all the words which Jehovah spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly . And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights , that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone , the tables of the covenant . And Jehovah said unto me , Arise , go down quickly from hence ; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves ; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them : they have made for themselves a molten image . And Jehovah spoke unto me , saying , I have seen this people , and behold , it is a stiff-necked 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 . And I turned and came down from the mountain , and the mountain burned with fire ; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands . And I saw , and behold , ye had sinned against Jehovah your God : ye had made for yourselves a molten calf ; ye had quickly turned aside from the way which Jehovah had commanded you . And I seized the two tables , and cast them out of my two hands , and broke them before your eyes . And I fell down before Jehovah , as at the first , forty days and forty nights , -- I ate no bread and drank no water , -- because of all your sin which ye had sinned , in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah , to provoke him to anger . For I was afraid of the anger and fury wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you . And Jehovah listened unto me also at that time . And with Aaron Jehovah was very angry to destroy him ; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time . And I took your sin , the calf which ye had made , and burned it with fire , and crushed it , and ground it very small , until it became fine dust ; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that flowed down from the mountain . And at Taberah , and at Massah , and at Kibroth-hattaavah , ye provoked Jehovah to wrath . And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea , saying , Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you , ye rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God , and ye believed him not , nor hearkened to his voice . Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you . So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights , as I fell down ; for Jehovah had said he would destroy you . I prayed therefore to Jehovah , and said , Lord Jehovah , destroy not thy people and thine inheritance , which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness , which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a powerful hand . Remember thy servants Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob ; look not at the stubbornness of this people , nor at their wickedness , nor at their sin ; lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say , Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he had promised them , and because he hated them , he hath brought them out to kill them in the wilderness . They are indeed thy people and thine inheritance , which thou broughtest out with thy great power and with thy stretched-out arm . At that time Jehovah said unto me , Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first , and come up unto me into the mountain , and make thee an ark of wood ; and I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break , and thou shalt lay them in the ark . And I made an ark of acacia-wood , and hewed two tables of stone like the first , and went up the mountain with the two tables in my hand . And he wrote on the tables , as the first writing , the ten words which Jehovah spoke unto you on the mountain , from the midst of the fire , on the day of the assembly , and Jehovah gave them unto me . And I turned and came down from the mountain , and put the tables in the ark which I had made ; -- and they are there , as Jehovah commanded me . ( And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth-Bene-Jaakan to Moserah : there Aaron died , and there he was buried ; and Eleazar his son exercised the priesthood in his stead . From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah ; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah , a land of water-brooks . ) At that time Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi , to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah , to stand before Jehovah to do service unto him , and to bless in his name , unto this day . Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren ; Jehovah is his inheritance , according as Jehovah thy God told him . But I stood upon the mountain according to the former days , forty days and forty nights ; and Jehovah listened unto me also at that time : Jehovah would not destroy thee . And Jehovah said unto me , Rise up , take thy journey before the people , that they may enter in and possess the land , which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them . And now , Israel , what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee , but to fear Jehovah thy God , to walk in all his ways , and to love him , and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul , to keep the commandments of Jehovah , and his statutes , which I command thee this day , for thy good ? Behold , the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to Jehovah thy God ; the earth and all that is therein . Only , Jehovah took pleasure in thy fathers , to love them , and he chose their seed after them , [ even ] you , out of all the peoples , as it is this day . Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart , and stiffen your neck no more . For Jehovah your God is the God of gods , and the Lord of lords , the great God , the mighty and the terrible , who regardeth not persons , nor taketh reward ; who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow , and loveth the stranger , to give him food and clothing . And ye shall love the stranger ; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt . Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God ; him thou shalt serve , and unto him shalt thou cleave , and swear by his name . He is thy praise , and he is thy God , who hath done for thee these great and terrible things , which thine eyes have seen . With seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt ; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude . Thou shalt love then Jehovah thy God , and keep his charge , and his statutes , and his ordinances , and his commandments continually . And know ye this day . . . ; for [ I speak ] not with your children who have not known , and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God , his greatness , his powerful hand , and his stretched-out arm , and his signs 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 unto their chariots , over which he made the water of the Red sea flow as they pursued after you , and Jehovah destroyed them unto this day ; -- and what he did unto you in the wilderness , until ye came to this place ; and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram , the sons of Eliab , the son of Reuben , -- how the earth opened its mouth , and swallowed them up , with their households , and their tents , and all the living substance that belonged to them , in the midst of all Israel . For your eyes have seen all the great work of Jehovah which he hath done . Keep then all the commandment which I command you this day , that ye may be strong , and enter in and possess the land , whither ye pass over to possess it ; and that ye may prolong your days in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give unto them and unto their seed , a land flowing with milk and honey . For the land , whither thou enterest 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 , whereunto ye are passing over to possess it , is a land of mountains and valleys , which drinketh water of the rain of heaven , a land which Jehovah thy God careth for ; the eyes of Jehovah thy God are constantly upon it , from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year . And it shall come to pass , if ye hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day , to love Jehovah your God , and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul , that I will give rain to your land in its season , the early rain and the latter rain ; and thou shalt gather in thy corn , and thy new wine , and thine oil ; and I will give grass in thy field for thy cattle ; and thou shalt eat and be full . Take heed to yourselves , that your heart be not deceived , and ye turn aside and serve other gods , and bow down to them , and Jehovah's wrath kindle against you , and he shut up the heavens , that there be no rain , and that the ground yield not its produce , and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you . And ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul , and bind them for a sign upon your hand , and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes . And ye shall teach them unto your children , speaking of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou goest on the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou risest up ; and write them upon the posts of thy house , and upon thy gates ; that your days may be multiplied , and the days of your children , in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give them , as the days of the heavens [ which are ] above the earth . For if ye diligently keep all this commandment which I command you [ this day ] to do it , to love Jehovah your God , to walk in all his ways , and to cleave unto him , then will Jehovah dispossess all these nations from before you , and ye shall take possession of nations greater and mightier than yourselves . Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours ; from the wilderness and Lebanon , from the river , the river Euphrates , even unto the hinder sea shall your border be . No man shall be able to stand before you : the fear of you and the dread of you will Jehovah your God lay upon all the land that ye shall tread upon , as he hath said unto you . See , I set before you this day a blessing and a curse : a blessing , if ye obey the commandments of Jehovah your God , which I command you this day ; and a curse , if ye will not obey the commandments of Jehovah your God , but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day , to go after other gods which ye have not known . And it shall come to pass , when Jehovah thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou enterest in 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 of the Jordan , beyond the way toward the going down of the sun , in the land of the Canaanites that dwell on the plain opposite to Gilgal , beside the oaks of Moreh ? For ye pass over the Jordan to enter in to possess the land which Jehovah your God giveth you , and ye shall take possession of it , and dwell therein . And ye shall take heed to do all the statutes and ordinances which I set before you this day . These are the statutes and ordinances , which ye shall take heed to do in the land , which Jehovah the God of thy fathers is giving 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 dispossess have served their gods , upon the high mountains , and upon the hills , and under every green tree ; and ye shall break down their altars , and shatter their statues , and burn their Asherahs with fire ; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods , and ye shall destroy the names of them out of that place . Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God ; but unto the place which Jehovah your God will choose out of all your tribes to set his name there , 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 the heave-offering of your hand , and your vows , and your voluntary-offerings , and the firstlings of your kine and of your sheep ; and ye shall eat there before Jehovah your God , and ye shall rejoice , ye and your households , in all the business of your hand , wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee . Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day , each one whatever is right in his own eyes . For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Jehovah thy God giveth thee . But when ye have gone over the Jordan , and dwell in the land which Jehovah your God causeth you to inherit , and when he hath given you rest from all your enemies round about , and ye dwell in safety , then there shall be a place which Jehovah your God will 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 shall vow to Jehovah . And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God , ye , and your sons , and your daughters , and your bondmen , and your handmaids , and the Levite that is within your gates ; for he hath no portion 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 Jehovah will choose in one of thy tribes , there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings , and there thou shalt do all that I command thee . Nevertheless , according to all the desire of thy soul thou mayest slay and eat flesh in all thy gates , according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee : the unclean and the clean may eat thereof , as of the gazelle , and 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 new wine , or of thine oil , or the firstlings of thy kine or of thy sheep , nor any of thy vows which thou vowest , nor thy voluntary-offerings , nor the heave-offering of thy hand ; but before Jehovah thy God shalt thou eat them in the place which Jehovah thy God will choose , thou and thy son , and thy daughter , and thy bondman , and thy handmaid , and the Levite that is within thy gates ; and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God in all the business of thy hand . Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite all the days thou shalt be in thy land . When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border , as he promised thee , and thou say , I will eat flesh , because thy soul longeth to eat flesh , thou mayest eat flesh , according to all the desire of thy soul . If the place which Jehovah thy God will choose to set his name there be too far from thee , then thou shalt slay of thy kine and of thy sheep which Jehovah hath given thee , as I have commanded thee , and thou shalt eat in thy gates according to all the desire of thy soul . Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten , so thou shalt eat them : the unclean and the clean alike may eat of them . 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 what is right in the eyes of Jehovah . But thy hallowed things which thou hast , and what thou hast vowed , thou shalt take , and come to the place which Jehovah will choose ; and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings , the flesh and the blood , upon the altar of Jehovah thy God ; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah thy God , and the flesh shalt thou eat . Take heed to hear all these words which I command thee , that it may be well with thee , and with thy children after thee for ever , when thou doest what is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God . When Jehovah thy God cutteth off from before thee the nations whither thou goest , to take possession of them , and thou hast dispossessed them , and dwellest in their land , take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared [ to follow ] after them , after that they are destroyed from before thee ; and that thou inquire not after their gods , saying , How did these nations serve their gods ? even so will I do likewise . Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah thy God ; for every [ thing that is ] abomination to Jehovah , which he hateth , have they done unto their gods ; for even their sons and their daughters have they burned in the fire to their gods . Everything that I command you , ye shall take heed to do it ; thou shalt not add thereto , nor take from it . If there arise among you a prophet , or one that dreameth dreams , and he give thee a sign or a wonder , and the sign or the wonder come to pass that he told unto thee , when he said , Let us go after other gods , whom 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 Jehovah your God proveth you , to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul . Ye shall walk after Jehovah your God , and ye shall fear him , and his commandments shall ye keep , and his voice shall ye hear ; and ye shall serve him , and unto him shall ye cleave . And that prophet , or that dreamer of dreams , shall be put to death ; for he hath spoken revolt against Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt , and redeemed you out of the house of bondage , -- to draw thee out of the way that Jehovah thy God commanded thee to walk in ; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst . If thy brother , the son of thy mother , or thy son , or thy daughter , or the wife of thy bosom , or thy friend , who is to thee as thy soul , entice thee secretly , saying , Let us go and serve other gods ( whom thou hast not known , thou , nor thy fathers ; of the gods of the peoples which are round about you , near unto thee , or far from thee , from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth ) , thou shalt not consent unto him , nor hearken unto him ; neither shall thine eye spare him , neither shalt thou pity him , neither shalt thou screen him , but thou shalt in any case kill him : thy hand shall be the first against him to put him to death , and afterwards the hands of all the people ; and thou shalt stone him with stones , that he die ; for he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage ; and all Israel shall hear , and fear , and shall do no more any such wicked thing as this in thy midst . If in one of thy cities , which Jehovah thy God hath given thee to dwell there , thou hearest , saying , There are men , children of Belial , gone out from among you , and they have drawn away the inhabitants of their city , saying , Let us go and serve other gods , whom ye have not known ; then shalt thou inquire , and make search , and ask diligently ; and if it be truth , [ and ] the thing be certain , that this abomination hath happened in the midst of thee , thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword , devoting it to destruction , and all that is therein , and the cattle thereof , with the edge of the sword . And all the spoil of it shalt thou gather into the midst of the open place thereof , and shalt burn the city with fire , and all the spoil thereof , wholly to Jehovah thy God ; and it shall be a heap for ever ; it shall not be built again . And thou shalt not let anything cleave to thy hand of the devoted thing ; that Jehovah 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 hearkenest to the voice of Jehovah thy God , to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day , that thou mayest do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God . Ye are sons of Jehovah your God : ye shall not cut yourselves , nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person . For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God , and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself , out of all the peoples that are upon the face of 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 gazelle , and the stag , and the wild goat , and the dishon and the oryx , and the wild sheep . And every beast that hath cloven hoofs , and the feet quite split open into double hoofs , [ and ] which cheweth the cud , among the beasts , that ye shall eat . Only these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud , or of those with hoofs cloven and split open : the camel , and the hare , and the rock-badger ; for they chew the cud , but have not cloven hoofs -- they shall be unclean unto you ; and the swine , for it hath cloven hoofs , yet cheweth not the cud -- it shall be unclean unto you . Of their flesh shall ye not eat , and their carcase shall ye not touch . These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters : whatsoever hath fins and scales shall ye eat ; but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat : it shall be unclean unto you . All clean birds shall ye eat . But these are they of which ye shall not eat : the eagle , and the ossifrage , and the sea-eagle , and the falcon , and the kite , and the black kite after its kind ; and every raven after its kind ; and the female ostrich , and the male ostrich , and the sea-gull , and the hawk after its kind ; the owl , and the ibis and the swan , and the pelican , and the carrion vulture , and the gannet , and the stork , and the heron after its kind , and the hoopoe , and the bat . And every winged crawling thing shall be unclean unto you ; they shall not be eaten . All clean fowls shall ye eat . Ye shall eat of no carcase ; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates , that he may eat it , or sell it unto a foreigner ; for thou art a holy people to Jehovah thy God . Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk . Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed , the produce of the field , year by year . And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God , in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there , the tithe of thy corn , of thy new wine , and of thine oil , and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks ; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God continually . And if the way be too long for thee , so that thou art not able to carry it , because the place is too far from thee , which Jehovah thy God will choose to set his name there , when Jehovah thy God blesseth thee ; then shalt thou give it for money , and bind the money together in thy hand , and go to the place which Jehovah thy God will choose , and thou shalt give the money for whatever thy soul desireth , for oxen , or for sheep , or for wine , or for strong drink , or for whatever thy soul asketh of thee ; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God , and thou shalt rejoice , thou , and thy house . And thou shalt not forsake the Levite that is within thy gates ; for he hath no portion 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 -- for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee -- and the stranger , and the fatherless , and the widow , that are within thy gates , shall come , and shall eat and be satisfied ; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest . At the end of seven years thou shalt make a release , and this is the manner of the release : Every creditor shall relax his hand from the loan which he hath lent unto his neighbour ; he shall not demand it of his neighbour , or of his brother ; for a release to Jehovah hath been proclaimed . Of the foreigner thou mayest demand it ; but what is thine with thy brother thy hand shall release ; save when there shall be no one in need among you ; for Jehovah will greatly bless thee in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it , if thou only diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , to take heed to do all this commandment which I command thee this day . For Jehovah thy God will bless thee , as he promised thee ; and thou shalt lend on pledge to many nations , but thou shalt not borrow ; and thou shalt rule over many nations , but they shall not rule over thee . If there be amongst you a poor man , any one of thy brethren in one of thy gates , in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , thou shalt not harden thy heart , nor shut thy hand from thy brother in need ; but thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto him , and shalt certainly lend him on pledge what is sufficient for his need , [ in that ] which he lacketh . Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart , saying , The seventh year , the year of release , is at hand ; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother , and thou givest him nought ; and he cry against thee to Jehovah , and it be sin in thee . Thou shalt bountifully give unto him , and thy heart shall not be evil-disposed when thou givest unto him ; because for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy works , and in all the business of thy hand . For the needy shall never cease from within the land ; therefore I command thee , saying , Thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto thy brother , to thy poor and to thy needy , in thy land . If thy brother , a Hebrew man , or a Hebrew woman , have been sold unto thee , he shall serve thee six years , and 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 certainly furnish him from thy sheep , and out of thy floor , and out of thy winepress : of what Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee with shalt thou give unto him . And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt , and that Jehovah 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 thy house , because he is well with thee , -- then thou shalt take an awl , and thrust it through his ear and into the door ; and he shall be thy bondman for ever . And also unto thy handmaid thou shalt do likewise . Let it not seem hard unto thee , when thou sendest him away free from thee ; for double the worth of a hired servant hath he been to thee , [ in ] serving thee six years ; and Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest . Every firstling that is born among thy kine and among thy sheep that is a male , thou shalt hallow to Jehovah thy God : thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy kine , nor shear the firstling of thy sheep . Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God , year by year , in the place which Jehovah will choose , thou and thy household . But if there be a defect therein , [ if it be ] lame , or blind , [ or have ] any evil defect , thou shalt not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God . In thy gates shalt thou eat it ; the unclean and the clean [ shall eat it ] alike , as the gazelle and as the hart . Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof : thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water . Keep the month of Abib , and celebrate the passover to Jehovah thy God ; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night . And thou shalt sacrifice the passover to Jehovah thy God , of the flock and of the herd , in the place which Jehovah will choose to cause his name to dwell there . Thou shalt eat no leavened bread along with it ; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it , 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 leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days ; neither shall any of the flesh , which thou sacrificedst at even on the first day , be left over night until the morning . -- Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover in one of thy gates , which Jehovah thy God giveth thee ; but at the place that Jehovah thy God will choose , to cause his name to dwell in , there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even , at the going down of the sun , at the time that thou camest forth out of Egypt . And thou shalt cook and eat it at the place which Jehovah thy God will choose ; and in the morning shalt thou turn and go unto thy tents . Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread , and on the seventh day is a solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God ; thou shalt do no work . Seven weeks shalt thou count : from the beginning of putting the sickle into the corn shalt thou begin to count seven weeks . And thou shalt hold the feast of weeks to Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a voluntary-offering of thy hand , which thou shalt give , according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee ; and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God , thou , and thy son , and thy daughter , and thy bondman , and thy handmaid , and the Levite that is in thy gates , and the stranger , and the fatherless , and the widow that are in thy midst in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there . And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt , and thou shalt keep and do these statutes . The feast of tabernacles shalt thou hold seven days , when thou hast gathered in [ the produce ] of thy floor and of thy winepress . And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast , thou , and thy son , and thy daughter , and thy bondman , and thy handmaid , and the Levite , and the stranger , and the fatherless , and the widow , that are in thy gates . Seven days shalt thou hold a feast to Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah will choose ; for Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy produce , and in all the work of thy hands , and thou shalt be wholly joyful . Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he will choose , at the feast of unleavened bread , and at the feast of weeks , and at the feast of tabernacles ; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty : each [ shall give ] according to that which is in his power to give , according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee . Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates , which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , throughout thy tribes , that they may judge the people with just judgment . Thou shalt not wrest judgment ; thou shalt not respect persons , neither take a bribe ; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise , and perverteth the words of the righteous . Perfect justice shalt thou follow , that thou mayest live , and possess the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee . Thou shalt not plant thyself an Asherah of any wood near unto the altar of Jehovah thy God , which thou shalt make thee . Neither shalt thou set thee up a statue , which Jehovah thy God hateth . Thou shalt not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God an ox or sheep wherein is a defect , or anything bad ; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God . If there be found in thy midst in any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , man or woman , that doeth what is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God , in transgressing his covenant , and goeth and serveth other gods , and boweth down to them , either to the sun or to the moon , or to the whole host of heaven , which I have not commanded ; and it be told thee , and thou hearest of it ; then thou shalt make thorough inquiry , and if it be truth [ and ] the thing be certain , that this abomination hath been wrought in Israel , thou shalt bring forth that man or that woman , who committed that wicked thing , unto thy gates , the man or the woman , and shalt stone them with stones , that they die . At the mouth of two witnesses , or three witnesses , shall he that is to die be put to death : he shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness . The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death , and afterwards the hands of all the people ; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst . If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment , between blood and blood , between cause and cause , and between stroke and stroke , matters of controversy within thy gates , then shalt thou arise , and go up to the place which Jehovah thy God will choose . And thou shalt come unto the priests , the Levites , and unto the judge that shall be in those days , and inquire ; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment ; and thou shalt do according to the tenor of the word , which they of that place which Jehovah will choose shall declare unto thee ; and thou shalt take heed to do according to all that they instruct thee : according to the sentence of the law which they shall declare unto thee , and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee , thou shalt do : thou shalt not decline from the word which they shall declare unto thee , to the right hand , or the left . And the man that shall act presumptuously , and not hearken unto the priest that standeth to serve there before Jehovah thy God , or unto the judge , that man shall die ; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel . And all the people shall hear , and fear , and no more act presumptuously . When thou comest unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , and shalt possess it , and shalt dwell therein , and shalt say , I will set a king over me , like all the nations that are about me ; thou shalt only set him king over thee whom Jehovah thy God will choose : from among thy brethren shalt thou set a king over thee ; thou mayest not set a foreigner over thee , who is not thy brother . Only he shall not multiply horses to himself , nor lead back the people to Egypt , to multiply horses ; for Jehovah hath said unto you , Ye shall not return again any 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 for himself 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 Jehovah 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 ; that he may prolong his days in his kingdom , he , and his sons , in the midst of Israel . The priests , the Levites , [ and ] the whole tribe of Levi , shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel : Jehovah's offerings by fire , and his inheritance shall they eat , but they shall have no inheritance among their brethren : Jehovah , he is their inheritance , as he hath said unto them . And this shall be the priest's due from the people , from them that sacrifice a sacrifice , whether ox , or sheep : they shall give unto the priest the shoulder , and the jawbones , and the maw . The firstfruits [ also ] of thy corn , of thy new wine , and of thine oil , and the firstfruits of the shearing of thy sheep , shalt thou give him ; for Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes , that he may stand to serve in the name of Jehovah , he and his sons continually . And if the Levite shall come from one of thy gates out of all Israel , where he sojourneth , and shall come according to all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah will choose , and shall serve in the name of Jehovah his God , as all his brethren the Levites that stand there before Jehovah , -- they shall have like portions to eat , besides that which he hath sold of his patrimony . When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations . There shall not be found among you he that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire , that useth divination , that useth auguries , or an enchanter , or a sorcerer , or a charmer , or one that inquireth of a spirit of Python , or a soothsayer , or one that consulteth the dead . For every one that doeth these things is an abomination to Jehovah , and because of these abominations Jehovah thy God doth dispossess them from before thee . Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God . For these nations , which thou shalt dispossess , hearkened unto those that use auguries , and that use divination ; but as for thee , Jehovah thy God hath not suffered thee [ to do ] so . Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee , of thy brethren , like unto me ; unto him shall ye hearken ; according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God at Horeb on the day of the assembly , saying , Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God , neither let me see this great fire any more , that I die not . And Jehovah said unto me , They have well spoken that which they have spoken . A prophet will I raise up unto them 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 the man who hearkeneth not unto my words which he shall speak in my name , I will require it of him . But the prophet who shall presume to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak , or that shall speak in the name of other gods , that prophet shall die . And if thou say in thy heart , How shall we know the word that Jehovah hath not spoken ? When a prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah , and the thing followeth not , nor cometh to pass , that is the word which Jehovah hath not spoken ; the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously : be not afraid of him . When Jehovah thy God hath cut off the nations whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee , and thou hast dispossessed them , and dwellest in their cities and in their houses , thou shalt separate three cities for thyself in the midst of thy land , which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess . Thou shalt prepare thee the way , and divide the territory of thy land , which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to inherit , into three parts , so that every slayer may flee thither . And this is the case of the slayer who shall flee thither that he may live : he that smiteth his neighbour unwittingly , whom he hated not previously ; as when he 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 iron slippeth from the handle , and lighteth upon his neighbour , that he die ; such an one shall flee unto one of these cities , and live ; lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer , while his heart is hot , and overtake him , because the way is long , and smite him mortally ; whereas he was not worthy of death , since he hated him not previously . Therefore I command thee , saying , Thou shalt separate three cities for thyself . And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border , as he hath sworn unto thy fathers , and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers ( if thou keep all this commandment to do it , which I command thee this day , to love Jehovah thy God , and to walk in his ways continually ) , then shalt thou add three cities more for thyself to these three , that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance , and blood come not upon thee . But if a man hate his neighbour , and lie in wait for him , and rise up against him , and smite him mortally that he die , and he flee 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 spare him ; and thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel , that it may be well with thee . Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark , which they of old time have fixed in thine inheritance , which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess . One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity , and for any sin , in any sin that he sinneth : at the mouth of two witnesses , or at the mouth of three witnesses , shall a matter be established . If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of an offence ; then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before Jehovah , before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days ; and the judges shall make thorough inquiry ; and if the witness be a false witness , and he have testified falsely against his brother , then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother ; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst . And those that remain shall hear , and fear , and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in thy midst . And thine eye shall not spare : life for life , eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot . When thou goest out to war against thine enemies , and seest horses , and chariots , [ and ] a people more numerous than thou , thou shalt not fear them ; for Jehovah thy God is with thee , who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt . And it shall be , when ye approach unto the battle , that the priest shall draw near and speak unto the people , and shall say unto them , Hear , Israel , ye are approaching this day unto battle against your enemies : let not your hearts faint , fear not , and do not tremble , neither be afraid of them ; for Jehovah 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 unto his house , lest he die in the battle , and another man dedicate it . And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard , and hath not eaten of it ? let him 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 shall say , What man is there that is timid and faint-hearted ? let him go and return unto his house , lest his brethren's heart melt as well as his heart . And it shall be , when the officers have ended speaking unto the people , that they shall place captains of the hosts at the head of the people . When thou approachest unto a city to fight against it , thou shalt proclaim peace unto it . And it shall be , if it make thee answer of peace , and open unto thee , then all the people that are found therein shall be tributaries unto thee , and they shall serve thee . And if it will not make peace with thee , but will make war with thee , then thou shalt besiege it ; and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand , thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword : only the women , and the little ones , and the cattle , and all that shall be in the city , all the spoil thereof , shalt thou take as booty for thyself ; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies , which Jehovah thy God giveth thee Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far off from thee , which are not of the cities of these nations . But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance , thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth , but shalt utterly devote them to destruction , the Hittites and the Amorites , the Canaanites and the Perizzites , the Hivites and the Jebusites , as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee ; that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations , which they have done unto their gods , so that ye sin against Jehovah your God . When thou shalt besiege a city many days , in making war against it to take it , thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by lifting up an axe against them ; for thou canst eat of them ; and thou shalt not cut them down , for is the tree of the field a man that it should be besieged ? Only the trees which thou knowest are not trees for meat , thou mayest destroy and cut them down , and build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee , until it fall . If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess , lying in the field , [ and ] it be not known who hath smitten him , then thine elders and thy judges shall go forth , and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain ; and the city that is nearest unto him that is slain , even the elders of that city shall take a heifer that hath not been wrought with , that hath not drawn in the yoke ; and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto an ever-flowing watercourse , which is not tilled , nor is it sown , and shall break the heifer's neck there in the watercourse ; and the priests the sons of Levi shall come near ; for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to do service unto him , and to bless in the name of Jehovah ; and according to their word shall be every controversy and every stroke . And all the elders of that city , that are nearest unto him that is slain , shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck is broken in the watercourse , and shall answer and say , Our hands have not shed this blood , neither have our eyes seen it . Forgive thy people Israel , whom thou , Jehovah , hast redeemed , and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people Israel ; and the blood shall be expiated for them . So shalt thou put away innocent blood from thy midst , when thou shalt do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah . When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies , and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands , and thou hast taken captives of them , and thou seest among the captives a woman of beautiful form , and hast a desire unto her , and takest her as thy wife ; then thou shalt bring her home to thy house ; and she shall shave her head , and pare her nails ; and she shall put the clothes of her captivity from off her , and shall abide in thy house , and bewail her father and mother a full month , and afterwards thou mayest 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 according to her desire ; but thou shalt in no wise sell her for money ; thou shalt not treat her as a slave , because thou hast humbled her . If a man have two wives , one beloved , and one hated , and they have borne him children , both the beloved and the hated , and the firstborn son be hers that was hated ; then it shall be , in the day that he maketh his sons to inherit what he hath , that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated , who is the firstborn ; but he shall acknowledge as firstborn the son of the hated , by giving him a double portion of all that is found with him ; for he is the firstfruits of his vigour : the right of the firstborn is his . If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son , who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father , nor unto the voice of his mother , and they have chastened him , but he hearkeneth not 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 unmanageable and rebellious , he hearkeneth not unto our voice ; he is a profligate and a drunkard . And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones , that he die . And thou shalt put evil away from thy midst ; and all Israel shall hear and fear . And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death , and he be put to death , and thou have hanged 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 a curse of God ) ; and thou shalt not defile thy land , which Jehovah 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 back unto thy brother . And if thy brother be not near unto thee , and thou know him not , then thou shalt bring it unto thy house , and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it , and thou shalt restore it unto him . And so shalt thou do with his ass ; and so shalt thou do with his clothing ; and so shalt thou do with everything that is lost of thy brother , which he loseth , and thou findest : thou mayest not hide thyself . Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall by the way , and hide thyself from them : thou shalt in any case [ help ] him to lift them up . There shall not be a man's apparel on a woman , neither shall a man put on a woman's clothing ; for whoever doeth so is an abomination to Jehovah thy God . If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way , in any tree , or upon the ground , with young or with eggs , and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs , thou shalt not take the dam with the young : thou shalt in any case let the dam go , and thou mayest 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 , thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof , that thou bring not blood upon thy house , if any one should in any wise fall from it . Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with [ seed of ] two sorts , lest the whole of thy seed which thou hast sown , and the produce of thy vineyard , be forfeited . Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together . Thou shalt not wear a garment of mixed material , [ woven ] of wool and linen together . Tassels shalt thou make thee on the four corners of thy clothing , wherewith thou coverest thyself . If a man take a wife , and go in unto her and hate her , and charge her with things for scandalous talk , and cause an evil name against her to be spread abroad , and say , This woman have I taken , and I came in unto her , and I did not find her a virgin ; 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 as wife , and he hates her ; and behold , he charges her with things for scandalous talk , saying , I found not thy daughter a virgin ; and here 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 the man and chastise him ; and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver , and give them unto the father of the damsel , because he hath caused an evil name to be spread abroad against a virgin in Israel . And she shall remain his wife : he may not put her away all his days . But if this thing is true , [ and ] virginity hath not been found with the damsel ; then they shall bring out the damsel unto the entrance of her father's house , and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die : because she hath wrought infamy in Israel , committing fornication in her father's house ; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst . If a man be found lying with a man's wife , they shall both of them die , the man that lay with the woman , and the woman ; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel . If a damsel , a virgin , be betrothed to some one , 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 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 ; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst . 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 ; and 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 murdereth him , so is this matter ; for he found her in the field , the betrothed damsel cried , and there was no one to save her . If a man find a damsel , a virgin , who 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 uncover his father's skirt . He that is a eunuch , whether he have been crushed or cut , shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah . A bastard shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah ; even his tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah . An Ammonite or Moabite shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah ; even their tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah for ever ; because they met you not with bread and with water on 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 . But Jehovah thy God would not listen to Balaam ; and Jehovah thy God turned the curse into blessing unto thee , because Jehovah 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 sojourner in his land . Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation . When thou goest forth into camp against thine enemies , then keep thee from every evil thing . If there be with thee a man that is not clean from what hath happened in the night , then shall he go outside the camp ; he shall not come inside the camp ; and it shall be , towards evening , he shall bathe in water : and at the going down of the sun he may come inside the camp . Thou shalt have a place also outside the camp , and shalt go forth thither . And thou shalt have a shovel amongst thy weapons , and it shall be , when thou sittest down abroad , thou shalt dig therewith , and shalt turn back and cover that which is come from thee . For Jehovah thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp , to deliver thee , and to give up thine enemies before thee ; and thy camp shall be holy , that he see nothing unseemly with thee , and turn away from thee . Thou shalt not hand over to his master a bondman that hath escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee , even in thy midst , in the place that he shall choose in one of thy gates , where it seemeth good to him ; thou shalt not oppress him . There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel , nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel . Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot , or the price of a dog , into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow ; for even both these are an abomination to Jehovah thy God . Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother , interest of money , interest of victuals , interest of anything that can be lent upon interest : of a foreigner thou mayest take interest , but of thy brother thou shalt not take interest ; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the business of thy hand in the land whither thou goest to possess it . When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thy God , thou shalt not delay to perform it ; for Jehovah thy God will certainly require it of thee , and it shall be sin in thee . But if thou forbear to vow , it shall be no sin in thee . What is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and do , as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God , the voluntary-offering that thou hast promised with thy mouth . When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard , thou mayest eat grapes thy fill , according to thy desire , but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel . When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour , thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand ; but thou shalt not wave the sickle against thy neighbour's standing corn . When a man taketh a wife , and marrieth her , it shall be if she find no favour in his eyes , because he hath found some unseemly thing in her , that he shall write her a letter of divorce , and give it into her hand , and send her out of his house . And she shall depart out of his house , and go away , and may become another man's wife . And if the latter husband hate her , and write her a letter of divorce , and give it into her hand , and send her out of his house ; or if the latter husband die who took her as his wife ; her first husband , who sent her away , may not take her again to be his wife , after that she is defiled ; for it is an abomination before Jehovah ; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin , which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance . When a man hath newly taken a wife , he shall not go out with the army , neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him ; he shall be free for his house one year , and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken . No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge ; for it would be taking life in pledge . If a man be found who hath stolen one of his brethren of the children of Israel , and who hath treated him as a slave and sold him , that thief shall die ; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst . Take heed in the plague of leprosy , that thou take great heed , and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you : as I commanded them shall ye take heed to do . Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam on the way , after that ye came forth out of Egypt . When thou dost lend thy brother anything , thou shalt not go into his house to secure his pledge . Thou shalt stand outside , and the man to whom thou hast made a loan shall bring out the pledge to thee without . And if the man be needy , thou shalt not lie down with his pledge ; in any case thou shalt return him the pledge at the going down of the sun , that he may sleep in his own upper garment and bless thee ; and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God . Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant [ who is ] poor and needy of thy brethren , or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates : on his day thou shalt give him his hire , neither shall the sun go down upon it ; for he is poor , and his soul yearneth after it ; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah , and it be a sin in thee . The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons , neither shall the sons 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 , [ or ] of the fatherless ; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment . And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt , and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee from thence ; therefore I command thee to do this thing . When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field , and forgettest a sheaf in the field , thou shalt not return to fetch it ; it shall be for the stranger , for the fatherless , and for the widow ; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands . When thou shakest 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 afterwards ; 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 resort to judgment , and they judge [ their case ] ; then they shall justify the righteous , and condemn the wicked . And it shall be if the wicked man have deserved to be beaten , that the judge shall cause him to lie down , and be beaten before his face , according to the measure of his wickedness with a certain number [ of stripes ] . With forty [ stripes ] shall they beat him ; they shall not exceed , lest , if they continue to beat him with many stripes above these , thy brother become despicable in thine eyes . Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [ the corn ] . If brethren dwell together , and one of them die , and have no son , the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad : her husband's brother shall go in unto her , and take her to him as wife , and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her . And it shall be , that the firstborn that she beareth shall stand in the name of his brother who is dead , that his name be not blotted out from Israel . But if the man like not to take his brother's wife , his brother's wife shall 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 for me the duty of a 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 near to him before the eyes of the elders , and draw his sandal from his foot , and spit in his face , and shall answer and say , So shall it be done unto the 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 drawn off . When men fight together one with another , and the wife of the one come near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him , and stretch out her hand , and seize him by his secret parts , thou shalt cut off her hand ; thine eye shall not spare . Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights , a great and a small . Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs , a great and a small . A perfect and just weight shalt thou have ; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have ; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee . For every one that doeth such things , every one that doeth unrighteousness , is an abomination to Jehovah thy God . Remember what Amalek did unto thee on the way , when ye came forth out of Egypt ; how he met thee on the way , and smote the hindmost of thee , all the feeble that lagged behind thee , when thou wast faint and weary , and he feared not God . And it shall be , when Jehovah thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about , in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it , that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens ; thou shalt not forget it . And it shall be when thou comest into the land that Jehovah 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 ground , which thou shalt bring of thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , and shalt put it in a basket , and shalt go unto the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there ; and thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days , and say unto him , I profess this day unto Jehovah thy God , that I am come unto the land that Jehovah swore unto our fathers to give us . And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand , and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God . And thou shalt speak and say before Jehovah thy God , A perishing Aramean was my father , and he went down to Egypt with a few , and sojourned there , 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 we cried to Jehovah , the God of our fathers , and Jehovah heard our voice , and looked on our affliction , and our labour , and our oppression ; and Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt with a powerful hand , and with a stretched-out 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 , a land flowing with milk and honey ! And now , behold , I have brought the first of the fruits of the land , which thou , Jehovah , hast given me . And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God , and worship before Jehovah thy God . And thou shalt rejoice in all the good that Jehovah thy God hath given to thee , and to thy house , thou , and the Levite , and the stranger that is in thy midst . When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thy produce in the third year , the year of tithing , thou shalt give it to the Levite , to the stranger , to the fatherless , and to the widow , that they may eat in thy gates , and be filled ; and thou shalt say before Jehovah thy God , I have brought away the hallowed things out of the house , and also have given them to the Levite , and to the stranger , to the fatherless , and to the widow , according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me ; I have not transgressed nor forgotten [ any ] of thy commandments : I have not eaten thereof in my mourning , neither have I brought away thereof in uncleanness , nor given thereof for a dead person ; I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God ; I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me . Look down from thy holy habitation , from the heavens , and bless thy people Israel , and the land that thou hast given us as thou didst swear unto our fathers , a land flowing with milk and honey ! This day Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and ordinances ; and thou shalt keep and do them with all thy heart and with all thy soul . Thou hast this day accepted Jehovah to be thy God , and to walk in his ways , and keep his statutes , and his commandments , and his ordinances , and to hearken unto his voice ; and Jehovah hath accepted thee this day to be a people of possession to him , as he hath told thee , and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments , so that he should make thee high above all the nations which he hath made , in praise and in name and in honour ; and that thou shouldest be a holy people to Jehovah thy God , as he hath said . And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people , saying , Keep all the commandment which I command you this day . And it shall be on the day when ye pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , that thou shalt set thee up great stones , and plaster them with plaster : and thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law , when thou goest over that thou mayest enter into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , a land flowing with milk and honey , as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath promised thee . And it shall be when ye go over the Jordan , that ye shall set up these stones , as I command you this day , on mount Ebal , and thou shalt plaster them with plaster . And there shalt thou build an altar to Jehovah thy God , an altar of stones ; thou shalt not lift up an iron [ tool ] upon them ; of whole stones shalt thou build the altar of Jehovah thy God ; and thou shalt offer up burnt-offerings thereon to Jehovah thy God . And thou shalt sacrifice peace-offerings , and shalt eat there , and rejoice before Jehovah thy God . And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly . And Moses and the priests , the Levites , spoke to all Israel , saying , Be silent and hearken , Israel ! this day thou art become the people of Jehovah thy God . And thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , and do his commandments and his statutes , which I command thee this day . And Moses gave commandment to the people the same day , saying , These shall stand to bless the people upon mount Gerizim , when ye have gone over the Jordan : Simeon , and Levi , and Judah , and Issachar , and Joseph , and Benjamin . And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse : Reuben , Gad , and Asher , and Zebulun , Dan , and Naphtali . And the Levites shall declare and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice : Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image , an abomination to Jehovah , a work of the craftsman's hand , and putteth it up secretly ! And all the people shall answer and say , Amen . Cursed be he that slighteth his father or his mother ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger , fatherless , and widow ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife ; for he uncovereth his father's skirt ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that lieth with his sister , the daughter of his father , or the daughter of his mother ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that taketh reward to smite mortally [ shedding ] innocent blood ! And all the people shall say , Amen . Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them ! And all the people shall say , Amen . And it shall come to pass , if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , to take heed to do all his commandments which I command thee this day , that Jehovah thy God will set thee supreme above all nations of the earth ; and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee , if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God . Blessed shalt thou be in the city , and blessed shalt thou be in the field . Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb , and the fruit of thy ground , and the fruit of thy cattle , the offspring of thy kine , and the increase of thy sheep . Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough . Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in , and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out . Jehovah will give up , smitten before thee , thine enemies that rise up against thee ; they shall come out against thee one way , and by seven ways shall they flee before thee . Jehovah will command blessing on thee in thy granaries , and in all the business of thy hand ; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee . Jehovah will establish thee unto himself a holy people as he hath sworn unto thee , if thou keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God , and walk in his ways . And all peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah , and they shall be afraid of thee . And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good , in the fruit of thy body , and in the fruit of thy cattle , and in the fruit of thy ground , in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee . Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure , the heavens , to give rain unto thy land in its season , and to bless all the work of thy hand ; and thou shalt lend unto many nations , but thou shalt not borrow . And Jehovah will make thee the head , and not the tail ; and thou shalt be above only , and thou shalt not be beneath ; if thou hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God , which I command thee this day , to keep and to do them , and if thou turn not aside from any of the words that I command thee this day , to the right hand or to the left , to go after other gods to serve them . But it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , to take heed to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day , that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee . Cursed shalt thou be in the city , and cursed shalt thou be in the field . Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough . Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb , and the fruit of thy ground , the offspring of thy kine , and the increase of thy sheep . Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in , and cursed shalt thou be in thy going out . Jehovah will send upon thee cursing , confusion , and rebuke , in all the business of thy hand which thou doest , until thou be destroyed and until thou perish quickly , because of the wickedness of thy doings , whereby thou hast forsaken me . Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee , until he have consumed thee from off the land whither thou goest to possess it . Jehovah will smite thee with consumption , and with fever , and with inflammation , and with burning ague , and with drought , and with blight , and with mildew , and they shall pursue thee until thou perish . And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass , and the earth which is under thee , iron . Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust ; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed . Jehovah will give thee up smitten before thine enemies ; thou shalt go out against them one way , and by seven ways shalt thou flee before them ; and thou shalt be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth . And thy carcase shall be meat unto all the fowl of the air , and unto the beasts of the earth , and there shall be no man to scare them away . Jehovah will smite thee with the ulcers of Egypt , and with boils , and with the scab , and with the itch , whereof thou canst not be healed . Jehovah will smite thee with madness , and with blindness , and with astonishment of heart ; and thou shalt grope at noonday , as the blind gropeth in darkness , and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways ; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled continually , and there shall be none to save . Thou shalt betroth a wife , and another man shall lie with her ; thou shalt build a house , and thou shalt not dwell therein ; thou shalt plant a vineyard , and shalt not eat of it . Thine ox shall be slaughtered before thine eyes , and thou shalt not eat thereof ; thine ass shall be snatched away from before thy face , and shall not return to thee ; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies , and thou shalt have none to recover them . Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people , and thine eyes shall look , and languish for them all the day long ; and there shall be no power in thy hand [ to help it ] . The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour , shall a people that thou knowest not eat up ; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually . And thou shalt be mad through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see . Jehovah will smite thee in the knees and in the legs with evil ulcers , whereof thou canst not be healed , from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head . Jehovah will bring thee , and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee , unto a nation that neither thou nor thy fathers have known , and there shalt thou serve other gods , wood and stone . And thou shalt become an astonishment , a proverb , and a byword , among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee . Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field , and shalt gather little in ; for the locust shall devour it . Thou shalt plant and till vineyards , but shalt drink no wine , nor gather [ the fruit ] ; for the worms shall eat it . Olive-trees shalt thou have throughout all thy borders , but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil ; for thine olive-tree shall cast its fruit . Sons and daughters shalt thou beget , but thou shalt not have them [ to be with thee ] ; for they shall go into captivity . All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess . The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher , and thou shalt sink down lower and lower . He shall lend to thee , but thou shalt not lend to him : he shall be the head , and thou shalt be the tail . And all these curses shall come upon thee , and shall pursue thee , and overtake thee , until thou be destroyed ; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee . And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder , and upon thy seed for ever . Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness , and with gladness of heart , for the abundance of everything , thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee , in hunger , and in thirst , and in nakedness , and in want of everything ; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck , until he have destroyed thee . Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar , from the end of the earth , like as the eagle flieth , a nation whose tongue thou understandest not ; a nation of fierce countenance , which regardeth not the person of the old , nor is kind to the young ; and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle , and the fruit of thy ground , until thou be destroyed ; for he shall not leave thee corn , new wine , or oil , offspring of thy kine , or increase of thy sheep , until he have destroyed thee . And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates , until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down , throughout all thy land ; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land , which Jehovah thy God hath given thee . And in the siege , and in the straitness , wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee , thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body , the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee . The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother , and the wife of his bosom , and the residue of his children which he hath left ; so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth , because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates . The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness , shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom , and her son , and her daughter , because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet , and her children whom she shall bear ; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates . If thou wilt not take heed to do all the words of this law that are written in this book , to fear this glorious and fearful name , JEHOVAH THY GOD ; then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful , and the plagues of thy seed , great and persistent plagues and evil and persistent sicknesses ; and he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou art afraid of , and they shall cleave unto thee . Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law , them will Jehovah bring upon thee , until thou be destroyed . And ye shall be left a small company , whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude ; because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God . And it shall come to pass , that as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you , so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish , and to destroy you ; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whereunto thou goest to possess it . And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples , from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth ; and thou shalt there serve other gods , whom thou hast not known , neither thou nor thy fathers , wood and stone . And among these nations shalt thou have no rest , neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place , and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart , languishing of the eyes , and pining of the soul . And thy life shall hang in suspense before thee ; and thou shalt be in terror day and night and shalt be afraid of thy life . In the morning thou shalt say , Would that it were even ! and in the evening thou shalt say , Would that it were morning ! through the fright of thy heart wherewith thou shalt be in terror , and through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see . And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships , by the way whereof I said unto thee , Thou shalt see it again no more ; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen , and there shall be no man to buy [ you ] . These are the words of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab , besides the covenant that he made with them in Horeb . And Moses called to all Israel , and said unto them , Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh , and to all his bondmen , and to all his land : the great trials that thine eyes have seen , those great signs and wonders . But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive , and eyes to see , and ears to hear , to this day . And I have led you forty years in the wilderness ; your clothes are not grown old upon you , and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot ; ye have not eaten bread , neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink , that ye might know that I am Jehovah your God . And ye came to this place ; and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for battle , and we smote them . And we took their land , and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites , and to the Gadites , and to the half tribe of the Manassites . Ye shall keep then the words of this covenant , and do them , that ye may prosper in all that ye do . Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God : your chiefs [ of ] your tribes , your elders , and your officers , all the men of Israel , your little ones , your wives , and thy stranger that is in thy camp , as well the hewer of thy wood as the drawer of thy water ; that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God , and into his oath , which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day ; that he may establish thee this day for a people unto himself , and [ that ] he may be to thee a God , as he hath said unto thee , and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob . Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath , but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God , and with him that is not here with us this day ( for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt , and how we came through the nations which ye passed ; and ye have seen their abominations , and their idols , wood and stone , silver and gold , which were among them ) ; lest there should be among you man , or woman , or family , or tribe , whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God , to go and serve the gods of these nations ; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood , and it come to pass , when he heareth the words of this curse , that he bless himself in his heart , saying , I shall have peace , though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart , to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty . Jehovah will not pardon him , but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man , and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book ; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens ; and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel , according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law . And the generation to come , your children who shall rise up after you , and the foreigner that shall come from a far land , shall say , when they see the plagues of that land , and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it , [ that ] the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt , [ and ] burning , that it is not sown , nor beareth , and no grass groweth in it , like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah , Admah and Zeboim , which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury : even all nations shall say , Why has Jehovah done thus to this land ? whence the heat of this great anger ? And men shall say , Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers , which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt ; and they went and served other gods , and bowed down to them , gods whom they knew not , and whom he had not assigned to them . And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land , to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book ; and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger , and in fury , and in great indignation , and cast them into another land , as [ it appears ] this day . The hidden things belong to Jehovah our God ; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever , to do all the words of this law . And it shall come to pass , when all these things are come upon thee , the blessing and the curse , which I have set before thee , and thou shalt take them to heart among all the nations whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee , and shalt return to Jehovah thy God , and shalt hearken to his voice according to all that I command thee this day , thou and thy sons , with all thy heart and with all thy soul ; that then Jehovah thy God will turn thy captivity , and have compassion upon thee , and will gather thee again from all the peoples whither Jehovah thy God hath scattered thee . Though there were of you driven out unto the end of the heavens , from thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee , and from thence will he fetch thee ; and Jehovah thy God will bring thee into the land that thy fathers possessed , and thou shalt possess it ; and he will do thee good , and multiply thee above thy fathers . And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart , and the heart of thy seed , to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul , that thou mayest live . And Jehovah thy God will put all these curses on thine enemies , and on them that hate thee , who have persecuted thee . But thou shalt return and hearken to the voice of Jehovah , and do all his commandments which I command thee this day . And Jehovah thy God will make thee abound in every work of thy hand , in the fruit of thy body , and in the fruit of thy cattle , and in the fruit of thy ground , for good ; for Jehovah will again rejoice over thee for good , as he rejoiced over thy fathers ; if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law ; if thou turn to Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul . For this commandment which I command thee this day is not too wonderful for thee , neither is it far off . It is not in the heavens , that thou shouldest say , Who shall go up for us to the heavens , and bring it to us , that we should hear it and do it ? And it is not beyond the sea , that thou shouldest say , Who shall go over the sea for us , and bring it to us , that we should hear it and do it ? For the word is very near to thee , in thy mouth and in thy heart , that thou mayest do it . See , I have set before thee this day life and good , and death and evil , in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God , to walk in his ways , and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances , that thou mayest live and multiply , and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it . But if thy heart turn away , so that thou wilt not hear , but shalt be drawn away , and thou shalt bow down to other gods and serve them ; I denounce unto you this day that ye shall surely perish ; ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whereunto thou passest over the Jordan to possess it . I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you : life and death have I set before you , blessing and cursing : choose then life , that thou mayest live , thou and thy seed , in loving Jehovah thy God , in hearkening to his voice , and in cleaving to him -- for this is thy life and the length of thy days -- that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob , to give them . And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel ; and he said unto them , I am a hundred and twenty years old this day , I can no more go out and come in ; and Jehovah hath said unto me , Thou shalt not go over this Jordan . Jehovah thy God , he will go over before thee , he will destroy these nations from before thee , that thou mayest take possession of them : Joshua , he shall go over before thee , as Jehovah hath said . And Jehovah will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og , the kings of the Amorites , and to their land ; whom he destroyed . And when Jehovah giveth them up before you , ye shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you . Be strong and courageous , fear them not , neither be afraid of them ; for Jehovah thy God , he it is that goeth with thee ; he will not leave thee , nor forsake thee . And Moses called to Joshua , and said to him in the sight of all Israel , Be strong and courageous , for thou must go with this people into the land which Jehovah hath sworn unto their fathers to give them ; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it . And Jehovah , he it is that goeth before thee : he will be with thee ; he will not leave thee , nor forsake thee ; fear not , neither be dismayed . And Moses wrote this law , and delivered it to the priests , the sons of Levi , who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah , and to all the elders of Israel . And Moses commanded them , saying , At the end of every seven years , at the set time of the year of release , at the feast of tabernacles , when all Israel cometh to appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he will choose , thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their ears . Gather the people together , the men , and the women , and the children , and thy stranger that is within thy gates , that they may hear , and that they may learn , and fear Jehovah your God , and take heed to do all the words of this law ; and that their children who do not know it may hear it and learn , that they may fear Jehovah your God , as long as ye live in the land , whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it . And Jehovah said to Moses , Lo , the days are near for thee to die ; call Joshua , and present yourselves at the tent of meeting , that I may give him a charge . And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting . And Jehovah appeared at the tent in the pillar of cloud ; and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance to the tent . And Jehovah said to Moses , Behold , thou shalt sleep with thy fathers ; and this people will rise up , and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter , and will forsake me , and break my covenant which I have made with them . And my anger shall be kindled against them in that day , and I will forsake them , and I will hide my face from them , and they shall be devoured , and many evils and troubles shall befall them , and they will say in that day , Have not these evils befallen me because my God is not in my midst ? And I will entirely hide my face in that day for all the evils that they have wrought , because they turned unto other gods . And now , write ye this song , and teach it to the children of Israel ; put it in their mouths , that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel . For I shall bring them into the land which I swore unto their fathers , which floweth with milk and honey ; and they will eat and fill themselves , and wax fat , and will turn unto other gods , and serve them , and despise me , and break my covenant . And it shall come to pass , when many evils and troubles have befallen them , that this song shall testify against them as a witness ; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed ; for I know their imagination which they are forming already this day , before I bring them into the land which I have sworn [ unto them ] . And Moses wrote this song the same day , and taught it to the children of Israel . And [ Jehovah ] commanded Joshua the son of Nun , and said , Be strong and courageous ; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I have sworn unto them ; and I will be with thee . And it came to pass , when Moses had ended writing the words of this law in a book , until their conclusion , that Moses commanded the Levites , who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah , saying , Take this book of the law , and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God , that it may be there for a witness against thee ; for I know thy rebellion , and thy stiff neck . Lo , while I am yet alive with you this day , ye have been rebellious against Jehovah ; and how much more after my death ! Gather to me all the elders of your tribes , and your officers , that I may speak these words in their ears , and take heaven and earth to witness against them . For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves , and will turn aside from the way which I have commanded you ; and mischief will befall you at the end of days ; because ye do evil in the sight of Jehovah , to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands . And Moses spoke in the ears of the whole congregation of Israel the words of this song , until their conclusion . Give ear , ye heavens , and I will speak ; And hear , O earth , the words of my mouth ! My doctrine shall drop as rain , My speech flow down as dew , As small rain upon the tender herb , And as showers on the grass . For the name of Jehovah will I proclaim : Ascribe greatness unto our God ! [ He is ] the Rock , his work is perfect , For all his ways are righteousness ; A God of faithfulness without deceit , Just and right is he . They have dealt corruptly with him ; Not his children's is their spot : -- A crooked and perverted generation ! Do ye thus requite Jehovah , Foolish and unwise people ? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee ? Hath he not made thee and established thee ? Remember the days of old , Consider the years of generation to generation ; Ask thy father , and he will shew thee ; Thine elders , and they will tell thee . When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance , When he separated the sons of Adam , He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel . For Jehovah's portion is his people ; Jacob the lot of his inheritance . He found him in a desert land , And in the waste , howling wilderness ; He compassed him about , he watched over him , He preserved him as the apple of his eye . As the eagle stirreth up its nest , Hovereth over its young , Spreadeth out its wings , Taketh them , beareth them on its feathers , So Jehovah alone did lead him , And no strange god [ was ] with him . He made him ride on the high places of the earth , And he ate the produce of the field ; And he made him suck honey out of the crag , And oil out of the flinty rock ; Cream of kine , and milk of sheep , With the fat of lambs , And rams of the breed of Bashan , and he-goats , With the fat of kidneys of wheat ; And thou didst drink pure wine , the blood of the grape . Then Jeshurun grew fat , and kicked -- Thou art waxen fat , Thou art grown thick , And thou art covered with fatness ; -- He gave up God who made him , And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation . They moved him to jealousy with strange gods , With abominations did they provoke him to anger . They sacrificed unto demons who are not God ; To gods whom they knew not , To new ones , who came newly up , Whom your fathers revered not . Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful , And thou hast forgotten God who brought thee forth . And Jehovah saw it , and despised them , Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters . And he said , I will hide my face from them , I will see what their end shall be ; For they are a perverse generation , Children in whom is no faithfulness . They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God ; They have exasperated me with their vanities ; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people ; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger . For a fire is kindled in mine anger , And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol , And shall consume the earth and its produce , And set fire to the foundations of the mountains . I will heap mischiefs upon them ; Mine arrows will I spend against them . They shall be consumed with hunger , and devoured with burning heat , And with poisonous pestilence ; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them , With the poison of what crawleth in the dust . From without shall the sword bereave them , and in the chambers , terror -- Both the young man and the virgin , The suckling with the man of gray hairs . I would say , I will scatter , I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men , If I did not fear provocation from the enemy , Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it , Lest they should say , Our hand is high , and Jehovah has not done all this . For they are a nation void of counsel , And understanding is not in them . Oh that they had been wise ! they would have understood this , They would have considered their latter end ! How could one chase a thousand , And two put ten thousand to flight , Were it not that their Rock had sold them , And Jehovah had delivered them up ? For their rock is not as our Rock : Let our enemies themselves be judges . For their vine is of the vine of Sodom , And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of poison , Bitter are their clusters ; Their wine is the poison of dragons , And the cruel venom of vipers . Is not this hidden with me , Sealed up among my treasures ? Vengeance is mine , and recompense , For the time when their foot shall slip . For the day of their calamity is at hand , And the things that shall come upon them make haste . For Jehovah will judge his people , And shall repent in favour of his servants ; When he seeth that power is gone , And there is none shut up or left . And he shall say , Where are their gods , Their rock in whom they trusted , Who ate the fat of their sacrifices , [ And ] drank the wine of their drink-offering ? Let them rise up and help you , That there may be a protection over you . See now that I , I am HE , And there is no god with me ; I kill , and I make alive ; I wound , and I heal , And there is none that delivereth out of my hand , For I lift up my hand to the heavens , and say , I live for ever ! If I have sharpened my gleaming sword , And my hand take hold of judgment , I will render vengeance to mine adversaries , And will recompense them that hate me . Mine arrows will I make drunk with blood , And my sword shall devour flesh ; [ I will make them drunk ] with the blood of the slain and of the captives , With the head of the princes of the enemy . Shout for joy , ye nations , with his people , For he avengeth the blood of his servants , And rendereth vengeance to his enemies , And maketh atonement for his land , for his people . And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people , he and Hoshea the son of Nun . And when Moses had ended speaking all these words to all Israel , he said unto them , Set your hearts unto all the words that I testify among you this day , which ye shall command your children to take heed to do , all the words of this law . For it is no vain word for you , but it is your life , and through this word ye shall prolong your days on the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it . And Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day , saying , Go up into this mountain Abarim , mount Nebo , which is in the land of Moab , which is opposite Jericho ; and behold the land of Canaan , which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession , and die on the mountain whither thou goest up , and be gathered unto thy peoples , as Aaron thy brother died on mount Hor , and was gathered unto his peoples ; because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh , in the wilderness of Zin ; because ye hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel . For thou shalt see the land before [ thee ] ; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel . And this is the blessing , wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death . And he said , Jehovah came from Sinai , And rose up from Seir unto them ; He shone forth from mount Paran , And he came from the myriads of the sanctuary ; From his right hand [ went forth ] a law of fire for them . Yea , he loveth the peoples , All his saints are in thy hand , And they sit down at thy feet ; Each receiveth of thy words . Moses commanded us a law , The inheritance of the congregation of Jacob . And he was king in Jeshurun , When the heads of the people And the tribes of Israel were gathered together . Let Reuben live , and not die ; And let his men be few . And this of Judah ; and he said , Hear , Jehovah , the voice of Judah , And bring him unto his people ; May his hands strive for them ; And be thou a help to him against his oppressors . And of Levi he said , Thy Thummim and thy Urim are for thy godly one , Whom thou didst prove at Massah , With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah ; Who said to his father and to his mother , I see him not , And he acknowledged not his brethren , And knew not his own children ; For they have observed thy word , And kept thy covenant . They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances , And Israel thy law : They shall put incense before thy nostrils , And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar . Bless , Jehovah , his substance ! And let the work of his hands please thee ; Crush the loins of his adversaries , And of them that hate him , that they may never rise again ! Of Benjamin he said , The beloved of Jehovah , -- he shall dwell in safety by him ; He will cover him all the day long , And dwell between his shoulders . And of Joseph he said , Blessed of Jehovah be his land ! By the precious things of the heavens , By the dew , and by the deep that lieth beneath , And by the precious fruits of the sun , And by the precious things put forth by the months , And by the best things of the ancient mountains , And by the precious things of the everlasting hills , And by the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof . And let the good will of him that dwelt in the bush Come upon the head of Joseph , Upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren . His majesty is as the firstling of his ox ; And his horns are as the horns of a buffalo . With them shall he push the peoples Together to the ends of the earth . These are the myriads of Ephraim , And these are the thousands of Manasseh . And of Zebulun he said , Rejoice , Zebulun , in thy going out ; And thou , Issachar , in thy tents ! They shall invite [ the ] peoples to the mountain ; There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness ; For they will suck the abundance of the seas , And the hidden treasures of the sand . And of Gad he said , Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad ! As a lion doth he dwell , and teareth the arm , even the top of the head . And he provided the first part for himself , For there was reserved the portion of the lawgiver ; And he came with the heads of the people ; The justice of Jehovah and his judgments Hath he executed with Israel . And of Dan he said , Dan is a young lion ; He shall spring forth from Bashan . And of Naphtali he said , Naphtali , satisfied with favour , And full of the blessing of Jehovah , Possess thou the west and the south . And of Asher he said , Asher shall be blessed with sons ; Let him be acceptable to his brethren , And let him dip his foot in oil . Iron and brass shall be thy bolts ; And thy rest as thy days . There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun , Who rideth upon the heavens to thy help , And in his majesty , upon the clouds . [ Thy ] refuge is the God of old , And underneath are the eternal arms ; And he shall drive out the enemy from before thee , And shall say , Destroy [ them ] ! And Israel shall dwell in safety alone , The fountain of Jacob , in a land of corn and new wine ; Also his heavens shall drop down dew . Happy art thou , Israel ! Who is like unto thee , a people saved by Jehovah , The shield of thy help , And the sword of thine excellency ? And thine enemies shall come cringing to thee ; And thou shalt tread upon their high places . And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to mount Nebo , to the top of Pisgah , which is opposite Jericho . And Jehovah shewed him the whole land , Gilead to Dan , and all Naphtali , and the land of Ephraim , and Manasseh , and all the land of Judah , unto the hindmost sea , and the south , and the plain of the valley of Jericho , the city of palm-trees , to Zoar . And Jehovah said unto him , This is the land that I swore unto Abraham , unto Isaac , and unto Jacob , saying , Unto thy seed will I give it : I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes , but thou shalt not go over thither . And Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab , according to the word of Jehovah . And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab , opposite Beth-Peor ; and no man knows his sepulchre to this day . And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died ; his eye was not dim , nor his natural force abated . And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days ; and the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended . And Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom , for Moses had laid his hands upon him ; and the children of Israel hearkened unto him , and did as Jehovah had commanded Moses . And there arose no prophet since in Israel like Moses , whom Jehovah had known face to face ; according to all the signs and wonders that Jehovah had sent him to do in the land of Egypt , to Pharaoh , and to all his servants , and to all his land ; and according to all that mighty hand ; and according to all the great terribleness that Moses had wrought in the sight of all Israel .