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THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
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The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 1 1 These are the words, which Moses spoke to all Israel
beyond the Jordan, in the plain wilderness, over against
the Red Sea, between Pharan and Thophel and Laban and
Haseroth, where there is very much gold:
2 Eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir
to Cadesbarne.
3 In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of
the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that
the Lord had commanded him to say to them:
4 After that he had slain Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who
dwelt in Hesebon: and Og king of Basan who abode in
Astaroth, and in Edrai,
5 Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab. And Moses began to
expound the law, and to say:
6 The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have
stayed long enough in this mountain:
7 Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and
to the other places that are next to it, the plains and
the hills and the vales towards the south, and by the sea
shore, the land of the Chanaanites, and of Libanus, as far
as the great river Euphrates.
8 Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and
possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your
fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it
to them, and to their seed after them.
9 And I said to you at that time:
10 I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God
hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of
heaven, for multitude.
11 (The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many
thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)
12 I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge
of you and your differences.
13 Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and
such whose conversation is approved among your tribes,
that I may appoint them your rulers.
14 Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest
to do.
15 And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and
appointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and
officers over fifties, and over tens, who might teach you
all things.
16 And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that
which is just: whether he be one of your country, or a
stranger.
17 There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear
the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect
any man's person, because it is the judgment of God. And
if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will
hear it.
18 And I commanded you all things that you were to do.
19 And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible
and vast wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the
mountain of the Amorrhite, as the Lord our God had
commanded us. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,
20 I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the
Amorrhite, which the Lord our God will give to us.
21 See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and
possess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy
fathers: fear not, nor be any way discouraged.
22 And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may
view the land, and bring us word what way we shall go up,
and to what cities we shall go.
23 And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve
men, one of every tribe:
24 Who, when they had set forward and had gone up to the
mountains, came as far as the valley of the cluster: and
having viewed the land,
25 Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they
brought them to us, and said: The land is good, which the
Lord our God will give us.
26 And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word
of the Lord our God,
27 You murmured in your tents, and said: The Lord hateth us,
and therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt,
that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite,
and destroy us.
28 Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our
hearts, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller
than we: the cities are great, and walled up td the sky,
we have seen the sons of the Enacims there.
29 And I said to you: Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them:
30 The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for
you, as he did in Egypt in the sight of all.
31 And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God
hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little
son, all the way that you have come, until you came to
this place.
32 And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your
God,
33 Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place,
wherein you should pitch your tents, in the night shewing
you the way by fire, and in the day by the pillar of a
cloud.
34 And when the Lord had heard the voice of your words, he
was angry and swore, and said:
35 Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the
good land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:
36 Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and
to him I will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and
to his children, because he hath followed the Lord.
37 Neither is his indignation against the people to be
wondered at, since the Lord was angry with me also on your
account, and said: Neither shalt thou go in thither.
38 But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for
thee: exhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the
land by lot to Israel.
39 Your children, of whom you said that they should be led
away captives, and your sons who know not this day the
difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them
I will give the land, and they shall possess it.
40 But return you and go into the wilderness by the way of
the Red Sea.
41 And you answered me: We have sinned against the Lord: we
will go up and fight, as the Lord our God hath commanded.
And when you went ready armed unto the mountain,
42 The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight
not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your
enemies.
43 I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the
commandment of the Lord, and swelling with pride, you went
up into the mountain.
44 And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out,
and meeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made
slaughter of you from Seir as far as Horma.
45 And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard
you not, neither would he yield to your voice.
46 So you abode in Cadesbarne a long time.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 2
1 And departing from thence we came into the wilderness that
leadeth to the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and
we compassed mount Seir a long time.
2 And the Lord said to me:
3 You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward
the north:
4 And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the
borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell
in Seir, and they will be afraid of you.
5 Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For
I will not give you of their land so much as the step of
one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir
to Esau, for a possession.
6 You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you
shall draw waters for money, and shall drink.
7 The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy
hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy
journey, how thou hast passed through this great
wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.
8 And when we had passed by our brethren the children of
Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from
Elath and from Asiongaber, we came to the way that leadeth
to the desert of Moab.
9 And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites,
neither go to battle against them: for I will not give
thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the
children of Lot in possession.
10 The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people
great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the
Enacims,
11 They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of
the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.
12 The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being
driven out and destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt
there, as Israel did in the land of his possession, which
the Lord gave him.
13 Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.
14 And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we
passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years:
until all the generation of the men that were fit for war
was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:
15 For his hand was against them, that they should perish
from the midst of the camp.
16 And after all the fighting men were dead,
17 The Lord spoke to me, saying:
18 Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city
named Ar:
19 And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of
Ammon, take heed thou fight not against them, nor once
move to battle: for I will not give thee of the land of
the children of Ammon, because I have given it to the
children of Lot for a possession.
20 It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly
dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,
21 A people great and many, and of tall stature, like the
Enacims whom the Lord destroyed before their face: and he
made them to dwell in their stead,
22 As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that
dwell in Seir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering
their land to them, which they possess to this day.
23 The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza,
were expelled by the Cappadocians: who came out of
Cappadocia, and destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.
24 Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have
delivered into thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the
Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess his land and make war
against him.
25 This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee
upon the nations that dwell under the whole heaven: that
when they hear thy name they may fear and tremble, and be
in pain like women in travail.
26 So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to
Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:
27 We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the
highway: we will not turn aside neither to the right hand
nor to the left.
28 Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for
money and so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let
us pass through,
29 As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and
the Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the
Jordan, and pass to the land which the Lord our God will
give us.
30 And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass:
because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and
fixed his heart, that he might be delivered into thy
hands, as now thou seest.
31 And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver
unto thee Sehon and his land, begin to possess it.
32 And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight
at Jasa.
33 And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him
with his sons and all his people.
34 And we took all his cities at that time, killing the
inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left
nothing of them:
35 Except the cattle which came to the share of them that
took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took:
36 From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Amen, a
town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There
was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the
Lord our God delivered all unto us:
37 Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we
approached not: and all that border upon the torrent
Jeboc, and the cities in the mountains, and all the places
which the Lord our God forbade us.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 3
1 Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the
king of Basan came out to meet us with his people to fight
in Edrai.
2 And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is
delivered into thy hand, with all his people and his land:
and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sehon king
of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon.
3 So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also the
king of Basan, and all his people: and we utterly
destroyed them,
4 Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town
that escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob
the kingdom of Og in Basan.
5 All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with
gates and bars, be- sides innumerable towns that had no
walls.
6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the
king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and
children:
7 But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for
our prey.
8 And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the
two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan:
from the torrent Amen unto the mount Hermon,
9 Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrhites Sanir:
10 All the cities that are situate in the plain, and all the
land of Galaad and Basan as far as Selcha and Edrai,
cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan.
11 For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the
giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of
the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four
broad after the measure of the cubit of a man's hand.
12 And we possessed the land at that time from Aroer, which
is upon the bank of the torrent Amen, unto the half of
mount Galaad: and I gave the cities thereof to Ruben and
Gad.
13 And I delivered the other part of Galaad, and all Basan
the kingdom of Og to the half tribe of Manasses, all the
country of Argob: and all Basan is called the Land of
giants.
14 Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of d
Argob unto the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he
called Basan by his own name, Havoth Jair, that is to say,
the towns of Jair, until this present day.
15 To Machir also I gave Galaad.
16 And to the tribes of Ruben and Cad I gave of the land of
Galaad as far as the torrent Amen, half the torrent, and
the confines even unto the torrent Jeboc, which is the
border of the children of Ammon:
17 And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the
borders of Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is
the most salt sea, to the foot of mount Phasga eastward.
18 And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your
God giveth you this land for an inheritance, go ye well
appointed before your brethren the children of Israel, all
the strong men of you,
19 Leaving your wives and children and cattle. For I know you
have much cattle, and they must remain in the cities,
which I have delivered to you.
20 Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath
given to you: and they also possess the land, which he
will give them beyond the Jordan: then shall every man
return to his possession, which I have given you.
21 I commanded Josue also at that time, saying: Thy eyes have
seen what the Lord your God hath done to these two kings:
so will he do to all the king- dome to which thou shalt
pass.
22 Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you.
23 And I besought the Lord at that time, saying:
24 Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy
greatness, and most mighty hand, for there is no other God
either in heaven or earth, that is able to do thy works,
or to be compared to thy strength.
25 I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent
land beyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and
Libanus.
26 And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard
me not, but said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me
of this matter.
27 Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thy eyes round about
to the west, and to the north, and to the south, and to
the east, and behold it, for thou shalt not pass this
Jordan.
28 Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he
shall go before this people, and shall divide unto them
the land which thou shalt see.
29 And we abode in the valley over against the temple of
Phogor.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 4
1 And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments
which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and
entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God
of your fathers will give you.
2 You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither
shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the
Lord your God which I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against
Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from
among you.
4 But you that adhere to the Lord your Cad, are all alive
until this present day.
5 You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as
the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in
the land which you shall possess:
6 And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For
this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of
nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say:
Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.
7 Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods
so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.
8 For what other nation is there so renowned that hath
ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I
will set forth this day before your eyes?
9 Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not
the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out
of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach
them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,
10 From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy
God in Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call
together the people unto me, that they may hear my words,
and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on
the earth, and may teach their children.
11 And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even
unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and
obscurity in it.
12 And the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You
heard the voice of his words, but you saw not any form at
all.
13 And he shewed you his covenant, which he commanded you to
do, and the ten words that he wrote in two tables of
stone.
14 And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you
the ceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the
land, that you shall possess.
15 Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any
similitude in the day that the Lord God spoke to you in
Horeb from the midst of the fire:
16 Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven
similitude, or image of male or female,
17 The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or
of birds, that fly under heaven,
18 Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of
fishes, that abide in the waters under the earth:
19 Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the
sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being
deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the
Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations,
that are under heaven.
20 But the Lord hath taken you and brought you out of the
iron furnace of Egypt, to make you his people of
inheritance, as it is this present day.
21 And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he
swore that I should not pass over the Jordan, nor enter
into the excellent land, which he will give you.
22 Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the
Jordan: you shall pass, and possess the goodly land.
23 Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy
God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a
graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid
to be made:
24 Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous
God.
25 If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the
land, and being deceived, make to yourselves any
similitude, committing evil before the Lord your God, to
provoke him to wrath:
26 I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you
shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have
passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not
dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you,
27 And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a
few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.
28 And there you shah serve gods, that were framed with men's
hands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor
eat, nor smell.
29 And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou
shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy
heart, and all the affliction of thy soul.
30 After all the things aforesaid shall and thee, in the
latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and
shalt hear his voice.
31 Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God: he will not
leave thee, nor altogether destroy thee, nor forget the
covenant, by which he swore to thy fathers.
32 Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time
from the day that God created man upon the earth, from one
end of heaven to the other end thereof, if ever there was
done the like thing, or it hath been known at any time,
33 That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of
the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:
34 If God ever did so as to go, and take to himself a nation
out of the midst of nations by temptations, signs, and
wonders, by fight, and a strong hand, and stretched out
arm, and horrible visions according to all the things that
the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before thy eyes.
35 That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there
is no other besides him.
36 From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might
teach thee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding
great fire, and thou didst hear his words out of the midst
of the fire,
37 Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after
them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee
with his great power,
38 To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger
than thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their
land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day.
39 Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the
Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath,
and there is no other.
40 Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee:
that it may be well with thee, and thy children after
thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land,
which the Lord thy God will give thee.
41 Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the
east side,
42 That any one might flee to them who should kill his
neighbour unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two
before, and that he might escape to some one of these
cities:
43 Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of
the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the
tribe of Gad: and Golan in Basan, which is in the tribe of
Manasses.
44 This is the law, that Moses set before the children of
Israel,
45 And these are the testimonies and ceremonies and
judgments, which he spoke to the children of Israel, when
they came out of Egypt,
46 Beyond the Jordan in the valley over against the temple of
Phogor, in the land of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that
dwelt in Hesebon, whom Moses slew. And the children of
Israel coming out of Egypt,
47 Possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, of
the two kings of the Amorrhites, who were beyond the
Jordan towards the rising of the sun:
48 From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent
Amen, unto mount Sion, which is also called Hermon,
49 All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east side, unto the
see of the wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 5
1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O
Israel, the ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in
your ears this day: learn them, and fulfil them in work.
2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 He made not the covenant with our fathers, but with us,
who are now present and living.
4 He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst
of fire.
5 I was the mediator and stood between the Lord and you at
that time, to shew you his words, for you feared the fire,
and went not up into the mountain, and he said:
6 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage
7 Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight.
8 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the
likeness of any things, that are in heaven above, or that
are in the earth beneath, or that abide in the waters
under the earth.
9 Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them.
For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third
and fourth generation, to them that hate me,
10 And shewing mercy unto many thousands, to them that love
me, and keep my commandments.
11 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain:
for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon
a vain thing.
12 Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the
Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
13 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
14 The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest
of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein,
thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor
thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy
beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that
thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as
thyself.
15 Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord
thy God brought thee out from thence with a strong hand,
and a stretched out arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee
that thou shouldst observe the sabbath day.
16 Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath
commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it
may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God
will give thee.
17 Thou shalt not kill.
18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
19 And thou shalt not steal.
20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy
neighbour.
21 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife: nor his house,
nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant,
nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.
22 These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in
the mountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud,
and the darkness, with a loud voice, adding nothing more:
and he wrote them in two tables of stone, which he
delivered unto me.
23 But you, after you heard the voice out of the midst of the
darkness, and saw the mountain burn, came to me, all the
princes of the tribes and the elders, and you said:
24 Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his majesty and his
greatness, we have heard his voice out of the midst of the
fire, and have proved this day that God speaking with man,
man hath lived.
25 Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding
great Are consume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord
our God any more, we shall die.
26 What is all flesh, that it should hear the voice of the
living God, who speaketh out of the midst of the fire, as
we have heard, and be able to live?
27 Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord
our God shall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and
we will hear and will do them.
28 And when the Lord had heard this, he said to me: I have
heard the voice of the words of this people, which they
spoke to thee: they have spoken all things well.
29 Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear me, and
to keep all my commandments at all times, that it may be
well with them and with their children for ever?
30 Go and say to them: Return into your tents.
31 But stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all
my commandments, and ceremonies and judgments: which thou
shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land, which
I will give them for a possession.
32 Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath
commanded you: you shall not go aside neither to the right
hand, nor to the left.
33 But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath
commanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you,
and your days may be long in the land of your possession.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 6
1 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments,
which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you,
and that you should do them in the land into which you
pass over to possess it:
2 That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his
commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy
sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that
thy days may be prolonged.
3 Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the
Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee,
and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God
of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk
and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.
5 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and
with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.
6 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in
thy heart:
7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt
meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on
thy journey, sleeping and rising.
8 And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they
shall be and shall move between thy eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors
of thy house.
10 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the
land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly
cities, which thou didst not build,
11 Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up,
cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and
oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,
12 And thou shalt have eaten and be full:
13 Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve
him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.
14 You shall not go after the strange gods of all the
nations, that are round about you:
15 Because the Lord thy God is a jealous God in the midst of
thee: lest at any time the wrath of the Lord thy God be
kindled against thee, and take thee away from the face of
the earth.
16 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst
him in the place of temptation.
17 Keep the precepts of the Lord thy God, and the testimonies
and ceremonies which he hath commanded thee.
18 And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the
Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou
mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord
swore to thy fathers,
19 That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he
hath spoken.
20 And when thy son shall ask thee to morrow, saying: What
mean these testimonies, and ceremonies and judgments,
which the Lord our God hath commanded us?
21 Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt,
and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.
22 And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous
in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,
23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us
in and give us the land, concerning which he swore to our
fathers.
24 And the Lord commanded that we should do all these
ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it
might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is
at this day.
25 And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his
precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 7
1 When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the
land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have
destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the
Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the
Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations
much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:
2 And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee,
thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league
with them, nor shew mercy to them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt
not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter
for thy son:
4 For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he
may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord
will be kindled, and will quickly destroy thee.
5 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their
altars, and break their statues, and cut down their
groves, and burn their graven things.
6 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The
Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people
of all peoples that are upon the earth.
7 Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord
joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the
fewest of any people:
8 But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his
oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you
out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of
bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.
9 And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong
and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them
that love him, and to them that keep his commandments,
unto a thousand generations:
10 And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to
destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering
to them what they deserve.
11 Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments,
which I command thee this day to do.
12 If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do
them, the Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to
thee, and the mercy which he swore to thy fathers:
13 And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless
the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy
corn, and thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and the
flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which he swore to
thy fathers that he would give it thee.
14 Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be
barren among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.
15 The Lord will take away from thee all sickness: and the
grievous infirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will
not bring upon thee, but upon thy enemies.
16 Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God
will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them,
neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy
ruin.
17 If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I,
how shall I be able to destroy them?
18 Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao
and to all the Egyptians,
19 The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the
signs and wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched
out arm, with which the Lord thy God brought thee out: so
will he do to all the people, whom thou fearest.
20 Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among
them, until he destroy and consume all that have escaped
thee, and could hide themselves.
21 Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in
the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:
22 He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and
little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy
them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth
should increase upon thee.
23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and
shall slay them until they be utterly destroyed.
24 And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou
shalt destroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall
be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them.
25 Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt
not covet the silver and gold of which they are made,
neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest
thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy
God.
26 Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy
house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt
detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as
uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 8
1 All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take
great care to observe: that you may live, and be
multiplied, and going in may possess the land, for which
the Lord swore to your fathers.
2 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord
thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the
desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the
things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether
thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.
3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy
food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew
that m not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word
that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
4 Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not
decayed for age, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the
fortieth year,
5 That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man
traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee
up.
6 That thou shouldst keep the commandments of the Lord thy
God, and walk in his ways, and fear him.
7 For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of
brooks and of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of
which and the hills deep rivers break out:
8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig
trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil
and honey.
9 Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy
abundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and
out of its hills are dug mines of brass:
10 That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless
the Lord thy God for the excellent land which he hath
given thee.
11 Take heed, and beware lest at any time thou forget the
Lord thy God, and neglect his commandments and judgments
and ceremonies, which I command thee this day:
12 Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built
goodly houses, and dwelt in them,
13 And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and
plenty of gold and of silver, and of all things,
14 Thy heart be lifted up, and thou remember not the Lord thy
God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage:
15 And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness,
wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and
the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who
brought forth streams out of the hardest rock,
16 And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy
fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proved
thee, at the last he had mercy on thee,
17 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the
strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for
me.
18 But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee
strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning
which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day
sheweth.
19 But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange
gods, and serve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee
that thou shalt utterly perish.
20 As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance,
so shall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the
voice of the Lord your God.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 9
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to
possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself,
cities great, and walled up to the sky,
2 A People great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom
thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no man is able
to stand.
3 Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God
himself will pass over before thee, a devouring and
consuming fire, to destroy and extirpate and bring them to
nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to
thee.
4 Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have
destroyed them in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord
brought me in to possess this land, whereas these nations
are destroyed for their wickedness.
5 For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy
heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but
because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy
coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word,
which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob.
6 Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this
excellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou
art a very stiffnecked people.
7 Remember, and forget not how then provokedst the Lord thy
God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou
camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast always
strove against the Lord.
8 For in Horeb also thou didst provoke him, and he was
angry, and would have destroyed thee,
9 When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of
stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with
you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights,
neither eating bread, nor drinking water.
10 And the Lord gave me two tables of stone written with the
finger of God, and containing all the words that he spoke
to you in the mount from the midst of the Are, when the
people were assembled together.
11 And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the
Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the
covenant,
12 And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for
thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have
quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and
have made to themselves a molten idol.
13 And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is
stiffnecked:
14 Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their
name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that
is greater and stronger than this.
15 And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the
two tables of the covenant with both hands,
16 And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and
had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly
forsaken his way, which he had shewn you:
17 I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your
sight.
18 And I fell down before the Lord se before, forty days and
nights neither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all
your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and
had provoked him to wrath:
19 For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being
moved against you, he would have destroyed you. And the
Lord heard me this time also.
20 And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would
have destroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.
21 And your sin that you had committed, that is, the calf, I
took, and burned it with fire, and breaking it into
pieces, until it was as small as dust, I threw it into the
torrent, which cometh down from the mountain.
22 At the burning also, and at the place of temptation, and
at the graves of lust you provoked the Lord:
23 And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and
possess the land that I have given you, and you slighted
the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe
him, neither would you hearken to his voice:
24 But were always rebellious from the day that I began to
know you.
25 And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights,
in which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy
you as he had threatened:
26 And praying, I said: 0
Lord God, destroy not thy people, and thy inheritance,
which thou hast redeemed in thy greatness, whom thou hast
brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.
27 Remember thy servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: look not
on the stubbornness of this people, nor on their
wickedness and sin:
28 Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which
thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not bring them
into the land that he promised them, and he hated them:
therefore he brought them out, that he might kill them in
the wilderness,
29 Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast
brought out by thy great strength, and in thy stretched
out arm.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 10
1 At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of
stone like the former, and come up to me into the mount:
and thou shalt make an ark of mood,
2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in
them, which thou brokest before, and thou shalt put them
in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of setim wood And when I had hewn two
tables of stone like the former, I went up into the mount,
having them in my hands.
4 And he wrote in the tables, according as he had written
before, the ten words, which the Lord spoke to you in the
mount from the midst of the fire, when the people were
assembled: and he gave them to me.
5 And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the
tables into the ark, that I had made, and they are there
till this present, as the Lord commanded me.
6 And the children of Israel removed their camp from Beroth
of the children of Jacan into Mosera, where Aaron died and
was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him in the
priestly office.
7 From thence they came to Gadgad, from which place they
departed, and camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters and
torrents.
8 At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the
ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to stand before him
in the ministry, and to bless in his name until this
present day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor possession with his
brethren: because the Lord himself is his possession, as
the Lord thy God promised him.
10 And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and
nights: and the Lord heard me this time also, and would
not destroy thee.
11 And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that
they may enter, and possess the land, which I swore to
their fathers that I would give them.
12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of
thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his
ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul:
13 And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies,
which I command thee this day, that it may be well with
thee?
14 Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of
heaven, the earth and all things that are therein.
15 And yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers,
and loved them and chose their seed after them, that is to
say, you, out of all nations, as this day it is proved.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and
stiffen your neck no more.
17 Because the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the
Lord of lords, a great God and mighty and terrible, a who
accepteth no person nor taketh bribes.
18 He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth
the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.
19 And do you therefore love strangers, because you also were
strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to
him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.
21 He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee
these great and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.
22 In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and
behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the
stars of heaven.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 11
1 Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts
and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all
times.
2 Know this day the things that your children know not, who
saw not the chastisements of the Lord your God. his great
doings and strong hand, and stretched out arm,
3 The signs and works which he did in the midst of Egypt to
king Pharao, and to all his land,
4 And to all the host of the Egyptians, and to their horses
and chariots: how the waters of the Red Sea covered them,
when they pursued you, and how the Lord destroyed them
until this present day:
5 And what he hath done to you in the wilderness, till you
came to this place:
6 And to Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, who was the
son of Ruben: whom the earth, opening her mouth swallowed
up with their households and tents, and all their
substance, which they had in the midst of Israel.
7 Your eyes have seen all the greet works of the Lord, that
he hath done,
8 That you may keep all his commandments, which I command
you this day, and may go in, and possess the land, to
which you are entering,
9 And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by
oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which
floweth with milk and honey.
10 For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the
land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when
the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after
the manner of gardens.
11 But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from
heaven.
12 And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes
are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end
thereof.
13 If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this
day, that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with
all your heart, and with all your soul:
14 He will give to your land the early rain and the latter
rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and
your oil,
15 And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and
that you may eat and be filled.
16 Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart
from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:
17 And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain
come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you
perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord
will give you.
18 Lay up these my words in your hearts and minds, and hang
them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your
eyes.
19 Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou
sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way,
end when thou liest down and risest up.
20 Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy
house:
21 That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy
children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers,
that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over
the earth.
22 For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and
do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his
ways, cleaving unto him,
23 The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face,
and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger
than you.
24 Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be
yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great
river Euphrates unto the western sea shall be your
borders.
25 None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay
the dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall
tread upon, as he hath spoken to you.
26 Behold I set forth in your sight this day a blessing and
a curse:
27 A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your
God, which I command you this day:
28 A curse, if you obey not the commandments of the Lord
your. God, but revolt from the way which now I shew you,
and walk after strange gods which you know not.
29 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the
land, whither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the
blessing upon mount Garizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:
30 Which are beyond the Jordan, behind the way that goeth to
the setting of the sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who
dwelleth in the plain country over against Galgala, which
is near the valley that reacheth and entereth far.
31 For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land,
which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have
it and possess it.
32 See therefore that you fulfil the ceremonies and
judgments, which I shall set this day before you.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 12
1 These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in
the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give
thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon
the earth.
2 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you
shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains,
and hills, and under every shady tree:
3 Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn
their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces:
destroy their names out of those places.
4 You shall not do so to the Lord your God:
5 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God
shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name
there, and to dwell in it:
6 And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and
victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your
vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your
sheep.
7 And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God:
and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall
put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your
God hath blessed you.
8 You shall not do there the things we do here this day,
every man that which seemeth good to himself.
9 For until this present time you are not come to refit, and
to the possession, which the Lord your God will give you.
10 You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the
land which the Lord your God will give you, that you may
have rest from all enemies round about: and may dwell
without any fear,
11 In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that
his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the
things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and
tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever
is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the
Lord.
12 There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and
your sons and your daughters, your menservants and maid-
servants, and the Levite that dwelleth in your cities. For
he hath no other part and possession among you.
13 Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that
thou shalt see:
14 But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy
tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices. and shalt do all that
I command thee.
15 But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh
delight thee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of
the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee, in thy cities:
whether it be unclean, that is to say, having blemish or
defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and without
blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart,
shalt thou eat it:
16 Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it
out upon the earth as water.
17 Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn,
and thy wine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and
thy cattle, nor any thing that thou vowest, and that thou
wilt offer voluntarily, and the firstfruits of thy hands:
18 But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the
place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy
son and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and maidservant,
and the Levite that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt
rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in all
things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.
19 Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that
thou livest in the land.
20 When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as
he hath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that
thy soul desireth:
21 And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that
his name should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of
thy herds and of thy docks, as I have commanded thee, and
shalt eat in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee.
22 Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat
them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.
23 Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the
blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the
soul with the flesh:
24 But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water,
25 That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee,
when thou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of
the Lord.
26 But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the
Lord, thou shalt take, and shalt come to the place which
the Lord shall choose:
27 And shalt offer thy oblations the flesh and the blood upon
the altar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims
thou shalt pour on the altar: and the flesh thou thyself
shalt eat.
28 Observe and hear all the things that I command thee, that
it may be well with thee and thy children after thee for
ever, when thou shalt do what is good and pleasing in the
sight of the Lord thy God.
29 When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face
the nations, which then shalt go in to possess, and when
thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land:
30 Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at
thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies,
saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so
will I also worship.
31 Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For
they have done to their gods all the abominations which
the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and
burning them with fire.
32 What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord:
neither add any thing, nor diminish.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 13
1 If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that
saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and
a wonder,
2 And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee:
Let us go and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not,
and let us serve them:
3 Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer:
for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear
whether you love him with all your heart, and with all
your soul, or not.
4 Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his
commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and
to him you shall cleave.
5 And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain:
because he spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you
from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way,
which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take
away the evil out of the midst of thee.
6 If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or
daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend,
whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee
secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which
thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,
7 Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off,
from one end of the earth to the other,
8 Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye
spare him to pity and conceal him,
9 But thou shalt presently put him to death. It Let thy hand
be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the
people.
10 With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would
have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage:
11 That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any
thing like this.
12 If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give
thee to dwell in, thou hear some say:
13 Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and
have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have
said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know
not:
14 Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing
by looking well into it, and if thou find that which is
said to be certain, and that this abomination hath been
really committed,
15 Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city
with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all
things that are in it, even the cattle.
16 And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt
gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and
shalt burn them with the city itself, so as to consume all
for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever: it
shall be built no more.
17 And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy
hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury,
and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore
to thy fathers,
18 When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God,
keeping all his precepts, which I command thee this day,
that thou mayst do what is pleasing in the sight of the
Lord thy God.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 14
1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut
yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;
2 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he
chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that
are upon the earth.
3 Eat not the things that are unclean.
4 These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the
sheep, and the goat,
5 The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg,
the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
6 Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and
cheweth the cud, you shall eat.
7 But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof,
you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the
cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the
hoof, they shall be unclean to you.
8 The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth
not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not
eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.
9 These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All
that have fins and scales, you shall eat.
10 Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat,
because they are unclean.
11 All birds that are clean you shall eat.
12 The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and
the osprey,
13 The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to
their kind:
14 And all of the raven's kind:
15 And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk
according to its kind:
16 The heron, and the swan, and the stork,
17 And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,
18 The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind:
the hoop also and the bat.
19 Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be
unclean, and shall not be eaten.
20 All that is clean, you shall eat.
21 But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it
to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell
it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord
thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.
22 Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy
fruits that the earth bringeth forth,
23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place
which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon
therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil,
and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou
mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.
24 But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God
shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and
thou canst not carry all these things thither,
25 Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and
shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place
which the Lord shall choose :
26 And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth
thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and
strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou
shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou
and thy house:
27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou
forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy
possession.
28 The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all
things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up
within thy gates.
29 And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with
thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow,
that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be
filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the
works of thy hands that thou shalt do.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 15
1 In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission,
2 Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any
thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother,
cannot demand it again, because it is the year of
remission of the Lord,
3 Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy
countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to
demand it again.
4 And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the
Lord thy God may bless thee in the land which he will give
thee in possession.
5 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and
keep all things that he hath ordained, and which I command
thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised.
6 Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of
no man. Thou shalt have dominion over very many nations,
and no one shall have dominion over thee.
7 If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within the gates of
thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give
thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart,
nor close thy hand,
8 But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him,
that which thou perceivest he hath need of.
9 Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee,
and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission
draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor
brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he
cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto
thee.
10 But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any
thing craftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord
thy God may bless thee at all times, and in all things to
which thou shalt put thy hand.
11 There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy
habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to
thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.
12 When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to
thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year
thou shalt let him go free:
13 And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him
go away empty:
14 But shalt give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out
of thy barnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord
thy God shall bless thee.
15 Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of
Egypt, and the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore
I now command thee this.
16 But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee,
and thy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:
17 Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the
door of thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou
shalt do in like manner to thy womanservant also.
18 Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them
tree: because he hath served thee six years according to
the wages of a hireling: that the Lord thy God may bless
thee in all the works that thou dost.
19 Of the firstlings, that come of thy herds and thy sheep,
thou shalt sanctify to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of
the male sex. Thou shalt not work with the firstling of a
bullock, and thou shalt not shear the firstlings of thy
sheep.
20 In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every
year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and
thy house.
21 But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any
part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to
the Lord thy God.
22 But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the
clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and
as the hart.
23 Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour
it out on the earth as water.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 16
1 Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the
spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord
thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought
thee out of Egypt by night.
2 And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of
sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God
shall choose, that his name may dwell there.
3 Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days
shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction,
because thou camest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst
remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days
of thy life.
4 No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days,
neither shall any of the flesh of that which was
sacrificed the first day in the evening remain until
morning.
5 Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy
cities, which the Lord thy God will give thee:
6 But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that
his name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in
the evening, at the going down of the sun, at which time
thou camest out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the place which the
Lord thy God shall choose, and in the morning rising up
thou shalt go into thy dwellings.
8 Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the
seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord thy
God, thou shalt do no work.
9 Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day,
wherein thou didst put the sickle to the corn.
10 And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord
thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou
shalt offer according to the blessing of the Lord thy God.
11 And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and
thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy
maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and
the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide
with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall
choose, that his name may dwell there:
12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt:
and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.
13 Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles
seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the
barnfloor and of the winepress.
14 And thou shalt make merry in thy festival time, thou, thy
son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy
maidservant, the Levite also and the stranger, and the
fatherless and the widow that are within thy gates.
15 Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God
in the place which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord thy
God will bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work
of thy hands, and thou shalt be in joy.
16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before
the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in
the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and
in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his
hands empty before the Lord:
17 But every one shall offer according to what he hath,
according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he
shall give him.
18 Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy
gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy
tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,
19 And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept
person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise,
and change the words of the just.
20 Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that
thou mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy
God shall give thee.
21 Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of
the Lord thy God:
22 Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue:
which things the Lord thy God hateth.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 17
1 Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or
an ox, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is
an abomination to the Lord thy God.
2 When there shall be found among you within any of thy
gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or
woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and
transgress his covenant,
3 So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the
sun and the moon. and all the host of heaven, which I have
not commanded:
4 And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired
diligently, and found it to be true, and that the
abomination is committed in Israel:
5 Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman, who have
committed that most wicked thing, to the gates of thy
city, and they shall be stoned.
6 By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that
is to be slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one
beareth witness against him.
7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill
him, and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people:
that thou mayst take away the evil out of the midst of
thee.
8 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and
doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause
and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the
words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and
go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.
9 And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race,
and to the judge, that shall be at that time: and thou
shalt ask of them, and they shall shew thee the truth of
the judgment.
10 And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say, that preside
in the place, which the Lord shall choose, and what they
shall teach thee,
11 According to his law; and thou shalt follow their
sentence: neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor
to the left hand.
12 But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the
commandment of the priest, who ministereth at that time to
the Lord thy God, and the decree of the judge, that man
shall die, and thou shalt take away the evil from Israel:
13 And all the people hearing it shall fear, that no one
afterwards swell with pride.
14 When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God
will give thee, and possessest it, and shalt say: I will
set a king over me, as all nations have that are round
about:
15 Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out
of the number of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man
of another nation king, that is not thy brother.
16 And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to
himself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted
up with the number of his horsemen, especially since the
Lord hath commanded you to return no more the same way.
17 He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind,
nor immense sums of silver and gold.
18 But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he
shall copy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in
a volume, taking the copy of the priests of the Levitical
tribe,
19 And he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the
days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his
God, and keep his words and ceremonies, that are commanded
in the law;
20 And that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his
brethren, nor decline to the right or to the left, that he
and his sons may reign a long time over Israel.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 18
1 The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same
tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of
Israel, because they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord,
and his oblations,
2 And they shall receive nothing else. of the possession of
their brethren: for the Lord himself is their inheritance,
as he hath said to them.
3 This shall be the priest's due from the people, and from
them that offer victims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or
a sheep, they shall give to the priest the shoulder and
the breast:
4 The firstfruits also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and a
part of the wool from the shearing of their sheep.
5 For the Lord thy God hath chosen him of all thy tribes, to
stand and to minister to the name of the Lord, him and his
sons for ever.
6 If a Levite go out of any one of the cities throughout all
Israel, in which he dwelleth, and have a longing mind to
come to the place which the Lord shall choose,
7 He shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all
his brethren the Levites do, that shall stand at that time
before the Lord.
8 He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest
do: besides that which is due to him in his own city, by
succession from his fathers.
9 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God
shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate
the abominations of those nations.
10 Neither let there be found among you any one that shall
expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through
the fire: or that consulteth soothsayers, or observeth
dreams and omens, neither let there be any wizard,
11 Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits,
or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the
dead.
12 For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these
abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.
13 Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord
thy God.
14 These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to
soothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise
instructed by the Lord thy God.
15 The Lord thy God will raise up to thee a PROPHET of thy
nation and of thy brethren like unto me: him thou shalt
hear:
16 As thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the
assembly was gathered together, and saidst: Let me not
hear any more the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me
see any more this exceeding great fire, lest I die.
17 And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.
18 m I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their
brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his
mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command
him.
19 And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak
in my name, I will be the revenger.
20 But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall
speak in my name things that I did not command him to say,
or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain.
21 And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the
word that the Lord hath not spoken?
22 Thou shalt have this sign: Whatsoever that same prophet
foretelleth in the name of the Lord, and it cometh not to
pass: that thing the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet
hath forged it by the pride of his mind: and therefore
thou shalt not fear him.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 19
1 When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose
land he will deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it,
and shalt dwell in the cities and houses thereof :
2 Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of
the land, which the Lord will give thee in possession,
3 Paving diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole
province of thy land equally into three parts: that he who
is forced to flee for manslaughter, may have near at hand
whither to escape.
4 This shall be the law of the slayer that fleeth, whose
life is to be saved: He that killeth his neighbour
ignorantly, and who is proved to have had no hatred
against him yesterday and the day before:
5 But to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in
cutting down the tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and
the iron slipping from the handle struck his friend, and
killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities aforesaid,
and live:
6 Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed,
pushed on by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him.
if the way be too long, and take away the life of him who
is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had
no hatred before against him that was slain.
7 Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities
at equal distance one from another.
8 And when the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders,
as he swore to thy fathers, and shall give thee all the
land that he promised them,
9 (Yet so, if thou keep his commandments, and do the things
which I command thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy
God, and walk in his ways at all times) thou shalt add to
thee other three cities, and shalt double the number of
the three cities aforesaid:
10 That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the
land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess,
lest thou be guilty of blood.
11 But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his
life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to
one of the cities aforesaid,
12 The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of
the place of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand
of the kinsman of him whose blood was shed, and he shall
die.
13 Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the
guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well
with thee.
14 Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark,
which thy predecessors have set in thy possession. which
the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou
shalt receive to possess.
15 One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever
the sin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three
witnesses every word shall stand.
16 If a lying witness stand against a man, accusing him of
transgression,
17 Both of them, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
before the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges
that shall be in those days.
18 And when after most diligent inquisition, they shall find
that the false witness hath told a lie against his
brother:
19 They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother,
and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of
thee:
20 That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such
things.
21 Thou shalt not pity him, but shalt require life for life,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 20
1 If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and see
horsemen and chariots, and the numbers of the enemy's army
greater than thine, thou shalt not fear them: because the
Lord thy God is with thee, who brought thee out of the
land of Egypt.
2 And when the battle is now at hand, the priest shall stand
before the army, and shall speak to the people in this
manner:
3 Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day against your
enemies, let not your heart be dismayed, be not afraid, do
not give back, fear ye them not:
4 Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will
fight for you against your enemies, to deliver you from
danger.
5 And the captains shall proclaim through every band in the
hearing of the army: What man is there, that hath built a
new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and
return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and
another man dedicate it.
6 What man is there, that hath planted a vineyard, and hath
not as yet made it to be common, whereof all men may eat?
let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man execute his office.
7 What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not
taken her? let him go, and return to his house, lest he
die in the war, and another man take her.
8 After these things are declared they shall add the rest,
and shall speak to the people: What man is there that is
fearful, and faint hearted? let him go, and return to his
house, lest he make the hearts of his brethren to fear, as
he himself is possessed with fear.
9 And when the captains of the army shall hold their peace,
and have made an end of speaking, every man shall prepare
their bands to fight.
10 If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou
shalt first offer it peace.
11 If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the
people that are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve
thee paying tribute.
12 But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war
against thee, thou shalt besiege it.
13 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy bands,
thou shalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with
the edge of the sword,
14 Excepting women and children, cattle and other things,
that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey
to the army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies,
which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
15 So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great
distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou
shalt receive in possession.
16 But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt
suffer none at all to live:
17 But shalt kill them with the edge of the sword, to wit,
the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, the
Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord
thy God hath commanded thee:
18 Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they
have done to their gods: and you should sin against the
Lord your God.
19 When thou hast besieged a city a long time, and hath
compassed it with bulwarks to take it, thou shalt not cut
down the trees that may be eaten of, neither shalt thou
spoil the country round about with axes: for it is a tree,
and not a man, neither can it increase the number of them
that fight against thee.
20 But if there be any trees that are not fruitful, but wild,
and fit for other uses, cut them down, and make engines,
until thou take the city, which fighteth against thee.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 21
1 Then there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy
God will give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is
not known who is guilty of the murder,
2 Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure
from the place where the body lieth the distance of every
city round about:
3 And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to
be nearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd,
that hath not drawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,
4 And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley,
that never was ploughed, nor sown: and there they shall
strike off the head of the heifer:
5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord
thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in
his name, and that by their word every matter should be
decided, and whatsoever is clean or unclean should be
judged.
6 And the ancients of that city shall come to the person
slain, and shall wash their hands over the heifer that was
killed in the valley,
7 And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did
our eyes see it.
8 Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed,
O Lord, and lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the
midst of thy people Israel. And the guilt of blood shall
be taken from them:
9 And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was
shed, when thou shalt have done what the Lord hath
commanded thee.
10 If thou go out to fight against thy enemies, and the Lord
thy God deliver them into thy hand, and thou lead them
away captives,
11 And seest in the number of the captives a beautiful woman,
and lovest her, and wilt have her to wife,
12 Thou shalt bring her into thy house: and she shall shave
her hair, and pare her nails,
13 And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and
shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and
mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto
her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife.
14 Rut if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her
go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress
her by might because thou hast humbled her.
15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated,
and they have had children by him, and the son of the
hated be the firstborn,
16 And he meaneth to divide his substance among his sons: he
may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn, and
prefer him before the son of the hated.
17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the
firstborn, and shall give him a double portion of all he
hath: for this is the first of his children, and to him
are due the first birthrights.
18 If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear
the commandments of his father or mother, and being
corrected, slighteth obedience:
19 They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his
city, and to the gate of judgment,
20 And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and
stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth
himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:
21 The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die,
that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you,
and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.
22 When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be
punished with death, and being condemned to die is hanged
on a gibbet:
23 His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be
buried the same day: for he is accursed of God that
hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not defile thy land,
which the Lord thy God shall give thee in possession.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 22
1 Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox, or
his sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy
brother.
2 And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou
shalt bring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee
until thy brother seek them, and receive them.
3 Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with his
raiment, and with every thing that is thy brother's, which
is lost: if thou find it, neglect it not as pertaining to
another.
4 If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be fallen down
in the way, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt lift it up
with him.
5 A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither
shall a man use woman's apparel : for he that doeth these
things is abominable before God.
6 If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in
a tree, or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the
young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take her with her
young:
7 But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast
caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live
a long time.
8 When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a
battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in
thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall
down headlong.
9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest
both the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the
vineyard, be sanctified together.
10 Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
11 Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and
linen together.
12 Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of
thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.
13 If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,
14 And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge
a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and
going in to her, I found her not a virgin:
15 Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with
them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the
city that are in the gate:
16 And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man
to wife: and because he hateth her,
17 He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I
found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the
tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread
the cloth before the ancients of the city:
18 And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and
beat him,
19 Condemning him besides in a hundred sides of silver, which
he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath
defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he
shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the
days of his life.
20 But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be
not found in the damsel:
21 They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's
house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death,
and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in
Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou
shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.
22 If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die,
that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou
shalt take away the evil out of Israel.
23 If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some
one find her in the city, and lie with her,
24 Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city,
and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried
not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath
humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the
evil from the midst of thee.
25 But if a man find a damsel that is betrothed, in the
field, and taking hold of her, lie with her, he alone
shall die:
26 The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of
death : for as a robber riseth against his brother, and
taketh away his life, so also did the damsel suffer:
27 She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no
man to help her.
28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not
espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter
come to judgment :
29 He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid
fifty sides of silver, and shall have her to wife, because
he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days
of his life.
30 No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his
covering.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 23
1 An eunuch, whose testicles are broken or cut away, or yard
cut off, shall not enter into the church of the Lord.
2 A mamzer, that is to say, one born of a prostitute, shall
not enter into the church of the Lord, until the tenth
generation.
3 The Ammonite and the Moabite, even after the tenth
generation shall not enter into the church of the Lord for
ever:
4 Because they would not meet you with bread and water in
the way, when you came out of Egypt: hand because they
hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beer, from
Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.
5 And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned
his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.
6 Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou
seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
7 Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy
brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in
his land.
8 They that are born of them, in the third generation shall
enter into the church of the Lord.
9 When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, thou shalt
keep thyself from every evil thing.
10 If there be among you any man, that is defiled in a dream
by night, he shall go forth out of the camp.
11 And shall not return, before he be washed with water in
the evening: and after sunset he shall return into the
camp.
12 Thou shalt have a place without the camp, to which thou
mayst go for the necessities of nature,
13 Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And when thou sittest
down, thou shalt dig round about, and with the earth that
is dug up thou shalt cover
14 That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God
walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to
give up thy enemies to thee:) and let thy camp be holy,
and let no uncleanness appear therein, lest he go away
from thee.
15 Thou shalt not deliver to his master the servant that is
fled to thee.
16 He shall dwell with thee ill the place that shall please
him, and shall rest, in one of thy cities: give him no
trouble.
17 There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor
whoremonger among the sons of Israel.
18 Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price
of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it
be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an
abomination to the Lord thy God.
19 Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor
corn, nor any other thing:
20 But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that
which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may
bless thee in all thy works in the land, which thou shalt
go in to possess.
21 When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt
not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require
it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a
sin.
22 If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.
23 But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt
observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord
thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy
own mouth.
24 Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat as
many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with
thee:
25 If thou go into thy friend's corn, thou mayst break the
ears, and rub them in thy hand: but not reap them with a
sickle.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 24
1 If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not
favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write
a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send
her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,
3 And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of
divorce, and hath sent her out of his house or is dead:
4 The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because
she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord:
lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God
shall give thee to possess.
5 When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out
to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him,
but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one
year he may rejoice with his wife.
6 Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to
pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.
7 If ally man be found soliciting his brother of the
children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he
shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil
from the midst of thee.
8 Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the
leprosy, but thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the
Levitical race shall teach thee, according to what I have
commanded them, and fulfil thou it carefully.
9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way
when you came out of Egypt.
10 When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he
oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away
a pledge :
11 But then shalt stand without, and he shall bring out to
thee what he hath.
12 But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee
that night,
13 But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the
going down of the sun: that he may sleep in his own
raiment and bless thee, and thou mayst have justice before
the Lord thy God.
14 Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor,
whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth
with thee in the land, and is within thy gates:
15 But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same
day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor,
and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee
to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die
for his own sin.
17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of
the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's
raiment for a pledge.
18 Remember that thou wast a slave in Egypt, and the Lord thy
God delivered thee from thence. Therefore I command thee
to do this thing.
19 When thou hast reaped the corn in thy field, and hast
forgot and left a sheaf, thou shalt not return to take it
away: but thou shalt suffer the stranger, and the
fatherless and the widow to tabs it away: that the Lord
thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.
20 If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive trees, thou
shalt not return to gather whatsoever remaineth on the
trees: but shalt leave it for the stranger, for the
fatherless, and the widow.
21 If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not
gather the clusters that remain, but they shall be for the
stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
22 Remember that thou also wast a bondman in Egypt, and
therefore I command thee to do this thing.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 25
1 If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon
the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him
whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to
be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.
2 And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes:
they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten
before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the
measure also of the stripes be:
3 Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy
brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on
the floor.
5 When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth
without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry
to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up
seed for his brother:
6 And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by
his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.
7 But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law
belongeth to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the
city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband's
brother refuseth to raise up his brother's name in Israel:
and will not take me to wife.
8 And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and
shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:
9 The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall
take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and
say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up
his brother's house:
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the
unshod.
11 If two men have words together, and one begin to fight
against the other, and the other's wife willing to deliver
her husband out of the hand of the stronger, shall put
forth her hand, and take him by the secrets,
12 Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved
with any pity in her regard.
13 Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater
and a less:
14 Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and
a less.
15 Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel
shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time
upon the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
16 For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things,
and he hateth all injustice.
17 Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou
camest out of Egypt:
18 How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who
sat down, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger
and labour, and he feared not God.
19 Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and
shall have subdued all the nations round about in the land
which he hath promised thee: thou shalt blot out his name
from under heaven. See thou forget it not.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 26
1 And when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy
God will give thee to possess, and hast conquered it, and
dwellest in it:
2 Thou shalt take the first of all thy fruits, and put then?
in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy
God shall choose, that his name may be invocated there:
3 And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those
days, and say to him: I profess this day before the Lord
thy God, that I am come into the land, for which he swore
to our fathers, that he would give it us.
4 And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it
before the altar of the Lord thy God:
5 And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy
God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into
Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and
grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite
multitude.
6 And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying
on us most grievous burdens :
7 And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us,
and looked down upon our affliction, and labour, and
distress:
8 And brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, and a
stretched out arm, with great terror, with signs and
wonders:
9 And brought us into this place, and gave us this land
flowing with milk and honey.
10 And therefore now I offer the firstfruits of the land
which the Lord hath given me. And thou shalt leave them in
the sight of the ford thy God, adoring the Lord thy God.
11 And thou shalt feast in all the good things which the Lord
thy God hath given thee, and thy house, thou and the
Levite, and the stranger that is with thee.
12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in
the third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite,
and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the
widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled:
13 And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy
God: I have taken that which was sanctified out of my
house, and I have given it to the Levite, and to the
stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, as thou
hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy
commandments nor forgotten thy precepts.
14 I have not eaten of them is my mourning, nor separated
them for any uncleanness, nor spent any thing of them in
funerals. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and
have done all things as thou hast commanded me.
15 Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of
heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which
thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a
land flowing with milk and honey.
16 This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these
commandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
17 Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to
walk in his ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts,
end judgments, and obey his command.
18 And the Lord hath chosen thee this day, to be his peculiar
people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his
commandments:
19 And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath
created, to his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou
mayst be a holy people of the Lord thy God, as he hath
spoken.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 27
1 And Moses with the ancients of Israel commanded the
people, saying: Keep every commandment that I command you
this day.
2 And when you are passed over the Jordan into the land
which the Lord thy God will give thee, thou shalt set up
great stones, and shalt plaster them over with plaster,
3 That thou mayst write on them all the words of this law,
when thou art passed over the Jordan: that thou mayst
enter into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee,
a land flowing with milk and honey, as he swore to thy
fathers.
4 Therefore when you are passed over the Jordan, set up the
stones which I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and
thou shalt plaster them with plaster:
5 And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God,
of stones which iron hath not touched,
6 And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt
offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:
7 And shalt immolate peace victims, and eat there, and feast
before the Lord thy God.
8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this
law plainly and clearly,
9 And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all
Israel: Attend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made
the people of the Lord thy God.
10 Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and
justices which I command thee.
11 And Moses commanded the people in that day, saying:
12 These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people,
when you are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda,
Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
13 And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse:
Ruben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan, and Nephtali.
14 And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of
Israel with a loud voice:
15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing,
the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of
artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all
the people shall answer and say: Amen.
16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and
all the people shall say: Amen.
17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and
all the people shall say: Amen.
18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his
way: and all the people shall say: Amen.
19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,
of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall
say: Amen.
20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, and
uncovereth his bed: and all the people shall say: Amen.
21 Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people
shall say: Amen.
22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of
his father, or of his mother: and all the people shall
say: Amen.
23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law: and all
the people shall say: Amen.
24 Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all
the people shall say: Amen.
25 Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent
person: and all the people shall say: Amen.
26 Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law,
and fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall
say: Amen.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 28
1 Now if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to do
and keep all his commandments, which I command thee this
day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the
nations that are on the earth.
2 And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake
thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts,
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the
field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of
thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy
herds, and the folds of thy sheep.
5 Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores.
6 Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going out.
7 The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise up against
thee, to fall down before thy face: one way shall they
come out against thee, and seven ways shall they flee
before thee.
8 The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses,
and upon all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee
in the land that thou shalt receive.
9 The Lord will raise thee up to be a holy people to
himself, as he swore to thee: if thou keep the
commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of
the Lord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.
11 The Lord will make thee abound with all goods, with the
fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy cattle, with the
fruit of thy land, which the Lord swore to thy fathers
that he would give thee.
12 The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven,
that it may give rain in due season: and he will bless all
the works of thy hands. And thou shalt lend to many
nations, and shalt not borrow of any one.
13 And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail:
and thou shalt be always above, and not beneath: yet so if
thou wilt hear the commandments of the Lord thy God which
I command thee this day, and keep and do them,
14 And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor
to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.
15 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God,
to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies,
which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come
upon thee, and overtake thee.
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed thy stores.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of
thy ground, the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy
sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out.
20 The Lord shall send upon thee famine and hunger, and a
rebuke upon all the works which thou shalt do: until he
consume and destroy thee quickly, for thy most wicked
inventions, by which thou hast forsaken me.
21 May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he
consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to
possess.
22 May the Lord afflict thee with miser- able want, with the
fever and with cold, with burning and with heat, and with
corrupted air and with blasting, and pursue thee till thou
perish.
23 Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground
thou treadest on, of iron.
24 The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let
ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be
consumed.
25 The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one
way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways,
and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And be thy carcass meat for all the Fowls of the air, and
the beasts of the earth, and be there none to drive them
away.
27 The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part
of thy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab
and with the itch : so that thou canst not be healed.
28 The Lord strike thee with madness and blindness and fury
of mind.
29 And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to
grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And
mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed
with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.
30 Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst
thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou
plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof.
31 May thy ox be slain before thee, and thou not eat thereof.
May thy ass be taken away in thy sight, and not restored
to thee. May thy sheep be given to thy enemies, and may
there be none to help thee.
32 May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people,
thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them
all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand.
33 May a people which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy
land, and all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer
oppression, and be crushed at all times.
34 And be astonished at the terror of those things which thy
eyes shall see:
35 May the Lord strike thee with a very sore ulcer in the
knees and in the legs, and be thou incurable from the sole
of the foot to the top of the head.
36 The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt
have appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy
fathers know not: and there thou shalt serve strange gods,
wood and stone.
37 And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all
people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.
38 Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather
little: because the locusts shall consume all.
39 Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not
drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it
shall be wasted with worms.
40 Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt
not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall
off and perish.
41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and shalt not enjoy
them: because they shall be led into captivity.
42 The blast shall consume all the trees and the fruits of
thy ground.
43 The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise
up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down,
and be lower.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He
shall be as the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45 And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall
pursue and overtake thee, till thou perish: because thou
heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God, and didst not
keep his commandments and ceremonies which he commanded
thee.
46 And they shall be as signs and wonders on thee, and on thy
seed for ever.
47 Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and
gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:
48 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon
thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of
all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck,
till he consume thee.
49 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from
the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth
swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,
50 A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the
ancients, nor have pity on the infant,
51 And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of
thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no
wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of
sheep: until he destroy thee.
52 And consume thee in all thy cities, end thy strong and
high walls be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all
thy land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in all
thy land which the Lord thy God will give thee:
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of
thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God
shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith
thy enemy shall oppress thee.
54 The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall
envy his own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his
bosom,
55 So that he will not give them of the flesh of his
children, which he shall eat: because he hath nothing else
in the siege and the want, wherewith thy enemies shall
distress thee within all thy gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the
ground, nor set down her foot for over much niceness and
tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom,
the flesh of her son, and of her daughter,
57 And the filth of the afterbirths, that come forth from
between her thighs, and the children that are born the
same hour. For they shall eat them secretly for the want
of all things, in the siege and distress, wherewith thy
enemy shall oppress thee within thy gates.
58 If thou wilt not keep, and fulfil all the words of this
law, that are written in this volume, and fear his
glorious and terrible name: that is, The Lord thy God:
59 The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of
thy seed, plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous
and perpetual.
60 And he shall bring back on thee all the afflictions of
Egypt, which thou wast afraid of, and they shall stick
fast to thee.
61 Moreover the Lord will bring upon thee all the diseases,
and plagues, that are not written in the volume of this
law till he consume thee:
62 And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the
stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not
the voice of the Lord thy God.
63 And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to
you, and multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying
and bringing you to nought, so that you shall be taken
away from the land which thou shalt go in to possess.
64 The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the
farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there
thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art
ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.
65 Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor
shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the
Lord will give thee a fearful heart, and languishing eyes,
and a soul consumed with pensiveness:
66 And thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee. Thou
shalt fear night and day, neither shalt thou trust thy
life.
67 In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening?
and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the
fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be
terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with
thy eyes.
68 The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by
the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it
no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies
for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 29
1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord
commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the
land of Moab: beside that covenant which he made with them
in Horeb.
2 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: You have
seen all the things that the Lord did before you in the
land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to
his whole land.
3 The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those
mighty signs and wonders,
4 And the Lord hath not given you al heart to understand,
and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present
day.
5 He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your
garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your
feet consumed with age.
6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or
strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord your
God.
7 And you came to this place: sand Sehon king of Hesebon,
and Og king of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we
slew them.
8 And took their land, and delivered it for a possession to
h Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.
9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfil
them: that you may understand all that you do.
10 You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your
princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the
people of Israel,
11 Your children and your wives, and the stranger that
abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood,
and them that bring water:
12 That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God,
and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh
with thee.
13 That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may
be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to
thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm
these oaths,
15 But with all that are present and that are absent.
16 For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we
have passed through the midst of nations, and passing
through them,
17 You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to
say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which
they worshipped.
18 Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman,
a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day
from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those
nations: and there should be among you a root bringing
forth gall and bitterness.
19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should
bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and
will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the
drunken may consume the thirsty,
20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and
jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled
at that time, and all the curses that are written in this
volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out
his name from under heaven,
21 And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to the curses that are contained in the book of
this law and covenant:
22 And the following generation shall say, and the children
that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall
come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the
evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted it,
23 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that
it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow
therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and
Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in
his wrath and indignation:
24 And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus
to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of
his wrath?
25 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant
of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he
brought them out of the land of Egypt:
26 And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom
they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:
27 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this
land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in
this volume :
28 And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in
wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them
into a strange land, as it is seen this day.
29 Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are
manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may
do all the words of this law.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 30
1 Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the
blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee,
and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart
among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall
have scattered thee,
2 And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I
command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul:
3 The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and
will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all
the nations, into which he scattered thee before.
4 If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord
thy God will fetch thee back from thence,
5 And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the
land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess
it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous
than were thy fathers.
6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart
of thy seed: that then mayst love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.
7 And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and
upon them that hate and persecute thee.
8 But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy
God, and shalt do all the commandments which I command
thee this day:
9 And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the
works of thy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the
fruit of thy cattle, in the fruitfulness of thy land, and
in the plenty of all things. For the Lord will return to
rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in
thy fathers:
10 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and
keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in
this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul.
11 This commandment, that I command thee this day is not
above thee, nor far off from thee:
12 Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us
can go up to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear
and fulfil it in work?
13 Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst excuse thyself,
and say: Which of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto
us: that we may hear, and do that which is commanded?
14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in
thy heart, that thou mayst do it.
15 Consider that I have set before thee this day life and
good, and on the other hand death and evil:
16 That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his
ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and
judgments, and thou mayst live, and he may multiply thee,
and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to
possess.
17 But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not
hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange
gods, and serve them:
18 I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt
remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt
pass over the Jordan, and shalt go in to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing.
Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may
live:
20 And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his
voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the
length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land,
for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob that he would give it them.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 31
1 And Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel,
2 And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty
years old, I can no longer go out and come in, especially
as the Lord also hath said to me: O Thou shalt not pass
over this Jordan.
3 The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will
destroy all these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt
possess them: and this Josue shall go over before thee, as
the Lord hath spoken.
4 And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og
the kings of the Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall
destroy them.
5 Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to
you, you shall do in like manner to them as I have
commanded you,
6 Do manfully and be of good heart: fear not, nor be ye
dismayed at their sight: for the Lord thy God he himself
is thy leader, and will not leave thee nor forsake thee.
7 And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel:
Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this
people into the land which the Lord swore he would give to
their fathers, and thou shalt divide it by lot.
8 And the Lord who is your leader, he himself will be with
thee: he will not leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not,
neither be dismayed.
9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests
the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of
the Lord, and to all the ancients of Israel.
10 And he commanded them, saying: After seven years, in the
year of remission, in the feast of tabernacles,
11 When all Israel come together, to appear in the sight of
the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose,
thou shalt read the words of this law before all Israel,
in their hearing,
12 And the people being all assembled together, both men and
women, children and strangers, that are within thy gates:
that hearing they may learn, and fear the Lord your God,
and keep, and fulfil all the words of this law:
13 That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear,
and fear the Lord their God, all the days that they lire
in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to
possess it.
14 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death
are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of
the testimony, that I may give him a charge. So Moses and
Josue went and stood in the tabernacle of the testimony:
15 And the Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud,
which stood in the en try of the tabernacle.
16 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with
thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a
fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it
goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will
make void the covenant, which I have made with them,
17 And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day:
and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them,
and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions
shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In
truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils
have found me.
18 But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all
the evils which they have done, because they have followed
strange gods..
19 Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the
children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and
sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a
testimony among the children of Israel.
20 For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to
their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when
they have eaten, and are full and fat, they will turn away
after strange gods, and will serve them: and will despise
me, and make void my covenant.
21 And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon
them, this canticle shall answer them for a testimony,
which no oblivion shall take away out of the mouth of
their seed. For I know their thoughts, and what they are
about to de this day, before that I bring them into the
land which I have promised them.
22 Moses therefore wrote the canticle and taught it to the
children of Israel.
23 And the Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said:
Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring the
children of Israel into the land which I have promised,
and I will be with thee.
24 Therefore after Moses had wrote the words of this law in
a volume, and finished it:
25 He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the
covenant of the Lord. saying:
26 Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the
covenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a
testimony against thee.
27 For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck, While
I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always
been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I
shall be dead?
28 Gather unto me all the ancients of your tribes, and your
doctors, and I will speak these words in their hearing,
and will call heaven and earth to witness against them.
29 For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and
will quickly turn aside from the way that I have commanded
you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times,
when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to
provoke him by the works of your hands.
30 Moses therefore spoke, in the hearing of the whole
assembly of Israel, the words of this canticle, and
finished it even to the end,
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 32
1 Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give
ear to the words of my mouth.
2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil
as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon
the grass.
3 Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye
magnificence to our God.
4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are
judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is
just and right.
5 They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children
in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.
6 Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and
senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath
possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?
7 Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask
thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and
they will tell thee.
8 When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated
the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people
according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his
inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and
of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and
he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over
them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried
him on his shoulders.
12 The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange
god with him.
13 He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of
the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and
oil out of the hardest stone,
14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of
lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats
with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood
of the grape.
15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick
and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from
God his saviour.
16 They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to
anger, with their abominations.
17 They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom
they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers
worshipped not.
18 Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast
forgotten the Lord that created thee.
19 The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons
and daughters provoked him.
20 And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will
consider what their last end shall be: for it is a
perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
21 They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have
angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them
with that which is no people, and will vex them with a
foolish nation.
22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the
lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase,
and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows
among them.
24 They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour
them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of
beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail
upon the ground, and of serpents.
25 Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror
within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking
child with the man in years.
26 I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to
cease from among men.
27 But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest
perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our
mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.
28 They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
29 O that they would be wise and would understand, and would
provide for their last end.
30 How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten
thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and
the Lord had shut them up?
31 For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves
are judges.
32 Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the
suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and
their clusters most bitter.
33 Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps,
which is incurable.
34 Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in
my treasures?
35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that
their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand,
and the time makes haste to come.
36 The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his
servants : he shall see that their hand is weakened, and
that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that
remained are consumed.
37 And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they
trusted?
38 Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of
their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and
protect you in your distress.
39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides
me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike,
and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of
my hand.
40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live
for ever.
41 If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand
take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my
enemies, and repay them that hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall
devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the
captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.
43 Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the
blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their
enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his
people.
44 So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in
the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.
45 And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.
46 And he said to them : Set your hearts on all the words,
which I testify to you this day: which you shall command
your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that
is written in this law:
47 For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one
should live in them, and that doing them you may continue
a long time in the land whither you are going over the
Jordan to possess it.
48 And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:
49 Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of
passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab
over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which
I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and
die thou in the mountain.
50 When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to
thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Her, and
was gathered to his people:
51 Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the
children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction in
Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me
among the children of Israel.
52 Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to
the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 33
1 This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God Moses
blessed the children of Israel, before his death.
2 And he said: The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he
rose up to us: he hath appeared from mount Pharan, and
with him thousands of saints. In his right hand a fiery
law.
3 He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand:
and they that approach to his feet, shall receive of his
doctrine.
4 Moses commanded us a law, the inheritance of the multitude
of Jacob.
5 He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the
people being assembled with the tribes of Israel.
6 Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.
7 This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O Lord, the voice of
Juda, and bring him in unto his people : his hands shall
fight for him, and he shall be his helper against his
enemies.
8 To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be
to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation,
and judged at the waters of contradiction :
9 Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not
know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their
own children they have not known. These have kept thy
word, and observed thy covenant,
10 Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall
put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.
11 Bless, O Lord, his strength, and receive the works of his
hands. Strike the backs of his enemies, and let not them
that hate him rise.
12 And to Benjamin he said: The best beloved of the Lord
shall dwell confidently in him: as in a bride chamber
shall he abide all the day long, and between his shoulders
shall be rest.
13 To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his
land, of the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the
deep that lieth beneath.
14 Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.
15 Of the tops of the ancient mountains, of the fruits of the
everlasting hills:
16 And of the fruits of the earth, and of the fulness
thereof. The blessing of him that appeared in the bush,
come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the
Nazarite among his brethren.
17 His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as
the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the
nations even to the ends of the earth These are the
multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.
18 And to Zabulon he said: Rejoice, O Zabulon, in thy going
out; and Issachar in thy tabernacles.
19 They shall call the people to the mountain: there shall
they sacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as
milk the abundance of the sea, and the hidden treasures of
the sands.
20 And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath
rested as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top
of the head.
21 And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the
teacher was laid up: who was with the princes of the
people, and did the justices of the Lord, and his judgment
with Israel.
22 To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow
plentifully from Basan.
23 And to Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance,
and shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall
possess the sea and the south.
24 To Aser also he said: Let Aser be blessed with children,
let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his
foot in oil.
25 His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy
youth, so also shall thy old age be.
26 There is no other God like the God of the rightest: he
that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his
magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.
27 His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting
arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and
shall say: Be thou brought to nought.
28 Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob
in a land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty
with dew.
29 Blessed are thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people,
that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and
the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and
thou shalt tread upon their necks.
The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 34
1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab upon mount
Nebo, to the top of Phasga over against Jericho: and the
Lord shewed him all the land of Galaad as far as Dan.
2 And all Nephtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasses,
and all the land of Juda unto the furthermost sea,
3 And the south part, and the breadth of the plain of
Jericho the city of palm trees as far as Segor.
4 And the Lord said to him: This is the land, for which I
swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it
to thy seed. Thou hast seen it with thy eyes, and shalt
not pass over to it.
5 And Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land
of Moab, by the commandment of the Lord:
6 And he buried him in the valley of the land of Moab over
against Phogor: and no man hath known of his sepulchre
until this present day.
7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, neither were his teeth moved.
8 And the children of Israel mourned for him in the plains
of Moab thirty days: and the days of their mourning in
which they mourned for Moses were ended.
9 And Josue the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of
wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands upon him. And the
children of Israel obeyed him, and did as the Lord
commanded Moses.
10 And there arose no more a prophet in Israel like unto
Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
11 In all the signs and wonders, which he sent by him, to do
in the land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants,
and to his whole land,
12 And all the mighty hand, and great miracles, which Moses
did before all Israel.
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