0$:001:001 These be the words which Moses spake unto
all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over
against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth,
and Dizahab.
05:001:002 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of
mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
05:001:003 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh
month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children
of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment
unto them;
05:001:004 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which
dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in
Edrei:
05:001:005 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to
declare this law, saying,
05:001:006 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have
dwelt long enough in this mount:
05:001:007 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the
Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the
hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the
land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the
river Euphrates.
05:001:008 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the
land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
to give unto them and to their seed after them.
05:001:009 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to
bear you myself alone:
05:001:010 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are
this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
05:001:011 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so
many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
05:001:012 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden,
and your strife?
05:001:013 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your
tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
05:001:014 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast
spoken is good for us to do.
05:001:015 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and
made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and
officers among your tribes.
05:001:016 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the
causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man
and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
05:001:017 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear
the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of
man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you,
bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
05:001:018 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye
should do.
05:001:019 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that
great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain
of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to
Kadeshbarnea.
05:001:020 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the
Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
05:001:021 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up
and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear
not, neither be discouraged.
05:001:022 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will
send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us
word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall
come.
05:001:023 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you,
one of a tribe:
05:001:024 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto
the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
05:001:025 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and
brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a
good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
05:001:026 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the
commandment of the LORD your God:
05:001:027 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD
hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver
us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
05:001:028 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our
heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are
great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the
Anakims there.
05:001:029 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
05:001:030 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for
you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
05:001:031 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD
thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye
went, until ye came into this place.
05:001:032 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
05:001:033 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to
pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should
go, and in a cloud by day.
05:001:034 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth,
and sware, saying,
05:001:035 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil
generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.
05:001:036 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him
will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children,
because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
05:001:037 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou
also shalt not go in thither.
05:001:038 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he
shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit
it.
05:001:039 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey,
and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and
evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they
shall possess it.
05:001:040 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
05:001:041 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the
LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God
commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye
were ready to go up into the hill.
05:001:042 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither
fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
05:001:043 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled
against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the
hill.
05:001:044 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out
against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even
unto Hormah.
05:001:045 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would
not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
05:001:046 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that
ye abode there.
05:002:001 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by
the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed
mount Seir many days.
05:002:002 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
05:002:003 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you
northward.
05:002:004 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through
the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir;
and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves
therefore:
05:002:005 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land,
no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto
Esau for a possession.
05:002:006 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye
shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
05:002:007 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of
thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these
forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked
nothing.
05:002:008 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau,
which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from
Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
05:002:009 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither
contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for
a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a
possession.
05:002:010 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and
many, and tall, as the Anakims;
05:002:011 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the
Moabites called them Emims.
05:002:012 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of
Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and
dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession,
which the LORD gave unto them.
05:002:013 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we
went over the brook Zered.
05:002:014 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we
were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all
the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as
the LORD sware unto them.
05:002:015 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy
them from among the host, until they were consumed.
05:002:016 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and
dead from among the people,
05:002:017 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
05:002:018 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this
day:
05:002:019 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon,
distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the
land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it
unto the children of Lot for a possession.
05:002:020 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt
therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
05:002:021 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the
LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in
their stead:
05:002:022 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when
he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and
dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
05:002:023 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the
Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt
in their stead.)
05:002:024 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon:
behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon,
and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
05:002:025 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear
of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear
report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
05:002:026 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto
Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
05:002:027 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high
way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
05:002:028 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give
me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my
feet;
05:002:029 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the
Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan
into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
05:002:030 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for
the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that
he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
05:002:031 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon
and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his
land.
05:002:032 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to
fight at Jahaz.
05:002:033 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote
him, and his sons, and all his people.
05:002:034 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly
destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we
left none to remain:
05:002:035 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the
spoil of the cities which we took.
05:002:036 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and
from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one
city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
05:002:037 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not,
nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the
mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
05:003:001 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the
king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at
Edrei.
05:003:002 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver
him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do
unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at
Heshbon.
05:003:003 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the
king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left
to him remaining.
05:003:004 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city
which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob,
the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
05:003:005 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and
bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
05:003:006 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of
Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
05:003:007 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for
a prey to ourselves.
05:003:008 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of
the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of
Arnon unto mount Hermon;
05:003:009 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites
call it Shenir;)
05:003:010 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan,
unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
05:003:011 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the
children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits
the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
05:003:012 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer,
which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities
thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
05:003:013 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of
Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob,
with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
05:003:014 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto
the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name,
Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
05:003:015 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
05:003:016 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from
Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even
unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
05:003:017 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from
Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under
Ashdothpisgah eastward.
05:003:018 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God
hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before
your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
05:003:019 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I
know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have
given you;
05:003:020 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as
unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God
hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto
his possession, which I have given you.
05:003:021 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have
seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall
the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
05:003:022 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight
for you.
05:003:023 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
05:003:024 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy
greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in
earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
05:003:025 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is
beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
05:003:026 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not
hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more
unto me of this matter.
05:003:027 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with
thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
05:003:028 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for
he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit
the land which thou shalt see.
05:003:029 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
05:004:001 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto
the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and
go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth
you.
05:004:002 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of
the LORD your God which I command you.
05:004:003 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor:
for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed
them from among you.
05:004:004 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every
one of you this day.
05:004:005 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the
LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go
to possess it.
05:004:006 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding
people.
05:004:007 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto
them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
05:004:008 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and
judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
05:004:009 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest
thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart
from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and
thy sons' sons;
05:004:010 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God
in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and
I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the
days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their
children.
05:004:011 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the
mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness,
clouds, and thick darkness.
05:004:012 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye
heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a
voice.
05:004:013 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you
to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of
stone.
05:004:014 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes
and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to
possess it.
05:004:015 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no
manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb
out of the midst of the fire:
05:004:016 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the
similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
05:004:017 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness
of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
05:004:018 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the
likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
05:004:019 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou
seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven,
shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy
God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
05:004:020 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the
iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance,
as ye are this day.
05:004:021 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and
sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto
that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
05:004:022 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but
ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
05:004:023 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the
LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or
the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
05:004:024 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
05:004:025 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and
ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves,
and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil
in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
05:004:026 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over
Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall
utterly be destroyed.
05:004:027 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye
shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall
lead you.
05:004:028 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood
and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
05:004:029 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou
shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy
soul.
05:004:030 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come
upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God,
and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
05:004:031 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake
thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which
he sware unto them.
05:004:032 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before
thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from
the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such
thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
05:004:033 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the
midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
05:004:034 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the
midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and
by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great
terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt
before your eyes?
05:004:035 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the
LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
05:004:036 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might
instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou
heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
05:004:037 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their
seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power
out of Egypt;
05:004:038 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier
than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an
inheritance, as it is this day.
05:004:039 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that
the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is
none else.
05:004:040 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments,
which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with
thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the
earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
05:004:041 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward
the sunrising;
05:004:042 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his
neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing
unto one of these cities he might live:
05:004:043 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the
Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan,
of the Manassites.
05:004:044 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of
Israel:
05:004:045 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they
came forth out of Egypt.
05:004:046 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in
the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses
and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of
Egypt:
05:004:047 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of
Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward
the sunrising;
05:004:048 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even
unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
05:004:049 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the
sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
05:005:001 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O
Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day,
that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
05:005:002 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
05:005:003 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with
us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
05:005:004 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the
midst of the fire,
05:005:005 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you
the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went
not up into the mount;) saying,
05:005:006 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage.
05:005:007 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
05:005:008 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of
any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the waters beneath the earth:
05:005:009 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them:
for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them
that hate me,
05:005:010 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and
keep my commandments.
05:005:011 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for
the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
05:005:012 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee.
05:005:013 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
05:005:014 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it
thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of
thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy
manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
05:005:015 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt,
and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand
and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to
keep the sabbath day.
05:005:016 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well
with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
05:005:017 Thou shalt not kill.
05:005:018 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
05:005:019 Neither shalt thou steal.
05:005:020 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
05:005:021 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt
thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his
maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
05:005:022 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the
mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick
darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in
two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
05:005:023 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst
of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came
near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
05:005:024 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his
glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of
the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he
liveth.
05:005:025 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will
consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we
shall die.
05:005:026 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of
the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and
lived?
05:005:027 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say:
and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee;
and we will hear it, and do it.
05:005:028 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake
unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words
of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said
all that they have spoken.
05:005:029 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear
me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with
them, and with their children for ever!
05:005:030 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
05:005:031 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto
thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give
them to possess it.
05:005:032 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath
commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
05:005:033 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath
commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and
that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
05:006:001 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the
judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might
do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
05:006:002 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his
statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son,
and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be
prolonged.
05:006:003 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may
be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of
thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and
honey.
05:006:004 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
05:006:005 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
05:006:006 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in
thine heart:
05:006:007 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and
shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
05:006:008 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they
shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
05:006:009 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on
thy gates.
05:006:010 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought
thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou
buildedst not,
05:006:011 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not,
and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees,
which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
05:006:012 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee
forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
05:006:013 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt
swear by his name.
05:006:014 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people
which are round about you;
05:006:015 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the
anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from
off the face of the earth.
05:006:016 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in
Massah.
05:006:017 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your
God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded
thee.
05:006:018 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight
of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in
and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers.
05:006:019 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD
hath spoken.
05:006:020 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What
mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the
LORD our God hath commanded you?
05:006:021 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen
in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
05:006:022 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon
Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
05:006:023 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in,
to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
05:006:024 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear
the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive,
as it is at this day.
05:006:025 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all
these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
05:007:001 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither
thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,
the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
greater and mightier than thou;
05:007:002 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee;
thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
05:007:003 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter
thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto
thy son.
05:007:004 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they
may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against
you, and destroy thee suddenly.
05:007:005 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their
altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn
their graven images with fire.
05:007:006 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD
thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth.
05:007:007 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,
because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest
of all people:
05:007:008 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the
oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out
with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from
the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
05:007:009 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful
God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep
his commandments to a thousand generations;
05:007:010 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy
them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to
his face.
05:007:011 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes,
and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
05:007:012 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these
judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto
thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
05:007:013 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he
will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy
corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give
thee.
05:007:014 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be
male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
05:007:015 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will
put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee;
but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
05:007:016 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God
shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither
shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
05:007:017 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than
I; how can I dispossess them?
05:007:018 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember
what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
05:007:019 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs,
and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby
the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all
the people of whom thou art afraid.
05:007:020 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them,
until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
05:007:021 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is
among you, a mighty God and terrible.
05:007:022 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee
by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the
beasts of the field increase upon thee.
05:007:023 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall
destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
05:007:024 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou
shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able
to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
05:007:025 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou
shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto
thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD
thy God.
05:007:026 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house,
lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it,
and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
05:008:001 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye
observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the
land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
05:008:002 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God
led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to
prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep
his commandments, or no.
05:008:003 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed
thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know;
that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man
live.
05:008:004 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot
swell, these forty years.
05:008:005 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man
chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
05:008:006 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy
God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
05:008:007 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land
of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys
and hills;
05:008:008 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and
pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
05:008:009 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou
shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of
whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
05:008:010 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the
LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
05:008:011 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping
his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command
thee this day:
05:008:012 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly
houses, and dwelt therein;
05:008:013 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver
and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
05:008:014 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy
God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house
of bondage;
05:008:015 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness,
wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was
no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
05:008:016 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers
knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do
thee good at thy latter end;
05:008:017 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine
hand hath gotten me this wealth.
05:008:018 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that
giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant
which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
05:008:019 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God,
and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify
against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
05:008:020 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so
shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the
LORD your God.
05:009:001 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go
in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great
and fenced up to heaven,
05:009:002 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom
thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the
children of Anak!
05:009:003 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he
which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them,
and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them
out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
05:009:004 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God
hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the
LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of
these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
05:009:005 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine
heart, dost thou go 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 perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
05:009:006 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not
this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a
stiffnecked people.
05:009:007 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy
God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out
of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been
rebellious against the LORD.
05:009:008 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD
was angry with you to have destroyed you.
05:009:009 When 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 neither did eat
bread nor drink water:
05:009:010 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written
with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the
words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of
the fire in the day of the assembly.
05:009:011 And 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 covenant.
05:009:012 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from
hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have
corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which
I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
05:009:013 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this
people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
05:009:014 Let 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.
05:009:015 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount
burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two
hands.
05:009:016 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD
your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly
out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
05:009:017 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,
and brake them before your eyes.
05:009:018 And 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 sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the
LORD, to provoke him to anger.
05:009:019 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith
the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened
unto me at that time also.
05:009:020 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him:
and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
05:009:021 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it
with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was
as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that
descended out of the mount.
05:009:022 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye
provoked the LORD to wrath.
05:009:023 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go
up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against
the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor
hearkened to his voice.
05:009:024 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I
knew you.
05:009:025 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights,
as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy
you.
05:009:026 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD,
destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed
through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a
mighty hand.
05:009:027 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not
unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to
their sin:
05:009:028 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the
LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them,
and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the
wilderness.
05:009:029 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
05:010:001 At that time the LORD said unto 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.
05:010:002 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the
first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
05:010:003 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of
stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two
tables in mine hand.
05:010:004 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing,
the ten commandments, which the LORD spake 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.
05:010:005 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the
tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD
commanded me.
05:010:006 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of
the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was
buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his
stead.
05:010:007 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah
to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
05:010:008 At 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.
05:010:009 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his
brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God
promised him.
05:010:010 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty
days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also,
and the LORD would not destroy thee.
05:010:011 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto
their fathers to give unto them.
05:010:012 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,
05:010:013 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which
I command thee this day for thy good?
05:010:014 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's
thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
05:010:015 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and
he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this
day.
05:010:016 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no
more stiffnecked.
05:010:017 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a
great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor
taketh reward:
05:010:018 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and
loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
05:010:019 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the
land of Egypt.
05:010:020 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and
to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
05:010:021 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee
these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
05:010:022 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.
05:011:001 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his
charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments,
alway.
05:011:002 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children
which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the
LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out
arm,
05:011:003 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of
Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
05:011:004 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 how the LORD hath destroyed them
unto this day;
05:011:005 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came
into this place;
05:011:006 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab,
the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them
up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that
was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
05:011:007 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which
he did.
05:011:008 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command
you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land,
whither ye go to possess it;
05:011:009 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD
sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that
floweth with milk and honey.
05:011:010 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as
the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed,
and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
05:011:011 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills
and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
05:011:012 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.
05:011:013 And 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 him with all your heart and with all your soul,
05:011:014 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season,
the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn,
and thy wine, and thine oil.
05:011:015 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou
mayest eat and be full.
05:011:016 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and
ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
05:011:017 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut
up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her
fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD
giveth you.
05:011:018 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in
your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as
frontlets between your eyes.
05:011:019 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when
thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up.
05:011:020 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house,
and upon thy gates:
05:011:021 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give
them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
05:011:022 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which
I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to cleave unto him;
05:011:023 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before
you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
05:011:024 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall
be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river
Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
05:011:025 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for 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 said unto you.
05:011:026 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
05:011:027 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God,
which I command you this day:
05:011:028 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD
your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to
go after other gods, which ye have not known.
05:011:029 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought
thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt
put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
05:011:030 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the
sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the
champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
05:011:031 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land
which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell
therein.
05:011:032 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments
which I set before you this day.
05:012:001 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe
to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to
possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
05:012:002 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations
which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and
upon the hills, and under every green tree:
05:012:003 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars,
and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images
of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
05:012:004 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
05:012:005 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out
of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall
ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
05:012:006 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your
vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and
of your flocks:
05:012:007 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall
rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households,
wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
05:012:008 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this
day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
05:012:009 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the
inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
05:012:010 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the
LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from
all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
05:012:011 Then there shall be a 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 sacrifices, your tithes,
and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye
vow unto the LORD:
05:012:012 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your
sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants,
and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part
nor inheritance with you.
05:012:013 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings
in every place that thou seest:
05:012:014 But 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.
05:012:015 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy
gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of
the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may
eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
05:012:016 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the
earth as water.
05:012:017 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn,
or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy
flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill
offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
05:012:018 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place
which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that
is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in
all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
05:012:019 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long
as thou livest upon the earth.
05:012:020 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath
promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul
longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth
after.
05:012:021 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen 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 in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
05:012:022 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat
them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
05:012:023 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is
the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
05:012:024 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as
water.
05:012:025 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and
with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in
the sight of the LORD.
05:012:026 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou
shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
05:012:027 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 upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and
thou shalt eat the flesh.
05:012:028 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that
it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever,
when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD
thy God.
05:012:029 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before
thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and
dwellest in their land;
05:012:030 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following
them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou
enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their
gods? even so will I do likewise.
05:012:031 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every
abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their
gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the
fire to their gods.
05:012:032 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt
not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
05:013:001 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,
and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
05:013:002 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake
unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not
known, and let us serve them;
05:013:003 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or
that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know
whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul.
05:013:004 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep
his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave
unto him.
05:013:005 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to
death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God,
which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God
commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the
midst of thee.
05:013:006 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which 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;
05:013:007 Namely, of the gods of the people which 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;
05:013:008 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him;
neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither
shalt thou conceal him:
05:013:009 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first
upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
05:013:010 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he
hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
05:013:011 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any
such wickedness as this is among you.
05:013:012 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
05:013:013 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among
you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go
and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
05:013:014 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently;
and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought among you;
05:013:015 Thou 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.
05:013:016 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of
the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil
thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for
ever; it shall not be built again.
05:013:017 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine
hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew
thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath
sworn unto thy fathers;
05:013:018 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to
keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that
which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
05:014:001 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
05:014:002 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the
LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all
the nations that are upon the earth.
05:014:003 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
05:014:004 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep,
and the goat,
05:014:005 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild
goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
05:014:006 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft
into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
05:014:007 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the
cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare,
and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore
they are unclean unto you.
05:014:008 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not
the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor
touch their dead carcase.
05:014:009 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that
have fins and scales shall ye eat:
05:014:010 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is
unclean unto you.
05:014:011 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
05:014:012 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and
the ossifrage, and the ospray,
05:014:013 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
05:014:014 And every raven after his kind,
05:014:015 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
after his kind,
05:014:016 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
05:014:017 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
05:014:018 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing,
and the bat.
05:014:019 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you:
they shall not be eaten.
05:014:020 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
05:014:021 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt
give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or
thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the
LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
05:014:022 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the
field bringeth forth year by year.
05:014:023 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place
which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of
thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy
flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
05:014:024 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not
able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD
thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee:
05:014:025 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in
thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose:
05:014:026 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul
lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink,
or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the
LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
05:014:027 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not
forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
05:014:028 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the
tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy
gates:
05:014:029 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with
thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are
within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the
LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou
doest.
05:015:001 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
05:015:002 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that
lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it
of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's
release.
05:015:003 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is
thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
05:015:004 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD
shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee
for an inheritance to possess it:
05:015:005 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this
day.
05:015:006 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and
thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou
shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
05:015:007 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren
within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor
brother:
05:015:008 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt
surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
05:015:009 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,
saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye
be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry
unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
05:015:010 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be
grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD
thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest
thine hand unto.
05:015:011 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I
command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother,
to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
05:015:012 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be
sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou
shalt let him go free from thee.
05:015:013 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not
let him go away empty:
05:015:014 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of
thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God
hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
05:015:015 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land
of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee
this thing to day.
05:015:016 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from
thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with
thee;
05:015:017 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear
unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy
maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
05:015:018 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away
free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee,
in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all
that thou doest.
05:015:019 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy
flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work
with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
05:015:020 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the
place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
05:015:021 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or
blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the
LORD thy God.
05:015:022 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean
person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
05:015:023 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it
upon the ground as water.
05:016:001 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the
LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee
forth out of Egypt by night.
05:016:002 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy
God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose
to place his name there.
05:016:003 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt
thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for
thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest
remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the
days of thy life.
05:016:004 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all
thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which
thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the
morning.
05:016:005 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy
gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
05:016:006 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place
his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the
going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of
Egypt.
05:016:007 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD
thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto
thy tents.
05:016:008 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh
day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no
work therein.
05:016:009 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the
seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the
corn.
05:016:010 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God
with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt
give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee:
05:016:011 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy
son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless,
and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God
hath chosen to place his name there.
05:016:012 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt:
and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
05:016:013 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
05:016:014 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and
thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite,
the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy
gates.
05:016:015 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy
God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine
hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
05:016:016 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the
LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
05:016:017 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
05:016:018 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they
shall judge the people with just judgment.
05:016:019 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect
persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the
wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
05:016:020 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou
mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
05:016:021 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the
altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
05:016:022 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy
God hateth.
05:017:001 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock,
or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
05:017:002 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness
in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
05:017:003 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,
either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not
commanded;
05:017:004 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
05:017:005 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which
have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that
woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
05:017:006 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he
that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness
he shall not be put to death.