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“Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life
No one among you is to make his son or daughter pass through the fire,
Look, I have taught you statutes and ordinances as the Lord my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to possess.
“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers.
He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
You are to fear Yahweh your God and worship Him. Remain faithful
You must not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it,
See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.
The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
“If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.
“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you except to fear
“If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something improper about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
all His ways are entirely just.
A faithful God, without prejudice,
He is righteous and true.
“A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman’s garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord your God.
“Now if you faithfully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all His commands I am giving you today, the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses told the Israelites everything the Lord had commanded him to say to them.
Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’
but remember that the Lord your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant He swore to your fathers,
“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live, enter, and take possession of the land Yahweh, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Repeat them to your children.
Be strong and courageous;
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,
a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.
“This is the command—the statutes and ordinances—the Lord your God has instructed me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.
But because the Lord loved
But the prophet who dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods—that prophet must die.’
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land
For you are a holy people
This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to My words that he speaks in My name.
May Yahweh, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as He promised you.
See, I have set the land before you. Enter and take possession of the land the Lord swore to give to your fathers
“I said to you at that time: I can’t bear the responsibility for you on my own.
“The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb: ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
so that at noon you will grope as a blind man gropes in the dark.
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their fathers.’
On the day of the assembly the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God’s finger. The exact words were on them, which the Lord spoke to you from the fire on the mountain.
Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites and their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Judean foothills,
For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to Him?
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would give you—a land with large and beautiful cities that you did not build,
It is a land the Lord your God cares for. He is always watching over it from the beginning to the end of the year.
Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.
See, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn’t a city that we didn’t take from them: 60 cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
‘You’ve been traveling around this hill country long enough; turn north.
The Lord your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.
you are to inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened among you,
“So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and set them over you as leaders: officials for thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.
And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
“Be careful that you don’t forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His command—the ordinances and statutes—I am giving you today.
I commanded your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge rightly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
“We then set out from Horeb and went across all the great and terrible wilderness you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the Lord our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
Everyone must appear with a gift suited to his means, according to the blessing the Lord your God has given you.
The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights.
I said to you: You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.
Do not show partiality when deciding a case;
They took some of the fruit from the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us back a report: ‘The land the Lord our God is giving us is good.’
You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.
They left and went up into the hill country and came to the Valley of Eshcol, scouting the land.
the short-eared owl, the gull,
any kind of hawk,
The day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people before Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’
you must strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword. Completely destroy everyone in it as well as its livestock with the sword.
be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, wells dug that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant
you must take the two of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s fiancée. You must purge the evil from you.
“If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, belong to the Lord your God, as does the earth and everything in it.
But if your slave says to you, ‘I don’t want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your family, and is well off with you,
But He directly pays back
“But you were not willing to go up, rebelling against the command of the Lord your God.
for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God.
“Then
You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.
“The Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.’
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but you must not put any in your container.
The plan seemed good to me, so I selected 12 men from among you, one man for each tribe.
Where can we go? Our brothers have discouraged us,
You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn up the city and all its spoil for the Lord your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever; it is not to be rebuilt.
“But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates,
Therefore, circumcise your hearts
He declared His covenant
So keep the command—the statutes and ordinances—that I am giving you to follow today.
be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.
You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire into the heavens and enveloped in a dense, black cloud.
“If you listen to and are careful to keep these ordinances, the Lord your God will keep His covenant loyalty with you, as He swore to your fathers.
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous
Command the people: You are about to travel through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.
He fed you in the wilderness with manna
tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
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And you saw in the wilderness how the Lord your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place.
and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases,
You grumbled in your tents
The Lord your God who goes before you
You also must love the foreigner, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the array of heaven—do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.
Then everyone else will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything evil like this among you.
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear
Within your gates you may not eat: the tenth of your grain, new wine, or oil; the firstborn of your herd or flock; any of your vow offerings that you pledge; your freewill offerings; or your personal contributions.
Be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside, worship, and bow down to other gods.
Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.
You may say to yourself, ‘My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,’
“So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
Like the nations the Lord is about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey the Lord your God.
Do this so that you may fear
If you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will perish.
Then the Lord spoke to you from the fire. You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn’t see a form; there was only a voice.
Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them.
You must eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God chooses—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates. Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you do,
Don’t fight with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even an inch of it,
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless your descendants,
Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the Lord will turn from His burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers.
You may purchase food from them with silver, so that you may eat, and buy water from them to drink.
“But you are to take the holy offerings you have and your vow offerings and go to the place the Lord chooses.
For who out of all mankind has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and lived?
Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that He made with you, and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of anything He has forbidden you.
This will occur if you obey the Lord your God, keeping all His commands I am giving you today, doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.
“Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go and drive out nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
Before our eyes the Lord inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household,
Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoking Him to anger.
We completely destroyed them, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
“When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances, which the Lord our God has commanded you?’
take an awl and pierce through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. Also treat your female slave the same way.
Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land
I was afraid of the fierce anger the Lord had directed against you,
Teach them to your children,
The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also.
a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
The Lord will remove all sickness from you; He will not put on you
Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’
You must not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
You will be blessed above all peoples; there will be no infertile male or female among you or your livestock.
You must not do the same to the Lord your God, because they practice every detestable thing, which the Lord hates, for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land,
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Your fathers went down to Egypt, 70 people in all,
Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue ruling many years
But we took all the livestock and the spoil from the cities as plunder for ourselves.
Keep in mind that the Lord your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will close the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land
But the Lord selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace to be a people for His inheritance, as you are today.
So keep the commands of the Lord your God by walking in His ways and fearing Him.
At that time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to follow in the land you are about to cross into and possess.
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire,
“I fell down in the presence of the Lord 40 days and 40 nights because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.
Every place the sole of your foot treads will be yours.
“At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon,
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands.
“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory as He has promised you,
Your little children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons who
The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.
Carefully observe the commands of the Lord your God, the decrees and statutes He has commanded you.
But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your fathers.
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, ‘How did these nations worship their gods? I’ll also do the same.’
For if you carefully observe every one of these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, walk in all His ways, and remain faithful
all the cities of the plateau, Gilead, and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.
The Lord commanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear the Lord our God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today.
“Be careful to follow these statutes and ordinances in the land that Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days you live on the earth.
If the place where Yahweh your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
“So we bypassed our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road and from Elath and Ezion-geber. We traveled along the road to the Wilderness of Moab.
Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.
Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
(Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed was made of iron.
The Emim, a great and numerous people as tall as the Anakim, had previously lived there.
Joshua son of Nun, who attends you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit it.
Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
“The Lord said to me at that time, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to Me on the mountain and make a wooden ark.
not to act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form,
“The Lord was devoted to you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
“Therefore, love the Lord your God and always keep His mandate and His statutes, ordinances, and commands.
“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.
Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
The Lord said to me, ‘Show no hostility toward Moab, and do not provoke them to battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, since I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’”
“When the Lord your God annihilates the nations before you,
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.
Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.’
Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods
“The Lord spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and thick darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
then Yahweh your God will choose the place to have His name dwell.
He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome works your eyes have seen.
The Horites had previously lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out, destroying them completely
do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:
Do not eat blood; pour it on the ground like water.
“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’
Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you.
I won’t be crossing the Jordan because I am going to die in this land. But you are about to cross over and take possession of this good land.
“You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone is doing whatever seems right in his own eyes.
“Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan
“When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, provoking Him to anger,
the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will drive out nations greater and stronger than you are.
“Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the Lord had told me, and we traveled around the hill country of Seir for many days.
there will be a blessing, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God I am giving you today,
Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.
The Lord your God will also send the hornet against them until all the survivors and those hiding from you perish.
and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.
For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand
You will eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do,
They were also regarded as Rephaim,
Don’t be terrified of them, for the Lord your God, a great and awesome God, is among you.
“At that time we took possession of this land.
and a curse, if you do not obey the commands of the Lord your God and you turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods you have not known.
or the form of any beast on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,
Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your other sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.
All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.
but He brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers.
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every
any creature that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the waters under the earth.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish
When you cross the Jordan and live in the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit,
No one will be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put fear and dread of you in all the land where you set foot, as He has promised you.
Aren’t these mountains across the Jordan, beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, near the oaks
When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, you will return to the Lord your God in later days and obey Him.
and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.
You will rejoice
You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions,
You must burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan
and have compassion on His servants
when He sees that their strength is gone
and no one is left—slave or free.
But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky.
He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
You must understand today that it is not your children who experienced or saw the discipline of the Lord your God:
His greatness, strong hand, and outstretched arm;
The Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.
and I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took over the entire region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He called Bashan by his own name, Jair’s Villages,
the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, the strong hand and outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you fear.
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was 38 years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
The Lord your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once; otherwise, the wild animals will become too numerous for you.
I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og. The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.
“The Lord was angry with me on your account. He swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land
You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.
You said, ‘Look, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice from the fire. Today we have seen that God speaks with a person, yet he still lives.
The Arabah and Jordan are also borders from Chinnereth
I gave Gilead to Machir,
“The Lord said, ‘Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.’ So we crossed the Zered Valley.
Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these 40 years.
The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors
Then on the day of the assembly, the Lord wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain from the fire. The Lord gave them to me,
“Keep every command I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to cross into and possess the land you are to inherit,
I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.’
Pursue justice and justice alone, so that you will live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.
and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
“At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi
the Lord spoke to me,
But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles,
His signs and the works He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;
Today I will begin to put the fear and dread of you on the peoples everywhere under heaven. They will hear the report about you, tremble, and be in anguish because of you.’
This too used to be regarded as the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim lived there previously, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,
while My sword devours flesh—
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
what He did to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots, when He made the waters of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, and He destroyed them
“I commanded Joshua at that time: Your own eyes have seen everything the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.
“I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights like the first time. The Lord also listened to me on this occasion;
They traveled from there to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.
The Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor,
The Lord spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.
At that time I was standing between the Lord and you to report the word
But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us and we will die if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer.
For this reason, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance like his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God told him.
“The Lord also said, ‘Get up, move out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have handed Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land over to you. Begin to take possession of it; engage him in battle.
and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. And they have remained there, as the Lord commanded me.”
Go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you can tell us everything the Lord our God tells you; we will listen and obey.’
“The Lord heard your
This was just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites before them; they drove them out and have lived in their place until now.
“When brothers live on the same property
Indeed, you have not yet come into the resting place
“So I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon from the Wilderness of Kedemoth, saying,
a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim. The Lord destroyed the Rephaim at the advance of the Ammonites, so that they drove them out and settled in their place.
When you get close to the Ammonites, don’t show any hostility to them or fight with them, for I will not give you any of the Ammonites’ land as a possession; I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’”
Lord God, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can perform deeds and mighty acts like Yours?
because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.
“I commanded you at that time: The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. All your fighting men will cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers the Israelites.
So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and climbed the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
Indeed, the Lord’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp until they had all perished.
He did not make this covenant with our fathers,
So the Lord our God also handed over Og king of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left.
But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites,
Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west, north, south, and east, and see it with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
“Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the Lord your God,
But you stand here with Me, and I will tell you every command—the statutes and ordinances—you are to teach them, so that they may follow them in the land I am giving them to possess.’
Know that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commands.
But your wives, young children, and livestock—I know that you have a lot of livestock—will remain in the cities I have given you
“But the Lord was angry with me on account of you and would not listen to me. The Lord said to me, ‘That’s enough! Do not speak to Me again about this matter.
Please let me cross over and see the beautiful land
until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they also take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession that I have given you.
“If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your gates in the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother.
Do not regard it as a hardship
‘None of these men in this evil generation will see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.
“You must consecrate to the Lord your God every firstborn male produced by your herd and flock.
In time their foot will slip,
for their day of disaster is near,
and their doom is coming quickly.”
just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for us, and the Moabites who live in Ar, until we cross the Jordan into the land the Lord our God is giving us.’
But commission Joshua and encourage and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit this land that you will see.’
“Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields.
But from there, you will search for the Lord your God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.
You can sell us food in exchange for silver so we may eat, and give us water for silver so we may drink. Only let us travel through on foot,
‘Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.
But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’
Go and tell them: Return to your tents.
to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance,
These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness,
“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:
there is no God but Me.
I bring death and I give life;
I wound and I heal.
No one can rescue anyone from My hand.
and divided the human race,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the people of Israel.
“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance,
“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a temporary resident living within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
“Observe the month of Abib
When the Lord your God drives them out before you, do not say to yourself, ‘The Lord brought me in to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.’ Instead, the Lord will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
“When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God hands them over to you and you take some of them prisoner, and
For the Lord your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.
When the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, He said, ‘Go up and possess the land I have given you’; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You did not believe or obey Him.
“Remember
But in spite of this you did not trust the Lord your God,
“One witness cannot establish any wrongdoing or sin against a person, whatever that person has done.
If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,
and underneath are the everlasting arms.
He drives out the enemy before you
and commands, “Destroy!”
But you may eat every clean flying creature.
I prayed to the Lord:
Lord God, do not annihilate Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed
“If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,
except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the Lord completely.’
You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
“Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you don’t forget the things your eyes have seen and so that they don’t slip from your mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.
When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.
“You continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.
“At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
“If
You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of Yahweh your God at the place where He chooses to have His name dwell,
“If your brother, the son of your mother,
Each year you and your family are to eat it before the Lord your God in the place the Lord chooses.
When he is seated on his royal throne, he is to write a copy of this instruction for himself on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you,
“Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
Fear Yahweh your God, worship Him, and take your oaths in His name.
Understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land
But understand that today the Lord your God will cross over ahead of you
The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim.
for He will avenge the blood of His servants.
He will take vengeance on His adversaries;
He will purify His land and His people.
“Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.
“You are sons of the Lord your God;
But if there is a defect in the animal, if it is lame or blind or has any serious defect, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.
“If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, and if the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Disregard this people’s stubbornness, and their wickedness and sin.
However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
You may spend the money on anything you want: cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or anything you desire. You are to feast there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your family.
The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the Lord your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
Otherwise, those in the land you brought us from will say, ‘Because the Lord wasn’t able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
“This command that I give you today is certainly not too difficult or beyond your reach.
No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the Lord’s assembly;
You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God:
My father was a wandering Aramean.
“All your males are to appear three times a year
“No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.
“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created man on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?
“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
listen, earth, to the words of my mouth.
“Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol
“When all these things happen to you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,
“If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship Him with all your heart and all your soul,
A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.
“The Lord was angry with me also because of you and said: ‘You will not enter there either.
He said:
and appeared to them from Seir;
He shone on them from Mount Paran
and came with ten thousand holy ones,
with lightning
the man who raped her must give the young woman’s father 50 silver shekels, and she must become his wife because he violated her.
“No man whose testicles have been crushed
“Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
you became fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
“If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.
If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and has sex with her,
When you returned, you wept before the Lord, but He didn’t listen to your requests or pay attention to you.
“At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and store it within your gates.
No prophet has arisen again in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.
“Look, today I set before you a blessing and a curse:
He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenant
Eat it within your gates; both the unclean person and the clean may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or deer.
for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be His own possession
you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse.
Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully.
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up and help you;
let it
“The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, will have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They will eat the Lord’s fire offerings; that is their
So I spoke to you, but you didn’t listen. You rebelled against the Lord’s command and defiantly went up into the hill country.
“When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
“If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
and hovers over His young;
He spreads His wings, catches him,
and lifts him up on His pinions.
“When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has urged rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the place of slavery,
All these blessings will come and overtake you, because you obey the Lord your God:
He must not acquire many wives for himself so that his heart won’t go astray. He must not acquire very large amounts of silver and gold for himself.
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,
The one condemned to die is to be executed on the testimony of two or three witnesses. No one is to be executed on the testimony of a single witness.
in a barren, howling wilderness;
He surrounded him, cared for him,
and protected him as the pupil of His eye.
Do not test
with their so-called gods;
they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.
So I will provoke their jealousy
with an inferior people;
I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
When you eat and are full,
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
“You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave the Israelites before his death.
For there will never cease to be poor people in the land;
The Lord is the One who will go before you.
“You answered me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ Then each of you put on his weapons of war and thought it would be easy to go up into the hill country.
“You must carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land
“When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can get food from them. You must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?
“Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or anything that can earn interest.
“For your own good, be extremely careful—because you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb—
You were shown these things so that you would know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides Him.
The Lord will open for you His abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands.
“Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town
“If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,
If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commands always, so that they and their children will prosper forever.
The Lord your God will make you prosper abundantly in all the work of your hands
The Lord your God will circumcise your heart
“But the Lord said to me, ‘Tell them: Don’t go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from being defeated by your enemies.’
cast spells, consult a medium or a familiar spirit, or inquire of the dead.
“Remember what the Amalekites did to you on the journey after you left Egypt.
“When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year,
You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a message the Lord has not spoken?’
“If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awesome name—Yahweh, your God—
“You are to celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress.
Then the Levite, who has no portion or inheritance among you, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come, eat, and be satisfied.
“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
and my word settle like dew,
like gentle rain on new grass
and showers on tender plants.
“If a case is too difficult for you—concerning bloodshed,
Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s
that wicked men have sprung up among you, led the inhabitants of their city astray, and said, ‘Let us go and worship other gods,’ which you have not known,
No one of illegitimate birth may enter the Lord’s assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the Lord’s assembly.
When a prophet speaks in the Lord’s name, and the message does not come true or is not fulfilled, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
and horns like
he gores all the peoples with them
to the ends of the earth.
Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and such are the thousands of Manasseh.
“If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty.
Although Levi has no inheritance among his brothers, the Lord is his inheritance, as He promised him.
“You will eat your children,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?
Today, recognize and keep in mind that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.
Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs—from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Declare the greatness of our God!
Then the Amorites who lived there came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir as far as Hormah.
Therefore, observe the words of this covenant
“If
“You must not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a defect or any serious flaw, for that is detestable to the Lord your God.
Moses was 120 years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him.
“If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; make sure you return it to your brother.
consider the years long past.
Ask your father, and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will teach you.
Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
However, he must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire many horses, for the Lord has told you, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you don’t understand,
“If a man is discovered kidnapping
Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
you forgot the God who gave birth to you.
it is unclean for you.
You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
It is not in heaven so that you have to ask, ‘Who will go up to heaven, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it?’
But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman’s virginity is found,
Do not deny justice to a foreigner or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’
“If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.
This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the journey after you came out of Egypt, and because Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim was hired to curse you.
He said about Levi:
You tested him at Massah
and contended with him at the waters of Meribah.
when you obey the Lord your God by keeping His commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to Him with all your heart and all your soul.
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.
You must not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship—because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the land and its produce,
and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker,
they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in His fierce anger.
“You must not have two different weights
and that sign or wonder he has promised you comes about, but he says, ‘Let us follow other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us worship them,’
Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, “Keep every command I am giving you today.
Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
“When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.
this is their defect
but a devious and crooked generation.
He buried him
Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, ‘The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty.
any of the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other—
The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to rest with your fathers, and these people will soon commit adultery with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will abandon Me and break the covenant
you are to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses.
Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,
Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.
to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your fathers did not fear.
you will serve your enemies the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke
Follow the whole instruction the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper, and have a long life in the land you will possess.
do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.
“There will be no poor among you, however, because the Lord is certain to bless you in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance
then He will restore your fortunes,
At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed the people of every city, including the women and children. We left no survivors.
Do not wear clothes made of both wool and linen.
If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
“When the Lord your God annihilates the nations whose land He is giving you,
Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
who rides the heavens to your aid,
the clouds in His majesty.
Jacob, His own inheritance.
But if the distance is too great for you to carry it, since the place where Yahweh your God chooses to put His name is too far away from you and since the Lord your God has blessed you,
You must follow the Lord your God and fear Him. You must keep His commands and listen to His voice; you must worship Him and remain faithful
Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; otherwise, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.
“Be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or the left.
But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:
though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—
they are unclean for you;
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?
Make tassels on the four corners of the outer garment you wear.
“The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.
For Yahweh your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes to stand and minister in His name from now on.
Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
But the message is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may follow it.
and My hand takes hold of judgment,
I will take vengeance on My adversaries
and repay those who hate Me.
For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you possess it and settle in it,
The witnesses’ hands are to be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people.
You are to give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first sheared wool of your flock.
Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
He said about Benjamin:
He
and he rests on His shoulders.
“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.
then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the Lord your God chooses.
Give to him, and don’t have a stingy heart
They will say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn’t obey us. He’s a glutton and a drunkard.’
You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the Lord your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the Lord your God has blessed you.
if you see a beautiful woman among the captives, desire her, and want to take her as your wife,
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poisonous;
their clusters are bitter.
“Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you.
The Lord said to Moses, “The time of your death is now approaching. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting so that I may commission him.” When Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting,
Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but He turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves
He said about Joseph:
with the dew of heaven’s bounty
and the watery depths that lie beneath;
When Moses had finished writing down on a scroll every single word
He must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him two shares
Rejoice
Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a foreign resident in his land.
Do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
with the fat of lambs,
rams from Bashan, and goats,
with the choicest grains of wheat;
you drank wine from the finest grapes.
The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.
When the Lord your God gives you rest
The Lord our God handed him over to us, and we defeated him, his sons, and his whole army.
“Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it.
and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky—which I have forbidden—
you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity,
you must take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land Yahweh your God is giving you and put it in a container. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His name dwell.
“The officers are to address the army, ‘Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
and eat the produce of the field.
He nourished him with honey from the rock
and oil from flint-like rock,
Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?
Sacrifice to Yahweh your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the Lord chooses to have His name dwell.
Gather the people—men, women, children, and foreigners living within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear
Moses came with Joshua
they enraged Him with detestable practices.
You must completely destroy them—the Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite—as the Lord your God has commanded you,
The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,
You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with oil, because your olives will drop off.
Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.
The Lord will establish you as His holy people,
and your strength last as long as you live.
You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do
If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime.
This is the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether it is an ox, a sheep, or a goat; the priests are to be given the shoulder, jaws, and stomach.
love the Lord your God, obey Him, and remain faithful
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us travel through his land, for the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to hand him over to you, as has now taken place.
“The Lord your God is commanding you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and all your soul.
When the Lord your God blesses you as He has promised you, you will lend to many nations but not borrow; you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.
and blessed in the country.
For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
The Lord will grant you a blessing on your storehouses and on everything you do;
“When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen down on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
On that same day the Lord spoke to Moses,
and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and all your soul by doing
If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp.
Then the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Therefore write down this song
he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
He said about Asher:
may he be the most favored among his brothers
and dip his foot in olive oil.
Who is like you,
a people saved by the Lord?
He is the shield that protects you,
the sword you boast in.
Your enemies will cringe before you,
and you will tread on their backs.
Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation,
This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor
Instead, you must kill him. Your hand is to be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
At the time you cross the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must set up large stones and cover them with plaster.
“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
“Indeed, you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and passed through the nations where you traveled.
the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
When the Lord your God hands it over to you, you must strike down all its males with the sword.
You must abide by the instruction they give you and the verdict they announce to you. Do not turn to the right or the left from the decision they declare to you.
You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Ask, and they will give you a verdict in the case.
the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope,
and the mountain sheep.
He may be flogged with 40 lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.
For the Lord your God is the One who goes with you to fight for you
When a Levite leaves one of your towns where he lives in Israel and wants to go to the place the Lord chooses,
When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt,
Then Moses recited aloud every single word
Everyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and the Lord your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable things.
“Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:
“All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you.
You must only sacrifice the Passover animal at the place where Yahweh your God chooses to have His name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt.
Because He loved
“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.
The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with children,
“Go up Mount Nebo in the Abarim range in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession.
“When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive.
You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do exactly as they instruct you.
“When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.
“You may eat everything from the water that has fins and scales,
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Although from a distance you will view the land that I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there.”
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce food. You may cut them down to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
Then all the men of his city will stone him to death.
I led you 40 years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;
Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess.
For the Lord your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything improper among you or He will turn away from you.
“All of you are standing today before the Lord your God—your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel,
The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do
Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will stand in awe of you.
“The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions.
But you may take the women, children, animals, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that the Lord your God has given you.
He is to say to them: ‘Listen, Israel: Today you are about to engage in battle with your enemies. Do not be cowardly. Do not be afraid, alarmed, or terrified because of them.
Moses then summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with
They will eat equal portions besides what he has received from the sale of the family estate.
Rejoice during your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates.
You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the Lord your God is giving you.
saying, “I am now 120 years old; I can no longer act as your leader.
“Then the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take possession of it.’
Even if your exiles are at the ends of the earth,
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name, and they are to give a ruling in
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.
you are to set apart three cities for yourselves within the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
For both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.
The officers will continue to address the army and say, ‘Is there any man who is afraid or cowardly? Let him leave and return home, so that his brothers’ hearts won’t melt like his own.’
This is what you requested from the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
you must bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death.
The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again.
When you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to cover them with plaster.
Jacob lives untroubled
in a land of grain and new wine;
even his skies drip with dew.
ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;
I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs,
as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.
The Lord uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed
Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him enough for whatever need he has.
He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
You saw their detestable images and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them.
When you are about to engage in battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army.
but these are the ones you may not eat:
the black vulture,
But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,
You, the Levite, and the foreign resident among you will rejoice
Has any man become engaged to a woman and not married her? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man marry her.’
and the second man hates her, writes her a divorce certificate, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house or if he
If your brother does not live near you or you don’t know him, you are to bring the animal to your home to remain with you until your brother comes looking for it; then you can return it to him.
They will also fine him 100 silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.
and for all the mighty acts of power and terrifying deeds that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.
They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from you.
I will see what will become of them,
for they are a perverse generation—
unfaithful children.
When you come before the priest who is serving at that time, you must say to him, ‘Today I acknowledge to the Lord your
You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
So Sihon and his whole army came out against us for battle at Jahaz.
For
You must eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there is to be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God, and you must not do any work.
All Your
and they assemble
Each receives Your words.
Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not go after other gods to worship them.
In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
“Then the priest will take the container from your hand and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
and everything in it;
and with the favor of Him
who appeared
May these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the prince of his brothers.
with no understanding at all.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.
You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them.
The Lord then said to him, “This is the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
The Lord your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it.
The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a young cow that has not been yoked or used for work.
Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God—you must not use any iron tool on them.
All Israel will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do anything evil like this among you.
You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
when the leaders of the people gathered
with the tribes of Israel.
He said about Zebulun:
and Issachar, in your tents.
If after leaving his house she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’
You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place He chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands,
You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.
they would understand their fate.
with no help from a foreign god.
Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.
No yeast is to be found anywhere in your territory for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day is to remain until morning.
The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.
and Your instruction to Israel;
they will set incense before You
and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.
He let you hear His voice from heaven to instruct you.
“Be careful in a case of infectious skin disease, following carefully everything the Levitical priests instruct you to do. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.
The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,
The judges are to make a careful investigation, and if the witness turns out to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
For I know that after my death you will become completely corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. Disaster will come to you in the future, because you will do what is evil in the Lord’s sight, infuriating Him with what your hands have made.”
and if you are told or hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened in Israel,
Then if you are not satisfied with her, you are to let her go where she wants, but you must not sell her for money or treat her as merchandise,
if only you obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.
your children, your wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.
Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promised
so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which He is making with you today, so that you may enter into His oath
and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
Today you have affirmed that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes, commands, and ordinances, and obey Him.
For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.
he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,
And today the Lord has affirmed that you are His special people as He promised you, that you are to keep all His commands,
Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:
The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab 30 days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
“I do not regard them.”
He disregarded his brothers
and didn’t acknowledge his sons,
for they kept Your word
and maintained Your covenant.
when that man gives what he has to his sons as an inheritance, he is not to show favoritism to the son of the loved wife as his firstborn over the firstborn of the unloved wife.
My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide My face from them so that they will become easy prey.
Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau land, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; or Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.
and your land’s produce,
and the offspring of your livestock,
including the young of your herds
and the newborn of your flocks.
Look down from Your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
The Levites will proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:
All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken.
Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, “Be silent, Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the Lord your God.
The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,
The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
when all Israel assembles
You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she must go to the elders at the city gate
a ruthless nation,
You must have a digging tool in your equipment; when you relieve yourself, dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.
Give generously to him from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You are to give him whatever the Lord your God has blessed you with.
the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.
I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean
and inside, there will be terror;
the young man and the young woman will be killed,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
The Lord will deal with them as He did Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and their land when He destroyed them.
The Lord your God is the One who will cross ahead of you.
across the Jordan in the valley facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites. He lived in Heshbon, and Moses and the Israelites defeated him after they came out of Egypt.
you are to bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
He led us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are rebelling against the Lord now, while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after I am dead!
The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,
However, if it does not make peace with you but wages war against you, lay siege to it.
the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the gate.
Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit?
Then you will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
There was no city that was inaccessible to
and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’
provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
Then the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, with terrifying power, and with signs and wonders.
The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.
Obey the Lord your God and follow His commands and statutes I am giving you today.”
so that they won’t teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God.
If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.
You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
He said this about Judah:
He fights for his cause
but may You be a help against his foes.
These curses will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.
You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long.
and so that He may establish you today as His people and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
that He will elevate you to praise, fame, and glory above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales—it is unclean for you.
the two people in the dispute must stand in the presence of the Lord before the priests and judges in authority at that time.
You are to cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning.
he may serve in the name of Yahweh his God like all his fellow Levites who minister there in the presence of the Lord.
his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate
I have now brought the first of the land’s produce that You, Lord, have given me.
You will then place the container before the Lord your God and bow down to Him.
You are to determine the distances
The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.
remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.
Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.
And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because
Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger
and single him out for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
provided you keep every one of these commands I am giving you today and follow them, loving the Lord your God and walking in His ways at all times—you are to add three more cities to these three.
Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
there they offer acceptable sacrifices.
For they draw from the wealth of the seas
and the hidden treasures of the sand.
The Lord commissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I swore to them, and I will be with you.”
the elders of his city must send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.
When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may come inside the camp.
Then all the people will hear about it, be afraid, and no longer behave arrogantly.
and your land’s produce,
the young of your herds,
and the newborn of your flocks.
We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.
Write all the words of this law on the stones after you cross to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey,
you are to cut off her hand. You must not show pity.
But you did not go near the Ammonites’ land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River,
and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.
Then you will say in the presence of the Lord your God:
I have taken the consecrated portion out of my house; I have also given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commands You gave me. I have not violated or forgotten Your commands.
He said about Gad:
will be blessed.
He lies down like a lion
and tears off an arm or even a head.
He said about Naphtali:
full of the Lord’s blessing,
take
All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings who were across the Jordan to the east,
You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.
When I bring them into the land I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey,
When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
You must not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.
The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly
I will certainly hide My face on that day because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.
Lord, forgive Your people Israel You redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.’ Then they will be absolved of responsibility for bloodshed.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
If the Lord your God enlarges your territory as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised to give them—
and accept the work of his hands.
Smash the loins of his adversaries and enemies,
so that they cannot rise again.
They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God.
Be sure to return it
Assemble all your tribal elders and officers before me so that I may speak these words directly to them and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.
You saw with your own eyes the great trials and those great signs and wonders.
Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, and He brought every curse written in this book on it.
The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling
The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.
you did not eat bread or drink wine or beer—so that you might know that I am Yahweh your God.
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not glean what is left. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
because a ruler’s portion was assigned there for him.
He came with the leaders of the people;
he carried out the Lord’s justice
and His ordinances for Israel.
When the officers have finished addressing the army, they will appoint military commanders to lead it.
And it is not across the sea so that you have to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it?’
When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
or feared that these foes might misunderstand
and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;
it wasn’t the Lord who did all this.’”
And his family name in Israel will be called ‘The house of the man whose sandal was removed.’
And these tribes will stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
You must stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you.
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow down to other gods and worship them,
So Moses wrote down this song on that day and taught it to the Israelites.
The Lord will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.
and the abundant yield of the seasons;
These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.
The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
We took only the livestock and the spoil from the cities we captured as plunder for ourselves.
He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.
and the bounty of the eternal hills;
But the Egyptians mistreated and afflicted us, and forced us to do hard labor.
Then people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which He had made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
So we called out to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our cry and saw our misery, hardship, and oppression.
refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.
In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.
Then their children
the Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood at the entrance to the tent.
Use uncut stones to build the altar of the Lord your God and offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God on it.
Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed
They began to worship other gods, bowing down to gods they had not known—gods that the Lord had not permitted them to worship.
I tell you today that you will certainly perish and will not live long in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan.
Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival.
He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.
The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’
There you are to sacrifice fellowship offerings, eat, and rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God.
but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not here today.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
He was unparalleled for all the signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do against the land of Egypt—to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land,