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 Chapter 1
1:1 These are the words which
Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the desert towards the west
near the Red Sea, between Pharan Tophol, and Lobon, and Aulon, and the gold
works. 2 It is a journey of
eleven days from Choreb to mount Seir as far as Cades Barne.
3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year,
in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to all
the children of Israel, according to all things which the Lord commanded him for
them: 4 after he had smitten Seon
king of the Amorites who dwelt in Esebon, and Og the king of Basan who dwelt in
Astaroth and in Edrain; 5 beyond
Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
6 The Lord your God spoke to us in Choreb,
saying, Let it suffice you to have dwelt so long in this mountain.
7 Turn ye and depart and enter into the
mountain of the Amorites, and go to all that dwell near about Araba, to
the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Chananites near
the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
8 Behold, God has delivered the land
before you; go in and inherit the land, which I sware to your fathers, Abraam,
and Isaac, and Jacob, to give it to them and to their seed after them.
9 And I spoke to you at that time,
saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you. 10
The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are
to-day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11
The Lord God of your fathers add to you a thousand-fold more than
you are, and bless you as he has spoken to you. 12
How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden,
and your gainsayings? 13 Take to
yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will
set your leaders over you. 14 And ye
answered me and said, The thing which thou hast told us is good to do.
15 So I took of you wise and
understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of
thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens,
and officers to your judges. 16 And
I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear causes between your
brethren, and judge rightly between a man and his brother, and the
stranger that is with him. 17 Thou
shalt not have respect to persons in judgment, thou shalt judge small and great
equally; thou shalt not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment
is God’s; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, ye shall bring it to
me, and I will hear it. 18 And I
charged upon you at that time all the commands which ye shall perform.
19 And we departed from Choreb, and went
through all that great wilderness and terrible, which ye saw, by the way of the
mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as
Cades Barne. 20 And I said to you,
Ye have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives
to you: 21 behold, the Lord your God
has delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit it as the Lord God of
your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid. 22
And ye all came to me, and said, Let us send men before
us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a
report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall
enter. 23 And the saying pleased me:
and I took of you twelve men, one man of a tribe. 24
And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came
as far as the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it. 25
And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and
brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.
26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled
against the words of the Lord our God. 27
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated
us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of
the Amorites, to destroy us. 28
Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, It is a
great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and there are cities
great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants.
29 And I said to you, Fear not,
neither be ye afraid of them; 30 the
Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together
with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of
Egypt; 31 and in this wilderness
which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord thy God
will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all
the way which ye have gone until ye came to this place.
32 And in this matter ye believed not
the Lord our God, 33 who goes before
you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, shewing you
the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.
34 And the Lord heard the voice of your
words, and being greatly provoked he sware, saying, 35
Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I
sware to their fathers, 36 except
Chaleb the son of Jephonne, he shall see it; and to him I will give the land on
which he went up, and to his sons, because he attended to the things of the
Lord. 37 And the Lord was angry with
me for your sake, saying, Neither shalt thou by any means enter therein.
38 Joshua the son of Naue, who stands by
thee, he shall enter in there; do thou strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel
to inherit it. 39 And every young
child who this day knows not good or evil, —they shall enter therein, and to
them I will give it, and they shall inherit it. 40
And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the
Red Sea.
41 And ye answered and said, We have
sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and fight according to all that
the Lord our God has commanded us: and having taken every one his weapons of
war, and being gathered together, ye went up to the mountain.
42 And the Lord said to me, Tell them, Ye
shall not go up, neither shall ye fight, for I am not with you; thus shall ye
not be destroyed before your enemies. 43
And I spoke to you, and ye did not hearken to me; and ye
transgressed the commandment of the Lord; and ye forced your way and went up
into the mountain. 44 And the
Amorite who dwelt in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you as bees
do, and wounded you from Seir to Herma. 45
And ye sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord
hearkened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.
46 And ye dwelt in Cades many days, as
many days as ye dwelt there.
Chapter 2
2:1 And we turned and departed into the
wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we compassed
mount Seir many days. 2 And the Lord
said to me, 3 Ye have compassed this
mount long enough; turn therefore toward the north. 4
And charge the people, saying, Ye are going through the
borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they shall
fear you, and dread you greatly. 5
Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land even
enough to set your foot upon, for I have given mount Seir to the children of
Esau as an inheritance. 6 Buy food
of them for money and eat, and ye shall receive water of them by measure for
money, and drink. 7 For the Lord our
God has blessed thee in every work of thy hands. Consider how thou wentest
through that great and terrible wilderness: behold, the Lord thy God has been
with thee forty years; thou didst not lack any thing.
8 And we passed by our brethren the
children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the way of Araba from Ælon and from
Gesion Gaber; and we turned and passed by the way of the desert of Moab.
9 And the Lord said to me, Do not ye
quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not
give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Aroer to the
children of Lot to inherit. 10
Formerly the Ommin dwelt in it, a great and numerous nation and powerful, like
the Enakim. 11 These also shall be
accounted Raphain like the Enakim; and the Moabites call them Ommin.
12 And the Chorrhite dwelt in Seir before,
and the sons of Esau destroyed them, and utterly consumed them from before them;
and they dwelt in their place, as Israel did to the land of his inheritance,
which the Lord gave to them. 13 Now
then, arise ye, said I, and depart, and cross the valley of Zaret.
14 And the days in which we traveled
from Cades Barne till we crossed the valley of Zaret, were thirty and
eight years, until the whole generation of the men of war failed, dying out of
the camp, as the Lord God sware to them. 15
And the hand of the Lord was upon them to destroy them out of the
midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
16 And it came to pass when all the men
of war dying out of the midst of the people had fallen, 17
that the Lord spoke to me, saying,
18 Thou shalt pass over this day the borders of Moab to
Aroer; 19 and ye shall draw nigh to
the children of Amman: do not quarrel with them, nor wage war with them; for I
will not give thee of the land of the children of Amman for an inheritance,
because I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance.
20 It shall be accounted a land of Raphain,
for the Raphain dwelt there before, and the Ammanites call them Zochommin.
21 A great nation and populous, and
mightier than you, as also the Enakim: yet the Lord destroyed them from before
them, and they inherited their land, and they dwelt there instead
of them until this day. 22 As they
did to the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, even as they destroyed the
Chorrhite from before them, and inherited their country, and dwelt therein
instead of them until this day. 23
And the Evites who dwell in Asedoth to Gaza, and the Cappadocians who came out
of Cappadocia, destroyed them, and dwelt in their room.
24 Now then arise and depart, and pass
over the valley of Arnon: behold, I have delivered into thy hands Seon the king
of Esebon the Amorite, and his land: begin to inherit it: engage in war
with him this day. 25 Begin to put
thy terror and thy fear on the face of all the nations under heaven, who shall
be troubled when they have heard thy name, and shall be in anguish before thee.
26 And I sent ambassadors from the
wilderness of Kedamoth to Seon king of Esebon with peaceable words, saying,
27 I will pass through thy land: I
will go by the road, I will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
28 Thou shalt give me food for
money, and I will eat; and thou shalt give me water for money, and I will drink;
I will only go through on my feet: 29
as the sons of Esau did to me, who dwelt in Seir, and the
Moabites who dwelt in Aroer, until I shall have passed Jordan into the land
which the Lord our God gives us. 30
And Seon king of Esebon would not that we should pass by him, because the Lord
our God hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be
delivered into thy hands, as on this day.
31 And the Lord said to me, Behold, I
have begun to deliver before thee Seon the king of Esebon the Amorite, and his
land, and do thou begin to inherit his land. 32
And Seon the king of Esebon came forth to meet us, he and all his
people to war at Jassa. 33 And the
Lord our God delivered him before our face, and we smote him, and his sons, and
all his people. 34 And we took
possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city
in succession, and their wives, and their children; we left no living prey.
35 Only we took the cattle captive,
and took the spoil of the cities. 36
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the brook of Arnon, and the
city which is in the valley, and as far as the mount of Galaad; there was not a
city which escaped us: the Lord our God delivered all of them into our hands.
37 Only we did not draw near to the
children of Amman, even all the parts bordering on the brook Jaboc, and the
cities in the mountain country, as the Lord our God charged us.
Chapter 3
3:1 And we turned and went by the way
leading to Basan; and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us, he and all his
people, to battle at Edraim. 2 And
the Lord said to me, Fear him not, for I have delivered him, and all his people,
and all his land, into thy hands; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Seon
king of the Amorites who dwelt in Esebon. 3
And the Lord our God delivered him into our hands, even Og the
king of Basan, and all his people; and we smote him until we left none of his
seed.
4 And we mastered all his cities at that
time; there was not a city which we took not from them; sixty cities, all the
country round about Argob, belonging to king Og in Basan:
5 all strong cities, lofty walls, gates and bars; besides
the very many cities of the Pherezites. 6
We utterly destroyed them as we dealt with Seon the king
of Esebon, so we utterly destroyed every city in order, and the women and the
children, 7 and all the cattle; and
we took for a prey to ourselves the spoil of the cities.
8 And we took at that time the land out
of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan,
extending from the brook of Arnon even unto Aermon. 9
The Phoenicians call Aermon Sanior, but the Amorite has
called it Sanir. 10 All the cities
of Misor, and all Galaad, and all Basan as far as Elcha and Edraim, cities of
the kingdom of Og in Basan. 11 For
only Og the king of Basan was left of the Raphain: behold, his bed was a
bed of iron; behold, it is in the chief city of the children of Ammon;
the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits,
according to the cubit of a man. 12
And we inherited that land at that time from Aroer, which is by the border of
the torrent Arnon, and half the mount of Galaad; and I gave his cities to Ruben
and to Gad. 13 And the rest of
Galaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og I gave to the half-tribe of Manasse, and
all the country round about Argob, all that Basan; it shall be accounted the
land of Raphain. 14 And Jair the son
of Manasse took all the country round about Argob as far as the borders of
Gargasi and Machathi: he called them by his name Basan Thavoth Jair until this
day. 15 And to Machir I gave Galaad.
16 And to Ruben and to Gad I gave
the land under Galaad as far as the brook of Arnon, the border between the
brook and as far as Jaboc; the brook is the border to the children Amman.
17 And Araba and Jordan are
the boundary of Machanareth, even to the sea of Araba, the salt sea under
Asedoth Phasga eastward.
18 And I charged you at that time,
saying, The Lord your God has given you this land by lot; arm yourselves, every
one that is powerful, and go before your brethren the children of Israel.
19 Only your wives and your children
and your cattle (I know that ye have much cattle), let them dwell in your cities
which I have given you; 20 until the
Lord your God give your brethren rest, as also he has given to you, and they
also shall inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives them on the other side
of Jordan; then ye shall return, each one to his inheritance which I have given
you.
21 And I commanded Joshua at that time,
saying, Your eyes have seen all things, which the Lord our God did to these two
kings: so shall the Lord our God do to all the kingdoms against which thou
crossest over thither. 22 Ye shall
not be afraid of them, because the Lord our God himself shall fight for you.
23 And I besought the Lord at that time,
saying, 24 Lord God, thou hast begun
to shew to thy servant thy strength, and thy power, and thy mighty hand, and thy
high arm: for what God is there in heaven or on the earth, who will do as thou
hast done, and according to thy might? 25
I will therefore go over and see this good land that is beyond
Jordan, this good mountain and Antilibanus.
26 And the Lord because of you did not
regard me, and hearkened not to me; and the Lord said to me, Let it suffice
thee, speak not of this matter to me any more. 27
Go up to the top of the quarried rock, and look with thine eyes
westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with
thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 28
And charge Joshua, and strengthen him, and encourage him;
for he shall go before the face of this people, and he shall give them the
inheritance of all the land which thou hast seen. 29
And we abode in the valley near the house of Phogor.
Chapter 4
4:1 And now, Israel, hear the ordinances
and judgments, all that I teach you this day to do: that ye may live, and be
multiplied, and that ye may go in and inherit the land, which the Lord God of
your fathers gives you. 2 Ye shall
not add to the word which I command you, and ye shall not take from it: keep the
commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day.
3 Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our
God did in the case of Beel-phegor; for every man that went after
Beel-phegor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him from among you.
4 But ye that kept close to the Lord your
God are all alive to-day.
5 Behold, I have shewn you ordinances
and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that ye should do so in the land into
which ye go to inherit it. 6 And ye
shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all
nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold,
this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
7 For what manner of nation is so
great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God is in all things
in whatsoever we may call upon him? 8
And what manner of nation is so great, which has righteous
ordinances and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this
day?
9 Take heed to thyself, and keep thy
heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which thine eyes have seen, and
let them not depart from thine heart all the days of thy life; and thou shalt
teach thy sons and thy sons’ sons, 10
even the things that happened in the day in which ye stood
before the Lord our God in Choreb in the day of the assembly; for the Lord said
to me, Gather the people to me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn
to fear me all the days which they live upon the earth, and they shall teach
their sons. 11 And ye drew nigh and
stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven:
there was darkness, blackness, and tempest. 12
And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a
voice of words, which ye heard: and ye saw no likeness, only ye heard a
voice. 13 And he announced to you
his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten commandments; and he
wrote them on two tables of stone.
14 And the Lord commanded me at that
time, to teach you ordinances and judgments, that ye should do them on the land,
into which ye go to inherit it. 15
And take good heed to your hearts, for ye saw no similitude in the day in which
the Lord spoke to you in Choreb in the mountain out of the midst of the fire:
16 lest ye transgress, and make to
yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 the likeness of any beast of
those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under
heaven, 18 the likeness of any
reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are
in the waters under the earth; 19
and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and
the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship
them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations
under heaven. 20 But God took you,
and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of
Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
21 And the Lord God was angry with me
for the things said by you, and sware that I should not go over this Jordan, and
that I should not enter into the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance. 22 For I am to die in
this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but ye are to pass over, and
shall inherit this good land. 23
Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which
he made with you, and ye transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of
any of the things concerning which the Lord thy God commanded thee.
24 For the Lord thy God is a consuming
fire, a jealous God.
25 And when thou shalt have begotten
sons, and shalt have sons’ sons, and ye shall have dwelt a long time on the
land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven image of any thing, and
shall have done wickedly before the Lord your God to provoke him;
26 I call heaven and earth this day to
witness against you, that ye shall surely perish from off the land, into which
ye go across Jordan to inherit it there; ye shall not prolong your days upon it,
but shall be utterly cut off. 27 And
the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left few in number
among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.
28 And ye shall there serve other gods, the
works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which cannot see, nor can they hear,
nor eat, nor smell. 29 And there ye
shall seek the Lord your God, and ye shall find him whenever ye shall seek him
with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction.
30 And all these things shall come upon
thee in the last days, and thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt
hearken to his voice. 31 Because the
Lord thy God is a God of pity: he will not forsake thee, nor destroy
thee; he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord sware to
them.
32 Ask of the former days which were
before thee, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and beginning
at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has
happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:
33 if a nation have heard the voice
of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard and
hast lived; 34 if God has assayed to
go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with
trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand,
and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which
the Lord our God did in Egypt in thy sight. 35
So that thou shouldest know that the Lord thy God he is God, and
there is none beside him. 36 His
voice was made audible from heaven to instruct thee, and he shewed thee upon the
earth his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
37 Because he loved thy fathers, he also
chose you their seed after them, and he brought thee himself with his great
strength out of Egypt, 38 to destroy
nations great and stronger than thou before thy face, to bring thee in, to give
thee their land to inherit, as thou hast it this day.
39 An thou shalt know this day, and
shalt consider in thine heart, that the Lord thy God he is God in heaven
above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but he.
40 And keep ye his commandments, and his
ordinances, all that I command you this day; that it may be well with thee, and
with thy sons after thee, that ye may be long-lived upon the earth, which the
Lord thy God giveth thee for ever.
41 Then Moses separated three cities
beyond Jordan on the east, 42 that
the slayer might flee thither, who should have slain his neighbour
unintentionally, and should not have hated him in times past, and he shall flee
to one of these cities and live: 43
Bosor in the wilderness, in the plain country of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad
belonging to Gad, and Gaulon in Basan belonging to Manasse.
44 This is the law which Moses set
before the children of Israel. 45
These are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which
Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt:
46 on the other side of Jordan, in
the valley near the house of Phogor, in the land of Seon king of the Amorites,
who dwelt in Esebon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote when they came out
of the land of Egypt. 47 And they
inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, two kings of the Amorites,
who were beyond Jordan eastward. 48
From Aroer, which is on the border of the brook Arnon, even to the mount of Seon,
which is Aermon. 49 All Araba beyond
Jordan eastward under Asedoth hewn in the rock.
Chapter 5
5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and
said to them, Hear, Israel, the ordinances and judgments, all that I speak in
your ears this day, and ye shall learn them, and observe to do them.
2 The Lord your God made a covenant with
you in Choreb. 3 The Lord did not
make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: ye are all here alive this
day. 4 The Lord spoke to you face to
face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire. 5
And I stood between the Lord and you at that time to
report to you the words of the Lord, (because ye were afraid before the fire,
and ye went not up to the mountain) saying, 6
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
7 Thou shalt have no other gods before
my face. 8 Thou shalt not make to
thyself an image, nor likeness of any thing, whatever things are in the
heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are
in the waters under the earth. 9
Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor shalt thou serve them; for I am the Lord
thy God, a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to
the third and fourth generation to them that hate me, 10
and doing mercifully to thousands of them that love me,
and that keep my commandments. 11
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord thy God
will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it,
as the Lord thy God commanded thee. 13
Six days thou shalt work, and thou shalt do all thy works;
14 but on the seventh day is the
sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do in it no work, thou, and thy son, and
thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thine ox, and thine ass,
and all thy cattle, and the stranger that sojourns in the midst of thee; that
thy man-servant may rest, and thy maid, and thine ox, as well as thou.
15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out thence with a
mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord appointed thee to keep the
sabbath day and to sanctify it. 16
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God commanded thee; that it
may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long upon the land, which the
Lord thy God gives thee. 17 Thou
shalt not commit murder. 18 Thou
shalt not commit adultery. 19 Thou
shalt not steal. 20 Thou shalt not
bear false witness against thy neighbour. 21
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife; thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour’s house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid, nor his
ox, nor his ass, nor any beast of his, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
22 These words the Lord spoke to all the
assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire—there was
darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice—and he added no more, and he wrote them
on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me. 23
And it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of
the fire, for the mountain burned with fire, that ye came to me, even all the
heads of your tribes, and your elders: 24
and ye said, Behold, the Lord our God has shewn us his glory, and
we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that
God shall speak to man, and he shall live. 25
And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if
we shall hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, and we shall die.
26 For what flesh is there which has
heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we
have heard, and shall live? 27
Do thou draw near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say,
and thou shalt speak to us all things whatsoever the Lord our God shall speak to
thee, and we will hear, and do.
28 And the Lord heard the voice of your
words as ye spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the
words of this people, even all things that they have said to thee. They have
well said all that they have spoken. 29
O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear me
and keep my commands always, that it might be well with them and with their sons
for ever. 30 Go, say to them, Return
ye to your houses; 31 but stand thou
here with me, and I will tell thee all the commands, and the ordinances, and the
judgments, which thou shalt teach them, and let them do so in the land which I
give them for an inheritance. 32 And
ye shall take heed to do as the Lord thy God commanded thee; ye shall not turn
aside to the right hand or to the left, 33
according to all the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to
walk in it, that he may give thee rest; and that it may be well with thee, and
ye may prolong your days on the land which ye shall inherit.
Chapter 6
6:1 And these are the commands,
and the ordinances, and the judgments, as many as the Lord our God gave
commandment to teach you to do so in the land on which ye enter to inherit it.
2 That ye may fear the Lord your
God, keep ye all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command thee
to-day, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons’ sons, all the days of thy life, that
ye may live many days.
3 Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe
to do them, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may be greatly
multiplied, as the Lord God of thy fathers said that he would give thee a land
flowing with milk and honey: and these are the ordinances, and the
judgments, which the Lord commanded the children of Israel in the wilderness,
when they had gone forth from the land of Egypt. 4
Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord.
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength.
6 And these words, all that I command thee
this day, shall be in thy heart and in thy soul. 7
And thou shalt teach them to thy children, and thou shalt speak
of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising
up. 8 And thou shalt fasten them for
a sign upon thy hand, and it shall be immoveable before thine eyes.
9 And ye shall write them on the lintels of
your houses and of your gates.
10 And it shall come to pass when the
Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware to thy
fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and beautiful
cities which thou didst not build, 11
houses full of all good things which thou didst not fill, wells
dug in the rock which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards which thou
didst not plant, then having eaten and been filled, 12
beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God that brought thee
forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
13 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and
him only shalt thou serve; and thou shalt cleave to him, and by his name thou
shalt swear.
14 Go ye not after other gods of the
gods of the nations round about you; 15
for the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous
God, lest the Lord thy God be very angry with thee, and destroy thee from off
the face of the earth.
16 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy
God, as ye tempted him in the temptation. 17
Thou shalt by all means keep the commands of the Lord thy God,
the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded thee.
18 And thou shalt do that which is pleasing
and good before the Lord thy God, that it may be well with thee, and that thou
mayest go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers,
19 to chase all thine enemies from
before thy face, as the Lord said.
20 And it shall come to pass when thy
son shall ask thee at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the
ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us?
21 Then shalt thou say to thy son, We were
slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with
a mighty hand, and with a high arm. 22
And the Lord wrought signs and great and grievous wonders in
Egypt, on Pharao and on his house before us. 23
And he brought us out thence to give us this land, which he sware
to give to our fathers. 24 And the
Lord charged us to observe all these ordinances; to fear the Lord our God, that
it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even to-day.
25 And there shall be mercy to us, if we
take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has
commanded us.
Chapter 7
7:1 And when the Lord thy God shall
bring thee into the land, into which thou goest to possess it, and shall remove
great nations from before thee, the Chettite, and Gergesite, and Amorite, and
Chananite, and Pherezite, and Evite, and Jebusite, seven nations more
numerous and stronger than you, 2
and the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, then thou shalt smite
them: thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt not make a covenant with them,
neither shall ye pity them: 3
neither shall ye contract marriages with them: thou shalt not give thy daughter
to his son, and thou shalt not take his daughter to thy son.
4 For he will draw away thy son from me,
and he will serve other gods; and the Lord will be very angry with you, and will
soon utterly destroy thee. 5 But
thus shall ye do to them; ye shall destroy their altars, and shall break down
their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn with fire the
graven images of their gods. 6 For
thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God; and the Lord thy God chose thee to
be to him a peculiar people beyond all nations that are upon the face of
the earth.
7 It was not because ye are more
numerous than all other nations that the Lord preferred you, and the Lord
made choice of you: for ye are fewer in number than all other nations.
8 But because the Lord loved you,
and as keeping the oath which he sware to your fathers, the Lord brought you out
with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of
the hand of Pharao king of Egypt. 9
Thou shalt know therefore, that the Lord thy God, he is God, a faithful
God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love him, and for those that
keep his commandments to a thousand generations, 10
and who recompenses them that hate him to their face, to destroy
them utterly; and will not be slack with them that hate him: he will recompense
them to their face.
11 Thou shalt keep therefore the
commands, and the ordinances, and these judgments, which I command thee this day
to do. 12 And it shall come to pass
when ye shall have heard these ordinances, and shall have kept and done them,
that the Lord thy God shall keep for thee the covenant and the mercy, which he
sware to your fathers. 13 And he
will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will bless the
off-spring of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and
thine oil, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep, on the land
which the Lord sware to thy fathers to give to thee. 14
Thou shalt be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not
be among you an impotent or barren one, or among thy cattle.
15 And the Lord thy God shall remove from
thee all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou hast seen,
and all that thou hast known, will he lay upon thee; but he will lay them upon
all that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt eat all the spoils of
the nations which the Lord thy God gives thee; thine eye shall not spare them,
and thou shalt not serve their gods; for this is an offence to thee.
17 But if thou shouldest say in thine
heart, This nation is greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them
utterly? 18 thou shalt not fear
them; thou shalt surely remember all that the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to
all the Egyptians: 19 the great
temptations which thine eyes have seen, those signs and great wonders, the
strong hand, and the high arm; how the Lord thy God brought thee forth: so the
Lord your God will do to all the nations, whom thou fearest in their presence.
20 And the Lord thy God shall send
against them the hornets, until they that are left and they that are hidden from
thee be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou
shalt not be wounded before them, because the Lord thy God in the midst of thee
is a great and powerful God. 22
And the Lord thy God shall consume these nations before thee by
little and little: thou shalt not be able to consume them speedily, lest the
land become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against thee.
23 And the Lord thy God shall
deliver them into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy them with a great
destruction, until ye shall have utterly destroyed them.
24 And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and
ye shall destroy their name from that place; none shall stand up in opposition
before thee, until thou shalt have utterly destroyed them.
25 Ye shall burn with fire the graven
images of their gods: thou shalt not covet their silver, neither shalt
thou take to thyself gold from them, lest thou shouldest offend thereby, because
it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. 26
And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thine house, so
shouldest thou be an accursed thing like it; thou shalt utterly hate it, and
altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.
Chapter 8
8:1 Ye shall observe to do all the
commands which I charge you to-day, that ye may live and be multiplied, and
enter in and inherit the land, which the Lord your God sware to give to
your fathers. 2 And thou shalt
remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he
might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thine heart might be
made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.
3 And he afflicted thee and straitened thee
with hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might
teach thee that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live. 4
Thy garments grew not old from off thee, thy shoes were not worn
from off thee, thy feet were not painfully hardened, lo! these forty
years.
5 And thou shalt know in thine heart,
that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord thy God will chasten
thee. 6 And thou shalt keep the
commands of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7 For the Lord thy God will bring thee
into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and
fountains of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:
8 a land of wheat and barley,
wherein are vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
9 a land on which thou shalt not eat thy
bread with poverty, and thou shalt not want any thing upon it; a land whose
stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt dig brass.
10 And thou shalt eat and be filled, and
shalt bless the Lord thy God on the good land, which he has given thee.
11 Take heed to thyself that thou forget
not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commands, and his judgments, and
ordinances, which I command thee this day: 12
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly
houses, and dwelt in them; 13 and
thy oxen and thy sheep are multiplied to thee, and thy silver and thy gold are
multiplied to thee, and all thy possessions are multiplied to thee,
14 thou shouldest be exalted in heart, and
forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage: 15 who brought
thee through that great and terrible wilderness, where is the biting
serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee a
fountain of water out of the flinty rock: 16
who fed thee with manna in the wilderness, which thou knewest
not, and thy fathers knew not; that he might afflict thee, and thoroughly try
thee, and do thee good in thy latter days. 17
Lest thou shouldest say in thine heart, My strength, and the
power of mine hand have wrought for me this great wealth.
18 But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, that he gives
thee strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the
Lord sware to thy fathers, as at this day.
19 And it shall come to pass if thou do
at all forget the Lord thy God, and shouldest go after other gods, and serve
them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,
that ye shall surely perish. 20 As
also the other nations which the Lord God destroys before your face, so shall ye
perish, because ye hearkened not to the voice of the Lord your God.
Chapter 9
9:1 Hear, O Israel: Thou goest this day
across Jordan to inherit nations greater and stronger than yourselves, cities
great and walled up to heaven; 2 a
people great and many and tall, the sons of Enac, whom thou knowest, and
concerning whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of
Enac? 3 And thou shalt know to-day,
that the Lord thy God he shall go before thy face: he is a consuming fire; he
shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before thee, and shall destroy
them quickly, as the Lord said to thee. 4
Speak not in thine heart, when the Lord thy God has destroyed
these nations before thy face, saying, For my righteousness the Lord brought me
in to inherit this good land. 5 Not
for thy righteousness, nor for the holiness of thy heart, dost thou go in to
inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord will
destroy them from before thee, and that he may establish the covenant, which the
Lord sware to our fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6 And thou shalt know to-day, that it
is not for thy righteousnesses the Lord thy God gives thee this good land to
inherit, for thou art a stiff-necked people.
7 Remember, forget not, how much thou
provokedst the Lord thy God in the wilderness: from the day that ye came forth
out of Egypt, even till ye came into this place, ye continued to be disobedient
toward the Lord.
8 Also in Choreb ye provoked the Lord,
and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you; 9
when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone,
the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the
mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water.
10 And the Lord gave me the two tables of
stone written with the finger of God, and on them there had been written all the
words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass after forty
days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of
the covenant. 12 And the Lord said
to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for thy people whom thou broughtest
out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of
the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.
13 And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I
have spoken to thee once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiff-necked people. 14
And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out
their name from under heaven, and will make of thee a nation great and strong,
and more numerous than this. 15 And
I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to
heaven; and the two tables of the testimonies were in my two hands.
16 And when I saw that ye had sinned
against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten image, and had
gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;
17 then I took hold of the two tables, and
cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before you.
18 And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the
first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account
of all your sins which ye sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke
him. 19 And I was greatly terrified
because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provoked with you utterly
to destroy you; yet the Lord hearkened to me at this time also.
20 And he was angry with Aaron to destroy
him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time. 21
And your sin which ye had made, even the calf, I
took, and burnt it with fire, and pounded it and ground it down till it became
fine; and it became like dust, and I cast the dust into the brook that descended
from the mountain.
22 Also in the burning, and in the
temptation, and at the graves of lust, ye provoked the Lord.
23 And when the Lord sent you forth from
Cades Barne, saying, Go up and inherit the land which I give to you, then ye
disobeyed the word of the Lord your God, and believed him not, and hearkened not
to his voice. 24 Ye were disobedient
in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which he became known to you.
25 And I prayed before the Lord
forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed before, for the
Lord said that he would utterly destroy you. 26
And I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, King of gods, destroy not
thy people and thine inheritance, whom thou didst redeem, whom thou broughtest
out of the land of Egypt with thy great power, and with thy strong hand, and
with thy high arm. 27 Remember
Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thyself: look
not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their
sins. 28 Lest the inhabitants of the
land whence thou broughtest us out speak, saying, Because the Lord could not
bring them into the land of which he spoke to them, and because he hated them,
has he brought them forth to slay them in the wilderness.
29 And these are thy people and thy portion, whom
thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with thy great strength, and with thy
mighty hand, and with thy high arm.
Chapter 10
10:1 At that time the Lord said to me,
Hew for thyself two stone tables as the first, and come up to me into the
mountain, and thou shalt make for thyself an ark of wood.
2 And thou shalt write upon the tables the words which
were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them into
the ark. 3 So I made an ark of
boards of incorruptible wood, and I hewed tables of stone like the first, and I
went up to the mountain, and the two tables were in my hand.
4 And he wrote upon the tables according to
the first writing the ten commandments, which the Lord spoke to you in the
mountain out of the midst of the fire, and the Lord gave them to me.
5 And I turned and came down from the
mountain, and I put the tables into the ark which I had made; and there they
were, as the Lord commanded me. 6
And the children of Israel departed from Beeroth of the sons of Jakim to
Misadai: there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son was
priest in his stead. 7 Thence they
departed to Gadgad; and from Gadgad to Etebatha, a land wherein are
torrents of water.
8 At that time the Lord separated the
tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand near before
the Lord, to minister and bless in his name to this day. 9
Therefore the Levites have no part nor inheritance among
their brethren; the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he said to
them. 10 And I remained in the mount
forty days and forty nights: and the Lord heard me at that time also, and the
Lord would not destroy you. 11 And
the Lord said to me, Go, set out before this people, and let them go in and
inherit the land, which I sware to their fathers to give to them.
12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord
thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his
ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul; 13 to keep the
commandments of the Lord thy God, and his ordinances, all that I charge thee
to-day, that it may be well with thee? 14
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord
thy God, the earth and all things that are in it. 15
Only the Lord chose your fathers to love them, and he
chose out their seed after them, even you, beyond all nations, as at this
day. 16 Therefore ye shall
circumcise the hardness of your heart, and ye shall not harden your neck.
17 For the Lord your God, he is God
of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great, and strong, and terrible God, who
does not accept persons, nor will he by any means accept a bribe:
18 executing judgment for the stranger and
orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.
19 And ye shall love the stranger; for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and
serve him, and shalt cleave to him, and shalt swear by his name.
21 He is thy boast, and he is
thy God, who has wrought in the midst of thee these great and glorious things,
which thine eyes have seen. 22 With
seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt; but the Lord thy God has made
thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.
Chapter 11
11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the Lord
thy God, and shalt observe his appointments, and his ordinances, and his
commandments, and his judgments, always. 2
And ye shall know this day; for I speak not to your
children, who know not and have not seen the discipline of the Lord thy God, and
his wonderful works, and his strong hand, and his high arm,
3 and his miracles, and his wonders, which
he wrought in the midst of Egypt on Pharao king of Egypt, and all his land;
4 and what he did to the host of the
Egyptians, and to their chariots, and their cavalry, and their host; how he made
the water of the Red Sea to overwhelm the face of them as they pursued after
you, and the Lord destroyed them until this day; 5
and all the things which he did to you in the wilderness until ye
came into this place; 6 and all the
things that he did to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab the son of Ruben, whom
the earth opening her mouth swallowed up, and their houses, and their tents, and
all their substance that was with them, in the midst of all Israel:
7 for your eyes have seen all the mighty
works of the Lord, which he wrought among you to-day.
8 And ye shall keep all his
commandments, as many as I command thee to-day, that ye may live, and be
multiplied, and that ye may go in and inherit the land, into which ye go across
Jordan to inherit it: 9 that ye may
live long upon the land, which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them,
and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 For the land into which thou goest to
inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence ye came out, whensoever they sow
the seed, and water it with their feet, as a garden of herbs:
11 but the land into which thou goest to
inherit it, is a land of mountains and plains; it shall drink water of the rain
of heaven. 12 A land which the Lord
thy God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it from the
beginning of the year to the end of the year.
13 Now if ye will indeed hearken to all
the commands which I charge thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to
serve him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, 14
then he shall give to thy land the early and latter rain
in its season, and thou shalt bring in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
15 And he shall give food in thy
fields to thy cattle; and when thou hast eaten and art full,
16 take heed to thyself that thy heart be
not puffed up, and ye transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:
17 and the Lord be angry with you, and
restrain the heaven; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield
its fruit, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord
has given you.
18 And ye shall store these words in
your heart and in your soul, and ye shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
it shall be fixed before your eyes. 19
And ye shall teach them to your children, so as to speak about
them when thou sittest in the house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when
thou sleepest, and when thou risest up. 20
And ye shall write them on the lintels of your houses, and on
your gates; 21 that your days may be
long, and the days of your children, upon the land which the Lord sware to your
fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22 And it shall come to pass that if ye
will indeed hearken to all these commands, which I charge thee to observe this
day, to love the Lord our God, and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave close
to him; 23 then the Lord shall cast
out all these nations before you, and ye shall inherit great nations and
stronger than yourselves. 24 Every
place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be your; from the
wilderness and Antilibanus, and from the great river, the river Euphrates, even
as far as the west sea shall be your coasts. 25
No one shall stand before you; and the Lord your God will put the
fear of you and the dread of you on the face of all the land, on which ye shall
tread, as he told you.
26 Behold, I set before you this day the
blessing and the curse; 27 the
blessing, if ye hearken to the commands of the Lord your God, all that I command
you this day; 28 and the curse, if
ye do not hearken to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you
this day, and ye wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to
serve other gods, which ye know not. 29
And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have
brought thee into the land into which thou goest over to inherit it, then thou
shalt put blessing on mount Garizin, and the curse upon mount Gaebal.
30 Lo! are not these beyond Jordan, behind,
westward in the land of Chanaan, which lies westward near Golgol, by the high
oak? 31 For ye are passing over
Jordan, to go in and inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives you to
inherit always, and ye shall dwell in it.
32 And ye shall take heed to do all his
ordinances, and these judgments, as many as I set before you to-day.
Chapter 12
12:1 And these are the ordinances
and the judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God
of your fathers gives you for an inheritance, all the days which ye live upon
the land. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy
all the places in which they served their gods, whose land ye inherit, on
the high mountains and on the hills, and under the thick tree.
3 And ye shall destroy their altars, and
break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and ye shall
burn with fire the graven images of their gods, and ye shall abolish their name
out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do
so to the Lord your God. 5 But in
the place which the Lord thy God shall choose in one of your cities to name his
name there, and to be called upon, ye shall even seek him out and go
thither. 6 And ye shall carry
thither your whole-burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your first-fruits,
and your vowed-offerings, and your freewill-offerings, and your offerings of
thanksgiving, the first-born of your herds, and of your flocks.
7 And ye shall eat there before the Lord
your God, and ye shall rejoice in all the things on which ye shall lay your
hand, ye and your houses, as the Lord your God has blessed you.
8 Ye shall not do altogether as we do
here to-day, every man that which is pleasing in his own sight.
9 For hitherto ye have not arrived at the
rest and the inheritance, which the Lord our God gives you.
10 And ye shall go over Jordan, and shall
dwell in the land, which the Lord our God takes as an inheritance for you; and
he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and ye shall dwell
safely. 11 And there shall be a
place which the Lord thy God shall choose for his name to be called there,
thither shall ye bring all things that I order you to-day; your
whole-burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the
first-fruits of your hands, and every choice gift of yours, whatsoever ye shall
vow to the Lord your God. 12 And ye
shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye and your sons, and your daughters,
and your men-servants and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is at your
gates; because he has no portion or inheritance with you.
13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy
whole-burnt-offerings in any place which thou shalt see;
14 save in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose,
in one of thy tribes, there shall ye offer your whole-burnt-offerings, and there
shalt thou do all things whatsoever I charge thee this day.
15 But thou shalt kill according to all thy
desire, and shalt eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which
he has given thee in every city; the unclean that is within thee and the clean
shall eat it on equal terms, as the doe or the stag. 16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it out on
the ground as water.
17 Thou shalt not be able to eat in thy
cities the tithe of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born
of thine herd and of thy flock, and all your vows as many as ye shall
have vowed, and your thank-offerings, and the first-fruits of thine hands.
18 But before the Lord thy God thou
shalt eat it, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose for himself,
thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and
the stranger that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord
thy God, on whatsoever thou shalt lay thine hand.
19 Take heed to thyself that thou do not
desert the Levite all the time that thou livest upon the earth.
20 And if the Lord thy God shall enlarge
thy borders, as he said to thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh; if thy
soul should desire to eat flesh, thou shalt eat flesh according to all the
desire of thy soul. 21 And if the
place be far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose for himself, that
his name be called upon it, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock
which God shall have given thee, even as I commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in
thy cities according to the desire of thy soul. 22
As the doe and the stag are eaten, so shalt thou eat it; the
unclean in thee and the clean shall eat it in like manner.
23 Take diligent heed that thou eat no
blood, for blood is the life of it; the life shall not be eaten with the
flesh. 24 Ye shall not eat it;
ye shall pour it out on the ground as water. 25
Thou shalt not eat it, that it may be well with thee and with thy
sons after thee, if thou shalt do that which is good and pleasing before the
Lord thy God. 26 But thou shalt take
thy holy things, if thou hast any, and thy vowed-offerings, and come to the
place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name named upon it.
27 And thou shalt sacrifice thy
whole-burnt-offerings, thou shalt offer the flesh upon the altar of the Lord thy
God; but the blood of thy sacrifices thou shalt pour out at the foot of the
altar of the Lord thy God, but the flesh thou shalt eat.
28 Beware and hearken, and thou shalt do all the commands
which I charge thee, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons for ever,
if thou shalt do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord thy God.
29 And if the Lord thy God shall utterly
destroy the nations, to whom thou goest in thither to inherit their land, from
before thee, and thou shalt inherit it, and dwell in their land;
30 take heed to thyself that thou seek not
to follow them after they are destroyed before thee, saying, How do these
nations act towards their gods? I will do likewise. 31
Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they have sacrificed
to their gods the abominations of the Lord which he hates, for they burn their
sons and their daughters in fire to their gods. 32
Every word that I command you this day, it shalt thou observe to
do: thou shalt not add to it, nor diminish from it.
Chapter 13
13:1 And if there arise within thee a
prophet, or one who dreams a dream, and he gives thee a sign or a wonder,
2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass
which he spoke to thee, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye know
not; 3 ye shall not hearken to the
words of that prophet, or the dreamer of that dream, because the Lord thy God
tries you, to know whether ye love your God with all your heart and with all
your soul. 4 Ye shall follow the
Lord your God, and fear him, and ye shall hear his voice, and attach yourselves
to him. 5 And that prophet or that
dreamer of a dream, shall die; for he has spoken to make thee err from the Lord
thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from
bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to
walk in: so shalt thou abolish the evil from among you.
6 And if thy brother by thy father or
mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife in thy bosom, or friend who is
equal to thine own soul, entreat thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve
other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known,
7 of the gods of the nations that are round
about you, who are near thee or at a distance from thee, from one end of the
earth to the other; 8 thou shalt not
consent to him, neither shalt thou hearken to him; and thine eye shall not spare
him, thou shalt feel no regret for him, neither shalt thou at all protect him:
9 thou shalt surely report
concerning him, and thy hands shall be upon him among the first to slay him, and
the hands of all the people at the last. 10
And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, because
he sought to draw thee away from the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 11
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not again do
according to this evil thing among you.
12 And if in one of thy cities which the
Lord God gives thee to dwell therein, thou shalt hear men saying,
13 Evil men have gone out from you, and
have caused all the inhabitants of their land to fall away, saying, Let us go
and worship other gods, whom ye knew not, 14
then thou shalt enquire and ask, and search diligently, and
behold, if the thing is clearly true, and this abomination has taken
place among you, 15 thou shalt
utterly destroy all the dwellers in that land with the edge of the sword; ye
shall solemnly curse it, and all things in it. 16
And all its spoils thou shalt gather into its public ways, and
thou shalt burn the city with fire, and all its spoils publicly before the Lord
thy God; and it shall be uninhabited for ever, it shall not be built again.
17 And there shall nothing of the
cursed thing cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce anger,
and shew thee mercy, and pity thee, and multiply thee, as he sware to thy
fathers; 18 if thou wilt hear the
voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, all that I charge thee this
day, to do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.
Chapter 14
14:1 Ye are the children of the Lord
your God: ye shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.
2 For thou art a holy people to the Lord
thy God, and the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself
of all the nations on the face of the earth. 3
Ye shall not eat any abominable thing. 4
These are the beasts which ye shall eat; the calf
of the herd, and lamb of the sheep, and kid of the goats;
5 the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and
camelopard. 6 Every beast that
divides the hoofs, and makes claws of two divisions, and that chews the cud
among beasts, these ye shall eat. 7
And these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, and of those that divide
the hoofs, and make distinct claws; the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit;
because they chew the cud, and do not divide the hoof, these are unclean to you.
8 And as for the swine, because he
divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is
unclean to you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, ye shall not touch their dead
bodies.
9 And these ye shall eat of all that are
in the water, ye shall eat all that have fins and scales.
10 And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat;
they are unclean to you. 11 Ye shall
eat every clean bird. 12 And these
of them ye shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,
13 and the vulture, and the kite and
the like to it, 14 15 and the
sparrow, and the owl, and the seamew, 16
and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,
17 and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its
like, and the hoopoe, and the raven, 18
and the pelican, and the diver and the like to it, and the
red-bill and the bat. 19 All winged
animals that creep are unclean to you; ye shall not eat of them.
20 Ye shall eat every clean bird.
21 Ye shall eat nothing that dies of
itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or
thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy
God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother’s milk.
22 Thou shalt tithe a tenth of all the
produce of thy seed, the fruit of thy field year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat it in the place which the Lord thy
God shall choose to have his name called there; ye shall bring the tithe of thy
corn and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born of thy herd and of thy
flock, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
24 And if the journey be too far for thee,
and thou art not able to bring them, because the place is far from thee
which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there, because the
Lord thy God will bless thee; 25
then thou shalt sell them for money, and thou shalt take the money in thy hands,
and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.
26 And thou shalt give the money for
whatsoever thy soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or thou
shalt lay it out on strong drink, or on whatsoever thy soul may desire, and
thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice and thy
house, 27 and the Levite that is in
thy cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with thee.
28 After three years thou shalt bring
out all the tithes of thy fruits, in that year thou shalt lay it up in thy
cities. 29 And the Levite shall
come, because he has no part or lot with thee, and the stranger, and the orphan,
and the widow which is in thy cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the
Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou shalt do.
Chapter 15
15:1 Every seven years thou shalt make a
release. 2 And this is the
ordinance of the release: thou shalt remit every private debt which thy
neighbour owes thee, and thou shalt not ask payment of it from thy brother; for
it has been called a release to the Lord thy God. 3
Of a stranger thou shalt ask again whatsoever he has of thine,
but to thy brother thou shalt remit his debt to thee. 4
For thus there shall not be a poor person in the
midst of thee, for the Lord thy God will surely bless thee in the land which the
Lord thy God gives thee by inheritance, that thou shouldest inherit it.
5 And if ye shall indeed hearken to the
voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all these commandments, as many as I
charge thee this day, 6 (for the
Lord thy God has blessed thee in the way of which he spoke to thee,)then thou
shalt lend to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over
many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.
7 And if there shall be in the midst of
thee a poor man of thy brethren in one of thy cities in the land, which
the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, neither shalt
thou by any means close up thine hand from thy brother who is in want.
8 Thou shalt surely open thine hands to
him, and shalt lend to him as much as he wants according to his need.
9 Take heed to thyself that there be not a
secret thing in thine heart, an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of
release, draws nigh; and thine eye shall be evil to thy brother that is in want,
and thou shalt not give to him, and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and
there shall be great sin in thee. 10
Thou shalt surely give to him, and thou shalt lend him as much as
he wants, according as he is in need; and thou shalt not grudge in thine heart
as thou givest to him, because on this account the Lord thy God will bless thee
in all thy works, and in all things on which thou shalt lay thine hand.
11 For the poor shall not fail off thy
land, therefore I charge thee to do this thing, saying, Thou shalt surely open
thine hands to thy poor brother, and to him that is distressed upon thy land.
12 And if thy brother or sister,
a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to thee, he shall serve thee six years,
and in the seventh year thou shalt send him out free from thee.
13 And when thou shalt send him out free
from thee, thou shalt not send him out empty. 14
Thou shalt give him provision for the way from thy flock, and
from thy corn, and from thy wine; as the Lord thy God has blessed thee, thou
shalt give to him.
15 And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee from
thence; therefore I charge thee to do this thing. 16
And if he should say to thee, I will not go out from thee,
because he continues to love thee and thy house, because he is well with thee;
17 then thou shalt take an awl, and
bore his ear through to the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever; and in
like manner shalt thou do to thy maid-servant. 18
It shall not seem hard to thee when they are sent out free from
thee, because thy servant has served thee six years according to the
annual hire of a hireling; so the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all things
whatsoever thou mayest do.
19 Every first-born that shall be born
among thy kine and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord thy God;
thou shalt not work with thy first-born calf, and thou shalt not shear the
first-born of thy sheep. 20 Thou
shalt eat it before the Lord year by year in the place which the Lord thy God
shall choose, thou and thy house. 21
And if there be in it a blemish, if it be lame or blind, an evil
blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it to the Lord thy God.
22 Thou shalt eat it in thy cities; the
unclean in thee and the clean shall eat it in like manner, as the doe or the
stag. 23 Only ye shall not eat the
blood; thou shalt pour it out on the earth as water.
Chapter 16
16:1 Observe the month of new corn,
and thou shalt sacrifice the passover to the Lord thy God; because in the month
of new corn thou camest out of Egypt by night. 2
And thou shalt sacrifice the passover to the Lord thy God, sheep
and oxen in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name
called upon it. 3 Thou shalt not eat
leaven with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, bread
of affliction, because ye came forth out of Egypt in haste; that ye may remember
the day of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4 Leaven shall not be seen with thee
in all thy borders for seven days, and there shall not be left of the flesh
which thou shalt sacrifice at even on the first day until the morning.
5 thou shalt not have power to sacrifice
the passover in any of the cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee.
6 But in the place which the Lord thy God
shall choose, to have his name called there, thou shalt sacrifice the passover
at even at the setting of the sun, at the time when thou camest out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt boil and roast and
eat it in the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose; and thou shalt return
in the morning, and go to thy house. 8
Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day
is a holiday, a feast to the Lord thy God: thou shalt not do in it any work,
save what must be done by any one.
9 Seven weeks shalt thou number to
thyself; when thou hast begun to put the sickle to the corn, thou shalt
begin to number seven weeks. 10 And
thou shalt keep the feast of weeks to the Lord thy God, accordingly as thy hand
has power in as many things as the Lord thy God shall give thee.
11 And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord
thy God, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant and thy
maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow
which dwells among you, in whatsoever place the Lord thy God shall choose, that
his name should be called there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and thou shalt observe and do these
commands. 13 Thou shalt keep for
thyself the feast of tabernacles seven days, when thou gatherest in thy
produce from thy corn-floor and thy wine-press. 14
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son,
and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the
stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in thy cities.
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a feast to
the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose for himself;
and if the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of
thy hands, then thou shalt rejoice.
16 Three times in the year shall all thy
males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose in
the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles: thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty.
17 Each one according to his ability,
according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he has given thee.
18 Thou shalt make for thyself judges
and officers in thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee in thy
tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment:
19 they shall not wrest judgment, nor
favour persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and
pervert the words of the righteous. 20
Thou shalt justly pursue justice, that ye may live, and go in and
inherit the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.
21 Thou shalt not plant for thyself a
grove; thou shalt not plant for thyself any tree near the altar of thy God.
22 Thou shalt not set up for thyself
a pillar, which the Lord thy God hates.
Chapter 17
17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice to the
Lord thy God a calf or a sheep, in which there is a blemish, or any evil
thing; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
2 And if there should be found in any
one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee, a man or a woman who shall
do that which is evil before the Lord thy God, so as to transgress his covenant,
3 and they should go and serve other
gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven,
which he commanded thee not to do, 4
and it be told thee, and thou shalt have enquired diligently,
and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in
Israel; 5 then shalt thou bring out
that man, or that woman, and ye shall stone them with stones, and they shall
die. 6 He shall die on the testimony
of two or three witnesses; a man who is put to death shall not be put to death
for one witness. 7 And the hand of
the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the
hand of the people at the last; so shalt thou remove the evil one from among
yourselves.
8 And if a matter shall be too hard for
thee in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and
between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters
of judgment in your cities; 9 then
thou shalt arise and go up to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and
thou shalt come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in
those days, and they shall search out the matter and report the judgment
to thee. 10 And thou shalt act
according to the thing which they shall report to thee out of the place which
the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt observe to do all whatsoever shall
have been by law appointed to thee. 11
Thou shalt do according to the law and to the judgment which they
shall declare to thee: thou shalt not swerve to the right hand or to the left
from any sentence which they shall report to thee.
12 And the man whosoever shall act in
haughtiness, so as not to hearken to the priest who stands to minister in the
name of the Lord thy God, or the judge who shall preside in those days, that man
shall die, and thou shalt remove the evil one out of Israel.
13 And all the people shall hear and fear,
and shall no more commit impiety.
14 And when thou shalt enter into the
land which the Lord thy God gives thee, and shalt inherit it and dwell in it,
and shalt say, I will set a ruler over me, as also the other nations round about
me; 15 thou shalt surely set over
thee the ruler whom the Lord God shall choose: of thy brethren thou shalt set
over thee a ruler; thou shalt not have power to set over thee a stranger,
because he is not thy brother. 16
For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the
people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses; for the Lord
said, Ye shall not any more turn back by that way. 17
And he shall not multiply to himself wives, lest his heart
turn away; and he shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
18 And when he shall be established in
his government, then shall he write for himself this repetition of the law into
a book by the hands of the priests the Levites; 19
and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of
his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these
commandments, and to observe these ordinances: 20
that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, that he
depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and
his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.
Chapter 18
18:1 The priests, the Levites, even the
whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the
burnt-offerings of the Lord are their inheritance, they shall eat them.
2 And they shall have no inheritance
among their brethren; the Lord himself is his portion, as he said to him.
3 And this is the due of the
priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices,
whether it be a calf or a sheep; and thou shalt give the shoulder to the priest,
and the cheeks, and the great intestine: 4
and the first-fruits of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine
oil; and thou shalt give to him the first-fruits of the fleeces of thy sheep:
5 because the Lord has chosen him
out of all thy tribes, to stand before the Lord thy God, to minister and bless
in his name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.
6 And if a Levite come from one of the
cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as
his mind desires, to the place which he shall have chosen,
7 he shall minister to the name of the Lord
his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the
Lord thy God. 8 He shall eat an
allotted portion, besides the sale of his hereditary property.
9 And when thou shalt have entered into the
land which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to
the abominations of those nations.
10 There shall not be found in thee one
who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals
with omens, and augury, 11 a
sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and
observer of signs, questioning the dead. 12
For every one that does these things is an abomination to the
Lord thy God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from
before thy face. 13 Thou shalt be
perfect before the Lord thy God. 14
For all these nations whose land thou shalt inherit, they will listen to
omens and divinations; but the Lord thy God has not permitted thee so to do.
15 The Lord thy God shall raise up to
thee a prophet of thy brethren, like me; him shall ye hear:
16 according to all things which thou didst
desire of the Lord thy God in Choreb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will
not again hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and we will not any more see this
great fire, and so we shall not die. 17
And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they
have said to thee. 18 I will raise
up to them a prophet of their brethren, like thee; and I will put my words in
his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him.
19 And whatever man shall not hearken to
whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on
him. 20 But the prophet whosoever
shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak,
and whosoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
21 But if thou shalt say in thine
heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?
22 Whatsoever words that prophet shall
speak in the name of the Lord, and they shall not come true, and not come to
pass, this is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has
spoken wickedly: ye shall not spare him.
Chapter 19
19:1 And when the Lord thy God shall
have destroyed the nations, which God gives thee, even the land, and ye
shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,
2 thou shalt separate for thyself three
cities in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee.
3 Take a survey of thy way, and thou shalt
divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God apportions to thee, into
three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.
4 And this shall be the ordinance of the
manslayer, who shall flee thither, and shall live, whosoever shall have smitten
his neighbour ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.
5 And whosoever shall enter with his
neighbour into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood
with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the
handle should light on his neighbour, and he should die, he shall flee to one of
these cities, and live. 6 Lest the
avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake
him, if the way be too long, and slay him, though there is to this man no
sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.
7 Therefore I charge thee, saying, Thou shalt separate for
thy self three cities.
8 And if the Lord shall enlarge thy
borders, as he sware to thy fathers, and the Lord shall give to thee all the
land which he said he would give to thy fathers; 9
if thou shalt hearken to do all these commands, which I charge
thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways continually;
thou shalt add for thyself yet three cities to these three.
10 So innocent blood shall not be spilt in
the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, and there shall not be
in thee one guilty of blood.
11 But if there should be in thee a man
hating his neighbour, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him,
and smite him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,
12 then shall the elders of his city send,
and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers
of blood, and he shall die. 13 Thine
eye shall not spare him; so shalt thou purge innocent blood from Israel, and it
shall be well with thee.
14 Thou shalt not move the landmarks of
thy neighbour, which thy fathers set in the inheritance, in which thou hast
obtained a share in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.
15 One witness shall not stand to
testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which
he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three
witnesses, shall every word be established. 16
And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity
against him; 17 then shall the two
men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the
priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.
18 And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and,
behold, if and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; and has
stood up against his brother; 19
then shall ye do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and
thou shalt remove the evil from yourselves. 20
And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to
this evil thing in the midst of you. 21
Thine eye shall not spare him: thou shalt exact life for
life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Chapter 20
20:1 And if thou shouldest go forth to
war against thine enemies, and shouldest see horse, and rider, and a people more
numerous than thyself; thou shalt not be afraid of them, for the Lord thy God
is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
2 And it shall come to pass whenever thou
shalt draw nigh to battle, that the priest shall draw nigh and speak to the
people, and shall say to them, 3
Hear, O Israel; ye are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not
your heart faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their
face. 4 For it is the Lord
your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, and
to save you.
5 And the scribes shall speak to the
people, saying, What man is he that has built a new house, and has not
dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and
another man dedicate it. 6 And what
man is he that has planted a vineyard, and not been made merry with it?
let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
be made merry with it. 7 And what
man is he that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
8 And the scribes shall speak
further to the people, and say, What man is he that fears and is cowardly
in his heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest he make the heart of his
brother fail, as his own. 9 And it
shall come to pass when the scribes shall have ceased speaking to the people,
that they shall appoint generals of the army to be leaders of the people.
10 And if thou shalt draw nigh to a city
to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably. 11
If then they should answer peaceably to thee, and open to
thee, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject
to thee. 12 But if they will not
hearken to thee, but wage war against thee, thou shalt invest it;
13 until the Lord thy God shall deliver it
into thy hands, and thou shalt smite every male of it with the edge of the
sword: 14 except the women and the
stuff: and all the cattle, and whatsoever shall be in the city, and all the
plunder thou shalt take as spoil for thyself, and shalt eat all the plunder of
thine enemies whom the Lord thy God gives thee. 15
Thus shalt thou do to all the cities that are very far off from
thee, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord thy God
gives thee to inherit their land. 16
Of these ye shall not take any thing alive;
17 but ye shall surely curse them, the
Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite,
and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite; as the Lord thy God commanded thee:
18 that they may not teach you to do all
their abominations, which they did to their gods, and so ye should sin
before the Lord your God.
19 And if thou shouldest besiege a city
many days to prevail against it by war to take it, thou shalt not destroy its
trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but thou shalt eat of it, and shalt not
cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter before thee into
the work of the siege? 20 But the
tree which thou knowest to be not fruit-bearing, this thou shalt destroy and cut
down; and thou shalt construct a mound against the city, which makes war against
thee, until it be delivered up.
Chapter 21
21:1 And if one be found slain with the
sword in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, having fallen
in the field, and they do not know who has smitten him;
2 thine elders and thy judges shall come
forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:
3 and it shall be that the city
which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of
the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not borne a yoke.
4 And the elders of that city shall bring
down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown,
and they shall slay the heifer in the valley. 5
And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has
chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his name, and by their word shall
every controversy and every stroke be decided. 6
And all the elders of that city who draw nigh to the slain
man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the
valley; 7 and they shall answer and
say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it.
8 Be merciful to thy people Israel,
whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, that innocent blood may not be charged on thy
people Israel: and the blood shall be atoned for to them.
9 And thou shalt take away innocent blood from among you,
if thou shouldest do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.
10 And if when thou goest out to war
against thine enemies, the Lord thy God should deliver them into thine hands,
and thou shouldest take their spoil, 11
and shouldest see among the spoil a woman beautiful in
countenance, and shouldest desire her, and take her to thyself for a wife,
12 and shouldest bring her within
thine house: then shalt thou shave her head, and pare her nails;
13 and shalt take away her garments of
captivity from off her, and she shall abide in thine house, and shall bewail her
father and mother the days of a month; and afterwards thou shalt go in to her
and dwell with her, and she shall be thy wife.
14 And it shall be if thou do not
delight in her, thou shalt send her out free; and she shall not by any means be
sold for money, thou shalt not treat her contemptuously, because thou hast
humbled her.
15 And if a man have two wives, the one
loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him
children, and the son of the hated should be first-born;
16 then it shall be that whensoever he
shall divide by inheritance his goods to his sons, he shall not be able to give
the right of the first-born to the son of the loved one, having overlooked the
son of the hated, which is the first-born. 17
But he shall acknowledge the first-born of the hated one to give
to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first
of his children, and to him belongs the birthright. 18
And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who
hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they
should correct him, and he should not hearken to them; 19
then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and
bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place:
20 and they shall say to the men of their
city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice,
he is a reveler and a drunkard. 21
And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and thou
shalt remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.
22 And if there be sin in any one,
and the judgment of death be upon him, and he be put to death, and ye
hang him on a tree: 23 his body
shall not remain all night upon the tree, but ye shall by all means bury it in
that day; for every one that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and ye shall
by no means defile the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an
inheritance.
Chapter 22
22:1 When thou seest the calf of thy
brother or his sheep wandering in the way, thou shalt not overlook them; thou
shalt by all means turn them back to thy brother, and thou shalt restore them to
him. 2 And if thy brother do not
come nigh thee, and thou dost not know him, thou shalt bring it into thy house
within; and it shall be with thee until thy brother shall seek them, and thou
shalt restore them to him. 3 Thus
shalt thou do to his ass, and thus shalt thou do to his garment, and thus shalt
thou do to every thing that thy brother has lost; whatsoever shall have been
lost by him, and thou shalt have found, thou shalt not have power to overlook.
4 Thou shalt not see the ass of thy
brother, or his calf, fallen in the way: thou shalt not overlook them, thou
shalt surely help him to raise them up.
5 The apparel of a man shall not be on a
woman, neither shall a man put on a woman’s dress; for every one that does these
things is an abomination to the Lord thy God. 6
And if thou shouldest come upon a brood of birds before thy face
in the way or upon any tree, or upon the earth, young or eggs, and the mother be
brooding on the young or the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young
ones. 7 Thou shalt by all means let
the mother go, but thou shalt take the young to thyself; that it may be well
with thee, and that thou mayest live long.
8 If thou shouldest build a new house,
then shalt thou make a parapet to thy house; so thou shalt not bring
blood-guiltiness upon thy house, if one should in any wise fall from it.
9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with
diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whatsoever |
