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Deuteronomy

1 These are the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against the Red Sea, between Par-an, and To-phel, and Laban, and Ha-ze-roth, and Di-za-hab. ²It is eleven days’ journey from Hor-eb by the way of mount Se-ir unto Ka-desh-bar-ne-a. ³And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them; ⁴after he had struck Si-hon the king of the Am-or-ites, who dwelt in Hesh-bon, and Og the king of Ba-shan, who dwelt in Ash-ta-roth, at Ed-re-i. ⁵Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying, ⁶Jehovah our God spoke unto us in Hor-eb, saying, you have dwelt long enough in this mountain: ⁷turn yourselves, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Am-or-ites, and unto all the places near unto there, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Leb-a-non, as far as the great river, the river Eu-phre-tes. ⁸Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

⁹And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: ¹⁰Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. ¹¹Jehovah, the God of your fathers, made you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you! ¹²How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? ¹³Take yourselves men, wise and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. ¹⁴And you answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. ¹⁵So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. ¹⁶And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is with him. ¹⁷you shall not respect persons in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring unto me and I will hear it. ¹⁸And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

¹⁹And we journeyed from Hor-eb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Am-or-ites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Ka-desh-bar-ne-a. ²⁰And I said unto you, you are come unto the hill-country of the Am-or-ites, which Jehovah our God gives unto us. ²¹Behold, Jehovah your God has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has spoken unto you; fear not, neither be dismayed. ²²And you came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come. ²³And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe: ²⁴and they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came unto the valley of Esh-col, and spied it out. ²⁵And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God gives unto us. ²⁶Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God: ²⁷and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Am-or-ites, to destroy us. ²⁸Where are we going up? Our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. ²⁹Then I said unto you, Do not dread, neither be afraid of them. ³⁰Jehovah your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, ³¹and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Jehovah your God bares you, as a man does bear his son, in all the ways that you went, until you came unto this place. ³²Yet in this thing you did not believe Jehovah your God, ³³who went before you in the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day. ³⁴And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying, ³⁵Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers, ³⁶save Caleb the son of Je-phun-neh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden upon, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Jehovah. ³⁷Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, you also shall not go in there: ³⁸Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: and you encourage him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. ³⁹Moreover your little ones, that you said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. ⁴⁰But as for you, turn yourself, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. ⁴¹Then you answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And you girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country. ⁴²And Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; unless you be struck before your enemies. ⁴³So I spoke unto you, and you listened not; but you rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country. ⁴⁴And the Am-or-ites, that dwelt in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Se-ir, even unto Hor-mah. ⁴⁵And you returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah listened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you. ⁴⁶So you abode in Ka-desh many days, according unto the days that you abode there.

2 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spoke unto me; and we compassed mount Se-ir many days. ²And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, ³you have compassed this mountain long enough: turn yourselves northward. ⁴And command the people, saying, you are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Se-ir; and they will be afraid of you: but you take good heed unto yourselves therefore; ⁵contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Se-ir unto Esau for a possession. ⁶You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink. ⁷For Jehovah your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

⁸So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Se-ir, from the way of the Arabah from E-lath and from E-zion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. ⁹And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. ¹⁰(The E-mim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims: ¹¹these also are accounted Reph-a-im, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them E-mim. ¹²The Hor-ites also dwelt in Se-ir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave unto them.) ¹³Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zar-ed. And we went over the brook Zar-ed. ¹⁴And the days in which we came from Ka-desh-bar-ne-a, until we were come over the brook Zar-ed, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah swore unto them. ¹⁵Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed. ¹⁶So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, ¹⁷that Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, ¹⁸you are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab: ¹⁹and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, vex them not, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession. ²⁰(That also is accounted a land of Reph-a-im: Reph-a-im dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zam-zum-mims, ²¹a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but Jehovah destroyed them from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; ²²as he did for the children of Esau, that dwell in Se-ir, when he destroyed the Hor-ites from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: ²³and the A-vites, that dwelt in villages as far as Ga-za, the Caph-to-rim, that came forth out of Caph-tor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

²⁴Rise yourselves up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Ar-non: behold, I have given into your hand Si-hon the Amorite, king of Hesh-bon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. ²⁵This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you. ²⁶And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Ke-de-moth unto Si-hon king of Hesh-bon with words of peace, saying, ²⁷Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither unto the right hand nor to the left. ²⁸you shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet, ²⁹as the children of Esau that dwell in Se-ir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God gives us. ³⁰But Si-hon king of Hesh-bon would not let us pass by him; for Jehovah your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day. ³¹And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Si-hon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land. ³²Then Si-hon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Ja-haz. ³³And Jehovah our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people. ³⁴And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining: ³⁵only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. ³⁶From A-ro-er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Ar-non, and from the city that is in the valley, even unto Gil-e-ad, there was not a city too high for us; Jehovah our God delivered up all before us: ³⁷only to the land of the children of Ammon you came not near; all the side of the river Jab-bok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever Jehovah our God had forbidden us.

3 Then we turned, and went up the way to Ba-shan: and Og the king of Ba-shan came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Ed-re-i. ²And Jehovah said unto me, Fear him not; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shall do unto him as you did unto Si-hon king of the Am-or-ites, who dwelt at Hesh-bon. ³So Jehovah our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Ba-shan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left remaining to him. ⁴And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Ar-gob, the kingdom of Og in Ba-shan. ⁵All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a great many unwalled towns. ⁶And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Si-hon king of Hesh-bon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. ⁷But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves. ⁸And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Am-or-ites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Ar-non unto mount Her-mon; ⁹(which Her-mon the Si-do-ni-ans call Si-ri-on, and the Am-or-ites call it She-nir;) ¹⁰all the cities of the plain, and all Gil-e-ad, and all Ba-shan, unto Sal-chah and Ed-re-i, cities of the kingdom of Og in Ba-shan. ¹¹(For only Og king of Ba-shan remained of the remnant of the Reph-a-ims; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rab-bah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)

¹²And this land we took in possession at that time: from A-ro-er, which is by the valley of the Ar-non, and half the hill-country of Gil-e-ad, and the cities thereof, I gave unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites: ¹³and the rest of Gil-e-ad, and all Ba-shan, the kingdom of Og, I gave unto the half-tribe of Ma-nas-seh; all the region of Ar-gob, even all Ba-shan. (The same is called the land of Reph-a-im. ¹⁴Ja-ir the son of Ma-nas-seh took all the region of Ar-gob, unto the border of the Ge-shu-rites and the Ma-ach-a-thites, and called them, even after his own name, Ba-shan-Ha-voth-ja-ir, unto this day.) ¹⁵And I gave Gil-e-ad unto Ma-chir. ¹⁶And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gil-e-ad even unto the valley of the Ar-non, the middle of the valley, and the border thereof, even unto the river Jab-bok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; ¹⁷the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border thereof, from Chin-ne-reth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pis-gah eastward. ¹⁸And I commanded you at that time, saying, Jehovah your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of valor. ¹⁹But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that you have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you, ²⁰until Jehovah give rest unto your brethren, as unto you, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then shall you return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.

²¹And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, your eyes have seen all that Jehovah your God has done unto these two kings: so shall Jehovah do unto all the kingdoms where you go over. ²²you shall not fear them; for Jehovah your God, it is he that fights for you. ²³And I besought Jehovah at that time, saying, ²⁴O Lord Jehovah, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your works, and according to your mighty acts? ²⁵Let me go over, I pray you, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Leb-a-non. ²⁶But Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, and listened not unto me; and Jehovah said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more unto me of this matter. ²⁷Get yourself up unto the top of Pis-gah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan. ²⁸But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see. ²⁹So we abode in the valley over against Beth-pe-or.

4 And now, O Israel, listen unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, gives you. ²You shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you. ³Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Ba-al-pe-or; for all the men that followed Ba-al-pe-or, Jehovah your God has destroyed them from the midst of you. ⁴But you that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day. ⁵Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it. ⁶Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. ⁷For what great nation is there, that has a god so near unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon him? ⁸And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? ⁹Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, unless you forget the things which your eyes saw, and unless they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known unto your children and your children’s children; ¹⁰the day that you stood before Jehovah your God in Hor-eb, when Jehovah said unto me, Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. ¹¹And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. ¹²And Jehovah spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only you heard a voice. ¹³And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. ¹⁴And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you these statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. ¹⁵Take therefore good heed unto yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spoke unto you in Hor-eb out of the midst of the fire. ¹⁶Lest you corrupt yourselves, and you make a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, ¹⁷the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the heavens, ¹⁸the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; ¹⁹and unless you lift up your eyes unto heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah your God has allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven. ²⁰But Jehovah has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day. ²¹Furthermore Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance: ²²but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.        *** ²³Take heed unto yourselves, unless you forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and you make a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah your God has forbidden you. ²⁴For Jehovah your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. ²⁵When you shall beget children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, to provoke him to anger; ²⁶I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed. ²⁷And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Jehovah shall lead you away. ²⁸And there you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. ²⁹But from there you shall seek Jehovah your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, in the latter days you shall return to Jehovah your God, and listen unto his voice: ³¹for Jehovah your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he sware unto them. ³²For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? ³³Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? ³⁴Or has God appraised to go and take to himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵Unto you it was showed, that you might know that Jehovah, he is God; there is none other besides him. ³⁶Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. ³⁷And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; ³⁸to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day. ³⁹Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Jehovah, he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none other. ⁴⁰And you shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah your God gives you, for ever.

⁴¹Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; ⁴²that the manslayer might flee there, that slays his neighbor unwittingly, and hated him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: ⁴³namely, Be-zer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ra-moth in Gil-e-ad, for the Gadites; and Go-lan in Ba-shan, for the Man-nas-sites. ⁴⁴And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: ⁴⁵these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, ⁴⁶beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-pe-or, in the land of Si-hon king of the Am-or-ites, who dwelt at Hesh-bon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt. ⁴⁷And they took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Ba-shan, the two kings of the Am-or-ites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; ⁴⁸from A-ro-er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Ar-non, even unto mount Sion (the same is Her-mon), ⁴⁹and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pis-gah.

5 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them. ²Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Hor-eb. ³Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. ⁴Jehovah spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, ⁵(I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for you were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

⁶I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ⁷you shall have no other gods before me. ⁸you shall not make unto yourselves any graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ⁹you shall not bow down yourself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me; ¹⁰and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. ¹¹you shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain: for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain. ¹²Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah your God commanded you. ¹³Six days shall you labor, and do all your work; ¹⁴but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto Jehovah your God: in it, you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you. ¹⁵And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jehovah your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. ¹⁶Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Jehovah your God gives you. ¹⁷you shall not kill. ¹⁸Neither shall you commit adultery. ¹⁹Neither shall you steal. ²⁰Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor. ²¹Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s. ²²These words Jehovah spoke unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.

²³And it came to pass, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; ²⁴and you said, Behold, Jehovah our God has showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, and he lives. ²⁵Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, then we shall die. ²⁶For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? ²⁷You go near, and hear all that Jehovah our God shall say: and then you speak unto us all that Jehovah our God shall speak unto you; and we will hear it, and do it. ²⁸And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, when you spoke unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto you: they have well said all that they have spoken. ²⁹Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! ³⁰Go say to them, Return yourselves to your tents. ³¹But as for you, stand here by me, and I will speak unto you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it. ³²You shall observe to do therefore as Jehovah your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. ³³You shall walk in all the ways which Jehovah your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

6 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; ²that you might fear Jehovah your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. ³Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised unto you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: ⁵and you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. ⁶And these words, which I command you this day, shall be upon your heart; ⁷and you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lay down, and when you rise up. ⁸And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. ⁹And you shall write them upon the door-posts of your house, and upon your gates. ¹⁰And it shall be, when Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land which he sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto you, great and goodly cities, which you build not, ¹¹and houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and cisterns hewn out, which you hewed not, vineyards and olive-trees, which you planted not, and you shall eat and be full; ¹²then beware unless you forget Jehovah, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹³You shall fear Jehovah your God; and him shall you serve, and shall swear by his name. ¹⁴You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you; ¹⁵for Jehovah your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; unless the anger of Jehovah your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. ¹⁶You shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as you tempted him in Mas-sah.

¹⁷You shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. ¹⁸And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Jehovah; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers, ¹⁹to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken. ²⁰When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God has commanded you? ²¹Then you shall say unto your son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt: and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; ²²and Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and greatly, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes; ²³and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore unto our fathers. ²⁴And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. ²⁵And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as he has commanded us.

7 When Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Gir-gash-ite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Pe-riz-zite, and the Hi-vite, and the Jeb-u-site, seven nations greater and mightier than you; ²and when Jehovah your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them; ³neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give unto his son, nor his daughter shall you take unto your son. ⁴For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly. ⁵But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their images, and burn their graven images with fire. ⁶For you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God: Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. ⁷Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: ⁸but because Jehovah loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore unto your fathers, has Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹Know therefore that Jehovah your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, ¹⁰and repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hates him, he will repay him to his face. ¹¹You shall therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

¹²And it shall come to pass, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah your God will keep the covenant with you and the lovingkindness which he swore unto your fathers: ¹³and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore unto your fathers to give you. *** ¹⁴You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. ¹⁵And Jehovah will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, will he put upon you, but will lay them upon all them that hate you. ¹⁶And you shall consume all the peoples that Jehovah your God shall deliver unto you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto you. ¹⁷If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? ¹⁸You shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Jehovah your God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; ¹⁹the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby Jehovah your God brought you out: so shall Jehovah your God do unto all the peoples of whom you are afraid. ²⁰Moreover Jehovah your God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. ²¹You shall not be frightened at them; for Jehovah your God is in the midst of you, a great and a terrible God. ²²And Jehovah your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, unless the beasts of the field increase upon you. ²³But Jehovah your God will deliver them up before you, and will confound them with a great vexation, until they be destroyed. ²⁴And he will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them. ²⁵The graven images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto you, unless you be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God. ²⁶And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

8 All the commandment which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers. ²And you shall remember all the ways which Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. ³And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Jehovah does man live. ⁴Your raiment did not become old upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. ⁵And you shall consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Jehovah your God chastens you. ⁶And you shall keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. ⁷For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; ⁸a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; ⁹a land wherein you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

¹⁰And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which he has given you. ¹¹Beware unless you forget Jehovah your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day: ¹²lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; ¹³and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; ¹⁴then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; ¹⁵who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions, and a thirsty ground where  no water was; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint; ¹⁶who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end: ¹⁷and unless you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. ¹⁸But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is he that gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as at this day. ¹⁹And it shall be, if you shall forget Jehovah your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. ²⁰As the nations that Jehovah makes to perish before you, so shall you perish; because you would not listen unto the voice of Jehovah your God.

9 Hear, O Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, ²a people great and tall, the sons of the Ana-kims, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak? ³Know therefore this day, that Jehovah your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall you drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Jehovah has spoken unto you. ⁴Speak not in your heart, after that Jehovah your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah does drive them out from before you. ⁵Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ⁶Know therefore, that Jehovah your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiffnecked people.

⁷Remember, do not forget, how you provoked Jehovah your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came unto this place, you have been rebellious against Jehovah. ⁸Also in Hor-eb you provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you. ⁹When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. ¹⁰And Jehovah delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which Jehovah spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. ¹¹And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. ¹²And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get you down quickly from here; for your people that you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. ¹³Furthermore Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: ¹⁴let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they. ¹⁵So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. ¹⁶And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against Jehovah your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you. ¹⁷And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. ¹⁸And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. ¹⁹For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was angry against you to destroy you. But Jehovah listened unto me that time also. ²⁰And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. ²¹And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. ²²And at Tab-e-rah, and at Mas-sah, and at Kib-roth-hat-ta-a-vah, you provoked Jehovah to wrath. ²³And when Jehovah sent you from Ka-desh-bar-ne-a, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and you believed him not, nor listened to his voice. ²⁴You have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you. ²⁵So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you. ²⁶And I prayed unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord Jehovah, destroy not your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²⁷Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin, ²⁸lest the land where you brought us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. ²⁹Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.

10 At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew yourself two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make yourself an ark of wood. ²And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark. ³So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand. ⁴And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Jehovah spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Jehovah gave them unto me. ⁵And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Jehovah commanded me. ⁶(And the children of Israel journeyed from Beer-oth Ben-e-ja-a-kan to Mo-se-ra. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and El-e-a-zar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead. ⁷From there they journeyed unto Gud-go-dah; and from Gud-go-dah to Jot-ba-thah, a land of brooks of water. ⁸At that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. ⁹Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah your God spoke unto him.) ¹⁰And I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Jehovah listened unto me that time also; Jehovah would not destroy you. ¹¹And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.

¹²And now, Israel, what does Jehovah your God require of you, but to fear Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good? ¹⁴Behold, unto Jehovah your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. ¹⁵Only Jehovah had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day. ¹⁶Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be stiffnecked no more. ¹⁷For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regards not persons, nor takes reward. ¹⁸He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment. ¹⁹Love therefore, the sojourner; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. ²⁰You shall fear Jehovah your God; him shall you serve; and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear. ²¹He is your praise, and he is your God, that has done for you these great and terrible things, which your eyes have seen. ²²Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Jehovah your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

11 Therefore you shall love Jehovah your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway. ²And know for yourself this day: for I speak not with your children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, ³and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; ⁴and what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Jehovah has destroyed them unto this day; ⁵and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until you came unto this place; ⁶and what he did unto Da-than and A-bi-ram, the sons of E-li-ab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel: ⁷but your eyes have seen all the great work of Jehovah which he did.

⁸Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it; ⁹and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from where you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; ¹¹but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of heaven, ¹²a land which Jehovah your God cares for: the eyes of Jehovah your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. ¹³And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹⁴that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. ¹⁵And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full. ¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, unless your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; ¹⁷and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah gives you.

¹⁸Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. ¹⁹And you shall teach them to your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lay down, and when you rise up. ²⁰And you shall write them upon the door-posts of your house, and upon your gates; ²¹that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. ²²For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; ²³then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. ²⁴Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Leb-a-non, from the river, the river Eu-phre-tes, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border. ²⁵There shall no man be able to stand before you: Jehovah your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he has spoken unto you.

²⁶Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: ²⁷the blessing, if you shall listen unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day; ²⁸and the curse, if you shall not listen unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known. ²⁹And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing upon mount Ge-ri-zim, and the curse upon mount E-bal. ³⁰Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gil-gal, beside the oaks of Mo-reh? ³¹For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein. ³²And you shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.

12 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth. ²You shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: ³and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their images with fire; and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. ⁴You shall not do so unto Jehovah your God.

⁵But unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come; ⁶and there you shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock: ⁷and there you shall eat before Jehovah your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand unto, you and your households, wherein Jehovah your God has blessed you. ⁸You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes; ⁹for you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Jehovah your God gives you. ¹⁰But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Jehovah your God will cause you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety; ¹¹then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there shall you bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow unto Jehovah. ¹²And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he has no portion nor inheritance with you. ¹³Take heed to yourself that you offer not your burnt-offerings in every place that you see; ¹⁴but in the place which Jehovah shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt-offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. ¹⁵Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. ¹⁶Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth as water. ¹⁷You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand; ¹⁸but you shall eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand unto. ¹⁹Take heed to yourself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you live in your land. ²⁰When Jehovah your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul. ²¹If the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. ²²Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. ²³Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. ²⁴You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth as water. ²⁵You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah. ²⁶Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall choose: ²⁷and you shall offer your burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah your God; and you shall eat the flesh. ²⁸Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah your God. ²⁹When Jehovah your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; ³⁰take heed to yourself that you be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. ³¹You shall not do so unto Jehovah your God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods. ³²What thing soever I command you, that shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

13 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, ²and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them; ³you shall not listen unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God proves you, to knows whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴You shall walk after Jehovah your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave unto him. ⁵And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Jehovah your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

⁶If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, that is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; ⁷of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, near unto you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; ⁸you shall not consent unto him, nor listen unto him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: ⁹but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. ¹⁰And you shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹¹And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

¹²If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Jehovah your God gives you to dwell there, saying, ¹³Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known; ¹⁴then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is worked in the midst of you, ¹⁵you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. ¹⁶And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto Jehovah your God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again. ¹⁷And there shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn unto your fathers; ¹⁸when you shall listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah your God.

14 You are the children of Jehovah your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. ²For you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. ³You shall not eat any abominable thing. ⁴These are the beasts which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, ⁵the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois. ⁶And every beast that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you eat. ⁷Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you. ⁸And the swine, because he parts the hoof but chews not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. ⁹These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever has fins and scales may you eat; ¹⁰and whatsoever has not fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean unto you. ¹¹Of all clean birds you may eat. ¹²But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the ospray, ¹³and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind, ¹⁴and every raven after its kind, ¹⁵and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind, ¹⁶the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, ¹⁷and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, ¹⁸and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. ¹⁹And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. ²⁰Of all clean birds you may eat. ²¹you shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it unto the sojourner that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it unto a foreigner: for you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God. you shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

²²You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year. ²³And you shall eat before Jehovah your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always. ²⁴And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Jehovah your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah your God shall bless you; ²⁵then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose: ²⁶and you shall bestow the money for whatsoever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Jehovah your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. ²⁷And the Levite that is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. ²⁸At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: ²⁹and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

15 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release. ²And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent unto his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah’s release has been proclaimed. ³Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatsoever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release. ⁴Howbeit there shall be no poor with you; (for Jehovah will surely bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;) ⁵if only you diligently listen unto the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day. ⁶For Jehovah your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend unto many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. ⁷If there be with you a poor man, one of your brethren, within any of your gates in your land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; ⁸but you shall surely open your hand unto him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wants. ⁹Beware that there be not a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry unto Jehovah against you, and it be sin unto you. ¹⁰You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand unto. ¹¹For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, you shall surely open your hand unto your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

¹²If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. ¹³And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty: ¹⁴you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing-floor, and out of your winepress; as Jehovah your God has blessed you, you shall give unto him. ¹⁵And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today. ¹⁶And it shall be, if he say unto you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you; ¹⁷then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be your servant for ever. And also unto your maid-servant you shall do likewise. ¹⁸It shall not seem hard unto you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you do.

¹⁹All the firstling males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify unto Jehovah your God: you shall do no work with the firstling of your herd, nor shear the firstling of your flock. ²⁰You shall eat it before Jehovah your God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, you and your household. ²¹And if it have any blemish, as if it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatsoever, you shall not sacrifice it unto Jehovah your God. ²²You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart. ²³Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it out upon the ground as water.

16 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover unto Jehovah your God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night. ²And you shall sacrifice the Passover unto Jehovah your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. ³You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in a hurry: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. ⁴And there shall be no leaven seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. ⁵You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you; ⁶but at the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt. ⁷And you shall roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go unto your tents. ⁸Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God; you shall do no work therein. ⁹Seven weeks shall you number unto you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks. ¹⁰And you shall keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah your God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Jehovah your God blesses you: ¹¹and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of you, in the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. ¹²And you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes. ¹³You shall keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing-floor and from your winepress: ¹⁴and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates. ¹⁵Seven days shall you keep a feast unto Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; because Jehovah your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. ¹⁶Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Jehovah your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty: ¹⁷every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you.

¹⁸Judges and officers shall you make for yourselves in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with a righteous judgment. ¹⁹You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. ²⁰That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Jehovah your God gives you. ²¹You shall not plant yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah your God, which you shall make yourself. ²²Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Jehovah your God hates.

17 You shall not sacrifice unto Jehovah your God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination unto Jehovah your God. ²If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Jehovah your God gives you, man or woman, that does that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, in transgressing his covenant, ³and has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; ⁴and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is worked in Israel, ⁵then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, unto your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones. ⁶At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. ⁷The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

⁸If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and get yourself up unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose; ⁹and you shall come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment. ¹⁰And you shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Jehovah shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you: ¹¹according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left. ¹²And the man that does presumptuously, in not listening unto the priest that stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel. ¹³And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

¹⁴When you are come unto the land which Jehovah your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me; ¹⁵you shall surely set him king over you, whom Jehovah your God shall choose: one from among your brethren shall you set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. ¹⁶Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; forasmuch as Jehovah has said unto you, you shall henceforth return no more that way. ¹⁷Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. ¹⁸And it shall be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites: ¹⁹and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; ²⁰that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.

18 The priests the Levites, even all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, as his inheritance. ²And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: Jehovah is their inheritance, as he has spoken unto them. ³And this shall the priests’ be due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. ⁴The first-fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him. ⁵For Jehovah your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons for ever. ⁶And if a Levite come from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose; ⁷then he shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before Jehovah. ⁸They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.

⁹When you are come into the land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. ¹⁰There shall not be found with you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that uses divination, one that practices augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, ¹¹or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer. ¹²For whoever does these things is an abomination unto Jehovah: and because of these abominations, Jehovah your God does drive them out from before you. ¹³You shall be perfect with Jehovah your God. ¹⁴For these nations, that you shall dispossess, have listened unto them that practice augury, and unto diviners; but as for you, Jehovah your God has not suffered you to do that.

¹⁵Jehovah your God will raise up unto you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me; unto him you shall listen; ¹⁶according to all that you desired of Jehovah your God in Hor-eb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. ¹⁷And Jehovah said unto me, They have well said that which they have spoken. ¹⁸I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. ¹⁹And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. ²⁰But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. ²¹And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah has not spoken? ²²When a prophet speak in the name of Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.

19 When Jehovah your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; ²you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it. ³You shall prepare yourself the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Jehovah your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there. ⁴And this is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unwittingly, and hated him not in time past; ⁵as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand makes a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the stock, and lights upon his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee unto one of these cities and live: ⁶lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. ⁷Therefore I command you, saying, you shall set apart three cities for you. ⁸And if Jehovah your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn unto your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give unto your fathers; ⁹if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three: ¹⁰that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you. ¹¹But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities; ¹²then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. ¹³Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

¹⁴You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Jehovah your God gives you to possess it. ¹⁵One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established. ¹⁶If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, ¹⁷then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days; ¹⁸and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; ¹⁹then shall you do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. ²⁰And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you. ²¹And your eyes shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

20 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, and a people more than yourselves, you shall not be afraid of them; for Jehovah your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. ²And it shall be, when you draw near unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, ³and shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, you draw near this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; fear not, nor tremble, neither be you frightened at them; ⁴for Jehovah your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. ⁵And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, unless he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. ⁶And what man is there that has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit thereof? Let him go and return unto his house, unless he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof. ⁷And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return unto his house, unless he die in the battle, and another man take her. ⁸And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return unto his house, unless his brethren’s heart melt as his heart. ⁹And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the people.

¹⁰When you draw near unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. ¹¹And it shall be, if it gives you an answer of peace, and open unto you, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto you, and shall serve you. ¹²And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: ¹³and when Jehovah your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male thereof with the edge of the sword: ¹⁴but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take for a prey unto yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Jehovah your God has given you. ¹⁵This shall you do unto all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. ¹⁶But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breaths; ¹⁷but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Pe-riz-zite, the Hi-vite, and the Jeb-u-site; as Jehovah your God has commanded you; ¹⁸that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would you sin against Jehovah your God. ¹⁹When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, but you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged of you? ²⁰Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

21 If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it is not known who has struck him; ²then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: ³and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; ⁴and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. ⁵And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for of them Jehovah your God has chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. ⁶And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; ⁷and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. ⁸Forgive, O Jehovah, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of your people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them. ⁹So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹⁰When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Jehovah your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive, ¹¹and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire unto her, and would take her to you to be your wife; ¹²then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; ¹³and she shall put the raiment of her captivity off from her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

¹⁵If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated; ¹⁶then it shall be, in the day that he cause his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born: ¹⁷but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

¹⁸If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; ¹⁹then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; ²⁰and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. ²¹And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. ²²And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree; ²³his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that you defile not your land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.

22 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again unto your brother. ²And if your brother is not near unto you, or if you know him not, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him. ³And so shall you do with his ass; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself. ⁴You shall not see your brother’s ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

⁵A woman shall not wear that which pertains unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination unto Jehovah your God. ⁶If a bird’s nest is by chance before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young: ⁷you shall surely let the dam go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. ⁸When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house, if any man were to fall from there. ⁹You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, unless the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. ¹⁰You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together. ¹¹You shall not wear a mingled things, wool and linen together. ¹²you shall make yourselves fringes upon the four borders of your vesture, wherewith you cover yourself.

¹³If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, ¹⁴and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I found not the tokens of her virginity in her; ¹⁵then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate; ¹⁶and the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hates her; ¹⁷and, lo, he has laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. ¹⁸And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; ¹⁹and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. ²⁰But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel; ²¹then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has worked folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. ²²If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel. ²³If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; ²⁴then you shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you. ²⁵But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die: ²⁶but unto the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter; ²⁷for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. ²⁸If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; ²⁹then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days. ³⁰A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

23 He that has his private parts crushed, or has his private member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah. ²A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Jehovah. ³An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Jehovah for ever: ⁴because they did not meet with you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Ba-laam the son of Be-or from Pe-thor of Mes-o-po-ta-mi-a, to curse you. ⁵Nevertheless Jehovah your God would not listen unto Ba-laam; but Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing unto you, because Jehovah your God loved you. ⁶You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days for ever. ⁷You shall not abhor an E-dom-ite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land. ⁸The children of the third generation that are born unto them shall enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

⁹When you go forth and camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing. ¹⁰If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chance him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: ¹¹but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. ¹²You shall have a place also without the camp, where you shall go forth abroad: ¹³and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you: ¹⁴for Jehovah your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

¹⁵You shall not deliver a servant unto his master that is escaped from his master unto you: ¹⁶he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him. ¹⁷There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. ¹⁸You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah your God. ¹⁹You shall not lend upon interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of goods, interest of anything that is lent upon interest: ²⁰unto a foreigner you may lend upon interest; but unto your brother you shall not lend upon interest, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all that you put your hand unto, in the land where you go in to possess it. ²¹When you shall vow a vow unto Jehovah your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Jehovah your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. ²²But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you. ²³That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed unto Jehovah your God, a freewill-offering, which you have promised with your mouth. ²⁴When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel. ²⁵When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle unto your neighbor’s standing grain.

24 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unfitting thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. ²And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. ³And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; ⁴her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is an abomination before Jehovah: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.

⁵When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. ⁶No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a man’s life to pledge. ⁷If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. ⁸Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do. ⁹Remember what Jehovah your God did unto Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt. ¹⁰When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to bring his pledge. ¹¹You shall stand without, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge unto you. ¹²And if he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; ¹³you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness unto you before Jehovah your God.

¹⁴You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren, or of your sojourners that are in your land within your gates: ¹⁵in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: unless he cry against you unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto you. ¹⁶The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. ¹⁷You shall not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge; ¹⁸but you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing. ¹⁹When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to bring it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. ²⁰When you beat your olive-tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. ²¹When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. ²²And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

25 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; ²and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. ³Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed that; unless, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile unto you. ⁴You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

⁵If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her. ⁶And it shall be, that the first-born that she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel. ⁷And if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto me. ⁸Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I do not want to take her; ⁹then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and free his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that does not build up his brother’s house. ¹⁰And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed. ¹¹When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that did strike him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the genitals; ¹²then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

¹³You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. ¹⁴You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. ¹⁵A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land which Jehovah your God gives you. ¹⁶For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah your God. ¹⁷Remember what Am-a-lek did unto you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt; ¹⁸how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God. ¹⁹Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Am-a-lek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

26 And it shall be, when you are come in unto the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein, ²that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. ³And you shall come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto Jehovah your God, that I am come unto the land which Jehovah sware unto our fathers to give us. ⁴And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God. ⁵And you shall answer and say before Jehovah your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became a nation there, great, mighty, and populous. ⁶And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: ⁷and we cried unto Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; ⁸and Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders; ⁹and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Jehovah, have given me. And you shall set it down before Jehovah your God, and worship before Jehovah your God: ¹¹and you shall rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given unto you, and unto your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner that is in the midst of you.

¹²When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it unto the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled. ¹³And you shall say before Jehovah your God, I have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them: ¹⁴I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given thereof for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me. ¹⁵Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁶This day Jehovah your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul. ¹⁷You have declared Jehovah this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen unto his voice: ¹⁸and Jehovah has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments; ¹⁹and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people unto Jehovah your God, as he has spoken.

27 And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you this day. ²And it shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah your God gives you, that you shall set yourselves up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: ³and you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you are passed over; that you may go in unto the land which Jehovah your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has promised you. ⁴And it shall be, when you are passed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount E-bal, and you shall plaster them with plaster. ⁵And there shall you build an altar unto Jehovah your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron tool upon them. ⁶You shall build the altar of Jehovah your God of unhewn stones; and you shall offer burnt-offerings thereon unto Jehovah your God: ⁷and you shall sacrifice peace-offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God. ⁸And you shall write very plainly upon the stones all the words of this law. ⁹And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke unto all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and listen, O Israel: this day you are become the people of Jehovah your God. ¹⁰You shall therefore obey the voice of Jehovah your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.

¹¹And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, ¹²These shall stand upon mount Ge-ri-zim to bless the people, when you are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Is-sa-char, and Joseph, and Benjamin. ¹³And these shall stand upon mount E-bal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Ze-bu-lun, Dan, and Naph-ta-li. ¹⁴And the Levites shall answer, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, ¹⁵Cursed is the man that makes a graven or molten image, an abomination unto Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. ¹⁶Cursed is he that contemns his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. ¹⁷Cursed is he that removes his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. ¹⁸Cursed is he that makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. ¹⁹Cursed is he that wrests the justice due to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁰Cursed is he that lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²¹Cursed is he that lies with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²²Cursed is he that lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²³Cursed is he that lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁴Cursed is he that strike his neighbor in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁵Cursed is he that takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁶Cursed is he that confirms not the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

28 And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently unto the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Jehovah your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth: ²and all these blessings shall come upon you, and overtake you, if you shall listen unto the voice of Jehovah your God. ³You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field. ⁴Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. ⁵Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ⁶Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. ⁷Jehovah will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be struck before you: they shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways. ⁸Jehovah will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand unto; and he will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you. ⁹Jehovah will establish you for a holy people unto himself, as he has sworn unto you; if you shall keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Jehovah; and they shall be afraid of you. ¹¹And Jehovah will make you plenteous in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give you. ¹²Jehovah will open unto you his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall not borrow. ¹³And Jehovah will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them, ¹⁴and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

¹⁵But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen unto the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you. ¹⁶Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. ¹⁷Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ¹⁸Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. ¹⁹Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. ²⁰Jehovah will send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand unto to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, whereby you have forsaken me. ²¹Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto you, until he will have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it. ²²Jehovah will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish. ²³And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron. ²⁴Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon you, until you be destroyed. ²⁵Jehovah will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶And your dead body shall be food unto all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away. ²⁷Jehovah will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof you can not be healed. ²⁸Jehovah will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; ²⁹and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you. ³⁰You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit thereof. ³¹Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your ass shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to save you. ³²Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand. ³³The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always; ³⁴so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. ³⁵Jehovah will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a greatly boil, whereof you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot unto the crown of your head. ³⁶Jehovah will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, unto a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone. ³⁷And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Jehovah shall lead you away. ³⁸You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. ³⁹You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them. ⁴⁰You shall have olive-trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall cast its fruit. ⁴¹You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be your; for they shall go into captivity. ⁴²All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess. ⁴³The sojourner that is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower. ⁴⁴He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

⁴⁵And all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, till you be destroyed; because you listened not unto the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: ⁴⁶and they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon your seed for ever. ⁴⁷Because you served not Jehovah your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; ⁴⁸therefore shall you serve your enemies that Jehovah shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you. ⁴⁹Jehovah will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand; ⁵⁰a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, ⁵¹and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you be destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. ⁵²And they shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, wherein you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Jehovah your God has given you. ⁵³And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress wherewith your enemies shall distress you. ⁵⁴The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining; ⁵⁵so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. ⁵⁶The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, ⁵⁷and toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith your enemy shall distress you in your gates. ⁵⁸If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH your GOD; ⁵⁹then Jehovah will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and great sicknesses, and of long continuance. ⁶⁰And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave unto you. ⁶¹Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon you, until you be destroyed. ⁶²And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you did not listen unto the voice of Jehovah your God. ⁶³And it shall come to pass, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it. ⁶⁴And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. ⁶⁵And among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Jehovah will give you a trembling heart there, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; ⁶⁶and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. ⁶⁷In the morning you shall say, I wish it were even! and at even you shall say, I wish it were morning! For the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. ⁶⁸And Jehovah will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto you, you shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

29 These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Hor-eb. ²And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, you have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; ³the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: *** ⁴but Jehovah has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. ⁵And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not worn old upon you, and your shoe is not worn old upon your foot. ⁶You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Jehovah your God. ⁷And when you came unto this place, Si-hon the king of Hesh-bon, and Og the king of Ba-shan, came out against us unto battle, and we struck them: ⁸and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Man-nas-sites. ⁹Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

¹⁰You stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, ¹¹your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner that is in the midst of your camps, from the hewer of your wood unto the drawer of your water; ¹²that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God, and into his oath, which Jehovah your God makes with you this day; ¹³that he may establish you this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto you a God, as he spoke unto you, and as he sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ¹⁴Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, ¹⁵but with him that stands here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day ¹⁶(for you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed; ¹⁷and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); ¹⁸lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; unless there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; ¹⁹and it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. ²⁰Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. ²²And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah has made it sick; ²³and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Ad-mah and Ze-bo-im, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: ²⁴even all the nations shall say, why has Jehovah done this unto this land? what means the heat of this great anger? ²⁵Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them: ²⁷therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book; ²⁸and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. ²⁹The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

30 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Jehovah your God has driven you, ²and shall return unto Jehovah your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; ³that then Jehovah your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Jehovah your God has scattered you. ⁴If any of your outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there will Jehovah your God gather you, and from there will he bring you: ⁵and Jehovah your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. ⁶And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. ⁷And Jehovah your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate you, that persecuted you. ⁸And you shall return and obey the voice of Jehovah, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. ⁹And Jehovah your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Jehovah will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; ¹⁰if you shall obey the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn unto Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

¹¹For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. ¹²It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? ¹³Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? ¹⁴But the word is very near unto you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

¹⁵See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; ¹⁶in that I command you this day to love Jehovah your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Jehovah your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. ¹⁷But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; ¹⁸I declare unto you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. ¹⁹I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; ²⁰to love Jehovah your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

31 And Moses went and spoke these words unto all Israel. ²And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Jehovah has said unto me, you shall not go over this Jordan. ³Jehovah your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Jehovah has spoken. ⁴And Jehovah will do unto them as he did to Si-hon and to Og, the kings of the Am-or-ites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed. ⁵And Jehovah will deliver them up before you, and you shall do unto them according unto all the commandment which I have commanded you. ⁶Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be frightened at them: for Jehovah your God, he it is that does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you. ⁷And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which Jehovah has sworn unto their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. ⁸And Jehovah, he it is that does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: fear not, neither be dismayed.

⁹And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and unto all the elders of Israel. ¹⁰And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, ¹¹when all Israel is come to appear before Jehovah your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. ¹²Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; ¹³and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.

¹⁴And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, your day approaches that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. ¹⁵And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. ¹⁶And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. ¹⁷Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us? ¹⁸And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned unto other gods. ¹⁹Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. ²⁰For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. ²¹And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.

²²So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel. ²³And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them: and I will be with you. ²⁴And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, ²⁵that Moses commanded the Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying, ²⁶Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against you. ²⁷For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death? ²⁸Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. ²⁹For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. ³⁰And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.

32 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth. ²My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb. ³For I will proclaim the name of Jehovah: You, ascribe greatness unto our God. ⁴The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he. ⁵They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish; They are a perverse and crooked generation. ⁶Do you thus repay Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father that has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

⁷Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. ⁸When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel. ⁹For Jehovah’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. ¹⁰He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye. ¹¹As an eagle that stirs up her nest, That flutters over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions. ¹²Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him. ¹³He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock; ¹⁴Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Ba-shan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

¹⁵But Je-shu-run waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxed fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. ¹⁶They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations they provoked him to anger. ¹⁷They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To new gods that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not. ¹⁸Of the Rock that begat you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten God that gave you birth.

¹⁹And Jehovah saw it, and abhorred them, Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. ²⁰And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom there is no faithfulness. ²¹They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. ²²For a fire is kindled in my anger, And burns unto the lowest Sheol, And devours the earth with its increase, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. ²³I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them: ²⁴They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust. ²⁵Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; It shall destroy both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

²⁶I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men; ²⁷Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, unless their adversaries should judge amiss, unless they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah has not done all this. ²⁸For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them. ²⁹Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end! ³⁰How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up? ³¹For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges. ³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: ³³Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps. ³⁴Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures? ³⁵Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall be hurried. ³⁶For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent himself for his servants; When he sees that their power is gone, And there is none remaining, shut up or left at large. ³⁷And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge; ³⁸Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.

³⁹See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand. ⁴⁰For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever, ⁴¹If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me. ⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy. ⁴³Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

⁴⁴And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Ho-she-a the son of Nun. ⁴⁵And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel; ⁴⁶And he said unto them, Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, even all the words of this law. ⁴⁷For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it. ⁴⁸And Jehovah spoke unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, ⁴⁹Get you up into this mountain of Ab-a-rim, unto mount Ne-bo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession; ⁵⁰and die in the mount where you go up, and be gathered unto your people, as Aaron your brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: ⁵¹because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Mer-i-bah of Ka-desh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. ⁵²For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.

33 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. ²And he said, Jehovah came from Si-nai, And rose from Se-ir unto them; He shined forth from mount Par-an, And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them. ³Yes, he loves the people; All his saints are in your hand: And they sat down at your feet; Every one shall receive of your words. ⁴Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob. ⁵And he was king in Je-shu-run, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.

⁶Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few. ⁷And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people. With his hands he contended for himself; And you shall be a help against his adversaries.

⁸And of Levi he said, your Thum-mim and your U-rim are with your godly one, Whom you did prove at Mas-sah, With whom you did strive at the waters of Mer-i-bah; ⁹Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brethren, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed your word, And keep your covenant. ¹⁰They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, And Israel your law: They shall put incense before you, And whole burnt-offering upon your altar. ¹¹Bless, Jehovah, his substance, And accept the work of his hands: Smite through the loins of them that rise up against him, And of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

¹²Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell in safety by him; He covers him all the day long, And he dwells between his shoulders. ¹³And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that couches beneath, ¹⁴And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, And for the precious things of the growth of the moons, ¹⁵And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, And for the precious things of the everlasting hills, ¹⁶And for the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof, And the good will of him that dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, And upon the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. ¹⁷The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, even the ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of E-phra-im, And they are the thousands of Ma-nas-seh.

¹⁸And of Ze-bu-lun he said, Rejoice, Ze-bu-lun, in your going out; And, Is-sa-char, in your tents. ¹⁹They shall call the peoples unto the mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness: For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand. ²⁰And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges Gad: He dwells as a lioness, And tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head. ²¹And he provided the first part for himself, For there was the lawgiver’s portion reserved; And he came with the heads of the people; He executed the righteousness of Jehovah, And his ordinances with Israel.

²²And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp, That leaps forth from Ba-shan. ²³And of Naph-ta-li he said, O Naph-ta-li, satisfied with favor, And full with the blessing of Jehovah, Possess the west and the south. ²⁴And of Asher he said, Blessed be Asher with children; Let him be acceptable unto his brethren, And let him dip his foot in oil. ²⁵Your bars shall be iron and brass; And as your days, so shall your strength be.

²⁶There is none like unto God, O Je-shu-run, Who rides upon the heavens for your help, And in his excellency on the skies. ²⁷The eternal God is your dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before you, And said, Destroy. ²⁸And Israel dwells in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; yes, his heavens drop down dew. ²⁹Happy are you, O Israel: Who is like unto you, a people saved by Jehovah, The shield of your help, And the sword of your excellency! And your enemies shall submit themselves unto you; And you shall tread upon their high places.

34 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Ne-bo, to the top of Pis-gah, that is over against Jericho. And Jehovah showed him all the land of Gil-e-ad, unto Dan, ²and all Naph-ta-li, and the land of E-phra-im and Ma-nas-seh, and all the land of Judah, unto the hinder sea, ³and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, unto Zo-ar. ⁴And Jehovah said unto him, This is the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.

⁵So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah. ⁶And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-pe-or: but no man knows of his sepulchre unto this day. ⁷And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. ⁸And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.