| 18:1: |
The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no
part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the
LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. |
| 18:2: |
Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the
LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. |
| 18:3: |
And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them
that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give
unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. |
| 18:4: |
The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and
the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. |
| 18:5: |
For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand
to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. |
| 18:6: |
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where
he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place
which the LORD shall choose; |
| 18:7: |
Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his
brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD. |
| 18:8: |
They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the
sale of his patrimony. |
| 18:9: |
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. |
| 18:10: |
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, |
| 18:11: |
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
necromancer. |
| 18:12: |
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and
because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from
before thee. |
| 18:13: |
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. |
| 18:14: |
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers
of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not
suffered thee so to do. |
| 18:15: |
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of
thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; |
| 18:16: |
According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in
the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the
LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die
not. |
| 18:17: |
And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have
spoken. |
| 18:18: |
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto
thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them
all that I shall command him. |
| 18:19: |
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my
words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. |
| 18:20: |
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name
of other gods, even that prophet shall die. |
| 18:21: |
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the
LORD hath not spoken? |
| 18:22: |
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow
not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken,
but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid
of him. |
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| 19:1: |
When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD
thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their
cities, and in their houses; |
| 19:2: |
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. |
| 19:3: |
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that
every slayer may flee thither. |
| 19:4: |
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he
may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in
time past; |
| 19:5: |
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and
his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the
head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he
die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: |
| 19:6: |
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is
hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he
was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. |
| 19:7: |
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities
for thee. |
| 19:8: |
And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy
fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy
fathers; |
| 19:9: |
If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command
thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways;
then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: |
| 19:10: |
That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God
giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. |
| 19:11: |
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise
up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one
of these cities: |
| 19:12: |
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and
deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. |
| 19:13: |
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of
innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee. |
| 19:14: |
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old
time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land
that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. |
| 19:15: |
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for
any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at
the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. |
| 19:16: |
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him
that which is wrong; |
| 19:17: |
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in
those days; |
| 19:18: |
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the
witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his
brother; |
| 19:19: |
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his
brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. |
| 19:20: |
And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil among you. |
| 19:21: |
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. |
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| 20:1: |
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest
horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them:
for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land
of Egypt. |
| 20:2: |
And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the
priest shall approach and speak unto the people, |
| 20:3: |
And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto
battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do
not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; |
| 20:4: |
For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you. |
| 20:5: |
And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, 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. |
| 20:6: |
And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet
eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man eat of it. |
| 20:7: |
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken
her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and
another man take her. |
| 20:8: |
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall
say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and
return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his
heart. |
| 20:9: |
And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto
the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the
people. |
| 20:10: |
When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim
peace unto it. |
| 20:11: |
And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee,
then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be
tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. |
| 20:12: |
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against
thee, then thou shalt besiege it: |
| 20:13: |
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou
shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: |
| 20:14: |
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is
in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself;
and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God
hath given thee. |
| 20:15: |
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from
thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. |
| 20:16: |
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give
thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that
breatheth: |
| 20:17: |
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the
Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: |
| 20:18: |
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which
they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your
God. |
| 20:19: |
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it
to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe
against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them
down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the
siege: |
| 20:20: |
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,
thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks
against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. |
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| 21:1: |
If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee
to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain
him: |
| 21:2: |
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall
measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: |
| 21:3: |
And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even
the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought
with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; |
| 21:4: |
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough
valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the
heifer's neck there in the valley: |
| 21:5: |
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD
thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the
LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be
tried: |
| 21:6: |
And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the
valley: |
| 21:7: |
And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,
neither have our eyes seen it. |
| 21:8: |
Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed,
and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And
the blood shall be forgiven them. |
| 21:9: |
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you,
when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. |
| 21:10: |
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy
God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them
captive, |
| 21:11: |
And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire
unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; |
| 21:12: |
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave
her head, and pare her nails; |
| 21:13: |
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and
shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full
month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and
she shall be thy wife. |
| 21:14: |
And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let
her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money,
thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled
her. |
| 21:15: |
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they
have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the
firstborn son be hers that was hated: |
| 21:16: |
Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he
hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the
son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: |
| 21:17: |
But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by
giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning
of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his. |
| 21:18: |
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the
voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have
chastened him, will not hearken unto them: |
| 21:19: |
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him
out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; |
| 21:20: |
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and
a drunkard. |
| 21:21: |
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die:
so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear,
and fear. |
| 21:22: |
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be
put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: |
| 21:23: |
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in
any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;)
that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance. |
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| 22:1: |
Thou shalt not see the brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and
hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy
brother. |
| 22:2: |
And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not,
then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee
until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him
again. |
| 22:3: |
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with
his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath
lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide
thyself. |
| 22:4: |
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the
way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them
up again. |
| 22:5: |
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither
shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are
abomination unto the LORD thy God. |
| 22:6: |
If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree,
or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam
sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam
with the young: |
| 22:7: |
But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to
thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy
days. |
| 22:8: |
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for
thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall
from thence. |
| 22:9: |
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of
thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be
defiled. |
| 22:10: |
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. |
| 22:11: |
Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and
linen together. |
| 22:12: |
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture,
wherewith thou coverest thyself. |
| 22:13: |
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, |
| 22:14: |
And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name
upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her
not a maid: |
| 22:15: |
Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring
forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the
city in the gate: |
| 22:16: |
And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my
daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; |
| 22:17: |
And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I
found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my
daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the
elders of the city. |
| 22:18: |
And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise
him; |
| 22:19: |
And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give
them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil
name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put
her away all his days. |
| 22:20: |
But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found
for the damsel: |
| 22:21: |
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's
house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die:
because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her
father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. |
| 22:22: |
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they
shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the
woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. |
| 22:23: |
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man
find her in the city, and lie with her; |
| 22:24: |
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye
shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried
not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his
neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. |
| 22:25: |
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force
her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall
die: |
| 22:26: |
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no
sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and
slayeth him, even so is this matter: |
| 22:27: |
For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and
there was none to save her. |
| 22:28: |
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and
lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; |
| 22:29: |
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's
father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he
hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. |
| 22:30: |
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his
father's skirt. |
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| 23:1: |
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off,
shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. |
| 23:2: |
A shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to
his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the
LORD. |
| 23:3: |
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the
LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the
congregation of the LORD for ever: |
| 23:4: |
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when
ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam
the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. |
| 23:5: |
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the
LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD
thy God loved thee. |
| 23:6: |
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for
ever. |
| 23:7: |
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt
not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land. |
| 23:8: |
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the
congregation of the LORD in their third generation. |
| 23:9: |
When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from
every wicked thing. |
| 23:10: |
If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of
uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of
the camp, he shall not come within the camp: |
| 23:11: |
Bu hall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with
water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. |
| 23:12: |
Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go
forth abroad: |
| 23:13: |
And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when
thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn
back and cover that which cometh from thee: |
| 23:14: |
For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver
thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp
be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from
thee. |
| 23:15: |
Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped
from his master unto thee: |
| 23:16: |
He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he
shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt
not oppress him. |
| 23:17: |
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of
the sons of Israel. |
| 23:18: |
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into
the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are
abomination unto the LORD thy God. |
| 23:19: |
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury
of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: |
| 23:20: |
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother
thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in
all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to
possess it. |
| 23:21: |
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack
to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it
would be sin in thee. |
| 23:22: |
But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. |
| 23:23: |
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even
a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God,
which thou hast promised with thy mouth. |
| 23:24: |
When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest
eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in
thy vessel. |
| 23:25: |
When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou
mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle
unto thy neighbour's standing corn. |
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| 24:1: |
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass
that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and
give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. |
| 24:2: |
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another
man's wife. |
| 24:3: |
And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house;
or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; |
| 24:4: |
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be
his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the
LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God
giveth thee for an inheritance. |
| 24:5: |
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither
shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one
year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. |
| 24:6: |
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he
taketh a man's life to pledge. |
| 24:7: |
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of
Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief
shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. |
| 24:8: |
Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and
do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I
commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. |
| 24:9: |
Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that
ye were come forth out of Egypt. |
| 24:10: |
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his
house to fetch his pledge. |
| 24:11: |
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall
bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. |
| 24:12: |
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: |
| 24:13: |
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun
goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it
shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. |
| 24:14: |
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy,
whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land
within thy gates: |
| 24:15: |
At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go
down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry
against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee. |
| 24:16: |
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall
the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to
death for his own sin. |
| 24:17: |
Thou shalt not the judgment of the stranger, nor of the
fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: |
| 24:18: |
But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the
LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this
thing. |
| 24:19: |
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a
sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch i : hall be for
the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy
God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. |
| 24:20: |
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs
again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the
widow. |
| 24:21: |
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean
it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for
the widow. |
| 24:22: |
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing. |
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| 25:1: |
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment,
that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous,
and condemn the wicked. |
| 25:2: |
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the
judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face,
according to his fault, by a certain number. |
| 25:3: |
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should
exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother
should seem vile unto thee. |
| 25:4: |
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. |
| 25:5: |
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child,
the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her
husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife,
and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. |
| 25:6: |
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed
in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of
Israel. |
| 25:7: |
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his
brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My
husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in
Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. |
| 25:8: |
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and
if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; |
| 25:9: |
Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of
the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face,
and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not
build up his brother's house. |
| 25:10: |
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath
his shoe loosed. |
| 25:11: |
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one
draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that
smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the
secrets: |
| 25:12: |
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. |
| 25:13: |
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a
small. |
| 25:14: |
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a
small. |
| 25:15: |
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just
measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee. |
| 25:16: |
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an
abomination unto the LORD thy God. |
| 25:17: |
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come
forth out of Egypt; |
| 25:18: |
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all
that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he
feared not God. |
| 25:19: |
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest
from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out
the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget
it. |
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| 26:1: |
And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest
therein; |
| 26:2: |
That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth,
which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and
shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy
God shall choose to place his name there. |
| 26:3: |
And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and
say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come
unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give
us. |
| 26:4: |
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it
down before the altar of the LORD thy God. |
| 26:5: |
And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready
to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there
with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: |
| 26:6: |
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon
us hard : |
| 26:7: |
And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard
our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our
oppression: |
| 26:8: |
And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and
with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs,
and with wonders: |
| 26:9: |
And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land,
even a land that floweth with milk and honey. |
| 26:10: |
And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which
thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy
God, and worship before the LORD thy God: |
| 26:11: |
And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God
hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the
stranger that is among you. |
| 26:12: |
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine
increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it
unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they
may eat within thy gates, and be filled; |
| 26:13: |
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the
hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the
Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow,
according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have
not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: |
| 26:14: |
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away
ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead:
but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done
according to all that thou hast commanded me. |
| 26:15: |
Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people
Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our
fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey. |
| 26:16: |
This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes
and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul. |
| 26:17: |
Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in
his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his
judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: |
| 26:18: |
And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people,
as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his
commandments; |
| 26:19: |
And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in
praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy
people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. |
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| 27:1: |
And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. |
| 27:2: |
And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up
great stones, and plaister them with plaister: |
| 27:3: |
And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou
art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God
of thy fathers hath promised thee. |
| 27:4: |
Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set
up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou
shalt plaister them with plaister. |
| 27:5: |
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar
of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. |
| 27:6: |
Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and
thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God: |
| 27:7: |
And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and
rejoice before the LORD thy God. |
| 27:8: |
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very
plainly. |
| 27:9: |
And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying,
Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of
the LORD thy God. |
| 27:10: |
Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his
commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. |
| 27:11: |
And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, |
| 27:12: |
These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are
come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph,
and Benjamin: |
| 27:13: |
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and
Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. |
| 27:14: |
And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with
a loud voice, |
| 27:15: |
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an
abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say,
Amen. |
| 27:16: |
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all
the people shall say, Amen. |
| 27:17: |
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the
people shall say, Amen. |
| 27:18: |
Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all
the people shall say, Amen. |
| 27:19: |
Cursed be he that eth the judgment of the stranger,
fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. |
| 27:20: |
Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he
uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say,
Amen. |
| 27:21: |
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people
shall say, Amen. |
| 27:22: |
Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father,
or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. |
| 27:23: |
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people
shall say, Amen. |
| 27:24: |
Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people
shall say, Amen. |
| 27:25: |
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all
the people shall say, Amen. |
| 27:26: |
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do
them. And all the people shall say, Amen. |
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| 28:1: |
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments
which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on
high above all nations of the earth: |
| 28:2: |
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. |
| 28:3: |
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the
field. |
| 28:4: |
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground,
and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of
thy sheep. |
| 28:5: |
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. |
| 28:6: |
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be
when thou goest out. |
| 28:7: |
The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and
flee before thee seven ways. |
| 28:8: |
The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and
in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. |
| 28:9: |
The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath
sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God,
and walk in his ways. |
| 28:10: |
And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. |
| 28:11: |
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in
the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. |
| 28:12: |
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give
the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine
hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not
borrow. |
| 28:13: |
And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou
shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken
unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day,
to observe and to do them: |
| 28:14: |
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command
thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods
to serve them. |
| 28:15: |
Bu hall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes
which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon
thee, and overtake thee: |
| 28:16: |
Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the
field. |
| 28:17: |
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. |
| 28:18: |
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the
increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. |
| 28:19: |
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be
when thou goest out. |
| 28:20: |
The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all
that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and
until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings,
whereby thou hast forsaken me. |
| 28:21: |
The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have
consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. |
| 28:22: |
The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and
with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword,
and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou
perish. |
| 28:23: |
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under thee shall be iron. |
| 28:24: |
The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven
shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. |
| 28:25: |
The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and
shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. |
| 28:26: |
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the
beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. |
| 28:27: |
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
healed. |
| 28:28: |
The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart: |
| 28:29: |
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed
and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. |
| 28:30: |
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou
shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant
a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. |
| 28:31: |
Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face,
and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine
enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. |
| 28:32: |
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and
thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long:
and there shall be no might in thine hand. |
| 28:33: |
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou
knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed
alway: |
| 28:34: |
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see. |
| 28:35: |
The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore
botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of
thy head. |
| 28:36: |
The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over
thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and
there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. |
| 28:37: |
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among
all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. |
| 28:38: |
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but
little in; for the locust shall consume it. |
| 28:39: |
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink
of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. |
| 28:40: |
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt
not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his
fruit. |
| 28:41: |
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them;
for they shall go into captivity. |
| 28:42: |
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. |
| 28:43: |
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;
and thou shalt come down very low. |
| 28:44: |
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be
the head, and thou shalt be the tail. |
| 28:45: |
Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue
thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst
not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his
statutes which he commanded thee: |
| 28:46: |
And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy
seed for ever. |
| 28:47: |
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; |
| 28:48: |
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send
against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of
all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have
destroyed thee. |
| 28:49: |
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of
the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt
not understand; |
| 28:50: |
A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of
the old, nor shew favour to the young: |
| 28:51: |
And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land,
until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn,
wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until
he have destroyed thee. |
| 28:52: |
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced
walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he
shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the
LORD thy God hath given thee. |
| 28:53: |
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons
and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the
siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress
thee: |
| 28:54: |
So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye
shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and
toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: |
| 28:55: |
So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children
whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in
the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy
gates. |
| 28:56: |
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to
set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,
her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her
son, and toward her daughter, |
| 28:57: |
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and
toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want
of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy
shall distress thee in thy gates. |
| 28:58: |
If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are
written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful
name, THE LORD THY GOD; |
| 28:59: |
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy
seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses,
and of long continuance. |
| 28:60: |
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which
thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. |
| 28:61: |
Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the
book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be
destroyed. |
| 28:62: |
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of
heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the
LORD thy God. |
| 28:63: |
And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do
you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to
destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off
the land whither thou goest to possess it. |
| 28:64: |
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of
the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods,
which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. |
| 28:65: |
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the
sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: |
| 28:66: |
And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day
and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: |
| 28:67: |
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even
thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart
wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see. |
| 28:68: |
And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way
whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye
shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man
shall buy you. |
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| 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 the
covenant which he made with them in Horeb. |
| 29:2: |
And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen
all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh,
and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; |
| 29:3: |
The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and
those great miracles: |
| 29:4: |
Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to
see, and ears to hear, unto this day. |
| 29:5: |
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are
not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. |
| 29:6: |
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink:
that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. |
| 29:7: |
And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og
the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote
them: |
| 29:8: |
And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. |
| 29:9: |
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may
prosper in all that ye do. |
| 29:10: |
Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains
of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of
Israel, |
| 29:11: |
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp,
from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: |
| 29:12: |
That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and
into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: |
| 29:13: |
That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that
he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath
sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. |
| 29:14: |
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; |
| 29:15: |
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our
God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: |
| 29:16: |
(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came
through the nations which ye passed by; |
| 29:17: |
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone,
silver and gold, which were among them:) |
| 29:18: |
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe,
whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve
the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that
beareth gall and wormwood; |
| 29:19: |
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he
bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in
the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: |
| 29:20: |
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his
jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are
written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his
name from under heaven. |
| 29:21: |
And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of
Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in
this book of the law: |
| 29:22: |
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up
after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say,
when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD
hath laid upon it; |
| 29:23: |
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning,
that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the
overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD
overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: |
| 29:24: |
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto
this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? |
| 29:25: |
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the
LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt: |
| 29:26: |
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom
they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: |
| 29:27: |
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring
upon it all the curses that are written in this book: |
| 29:28: |
And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this
day. |
| 29:29: |
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things
which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we
may do all the words of this law. |
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| 30:1: |
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee,
the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt
call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath
driven thee, |
| 30:2: |
And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice
according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children,
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; |
| 30:3: |
That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have
compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the
nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. |
| 30:4: |
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from
thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch
thee: |
| 30:5: |
And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers
possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and
multiply thee above thy fathers. |
| 30:6: |
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of
thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul, that thou mayest live. |
| 30:7: |
And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies,
and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. |
| 30:8: |
And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his
commandments which I command thee this day. |
| 30:9: |
And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine
hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in
the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over
thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: |
| 30:10: |
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law,
and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul. |
| 30:11: |
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden
from thee, neither is it far off. |
| 30:12: |
It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us
to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? |
| 30:13: |
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go
over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do
it? |
| 30:14: |
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart,
that thou mayest do it. |
| 30:15: |
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and
evil; |
| 30:16: |
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in
his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his
judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall
bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. |
| 30:17: |
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt
be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; |
| 30:18: |
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that
ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over
Jordan to go to possess it. |
| 30:19: |
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose
life, that both thou and thy seed may live: |
| 30:20: |
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his
voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the
length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD
sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
them. |
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| 31:1: |
And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. |
| 31:2: |
And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day;
I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou
shalt not go over this Jordan. |
| 31:3: |
The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy
these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua,
he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. |
| 31:4: |
And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings
of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. |
| 31:5: |
And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto
them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. |
| 31:6: |
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for
the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee,
nor forsake thee. |
| 31:7: |
And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all
Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this
people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give
them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. |
| 31:8: |
And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with
thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be
dismayed. |
| 31:9: |
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons
of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the
elders of Israel. |
| 31:10: |
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in
the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, |
| 31:11: |
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the
place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel
in their hearing. |
| 31:12: |
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy
stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may
learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of
this law: |
| 31:13: |
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear,
and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land
whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. |
| 31:14: |
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou
must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the
congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went,
and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. |
| 31:15: |
And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and
the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. |
| 31:16: |
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of
the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will
forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. |
| 31:17: |
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will
forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be
devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they
will say in that day. Are not these evils come upon us, because our God
is not among us? |
| 31:18: |
And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which
they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. |
| 31:19: |
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children
of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me
against the children of Israel. |
| 31:20: |
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto
their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have
eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto
other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. |
| 31:21: |
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen
them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it
shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their
imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them
into the land which I sware. |
| 31:22: |
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the
children of Israel. |
| 31:23: |
And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and
of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the
land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. |
| 31:24: |
And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words
of this law in a book, until they were finished, |
| 31:25: |
That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant
of the LORD, saying, |
| 31:26: |
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the
covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against
thee. |
| 31:27: |
For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet
alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and
how much more after my death? |
| 31:28: |
Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that
I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to
record against them. |
| 31:29: |
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will
befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of
the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. |
| 31:30: |
And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the
words of this song, until they were ended. |
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| 32:1: |
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the
words of my mouth. |
| 32:2: |
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the
dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the
grass: |
| 32:3: |
Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness
unto our God. |
| 32:4: |
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a
God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. |
| 32:5: |
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. |
| 32:6: |
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he
thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established
thee? |
| 32:7: |
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask
thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell
thee. |
| 32:8: |
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he
separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to
the number of the children of Israel. |
| 32:9: |
For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance. |
| 32:10: |
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness;
he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his
eye. |
| 32:11: |
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: |
| 32:12: |
So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with
him. |
| 32:13: |
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat
the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the
rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; |
| 32:14: |
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the
breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou
didst drink the pure blood of the grape. |
| 32:15: |
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which
made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. |
| 32:16: |
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations
provoked they him to anger. |
| 32:17: |
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not,
to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. |
| 32:18: |
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten
God that formed thee. |
| 32:19: |
And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking
of his sons, and of his daughters. |
| 32:20: |
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end
shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no
faith. |
| 32:21: |
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have
provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to
jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger
with a foolish nation. |
| 32:22: |
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest
hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the
foundations of the mountains. |
| 32:23: |
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
them. |
| 32:24: |
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and
with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them,
with the poison of serpents of the dust. |
| 32:25: |
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young
man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. |
| 32:26: |
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
remembrance of them to cease from among men: |
| 32:27: |
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say,
Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. |
| 32:28: |
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them. |
| 32:29: |
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would
consider their latter end! |
| 32:30: |
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight,
except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? |
| 32:31: |
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being
judges. |
| 32:32: |
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are
bitter: |
| 32:33: |
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of
asps. |
| 32:34: |
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
treasures? |
| 32:35: |
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in
due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that
shall come upon them make haste. |
| 32:36: |
For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his
servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut
up, or left. |
| 32:37: |
And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they
trusted, |
| 32:38: |
Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of
their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your
protection. |
| 32:39: |
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill,
and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can
deliver out of my hand. |
| 32:40: |
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. |
| 32:41: |
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I
will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate
me. |
| 32:42: |
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour
flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the
beginning of revenges upon the enemy. |
| 32:43: |
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood
of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will
be merciful unto his land, and to his people. |
| 32:44: |
And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of
the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. |
| 32:45: |
And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: |
| 32:46: |
And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I
testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to
observe to do, all the words of this law. |
| 32:47: |
For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and
through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go
over Jordan to possess it. |
| 32:48: |
And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying |
| 32:49: |
Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in
the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of
Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: |
| 32:50: |
And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy
people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his
people: |
| 32:51: |
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the
waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified
me not in the midst of the children of Israel. |
| 32:52: |
Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go
thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. |
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| 33:1: |
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the
children of Israel before his death. |
| 33:2: |
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto
them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of
saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. |
| 33:3: |
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they
sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. |
| 33:4: |
Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of
Jacob. |
| 33:5: |
And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the
tribes of Israel were gathered together. |
| 33:6: |
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. |
| 33:7: |
And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice
of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for
him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies. |
| 33:8: |
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy
one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at
the waters of Meribah; |
| 33:9: |
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him;
neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for
they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. |
| 33:10: |
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall
put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. |
| 33:11: |
Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite
through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate
him, that they rise not again. |
| 33:12: |
And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in
safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he
shall dwell between his shoulders. |
| 33:13: |
And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the
precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth
beneath, |
| 33:14: |
And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the
precious things put forth by the moon, |
| 33:15: |
And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the
precious things of the lasting hills, |
| 33:16: |
And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for
the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon
the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was
separated from his brethren. |
| 33:17: |
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are
like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together
to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and
they are the thousands of Manasseh. |
| 33:18: |
And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and,
Issachar, in thy tents. |
| 33:19: |
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer
sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the
seas, and of treasures hid in the sand. |
| 33:20: |
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as
a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. |
| 33:21: |
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a
portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the
people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with
Israel. |
| 33:22: |
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from
Bashan. |
| 33:23: |
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full
with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south. |
| 33:24: |
And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be
acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. |
| 33:25: |
Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy
strength be. |
| 33:26: |
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the
heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. |
| 33:27: |
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting
arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say,
Destroy them. |
| 33:28: |
Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall
be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down
dew. |
| 33:29: |
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by
the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency!
and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread
upon their high places. |
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| 34:1: |
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo,
to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed
him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, |
| 34:2: |
And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the
land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, |
| 34:3: |
And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of
palm trees, unto Zoar. |
| 34:4: |
And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto
Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy
seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go
over thither. |
| 34:5: |
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab,
according to the word of the LORD. |
| 34:6: |
And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against
Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. |
| 34:7: |
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye
was not dim, nor his natural force abated. |
| 34:8: |
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab
thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were
ended. |
| 34:9: |
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses
had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto
him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. |
| 34:10: |
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom
the LORD knew face to face, |
| 34:11: |
In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in
the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his
land, |
| 34:12: |
And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses
shewed in the sight of all Israel. |