you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless
you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you
go in to possess it.
023:021 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack
to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you;
and it would be sin in you.
023:022 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
023:023 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do;
according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering,
which you have promised with your mouth.
023:024 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat
of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not
put any in your vessel.
023:025 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you
may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move
a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
024:001 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be,
if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some
unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce,
and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
024:002 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
another man's [wife].
024:003 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce,
and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house;
or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
024:004 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again
to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin,
which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
024:005 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army,
neither shall he be charged with any business:
he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife
whom he has taken.
024:006 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge;
for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
024:007 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children
of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him;
then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil
from the midst of you.
024:008 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently,
and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall
teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
024:009 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you
came forth out of Egypt.
024:010 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall
not go into his house to get his pledge.
024:011 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall
bring forth the pledge outside to you.
024:012 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
024:013 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun
goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you:
and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
024:014 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are
in your land within your gates:
024:015 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun
go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it:
lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
024:016 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.
024:017 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner,
[or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
024:018 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt,
and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command
you to do this thing.
024:019 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot
a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it:
it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for
the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work
of your hands.
024:020 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the
boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless,
and for the widow.
024:021 When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall
not glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner,
for the fatherless, and for the widow.
024:022 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt:
therefore I command you to do this thing.
025:001 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment,
and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous,
and condemn the wicked;
025:002 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 wickedness, by number.
025:003 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he
should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes,
then your brother should seem vile to you.
025:004 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
025:005 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son,
the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger:
her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him
as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
025:006 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed
in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be
blotted out of Israel.
025:007 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his
brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say,
My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother
a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's
brother to me.
025:008 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him:
and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;
025:009 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence
of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit
in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done
to the man who does not build up his brother's house.
025:010 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has
his shoe untied.
025:011 When men strive together one with another, and the wife
of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand
of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes
him by the secrets;
025:012 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
025:013 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great
and a small.
025:014 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great
and a small.
025:015 A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just
measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.
025:016 For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously,
are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
025:017 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth
out of Egypt;
025:018 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you,
all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary;
and he didn't fear God.
025:019 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you
rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which
Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it,
that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky;
you shall not forget.
026:001 It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh
your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it,
and dwell therein,
026:002 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground,
which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God
gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go
to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell there.
026:003 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days,
and tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God,
that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers
to give us.
026:004 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it
down before the altar of Yahweh your God.
026:005 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian
ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt,
and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there
a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
026:006 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid
on us hard bondage:
026:007 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh
heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil,
and our oppression;
026:008 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror,
and with signs, and with wonders;
026:009 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land,
a land flowing with milk and honey.
026:010 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground,
which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down
before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
026:011 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God
has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite,
and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.
026:012 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your
increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing,
then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner,
to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within
your gates, and be filled.
026:013 You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy
things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite,
and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow,
according to all your commandment which you have commanded me:
I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have
I forgotten them:
026:014 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put
away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead:
I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done
according to all that you have commanded me.
026:015 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless
your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us,
as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
026:016 This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes
and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all
your heart, and with all your soul.
026:017 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would
walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments,
and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:
026:018 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his
own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should
keep all his commandments;
026:019 and to make you high above all nations that he has made,
in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be
a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
027:001 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.
027:002 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan
to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall
set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
027:003 and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you
are passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh
your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey,
as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
027:004 It shall be, when you are passed over the Jordan, that you
shall set up these stones, which I command you this day,
in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
027:005 There shall you build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar
of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them.
027:006 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones;
and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:
027:007 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there;
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
027:008 You shall write on the stones all the words of this
law very plainly.
027:009 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying,
Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you are become
the people of Yahweh your God.
027:010 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God,
and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command
you this day.
027:011 Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
027:012 These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people,
when you are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi,
and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
027:013 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad,
and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
027:014 The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel
with a loud voice,
027:015 Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image,
an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman,
and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer
and say, Amen.
027:016 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother.
All the people shall say, Amen.
027:017 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark.
All the people shall say, Amen.
027:018 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way.
All the people shall say, Amen.
027:019 Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner,
fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.
027:020 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has
uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.
027:021 Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal.
All the people shall say, Amen.
027:022 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father,
or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.
027:023 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people
shall say, Amen.
027:024 Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret.
All the people shall say, Amen.
027:025 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.
All the people shall say, Amen.
027:026 Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them.
All the people shall say, Amen.
028:001 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice
of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments
which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set
you on high above all the nations of the earth:
028:002 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you,
if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
028:003 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be
in the field.
028:004 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground,
and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock,
and the young of your flock.
028:005 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough.
028:006 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you
be when you go out.
028:007 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be
struck before you: they shall come out against you one way,
and shall flee before you seven ways.
028:008 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns,
and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you
in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
028:009 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself,
as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments
of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
028:010 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called
by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.
028:011 Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body,
and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground,
in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
028:012 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky,
to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all
the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations,
and you shall not borrow.
028:013 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail;
and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath;
if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God,
which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them],
028:014 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I
command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left,
to go after other gods to serve them.
028:015 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice
of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments
and his statutes which I command you this day, that all
these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.
028:016 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be
in the field.
028:017 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading trough.
028:018 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground,
the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
028:019 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you
be when you go out.
028:020 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke,
in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed,
and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings,
by which you have forsaken me.
028:021 Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he has
consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
028:022 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever,
and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword,
and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you
until you perish.
028:023 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under you shall be iron.
028:024 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust:
from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
028:025 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies;
you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven
ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth
among all the kingdoms of the earth.
028:026 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky,
and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none
to frighten them away.
028:027 Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors,
and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can
not be healed.
028:028 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness,
and with astonishment of heart;
028:029 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes
in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways:
and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there
shall be none to save you.
028:030 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein:
you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.
028:031 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall
not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away
from before your face, and shall not be restored to you:
your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall
have none to save you.
028:032 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people;
and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all
the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.
028:033 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation
which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed
and crushed always;
028:034 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which
you shall see.
028:035 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs,
with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole
of your foot to the crown of your head.
028:036 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you,
to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers;
and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.
028:037 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
028:038 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather
little in; for the locust shall consume it.
028:039 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall
neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes];
for the worm shall eat them.
028:040 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders,
but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive
shall cast [its fruit].
028:041 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours;
for they shall go into captivity.
028:042 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
028:043 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above
you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
028:044 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him:
he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
028:045 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you,
and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't
listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments
and his statutes which he commanded you:
028:046 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder,
and on your seed forever.
028:047 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness,
and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance
of all things;
028:048 therefore shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send
against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness,
and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron
on your neck, until he have destroyed you.
028:049 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end
of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language
you shall not understand;
028:050 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard
the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
028:051 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of
your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave
you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock,
or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
028:052 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high
and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted,
throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all
your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God
has given you.
028:053 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons
and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you,
in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies
shall distress you.
028:054 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall
be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom,
and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
028:055 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his
children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him,
in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall
distress you in all your gates.
028:056 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure
to set the sole of her foot on 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,
028:057 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet,
and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall
eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege
and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you
in your gates.
028:058 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that
are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious
and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
028:059 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues
of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance,
and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
028:060 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt,
which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.
028:061 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written
in the book of this law, them will Yahweh bring on you,
until you are destroyed.
028:062 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars
of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice
of Yahweh your God.
028:063 It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good,
and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause
you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked
from off the land where you go in to possess it.
028:064 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one
end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known,
you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
028:065 Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there
shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh
will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes,