Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
011:005 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came
to this place;
011:006 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab,
the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth,
and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents,
and every living thing that followed them, in the midst
of all Israel:
011:007 but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did.
011:008 Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which I command
you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess
the land, where you go over to possess it;
011:009 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh
swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed,
a land flowing with milk and honey.
011:010 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land
of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed,
and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
011:011 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills
and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky,
011:012 a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh
your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year
even to the end of the year.
011:013 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments
which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
011:014 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former
rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain,
and your new wine, and your oil.
011:015 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you
shall eat and be full.
011:016 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you
turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
011:017 and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut
up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land
shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off
the good land which Yahweh gives you.
011:018 Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in
your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand,
and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
011:019 You shall teach them your children, talking of them,
when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,
and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
011:020 You shall write them on the door posts of your house,
and on your gates;
011:021 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children,
in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them,
as the days of the heavens above the earth.
011:022 For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I
command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk
in all his ways, and to cleave to him;
011:023 then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you
shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
011:024 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall
be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river,
the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.
011:025 There shall no man be able to stand before you:
Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread
of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has
spoken to you.
011:026 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
011:027 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh
your God, which I command you this day;
011:028 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments
of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I
command you this day, to go after other gods, which you
have not known.
011:029 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into
the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set
the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
011:030 Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going
down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell
in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
011:031 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land
which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it,
and dwell therein.
011:032 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances
which I set before you this day.
012:001 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe
to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers,
has given you to possess it, all the days that you live
on the earth.
012:002 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that
you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains,
and on the hills, and under every green tree:
012:003 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces
their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire;
and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods;
and you shall destroy their name out of that place.
012:004 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
012:005 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all
your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation
shall you seek, and there you shall come;
012:006 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand,
and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn
of your herd and of your flock:
012:007 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall
rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households,
in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
012:008 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,
every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
012:009 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
which Yahweh your God gives you.
012:010 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which
Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest
from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;
012:011 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there shall
you bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings,
and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of
your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
012:012 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons,
and your daughters, and your male servants, and your
female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates,
because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
012:013 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings
in every place that you see;
012:014 but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes,
there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you
shall do all that I command you.
012:015 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all
your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to
the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you:
the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle,
and as of the hart.
012:016 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on
the earth as water.
012:017 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain,
or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your
herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow,
nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
012:018 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place
which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son,
and your daughter, and your male servant, and your
female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates:
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you
put your hand to.
012:019 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long
as you live in your land.
012:020 When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has
promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh,
because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh,
after all the desire of your soul.
012:021 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put
his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill
of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you,
as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates,
after all the desire of your soul.
012:022 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it:
the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
012:023 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood
is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
012:024 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
012:025 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with
your children after you, when you shall do that which is
right in the eyes of Yahweh.
012:026 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take,
and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:
012:027 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood,
on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your
sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God;
and you shall eat the flesh.
012:028 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it
may go well with you, and with your children after you forever,
when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of
Yahweh your God.
012:029 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you,
where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them,
and dwell in their land;
012:030 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them,
after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you
not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations
serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
012:031 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination
to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods;
for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire
to their gods.
012:032 Whatever thing I command you, that shall you observe to do:
you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
013:001 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer
of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,
013:002 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke
to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have
not known, and let us serve them;
013:003 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to
that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you,
to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart
and with all your soul.
013:004 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep
his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him,
and cleave to him.
013:005 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death,
because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed
you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out
of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in.
So shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
013:006 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son,
or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend,
who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us
go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you,
nor your fathers;
013:007 of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you,
or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even
to the other end of the earth;
013:008 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall
your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall
you conceal him:
013:009 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him
to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
013:010 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has
sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
013:011 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more
such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
013:012 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities,
which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,
013:013 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you,
and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us
go and serve other gods, which you have not known;
013:014 then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently;
and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain,
that such abomination is done in the midst of you,
013:015 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge
of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein
and the livestock of it, with the edge of the sword.
013:016 You shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst
of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city,
and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God:
and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
013:017 There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand;
that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger,
and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you,
as he has sworn to your fathers;
013:018 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,
to keep all his commandments which I command you this day,
to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
014:001 You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not
cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes
for the dead.
014:002 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh
has chosen you to be a people for his own possession,
above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
014:003 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
014:004 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep,
and the goat,
014:005 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat,
and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.
014:006 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two,
[and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
014:007 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare,
and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof,
they are unclean to you.
014:008 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud,
is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat,
and their carcasses you shall not touch.
014:009 These you may eat of all that are in the waters:
whatever has fins and scales may you eat;
014:010 and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat;
it is unclean to you.
014:011 Of all clean birds you may eat.
014:012 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle,
and the vulture, and the osprey,
014:013 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,
014:014 and every raven after its kind,
014:015 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk
after its kind,
014:016 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
014:017 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
014:018 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe,
and the bat.
014:019 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall
not be eaten.
014:020 Of all clean birds you may eat.
014:021 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself:
you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is
within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it
to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God.
You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
014:022 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed,
that which comes forth from the field year by year.
014:023 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place
which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there,
the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil,
and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you
may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
014:024 If the way be too long for you, so that you are not able
to carry it, because the place is too far from you,
which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there,
when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
014:025 then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money
in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your
God shall choose:
014:026 and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires,
for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink,
or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat
there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice,
you and your household.
014:027 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him;
for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
014:028 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all
the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay
it up within your gates:
014:029 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you,
and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless,
and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come,
and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless
you in all the work of your hand which you do.
015:001 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
015:002 This is the manner of the release: every creditor
shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor;
he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother;
because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.
015:003 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is
with your brother your hand shall release.
015:004 However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will
surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance to possess it;)
015:005 if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God,
to observe to do all this commandment which I command
you this day.
015:006 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you:
and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow;
and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not
rule over you.
015:007 If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers,
within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God
gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand
from your poor brother;
015:008 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely
lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
015:009 Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying,
The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye
be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing;
and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
015:010 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved
when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh
your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you
put your hand to.
015:011 For the poor will never cease out of the land:
therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open
your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor,
in your land.
015:012 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you,
and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall
let him go free from you.
015:013 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
015:014 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock,
and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress;
as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
015:015 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land
of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I
command you this thing today.
015:016 It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you;
because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
015:017 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear
to the door, and he shall be your servant forever.
Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
015:018 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you;
for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served
you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all
that you do.
015:019 All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and
of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God:
you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd,
nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
015:020 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place
which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
015:021 If it have any blemish, [as if it be] lame or blind, any ill
blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
015:022 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean
[shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
015:023 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on
the ground as water.
016:001 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God;
for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth
out of Egypt by night.
016:002 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock
and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose,
to cause his name to dwell there.
016:003 You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you
eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction;
for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:
that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land
of Egypt all the days of your life.
016:004 There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders
seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice
the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
016:005 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates,
which Yahweh your God gives you;
016:006 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover
at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you
came forth out of Egypt.
016:007 You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go
to your tents.
016:008 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh
day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall
do no work [therein].
016:009 Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin
to put the sickle to the standing grain shall you begin
to number seven weeks.
016:010 You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute
of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give,
according as Yahweh your God blesses you:
016:011 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son,
and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant,
and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner,
and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you,
in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell there.
016:012 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt:
and you shall observe and do these statutes.
016:013 You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have
gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
016:014 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son,
and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant,
and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless,
and the widow, who are within your gates.
016:015 Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place
which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless
you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands,
and you shall be altogether joyful.
016:016 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before
Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose:
in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks,
and in the feast of tents; and they shall not appear
before Yahweh empty:
016:017 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
of Yahweh your God which he has given you.
016:018 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates,
which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes;
and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
016:019 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons;
neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes
of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
016:020 That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live,
and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
016:021 You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside
the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you.
016:022 Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh
your God hates.
017:001 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep,
in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an
abomination to Yahweh your God.