017:007 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put
him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
017:008 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment,
between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke
and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates;
then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh
your God shall choose;
017:009 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge
who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire;
and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
017:010 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they
shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose;
and you shall observe to do according to all that they
shall teach you:
017:011 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you,
and according to the judgment which they shall tell you,
you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence
which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
017:012 The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest
who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God,
or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put
away the evil from Israel.
017:013 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
017:014 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you,
and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say,
I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are
round about me;
017:015 you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your
God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you
set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you,
who is not your brother.
017:016 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people
to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses;
because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return
no more that way.
017:017 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart
not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold.
017:018 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom,
that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book,
out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites:
017:019 and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days
of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God,
to keep all the words of this law and these statutes,
to do them;
017:020 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not
turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left:
to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom,
he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
018:001 The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi,
shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel:
they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire,
and his inheritance.
018:002 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers:
Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
018:003 This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those
who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they
shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks,
and the maw.
018:004 The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil,
and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
018:005 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes,
to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his
sons for ever.
018:006 If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel,
where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire
of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
018:007 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all
his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
018:008 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes
of the sale of his patrimony.
018:009 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you,
you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
018:010 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination,
one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
018:011 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard,
or a necromancer.
018:012 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh:
and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive
them out from before you.
018:013 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
018:014 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those
who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you,
Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
018:015 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst
of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;
018:016 according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb
in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire
any more, that I not die.
018:017 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.
018:018 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers,
like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall
speak to them all that I shall command him.
018:019 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words
which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
018:020 But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak
in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
018:021 If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh
has not spoken?
018:022 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing
doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh
has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously,
you shall not be afraid of him.
019:001 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land
Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell
in their cities, and in their houses;
019:002 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land,
which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
019:003 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land,
which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts,
that every manslayer may flee there.
019:004 This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live:
whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him
in time past;
019:005 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood,
and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree,
and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor,
so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
019:006 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his
heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long,
and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death,
inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
019:007 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three
cities for you.
019:008 If Yahweh your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn
to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised
to give to your fathers;
019:009 if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command
you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever
in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you,
besides these three:
019:010 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land,
which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance,
and so blood be on you.
019:011 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him,
and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies,
and he flee into one of these cities;
019:012 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there,
and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood,
that he may die.
019:013 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent
blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
019:014 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old
time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit,
in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
019:015 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,
or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth
of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses,
shall a matter be established.
019:016 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify
against him of wrong-doing,
019:017 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall
be in those days;
019:018 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,
if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely
against his brother;
019:019 then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother:
so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
019:020 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
019:021 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
020:001 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses,
and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall
not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
020:002 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest
shall approach and speak to the people,
020:003 and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day
to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint;
don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
020:004 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you.
020:005 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is
there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let
him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle,
and another man dedicate it.
020:006 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not
used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house,
lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.
020:007 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife,
and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house,
lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
020:008 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say,
What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him
go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt
as his heart.
020:009 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking
to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies
at the head of the people.
020:010 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim
peace to it.
020:011 It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you,
then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein
shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
020:012 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you,
then you shall besiege it:
020:013 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall
strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
020:014 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock,
and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it,
shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat
the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
020:015 Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off
from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
020:016 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
020:017 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite,
the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite;
as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
020:018 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations,
which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against
Yahweh your God.
020:019 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it
by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them,
and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man,
that it should be besieged of you?
020:020 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees
for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall
build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you,
until it fall.
021:001 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives
you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known
who has struck him;
021:002 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall
measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:
021:003 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man,
even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd,
which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn
in the yoke;
021:004 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a
valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown,
and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
021:005 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh
your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name
of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy
and every stroke be.
021:006 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken
in the valley;
021:007 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,
neither have our eyes seen it.
021:008 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed,
and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst
of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.
021:009 So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you,
when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
021:010 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh
your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry
them away captive,
021:011 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have
a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
021:012 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall
shave her head, and pare her nails;
021:013 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her,
and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her
mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her,
and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
021:014 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall
let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at
all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave,
because you have humbled her.
021:015 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated,
and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated;
and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
021:016 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons
to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son
of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated,
who is the firstborn:
021:017 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is
the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
021:018 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey
the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and,
though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
021:019 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,
and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate
of his place;
021:020 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son
is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice;
he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
021:021 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones:
so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you;
and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
021:022 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put
to death, and you hang him on a tree;
021:023 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall
surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed
of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance.
022:001 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them
again to your brother.
022:002 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him,
then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall
be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall
restore it to him.
022:003 So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with
his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing
of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found:
you may not hide yourself.
022:004 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox
fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them:
you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
022:005 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man
put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is
an abomination to Yahweh your God.
022:006 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way,
in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs,
and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall
not take the hen with the young:
022:007 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take
to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may
prolong your days.
022:008 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement
for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house,
if any man fall from there.
022:009 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed,
lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown,
and the increase of the vineyard.
022:010 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
022:011 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
022:012 You shall make yourselves fringes{or, tassles} on the four
borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
022:013 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
022:014 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name
on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her,
I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;
022:015 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother,
take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity
to the elders of the city in the gate;
022:016 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave
my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
022:017 and behold, he has laid shameful things [to her charge], saying,
I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;
and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.
They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
022:018 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
022:019 and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver,
and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has
brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall
be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
022:020 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were
not found in the young lady;
022:021 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door
of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone
her to death with stones, because she has done folly
in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house:
so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
022:022 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband,
then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman,
and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel.
022:023 If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married
to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
022:024 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city,
and you shall stone them to death with stones;
the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city;
and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife:
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
022:025 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married
in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her;
then the man only who lay with her shall die:
022:026 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin
worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor,
and kills him, even so is this matter;
022:027 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married
lady cried, and there was none to save her.
022:028 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged
to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her,
and they be found;
022:029 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father
fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife,
because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
022:030 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover
his father's skirt.
023:001 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off,
shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
023:002 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh;
even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into
the assembly of Yahweh.
023:003 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly
of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging
to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:
023:004 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way,
when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired
against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia,
to curse you.
023:005 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam;
but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you,
because Yahweh your God loved you.
023:006 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all
your days forever.
023:007 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother:
you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner
in his land.
023:008 The children of the third generation who are born to them
shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
023:009 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall
keep you from every evil thing.
023:010 If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason
of that which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad
out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
023:011 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe
himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come
within the camp.
023:012 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you
shall go forth abroad:
023:013 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be,
when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall
turn back and cover that which comes from you:
023:014 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp,
to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you;
therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see
an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
023:015 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped
from his master to you:
023:016 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which
he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best:
you shall not oppress him.
023:017 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel,
neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
023:018 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages
of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow:
for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
023:019 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money,
interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:
023:020 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother
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,
and pining of soul;
028:066 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall
fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
028:067 In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even
you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your
heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes
which you shall see.
028:068 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way
of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again:
and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for
bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
029:001 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab,
besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
029:002 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen
all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt
to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
029:003 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs,
and those great wonders:
029:004 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see,
and ears to hear, to this day.
029:005 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes
have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old
on your foot.
029:006 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink;
that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
029:007 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon,
and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle,
and we struck them:
029:008 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance
to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe
of the Manassites.
029:009 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,
that you may prosper in all that you do.
029:010 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God;
your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers,
even all the men of Israel,
029:011 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is
in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood
to the one who draws your water;
029:012 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God,
and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
029:013 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people,
and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you,
and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob.
029:014 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
029:015 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh
our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
029:016 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came
through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
029:017 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols,
wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
029:018 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family,
or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God,
to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should
be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
029:019 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse,
that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace,
though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy
the moist with the dry.
029:020 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh
and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all
the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him,
and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
029:021 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the covenant that is written
in this book of the law.
029:022 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you,
and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say,
when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses
with which Yahweh has made it sick;
029:023 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning,
[that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein,
like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim,
which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
029:024 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus
to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
029:025 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh,
the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt,
029:026 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that
they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:
029:027 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land,
to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
029:028 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation, and cast them into another land,
as at this day.
029:029 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things
that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever,
that we may do all the words of this law.
030:001 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you,
the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you,
and you shall call them to mind among all the nations,
where Yahweh your God has driven you,
030:002 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice
according to all that I command you this day, you and your children,
with all your heart, and with all your soul;
030:003 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all
the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
030:004 If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of
the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you,
and from there he will bring you back:
030:005 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your
fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do
you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
030:006 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart
of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, that you may live.
030:007 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies,
and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
030:008 You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his
commandments which I command you this day.
030:009 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work
of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit
of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good:
for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced
over your fathers;
030:010 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written in this book
of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul.
030:011 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not
too hard for you, neither is it far off.
030:012 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up
for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it,
that we may do it?
030:013 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go
over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it,
that we may do it?
030:014 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart,
that you may do it.
030:015 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good,
and death and evil;
030:016 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God,
to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his
statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply,
and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you
go in to possess it.
030:017 But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall
be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
030:018 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish;
you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass
over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
030:019 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I
have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse:
therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
030:020 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him;
for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you
may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
031:001 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
031:002 He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day;
I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me,
You shall not go over this Jordan.
031:003 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy
these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them:
[and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
031:004 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings
of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
031:005 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them
according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
031:006 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared
of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you;
he will not fail you, nor forsake you.
031:007 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of
all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall
go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn
to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them
to inherit it.
031:008 Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you,
he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid,
neither be dismayed.
031:009 Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons
of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh,
and to all the elders of Israel.
031:010 Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years,
in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents,
031:011 when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God
in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law
before all Israel in their hearing.
031:012 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones,
and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they
may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God,
and observe to do all the words of this law;
031:013 and that their children, who have not known, may hear,
and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live
in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
031:014 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die:
call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting,
that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went,
and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
031:015 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud:
and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
031:016 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers;
and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after
the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them,
and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have
made with them.
031:017 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day,
and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them,
and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles
shall come on them; so that they will say in that day,
Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?
031:018 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they
shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
031:019 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it
the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this
song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
031:020 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I
swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey,
and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat;
then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me,
and break my covenant.
031:021 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them,
that this song shall testify before them as a witness;
for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed:
for I know their imagination which they frame this day,
before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
031:022 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it
the children of Israel.
031:023 He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said,
Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring
the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them:
and I will be with you.
031:024 It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words
of this law in a book, until they were finished,
031:025 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh, saying,
031:026 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there
for a witness against you.
031:027 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I
am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious
against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?
031:028 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,
that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven
and earth to witness against them.
031:029 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you;
and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you
will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke
him to anger through the work of your hands.
031:030 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words
of this song, until they were finished.
032:001 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear
the words of my mouth.
032:002 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall
condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass,
as the showers on the herb.
032:003 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh. Ascribe greatness
to our God!
032:004 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice:
a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.
032:005 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not
his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse
and crooked generation.
032:006 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise?
Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you,
and established you.
032:007 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they
will tell you.
032:008 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of
the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
032:009 For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot
of his inheritance.
032:010 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness.
He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple
of his eye.
032:011 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young,
he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them
on his feathers.
032:012 Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
032:013 He made him ride on the high places of the earth.
He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck
honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
032:014 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of
the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat.
Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
032:015 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat.
You have grown thick. You have become sleek.
Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock
of his salvation.
032:016 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked
him to anger with abominations.
032:017 They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, to gods
that they didn't know, to new [gods] that came up of late,
which your fathers didn't dread.
032:018 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
032:019 Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation
of his sons and his daughters.
032:020 He said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their
end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
032:021 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.
I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
032:022 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest
Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets
the foundations of the mountains on fire.
032:023 I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
032:024 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning
heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals
on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
032:025 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers, terror; on both
young man and virgin, The suckling with the gray-haired man.
032:026 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory
of them to cease from among men;
032:027 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say,
Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.
032:028 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no
understanding in them.
032:029 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end!
032:030 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand
to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had
delivered them up?
032:031 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies
themselves being judges.
032:032 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.
032:033 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.
032:034 Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
032:035 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their
foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand.
The things that are to come on them shall make haste.
032:036 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion
on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone,
There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
032:037 He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which
they took refuge;
032:038 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine
of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you!
Let them be your protection.
032:039 See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me.
I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal.
There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
032:040 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,
032:041 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment;
I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense
those who hate me.
032:042 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall
devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the head of the leaders of the enemy.
032:043 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge
the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance
to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land,
for his people.
032:044 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears
of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
032:045 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;
032:046 He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I
testify to you this day, which you shall command your children
to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.
032:047 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life,
and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land,
where you go over the Jordan to possess it.
032:048 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
032:049 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo,
which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho;
and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children
of Israel for a possession;
032:050 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered
to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor,
and was gathered to his people:
032:051 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children
of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness
of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of
the children of Israel.
032:052 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go
there into the land which I give the children of Israel.
033:001 This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed
the children of Israel before his death.
033:002 He said, Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them.
He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands
of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
033:003 Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand.
They sat down at your feet; [Everyone] shall receive
of your words.
033:004 Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
033:005 He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered,
All the tribes of Israel together.
033:006 Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.
033:007 This is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, Yahweh,
the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people.
With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help
against his adversaries.
033:008 Of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your
godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you strove
at the waters of Meribah;
033:009 who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him;
Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he know
his own children: For they have observed your word,
and keep your covenant.
033:010 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law.
They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering
on your altar.
033:011 Yahweh, bless his substance. Accept the work of his hands.
Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him,
of those who hate him, that they not rise again.
033:012 Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell
in safety by him. He covers him all the day long.
He dwells between his shoulders.
033:013 Of Joseph he said, His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the
precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep
that couches beneath,
033:014 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious
things of the growth of the moons,
033:015 for the chief things of the ancient mountains, for the precious
things of the everlasting hills,
033:016 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness,
the good will of him who lived in the bush{i. e.
the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.}. Let [the blessing] come
on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was
separate from his brothers.
033:017 The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are
the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the peoples
all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: They are the ten
thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.
033:018 Of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out;
and Issachar, in your tents.
033:019 They shall call the peoples to the mountain. There they will
offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall draw out
the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.
033:020 Of Gad he said, He who enlarges Gad is blessed.
He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown
of the head.
033:021 He provided the first part for himself, for there was the lawgiver's
portion reserved. He came [with] the heads of the people.
He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, His ordinances with Israel.
033:022 Of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's cub that leaps out of Bashan.
033:023 Of Naphtali he said, Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of
the blessing of Yahweh, Possess the west and the south.
033:024 Of Asher he said, Asher is blessed with children.
Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his
foot in oil.
033:025 Your bars shall be iron and brass. As your days, so shall
your strength be.
033:026 There is none like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens
for your help, In his excellency on the skies.
033:027 The eternal God is [your] dwelling place. Underneath are
the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you,
and said, Destroy.
033:028 Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land
of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
033:029 You are happy, Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency!
Your enemies shall submit themselves to you. You shall tread
on their high places.
034:001 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo,
to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.
Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
034:002 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh,
and all the land of Judah, to the hinder sea,
034:003 and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city
of palm trees, to Zoar.
034:004 Yahweh said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed:
I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall
not go over there.
034:005 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab,
according to the word of Yahweh.
034:006 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against
Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day.
034:007 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died:
his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
034:008 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab
thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for
Moses were ended.
034:009 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom;
for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel
listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
034:010 There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses,
whom Yahweh knew face to face,
034:011 in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do
in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants,
and to all his land,
034:012 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror,
which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.