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Book 05 Deuteronomy
05:001:001 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.
05:017:007 The hands of the
witnesses shall be first upon him to put him
to death, and afterward
the hands of all the people. So thou
shalt put the evil away
from among you.
05:017:008 If there arise a matter
too hard for thee in judgment, between
blood and blood,
between plea and plea, and between stroke and
stroke, being matters
of controversy within thy gates: then
shalt thou arise, and
get thee up into the place which the
LORD thy God shall
choose;
05:017:009 And thou shalt come
unto the priests the Levites, and unto the
judge that shall be in
those days, and enquire; and they shall
shew thee the sentence
of judgment:
05:017:010 And thou shalt do
according to the sentence, which they of
that place which the
LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and
thou shalt observe to
do according to all that they inform
thee:
05:017:011 According to the
sentence of the law which they shall teach
thee, and according to
the judgment which they shall tell
thee, thou shalt do:
thou shalt not decline from the sentence
which they shall shew
thee, to the right hand, nor to the
left.
05:017:012 And the man that will
do presumptuously, and will not hearken
unto the priest that
standeth to minister there before the
LORD thy God, or unto
the judge, even that man shall die: and
thou shalt put away the
evil from Israel.
05:017:013 And all the people
shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.
05:017:014 When thou art come unto
the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt possess
it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt
say, I will set a king
over me, like as all the nations that
are about me;
05:017:015 Thou shalt in any wise
set him king over thee, whom the LORD
thy God shall choose:
one from among thy brethren shalt thou
set king over thee:
thou mayest not set a stranger over thee,
which is not thy
brother.
05:017:016 But he shall not
multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
people to return to
Egypt, to the end that he should multiply
horses: forasmuch as
the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall
henceforth return no
more that way.
05:017:017 Neither shall he
multiply wives to himself, that his heart
turn not away: neither
shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold.
05:017:018 And it shall be, when
he sitteth upon 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:
05:017:019 And it shall be with
him, and he shall read therein all the
days of his life: that
he may learn to fear the LORD his God,
to keep all the words
of this law and these statutes, to do
them:
05:017:020 That his heart be not
lifted up above his brethren, and that
he turn not 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.
05:018:001 The priests the
Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have
no part nor inheritance
with Israel: they shall eat the
offerings of the LORD
made by fire, and his inheritance.
05:018:002 Therefore shall they
have no inheritance among their brethren:
the LORD is their
inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
05:018:003 And this shall be the
priest's due from the people, from them
that offer a sacrifice,
whether it be ox or sheep; and they
shall give unto the
priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks,
and the maw.
05:018:004 The firstfruit also of
thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine
oil, and the first of
the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give
him.
05:018:005 For the LORD thy God
hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to
stand to minister in
the name of the LORD, him and his sons
for ever.
05:018:006 And if a Levite come
from any of thy gates out of all Israel,
where he sojourned, and
come with all the desire of his mind
unto the place which
the LORD shall choose;
05:018:007 Then he shall minister
in the name of the LORD his God, as all
his brethren the
Levites do, which stand there before the
LORD.
05:018:008 They shall have like
portions to eat, beside that which cometh
of the sale of his
patrimony.
05:018:009 When thou art come into
the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, thou shalt not
learn to do after the abominations of
those nations.
05:018:010 There shall not be
found among you any one that maketh his son
or his daughter to pass
through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a
witch.
05:018:011 Or a charmer, or a
consulter with familiar spirits, or a
wizard, or a
necromancer.
05:018:012 For all that do these
things are an abomination unto the LORD:
and because of these
abominations the LORD thy God doth drive
them out from before
thee.
05:018:013 Thou shalt be perfect
with the LORD thy God.
05:018:014 For these nations,
which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
observers of times, and
unto diviners: but as for thee, the
LORD thy God hath not
suffered thee so to do.
05:018:015 The LORD thy God will
raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
midst of thee, of thy
brethren, like unto me; unto him ye
shall hearken;
05:018:016 According to all that
thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in
Horeb in the day of the
assembly, saying, Let me not hear
again the voice of the
LORD my God, neither let me see this
great fire any more,
that I die not.
05:018:017 And the LORD said unto
me, They have well spoken that which
they have spoken.
05:018:018 I will raise them up a
Prophet from among their brethren, like
unto thee, and will put
my words in his mouth; and he shall
speak unto them all
that I shall command him.
05:018:019 And it shall come to
pass, that whosoever will not hearken
unto my words which he
shall speak in my name, I will require
it of him.
05:018:020 But the prophet, which
shall presume to speak a word in my
name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall
speak in the name of
other gods, even that prophet shall die.
05:018:021 And if thou say in
thine heart, How shall we know the word
which the LORD hath not
spoken?
05:018:022 When a prophet speaketh
in the name of the LORD, if the thing
follow not, nor come to
pass, that is the thing which the LORD
hath not spoken, but
the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou
shalt not be afraid of him.
05:019:001 When the LORD thy God
hath cut off the nations, whose land the
LORD thy God giveth
thee, and thou succeedest them, and
dwellest in their
cities, and in their houses;
05:019:002 Thou shalt separate
three cities for thee in the midst of thy
land, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee to possess it.
05:019:003 Thou shalt prepare thee
a way, and divide the coasts of thy
land, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee to inherit, into
three parts, that every
slayer may flee thither.
05:019:004 And this is the case of
the slayer, which shall flee thither,
that he may live: Whoso
killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom
he hated not in time
past;
05:019:005 As when a man goeth
into the wood with his neighbour to hew
wood, and his hand
fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down
the tree, and the head
slippeth from the helve, and lighteth
upon his neighbour,
that he die; he shall flee unto one of
those cities, and live:
05:019:006 Lest the avenger of the
blood pursue the slayer, while his
heart is hot, and
overtake him, because the way is long, and
slay him; whereas he
was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he
hated him not in time
past.
05:019:007 Wherefore I command
thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three
cities for thee.
05:019:008 And if the LORD thy God
enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn
unto thy fathers, and
give thee all the land which he promised
to give unto thy
fathers;
05:019:009 If thou shalt keep all
these commandments to do them, which I
command thee this day,
to love the LORD thy God, and to walk
ever in his ways; then
shalt thou add three cities more for
thee, beside these
three:
05:019:010 That innocent blood be
not shed in thy land, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for
an inheritance, and so blood be upon
thee.
05:019:011 But if any man hate his
neighbour, and lie in wait for him,
and rise up against
him, and smite him mortally that he die,
and fleeth into one of
these cities:
05:019:012 Then the elders of his
city shall send and fetch him thence,
and deliver him into
the hand of the avenger of blood, that he
may die.
05:019:013 Thine eye shall not
pity him, but thou shalt put away the
guilt of innocent blood
from Israel, that it may go well with
thee.
05:019:014 Thou shalt not remove
thy neighbour's landmark, which they of
old time have set in
thine inheritance, which thou shalt
inherit in the land
that the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it.
05:019:015 One witness shall not
rise up against a man for any iniquity,
or for any sin, in any
sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of
two witnesses, or at
the mouth of three witnesses, shall the
matter be established.
05:019:016 If a false witness rise
up against any man to testify against
him that which is
wrong;
05:019:017 Then both the men,
between whom the controversy is, shall
stand before the LORD,
before the priests and the judges,
which shall be in those
days;
05:019:018 And the judges shall
make diligent inquisition: and, behold,
if the witness be a
false witness, and hath testified falsely
against his brother;
05:019:019 Then shall ye do unto
him, as he had thought to have done unto
his brother: so shalt
thou put the evil away from among you.
05:019:020 And those which remain
shall hear, and fear, and shall
henceforth commit no
more any such evil among you.
05:019:021 And thine eye shall not
pity; but life shall go for life, eye
for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
05:020:001 When thou goest out to
battle against thine enemies, and seest
horses, and chariots,
and a people more than thou, be not
afraid of them: for the
LORD thy God is with thee, which
brought thee up out of
the land of Egypt.
05:020:002 And it shall be, when
ye are come nigh unto the battle, that
the priest shall
approach and speak unto the people,
05:020:003 And shall say unto
them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day
unto battle against
your enemies: let not your hearts faint,
fear not, and do not
tremble, neither be ye terrified because
of them;
05:020:004 For the LORD your God
is he that goeth with you, to fight for
you against your
enemies, to save you.
05:020:005 And the officers shall
speak unto the people, saying, What man
is there that hath
built a new house, and hath not dedicated
it? let him go and
return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man
dedicate it.
05:020:006 And what man is he that
hath planted a vineyard, and hath not
yet eaten of it? let
him also go and return unto his house,
lest he die in the
battle, and another man eat of it.
05:020:007 And what man is there
that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not
taken her? let him go
and return unto his house, lest he die
in the battle, and
another man take her.
05:020:008 And the officers shall
speak further unto the people, and they
shall say, What man is
there that is fearful and fainthearted?
let him go and return
unto his house, lest his brethren's
heart faint as well as
his heart.
05:020:009 And it shall be, when
the officers have made an end of
speaking unto the
people that they shall make captains of the
armies to lead the
people.
05:020:010 When thou comest nigh
unto a city to fight against it, then
proclaim peace unto it.
05:020:011 And it shall be, if it
make thee answer of peace, and open
unto thee, then it
shall be, that all the people that is found
therein shall be
tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve
thee.
05:020:012 And if it will make no
peace with thee, but will make war
against thee, then thou
shalt besiege it:
05:020:013 And when the LORD thy
God hath delivered it into thine hands,
thou shalt smite every
male thereof with the edge of the
sword:
05:020:014 But the women, and the
little ones, and the cattle, and all
that is in the city,
even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou
take unto thyself; and
thou shalt eat the spoil of thine
enemies, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee.
05:020:015 Thus shalt thou do unto
all the cities which are very far off
from thee, which are
not of the cities of these nations.
05:020:016 But of the cities of
these people, which the LORD thy God doth
give thee for an
inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing
that breatheth:
05:020:017 But thou shalt utterly
destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and
the Amorites, the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,
and the Jebusites; as
the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
05:020:018 That they teach you not
to do after all their abominations,
which they have done
unto their gods; so should ye sin against
the LORD your God.
05:020:019 When thou shalt besiege
a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it,
thou shalt not destroy the trees
thereof by forcing an
axe against them: for thou mayest eat of
them, and thou shalt
not cut them down (for the tree of the
field is man's life) to
employ them in the siege:
05:020:020 Only the trees which
thou knowest that they be not trees for
meat, thou shalt
destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt
build bulwarks against
the city that maketh war with thee,
until it be subdued.
05:021:001 If one be found slain
in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee to possess
it, lying in the field, and it be not
known who hath slain
him:
05:021:002 Then thy elders and thy
judges shall come forth, and they
shall measure unto the
cities which are round about him that
is slain:
05:021:003 And it shall be, that
the city which is next unto the slain
man, even the elders of
that city shall take an heifer, which
hath not been wrought
with, and which hath not drawn in the
yoke;
05:021:004 And the elders of that
city shall bring down the heifer unto a
rough valley, which is
neither eared nor sown, and shall
strike off the heifer's
neck there in the valley:
05:021:005 And the priests the
sons of Levi shall come near; for them the
LORD thy God hath
chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in
the name of the LORD;
and by their word shall every
controversy and every
stroke be tried:
05:021:006 And all the elders of
that city, that are next unto the slain
man, shall wash their
hands over the heifer that is beheaded
in the valley:
05:021:007 And they shall answer
and say, Our hands have not shed this
blood, neither have our
eyes seen it.
05:021:008 Be merciful, O LORD,
unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast
redeemed, and lay not
innocent blood unto thy people of
Israel's charge. And
the blood shall be forgiven them.
05:021:009 So shalt thou put away
the guilt of innocent blood from among
you, when thou shalt do
that which is right in the sight of
the LORD.
05:021:010 When thou goest forth
to war against thine enemies, and the
LORD thy God hath
delivered them into thine hands, and thou
hast taken them
captive,
05:021:011 And seest among the
captives a beautiful woman, and hast a
desire unto her, that
thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
05:021:012 Then thou shalt bring
her home to thine house, and she shall
shave her head, and
pare her nails;
05:021:013 And she shall put the
raiment of her captivity from off her,
and shall remain in
thine house, and bewail her father and her
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