1:1 These are the words which Moses said to all Israel on
the
far side of Jordan,
in the waste land in the Arabah opposite
Suph, between Paran
on the one side, and Tophel, Laban,
Hazeroth, and Dizahab
on the other.
1:2 It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of
Mount
Seir to
Kadesh-barnea.
1:3 Now in the fortieth year, on the first day of the
eleventh
month, Moses gave to
the children of Israel all the orders
which the Lord had
given him for them;
1:4 After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites,
ruling in
Heshbon, and Og, king
of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:
1:5 On the far side of Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses
gave
the people this law,
saying,
1:6 The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, You have been long
enough in this
mountain:
1:7 Make a move now, and go on your way into the
hill-country of
the Amorites and the
places near it, in the Arabah and the
hill-country and in
the lowlands and in the South and by the
seaside, all the land
of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as
the great river, the
river Euphrates.
1:8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for
yourselves the land
which the Lord gave by an oath to your
fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after
them.
1:9 At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake
the
care of you by
myself;
1:10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you
are
like the stars of
heaven in number.
1:11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a
thousand
times greater in
number than you are, and give you his blessing
as he has said!
1:12 How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible
for
you, and undertake
the weight of all your troubles and your
arguments?
1:13 Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and
respected among you,
from your tribes, and I will make them
rulers over you.
1:14 And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us
to do
as you say.
1:15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and
respected,
and made them rulers
over you, captains of thousands and
captains of hundreds
and captains of fifties and captains of
tens, and overseers
of your tribes.
1:16 And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying,
Let
all questions between
your brothers come before you for
hearing, and give
decisions uprightly between a man and his
brother or one from
another nation who is with him.
1:17 In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight
with you; give
hearing equally to small and great; have no fear
of any man, for it is
God who is judge: and any cause in which
you are not able to
give a decision, you are to put before me
and I will give it a
hearing.
1:18 And at that time I gave you all the orders which you
were
to do.
1:19 Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and
cruel waste which you
saw, on our way to the hill-country of
the Amorites, as the
Lord gave us orders; and we came to
Kadesh-barnea.
1:20 And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of
the
Amorites, which the
Lord our God is giving us.
1:21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your
hands: go up and take
it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers,
has said to you; have
no fear and do not be troubled.
1:22 And you came near to me, every one of you, and said,
Let us
send men before us to
go through the land with care and give us
an account of the way
we are to go and the towns to which we
will come.
1:23 And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve
men
from among you, one
from every tribe;
1:24 And they went up into the hill-country and came to the
valley of Eshcol, and
saw what was there.
1:25 And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the
land,
they came down again
to us, and gave us their account, saying,
It is a good land
which the Lord our God is giving us.
1:26 But going against the order of the Lord your God, you
would
not go up:
1:27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said,
In
his hate for us the
Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt,
to give us up into
the hands of the Amorites for our
destruction.
1:28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our
hearts
feeble with fear by
saying, The people are greater and taller
than we are, and the
towns are great and walled up to heaven;
and more than this,
we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
1:29 Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.
1:30 The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting
for
you, and will do such
wonders as he did for you in Egypt before
your eyes;
1:31 And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord
was
supporting you, as a
man does his son, in all your journeying
till you came to this
place.
1:32 But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your
God,
1:33 Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place
where
you may put up your
tents, in fire by night, lighting up the
way you are to go,
and in a cloud by day.
1:34 And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said
with
an oath,
1:35 Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that
good
land which I said I
would give to your fathers,
1:36 But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he will see it;
and
to him and to his
children I will give the land over which his
feet have gone,
because he has been true to the Lord with all
his heart.
1:37 And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of
you, saying, You
yourself will not go into it:
1:38 Joshua, the son of Nun, your servant, he will go into
the
land: say to him that
he is to be strong, for he will be
Israel's guide into
their heritage.
1:39 And your little ones, who, you said, would come into
strange hands, your
children, who now have no knowledge of good
or evil, they will go
into that land, and to them I will give
it and it will be
theirs.
1:40 But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land
by
the way of the Red
Sea.
1:41 Then you said to me, We have done evil against the
Lord, we
will go up to the
attack, as the Lord our God has given us
orders. And arming
yourselves every one, you made ready to go
up without care into
the hill-country.
1:42 And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to
the
attack; for I am not
among you, and you will be overcome by
those who are against
you.
1:43 This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went
against the orders of
the Lord, and in your pride went up into
the hill-country.
1:44 And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out
against you and put
you to flight, rushing after you like bees,
and overcame you in
Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.
1:45 And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the
Lord
gave no attention to
your cries and did not give ear to you.
1:46 So you were kept waiting in Kadesh for a long time.
2:1 Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the
way
to the Red Sea, as
the Lord had said to me: and we were a long
time going round
Mount Seir.
2:2 And the Lord said to me,
2:3 You have been journeying round this mountain long
enough:
now go to the north;
2:4 And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go
through the land of
your brothers, the children of Esau, who
are living in Seir;
and they will have fear of you; so take
care what you do:
2:5 Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of
their
land, not even space
enough for a man's foot: because I have
given Mount Seir to
Esau for his heritage.
2:6 You may get food for your needs from them for a price,
and
water for drinking.
2:7 For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in
all
the work of your
hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings
through this great
waste: these forty years the Lord your God
has been with you,
and you have been short of nothing.
2:8 So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau,
living in Seir, by
the road through the Arabah, from Elath and
Ezion-geber. And
turning, we went by the road through the waste
land of Moab.
2:9 And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do
not
go to war with them,
for I will not give you any of his land:
because I have given
Ar to the children of Lot for their
heritage.
2:10 (In the past the Emim were living there; a great
people,
equal in numbers to
the Anakim and as tall;
2:11 They are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim;
but
are named Emim by the
Moabites.
2:12 And the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir,
but
the children of Esau
took their place; they sent destruction on
them and took their
land for themselves, as Israel did to the
land of his heritage
which the Lord gave them.)
2:13 Get up now, and go over the stream Zered. So we went
over
the stream Zered.
2:14 Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we
came
away from
Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by
that time all the
generation of the men of war among us were
dead, as the Lord had
said.
2:15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working
their
destruction, till all
were dead.
2:16 So when death had overtaken all the men of war among
the
people,
2:17 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2:18 You are about to go by Ar, the limit of the country of
Moab;
2:19 And when you come near the land of the children of
Ammon,
give them no cause of
trouble and do not make war on them, for
I will not give you
any of the land of the children of Ammon
for your heritage:
because I have given it to the children of
Lot.
2:20 (That land is said to have been a land of the Rephaim,
for
Rephaim had been
living there in earlier times, but they were
named Zamzummim by
the Ammonites;
2:21 They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal
to
them in number; but
the Lord sent destruction on them and the
children of Ammon
took their place, living in their land;
2:22 As he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when
he
sent destruction on
the Horites before them, and they took
their land where they
are living to this day:
2:23 And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as
Gaza,
came to destruction
by the hands of the Caphtorim who came out
from Caphtor and took
their land.)
2:24 Get up now, and go on your journey, crossing over the
valley of the Arnon:
see, I have given into your hands Sihon,
the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and all his land: go forward to
make it yours, and
make war on him,
2:25 From now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples
under
heaven, who, hearing
of you, will be shaking with fear and
grief of heart
because of you.
2:26 Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent
representatives
to Sihon, king of
Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,
2:27 Let me go through your land: I will keep to the
highway,
not turning to the
right or to the left;
2:28 Let me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water
for
drinking: only let me
go through on foot;
2:29 As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the
Moabites
in Ar; till I have
gone over Jordan into the land which the
Lord our God is
giving us.
2:30 But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through;
for the Lord your God
made his spirit hard and his heart
strong, so that he
might give him up into your hands as at this
day.
2:31 And the Lord said to me, See, from now on I have given
Sihon and his land
into your hands: go forward now to take his
land and make it
yours.
2:32 Then Sihon came out against us with all his people, to
make
an attack on us at
Jahaz.
2:33 And the Lord our God gave him into our hands; and we
overcame him and his
sons and all his people.
2:34 At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over
to
complete destruction,
together with men, women, and children;
we had no mercy on
any:
2:35 Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods
from
the towns we had
taken.
2:36 From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and
from
the town in the
valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong
enough to keep us
out; the Lord our God gave them all into our
hands:
2:37 But you did not go near the land of the children of
Ammon,
that is, all the side
of the river Jabbok or the towns of the
hill-country,
wherever the Lord our God had said we were not to
go.
3:1 Then turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of
Bashan, came out
against us with all his people, and made an
attack on us at
Edrei.
3:2 And the Lord said to me, Have no fear of him: for I have
given him and all his
people and his land into your hands; do
to him as you did to
Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was
ruling in Heshbon.
3:3 So the Lord our God gave up Og, king of Bashan, and all
his
people into our
hands; and we overcame him so completely that
all his people came
to their end in the fight.
3:4 At that time we took all his towns; there was not one
town
of the sixty towns,
all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og
in Bashan, which we
did not take.
3:5 All these towns had high walls round them with doors and
locks; and in
addition we took a great number of unwalled
towns.
3:6 And we put them to the curse, every town together with
men,
women, and children.
3:7 But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored
wealth of the towns.
3:8 At that time we took their land from the two kings of
the
Amorites on the far
side of Jordan, from the valley of the
Arnon to Mount
Hermon;
3:9 (By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the
Amorites Shenir;)
3:10 All the towns of the table-land and all Gilead and
Bashan
as far as Salecah and
Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in
Bashan.
3:11 (For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the
Rephaim;
his bed was made of
iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of
the children of
Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits
wide, measured by the
common cubit.)
3:12 And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by
the
valley of the Arnon,
and half the hill-country of Gilead with
its towns, I gave to
the Reubenites and the Gadites.
3:13 The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og,
all
the land of Argob,
together with Bashan, I gave to the
half-tribe of
Manasseh. (This land is named the land of the
Rephaim.
3:14 Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob,
as
far as the country of
the Geshurites and the Maacathites,
naming it, Bashan,
Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this
day.)
3:15 And Gilead I gave to Machir.
3:16 And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon,
with
the middle of the
valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok
which is the limit of
the country of the children of Ammon, I
gave to the
Reubenites and the Gadites;
3:17 As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their
limit, from
Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of
Pisgah to the east.
3:18 At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has
given
you this land for
your heritage: all the men of war are to go
over armed before
your brothers the children of Israel.
3:19 But your wives and your little ones and your cattle
(for it
is clear that you
have much cattle) may go on living in the
towns I have given
you;
3:20 Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you,
and till they have
taken for themselves the land which the Lord
your God is giving
them on the other side of Jordan: then you
may go back, every
man of you, to the heritage which I have
given you.
3:21 And I gave orders to Joshua at that time, saying, Your
eyes
have seen what the
Lord your God has done to these two kings:
so will the Lord do
to all the kingdoms into which you come.
3:22 Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be
fighting for you.
3:23 And at that time I made request to the Lord, saying,
3:24 O Lord God, you have now for the first time let your
servant see your
great power and the strength of your hand; for
what god is there in
heaven or on earth able to do such great
works and such acts
of power?
3:25 Let me go over, O Lord, and see the good land on the
other
side of Jordan, and
that fair mountain country, even Lebanon.
3:26 But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would
not
give ear to my
prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be
enough, say no more
about this thing.
3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and turning your eyes to
the
west and the north,
to the south and the east, see the land
with your eyes: for
you are not to go over Jordan.
3:28 But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making
him
strong; for he is to
go over Jordan at the head of this people,
and he will give them
this land which you will see for their
heritage.
3:29 So we were waiting in the valley facing Beth-peor.
4:1 And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the
decisions
which I am teaching
you, and do them; so that life may be
yours, and you may go
in and take for yourselves the land which
the Lord, the God of
your fathers, is giving you.
4:2 Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and
take
nothing from them,
but keep the orders of the Lord your God
which I give you.
4:3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of
Baal-peor:
for destruction came
from the Lord on all those among you who
went after Baal-peor.
4:4 But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every
one
of you, today.
4:5 I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was
ordered to do by the
Lord my God, so that you might keep them
in the land to which
you are going to take it for your
heritage.
4:6 So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom
and
good sense be clear
in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all
these laws will say,
Truly, this great nation is a wise and
far-seeing people.
4:7 For what great nation has a god so near to them as the
Lord
our God is, whenever
we are turned to him in prayer?
4:8 And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as
all
this law which I put
before you today?
4:9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear
that
the things which your
eyes have seen go from your memory and
from your heart all
the days of your life; but let the
knowledge of them be
given to your children and to your
children's children;
4:10 That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God
in
Horeb, and the Lord
said to me, Make all the people come
together, so that
hearing my words they may go in fear of me
all the days of their
life on earth and give this teaching to
their children.
4:11 And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain;
and
flames of fire went
up from the mountain to the heart of
heaven, with dark
clouds, and all was black as night.
4:12 And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire:
the
sound of his words
came to your ears but you saw no form; there
was nothing but a
voice.
4:13 And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules
which
you were to keep,
which he put in writing on the two stones of
the law.
4:14 And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear
to
you these laws and
decisions, so that you might do them in the
land to which you are
going, and which is to be your heritage.
4:15 So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no
form
of any sort on the
day when the voice of the Lord came to you
in Horeb out of the
heart of the fire:
4:16 So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for
yourselves an image
in the form of any living thing, male or
female,
4:17 Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,
4:18 Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any
fish in
the water under the
earth.
4:19 And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see
the
sun and the moon and
the stars, all the army of heaven, do not
let yourselves be
moved to give them worship, or become the
servants of what the
Lord has given equally to all peoples
under heaven.
4:20 But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out
of
Egypt, to be to him
the people of his heritage, as you are
today.
4:21 And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made
an
oath that I was not
to go over Jordan into the good land which
the Lord is giving
you for your heritage:
4:22 But death is to come to me in this land, I may not go
over
Jordan: but you will
go over and take that good land for your
heritage.
4:23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord
your God, which he
has made with you, go out of your mind, or
make for yourselves
images of any sort, against the orders
which the Lord your
God has given you.
4:24 For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he
will
not let the honour
which is his be given to any other.
4:25 If, when you have had children and children's children,
and
have been living a
long time in the land, you are turned to
evil ways, and make
an image of any sort, and do evil in the
eyes of the Lord your
God, moving him to wrath:
4:26 May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today,
that destruction will
quickly overtake you, cutting you off
from that land which
you are going over Jordan to take; your
days will not be long
in that land, but you will come to a
complete end.
4:27 And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples;
only a small band of
you will be kept from death among the
nations where the
Lord will send you.
4:28 There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's
hands, of wood and
stone, having no power of seeing or hearing
or taking food or
smelling.
4:29 But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord
your
God, searching for
him with all your heart and soul, he will
not keep himself from
you.
4:30 When you are in trouble and all these things have come
on
you, if, in the
future, you are turned again to the Lord your
God, and give ear to
his voice:
4:31 Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will
not
take away his help
from you or let destruction overtake you, or
be false to the
agreement which he made by an oath with your
fathers.
4:32 Give thought now to the days which are past, before
your
time, from the day
when God first gave life to man on the
earth, and searching
from one end of heaven to the other, see
if such a great thing
as this has ever been, or if anything
like it has been
talked of in story.
4:33 Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the
voice
of God out of the
heart of the fire as you did?
4:34 Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out
of
another nation, by
punishments and signs and wonders, by war
and by a strong hand
and a stretched-out arm and great acts of
wonder and fear, as
the Lord your God did for you in Egypt,
before your very
eyes?
4:35 All this he let you see, so that you might be certain
that
the Lord is God and
there is no other.
4:36 Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching
you;
and on earth he let
you see his great fire; and his words came
to your ears out of
the heart of the fire.
4:37 And because of his love for your fathers, he took their
seed and made it his,
and he himself, present among you, took
you out of Egypt by
his great power;
4:38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger
than
you, to take you into
their land and give it to you for your
heritage, as at this
day.
4:39 So today be certain, and keep the knowledge deep in
your
hearts, that the Lord
is God, in heaven on high and here on
earth; there is no
other God.
4:40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you
today,
so that it may be
well for you and for your children after you,
and that your lives
may be long in the land which the Lord your
God is giving you for
ever.
4:41 Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side
of
Jordan looking to the
east;
4:42 To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in
error
and not through hate,
might go in flight; so that in one of
these towns he might
be kept from death:
4:43 The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in
the
table-land, for the
Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the
Gadites; and Golan in
Bashan for Manasseh.
4:44 This is the law which Moses put before the children of
Israel:
4:45 These are the rules and the laws and the decisions
which
Moses gave to the
children of Israel after they came out of
Egypt;
4:46 On the far side of Jordan, in the valley facing
Beth-peor,
in the land of Sihon,
king of the Amorites, who was ruling in
Heshbon, whom Moses
and the children of Israel overcame after
they had come out of
Egypt:
4:47 And they took his land for a heritage, and the land of
Og,
king of Bashan, the
two kings of the Amorites, whose lands were
on the other side of
Jordan to the east;
4:48 From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon as
far as
Mount Sion, which is
Hermon,
4:49 And all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the
east,
as far as the sea of
the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah.
5:1 And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give
ear, O
Israel, to the laws
and the decisions which I give you today,
and give attention to
them so that you may keep and do them.
5:2 The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.
5:3 The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers
but
with us, who are all
living and present here today.
5:4 The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the
mountain, out of the
heart of the fire,
5:5 (I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make
clear
to you the word of
the Lord: because, through fear of the fire,
you did not go up the
mountain;) saying,
5:6 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of
Egypt, out of the
prison-house.
5:7 You are to have no other gods but me.
5:8 You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of
anything in heaven or
on earth or in the waters under the
earth:
5:9 You may not go down on your faces before them or give
them
worship: for I, the
Lord your God, am a God who will not give
his honour to another;
and I will send punishment on the
children for the
wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and
fourth generation of
my haters;
5:10 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on
those who have love
for me and keep my laws.
5:11 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your
God
for an evil purpose;
whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips
for an evil purpose
will be judged as a sinner by the Lord.
5:12 Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been
ordered by the Lord your
God.
5:13 On six days do all your work:
5:14 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God;
on
that day do no work,
you or your son or your daughter, or your
man-servant or your
woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or
any of your cattle,
or the man from a strange country who is
living among you; so
that your man-servant and your
woman-servant may
have rest as well as you.
5:15 And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of
Egypt, and that the
Lord your God took you out of that land by
his strong hand and
his stretched-out arm: for this reason the
Lord has given you
orders to keep the Sabbath day.
5:16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have
been ordered by the
Lord your God; so that your life may be
long and all may be
well for you in the land which the Lord
your God is giving
you.
5:17 Do not put anyone to death without cause.
5:18 Do not be false to the married relation.
5:19 Do not take the property of another.
5:20 Do not give false witness against your neighbour;
5:21 Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife,
or
his house or his
field or his man-servant or his woman-servant
or his ox or his ass
or anything which is your neighbour's.
5:22 These words the Lord said to all of you together on the
mountain, out of the
heart of the fire, out of the cloud and
the dark, with a
great voice: and he said no more; he put them
in writing on the two
stones of the law and gave them to me.
5:23 And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark
while the mountain
was burning with fire, all the heads of your
tribes and your
chiefs came to me,
5:24 And said, The Lord has let us see his glory and his
power,
and his voice has
come to us out of the fire: today we have
seen that a man may
go on living even after hearing the voice
of God.
5:25 Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of
the
Lord our God comes to
us any more, death will overtake us, and
we will be burned up
in this great fire.
5:26 For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing
the
voice of the living
God as we have, out of the heart of the
fire, has been kept
from death?
5:27 Do you go near: and after hearing everything which the
Lord
our God has to say,
give us an account of all he has said to
you, and we will give
ear, and do it.
5:28 Then the Lord, hearing your words to me, said to me,
The
words which this
people have said to you have come to my ears:
what they have said
is well said.
5:29 If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so
that
they might go in fear
of me and keep my orders and that it
might be well for
them and for their children for ever!
5:30 Now say to them, Go back to your tents.
5:31 But as for you, keep your place here by me, and I will
give
you all the orders
and the laws and the decisions which you are
to make clear to
them, so that they may do them in the land
which I am giving
them for their heritage.
5:32 Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has
given
you orders to do; let
there be no turning away to the right
hand or to the left.
5:33 Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord
your
God, so that life may
be yours and it may be well for you, and
your days may be long
in the land of your heritage.
6:1 Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions
which the Lord your
God gave me for your teaching, so that you
might do them in the
land of your heritage to which you are
going:
6:2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may
keep all his laws and
his orders, which I give you: you and
your son and your
son's son, all the days of your life; and so
that your life may be
long.
6:3 So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that
it
may be well for you,
and you may be greatly increased, as the
Lord the God of your
fathers has given you his word, in a land
flowing with milk and
honey.
6:4 Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:
6:5 And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart
and
with all your soul
and with all your strength.
6:6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in
your
hearts;
6:7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of
them when you are at
rest in your house or walking by the way,
when you go to sleep
and when you get up.
6:8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on
your
brow;
6:9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and
over
the doors of your
towns.
6:10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land
which he gave his
oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, that he
would give you; with great and fair towns
which were not of
your building;
6:11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you,
and
places for storing
water which you did not make, and
vine-gardens and
olive-trees not of your planting; and you have
taken food and are
full;
6:12 Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the
Lord,
who took you out of
the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
6:13 Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts,
and be
his servants, taking
your oaths by his name.
6:14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples
round
about you;
6:15 For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will
not
let his honour be
given to another; or the wrath of the Lord
will be burning
against you, causing your destruction from the
face of the earth.
6:16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in
Massah.
6:17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his
rules and his laws
which he has given you;
6:18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord
your God, so that it
may be well for you and you may go in and
take for your
heritage that good land from which the Lord
undertook by an oath
to your fathers,
6:19 To send out from before you all those who are against
you.
6:20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is
the
reason for these
rules and laws and decisions which the Lord
our God has given
you?
6:21 Then you will say to your son, We were servants under
Pharaoh's yoke in
Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with
a strong hand:
6:22 And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt,
and
against Pharaoh and
all his house, before our eyes:
6:23 And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to
give
us this land, as he
said in his oath to our fathers.
6:24 And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in
the
fear of the Lord our
God, so that it might be well for us for
ever, and that he might
keep us from death, as he has done to
this day.
6:25 And it will be our righteousness if we take care to
keep
all this order before
the Lord our God as he has given it to
us.
7:1 When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you
are
going, which is to be
your heritage, and has sent out the
nations before you,
the Hittites and the Girgashites and the
Amorites and the
Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites
and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and stronger than you;
7:2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and
you
have overcome them,
give them up to complete destruction: make
no agreement with
them, and have no mercy on them:
7:3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not
give
your daughters to their
sons, or take their daughters for your
sons.
7:4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the
worship of other
gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath
against you and send
destruction on you quickly.
7:5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are
to
be pulled down and
their pillars broken, and their holy trees
cut down and their
images burned with fire.
7:6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked
out
by the Lord your God
to be his special people out of all the
nations on the face
of the earth.
7:7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for
himself
because you were more
in number than any other people; for you
were the smallest of
the nations:
7:8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep
his
oath to your fathers,
the Lord took you out with the strength
of his hand, making
you free from the prison-house and from the
hand of Pharaoh, king
of Egypt.
7:9 Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose
faith
and mercy are
unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand
generations to those
who have love for him and keep his laws;
7:10 Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he
will have no mercy on
his hater, but will give him open
punishment.
7:11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which
I
give you today and do
them.
7:12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these
decisions and keep
and do them, then the Lord will keep his
agreement with you
and his mercy, as he said in his oath to
your fathers.
7:13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and
increasing
you: he will send his
blessing on the offspring of your body
and the fruit of your
land, your grain and your wine and your
oil, the increase of
your cattle and the young of your flock,
in the land which by
his oath to your fathers he undertook to
give you.
7:14 You will have greater blessings than any other people:
no
male or female among
you or among your cattle will be without
offspring.
7:15 And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and
will
not put on you any of
the evil diseases of Egypt which you have
seen, but will put
them on your haters.
7:16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples
which
the Lord your God
gives into your hands; have no pity on them,
and do not give
worship to their gods; for that will be a cause
of sin to you.
7:17 If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in
number than we are:
how are we to take their land from them?
7:18 Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the
Lord
your God did to
Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
7:19 The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the
signs
and the wonders and
the strong hand and the stretched-out arm,
by which the Lord
your God took you out: so will the Lord your
God do to all the
peoples who are the cause of your fears.
7:20 And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all
the
rest who have kept
themselves safe from you in secret places
have been cut off.
7:21 Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with
you, a
great God greatly to
be feared.
7:22 The Lord your God will send out the nations before you
little by little;
they are not to be rooted out quickly, for
fear that the beasts
of the field may be increased overmuch
against you.
7:23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your
hands,
overpowering them
till their destruction is complete.
7:24 He will give their kings into your hands, and you will
put
their names out of
existence under heaven; there is not one of
them who will not
give way before you, till their destruction
is complete.
7:25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire:
have
no desire for the
gold and silver on them, and do not take it
for yourselves, for
it will be a danger to you: it is a thing
disgusting to the
Lord your God:
7:26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your
house,
and so become cursed
with its curse: but keep yourselves from
it, turning from it
with fear and hate, for it is a cursed
thing.
8:1 Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today,
so
that you may have
life and be increased and go in and take as a
heritage the land
which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers,
undertook to give
you.
8:2 And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has
taken you through the
waste land these forty years, so that he
might make low your
pride and put you to the test, to see what
was in your heart and
if you would keep his orders or not.
8:3 And he made low your pride and let you be without food
and
gave you manna for
your food, a thing new to you, which your
fathers never saw; so
that he might make it clear to you that
bread is not man's
only need, but his life is in every word
which comes out of
the mouth of the Lord.
8:4 Through all these forty years your clothing did not get
old
or your feet become
tired.
8:5 Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by
his
father, so you have
been trained by the Lord your God.
8:6 Then keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him
and
walking in his ways.
8:7 For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a
land of
water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing
out from the valleys
and the hills;
8:8 A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits;
a
land of oil-giving
olive-trees and honey;
8:9 Where there will be bread for you in full measure and
you
will be in need of
nothing; a land where the very stones are
iron and from whose
hills you may get copper.
8:10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the
Lord your God for the
good land he has given you.
8:11 Then take care that you are not turned away from the
Lord
your God and from
keeping his orders and decisions and laws
which I give you this
day:
8:12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have
made
fair houses for
yourselves and are living in them;
8:13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and
your
stores of silver and
gold, and you have wealth of every sort;
8:14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride,
giving no thought to
the Lord your God who took you out of the
land of Egypt, out of
the prison-house;
8:15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste,
where there were
poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land
without water; who
made water come out of the hard rock for
you;
8:16 Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a
food
which your fathers
had never seen; so that your pride might be
broken and your
hearts tested for your good in the end;
8:17 Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength
of
my hands have got me
this wealth.
8:18 But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who
gives
you the power to get
wealth, so that he may give effect to the
agreement which he
made by his oath with your fathers, as at
this day.
8:19 And it is certain that if at any time you are turned
away
from the Lord your
God, and go after other gods, to be their
servants and to give
them worship, destruction will overtake
you.
8:20 Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before
you,
so you will be cut
off; because you would not give ear to the
voice of the Lord
your God.
9:1 Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to
take
the heritage of
nations greater and stronger than yourselves,
and towns of great
size with walls as high as heaven;
9:2 A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom
you
have knowledge and of
whom it has been said, All are forced to
give way before the
sons of Anak.
9:3 Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who
goes
over before you like
an all-burning fire; he will send
destruction on them,
crushing them before you; and you will
send them in flight,
putting an end to them quickly, as the
Lord has said.
9:4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before
you,
say not in your
heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has
given me this land;
when it is because of their evil-doing that
the Lord is driving
these nations out before you.
9:5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are
upright are you going
in to take their land; but because of the
evil-doing of these
nations the Lord your God is driving them
out from before you,
and to give effect to his oath to your
fathers, Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob.
9:6 Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you
this good land as a
reward for your righteousness; for you are
a stiff-necked
people.
9:7 Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry
in
the waste land; from
the day when you went out of Egypt till
you came to this
place, you have gone against the orders of the
Lord.
9:8 Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath
he
would have put an end
to you.
9:9 When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the
stones
on which was recorded
the agreement which the Lord made with
you, I was on the
mountain for forty days and forty nights
without taking food
or drinking water.
9:10 And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on
them
done by the finger of
God: on them were recorded all the words
which the Lord said
to you on the mountain out of the heart of
the fire, on the day
of the great meeting.
9:11 Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord
gave me those stones,
the stones of the agreement.
9:12 And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down
quickly
from this place; for
the people you have taken out of Egypt
have given themselves
over to evil; they have quickly been
turned from the way
in which I gave them orders to go; they
have made themselves
a metal image.
9:13 And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this
people
is stiff-necked:
9:14 Let me send destruction on them till their very name is
cut
off; and I will make
of you a nation greater and stronger than
they.
9:15 So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the
mountain was burning
with fire; and the two stones of the
agreement were in my
hands.
9:16 And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and
had
made for yourselves a
metal image of a young ox: you had
quickly been turned
from the way in which the Lord had given
you orders to go.
9:17 And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were
broken
before your eyes.
9:18 And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the
first, for forty days
and forty nights, without taking food or
drinking water,
because of all your sin, in doing evil in the
eyes of the Lord and
moving him to wrath.
9:19 For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord
which was burning
against you, with your destruction in view.
But again the Lord's
ear was open to my prayer.
9:20 And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to
death:
and I made prayer for
Aaron at the same time.
9:21 And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and
put
it in the fire and
had it hammered and crushed very small till
it was only dust: and
the dust I put in the stream flowing down
from the mountain.
9:22 Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah
you
made the Lord angry.
9:23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying,
Go
up and take the land
which I have given you; you went against
the orders of the
Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and
would not give ear to
his voice.
9:24 From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you
have
gone against the word
of the Lord.
9:25 So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for
forty days and forty
nights as I did at first; because the Lord
had said that he would
put an end to you.
9:26 And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do
not
send destruction on
your people and your heritage, to whom, by
your great power, you
have given salvation, whom you have taken
out of Egypt by the
strength of your hand.
9:27 Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
not
looking at the hard
heart of this people, or their evil-doing
and their sin:
9:28 Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken
them, Because the
Lord was not able to take them into the land
which he said he
would give them, and because of his hate for
them, he has taken
them out to put them to death in the waste
land.
9:29 But still they are your people and your heritage, whom
you
took out by your
great power and by your stretched-out arm.
10:1 At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other
stones,
cut like the first
two, and come up to me on the mountain, and
make an ark of wood.
10:2 And I will put on the stones the words which were on
the
first stones which
were broken by you, and you are to put them
into the ark.
10:3 So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut
like
the others, and went
up the mountain with the stones in my
hands.
10:4 And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the
ten
rules which the Lord
gave you on the mountain out of the fire
on the day of the
great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones
to me.
10:5 And turning round I came down from the mountain and put
the
stones in the ark
which I had made; and there they are as the
Lord gave me orders.
10:6 (And the children of Israel went on from Beeroth
Bene-jaakan to
Moserah: there death came to Aaron and he was
put to rest in the
earth; and Eleazar, his son, took his place
as priest.
10:7 From there they went on to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah
to
Jotbathah, a land of
streams of water.
10:8 At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out
to
take up the ark of
the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord
and to do his work
and to give blessings in his name, to this
day.
10:9 For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for
himself
among his brothers:
the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your
God said to him.)
10:10 And I was in the mountain, as at the first time, for
forty
days and forty
nights; and again the ears of the Lord were open
to my prayer, and he
did not send destruction on you.
10:11 Then the Lord said to me, Get up and go on your
journey
before the people, so
that they may go in and take the land
which I said in my
oath to their fathers that I would give
them.
10:12 And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you
do,
but to go in the fear
of the Lord your God, walking in all his
ways and loving him
and doing his pleasure with all your heart
and all your soul,
10:13 Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws
which I
give you this day for
your good?
10:14 The Lord your God is ruler of heaven, of the heaven of
heavens, and of the
earth with everything in it.
10:15 But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for
them, marking out for
himself their seed after them, even you,
from all peoples, as
at this day.
10:16 Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away
your
pride.
10:17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of
lords,
the great God, strong
in power and greatly to be feared, who
has no respect for
any man's position and takes no rewards:
10:18 Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the
child who has no
father, and giving food and clothing in his
mercy to the man from
a strange country.
10:19 So be kind to the man from a strange country who is
living
among you, for you
yourselves were living in a strange country
in the land of Egypt.
10:20 Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give
him
worship and be true
to him at all times, taking your oaths in
his name.
10:21 He is your God, the God of your praise, your God who
has
done for you all
these works of power which your eyes have
seen.
10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons;
and now the Lord your
God has made you like the stars of heaven
in number.
11:1 So have love for the Lord your God, and give him
worship,
and keep his laws and
his decisions and his orders at all
times.
11:2 And be certain in your minds this day; for these words
are
not said to your
children, who have had no experience of the
training of the Lord
your God, and who have not seen his great
power or his strong
hand and his stretched-out arm,
11:3 Or his signs and wonders which he did in Egypt, to
Pharaoh,
king of Egypt, and
all his land;
11:4 And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses
and
their war-carriages;
how he made the waters of the Red Sea come
up over them when
they went after you, and how the Lord put an
end to them even to
this day;
11:5 And what he did for you in the waste land, till you
came to
this place;
11:6 And what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab,
the son of Reuben;
when they went down into the open mouth of
the earth, with their
families and their tents and every living
thing which was
theirs, before the eyes of all Israel:
11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord
which he has done.
11:8 So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that
you
may be strong, and go
in and take the land which is to be your
heritage;
11:9 And that your days may be long in the land which the
Lord
gave by an oath to
your fathers and to their seed after them, a
land flowing with
milk and honey.
11:10 For the land where you are going is not like the land
of
Egypt from which you
have come, where you put in your seeds,
watering them with
your foot, like a planted garden:
11:11 But the land where you are going is a land of hills
and
valleys, drinking in
the rain of heaven:
11:12 A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the
Lord your God are on
it at all times from one end of the year
to the other.
11:13 And it will be that if you truly give ear to the
orders
which I put before
you this day, loving the Lord your God and
worshipping him with
all your heart and all your soul,
11:14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time,
the
early rains and the
late rains, so that you may get in your
grain and your wine
and your oil.
11:15 And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle,
so
that you may have
food in full measure.
11:16 But take care that your hearts are not turned to false
ways so that you
become servants and worshippers of other gods;
11:17 For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be
burning
against you, and the
heaven will be shut up so that there is no
rain and the land
will give no fruit; and in a very little time
you will be cut off
from the good land which the Lord is giving
you.
11:18 So keep these words deep in your heart and in your
soul,
and have them fixed
on your hand for a sign and marked on your
brow;
11:19 Teaching them to your children, and talking of them
when
you are at rest in
your house or walking by the way, when you
go to sleep and when
you get up:
11:20 Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over
the
doors of your towns:
11:21 So that your days, and the days of your children, may
be
long in the land
which the Lord by his oath to your fathers
said he would give
them, like the days of the eternal heavens.
11:22 For if you take care to keep all the orders which I
give
you, and to do them;
loving the Lord your God and walking in
all his ways and
being true to him:
11:23 Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before
you, and you will
take the lands of nations greater and
stronger than
yourselves.
11:24 Every place where you put your foot will be yours:
from
the waste land and
Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates
as far as the Great
Sea, will be the limits of your land.
11:25 All people will give way before you: for the Lord your
God
will put the fear of
you on all the land through which you go,
as he has said.
11:26 Today I put before you a blessing and a curse:
11:27 The blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord
your God, which I
give you this day:
11:28 And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of
the
Lord your God, but
let yourselves be turned from the way which
I have put before you
this day, and go after other gods which
are not yours.
11:29 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land
of
your heritage, you
are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and
the curse on Mount
Ebal.
11:30 Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking
west, in
the land of the
Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite
Gilgal, by the holy
tree of Moreh?
11:31 For you are about to go over Jordan to take the
heritage
which the Lord your
God is giving you, and it will be your
resting-place.
11:32 And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the
decisions which I put
before you today.
12:1 These are the laws and the decisions which you are to
keep
with care in the land
which the Lord, the God of your fathers,
has given you to be
your heritage all the days of your life on
earth.
12:2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where
the
nations, whom you are
driving out, gave worship to their gods,
on the high mountains
and the hills and under every green tree:
12:3 Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down,
and
their holy trees
burned with fire, and the images of their gods
cut down; you are to
take away their names out of that place.
12:4 Do not so to the Lord your God.
12:5 But let your hearts be turned to the place which will
be
marked out by the
Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his
name there;
12:6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and
other
offerings, and the
tenth part of your goods, and the offerings
to be lifted up to
the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths,
and those which you
give freely from the impulse of your
hearts, and the first
births among your herds and your flocks;
12:7 There you and all your families are to make a feast
before
the Lord your God,
with joy in everything to which you put your
hand, because the
Lord has given you his blessing.
12:8 You are not to do things then in the way in which we
now do
them here, every man
as it seems right to him:
12:9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage
which
the Lord your God is
giving you.
12:10 But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in
the
land which the Lord
your God is giving you as your heritage,
and when he has given
you rest from all those on every side who
are fighting against
you, and you are living there safely;
12:11 Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your
God
as the resting-place
for his name, and there you will take all
the things which I
give you orders to take: your burned
offerings and other
offerings, and the tenth part of your
goods, and the
offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of
your oaths which you
make to the Lord;
12:12 And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and
your sons and your
daughters, and your men-servants and your
women-servants, and
the Levite who is with you in your house,
because he has no
part or heritage among you.
12:13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings
in
any place you see:
12:14 But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your
tribes, there let
your burned offerings be offered, and there
do what I have given
you orders to do.
12:15 Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle
or
the roe, for your
food in any of your towns, at the desire of
your soul, in keeping
with the blessing of the Lord your God
which he has given
you: the unclean and the clean may take of
it.
12:16 But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be
drained out on the
earth like water.
12:17 In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth
part
of your grain, or of
your wine or your oil, or the first births
of your herds or of
your flocks, or anything offered under an
oath, or freely
offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted
offering;
12:18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in
the
place of his
selection, where you may make a feast of them,
with your son and
your daughter, and your man-servant and your
woman-servant, and
the Levite who is living with you: and you
will have joy before
the Lord your God in everything to which
you put your hand.
12:19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as
long
as you are living in
your land.
12:20 When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your
land,
as he has said, and
you say, I will take flesh for my food,
because you have a
desire for it; then you may take whatever
flesh you have a
desire for.
12:21 If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the
resting-place for his
name is far away from you, then take from
your herds and from
your flocks which the Lord has given you,
as I have said, and
have a meal of it in the towns where you
may be living.
12:22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe;
the
unclean and the clean
may take of it.
12:23 But see that you do not take the blood for food; for
the
blood is the life;
and you may not make use of the life as food
with the flesh.
12:24 Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on
the
earth like water.
12:25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for
you
and for your children
after you, while you do what is right in
the eyes of the Lord.
12:26 But the holy things which you have, and the offerings
of
your oaths, you are
to take to the place which will be marked
out by the Lord:
12:27 Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned
offerings
on the altar of the
Lord your God; and the blood of your
offerings is to be
drained out on the altar of the Lord your
God, and the flesh
will be your food.
12:28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give
attention to them, so
that it may be well for you and for your
children after you
for ever, while you do what is good and
right in the eyes of
the Lord your God.
12:29 When the people of the land where you are going have
been
cut off before you by
the Lord your God, and you have taken
their land and are
living in it;
12:30 After their destruction take care that you do not go
in
their ways, and that
you do not give thought to their gods,
saying, How did these
nations give worship to their gods? I
will do as they did.
12:31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which
is
disgusting to the
Lord and hated by him they have done in
honour of their gods:
even burning their sons and daughters in
the fire to their
gods.
12:32 You are to keep with care all the words I give you,
making
no addition to them
and taking nothing from them.
13:1 If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of
dreams
and he gives you a
sign or a wonder,
13:2 And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to
you,
Let us go after other
gods, which are strange to you, and give
them worship;
13:3 Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or
that
dreamer of dreams:
for the Lord your God is testing you, to see
if all the love of
your heart and soul is given to him.
13:4 But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing
him
and keeping his
orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him
and being true to
him.
13:5 And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put
to
death; for his words
were said with the purpose of turning you
away from the Lord
your God, who took you out of the land of
Egypt and made you
free from the prison-house; and of forcing
you out of the way in
which the Lord your God has given you
orders to go. So you
are to put away the evil from among you.
13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or
your daughter or the
wife of your heart, or the friend who is
as dear to you as
your life, working on you secretly says to
you, Let us go and
give worship to other gods, strange to you
and to your fathers;
13:7 Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from
one
end of the earth to
the other;
13:8 Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have
no
pity on him or mercy,
and give him no cover;
13:9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be
the
first stretched out
against him to put him to death, and then
the hands of all the
people.
13:10 Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because
it
was his purpose to
make you false to the Lord your God, who
took you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
13:11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear,
and
no one will again do
such evil as this among you.
13:12 And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which
the
Lord your God is
giving you for your resting-place,
13:13 That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among
you, turning the
people of their town from the right way and
saying, Let us go and
give worship to other gods, of whom you
have no knowledge;
13:14 Then let a full search be made, and let questions be
put
with care; and if it
is true and certain that such a disgusting
thing has been done
among you;
13:15 Then take up arms against the people of that town and
give
it up to the curse,
with all its cattle and everything in it.
13:16 And take all the goods into the middle of its open
space,
burning the town and
all its property with fire as an offering
to the Lord your God;
it is to be a waste for ever; there is to
be no more building
there.
13:17 Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so
the
Lord may be turned
away from the heat of his wrath, and have
mercy on you, and
give you increase as he said in his oath to
your fathers:
13:18 So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your
God,
and keep all his
orders which I give you today, and do what is
right in the eyes of
the Lord your God.
14:1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not
to
make cuts on your
bodies or take off the hair on your brows in
honour of the dead;
14:2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the
Lord has taken you to
be his special people out of all the
nations on the face
of the earth.
14:3 No disgusting thing may be your food.
14:4 These are the beasts which you may have for food: the
ox,
the sheep, and the
goat;
14:5 The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat
and
the pygarg and the
antelope and the mountain sheep.
14:6 Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot
and
whose food comes back
into its mouth to be crushed again, may
be used for food.
14:7 But even among these, there are some which may not be
used
for food: such as the
camel, the hare, and the coney, which are
unclean to you,
because, though their food comes back, the horn
of their feet is not
parted in two.
14:8 And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a
division in the horn
of its foot, its food does not come back;
their flesh may not
be used for food or their dead bodies
touched by you.
14:9 And of the things living in the waters, you may take
all
those who have wings
for swimming with and skins formed of thin
plates.
14:10 But any which have no skin-plates or wings for
swimming,
you may not take;
they are unclean for you.
14:11 All clean birds may be used for food.
14:12 But these birds you may not take: the eagle and the
gier-eagle and the
ospray;
14:13 The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;
14:14 Every raven, and all birds of that sort;
14:15 And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk
and
birds of that sort;
14:16 The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;
14:17 And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;
14:18 The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and
the
hoopoe and the bat.
14:19 Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is
unclean
to you and may not be
used as food.
14:20 But all clean birds you may take.
14:21 You may not have as food anything which has come to a
natural death; the
man from another country who is living with
you may take it for
food, or you may get a price for it from
one of another
nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord
your God. The young
goat is not to be cooked in its mother's
milk.
14:22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your
seed,
produced year by
year.
14:23 And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the
place
which is to be marked
out, where his name will be for ever, of
the tenth part of
your grain and your wine and your oil, and
the first births of
your herds and your flocks; so that you may
have the fear of the
Lord your God in your hearts at all times.
14:24 And if the way is so long that you are not able to
take
these things to the
place marked out by the Lord your God for
his name, when he has
given you his blessing, because it is far
away from you;
14:25 Then let these things be exchanged for money, and,
taking
the money in your
hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord
your God for himself;
14:26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for,
oxen or sheep or wine
or strong drink, whatever your soul's
desire may be: and
make a feast there before the Lord your God,
and be glad, you and
all your house;
14:27 And give a thought to the Levite who is living among
you,
for he has no part or
heritage in the land.
14:28 At the end of every three years take a tenth part of
all
your increase for
that year, and put it in store inside your
walls:
14:29 And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in
the
land, and the man
from a strange country, and the child who has
no father, and the
widow, who are living among you, will come
and take food and
have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord
your God will be on
you in everything you do.
15:1 At the end of every seven years there is to be a
general
forgiveness of debt.
15:2 This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give
up
his right to whatever
he has let his neighbour have; he is not
to make his
neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a
general forgiveness
has been ordered by the Lord.
15:3 A man of another nation may be forced to make payment
of
his debt, but if your
brother has anything of yours, let it go;
15:4 But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will
certainly give you
his blessing in the land which the Lord your
God is giving you for
your heritage;
15:5 If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,
and
take care to keep all
these orders which I give you today.
15:6 For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he
has
said: you will let
other nations have the use of your money,
but you will not make
use of theirs; you will be rulers over a
number of nations,
but they will not be your rulers.
15:7 If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your
God
is giving you, there
is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do
not let your heart be
hard or your hand shut to him;
15:8 But let your hand be open to give him the use of
whatever
he is in need of.
15:9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart,
moving
you to say to
yourself, The seventh year, the year of
forgiveness is near;
and so looking coldly on your poor
countryman you give
him nothing; and he will make an outcry to
the Lord against you,
and it will be judged as sin in you.
15:10 But it is right for you to give to him, without grief
of
heart: for because of
this, the blessing of the Lord your God
will be on all your
work and on everything to which you put
your hand.
15:11 For there will never be a time when there are no poor
in
the land; and so I
give orders to you, Let your hand be open to
your countrymen, to
those who are poor and in need in your
land.
15:12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman,
becomes
your servant for a
price and does work for you six years, in
the seventh year let
him go free.
15:13 And when you make him free, do not let him go away
with
nothing in his hands:
15:14 But give him freely from your flock and from your
grain
and your wine: in the
measure of the wealth which the Lord your
God has given you,
you are to give to him.
15:15 And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in
the
land of Egypt, and the
Lord your God made you free: so I give
you this order today.
15:16 But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away
from
you; because you and
your family are dear to him and he is
happy with you;
15:17 Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it
through
his ear into the
door, and he will be your servant for ever.
And you may do the
same for your servant-girl.
15:18 Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him
away
free; for he has been
working for you for six years, which is
twice the regular
time for a servant: and the blessing of the
Lord your God will be
on you in everything you do.
15:19 All the first males to come to birth in your herd and
your
flock are to be holy
to the Lord your God: the first birth of
your ox is not to be
used for work, the wool of your first lamb
is not to be cut.
15:20 But year by year you and all your house are to take a
meal
of it before the
Lord, in the place of his selection.
15:21 But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has
damaged legs, or if
there is anything wrong with it, it may not
be offered to the
Lord your God.
15:22 It may be used for food in your houses: the unclean
and
the clean may take of
it, as of the gazelle and the roe.
15:23 Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be
drained
out on the earth like
water.
16:1 Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to
the
Lord your God: for in
the month of Abib the Lord your God took
you out of Egypt by
night.
16:2 The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is
to
be given to the Lord
your God in the place marked out by him as
the resting-place of
his name.
16:3 Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your
food be unleavened
bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you
came out of the land
of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that
day, when you came
out of the land of Egypt, will be with you
all your life.
16:4 For seven days let no leaven be used through all your
land;
and nothing of the
flesh which is put to death in the evening
of the first day is
to be kept through the night till morning.
16:5 The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any
of
the towns which the
Lord your God gives you:
16:6 But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the
resting-place of his
name, there you are to put the Passover to
death in the evening,
at sundown, at that time of the year when
you came out of
Egypt.
16:7 It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place
marked
out by the Lord: and
in the morning you are to go back to your
tents.
16:8 For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on
the
seventh day there is
to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God;
no work is to be
done.
16:9 Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the
grain is cut.
16:10 Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God,
with an
offering freely given
to him from the wealth he has given you:
16:11 Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you
and
your son and your
daughter, your man-servant and your
woman-servant, and
the Levite who is with you, and the man from
a strange country,
and the child without a father, and the
widow, who are living
among you, in the place marked out by the
Lord your God as a
resting-place for his name.
16:12 And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in
the
land of Egypt: and
you will take care to keep all these laws.
16:13 You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days
after
you have got in all
your grain and made your wine:
16:14 You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son
and
your daughter, your
man-servant and your woman-servant, and the
Levite, and the man
from a strange country, and the child
without a father, and
the widow, who are living among you.
16:15 Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in
the
place marked out by
the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord
your God will be on
all the produce of your land and all the
work of your hands,
and you will have nothing but joy.
16:16 Three times in the year let all your males come before
the
Lord your God in the
place named by him; at the feast of
unleavened bread, the
feast of weeks, and the feast of tents:
and they are not to
come before the Lord with nothing in their
hands;
16:17 Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of
the
blessing which the
Lord your God has given you.
16:18 You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns
which the Lord your
God gives you, for every tribe: and they
are to be upright
men, judging the people in righteousness.
16:19 You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's
position, you are not
to take rewards; for rewards make the
eyes of the wise man
blind, and the decisions of the upright
false.
16:20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have
life, and take for
your heritage the land which the Lord your
God is giving you.
16:21 Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar
of
the Lord your God
which you will make.
16:22 You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are
hated by
the Lord your God.
17:1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in
any
way may be offered to
the Lord your God: for that is disgusting
to the Lord your God.
17:2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the
towns
which the Lord your
God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of
the Lord your God,
sinning against his agreement,
17:3 By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping
them or
the sun or the moon
or all the stars of heaven, against my
orders;
17:4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing
be
looked into with
care, and if there is no doubt that it is
true, and such evil
has been done in Israel;
17:5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the
evil
to the public place
of your town, and they are to be stoned
with stones till they
are dead.
17:6 On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be
given
the punishment of
death; but he is not to be put to death on
the word of one
witness.
17:7 The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him
to
death, and after them
the hands of all the people. So you are
to put away the evil
from among you.
17:8 If you are not able to give a decision as to who is
responsible for a
death, or who is right in a cause, or who
gave the first blow
in a fight, and there is a division of
opinion about it in
your town: then go to the place marked out
by the Lord your God;
17:9 And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him
who
is judge at the time:
and they will go into the question and
give you a decision:
17:10 And you are to be guided by the decision they give in
the
place named by the
Lord, and do whatever they say:
17:11 Acting in agreement with their teaching and the
decision
they give: not
turning to one side or the other from the word
they have given you.
17:12 And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to
the
priest whose place is
there before the Lord your God, or to the
judge, is to be put
to death: you are to put away the evil from
Israel.
17:13 And all the people, hearing of it, will be full of
fear
and put away their
pride.
17:14 When you have come into the land which the Lord your
God
is giving you, and
have taken it for a heritage and are living
in it, if it is your
desire to have a king over you, like the
other nations round
about you;
17:15 Then see that you take as your king the man named by
the
Lord your God: let
your king be one of your countrymen, not a
man of another nation
who is not one of yourselves.
17:16 And he is not to get together a great army of horses
for
himself, or make the
people go back to Egypt to get horses for
him: because the Lord
has said, You will never again go back
that way.
17:17 And he is not to have a great number of wives, for
fear
that his heart may be
turned away; or great wealth of silver
and gold.
17:18 And when he has taken his place on the seat of his
kingdom, he is to
make in a book a copy of this law, from that
which the priests,
the Levites, have in their care:
17:19 And it is to be with him for his reading all the days
of
his life, so that he
may be trained in the fear of the Lord his
God to keep and do
all the words of this teaching and these
laws:
17:20 So that his heart may not be lifted up over his
countrymen, and he
may not be turned away from the orders, to
one side or the
other: but that his life and the lives of his
children may be long
in his kingdom in Israel.
18:1 The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of
Levi,
will have no part or
heritage with Israel: their food and their
heritage will be the
offerings of the Lord made by fire.
18:2 And they will have no heritage among their countrymen:
the
Lord is their
heritage, as he has said to them.
18:3 And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an
offering of a sheep
or an ox are to give to the priest the top
part of the leg and
the two sides of the head and the stomach.
18:4 And in addition you are to give him the first of your
grain
and wine and oil, and
the first wool cut from your sheep.
18:5 For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been
marked
out by the Lord your
God from all your tribes, to do the work
of priests in the
name of the Lord.
18:6 And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from
any
town in all Israel
where he is living to the place marked out
by the Lord;
18:7 Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the
Lord his God, with
all his brothers the Levites who are there
before the Lord.
18:8 His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to
what
has come to him as
the price of his property.
18:9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your
God is
giving you, do not
take as your example the disgusting ways of
those nations.
18:10 Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his
son
or his daughter go
through the fire, or anyone using secret
arts, or a maker of
strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or
any wonder-worker,
18:11 Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting
questions to a
spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to
the dead for
directions.
18:12 For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord;
and
because of these
disgusting things the Lord your God is driving
them out before you.
18:13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your
God.
18:14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give
attention to readers
of signs and to those using secret arts:
but the Lord your God
will not let you do so.
18:15 The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among
your
people, like me; you
will give ear to him;
18:16 In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God
in
Horeb on the day of
the great meeting, when you said, Let not
the voice of the Lord
my God come to my ears again, and let me
not see this great
fire any more, or death will overtake me.
18:17 Then the Lord said to me, What they have said is well
said.
18:18 I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like
you, and I will put
my words in his mouth, and he will say to
them whatever I give
him orders to say.
18:19 And whoever does not give ear to my words which he
will
say in my name, will
be responsible to me.
18:20 But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words
in my
name which I have not
given him orders to say, or who says
anything in the name
of other gods, will come to his death.
18:21 And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be
certain
that the word does
not come from the Lord?
18:22 When a prophet makes a statement in the name of the
Lord,
if what he says does
not take place and his words do not come
true, then his word
is not the word of the Lord: the words of
the prophet were said
in the pride of his heart, and you are to
have no fear of him.
19:1 When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is
giving
you, have been cut
off by him, and you have taken their place
and are living in
their towns and in their houses;
19:2 You are to have three towns marked out in the land which
the Lord your God is
giving you for your heritage.
19:3 You are to make ready a way, and see that the land
which
the Lord your God is
giving you for your heritage, is marked
out into three parts,
to which any taker of life may go in
flight.
19:4 This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight
there,
after causing the
death of his neighbour in error and not
through hate;
19:5 For example, if a man goes into the woods with his
neighbour for the
purpose of cutting down trees, and when he
takes his axe to give
a blow to the tree, the head of the axe
comes off, and
falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound
causing his death;
then the man may go in flight to one of
these towns and be
safe:
19:6 For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go
running after the
taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and
overtake him because
the way is long, and give him a
death-blow; though it
is not right for him to be put to death
because he was not
moved by hate.
19:7 And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are
marked
out for this purpose.
19:8 And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your
land, as he said in
his oath to your fathers, and gives you all
the land which he
undertook to give to your fathers;
19:9 If you keep and do all these orders which I give you
today,
loving the Lord your
God and walking ever in his ways; then let
three more towns, in
addition to these three, be marked out for
you:
19:10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is
giving you for your
heritage, no man may be wrongly put to
death, for which you
will be responsible.
19:11 But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting
for
him secretly makes an
attack on him and gives him a blow
causing his death,
and then goes in flight to one of these
towns;
19:12 The responsible men of his town are to send and take
him,
and give him up to
the one who has the right of punishment to
be put to death.
19:13 Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from
the
crime of putting a
man to death without cause, and it will be
well for you.
19:14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place
by
the men of old times,
is not to be moved or taken away in the
land of your heritage
which the Lord your God is giving you.
19:15 One witness may not make a statement against a man in
relation to any sin
or wrongdoing which he has done: on the
word of two or three
witnesses a question is to be judged.
19:16 If a false witness makes a statement against a man,
saying
that he has done
wrong,
19:17 Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken
place, are to come
before the Lord, before the priests and
judges who are then
in power;
19:18 And the judges will have the question looked into with
care: and if the
witness is seen to be false and to have made a
false statement
against his brother,
19:19 Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his
brother: and so put
away the evil from among you.
19:20 And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be
full of
fear, and never again
do such evil among you.
19:21 Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot.
20:1 When you go out to war against other nations, and come
face
to face with horses
and war-carriages and armies greater in
number than
yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your
God is with you, who
took you up out of the land of Egypt.
20:2 And when you are on the point of attacking, let the
priest
come forward and say
to the people,
20:3 Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the
fight; let your heart
be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear
overcome you because
of those who are against you;
20:4 For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you
to
give you salvation
from those who are against you.
20:5 And let the overseers say to the people, If there is
any
man who has made for
himself a new house and has not gone into
it, let him go back
to his house, so that in the event of his
death in the fight,
another may not take his house for himself.
20:6 Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the
first-fruits of it,
let him go back to his house, so that in
the event of his
death in the fight, another may not be the
first to make use of
the fruit.
20:7 Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex
relations
with his wife, let
him go back to his house, so that in the
event of his death in
the fight, another man may not take her.
20:8 And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If
there
is any man whose
heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to
his house before he
makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.
20:9 Then, after saying these words to the people, let the
overseers put
captains over the army.
20:10 When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an
offer of peace.
20:11 And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening
its
doors to you, then
all the people in it may be put to forced
work as your
servants.
20:12 If however it will not make peace with you, but war,
then
let it be shut in on
all sides:
20:13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your
hands,
let every male in it
be put to death without mercy.
20:14 But the women and the children and the cattle and
everything in the
town and all its wealth, you may take for
yourselves: the
wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God
has given you, will
be your food.
20:15 So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are
not
the towns of these
nations.
20:16 But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord
your
God is giving you for
your heritage, let no living thing be
kept from death:
20:17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite,
the
Canaanite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the
Lord your God has
given you orders:
20:18 So that you may not take them as your example and do
all
the disgusting things
which they do in the worship of their
gods, so sinning
against the Lord your God.
20:19 If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long
time, do not let its
trees be cut down and made waste; for
their fruit will be
your food; are the trees of the countryside
men for you to take
up arms against them?
20:20 Only those trees which you are certain are not used
for
food may be cut down
and put to destruction: and you are to
make walls of attack
against the town till it is taken.
21:1 If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you,
you
come across the dead
body of a man in the open country, and you
have no idea who has
put him to death:
21:2 Then your responsible men and your judges are to come
out,
and give orders for
the distance from the dead body to the
towns round about it
to be measured;
21:3 And whichever town is nearest to the body, the
responsible
men of that town are
to take from the herd a young cow which
has never been used
for work or put under the yoke;
21:4 And they are to take the cow into a valley where there
is
flowing water, and
which is not ploughed or planted, and there
the neck of the cow
is to be broken:
21:5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near;
for
they have been marked
out by the Lord your God to be his
servants and to give
blessings in the name of the Lord; and by
their decision every
argument and every blow is to be judged:
21:6 And all the responsible men of that town which is
nearest
to the dead man,
washing their hands over the cow whose neck
was broken in the
valley,
21:7 Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and
our
eyes have not seen
it.
21:8 Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have
made free, and take
away from your people the crime of a death
without cause. Then
they will no longer be responsible for the
man's death.
21:9 So you will take away the crime of a death without
cause
from among you, when
you do what is right in the eyes of the
Lord.
21:10 When you go out to war against other nations, and the
Lord
your God gives them
up into your hands and you take them as
prisoners;
21:11 If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and
it is
your desire to make
her your wife;
21:12 Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and
her
nails be cut;
21:13 And let her take off the dress in which she was made
prisoner and go on
living in your house and weeping for her
father and mother for
a full month: and after that you may go
in to her and be her
husband and she will be your wife.
21:14 But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her
go
wherever she will;
you may not take a price for her as if she
was your property,
for you have made use of her for your
pleasure.
21:15 If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the
other
hated, and the two of
them have had children by him; and if the
first son is the
child of the hated wife:
21:16 Then when he gives his property to his sons for their
heritage, he is not
to put the son of his loved one in the
place of the first
son, the son of the hated wife:
21:17 But he is to give his first son his birthright, and
twice
as great a part of
his property: for he is the first-fruits of
his strength and the
right of the first son is his.
21:18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled,
who gives no
attention to the voice of his father and mother,
and will not be ruled
by them, though they give him punishment:
21:19 Then let his father and mother take him to the
responsible
men of the town, to
the public place;
21:20 And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and
uncontrolled, he will
not give attention to us; he gives
himself up to
pleasure and strong drink.
21:21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the
town: so you are to
put away the evil from among you; and all
Israel, hearing of
it, will be full of fear.
21:22 If a man does a crime for which the punishment is
death,
and he is put to
death by hanging him on a tree;
21:23 Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put
it
to rest in the earth
the same day; for the man who undergoes
hanging is cursed by
God; so do not make unclean the land which
the Lord your God is
giving you for your heritage.
22:1 If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do
not
go by without
helping, but take them back to your brother.
22:2 If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain
who
he is, then take the
beast to your house and keep it till its
owner comes in search
of it, and then you are to give it back
to him.
22:3 Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which
has
gone from your
brother's keeping and which you have come
across: do not keep
it to yourself.
22:4 If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on
the
road, do not go by
without giving him help in lifting it up
again.
22:5 It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's
clothing, or for a
man to put on a woman's robe: whoever does
such things is
disgusting to the Lord your God.
22:6 If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for
itself in a tree or
on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and
the mother bird
seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not
take the mother bird
with the young:
22:7 See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones
you
may take; so it will
be well for you and your life will be
long.
22:8 If you are building a house, make a railing for the
roof,
so that the blood of
any man falling from it will not come on
your house.
22:9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of
seed: or all of it
may become a loss, the seed you have put in
as well as the
increase.
22:10 Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked
together.
22:11 Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool
and
linen together.
22:12 On the four edges of your robe, with which your body
is
covered, put
ornaments of twisted threads.
22:13 If any man takes a wife, and having had connection
with
her, has no delight
in her,
22:14 And says evil things about her and gives her a bad
name,
saying, I took this
woman, and when I had connection with her
it was clear to me
that she was not a virgin:
22:15 Then let the girl's father and mother put before the
responsible men of
the town, in the public place, signs that
the girl was a
virgin:
22:16 And let the girl's father say to the responsible men,
I
gave my daughter to
this man for his wife, but he has no love
for her;
22:17 And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is
not a
virgin; but here is
the sign that she is a virgin. Then they
are to put her
clothing before the responsible men of the town.
22:18 Then the responsible men of the town are to give the
man
his punishment;
22:19 They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver,
which
are to be given to
the father of the girl, because he has given
an evil name to a
virgin of Israel: she will go on being his
wife, he may never
put her away all his life.
22:20 But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be
not
a virgin,
22:21 Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her
father's house and
she will be stoned to death by the men of
the town, because she
has done evil and put shame on Israel, by
acting as a loose
woman in her father's house: so you are to
put away evil from
among you.
22:22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married
woman, the two of
them, the man as well as the woman, are to be
put to death: so you
are to put away the evil from Israel.
22:23 If a young virgin has given her word to be married to
a
man, and another man
meeting her in the town, has connection
with her;
22:24 Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of
the
town, and have them
stoned to death; the young virgin, because
she gave no cry for
help, though it was in the town, and the
man, because he has
put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you
are to put away evil
from among you.
22:25 But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open
country,
takes her by force,
then only the man is to be put to death;
22:26 Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is
no
cause of death in
her: it is the same as if a man made an
attack on his
neighbour and put him to death:
22:27 For he came across her in the open country, and there
was
no one to come to the
help of the virgin in answer to her cry.
22:28 If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her
word
to be married to
anyone, and he takes her by force and has
connection with her,
and discovery is made of it;
22:29 Then the man will have to give the virgin's father
fifty
shekels of silver and
make her his wife, because he has put
shame on her; he may
never put her away all his life.
22:30 A man may not take his father's wife or have sex
relations
with a woman who is
his father's.
23:1 No man whose private parts have been wounded or cut off
may
come into the meeting
of the Lord's people.
23:2 One whose father and mother are not married may not
come
into the meeting of
the Lord's people, or any of his family to
the tenth generation.
23:3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the
tenth
generation may come
into the meeting of the Lord's people:
23:4 Because they gave you no bread or water on your way,
when
you came out of
Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor,
from Pethor in
Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.
23:5 But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but
let
the curse be changed
into a blessing to you, because of his
love for you.
23:6 Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.
23:7 But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your
brother, or for an
Egyptian, for you were living in his land.
23:8 Their children in the third generation may come into
the
meeting of the Lord's
people.
23:9 When you go out to war and put your tents in position,
keep
from every evil
thing.
23:10 If any man among you becomes unclean through anything
which has taken place
in the night, he is to go out from the
tent-circle and keep
outside it:
23:11 But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and
after sundown he may
come back to the tents.
23:12 Let there be a place outside the tent-circle to which
you
may go;
23:13 And have among your arms a spade; and when you have
been
to that place, let
that which comes from you be covered up with
earth:
23:14 For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to
keep
you safe and to give
up into your hands those who are fighting
against you; then let
your tents be holy, so that he may see no
unclean thing among
you, and be turned away from you.
23:15 Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone
in
flight from his
master and come to you:
23:16 Let him go on living among you in whatever place is
most
pleasing to him: do
not be hard on him.
23:17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a
loose
woman for a strange
god, and no son of Israel is to give
himself to a man.
23:18 Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an
offering for an oath,
the price of a loose woman or the money
given to one used for
sex purposes in the worship of the gods:
for these two things
are disgusting to the Lord your God.
23:19 Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything,
money
or food or any other
goods, which you let him have:
23:20 From men of other nations you may take interest, but
not
from an Israelite: so
that the blessing of the Lord your God
may be on everything
to which you put your hand, in the land
which you are about
to take as your heritage.
23:21 When you take an oath to the Lord, do not be slow to
give
effect to it: for
without doubt the Lord your God will make you
responsible, and will
put it to your account as sin.
23:22 But if you take no oath, there will be no sin.
23:23 Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for
you
gave your word freely
to the Lord your God.
23:24 When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may
take of his grapes at
your pleasure, but you may not take them
away in your vessel.
23:25 When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take
the
heads of grain with
your hand; but you may not put your blade
to his grain.
24:1 If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she
is
unpleasing to him
because of some bad quality in her, let him
give her a statement
in writing and send her away from his
house.
24:2 And when she has gone away from him, she may become
another
man's wife.
24:3 And if the second husband has no love for her and,
giving
her a statement in
writing, sends her away; or if death comes
to the second husband
to whom she was married;
24:4 Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take
her
back after she has
been wife to another; for that is disgusting
to the Lord: and you
are not to be a cause of sin in the land
which the Lord your
God is giving you for your heritage.
24:5 A newly married man will not have to go out with the
army
or undertake any
business, but may be free for one year, living
in his house for the
comfort of his wife.
24:6 No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones
with
which grain is
crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's
living.
24:7 If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the
children
of Israel, using him
as his property or getting a price for
him, that thief is to
be put to death: so you are to put away
evil from among you.
24:8 In connection with the leper's disease, take care to
keep
and do every detail
of the teaching of the priests, the
Levites: as I gave
them orders, so you are to do.
24:9 Keep in mind what the Lord your God did to Miriam on
the
way, when you came
out of Egypt.
24:10 If you let your brother have the use of anything which
is
yours, do not go into
his house and take anything of his as a
sign of his debt;
24:11 But keep outside till he comes out and gives it to
you.
24:12 If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all
night;
24:13 But be certain to give it back to him when the sun
goes
down, so that he may
have his clothing for sleeping in, and
will give you his
blessing: and this will be put to your
account as
righteousness before the Lord your God.
24:14 Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need,
if he
is one of your
countrymen or a man from another nation living
with you in your
land.
24:15 Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back
over
night; for he is poor
and his living is dependent on it; and if
his cry against you
comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be
judged as sin in you.
24:16 Fathers are not to be put to death for their children
or
children for their
fathers: every man is to be put to death for
the sin which he
himself has done.
24:17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a
strange
country and of him
who has no father; do not take a widow's
clothing on account
of a debt:
24:18 But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land
of
Egypt, and the Lord
your God made you free: for this is why I
give you orders to do
this.
24:19 When you get in the grain from your field, if some of
the
grain has been
dropped by chance in the field, do not go back
and get it, but let
it be for the man from a strange land, the
child without a
father, and the widow: so that the blessing of
the Lord your God may
be on all the work of your hands.
24:20 When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees,
do
not go over the
branches a second time: let some be for the man
from a strange land,
the child without a father, and the widow.
24:21 When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do
not
take up those which
have been dropped; let them be for the man
from a strange land,
the child without a father, and the widow.
24:22 Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of
Egypt:
for this is why I
give you orders to do this.
25:1 If there is an argument between men and they go to law
with
one another, let the
judges give their decision for the
upright, and against the
wrongdoer.
25:2 And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by
whipping,
the judge will give
orders for him to go down on his face and
be whipped before
him, the number of the blows being in
relation to his
crime.
25:3 He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are
given, your brother
may be shamed before you.
25:4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is
crushing it.
25:5 If brothers are living together and one of them, at his
death, has no son,
the wife of the dead man is not to be
married outside the
family to another man: let her husband's
brother go in to her
and make her his wife, doing as it is
right for a
brother-in-law to do.
25:6 Then the first male child she has will take the rights
of
the brother who is
dead, so that his name may not come to an
end in Israel.
25:7 But if the man says he will not take his brother's
wife,
then let the wife go
to the responsible men of the town, and
say, My husband's
brother will not keep his brother's name
living in Israel; he
will not do what it is right for a
husband's brother to
do.
25:8 Then the responsible men of the town will send for the
man,
and have talk with
him: and if he still says, I will not take
her;
25:9 Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the
responsible men of
the town, and take his shoe off his foot,
and put shame on him,
and say, So let it be done to the man who
will not take care of
his brother's name.
25:10 And his family will be named in Israel, The house of
him
whose shoe has been
taken off.
25:11 If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them,
coming to the help of
her husband, takes the other by the
private parts;
25:12 Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.
25:13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and
a
small;
25:14 Or in your house different measures, a great and a
small.
25:15 But have a true weight and a true measure: so that
your
life may be long in
the land which the Lord your God is giving
you.
25:16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not
upright, are
disgusting to the Lord your God.
25:17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from
Egypt;
25:18 How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you
when
you were tired and
without strength, cutting off all the feeble
ones at the end of
your line; and the fear of God was not in
him.
25:19 So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all
who
are against you on
every side, in the land which the Lord your
God is giving you for
your heritage, see to it that the memory
of Amalek is cut off
from the earth; keep this in mind.
26:1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is
giving you for your
heritage, and you have made it yours and
are living in it;
26:2 You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the
earth,
which you get from
the land which the Lord your God is giving
you, and put it in a
basket, and go to the place marked out by
the Lord your God, as
the resting-place of his name.
26:3 And you are to come to him who is priest at that time,
and
say to him, I give
witness today before the Lord your God, that
I have come into the
land which the Lord made an oath to our
fathers to give us.
26:4 Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and
put
it down in front of
the altar of the Lord your God.
26:5 And these are the words which you will say before the
Lord
your God: My father
was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down
with a small number
of people into Egypt; there he became a
great and strong
nation:
26:6 And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a
hard yoke:
26:7 And our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our
fathers,
and the Lord's ear
was open to the voice of our cry, and his
eyes took note of our
grief and the crushing weight of our
work:
26:8 And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand
and a
stretched-out arm,
with works of power and signs and wonders:
26:9 And he has been our guide to this place, and has given
us
this land, a land
flowing with milk and honey.
26:10 So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits
of
the earth which you,
O Lord, have given me. Then you will put
it down before the
Lord your God and give him worship:
26:11 And you will have joy in every good thing which the
Lord
your God has given to
you and to your family; and the Levite,
and the man from a
strange land who is with you, will take part
in your joy.
26:12 When you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all
your
produce in the third
year, which is the year when this has to
be done, give it to
the Levite, and the man from a strange
land, and the child
without a father, and the widow, so that
they may have food in
your towns and be full;
26:13 And say before the Lord your God, I have taken all the
holy things out of my
house and have given them to the Levite,
and the man from a
strange land, and him who has no father, and
the widow, as you
have given me orders: I have kept in mind all
your orders, in
nothing have I gone against them:
26:14 No part of these things has been used for food in a
time
of weeping, or put
away when I was unclean, or given for the
dead: I have given
ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and
have done all you
have given me orders to do.
26:15 So, looking down from your holy place in heaven, send
your
blessing on your
people Israel and on the land which you have
given us, as you said
in your oath to our fathers, a land
flowing with milk and
honey.
26:16 Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all
these
laws and decisions:
so then keep and do them with all your
heart and all your
soul.
26:17 Today you have given witness that the Lord is your
God,
and that you will go
in his ways and keep his laws and his
orders and his
decisions and give ear to his voice:
26:18 And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a
special people to
him, as he gave you his word; and that you
are to keep all his
orders;
26:19 And that he will make you high over all the nations he
has
made, in praise, in
name, and in honour, and that you are to be
a holy people to the
Lord your God as he has said.
27:1 Then Moses and the responsible men of Israel gave the
people these orders:
Keep all the orders which I have given you
this day;
27:2 And on the day when you go over Jordan into the land
which
the Lord your God is
giving you, put up great stones, coating
them with
building-paste,
27:3 And writing on them all the words of this law, after
you
have gone over; so
that you may take the heritage which the
Lord your God is
giving you, a land flowing with milk and
honey, as the Lord,
the God of your fathers, has said.
27:4 And when you have gone over Jordan, you are to put up
these
stones, as I have
said to you today, in Mount Ebal, and have
them coated with
building-paste.
27:5 There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of
stones on which no
iron instrument has been used.
27:6 You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut
stones; offering on
it burned offerings to the Lord your God:
27:7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting
there
with joy before the
Lord your God.
27:8 And put on the stones all the words of this law,
writing
them very clearly.
27:9 Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, said to all
Israel, Be quiet and
give ear, O Israel; today you have become
the people of the
Lord your God.
27:10 For this cause you are to give ear to the voice of the
Lord your God, and do
his orders and his laws which I give you
this day.
27:11 That same day Moses said to the people,
27:12 These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for
blessing the people
when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and
Levi and Judah and
Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;
27:13 And these are to be on Mount Ebal for the curse:
Reuben,
Gad, and Asher, and
Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
27:14 Then the Levites are to say in a loud voice to all the
men
of Israel,
27:15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone
or
metal, disgusting to
the Lord, the work of man's hands, and
puts it up in secret.
And let all the people say, So be it.
27:16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or
mother. And let all
the people say, So be it.
27:17 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from
its
place. And let all
the people say, So be it.
27:18 Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the
way.
And let all the
people say, So be it.
27:19 Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause
of a
man from a strange
land, or of one without a father, or of a
widow. And let all
the people say, So be it.
27:20 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's
wife,
for he has put shame
on his father. And let all the people say,
So be it.
27:21 Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of
beast.
And let all the
people say, So be it.
27:22 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister,
the
daughter of his
father or of his mother. And let all the people
say, So be it.
27:23 Cursed is he who has sex relations with his
mother-in-law.
And let all the
people say, So be it.
27:24 Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly.
And
let all the people
say, So be it.
27:25 Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who
has
done no wrong. And
let all the people say, So be it.
27:26 Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do
it.
And let all the
people say, So be it.
28:1 Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,
and
keep with care all
these orders which I have given you today,
then the Lord your
God will put you high over all the nations
of the earth:
28:2 And all these blessings will come on you and overtake
you,
if your ears are open
to the voice of the Lord your God.
28:3 A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing
in
the field.
28:4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on
the
fruit of your land,
on the fruit of your cattle, the increase
of your herd, and the
young of your flock.
28:5 A blessing will be on your basket and on your
bread-basin.
28:6 A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going
out.
28:7 By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against
you
will be overcome
before you: they will come out against you one
way, and will go in
flight from you seven ways.
28:8 The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses
and on
everything to which
you put your hand: his blessing will be on
you in the land which
the Lord your God is giving you.
28:9 The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as
he
has said to you in
his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord
your God and go on
walking in his ways.
28:10 And all the peoples of the earth will see that the
name of
the Lord is on you,
and they will go in fear of you.
28:11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good
thing, in
the fruit of your
body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the
fruit of your fields,
in the land which the Lord, by his oath
to your fathers, said
he would give you.
28:12 Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send
rain
on your land at the
right time, blessing all the work of your
hands: other nations
will make use of your wealth, and you will
have no need of
theirs.
28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and
you
will ever have the
highest place, if you give ear to the orders
of the Lord your God
which I give you today, to keep and to do
them;
28:14 Not turning away from any of the orders which I give
you
today, to the right
hand or to the left, or going after any
other gods to give
them worship.
28:15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord
your
God, and take care to
do all his orders and his laws which I
give you today, then
all these curses will come on you and
overtake you:
28:16 You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the
field.
28:17 A curse will be on your basket and on your
bread-basin.
28:18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the
fruit of your land,
on the increase of your cattle, and the
young of your flock.
28:19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when
you go
out.
28:20 The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and
punishment in
everything to which you put your hand, till
sudden destruction
overtakes you; because of your evil ways in
which you have been
false to me.
28:21 The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till
you
have been cut off by
death from the land to which you are
going.
28:22 The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain,
and
flaming heat against you,
keeping back the rain till your land
is waste and dead; so
will it be till your destruction is
complete.
28:23 And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the
earth under you hard
as iron.
28:24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and
dust,
sending it down on
you from heaven till your destruction is
complete.
28:25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you
will
go out against them
one way, and you will go in flight before
them seven ways: you
will be the cause of fear among all the
kingdoms of the
earth.
28:26 Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air
and
the beasts of the
earth; there will be no one to send them
away.
28:27 The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and
other
sorts of skin
diseases which nothing will make well.
28:28 He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind,
and
your hearts wasted
with fear:
28:29 You will go feeling your way when the sun is high,
like a
blind man for whom
all is dark, and nothing will go well for
you: you will be
crushed and made poor for ever, and you will
have no saviour.
28:30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the
use of
her: the house which
your hands have made will never be your
resting-place: you
will make a vine-garden, and never take the
fruit of it.
28:31 Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its
flesh will not be
your food: your ass will be violently taken
away before your
face, and will not be given back to you: your
sheep will be given
to your haters, and there will be no
saviour for you.
28:32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another
people, and your eyes
will be wasted away with looking and
weeping for them all
the day: and you will have no power to do
anything.
28:33 The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands
will
be food for a nation
which is strange to you and to your
fathers; you will
only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
28:34 So that the things which your eyes have to see will
send
you out of your
minds.
28:35 The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your
knees
and your legs,
bursting out from your feet to the top of your
head, so that nothing
will make you well.
28:36 And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will
the
Lord take away to a
nation strange to you and to your fathers;
there you will be
servants to other gods of wood and stone.
28:37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among
all
the nations where the
Lord will take you.
28:38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get
little
in; for the locust
will get it.
28:39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you
will
get no wine or grapes
from them; for they will be food for
worms.
28:40 Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will
be
no oil for the
comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will
give no fruit.
28:41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be
yours; for they will
go away prisoners into a strange land.
28:42 All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the
locust's.
28:43 The man from a strange land who is living among you
will
be lifted up higher
and higher over you, while you go down
lower and lower.
28:44 He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will
have
no need of yours: he
will be the head and you the tail.
28:45 And all these curses will come after you and overtake
you,
till your destruction
is complete; because you did not give ear
to the voice of the
Lord your God, or keep his laws and his
orders which he gave
you:
28:46 These things will come on you and on your seed, to be
a
sign and a wonder for
ever;
28:47 Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God,
worshipping him
gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of
all your wealth of
good things;
28:48 For this cause you will become servants to those whom
the
Lord your God will
send against you, without food and drink and
clothing, and in need
of all things: and he will put a yoke of
iron on your neck
till he has put an end to you.
28:49 The Lord will send a nation against you from the
farthest
ends of the earth,
coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation
whose language is
strange to you;
28:50 A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the
old
or mercy for the
young:
28:51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land
till death puts an
end to you: he will let you have nothing of
your grain or wine or
oil or any of the increase of your cattle
or the young of your
flock, till he has made your destruction
complete.
28:52 Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your
high
walls, in which you
put your faith, have come down: his armies
will be round your
towns, through all your land which the Lord
your God has given
you.
28:53 And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh
of
the sons and
daughters which the Lord your God has given you;
because of your
bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.
28:54 That man among you who is soft and used to comfort
will be
hard and cruel to his
brother, and to his dear wife, and to of
those his children
who are still living;
28:55 And will not give to any of them the flesh of his
children
which will be his
food because he has no other; in the cruel
grip of your haters
on all your towns.
28:56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would
not so
much as put her foot
on the earth, so delicate is she, will be
hard-hearted to her
husband and to her son and to her daughter;
28:57 And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the
children
of her body; for
having no other food, she will make a meal of
them secretly,
because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of
your haters on all
your towns.
28:58 If you will not take care to do all the words of this
law,
recorded in this
book, honouring that name of glory and of
fear, THE LORD YOUR
GOD;
28:59 Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and
the
punishment of your
seed, a thing to be wondered at; great
punishments and cruel
diseases stretching on through long
years.
28:60 He will send on you again all the diseases of Egypt,
which
were a cause of fear
to you, and they will take you in their
grip.
28:61 And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the
book of this law will
the Lord send on you till your
destruction is complete.
28:62 And you will become a very small band, though your
numbers
were like the stars
of heaven; because you did not give ear to
the voice of the Lord
your God.
28:63 And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and
increasing you, so
the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you
off and causing your
destruction, and you will be uprooted from
the land which you
are about to take as your heritage.
28:64 And the Lord will send you wandering among all
peoples,
from one end of the
earth to the other: there you will be
servants to other
gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you
and your fathers had
no knowledge.
28:65 And even among these nations there will be no peace
for
you, and no rest for
your feet: but the Lord will give you
there a shaking heart
and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:
28:66 Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you,
and
day and night will be
dark with fears, and nothing in life will
be certain:
28:67 In the morning you will say, If only it was evening!
And
at evening you will
say, If only morning would come! Because of
the fear in your
hearts and the things which your eyes will
see.
28:68 And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in
ships,
by the way of which I
said to you, You will never see it again:
there you will be
offering yourselves as men-servants and
women-servants to
your haters for a price, and no man will take
you.
29:1 These are the words of the agreement which Moses was
ordered by the Lord
to make with the children of Israel in the
land of Moab, in
addition to the agreement which he made with
them in Horeb.
29:2 And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have
seen
all the Lord did
before your eyes in the land of Egypt to
Pharaoh and to all his
servants and all his land;
29:3 The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and
wonders:
29:4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind
open
to knowledge, or
seeing eyes or hearing ears.
29:5 For forty years I have been your guide through the
waste
land: your clothing
has not become old on your backs, or your
shoes on your feet.
29:6 You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so
that
you might see that I
am the Lord your God.
29:7 When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon,
and
Og, king of Bashan,
came out to make war against us and we
overcame them:
29:8 And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites
and
the Gadites and the
half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.
29:9 So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so
that it
may be well for you
in everything you do.
29:10 You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord
your
God; the heads of
your tribes, the overseers, and those who are
in authority over
you, with all the men of Israel,
29:11 And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other
lands who are with
you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter
and the servant who
gets water for you:
29:12 With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of
the
Lord your God, and
his oath which he makes with you today:
29:13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be
your
God, as he has said
to you, and as he made an oath to your
fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob.
29:14 And not with you only do I make this agreement and
this
oath;
29:15 But with everyone who is here with us today before the
Lord our God, as well
as with those who are not here:
29:16 (For you have in mind how we were living in the land
of
Egypt; and how we
came through all the nations which were on
your way;
29:17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the
images
of wood and stone and
silver and gold which were among them:)
29:18 So that there may not be among you any man or woman or
family or tribe whose
heart is turned away from the Lord our
God today, to go
after other gods and give them worship; or any
root among you whose
fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;
29:19 If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes
comfort in the
thought that he will have peace even if he goes
on in the pride of
his heart, taking whatever chance may give
him:
29:20 The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of
the
Lord will be burning
against that man, and all the curses
recorded in this book
will be waiting for him, and the Lord
will take away his
name completely from the earth.
29:21 He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes
of
Israel, for an evil
fate, in keeping with all the curses of the
agreement recorded in
this book of the law.
29:22 And future generations, your children coming after
you,
and travellers from
far countries, will say, when they see the
punishments of that
land and the diseases which the Lord has
sent on it;
29:23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not
planted or giving
fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like
Sodom and Gomorrah,
Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent
destruction in the
heat of his wrath:
29:24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done
so
to this land? what is
the reason for this great and burning
wrath?
29:25 Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement
of
the Lord, the God of
their fathers, which he made with them
when he took them out
of the land of Egypt:
29:26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship,
gods
who were strange to
them, and whom he had not given them:
29:27 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this
land,
to send on it all the
curse recorded in this book:
29:28 Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his
wrath
and passion, and
driving them out into another land, as at this
day.
29:29 The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the
things
which have been made
clear are ours and our children's for
ever, so that we may
do all the words of this law.
30:1 Now when all these things have come on you, the
blessing
and the curse which I
have put before you, if the thought of
them comes back to
your minds, when you are living among the
nations where the
Lord your God has sent you,
30:2 And your hearts are turned again to the Lord your God,
and
you give ear to his
word which I give you today, you and your
children, with all
your heart and with all your soul:
30:3 Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate,
and taking you back
again from among all the nations where you
have been forced to
go.
30:4 Even if those who have been forced out are living in
the
farthest part of
heaven, the Lord your God will go in search of
you, and take you
back;
30:5 Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your
heritage; and he will
do you good, increasing you till you are
more in number than
your fathers were.
30:6 And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed
a
circumcision of the
heart, so that, loving him with all your
heart and all your
soul, you may have life.
30:7 And the Lord your God will put all these curses on
those
who are against you,
and on your haters who put a cruel yoke on
you.
30:8 And you will again give ear to the voice of the Lord,
and
do all his orders
which I have given you today.
30:9 And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good
things, blessing the
work of your hands, and the fruit of your
body, and the fruit
of your cattle, and the fruit of your land:
for the Lord will
have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:
30:10 If you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,
keeping
his orders and his
laws which are recorded in this book of the
law, and turning to
the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul.
30:11 For these orders which I have given you today are not
strange and secret,
and are not far away.
30:12 They are not in heaven, for you to say, Who will go up
to
heaven for us and
give us knowledge of them so that we may do
them?
30:13 And they are not across the sea, for you to say, Who
will
go over the sea for
us and give us news of them so that we may
do them?
30:14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in
your
heart, so that you
may do it.
30:15 See, I have put before you today, life and good, and
death
and evil;
30:16 In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord
your
God, to go in his
ways and keep his laws and his orders and his
decisions, so that
you may have life and be increased, and that
the blessing of the
Lord your God may be with you in the land
where you are going,
the land of your heritage.
30:17 But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut,
and
you go after those
who would make you servants and worshippers
of other gods:
30:18 I give witness against you this day that destruction
will
certainly be your
fate, and your days will be cut short in the
land where you are
going, the land of your heritage on the
other side of Jordan.
30:19 Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this
day
that I have put
before you life and death, a blessing and a
curse: so take life
for yourselves and for your seed:
30:20 In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and
being
true to him: for he
is your life and by him will your days be
long: so that you may
go on living in the land which the Lord
gave by an oath to
your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
31:1 So Moses said all these things to Israel.
31:2 Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty
years
old; I am no longer
able to go out and come in: and the Lord
has said to me, You
are not to go over Jordan.
31:3 The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will
send
destruction on all
those nations, and you will take their land
as your heritage: and
Joshua will go over at your head as the
Lord has said.
31:4 The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og,
the
kings of the
Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to
destruction.
31:5 The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are
to
do to them as I have
given you orders.
31:6 Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for
it
is the Lord your God
who is going with you; he will not take
away his help from
you.
31:7 Then Moses sent for Joshua, and before the eyes of all
Israel said to him,
Be strong and take heart: for you are to go
with this people into
the land which the Lord, by his oath to
their fathers, has
given them; by your help they will take it
for their heritage.
31:8 It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with
you, he
will not take away
his help from you or give you up: so have no
fear.
31:9 Then Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to
the
priests, the sons of
Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's
agreement, and to all
the responsible men of Israel.
31:10 And Moses said to them, At the end of every seven
years,
at the time fixed for
the ending of debts, at the feast of
tents,
31:11 When all Israel has come before the Lord your God in
the
place named by him,
let a reading be given of this law in the
hearing of all
Israel.
31:12 Make all the people come together, men and women and
children, and anyone
from another country who is with you, so
that hearing they may
become wise in the fear of the Lord your
God, and take care to
do all the words of this law;
31:13 And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give
ear
and be trained in the
fear of the Lord your God, while you are
living in the land
which you are going over Jordan to take for
your heritage.
31:14 At that time the Lord said to Moses, The day of your
death
is near: send for
Joshua, and come to the Tent of meeting so
that I may give him
his orders. So Moses and Joshua went to the
Tent of meeting.
31:15 And the Lord was seen in the Tent in a pillar of cloud
resting by the door
of the Tent.
31:16 And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest
with
your fathers; and
this people will be false to me, uniting
themselves to the
strange gods of the land where they are
going; they will be
turned away from me and will not keep the
agreement I have made
with them.
31:17 In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I
will be turned away
from them, veiling my face from them, and
destruction will
overtake them, and unnumbered evils and
troubles will come on
them; so that in that day they will say,
Have not these evils
come on us because our God is not with us?
31:18 Truly, my face will be turned away from them in that
day,
because of all the
evil they have done in going after other
gods.
31:19 Make then this song for yourselves, teaching it to the
children of Israel:
put it in their mouths, so that this song
may be a witness for
me against the children of Israel.
31:20 For when I have taken them into the land named in my
oath
to their fathers, a
land flowing with milk and honey, and they
have made themselves
full of food and are fat, then they will
be turned to other
gods and will give them worship, no longer
honouring me or
keeping my agreement.
31:21 Then when evils and troubles without number have
overtaken
them, this song will
be a witness to them, for the words of it
will be clear in the
memories of their children: for I see the
thoughts which are
moving in their hearts even now, before I
have taken them into
the land of my oath.
31:22 So that same day Moses made this song, teaching it to
the
children of Israel.
31:23 Then he gave orders to Joshua, the son of Nun, saying
to
him, Be strong and
take heart: for you are to go at the head of
the children of
Israel into the land which I made an oath to
give them; and I will
be with you.
31:24 Now after writing all the words of this law in a book
till
the record of them
was complete,
31:25 Moses said to the Levites who were responsible for
taking
up the ark of the
Lord's agreement,
31:26 Take this book of the law and put it by the ark of the
Lord's agreement, so
that it may be a witness against you.
31:27 For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled
hearts:
even now, while I am
still living, you will not be ruled by the
Lord; how much less
after my death?
31:28 Get together before me all those who are in authority
in
your tribes, and your
overseers, so that I may say these things
in their hearing, and
make heaven and earth my witnesses
against them.
31:29 For I am certain that after my death you will give
yourselves up to sin,
wandering from the way which I have given
you; and evil will
overtake you in the end, because you will do
evil in the eyes of
the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work
of your hands.
31:30 Then in the hearing of all the meeting of Israel,
Moses
said the words of
this song, to the end.
32:1 Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take
note
of the words of my
mouth:
32:2 My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew
on
the fields; like rain
on the young grass and showers on the
garden plants:
32:3 For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our
God
be named great.
32:4 He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways
are
righteousness: a God
without evil who keeps faith, true and
upright is he.
32:5 They have become false, they are not his children, the
mark
of sin is on them;
they are an evil and hard-hearted
generation.
32:6 Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and
unwise? Is he not
your father who has given you life? He has
made you and given
you your place.
32:7 Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the
years of generations
gone by: go to your father and he will
make it clear to you,
to the old men and they will give you the
story.
32:8 When the Most High gave the nations their heritage,
separating into
groups the children of men, he had the limits
of the peoples marked
out, keeping in mind the number of the
children of Israel.
32:9 For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land
of
his heritage.
32:10 He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled
waste
of sand: putting his
arms round him and caring for him, he kept
him as the light of
his eye.
32:11 As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight,
with
her wings
outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong
feathers:
32:12 So the Lord only was his guide, no other god was with
him.
32:13 He put him on the high places of the earth, his food
was
the increase of the
field; honey he gave him out of the rock
and oil out of the
hard rock;
32:14 Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat
of
lambs and sheep of
Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the
grain; and for your
drink, wine from the blood of the grape.
32:15 But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled:
you
have become fat, you
are thick and full of food: then he was
untrue to the God who
made him, giving no honour to the Rock of
his salvation.
32:16 The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by
their disgusting ways
he was moved to wrath.
32:17 They made offerings to evil spirits which were not
God, to
gods who were strange
to them, which had newly come up, not
feared by your
fathers.
32:18 You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you
have no
memory of the God who
gave you birth.
32:19 And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his
sons
and daughters.
32:20 And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will
see
what their end will
be: for they are an uncontrolled
generation, children
in whom is no faith.
32:21 They have given my honour to that which is not God,
moving
me to wrath with
their false worship: I will give their honour
to those who are not
a people, moving them to wrath by a
foolish nation,
32:22 For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep
parts
of the underworld,
burning up the earth with her increase, and
firing the deep roots
of the mountains.
32:23 I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will
be
showered on them.
32:24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by
burning heat and
bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I
will send on them,
with the poison of the worms of the dust.
32:25 Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the
inner rooms by fear;
death will take the young man and the
virgin, the baby at
the breast and the grey-haired man.
32:26 I said I would send them wandering far away, I would
make
all memory of them go
from the minds of men:
32:27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their
pride, might say, Our
hand is strong, the Lord has not done all
this.
32:28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no
sense in
them.
32:29 If only they were wise, if only this was clear to
them,
and they would give
thought to their future!
32:30 How would it be possible for one to overcome a
thousand,
and two to send ten
thousand in flight, if their rock had not
let them go, if the
Lord had not given them up?
32:31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters
themselves being
judges.
32:32 For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields
of
Gomorrah: their
grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries
are bitter:
32:33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison
of
snakes.
32:34 Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my
store-house?
32:35 Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the
slipping
of their feet: for
the day of their downfall is near, sudden
will be their fate.
32:36 For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have
pity for his
servants; when he sees that their power is gone,
there is no one, shut
up or free.
32:37 And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in
which
they put their faith?
32:38 Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of
their
drink offering? Let
them now come to your help, let them be
your salvation.
32:39 See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me:
giver of death and
life, wounding and making well: and no one
has power to make you
free from my hand.
32:40 For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending
life,
32:41 If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is
outstretched for
judging, I will give punishment to those who
are against me, and
their right reward to my haters.
32:42 I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be
feasting on flesh,
with the blood of the dead and the
prisoners, of the
long-haired heads of my haters.
32:43 Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he
will
take payment for the
blood of his servants, and will give
punishment to his
haters, and take away the sin of his land,
for his people.
32:44 So Moses said all the words of this song in the
hearing of
the people, he and
Hoshea, the son of Nun.
32:45 And after saying all this to the people,
32:46 Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to
you
today go deep into
your hearts, and give orders to your
children to do every
word of this law.
32:47 And this is no small thing for you, but it is your
life,
and through this you
may make your days long in the land which
you are going over
Jordan to take for your heritage.
32:48 That same day the Lord said to Moses,
32:49 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in
the
land of Moab opposite
Jericho; there you may see the land of
Canaan, which I am giving
to the children of Israel for their
heritage:
32:50 And let death come to you on the mountain where you
are
going, and be put to
rest with your people; as death came to
Aaron, your brother,
on Mount Hor, where he was put to rest
with his people:
32:51 Because of your sin against me before the children of
Israel at the waters
of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of
Zin; because you did
not keep my name holy among the children
of Israel.
32:52 So you will see the land before you, but you will not
go
into the land which I
am giving to the children of Israel.
33:1 Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God,
gave
to the children of
Israel before his death.
33:2 He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from
Seir; shining out
from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath
Kadesh: from his
right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made
waste the peoples.
33:3 All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet;
they are lifted up on
his wings.
33:4 Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of
Jacob.
33:5 And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the
people and the tribes
of Israel came together.
33:6 Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of
his
men be small.
33:7 And this is the blessing of Judah: he said, Give ear, O
Lord, to the voice of
Judah and make him one with his people:
let your hands take
up his cause, and be his help against his
attackers.
33:8 And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let
the
Urim be with your
loved one, whom you put to the test at
Massah, with whom you
were angry at the waters of Meribah;
33:9 Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I
have not seen her; he
kept himself separate from his brothers
and had no knowledge
of his children: for they have given ear
to your word and kept
your agreement.
33:10 They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob
and
of your law to
Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will
be their right, and
the ordering of burned offerings on your
altar.
33:11 Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may
the
work of his hands be
pleasing to you: may those who take up
arms against him and
all who have hate for him, be wounded
through the heart,
never to be lifted up again.
33:12 And of Benjamin he said, Benjamin is the loved one of
the
Lord, he will be kept
safe at all times; he will be covered by
the Most High,
resting between his arms.
33:13 And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be
on
his land; for the good
things of heaven on high, and the deep
waters flowing under
the earth,
33:14 And the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the
good
things of the growth
of the moons,
33:15 And the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the
good
things of the eternal
hills,
33:16 The good things of the earth and all its wealth, the
good
pleasure of him who
was seen in the burning tree: may they come
on the head of
Joseph, on the head of him who was prince among
his brothers.
33:17 He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the
horns of
the mountain ox, with
which all peoples will be wounded, even
to the ends of the
earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim
and the thousands of
Manasseh.
33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Be glad, Zebulun, in your
going
out; and, Issachar,
in your tents.
33:19 They will send out the word for the people to come to
the
mountain, taking
there the offerings of righteousness: for the
store of the seas
will be theirs, and the secret wealth of the
sand.
33:20 Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide
the
limits of Gad: he
takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for
himself the arm and
the crown of the head.
33:21 He kept for himself the first part, for his was the
ruler's right: he put
in force the righteousness of the Lord,
and his decisions for
Israel.
33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out
from Bashan.
33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, made glad with
grace
and full of the
blessing of the Lord: the sea and its fishes
will be his.
33:24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of
children; may he be
pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot
be wet with oil.
33:25 Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days,
so
may your work be.
33:26 No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the
heavens to your help,
and letting his glory be seen in the
skies.
33:27 The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place,
and
under you are his
eternal arms: driving out the forces of your
haters from before
you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.
33:28 And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob
by
himself, in a land of
grain and wine, with dew dropping from
the heavens.
33:29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people
whose
saviour is the Lord,
whose help is your cover, whose sword is
your strength! All
those who are against you will put
themselves under your
rule, and your feet will be planted on
their high places.
34:1 And Moses went up from the table-lands of Moab to Mount
Nebo, to the top of
Pisgah which is facing Jericho. And the
Lord let him see all
the land, the land of Gilead as far as
Dan;
34:2 And all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh,
and
all the land of
Judah, as far as the Great Sea of the west;
34:3 And the South, and the circle of the valley of Jericho,
the
town of palm-trees,
as far as Zoar.
34:4 And the Lord said to him, This is the land about which
I
made an oath to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give
it to your seed: now
I have let you see it with your eyes, but
you will not go in
there.
34:5 So death came to Moses, the servant of the Lord, there
in
the land of Moab, as
the Lord had said.
34:6 And the Lord put him to rest in the valley in the land
of
Moab opposite
Beth-peor: but no man has knowledge of his
resting-place to this
day.
34:7 And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years
old:
his eye had not
become clouded, or his natural force become
feeble.
34:8 For thirty days the children of Israel were weeping for
Moses in the
table-lands of Moab, till the days of weeping and
sorrow for Moses were
ended.
34:9 And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of
wisdom; for Moses had
put his hands on him: and the children of
Israel gave ear to
him, and did as the Lord had given orders to
Moses.
34:10 There has never been another prophet in Israel like
Moses,
whom the Lord had
knowledge of face to face;
34:11 In all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him
to do
in the land of Egypt,
to Pharaoh and to all his servants and
all his land;
34:12 And in all the acts of power and fear which Moses did
before the eyes of all Israel.