tiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LOED thy God, who brought thee forth out of th^ land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 16wtho led thee through the great and dreadful wilderness, where- in were serpents, t fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 1&who DEUTERONOMY fed thee in the -wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that He might afflict thee, and that He might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; 17and thou say in thy heart: 'My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.' 18But thou shalt remember the LOED thy God, for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth; that He ma; establish His covenant which H swore unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
19And it shall be, if thou shalt for- get the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, anil serve them, and wor- ship them, I forewarn you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20As the nations that the LOKD rnaketh^ to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God. Q Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass ^ over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say: 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' 3Know therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is He who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; He will destroy them, and He will bring them down before thee; so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the LORD hath spoken unto thee. *Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying: 4 For my righteousness tke LORD hath brought me in to possess this land'; whereas for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 6Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness I of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may establish the word which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 6Know therefore that it is not for thy righteousness that the LORD thy God giveth thee this good land to possess it; for thou art a stiff necked people.
7Remember, forget thou not, how thou didst make the LORD thy God wroth in the wilderness; from the day that thou didst go forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 8Also in Horeb ye made the LORD wroth, and the LORD was angered with you to have destroyed you. 9When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. 10And the LORD delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. uAnd it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the cov- enant. ^And the LORD said unto me: 'Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have dealt corruptly; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.' ^Furthermore bhe LORD spoke unto me, saying: 'I have seen this people, and, behold, DEUTERONOMY it is a stiff necked people; 14let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.' 18So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the cov- enant were in my two hands. 16And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God; ye had made you a molten calf; ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him. 19For I was in dread of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me that time also. 20Moreover the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and beat it in pieces, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. — ^And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye made the LORD wroth. ^Andwhen the LORD sent you from Kadesh- barnea, saying: 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you'; then ye rebelled against the command- ment of the LORD your God, and ye believed Him not, nor hearkened to His voice. MYe have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. — ^So I fell down before- the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said He would destroy you. 26And I prayed unto the LORD, and said: '0 Lord GOD, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, that Thou hast brought- forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27Remember Thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin; 28lest the land whence Thou broughtest us out say: Because the LORD was not able to bring them into- the land which He promised unto them, and because He hated them,. He hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29Yet they are Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou didst bring out by Thy great power and by Thy outstretched arm/ •J A At that time the LORD said unt$ me: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto Me into the mount; and make thee an ark of wood. 2And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them in the ark/ 3So I made an ark of acacia- wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into- the mount, having the two tables in my hand. 4And He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten words, which the LORD spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them unto me. 5And I turned and came- down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made;, DEUTERONOMY and there they are, as the LORD com- manded me. — 6And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth-bene- jaakan to Moserah; there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 7From thence they journeyed unto Gudgod; and from Oudgod to Jotbah, a land of brooks of water. — 8At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day. 9Wherefore Ley! hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God spoke unto him. — *°Now I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me that time also; the LORD would not destroy thee. 11 And the LORD said unto me: 'Arise, go before the people, causing them to set forward, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.' , ^And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul; 13to keep for thy good the commandments of the LORD, and His statutes, which I command thee this day? "Behold, unto the LORD thy God belongeth the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that therein is. 150nly the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you, above all peoples, as it is this day. "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of, your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. 17For the LORD your God, He is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awful, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. 18Be doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; Him shalt thou serve; and to Him shalt thou cleave, and by His name shalt thou swear. 21He is thy glory, and He is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and tremendous things, which thine eyes have seen. ^Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. < ' « 1 "1 Therefore thou shalt love the xx LORD thy God, and keep His charge, and His statutes, and His or- dinances, and His commandments, al- way. 2And know ye this day; for I speak not with your children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm, 3and His signs, and His works, which He did r in the mi'dst of Egypt unto Pharaot the king of Egypt, and un- to all his land; *and what He did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how He made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and Low the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 5and what He did un- to you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place; 6and what He did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the sarth opened her mouth, and swal- lowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living sub- DEUTERONOMY stance that followed them, in the midst of all Israel; *but your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which He did. therefore shall ye keep all the commandment which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go over to possess it; 9and that ye may prolong your days upon the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10For the landj whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou didst sow thy seed, and didst water it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs; ubut the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of frills and valleys, and drinketh water as the rain of heaven cometh down; ^a land which the LORD thy God careth for; the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto My commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Hun with all your heart and with all your soul, 14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied. 16Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and He shut up the heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the ground shall not yield her fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. 18Therefore shall ye lay up these My words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 19And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates; ^that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
^For if ye shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave unto Him, ^hen will the LORD drive out all these nations- from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 24Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border. ^There shall no man be able to stand against you: the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as He hath spoken unto you.
^Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the command- ments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day; 28and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way ^which DEUTERONOMY DEUTERONOMY I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. 29And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to } assess it, that thou shalt set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the terebinths of Moreh? 31For ye are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall 'possess it, and dwell therein. 32And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.
•j O These are the statutes and the •*• ordinances, which ye shall ob- serve to do in the land which the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. 2Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree. 3And ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place. *Ye shall not do so un- to the LORD your God. 5But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even unto His habita- tion shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewiU-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; 7and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall re- joice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. 8Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes; 9for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the in- heritance, which the LORD your God giveth thee. 10But when ye go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causeth you to inherit, and He giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; uthen it shall come to pass that the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacri- fices, your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD. 12And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inherit- ance with you. 13Take heed to thy- self that thou offer not thy burnt- offerings in every place that thou seest; nbut in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
^Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, accord- ing to the blessing of the LORD thy God which He hath given thee; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as 9f the hart.
DEUTERONOMY "Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. 17Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vow- est, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the offering of thy hand; 18but 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 man- servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. 19Take heed to thy- self that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land. 20When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as He hath prom- ised thee, and thou shalt say: 'I will eat flesh', because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul. 21If the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to put His name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul. ^Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. ^Only be stedf ast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh, ^hpu shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. ^Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy ehildren after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD. 260nly thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose; ^and thou shalt offer thy burnt- offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out against the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. 280bserve and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy chil- dren after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
29When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; 30take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, say- ing: 'How used these nations to serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.' 31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every abomi- nation to the LORD, which He hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons>and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
1 Q All this word which I command you, that shall ye observe to do; thou shalt not add thereto, nor dimin- ish from it.
2If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams — and he give thee a sign or a wonder, 3and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee-^saying: 1 Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them7; Hhou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, qr unto that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God putteth you to proof, to know whether ye do DEUTERONOMY love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 6After the LORD your God shall ye walk, and Him shall ye fear, and His command- ments shall ye keep, and unto His voice shall ye hearken, and Him shall ye serve, and unto Him shall ye cleave. 6And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken per- version against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. 7If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that is as thine own. soul, entice thee secretly, saying: 'Let us go and serve other gods*, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 8of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Hhou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him.; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him; 10but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. uAnd thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to draw thee away from the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wicked- ness as this is in the midst of thee. 18If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to dwell there, say- ing: 14' Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying: other gods, Let us go and serve which ye have not known7; 16then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee; 16thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that_ is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 17And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the broad place there- of, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto the LORD thy God; and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 18And there shall cleave nought of the devoted thing to thy hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as He hath sworn unto thy fathers; 19when thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all His com- mandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. 1 A Ye are the children of the LORD x T your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be His own treasure out of all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 8Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, Hhe hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat,