Exo  Lev  Num  Deu  Jos  Jdg  Rut

Deuteronomy

Book | Outline | Notes
[ Introduction | Subject ]

Chapters
ch. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30 • • • •

Introduction to Deuteronomy:
Author: Moses (Rom. 10:19, quoting Deut. 32:21; Neh. 13:1, referring to Deut. 23:3; Luke 20:28, referring to Deut. 25:5), the author of the five books of the Law (31:9, 24; Luke 24:27, 44; John 1:45; 5:46; Acts 28:23; 2 Cor. 3:15). The final chapter (ch. 34) was probably written by someone other than Moses.Time of Writing: Approximately 1452 B.C., before the end of Israel's wandering in the wilderness for forty years (Num. 32:13).Place of Writing: In the plains of Moab (34:1).Time Period Covered: The last two months of 1452 B.C., the fortieth year after the exodus from Egypt (1:3; 34:8).

Subject of Deuteronomy:
Christ is the Instructor and Leader of the People of God
That They May Be Able to Enter into the Heavenly Territory
and Participate in His Riches

Deuteronomy

Chapter 1 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • • 15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30 • • • • 35 • • • • 40 • • • • 45 •

I.  The review of the past — 1:1-4:43

A.  The journey from the mount of God to the entry of the Holy Land — 1:1-4
Deu 1:1 - 1These are the words which 2Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the 3Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deu 1:2 - It is eleven days’ journey from 1Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the way that leads to Mount Seir.
Deu 1:3 - And in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the afirst day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded him for them,
Deu 1:4 - After he had slain 1aSihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and 1bOg the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
B.  God's charge to the children of Israel to enter the good land — 1:5-8
Deu 1:5 - Across the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses set himself to expound this law, saying,
Deu 1:6 - 1Jehovah our God aspoke to us at bHoreb, saying, You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.
Deu 1:7 - Turn and set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland, and in the 1Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river aEuphrates.
Deu 1:8 - See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and to their aseed after them.
C.  The appointing of offices — 1:9-18
Deu 1:9 - And I spoke to you at that time, saying, aI am not able to bear you alone.
Deu 1:10 - Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and now today you are as the astars of heaven in multitude.
Deu 1:11 - Jehovah, the God of your fathers, add to you a thousandfold ones like you and bless you as He has promised you!
Deu 1:12 - How can I alone bear the trouble and burden of you and your strife?
Deu 1:13 - Choose for yourselves men who are awise and prudent and well-attested, according to your tribes, and I will make them your bleaders.
Deu 1:14 - And you answered me and said, The thing that you have said to do is good.
Deu 1:15 - So I took the aleaders of your tribes, men who were wise and well-attested, and I made them leaders over you, captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains over fifties and captains over tens and officials for your tribes.
Deu 1:16 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brothers, and 1judge righteously between a man and his brother or the sojourner with him.
Deu 1:17 - You shall anot respect persons in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear the face of man, for judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bbring to me; and I will hear it.
Deu 1:18 - And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.
D.  The failure at Kadesh-barnea — 1:19-46
Deu 1:19 - And we set out from Horeb, and we went through all that great and awesome awilderness, which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to 1Kadesh-barnea.
Deu 1:20 - And I said to you, You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God is giving us.
Deu 1:21 - See, Jehovah your God has set the land before you; go up, possess it, as Jehovah the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Do not fear, neither be dismayed.
Deu 1:22 - Then all of you came near to me and said, Let us send men before us that they may search out the land for us and bring back to us word concerning the way by which we should go up and the cities into which we should go.
Deu 1:23 - And the thing pleased me, so I took atwelve men from among you, one for each tribe.
Deu 1:24 - And they turned and went up into the hill country, and they came to the aValley of Eshcol; and they spied out 1the land.
Deu 1:25 - And in their hands they took some of the fruit of the land, and they brought it down to us. And they brought word back to us and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God is giving us.
Deu 1:26 - Yet you would not go up. Rather you rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God;
Deu 1:27 - And you amurmured in your tents and said, Because Jehovah hates us, He has brought us out from the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites in order to destroy us.
Deu 1:28 - Where shall we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, aThe people are greater and taller than we; the cities are big and fortified up to heaven; and furthermore we have seen the children of the Anakim there.
Deu 1:29 - Then I said to you, aDo not be terrified, neither be afraid of them.
Deu 1:30 - Jehovah your God, who goes before you, He will afight for you according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
Deu 1:31 - And in the wilderness, where you have seen that Jehovah your God acarried you, as a man carries his bson, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.
Deu 1:32 - Yet in spite of this word you did anot believe in Jehovah your God,
Deu 1:33 - Who went before you in the way, to seek out for you a place for you to camp, in the afire by night to show you by which way you should go and in the cloud by day.
Deu 1:34 - And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and He became furious and swore, saying,
Deu 1:35 - aNot one of these men, this evil generation, shall by any means see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,
Deu 1:36 - Except aCaleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it. And to him I will give the land on which he has trodden, and to his children, because he has fully followed Jehovah.
Deu 1:37 - With me also Jehovah was angry on your account, saying, You also shall anot enter there;
Deu 1:38 - aJoshua the son of Nun, who attends to you, he shall enter there. Strengthen him, for it is he who will cause Israel to inherit it.
Deu 1:39 - Moreover your alittle ones, who you said would be prey, and your children, who this day do not know good and evil, they shall enter there. And to them I will give it, and they will possess it.
Deu 1:40 - But as for you, aturn and set out into the wilderness by the way that leads to the Red Sea.
Deu 1:41 - aThen you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Jehovah; we ourselves will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God has commanded us. And you girded yourselves, every man with his weapons of war, and thought it a light thing to go up to the hill country.
Deu 1:42 - And Jehovah said to me, Say to them, You shall not go up and fight, for I am not among you, so that you are not struck down before your enemies.
Deu 1:43 - So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; rather, you rebelled against the word of Jehovah and went up presumptuously to the hill country.
Deu 1:44 - And the Amorites who dwell in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do; and they beat you back in Seir as far as Hormah.
Deu 1:45 - And you returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
Deu 1:46 - So you remained in Kadesh for many days, as many days as you remained.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 2 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • • 15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30 • • • • 35 • •

E.  The wandering from Kadesh-barnea to the crossing over of the brook Zered — 2:1-23
Deu 2:1 - And we aturned and set out for the wilderness by the way that leads to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spoke to me; and we circled Mount Seir for many days.
Deu 2:2 - Then Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
Deu 2:3 - You have circled this mountain long enough; turn northward,
Deu 2:4 - aAnd command the people, saying, You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Take careful heed to yourselves therefore;
Deu 2:5 - Do not engage them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even as much as a footstep; for I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
Deu 2:6 - You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also obtain water from them with money, that you may drink.
Deu 2:7 - For Jehovah your God has 1blessed you in all your doings; He knows your journeying through this great wilderness. These aforty years Jehovah your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.
Deu 2:8 - So we passed on from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, away from the way of the Arabah, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber; and we turned and passed on by the way that leads to the wilderness of Moab.
Deu 2:9 - And Jehovah said to me, aDo not harass Moab, nor engage them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession; for to the children of Lot I have given Ar as a possession.
Deu 2:10 - (The Emim dwelt there before that, a people great and numerous and as tall as the 1Anakim;
Deu 2:11 - They were considered 1Rephaim, as were the Anakim, but the Moabites called them Emim.
Deu 2:12 - The Horites also dwelt in Seir before that, but the children of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them; and they dwelt there in their place, as Israel did with the land of their possession, which Jehovah gave to them.)
Deu 2:13 - Now rise up and cross over the brook Zered. And we crossed over the brook Zered.
Deu 2:14 - And the time that we spent in going from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was 1consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had asworn to them.
Deu 2:15 - Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to purge them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.
Deu 2:16 - So when all the men of war were consumed from the midst of the people and dead,
Deu 2:17 - Then Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
Deu 2:18 - You are to pass through the territory of Moab, through Ar, today.
Deu 2:19 - And when you come near to the children of Ammon, ado not harass them, nor engage them, for I will not give any of the land of the children of Ammon to you as a possession; for I have given it to the children of Lot as a possession.
Deu 2:20 - (It was also considered a land of Rephaim; Rephaim formerly dwelt in it. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
Deu 2:21 - A people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim. Yet Jehovah destroyed them from before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt there in their place;
Deu 2:22 - As He did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. And they dispossessed them and have dwelt there in their place to this day.
Deu 2:23 - And the Avvim, who dwell in the villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt there in their place.)
F.  The defeating of King Sihon and King Og, and the taking possession of their lands east of Jordan — 2:24-3:22
Deu 2:24 - Rise up; set out and cross over the valley of the aArnon. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the 1Amorite, the king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle.
Deu 2:25 - Today I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples under all heaven, who will hear the report of you and will tremble and quake because of you.
Deu 2:26 - aThen I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deu 2:27 - Let me pass through your land. Only on the road I will go; I will not turn to the right or to the left.
Deu 2:28 - You will sell me food for money, that I may eat; and you will give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot—
Deu 2:29 - As the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, who dwell in Ar, did for me—until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God is giving us.
Deu 2:30 - But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass through 1his land, for Jehovah your God 2ahardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate for the purpose of delivering him into your hand, as he is today.
Deu 2:31 - And Jehovah said to me, See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land up before you. Begin to possess it that you may occupy his land.
Deu 2:32 - Then Sihon came out to meet us, he and all his people, for battle at Jahaz.
Deu 2:33 - And Jehovah our God delivered him up before us, and we slew him and his sons and all his people.
Deu 2:34 - And we captured all his cities at that time, and 1utterly destroyed every city—men, women, and children; we left no survivors.
Deu 2:35 - We took only the cattle as our plunder, as well as the spoil of the cities which we captured.
Deu 2:36 - From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city which is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a town too high for us; Jehovah our God delivered them all up before us.
Deu 2:37 - But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, all along the river Jabbok, nor the cities of the hill country, nor any place that Jehovah our God commanded us not to.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 3 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • •

Deu 3:1 - aThen we turned and went up on the way that leads to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.
Deu 3:2 - But Jehovah said to me, Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to aSihon the king of the Amorites, who was dwelling in Heshbon.
Deu 3:3 - And Jehovah our God also gave aOg the king of Bashan, as well as all his people, into our hand; and we slew them until there was no survivor left to him.
Deu 3:4 - And we captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deu 3:5 - All of these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural villages.
Deu 3:6 - And we utterly destroyed them as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city—men, women, and children.
Deu 3:7 - But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.
Deu 3:8 - So at that time we 1took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were across the Jordan, from the valley of the aArnon to Mount bHermon
Deu 3:9 - (The Sidonians call Hermon aSirion, and the Amorites call it bSenir),
Deu 3:10 - aAll the cities of the Plateau and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deu 3:11 - (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the aRephaim. His bedstead, a bedstead of iron, is indeed now in Rabbah of the children of Ammon. Its length is nine cubits and its width four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.)
Deu 3:12 - So we possessed this land at that time. aFrom Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
Deu 3:13 - And the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of the Rephaim.
Deu 3:14 - aJair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites; and he called 1it, that is, Bashan, after his own name, 2Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
Deu 3:15 - And to Machir I gave Gilead.
Deu 3:16 - And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave the region from Gilead even as far as the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley being the border, as far as the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
Deu 3:17 - aAnd the Arabah, with the Jordan as a border, from 1Chinnereth even as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
Deu 3:18 - aAnd I charged you at that time, saying, Jehovah your God has given you this land that you may possess it; all the men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the children of Israel.
Deu 3:19 - Only your wives and your little ones and your livestock—I know that you have vast livestock—shall remain in your cities, which I have given you,
Deu 3:20 - Until Jehovah gives arest to your brothers as He has to you, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving them across the Jordan, and you return, each man to his possession which I have given you.
Deu 3:21 - And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Yours are the eyes that have seen all that Jehovah your God has done to these two kings; so will Jehovah do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross over.
Deu 3:22 - Do not fear them, for it is Jehovah your God who is afighting for you.
G.  Moses prohibited from entering the good land and Joshua assigned to lead the people into the good land — 3:23-29
Deu 3:23 - And I pleaded with Jehovah at that time, saying,
Deu 3:24 - O Lord Jehovah, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do things like what You have done and things like Your mighty deeds?
Deu 3:25 - Let me please cross over and see the good land that is across the Jordan, this fine hill country and Lebanon.
Deu 3:26 - But Jehovah was infuriated with me on your account and did not listen to me. And Jehovah said to me, 1Enough! Speak no more to Me about this matter.
Deu 3:27 - aGo up to the top of Pisgah; and lift up your eyes to the 1west and to the north and to the south and to the east; and see it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.
Deu 3:28 - But charge aJoshua, and strengthen and encourage him, for it is he who will cross over before this people and cause them to inherit the land which you will see.
Deu 3:29 - And we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 4 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • • 15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30 • • • • 35 • • • • 40 • • • • 45 • • • •

H.  Moses' hearty advice to the children of Israel — 4:1-40
Deu 4:1 - And now, O Israel, listen to the 1statutes and the 1ordinances which I am teaching you to do, in order that you may alive and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deu 4:2 - You shall anot add to the word which I am commanding you, nor shall you btake away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you.
Deu 4:3 - Yours are the eyes that have seen that which Jehovah has done in aBaal-peor; for all the men who went after Baal-peor, Jehovah your God has destroyed from your midst.
Deu 4:4 - But you who ajoined yourselves to Jehovah your God are alive, all of you, today.
Deu 4:5 - See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as Jehovah my God commanded me, so that you would do them within the land which you are going in to possess.
Deu 4:6 - Keep and do them therefore; for this will be your wisdom and prudence in the sight of the peoples who hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and prudent people.
Deu 4:7 - For what great anation is there that has a god so bnear to it as Jehovah our God is whenever we 1ccall upon Him?
Deu 4:8 - And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I am setting before you today?
Deu 4:9 - But be careful and guard your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; rather, make them known to your children and to your grandchildren.
Deu 4:10 - Especially do not forget the day when you stood before Jehovah your God at Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live upon the earth and may teach their children as much.
Deu 4:11 - And you came near and astood at the foot of the mountain; and the mountain was burning with bfire up into the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and deep darkness there.
Deu 4:12 - And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire. The asound of words could you hear, but no bform could you see; there was only a voice.
Deu 4:13 - And He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to do, aten 1commandments; and He wrote them upon two btablets of stone.
Deu 4:14 - And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to do in the land which you are about to cross over into to possess.
Deu 4:15 - So take careful heed to your souls, for you did not see any form at all on the day when Jehovah spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,
Deu 4:16 - So that you do not spoil yourselves and make for yourselves an aidol, a form of any image, a figure of male or female,
Deu 4:17 - A figure of any animal which is on the earth, a figure of any winged bird which flies in the sky,
Deu 4:18 - A figure of anything that crawls on the ground, a figure of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
Deu 4:19 - And take heed that, when you lift up your eyes to the sky and see the asun and the moon and the stars, all the bhost of heaven, you are not drawn away in worship to them and that you do not serve them, which Jehovah your God has assigned to all the peoples under all heaven.
Deu 4:20 - But Jehovah has taken you and brought you forth from the airon furnace, from Egypt, that you would be to Him a people for His inheritance, as you are this day.
Deu 4:21 - But Jehovah was aangry with me on your account and swore that I would bnot cross over the Jordan and that I would not enter the good land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Deu 4:22 - For I am to die in this land; I am anot to cross over the Jordan. But you are crossing over and you will possess this good land.
Deu 4:23 - Take heed to yourselves that you do not forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He has made with you, and make for yourselves an idol, the form of anything, which Jehovah your God has forbidden you to make.
Deu 4:24 - For Jehovah your God is a aconsuming fire, a bjealous God.
Deu 4:25 - When you have brought forth children and grandchildren and have 1languished in the land, and you have spoiled yourselves by making an idol, the form of anything, and have done that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God so as to anger Him;
Deu 4:26 - I call aheaven and earth to witness against you today that surely you will soon perish from off the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess; you will not extend your days upon it, but you will be utterly destroyed.
Deu 4:27 - And Jehovah will ascatter you among the peoples, and you will be left bfew in number among the nations to which Jehovah will drive you.
Deu 4:28 - And there you will serve gods which are the work of human ahands, mere wood and stone, which do not see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Deu 4:29 - And from there you will aseek Jehovah your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with ball your heart and with all your soul.
Deu 4:30 - When you are in distress and all these things happen to you, when you are in the last days, you will return to Jehovah your God and listen to His voice.
Deu 4:31 - For Jehovah your God is a acompassionate God; He will bnot fail you nor let you perish nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them.
Deu 4:32 - For ask now regarding the former days, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, Has anything as great as this ever happened, or has anything like this ever been heard of?
Deu 4:33 - Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the afire, as you have heard, and lived?
Deu 4:34 - Has God ever ventured to go and take to Himself a nation from the midst of another nation by trials, by signs and wonders, and by war and a amighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deu 4:35 - You were shown these things that you might know that it is Jehovah who is God; there is ano other besides Him.
Deu 4:36 - From heaven He let you hear His voice that He might discipline you, and upon the earth He showed you His great fire, and His words you heard from the midst of the fire.
Deu 4:37 - And because He aloved your fathers, He chose their seed after them and brought you out by His presence, by His great power, from Egypt,
Deu 4:38 - aDriving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today.
Deu 4:39 - Know therefore today and bring it to heart that Jehovah is God in aheaven above and upon the earth below; there is no other.
Deu 4:40 - Therefore keep His statutes and His commandments, which I am commanding you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, so that you may extend your days upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you 1forever.
I.  Moses setting apart three cities of refuge east of Jordan — 4:41-43
Deu 4:41 - Then Moses set apart three 1cities across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun,
Deu 4:42 - That the amanslayer might flee there, who slays his neighbor without intent and did not hate him previously, and in fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
Deu 4:43 - Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the Plateau, belonging to the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.

II.  The rehearsal of the law — 4:44-26:19

A.  The rehearsing of the Ten Commandments — 4:44-5:31
Deu 4:44 - And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;
Deu 4:45 - These are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they had gone out from Egypt,
Deu 4:46 - Across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of aSihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel slew when they had gone out from Egypt.
Deu 4:47 - And they possessed his land and the land of aOg the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun,
Deu 4:48 - From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the aArnon, even unto Mount 1Sirion, that is, Hermon,
Deu 4:49 - And all the Arabah across the Jordan on the east even to the 1sea of the Arabah at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 5 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30 • • •

Deu 5:1 - And Moses called all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking in your hearing today, and learn them and keep them, so that you may do them.
Deu 5:2 - Jehovah our God made a acovenant with us at Horeb.
Deu 5:3 - Not with our fathers did Jehovah make this covenant, but with 1us, we who are all here alive today.
Deu 5:4 - aFace to face Jehovah spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire—
Deu 5:5 - aI was standing between Jehovah and you at that time to declare to you the word of Jehovah, for you were bafraid because of the fire and did not go up to the mountain—saying,
Deu 5:6 - 1aI am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house;
Deu 5:7 - You shall have no other gods 1before Me.
Deu 5:8 - You shall not make for yourself an idol, the form of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water beneath the earth.
Deu 5:9 - You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Deu 5:10 - Yet showing alovingkindness to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Deu 5:11 - You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold guiltless him who takes His name in vain.
Deu 5:12 - Keep the Sabbath day so as to sanctify it, as Jehovah your God has commanded you.
Deu 5:13 - aSix days you shall labor and do all your work,
Deu 5:14 - But the aseventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you nor your son nor your daughter nor your male servant nor your female servant nor your ox nor your donkey nor any of your cattle nor the sojourner with you who is within your gates, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as you do.
Deu 5:15 - And you shall aremember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and that Jehovah your God brought you out from there with a bmighty hand and an outstretched arm; hence, Jehovah your God commanded you to hold the Sabbath day.
Deu 5:16 - Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, that your days may be 1extended and that it may be 1well with you upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.
Deu 5:17 - aYou shall bnot kill;
Deu 5:18 - aNeither shall you commit adultery;
Deu 5:19 - aNeither shall you steal;
Deu 5:20 - Neither shall you testify as a vain witness against your neighbor;
Deu 5:21 - aNeither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife, nor shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Deu 5:22 - These words Jehovah spoke to all your congregation on the mountain from the midst of the afire, the cloud, and the deep darkness, with a great voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them upon two btablets of stone and gave them to me.
Deu 5:23 - And when you heard the voice from the midst of the adarkness, while the mountain burned with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,
Deu 5:24 - And said, Jehovah our God has just shown us His glory and His greatness, and His avoice we have heard from the midst of the fire; today we have seen that God speaks with man and yet he lives.
Deu 5:25 - Therefore why should we die now? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any longer, we will die.
Deu 5:26 - For who is there among all flesh who has heard the voice of the aliving God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and has lived?
Deu 5:27 - You go near and hear all that Jehovah our God says; then you will speak to us all that Jehovah our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do.
Deu 5:28 - And Jehovah heard the sound of your words while you spoke to me; and Jehovah said to me, I have heard the sound of the words of this people which they have spoken to you; they have done well in all that they have spoken.
Deu 5:29 - Oh that this heart of theirs would be in them always to fear Me and keep all My commandments so that it may go well with them and with their children forever!
Deu 5:30 - Go, say to them, Return to your tents.
Deu 5:31 - But you, stand here by Me that I may speak to you the whole commandment, and the statutes and the ordinances, which you will teach them to do in the land which I am giving them to possess.
B.  The general advice and warnings — 5:32-13:18
1.  Keeping the commandments, statutes, and ordinances of God — 5:32-6:3
Deu 5:32 - Keep them therefore so that you may do them, even as Jehovah your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.
Deu 5:33 - You shall walk in all the way that Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that you may alive and that it may go well with you and that you may extend your days in the land which you will possess.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 6 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25

Deu 6:1 - Now this is the 1commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God has commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land into which you are crossing over to possess;
Deu 6:2 - That you may fear Jehovah your God and keep all His statutes and His commandments, which I am commanding you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life; and that your days may be extended.
Deu 6:3 - Therefore hear, O Israel, and be certain to do it, that it may go well with you and that you may be greatly increased, in a land flowing with amilk and honey, even as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, promised you.
2.  Loving Jehovah their God, and keeping, teaching, and writing His words — 6:4-9
Deu 6:4 - aHear, O Israel, 1Jehovah is our God; Jehovah is bone.
Deu 6:5 - And you shall 1alove Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deu 6:6 - aAnd these words, which I command you today, shall be upon your bheart;
Deu 6:7 - And you shall 1repeat them to your children, and speak about them when you sit in your house and when you journey on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up;
Deu 6:8 - And you shall bind them on your hand as a asign, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes;
Deu 6:9 - And you shall write them on the adoorposts of your house and on your gates.
3.  Remembering Jehovah, fearing Him, serving Him, and not going after other gods — 6:10-15
Deu 6:10 - And when Jehovah your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to agive you great and fine cities that you did not build,
Deu 6:11 - And ahouses full of every good thing that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and you have eaten and are satisfied;
Deu 6:12 - Be careful that you do not aforget Jehovah who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house.
Deu 6:13 - aIt is Jehovah your God whom you shall fear, and Him whom you shall bserve; and it is by His name only that you shall swear.
Deu 6:14 - You shall not go after other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you—
Deu 6:15 - For Jehovah your God is a ajealous God in the midst of you. Otherwise the anger of Jehovah your God will be kindled against you, and He will destroy you from off the face of the earth.
4.  Not testing Jehovah their God, diligently keeping His commandments, testimonies, and statutes, and doing that which is right and good in His sight — 6:16-19
Deu 6:16 - You shall not atest Jehovah your God, as you tested Him at 1Massah.
Deu 6:17 - You shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and His testimonies and His statutes, which He has commanded you.
Deu 6:18 - And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Jehovah so that it may go well with you and you may enter and possess the good land, concerning which Jehovah swore to your fathers
Deu 6:19 - To drive out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken.
5.  Telling their sons about the significance of the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances — 6:20-25
Deu 6:20 - When your son asks you 1in the future, saying, What is the significance of the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances that Jehovah our God commanded you?
Deu 6:21 - Then you will asay to your son, We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deu 6:22 - And Jehovah put forth before our eyes great and grievous signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his house.
Deu 6:23 - Then He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, that He might give us the land which He swore to our fathers.
Deu 6:24 - And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes so that we would fear Jehovah our God for our good always and He would preserve us alive, as we are this day.
Deu 6:25 - And it will be righteousness to us if we are certain to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as He commanded us.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 7 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 •

6.  Dealing with all the nations around them — 7:1-8
Deu 7:1 - When Jehovah your God brings you into the land which you are about to enter to possess, and clears away many 1nations from before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, aseven nations more numerous and mightier than you—
Deu 7:2 - And Jehovah your God delivers them up before you and you defeat them, you shall 1utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor shall you show them any favor.
Deu 7:3 - And you shall not make marriage aalliances with them: bYour daughters you shall not give to their sons, and their daughters you shall not take for your sons;
Deu 7:4 - For they will draw your sons away from following after Me to serve other gods, and the anger of Jehovah will burn against you and He will quickly destroy you.
Deu 7:5 - But you shall deal with them in this way: Their aaltars you shall tear down, their pillars you shall shatter, their 1Asherahs you shall hew down, and their idols you shall burn with fire.
Deu 7:6 - For you are a aholy people to Jehovah your God; it is you whom Jehovah your God has bchosen from among all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth to be a people for His 1cpersonal treasure.
Deu 7:7 - It was not because you were more numerous than all the peoples that Jehovah has set His aaffection on you and has chosen you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples;
Deu 7:8 - Rather, because Jehovah loved you and because He would keep the oath which He aswore to your fathers, Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand and ransomed you from the slave house, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
7.  Knowing Jehovah their God — 7:9-15
Deu 7:9 - Know therefore that it is Jehovah your God who is God, the afaithful God who bkeeps covenant and clovingkindness to the thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
Deu 7:10 - But repays directly those who hate Him by destroying them. He will not be slow toward him who hates Him; He will repay him directly.
Deu 7:11 - Therefore you shall keep the commandment, and the statutes and the ordinances, which I am commanding you today to do.
Deu 7:12 - And it will be that because you listen to these ordinances, and keep them and do them, Jehovah your God will keep with you the covenant and the lovingkindness which He swore to your fathers.
Deu 7:13 - And He will love you and 1bless you and multiply you; He will also abless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your fresh oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, on the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.
Deu 7:14 - You will be more blessed than all other peoples; there will not be any abarren male or female among you or among your animals.
Deu 7:15 - And Jehovah will remove every asickness from you, and none of the evil illnesses of Egypt, which you know about, will He put upon you; but He will give them to all who hate you.
8.  Not being afraid of the nations but remembering what Jehovah their God did and will do — 7:16-26
Deu 7:16 - And you shall devour all the peoples which Jehovah your God is giving you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a asnare to you.
Deu 7:17 - If you say in your heart, These nations are greater than I, how will I be able to dispossess them?
Deu 7:18 - You shall not be afraid of them; you must remember what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,
Deu 7:19 - The great trials that your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders, and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm with which Jehovah your God brought you out; so will Jehovah your God do to all the peoples whom you are afraid of.
Deu 7:20 - Furthermore, Jehovah your God will send the ahornet among them until those who are left and those who hide themselves from you are destroyed.
Deu 7:21 - You shall not be terrified of them, for Jehovah your God is in your amidst, a great and awesome God.
Deu 7:22 - And Jehovah your God will clear away these nations from before you 1alittle by little; you shall not devour all of them immediately, lest the beasts of the field multiply against you.
Deu 7:23 - But Jehovah your God will deliver them up before you and rout them utterly until they are destroyed.
Deu 7:24 - And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven; no man will be able to astand against you until you destroy them.
Deu 7:25 - The idols of their gods you shall burn with fire; you shall not desire the silver or gold upon them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an aabomination to Jehovah your God.
Deu 7:26 - And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it; you shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 8 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20

9.  Remembering why Jehovah humbled and tested them in the wilderness — 8:1-5
Deu 8:1 - The whole commandment which I am commanding you today, you shall keep and do, so that you may alive and multiply, and enter and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers.
Deu 8:2 - And you shall remember all the way that Jehovah your God has led you these aforty years in the wilderness in order to humble you and btest you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
Deu 8:3 - And He humbled you and let you go hungry and fed you the amanna, which you had never known nor your fathers had ever known, so that He might make you know that bman lives not by bread alone, but that man lives by 1everything that proceeds out from the mouth of Jehovah.
Deu 8:4 - Your aclothing did not wear out from upon you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
Deu 8:5 - Know then in your heart that as a man adisciplines his son, so Jehovah your God was disciplining you;
10.  Keeping the commandments of Jehovah their God in order to be brought into a good land — 8:6-10
Deu 8:6 - Therefore keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.
Deu 8:7 - For Jehovah your God is bringing you to a 1good land, a aland of waterbrooks, of springs and of 2fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains;
Deu 8:8 - A aland of bwheat and barley and cvines and dfig trees and epomegranates; a land of folive trees with oil and of ghoney;
Deu 8:9 - A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity; you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from whose mountains you can mine copper.
Deu 8:10 - And you shall eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which He has given you.
11.  Not forgetting Jehovah their God — 8:11-20
Deu 8:11 - Be 1careful lest you forget Jehovah your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes, which I am commanding you today;
Deu 8:12 - Lest when you have eaten and are asatisfied, and have built fine houses and dwell in them,
Deu 8:13 - And your herd and your flock have multiplied, and your silver and your gold have multiplied, and all that you have has multiplied,
Deu 8:14 - Your heart be lifted up and you forget Jehovah your God, Him who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house;
Deu 8:15 - Who led you through the great and awesome awilderness, with its bfiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought forth water for you out of flint crock;
Deu 8:16 - Who fed you amanna in the wilderness, which your fathers had never known, that He might humble you and that He might test you in order to do good for you in the end;
Deu 8:17 - And you say in your heart, My strength and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.
Deu 8:18 - But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives you strength to gain wealth, so that He may establish His acovenant, which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Deu 8:19 - And if you forget Jehovah your God at all and go after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, aI testify against you btoday that you will surely perish.
Deu 8:20 - Like the nations which Jehovah is about to destroy before your face, so you will perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 9 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • •

12.  Knowing that Jehovah their God will drive out the nations from before them, not because of the uprightness of their heart but because of the wickedness of the nations — 9:1-7
Deu 9:1 - Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross over the Jordan this day in order to enter in and dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, acities that are big and fortified up to heaven,
Deu 9:2 - A people great and tall, the children of the 1aAnakim, whom you know about and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the children of Anak?
Deu 9:3 - Know therefore today that Jehovah your God is the One crossing over before you as a consuming afire; it is He who will destroy them, and it is He who will subdue them before you, so that you may dispossess them and destroy them quickly, as Jehovah has said to you.
Deu 9:4 - Do not say in your heart when Jehovah your God drives them out from before you, Because of my righteousness, Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land. Rather, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that Jehovah is about to dispossess them from before you.
Deu 9:5 - It is not because of your arighteousness nor because of the uprightness of your heart that you are entering in to possess their land, but Jehovah your God is about to dispossess them from before you because of the wickedness of these nations and so that Jehovah may establish the word that He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deu 9:6 - Know therefore that it is not because of your righteousness that Jehovah your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a astiff-necked people.
Deu 9:7 - Remember; do not forget that 1you made Jehovah your God afurious in the wilderness; from the day that you came forth from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Jehovah.
13.  Moses' rehearsing the story of the rebellion of the children of Israel at the mount of God — 9:8-10:11
Deu 9:8 - And especially at aHoreb you made Jehovah bfurious, and Jehovah was angry enough with you to destroy you.
Deu 9:9 - When I went up to the amountain to receive the tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant which Jehovah made with you, I remained on the mountain bforty days and forty nights; I did not eat food nor drink water.
Deu 9:10 - And Jehovah gave me the two atablets of stone, written with the finger of God; and on them was what was according to all the words which Jehovah had spoken with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
Deu 9:11 - And at the end of forty days and forty nights, Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant.
Deu 9:12 - Then Jehovah said to me, Arise, go adown quickly from here, for your people, whom you have brought out of Egypt, have spoiled themselves; they have bturned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.
Deu 9:13 - aThen Jehovah spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and indeed they are a bstiff-necked people.
Deu 9:14 - Let Me alone that I may destroy them and blot their name out from under heaven, and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they.
Deu 9:15 - aSo I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with bfire, and the two Tablets of the Covenant were in my two hands.
Deu 9:16 - And I asaw that you had indeed sinned against Jehovah your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way that Jehovah had commanded you.
Deu 9:17 - And I took hold of the two tablets and cast them out of my two hands and shattered them before your eyes.
Deu 9:18 - Then I threw myself down before Jehovah as at the beginning, aforty days and forty nights; I did not eat food nor drink water, because of all your sin which you had sinned by doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah so as to anger Him.
Deu 9:19 - For I was aafraid of the anger and the burning wrath with which Jehovah was angry enough against you to destroy you. But Jehovah blistened to me in that instance as well.
Deu 9:20 - And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron, enough to destroy him. But I prayed also for Aaron at that time.
Deu 9:21 - aThen I took your sin that you had made, the calf, and I burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust of it into the brook that came down from the mountain.
Deu 9:22 - And at aTaberah, at bMassah, and at cKibroth-hattaavah, you made Jehovah furious.
Deu 9:23 - And when Jehovah asent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you, you rebelled at the word of Jehovah your God and did bnot believe Him and did not listen to His voice.
Deu 9:24 - You have been rebellious against Jehovah since the day I came to know you.
Deu 9:25 - aSo I threw myself down before Jehovah for the bforty days and the forty nights; I threw myself down thus, for Jehovah had said He would destroy you.
Deu 9:26 - aAnd I prayed to Jehovah and said, O Lord Jehovah, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have ransomed with Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deu 9:27 - Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people and at their wickedness and at their sin;
Deu 9:28 - Lest the inhabitants of the land from which You have brought us out say, aBecause Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
Deu 9:29 - But they are Your apeople and Your inheritance, whom You have brought out with Your great strength and with Your outstretched arm.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 10 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • •

Deu 10:1 - aAt that time Jehovah said to me, Cut for yourself two tablets of bstone like the first ones, and come up to Me on the mountain; and make yourself an cark of wood.
Deu 10:2 - And I will write upon the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you shattered; and you shall aplace them in the Ark.
Deu 10:3 - So I made an ark of acacia wood and acut two tablets of stone like the first ones; and I went up to the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
Deu 10:4 - aAnd He wrote upon the tablets as He had done the first writing, the ten 1commandments, which Jehovah spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and Jehovah gave them to me.
Deu 10:5 - aThen I turned and came down from the mountain, and I placed the btablets in the Ark that I had made. And there they have been, as Jehovah commanded me.
Deu 10:6 - (And the children of Israel set out from 1aBeeroth Bene-jaakan for Moserah. There Aaron bdied, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son served as priest in his place.
Deu 10:7 - From there they set out for Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of waterbrooks.
Deu 10:8 - At that time Jehovah aseparated the tribe of Levi to bear the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, to bstand before Jehovah to minister to Him and bless in His name until this day.
Deu 10:9 - Therefore Levi has 1no portion nor ainheritance with his brothers; 1Jehovah is his inheritance, as Jehovah your God promised him.)
Deu 10:10 - And I stayed on the mountain, as I had the first time, aforty days and forty nights. And Jehovah listened to me in that instance as well; Jehovah would not destroy you.
Deu 10:11 - And Jehovah said to me, aArise, take up the journey before the people so that they may enter and possess the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give them.
14.  Moses' charging the children of Israel concerning nine matters — 10:12-22
Deu 10:12 - And now, O Israel, what does Jehovah your God ask of you except that you afear Jehovah your God so that you would bwalk in all His 1ways and 2clove Him and serve Jehovah your God with all your 3heart and with all your soul;
Deu 10:13 - So that you would keep the commandments of Jehovah and His statutes, which I am commanding you today, for your good.
Deu 10:14 - Behold, aheaven and the heaven of heavens belong to Jehovah your God, the bearth and all that is in it.
Deu 10:15 - But on your fathers Jehovah set His aaffection to love them and to choose their seed after them, that is, you above all the peoples, as it is this day.
Deu 10:16 - Circumcise then the foreskin of your aheart, and do not be bstiff-necked any longer;
Deu 10:17 - For it is Jehovah your God who is the aGod of gods and the bLord of lords, the great God, cmighty and awesome, who does dnot regard persons and does not take bribes;
Deu 10:18 - He executes justice for the aorphan and the widow, and He loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Deu 10:19 - Therefore love the asojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Deu 10:20 - aYou shall fear Jehovah your God; Him shall you serve and to Him shall you bhold fast and by His name shall you swear.
Deu 10:21 - He is your apraise and He is your God, who has done these great and awesome things for you, which your eyes have seen.
Deu 10:22 - Your fathers went down into Egypt as aseventy souls; and now Jehovah your God has made you as the bstars of heaven in multitude.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 11 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30 • •

15.  Loving Jehovah their God as witnesses of what He had done — 11:1-7
Deu 11:1 - Therefore you shall alove Jehovah your God and keep His charge and His statutes and His ordinances and His commandments always.
Deu 11:2 - And realize today that I am speaking not with your sons, who do not know and who have not seen the discipline of Jehovah your God, His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm;
Deu 11:3 - And His signs and works, which He did in the midst of Egypt against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and against all his land;
Deu 11:4 - And what He did to Egypt’s forces, to their horses and to their chariots, when He caused the water of the Red Sea to flow aover them while they were pursuing you; and Jehovah made them perish to this day;
Deu 11:5 - And what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
Deu 11:6 - And what He did to aDathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up and their households and their tents and all their substance that went with them, from the midst of all Israel.
Deu 11:7 - But it is your eyes that have seen all the great work of Jehovah which He did.
16.  The children of Israel to receive blessings by keeping Moses' words of advice and warning — 11:8-25
Deu 11:8 - Therefore you shall keep the whole commandment which I am commanding you today so that you may be 1strong and that you may go in and possess the land into which you are crossing over to possess,
Deu 11:9 - And so that you may extend your days upon the ground which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with amilk and honey.
Deu 11:10 - For the land which you are entering in to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came forth, where you used to sow your seed and 1water by foot as in a vegetable garden.
Deu 11:11 - But the land into which you are crossing over to possess is a aland of mountains and valleys; by virtue of heaven’s rain, it drinks in water.
Deu 11:12 - It is a land which Jehovah your God cares for; always the 1aeyes of Jehovah your God are upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
Deu 11:13 - And if you are certain to listen to my commandments, which I am commanding you today, to alove Jehovah your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deu 11:14 - I will give rain for your land in its season, the 1aearly rain and the late rain, so that you may gather your grain and your new wine and your fresh oil.
Deu 11:15 - And I will put grass in your field for your cattle, and you will eat and abe satisfied.
Deu 11:16 - Be careful lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve aother gods and bow down to them,
Deu 11:17 - And the anger of Jehovah burn against you and He ashut up heaven, so that there is no rain and the earth does not yield its produce and you perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you.
Deu 11:18 - aTherefore you shall 1lay these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them on your hand as a bsign, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes;
Deu 11:19 - And you shall ateach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit in your house and when you journey on the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up;
Deu 11:20 - And you shall write them on the adoorposts of your house and on your gates;
Deu 11:21 - That your days may be multiplied, as well as the days of your children, upon the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the adays of heaven are above the earth.
Deu 11:22 - For if you are certain to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to alove Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,
Deu 11:23 - Jehovah will adispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
Deu 11:24 - aEvery place on which the sole of your bfoot treads will be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the criver, the river Euphrates, even to the 1farmost sea will be your territory.
Deu 11:25 - No man will be able to astand against you; Jehovah your God will put the dread and fear of you upon all the land on which you tread, as He has spoken to you.
17.  Moses' setting a blessing and a curse before the children of Israel — 11:26-32
Deu 11:26 - See, I am asetting before you today a 1blessing and a 1curse:
Deu 11:27 - The blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today;
Deu 11:28 - And the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God and you turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, to go after other gods whom you have not known.
Deu 11:29 - And when Jehovah your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess, you shall put the ablessing upon bMount Gerizim and the curse upon Mount Ebal.
Deu 11:30 - Indeed they are across the Jordan beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the Arabah before Gilgal beside the terebinths of Moreh.
Deu 11:31 - For you are about to cross over the Jordan to enter and possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving you; and you will possess it and dwell in it.
Deu 11:32 - Therefore be certain to do all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 12 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30 • •

18.  Moses' charging the children of Israel concerning the way to worship God — 12:1-32
Deu 12:1 - These are the statutes and the ordinances that you shall be certain to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
Deu 12:2 - You shall completely 1destroy all the places where the nations whom you will dispossess have served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every flourishing tree.
Deu 12:3 - And you shall atear down their altars and crush their pillars; and their Asherahs you shall burn with fire, and the idols of their gods you shall cut down; and you shall destroy their name from that place.
Deu 12:4 - You shall not do so to Jehovah your God.
Deu 12:5 - But to the aplace which Jehovah your God will 1choose out of all your tribes to put His 1name, to His 1habitation, shall you seek, and there shall you go.
Deu 12:6 - And there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and your vows and your freewill offerings and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock;
Deu 12:7 - And there you shall eat before Jehovah your God, and you and your households shall rejoice in all your undertakings, in which Jehovah your God has blessed you.
Deu 12:8 - You shall not do according to all that we do here today, each man adoing all that is right in his own eyes;
Deu 12:9 - For until now you have not come to the arest and to the inheritance that Jehovah your God is giving you.
Deu 12:10 - But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and when He gives you rest from all your enemies surrounding you so that you dwell securely;
Deu 12:11 - Then to the aplace where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and all your choice vows which you vow to Jehovah.
Deu 12:12 - And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your sons and daughters, and your male servants and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, for he has ano portion nor inheritance with you.
Deu 12:13 - Be careful that you do not offer up your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
Deu 12:14 - But in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer up your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.
Deu 12:15 - Yet you may slaughter and eat meat awithin all your gates, in all that your soul desires, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat it as the gazelle and the deer are eaten.
Deu 12:16 - However, you shall not eat the 1ablood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.
Deu 12:17 - You may not 1eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or of your new wine or of your fresh oil, nor the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow or of your freewill offerings or of the heave offering of your hand;
Deu 12:18 - But you shall eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male servant and female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in all your undertakings.
Deu 12:19 - Be careful that you do anot forsake the Levite all your days upon the earth.
Deu 12:20 - When Jehovah your God aenlarges your territory, as He has promised you, and you say, I will eat meat, because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat according to all that your soul desires.
Deu 12:21 - If the place where Jehovah your God will choose to put His name is too far away from you, you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock, which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates according to all that your soul desires;
Deu 12:22 - Indeed, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike.
Deu 12:23 - But make sure that you do not eat the 1blood; for the ablood is the 2life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Deu 12:24 - You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.
Deu 12:25 - You shall not eat it, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of Jehovah.
Deu 12:26 - But you shall take your holy things which you have and your vows, and go to the place which Jehovah will choose;
Deu 12:27 - And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah your God, and you shall eat the flesh.
Deu 12:28 - Keep and listen to all these words which I am commanding you so that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of Jehovah your God.
Deu 12:29 - When Jehovah your God acuts off the nations before you, which you are entering to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deu 12:30 - Be careful that you are not aensnared in following them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not seek after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, so that I also may do likewise?
Deu 12:31 - You shall not do so for Jehovah your God, for every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burned with fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 - The whole thing that I am commanding you, you shall be certain to do; you shall anot add to it, nor shall you take away from it.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 13 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • • 15 • • •

19.  Moses' charging the children of Israel concerning the apostasy — 13:1-18
Deu 13:1 - If a aprophet or a bdreamer of dreams stands up in your midst and gives you a sign or wonder,
Deu 13:2 - And the sign or the wonder occurs, about which he spoke to you, saying, 1Let us go after other gods whom you have not known, and let us serve them;
Deu 13:3 - You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God is testing you in order to know whether you alove Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deu 13:4 - You shall follow Jehovah your God; and you shall fear Him, keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and ahold fast to Him.
Deu 13:5 - But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has advocated apostasy from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and ransomed you from the slave house, in order to force you out of the way in which Jehovah your God has commanded you to walk. Thus you shall 1utterly aremove the evil from your midst.
Deu 13:6 - If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is like your own soul to you entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
Deu 13:7 - Of the gods of the peoples who are surrounding you, those who are near you or those who are far from you, from one end of the earth to the other);
Deu 13:8 - You shall not yield to him nor listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him; neither shall you spare him nor conceal him;
Deu 13:9 - But you must slay him; ayour hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
Deu 13:10 - And you shall astone him with stones so that he dies, because he sought to force you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house.
Deu 13:11 - And all Israel awill hear and will fear and will never do anything like this evil thing in your midst again.
Deu 13:12 - If you hear in one of your cities, which Jehovah your God is giving you to dwell in, someone saying that
Deu 13:13 - Some worthless men have agone out from your midst and have forced the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (which you have not known);
Deu 13:14 - Then you shall ainvestigate and examine carefully and inquire thoroughly. And if indeed the thing is true and certain—this abomination has been done in your midst—
Deu 13:15 - You must slay the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its animals with the edge of the sword.
Deu 13:16 - And all its spoil you shall gather at the middle of its open square, and you shall aburn the city and all its spoil with fire wholly to Jehovah your God. And it shall be a bmound only forever; it shall not be built again.
Deu 13:17 - And nothing of what has been acursed shall cling to your hand, in order that Jehovah may turn from His burning anger and show you tenderness and be compassionate to you and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,
Deu 13:18 - When you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and keep all His commandments, which I am commanding you today, and do what is right in the sight of Jehovah your God.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 14 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • •

C.  The rehearsing of the general statutes and ordinances — 14:1-26:19
1.  Concerning being Jehovah's personal treasure — 14:1-2
Deu 14:1 - 1You are the achildren of Jehovah your God; you shall bnot cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the dead.
Deu 14:2 - For you are a aholy people to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for His 1bpersonal treasure, from among all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.
2.  Concerning the holy diet — 14:3-21
Deu 14:3 - You shall not 1eat any abominable thing.
Deu 14:4 - aThese are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
Deu 14:5 - The deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, the mountain sheep.
Deu 14:6 - And every animal that 1has a divided hoof, that is, has its hoof split in two, and that chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
Deu 14:7 - However, these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that 1have a cleft hoof: the camel, the hare, and the hyrax; because although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are unclean to you.
Deu 14:8 - And the pig, because although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you. You shall not eat of their flesh, nor shall you touch their carcasses.
Deu 14:9 - These you may eat of all that are in the water: Anything that has fins and scales you may eat,
Deu 14:10 - But anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
Deu 14:11 - You may eat any clean bird.
Deu 14:12 - But these are what you shall not eat: the great vulture, the bearded vulture, and the black vulture;
Deu 14:13 - The kite, the falcon, and the kite of every kind;
Deu 14:14 - And all ravens of every kind;
Deu 14:15 - The ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, and the hawk of every kind;
Deu 14:16 - The little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
Deu 14:17 - The pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
Deu 14:18 - The stork, the heron of every kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Deu 14:19 - And all 1flying insects are unclean to you; they shall not be eaten.
Deu 14:20 - You may eat any clean flying animal.
Deu 14:21 - You shall not eat any acarcass; to the sojourner who is within your gates you may give it that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. bYou shall not 1boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
3.  Concerning the worship of God — 14:22-27; 15:19-16:17; 16:21-17:7; 23:21-23; 26:1-11
a.  By giving the tithes of all the produce of both their cattle and their crop — 14:22-27
Deu 14:22 - You must agive a tenth of all the produce of your seed, which the field brings forth, year by year.
Deu 14:23 - aAnd you shall eat 1before Jehovah your God, in the place where He will choose to cause His name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your fresh oil and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.
Deu 14:24 - But if the way is so far away from you that you are not able to carry your tithe, because the place where Jehovah your God will choose to set His name is too far away from you when Jehovah your God has blessed you,
Deu 14:25 - Then you shall aexchange it for money and bind up the money in your hand, and you shall go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose.
Deu 14:26 - And you shall exchange the money for anything that your soul desires, for oxen, for sheep, for wine, for strong drink, or for anything that your soul would like; and you and your household shall eat there before Jehovah your God and rejoice.
Deu 14:27 - But you shall anot forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has bno portion nor inheritance with you.
4.  Concerning aid to the needy — 14:28-15:18; 23:15-16, 19-20; 24:6, 10-15, 17-22; 26:12-15
a.  The aid by the tithes at the end of every three years — 14:28-29; 26:12-15
Deu 14:28 - At the end of every athree years you shall bring forth all the 1tithe of your produce for that year and lay it within your gates;
Deu 14:29 - And the Levite shall come—for he has no portion nor inheritance with you—as well as the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates; and they shall eat and be satisfied, so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 15 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • •

b.  The release at the end of every seven years — 15:1-6
Deu 15:1 - At the end of every aseven years you shall issue a release.
Deu 15:2 - And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor shall release from his hand that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it from his neighbor or his brother, for Jehovah’s release has been proclaimed.
Deu 15:3 - From the aforeigner you may exact the debt; but whatever of yours your brother has, your hand shall release.
Deu 15:4 - However, there shall not be any needy among you (for Jehovah will surely bless you in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess),
Deu 15:5 - But only if you carefully listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and are certain to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today.
Deu 15:6 - For Jehovah your God will bless you as He has promised you. And you will alend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
c.  The lending to the poor brothers — 15:7-11
Deu 15:7 - If among you there is a 1aneedy one amidst your brothers within any of your gates in your land, which Jehovah your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart and you shall not close up your hand from your needy brother;
Deu 15:8 - But you must aopen your hand to him, and you must lend enough for his need in whatever he lacks.
Deu 15:9 - Be careful that there is not within your heart a base thought 1like this: The seventh year, the year of release, is near; and your aeye be evil against your needy brother and you do not give him anything, and he cry against you to Jehovah, and it become sin to you.
Deu 15:10 - You must agive to him, and your heart shall bnot be displeased when you give to him; for on account of this matter Jehovah your God will bless you in all your work and in all your undertakings.
Deu 15:11 - For the aneedy will not cease being in the land; therefore I am commanding you, saying, You must open your hand to your brother, to the bpoor one with you and to the needy one with you in your land.
d.  The freeing of a Hebrew male servant or a female servant — 15:12-18
Deu 15:12 - 1If your brother, a aHebrew man or woman, is bsold to you, he shall serve you six years; but in the seventh year you shall set him 2free.
Deu 15:13 - And when you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed;
Deu 15:14 - You must supply him richly from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your winepress; as Jehovah your God has blessed you, so shall you give to him.
Deu 15:15 - And you shall aremember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and that Jehovah your God ransomed you; therefore I am commanding you this thing today.
Deu 15:16 - aAnd if he says to you, I will not go forth from you, because he loves you and your household, for it goes well with him to be with you;
Deu 15:17 - Then you shall take an awl and run it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be your servant forever; and thus also shall you do to your female servant.
Deu 15:18 - You shall not view it as a hardship when you set him free; for he served you for six years, saving you double the wages of a hired hand, and Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you do.
(3.  Concerning the worship of God—cont'd)
b.  By offering the firstborn males of the herd and of the flock — 15:19-23c.  By keeping the three main annual festivals—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles — 16:1-17
Deu 15:19 - All afirstborn males that are brought forth in your herd and in your flock you shall sanctify to Jehovah your God; you shall not do work with your firstborn ox, nor shall you shear your firstborn sheep.
Deu 15:20 - You and your household shall aeat it before Jehovah your God year by year in the place which Jehovah will choose.
Deu 15:21 - And if there is a ablemish in it, lameness or blindness, any serious blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to Jehovah your God.
Deu 15:22 - aYou shall eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it as the gazelle and the deer are eaten.
Deu 15:23 - However, you shall not eat its ablood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 16 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • •

Deu 16:1 - Observe the month of aAbib, and hold the 1Passover to Jehovah your God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah your God brought you out of Egypt by bnight.
Deu 16:2 - And you shall sacrifice the passover to Jehovah your God, from the flock and from the herd, in the aplace where Jehovah will choose to cause His name to dwell.
Deu 16:3 - You shall not eat anything leavened with it; seven days you shall eat aunleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for in alarmed haste you came out of the land of Egypt); in order that you may bremember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
Deu 16:4 - And aleaven shall not be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrifice in the evening on the first day remain until bmorning.
Deu 16:5 - You may not sacrifice the passover within any of your gates, which Jehovah your God is giving you;
Deu 16:6 - Rather, in the aplace where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell, you shall sacrifice the passover in the bevening, as the sun sets, at the time that you came out of Egypt.
Deu 16:7 - And you shall cook and eat it in the aplace which Jehovah your God will choose, and you shall turn in the morning and go to your tents.
Deu 16:8 - Six days you shall eat aunleavened bread. And on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work.
Deu 16:9 - You shall count off for yourself aseven weeks. You shall begin to count the seven weeks from the time that you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.
Deu 16:10 - And you shall hold the aFeast of Weeks to Jehovah your God according to the sufficiency of the freewill offering of your hand, which you will give, as Jehovah your God blesses you.
Deu 16:11 - And you and your son and daughter, and your male servant and female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in the aplace where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell.
Deu 16:12 - And you shall aremember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall keep and do these statutes.
Deu 16:13 - You shall hold the aFeast of 1Tabernacles for seven days after your bingathering from your threshing floor and your winepress.
Deu 16:14 - And you and your son and daughter, and your male servant and female servant, and the Levite and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates shall rejoice in your feast.
Deu 16:15 - You shall keep the feast to Jehovah your God for seven days in the aplace which Jehovah will choose, for Jehovah your God will bless you in all your produce and in all your undertakings; therefore you shall be nothing but joyful.
Deu 16:16 - aThree times a year all your males shall appear before Jehovah your God in the bplace which He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the cFeast of Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before Jehovah dempty-handed;
Deu 16:17 - Each man shall give as he is able to give, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God, which He has given you.
5.  Concerning the government among the people — 16:18-20; 17:8-20; 19:15-21; 21:1-9, 18-23; 22:13-30; 24:1-4, 7, 16; 25:1-3, 5-16
a.  The appointing of judges and officers — 16:18-20
Deu 16:18 - You shall appoint for yourself 1judges and aofficers 2in all your cities which Jehovah your God is giving you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous bjudgment.
Deu 16:19 - You shall not distort justice; you shall anot respect persons, nor shall you take a bbribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Deu 16:20 - Righteousness, and only righteousness, shall you pursue, in order that you may live and possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.
(3.  Concerning the worship of God—cont'd)
d.  By not having any mixture of idolatry — 16:21-22
Deu 16:21 - You shall not plant for yourself an 1Asherah of any kind of tree beside the 1altar of Jehovah your God, which you will make for yourself;
Deu 16:22 - Nor shall you erect for yourself a pillar, something which Jehovah your God hates.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 17 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20

e.  By not sacrificing anything to Jehovah in which there is a blemish — 17:1f.  By stoning to death those who transgressed God's covenant and served other gods — 17:2-7
Deu 17:1 - You shall not sacrifice to Jehovah your God any ox or sheep in which there is a ablemish, anything seriously wrong, for that is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
Deu 17:2 - If there is found in your midst, within any of your gates which Jehovah your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God by transgressing His covenant,
Deu 17:3 - And has gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, that is, to the asun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded you to do;
Deu 17:4 - And it is told to you and you hear of it; then you shall ainvestigate thoroughly. And if indeed the thing is true and certain—this abomination has been done in Israel—
Deu 17:5 - Then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing, to your gates, that very man or woman, and you shall astone them with stones so that they die.
Deu 17:6 - At the word of atwo witnesses or three witnesses shall he who is to die be put to death; he shall not be put to death at the word of only one witness.
Deu 17:7 - The ahand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. Thus you shall utterly bremove the evil from your midst.
b.  The ordinance concerning a complicated civil suit — 17:8-13
Deu 17:8 - If a case is too complicated for you to judge between one kind of homicide and another, or between one kind of civil suit and another, or between one kind of assault and another, being disputed cases within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the aplace which Jehovah your God will choose;
Deu 17:9 - And you shall come to 1the Levitical priests and to the ajudge who is presiding in those days and investigate the matter; and they shall declare to you the sentence of judgment.
Deu 17:10 - And you shall ado according to the word of the sentence that they declare to you from that place which Jehovah will choose; and you shall be certain to do according to all that they instruct you.
Deu 17:11 - You shall do according to the word of the instruction with which they instruct you and according to the judgment which they speak to you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left from the sentence that they declare to you.
Deu 17:12 - And the man who acts apresumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or to the judge, that man shall die. Thus you shall utterly bremove the evil from Israel.
Deu 17:13 - And all the people will hear and will fear, and they will not act presumptuously anymore.
c.  The setting of a king over the people — 17:14-20
Deu 17:14 - When you enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and you say, I will set a 1aking over me like all the nations which surround me;
Deu 17:15 - You must set a king over you whom Jehovah your God will achoose; from among your brothers you shall set a king over you; you may not put a foreigner, who is not your brother, over you.
Deu 17:16 - However, he shall not amass 1horses to himself, and he shall not turn the people back to 1aEgypt so that he may amass horses, since Jehovah has said to you, You shall never again return that way.
Deu 17:17 - And he shall not amass awives to himself, so that his heart does not turn aside; nor shall he amass silver and gold to himself in great amounts.
Deu 17:18 - And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write out for himself a copy of this 1alaw in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
Deu 17:19 - And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, in order that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes and doing them,
Deu 17:20 - So that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers and he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left; that he and his sons may aextend their days over their kingdom in the midst of Israel.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 18 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • •

6.  Concerning the supply of the Levitical priests and the whole tribe of Levi — 18:1-8
Deu 18:1 - aThe 1Levitical priests and the whole 1tribe of Levi shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall beat Jehovah’s cofferings by fire and His 2inheritance.
Deu 18:2 - Thus they shall have no inheritance in the midst of their brothers; 1aJehovah is their inheritance, as He has promised them.
Deu 18:3 - And this shall be the 1priests’ rightful due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: They shall give the priest the ashoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach.
Deu 18:4 - You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your fresh oil, and the first shearing of your sheep;
Deu 18:5 - For Jehovah your God has chosen him and his sons out of all your tribes to astand and minister in Jehovah’s name always.
Deu 18:6 - And if a 1Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and comes according to all his soul’s desire to the aplace which Jehovah will choose,
Deu 18:7 - He shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God, like all his brothers, the Levites, who stand there before Jehovah.
Deu 18:8 - They shall eat equal portions, besides the 1proceeds from the sale of his father’s estate.
7.  Concerning the prohibitions against contacting evil spirits or the spirits of the dead — 18:9-14
Deu 18:9 - When you enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, you shall not learn to do things according to the abominations of those nations.
Deu 18:10 - There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through fire; anyone who performs adivination, practices soothsaying, or interprets omens; or anyone who employs sorcery
Deu 18:11 - Or casts spells; or anyone who consults a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit or inquires of the dead;
Deu 18:12 - For everyone who does these things is an abomination to Jehovah; and on account of these abominations Jehovah your God is dispossessing them from before you.
Deu 18:13 - You shall be ablameless toward Jehovah your God.
Deu 18:14 - For these nations whom you are dispossessing listen to those who practice soothsaying and to those who perform divination, but Jehovah your God has not allowed you to do so.
8.  Concerning Jehovah God's raising up of a prophet (the coming Christ) like Moses for the children of Israel — 18:15-19
Deu 18:15 - A 1aProphet will Jehovah your God raise up for you from your midst, from among your brothers, like me; you shall blisten to Him.
Deu 18:16 - This is according to all that you asked of Jehovah your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, aLet me not hear any more of the voice of Jehovah my God, and let me not see this great fire any longer, lest I die.
Deu 18:17 - And Jehovah said to me, aThey have done well in what they have spoken.
Deu 18:18 - A aProphet will I 1raise up for them from the midst of their brothers like you; and I will put My words in His mouth, and He will speak to them all that I command Him.
Deu 18:19 - And the man who will anot listen to My words which He will speak in My name, I Myself will require it from him.
9.  Concerning the false prophet — 18:20-22
Deu 18:20 - But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name, which I did not command him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall adie.
Deu 18:21 - And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?
Deu 18:22 - When a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the thing does anot happen nor come about, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 19 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 •

10.  Concerning the setting apart of the cities of refuge — 19:1-13
Deu 19:1 - When Jehovah your God acuts off the nations whose land Jehovah your God is giving you and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
Deu 19:2 - You shall set apart athree 1cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess.
Deu 19:3 - You shall survey the distances for yourself and divide into three parts the territory of your land, which Jehovah your God will give you as an inheritance, so that every manslayer may aflee there.
Deu 19:4 - And this shall be the case of the manslayer who flees there and lives: He who slays his neighbor without intent and did not hate him previously—
Deu 19:5 - As when a man goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and his hand goes to cut the tree with an axe, and the iron axehead slips off the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live;
Deu 19:6 - Lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart rages, and he overtake him because the distance is long and 1slay him; though he is not worthy of death, for he did not hate him previously.
Deu 19:7 - Therefore I am commanding you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourself.
Deu 19:8 - And if Jehovah your God aenlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers;
Deu 19:9 - If you are certain to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and to walk in His ways always; then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three,
Deu 19:10 - That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and guilt for blood be upon you.
Deu 19:11 - But if a man hates his neighbor and alies in wait for him, and he rises up against him and slays him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities;
Deu 19:12 - Then the elders of his city shall send men and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.
Deu 19:13 - Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall aremove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.
11.  Concerning the moving of the neighbor's boundary marker — 19:14
Deu 19:14 - You shall anot move your neighbor’s 1boundary marker, which your ancestors have set, in your inheritance, which you will inherit in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess.
(5.  Concerning the government among the people—cont'd)
d.  The ordinance concerning any iniquity or any sin — 19:15-21
Deu 19:15 - aOne witness only shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sin which he has committed; bat the word of ctwo witnesses or at the word of three witnesses shall a matter be established.
Deu 19:16 - If a amalicious witness rises up against a man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
Deu 19:17 - The two men who have the dispute shall stand before Jehovah, before the apriests and the judges who are serving in those days.
Deu 19:18 - And the judges shall ainvestigate thoroughly; and if indeed the witness is a false witness, if he has testified falsely against his brother,
Deu 19:19 - You shall do to him as he intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst.
Deu 19:20 - And those who remain awill hear and will fear and will never again do anything like this evil thing in your midst.
Deu 19:21 - And your eye shall not pity: a alife for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 20 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20

12.  Concerning the children of Israel going forth into battle against their enemies — 20:1-20
Deu 20:1 - When you go forth into 1battle against your enemies, and you see horse and achariot, a people more numerous than you, you shall not fear them; for Jehovah your God is bwith you, He who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Deu 20:2 - And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
Deu 20:3 - And he shall say to them, Hear, O Israel! You are drawing near to the battle against your enemies today. Do not let your heart fail; do not be afraid or alarmed or terrified of them.
Deu 20:4 - For it is Jehovah your God who goes with you to afight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Deu 20:5 - And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
Deu 20:6 - Is there any man who has planted a avineyard and has not 1partaken of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man partake of it.
Deu 20:7 - Is there any man who has gotten engaged to a awoman and has not taken her to himself? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her to himself.
Deu 20:8 - And the officers shall speak further to the people and say, Is there any man who is 1afraid and whose heart fails? Let him go and return to his house, so that the heart of his brothers does not melt like his heart.
Deu 20:9 - And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of the armies at the head of the people.
Deu 20:10 - When you draw near to a city to fight against it, you shall proclaim apeace to it.
Deu 20:11 - And if it responds with peace to you and opens its gates to you, all the people found within it shall become your forced labor; and they shall serve you.
Deu 20:12 - But if it does not make peace with you, but rather engages in battle with you, you shall besiege it.
Deu 20:13 - And when Jehovah your God delivers it into your hand, you shall aslay every male in it with the edge of the sword.
Deu 20:14 - But the awomen and the little ones and the beasts and all that is in the city, that is, all its spoil, you shall take as your plunder; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which Jehovah your God has given you.
Deu 20:15 - Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not among the cities of these nations.
Deu 20:16 - But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not allow anything that breathes to live;
Deu 20:17 - But you must utterly 1adestroy them: the bHittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, just as Jehovah your God has commanded you,
Deu 20:18 - So that they do not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods and you asin against Jehovah your God.
Deu 20:19 - When you besiege a city for many days, battling against it to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?
Deu 20:20 - However, a tree that you know is not a tree for food, you shall destroy and cut down, so that you may build a siegework against the city, which engages you in battle, until it falls.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 21 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • •

(5.  Concerning the government among the people—cont'd)
e.  The ordinance concerning one who murders a man, the slain one being found lying in the field in the good land — 21:1-9
Deu 21:1 - If a slain man is found lying in the field in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess, it not being known who slew him,
Deu 21:2 - Then your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities that surround the slain man.
Deu 21:3 - And the city that is nearest the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd which has not been worked and has not drawn the ayoke;
Deu 21:4 - And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a river valley that flows continually, which has not been plowed or sown, and break the neck of the heifer there in the river valley.
Deu 21:5 - And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall draw near; for Jehovah your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of Jehovah, and by their word shall every dispute and every assault be settled.
Deu 21:6 - And all the elders of that city that is nearest the slain man shall awash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the river valley.
Deu 21:7 - And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it done.
Deu 21:8 - Cover Your people Israel, whom You have ransomed, O Jehovah, and do not set the guilt of ainnocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel. And the guilt of the blood shall be covered from them.
Deu 21:9 - Thus you shall utterly aremove the guilt of the innocent blood from your midst, for you do what is right in the sight of Jehovah.
13.  Concerning marrying a beautiful woman among the captives — 21:10-14
Deu 21:10 - When you go out to fight against your enemies and Jehovah your God delivers them into your hands and you take them captive,
Deu 21:11 - And you see a beautiful woman among the captives and desire her and would take her to yourself as a wife;
Deu 21:12 - You shall bring her within your house, and she shall ashave her head, trim her nails,
Deu 21:13 - And take her clothes of captivity away from her. And she shall dwell in your house and mourn her afather and mother for a full month. And afterward you shall go in unto her and be her husband, and she shall be a wife to you.
Deu 21:14 - And if after a time you do not delight in her, you shall let her go awherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money; you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
14.  Concerning the right of the firstborn son — 21:15-17
Deu 21:15 - If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other despised, and both the abeloved and the despised have borne him sons; and if the firstborn son is of the despised woman;
Deu 21:16 - Then in the day when he gives what he has to his sons as his inheritance, he may not make the son of the beloved woman the firstborn instead of the son of the despised one, who is the firstborn.
Deu 21:17 - But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the despised woman, giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the afirstfruits of his vigor; the right of the firstborn is his.
(5.  Concerning the government among the people—cont'd)
f.  The ordinance concerning a stubborn and rebellious son — 21:18-21
Deu 21:18 - If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, one who does not listen to the voice of his father nor to the voice of his mother; and though they achastise him, he does not listen to them;
Deu 21:19 - Then his father and mother shall seize him and bring him forth to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.
Deu 21:20 - And they shall say to the elders of his city, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.
Deu 21:21 - Then all the men of his city shall astone him with stones so that he dies. Thus you shall utterly bremove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and will fear.
g.  The hanging of a criminal on a tree — 21:22-23
Deu 21:22 - And if in a man there is a sin, a cause worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you 1hang him on a tree;
Deu 21:23 - His acorpse shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you must bury him on that day. For he who is hanged is 1baccursed of God, and you shall not defile your land, which Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 22 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30

15.  Concerning taking care of others' interests — 22:1-4, 8
Deu 22:1 - You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep straying and neglect them; you must areturn them to your brother.
Deu 22:2 - And if your brother is not nearby you, or if you do not know who he is, you shall bring it to your house. And it shall be with you until your brother demands it; then you shall return it to him.
Deu 22:3 - And thus shall you do with his donkey; and thus shall you do with his clothing; and thus shall you do with any of your brother’s lost things, which he has lost and you have found. You may not neglect them.
Deu 22:4 - You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen by the way and neglect them; you must alift them up with him.
16.  Concerning mixtures of any kind — 22:5, 9-12
Deu 22:5 - A woman shall not put on a man’s clothing, nor shall a man wear a woman’s garment; for everyone who does these things is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
17.  Sparing the producing animals — 22:6-7; 25:4
Deu 22:6 - If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest in the way, in any tree or on the ground, and in it are young birds or eggs, and the mother sitting upon the young birds or upon the eggs, you shall not take the amother with the young.
Deu 22:7 - You must let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you and that you may extend your days.
15.  Concerning taking care of others' interests (cont'd) — 22:8
Deu 22:8 - When you build a new house, you shall make a low wall around the edge of your roof so that you do not put the guilt of blood on your house if someone falls from it.
16.  Concerning mixtures of any kind (cont'd) — 22:9-12
Deu 22:9 - You shall not sow your vineyard with 1atwo kinds of seed, lest the full produce, the seed which you sow, be forfeited to the sanctuary, as well as the increase of the vineyard.
Deu 22:10 - You shall not 1plow with an ox and a donkey atogether.
Deu 22:11 - You shall not wear clothing of amixed materials, of wool and linen together.
Deu 22:12 - You shall make 1twisted cords upon the four acorners of your garment with which you cover yourself.
(5.  Concerning the government among the people—cont'd)
h.  The ordinances concerning matters related to marriage — 22:13-30
Deu 22:13 - If a man takes a wife and goes in unto her, and later 1despises her,
Deu 22:14 - And charges her with shameful deeds and spreads an evil report about her, and says, I took this woman, and when I drew near to her, I did not find her to be a virgin;
Deu 22:15 - Then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring forth the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.
Deu 22:16 - And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he despised her;
Deu 22:17 - And now he charges her with shameful deeds, saying, I did not find your daughter to be a virgin. But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
Deu 22:18 - Then the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
Deu 22:19 - And they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, for he spread an evil report against a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he may anot send her away all his days.
Deu 22:20 - But if this claim is true—the girl was not found to be a virgin—
Deu 22:21 - They shall bring the girl out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies; for she has done afolly in Israel by committing fornication in her father’s house. Thus you shall utterly bremove the evil from your midst.
Deu 22:22 - If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, both of them shall die, the man who was lying with the woman and the woman. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from Israel.
Deu 22:23 - If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her;
Deu 22:24 - You shall bring both of them out to the gate of that city and astone them with stones so that they die, the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst.
Deu 22:25 - But if the man finds the engaged girl in the field, and the man overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who was lying with her shall die.
Deu 22:26 - But to the girl you shall not do anything; there is no sin worthy of death with the girl; for as it is when a man rises up against his neighbor and 1slays him, so is this matter.
Deu 22:27 - For he found her in the field; the engaged girl cried out and there was no one to save her.
Deu 22:28 - If a man finds a girl who is a virgin and is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found;
Deu 22:29 - The man who was lying with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the girl’s father. And she shall be his wife, because he humbled her; he may not send her away all his days.
Deu 22:30 - A man shall not take his afather’s wife, so that he does not uncover the skirt of his father’s garment.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 23 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25

18.  Concerning the losing of the right to enter the congregation of Jehovah — 23:1-8
Deu 23:1 - He who has been 1wounded in the testicles or has the male organ cut off shall not enter the congregation of Jehovah.
Deu 23:2 - An illegitimate child shall not enter the congregation of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation, no descendant of his shall enter the congregation of Jehovah.
Deu 23:3 - An 1aAmmonite or a 1Moabite shall not enter the congregation of Jehovah; even to the btenth generation, no descendant of theirs shall enter the congregation of Jehovah forever;
Deu 23:4 - Because they did not come to meet you with bread and water in the way when you were coming out of Egypt, and because they hired aBalaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia against you, to curse you.
Deu 23:5 - But Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, and Jehovah your God turned the acurse into a blessing for you, for Jehovah your God loved you.
Deu 23:6 - aYou shall not seek peace with them nor prosperity with them all your days forever.
Deu 23:7 - You shall not abhor an 1Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a sojourner in his land.
Deu 23:8 - The children of the third generation who have been begotten of them may enter the congregation of Jehovah.
19.  Concerning keeping the camp clean — 23:9-14
Deu 23:9 - When you as a camp go forth against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.
Deu 23:10 - If there is among you a man who becomes unclean because of an accident in the night, he shall go outside the camp; he shall not enter into the midst of the camp.
Deu 23:11 - But when evening approaches, he shall bathe in water; and when the sun goes down, he shall enter into the midst of the camp.
Deu 23:12 - And you shall have an assigned place outside the camp, and there you shall go out;
Deu 23:13 - And you shall have a spade among your tools, and when you relieve yourself outside the camp, you shall dig with it and turn to cover your excrement.
Deu 23:14 - For Jehovah your God awalks in the midst of your camp to rescue you and deliver up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, and He must not see any indecent thing among you, lest He turn back from going after you.
(4.  Concerning aid to the needy—cont'd)
e.  Taking care of an escaped slave — 23:15-16
Deu 23:15 - You shall not 1adeliver to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you;
Deu 23:16 - He shall dwell with you, even in your midst, in the place which he chooses among your towns, wherever he pleases; you shall not oppress him.
20.  Concerning a harlot and a dog — 23:17-18
Deu 23:17 - There shall not be a cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a cult prostitute among the sons of Israel.
Deu 23:18 - You shall not bring the payment for a harlot or the price for a 1adog into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow, for both of them are an abomination to Jehovah your God.
(4.  Concerning aid to the needy—cont'd)
f.  Not making a brother pay interest — 23:19-20
Deu 23:19 - You shall not make your brother pay interest, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything on which one pays interest.
Deu 23:20 - You may make a aforeigner pay interest; but you shall not make your brother pay interest, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all your undertakings upon the land which you are entering to possess.
(3.  Concerning the worship of God—cont'd)
g.  By keeping a vow to Jehovah — 23:21-23
Deu 23:21 - aWhen you vow a 1vow to Jehovah your God, you shall not delay in paying it; for Jehovah your God would certainly require it of you, and it will become sin in you.
Deu 23:22 - But if you refrain from vowing, it will not become sin in you.
Deu 23:23 - What proceeds out of your lips you shall keep and do, as you have vowed to Jehovah your God voluntarily, which you have promised with your mouth.
21.  Concerning the neighbor's produce — 23:24-25
Deu 23:24 - When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat grapes as your soul desires, until you are satisfied; but you shall not put any into a 1vessel of yours.
Deu 23:25 - When you go into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck some aears with your hand; but you shall not wield a sickle upon your neighbor’s standing grain.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 24 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • •

(5.  Concerning the government among the people—cont'd)
i.  The ordinance concerning divorce — 24:1-4
Deu 24:1 - When a man takes a woman and marries her, if she does not find favor in his sight, because he has found some indecency in her; and he writes her a abill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house;
Deu 24:2 - And she goes forth from his house and goes to be another man’s;
Deu 24:3 - And the latter husband despises her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house; or if the latter husband, who has taken her as his wife, dies;
Deu 24:4 - Then the former husband, who sent her away, may anot return to take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled. For that is an abomination before Jehovah, and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance.
22.  Concerning a man taking a new wife — 24:5
Deu 24:5 - When a man takes a new 1awife, he shall not go out with the army, nor shall he be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home for one year, and he shall make his wife happy, whom he has taken.
(4.  Concerning aid to the needy—cont'd)
g.  Taking a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge — 24:6
Deu 24:6 - One shall not take a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes the livelihood as a pledge.
(5.  Concerning the government among the people—cont'd)
j.  The ordinance concerning kidnapping — 24:7
Deu 24:7 - If a man is found akidnapping someone from among his brothers of the children of Israel and deals with him as a slave or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die. Thus you shall utterly bremove the evil from your midst.
23.  Concerning a case of leprosy — 24:8-9
Deu 24:8 - Be careful in a case of aleprosy to carefully keep and do all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I commanded them, so shall you be certain to do.
Deu 24:9 - Remember what Jehovah your God did to aMiriam on the way when you came out of Egypt.
(4.  Concerning aid to the needy—cont'd)
h.  Concerning taking a pledge from the borrower — 24:10-13
Deu 24:10 - When you lend anything to your neighbor, you shall not enter his house in order to take his pledge.
Deu 24:11 - You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you are lending shall bring the pledge out to you.
Deu 24:12 - And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
Deu 24:13 - You must areturn his pledge to him when the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his mantle and bless you; and it will be righteousness to you before Jehovah your God.
i.  Concerning the wages given to the poor hired servant — 24:14-15
Deu 24:14 - You shall not oppress a poor and needy hired servant among your brothers or among the sojourners with you, who are in your land within your gates.
Deu 24:15 - On the day he earns it, you shall give him his awages, and the bsun shall not go down upon it (for he is poor and his life depends on it); lest he cry against you to Jehovah and it become sin in you.
(5.  Concerning the government among the people—cont'd)
k.  The ordinances concerning fathers and their children — 24:16
Deu 24:16 - 1aFathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
(4.  Concerning aid to the needy—cont'd)
j.  In remembering the need of a sojourner, and orphan, or a widow — 24:17-22
Deu 24:17 - You shall not distort justice due a sojourner or an orphan, nor shall you take a widow’s garment as a pledge.
Deu 24:18 - But you shall aremember that you were a slave in Egypt and that Jehovah your God ransomed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.
Deu 24:19 - When you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not turn back to agather it; it shall be for the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all your undertakings.
Deu 24:20 - When you beat down the fruit of your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs afterward; it shall be for the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow.
Deu 24:21 - When you cut the grapes from your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward; it shall be for the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow.
Deu 24:22 - And you shall aremember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 25 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • • 15 • • • •

(5.  Concerning the government among the people—cont'd)
l.  The ordinance concerning a dispute brought before the children of Israel — 25:1-3
Deu 25:1 - aIf there is a dispute between men, and they approach the court, and the judges judge them, they shall bjustify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
Deu 25:2 - And if the wicked man is worthy of beating, the judge shall make him lie down and have him abeaten before him as is sufficient for his wickedness, by number.
Deu 25:3 - aForty blows he may give him; he shall not exceed, lest, in exceeding, he beat him beyond these with many blows and your brother be 1degraded before your eyes.
17.  Sparing the producing animals (cont'd) — 25:4
Deu 25:4 - aYou shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
(5.  Concerning the government among the people—cont'd)
m.  The ordinance concerning a brother who is not willing to do the duty of a husband's brother — 25:5-10
Deu 25:5 - If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and he has no son, the awife of the deceased man shall not become the wife of a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in unto her and take her as his wife, and he shall do the bduty of a husband’s brother for her.
Deu 25:6 - And the firstborn whom she bears shall 1assume the aname of his deceased brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel.
Deu 25:7 - And if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, his brother’s wife shall go up to the agate to the elders and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name in Israel to his brother; he is not willing to do the duty of a husband’s brother for me.
Deu 25:8 - Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, I do anot desire to take her;
Deu 25:9 - Then his brother’s wife shall draw near to him in the sight of the elders and remove his asandal from off his foot, and she shall spit in his face and respond and say, Thus shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.
Deu 25:10 - And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him whose sandal has been removed.
n.  The ordinance concerning a wife who helps a fighting husband immorally — 25:11-12
Deu 25:11 - When two men fight together, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and she puts forth her hand and takes hold of his private parts;
Deu 25:12 - Then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.
o.  The ordinance concerning weights and measures — 25:13-16
Deu 25:13 - You shall not have in your bag 1adiffering weights, one heavy and one light.
Deu 25:14 - You shall not have in your house adiffering measures, one large and one small.
Deu 25:15 - A full and righteous weight you shall have, and a full and righteous measure you shall have, in order that your days may be aextended upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.
Deu 25:16 - For everyone who does these things, everyone who does unrighteousness, is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
24.  Not forgetting to blot out the memory of Amalek — 25:17-19
Deu 25:17 - Remember what aAmalek did to you on the way when you came out of Egypt,
Deu 25:18 - That he met you on the way and struck you at the rear, struck all those who were worn out at your rear, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.
Deu 25:19 - Therefore when Jehovah your God gives you rest from all your enemies surrounding you, in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the amemory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 26 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • • 15 • • • •

(3.  Concerning the worship of God—cont'd)
h.  By offering some of the first of all the fruit of the good land after entering it and possessing it as an inheritance — 26:1-11
Deu 26:1 - And when you enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,
Deu 26:2 - You shall take some of the 1afirst of all the fruit of the ground which you shall bring from your land, which Jehovah your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the bplace where Jehovah your God will choose to cause His name to dwell.
Deu 26:3 - And you shall go to the priest who is serving in those days and say to him, I declare to Jehovah your God today that I have entered the land which Jehovah swore to our fathers to give us.
Deu 26:4 - And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and place it before the altar of Jehovah your God.
Deu 26:5 - And you shall respond and say before Jehovah your God, A 1perishing aAramaean was my father; and he went down to bEgypt and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a great and mighty and numerous nation.
Deu 26:6 - And the Egyptians aill-treated us and afflicted us and put hard work upon us;
Deu 26:7 - But we acried out to Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and saw our affliction and our labor and our oppression.
Deu 26:8 - And Jehovah abrought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and by great terror and by signs and wonders.
Deu 26:9 - And He has brought us to this place and has agiven us this land, a land flowing with bmilk and honey.
Deu 26:10 - And now I have just brought the afirst of the fruit of the ground, which You, O Jehovah, have given me. And you shall place it before Jehovah your God and bow down before Jehovah your God.
Deu 26:11 - And you and the Levite and the sojourner in your midst shall arejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you and to your household.
(4.  Concerning aid to the needy—cont'd)
a.  The aid by the tithes at the end of every three years (cont'd) — 26:12-15
Deu 26:12 - When you have finished giving all the 1tithes of your produce in the athird year, the year of the btithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied.
Deu 26:13 - And you shall say before Jehovah your God, I have removed what is holy from out of my house, and I have also given it to the Levite and the sojourner, to the orphan and the widow, according to Your whole commandment, which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed any of Your commandments and I have not forgotten them.
Deu 26:14 - I have not eaten any of it in my sorrow, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I given any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.
Deu 26:15 - Look down from 1Your aholy habitation, from heaven, and 2bless Your people Israel and the ground which You have given us, as You swore to our fathers, a land flowing with bmilk and honey.
25.  A concluding word — 26:16-19
Deu 26:16 - This day Jehovah your God is commanding you to 1do these statutes and ordinances; therefore you shall keep them and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deu 26:17 - It is Jehovah whom you have today declared to be your God and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes and His commandments and His ordinances, and will listen to His voice.
Deu 26:18 - And it is Jehovah who has today declared you to be a people for His 1apersonal treasure, even as He promised you; and that you will keep all His commandments;
Deu 26:19 - And that He will set you high aabove all the nations which He has made, for praise and for a name and for honor; and that you will be a bholy people to Jehovah your God, as He has spoken.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 27 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 •

III.  A warning — 27:1-28:68

A.  Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanding the people to keep the whole commandment and to declare the curses in the good land — 27:1-26
Deu 27:1 - And Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying, Keep the whole commandment which I am commanding you today.
Deu 27:2 - And in the day when you across over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, you shall erect for yourself large stones; and you shall coat them with plaster.
Deu 27:3 - And you shall awrite upon them 1all the words of this law when you cross over, in order that you may enter the land which Jehovah your God is giving you, a land flowing with bmilk and honey, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, promised to you.
Deu 27:4 - And when you cross over the Jordan, you shall erect these stones, concerning which I am commanding you today, on aMount Ebal; and you shall coat them with plaster.
Deu 27:5 - aAnd you shall build there an 1altar to Jehovah your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an 2iron tool upon them;
Deu 27:6 - With unhewn stones you shall build the altar of Jehovah your God. Then you shall offer up burnt offerings upon it to Jehovah your God;
Deu 27:7 - And you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God.
Deu 27:8 - Then you shall awrite upon the stones all the words of this law very clearly.
Deu 27:9 - And Moses, with the Levitical priests, spoke to all Israel, saying, Be silent and hear, O Israel; this day you have become the people of Jehovah your God.
Deu 27:10 - Therefore you shall listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, and do His commandments and His statutes, which I am commanding you today.
Deu 27:11 - And Moses commanded the people on that day, saying,
Deu 27:12 - These shall stand upon aMount Gerizim to bless the people when you cross over the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;
Deu 27:13 - And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal for acursing: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deu 27:14 - And the Levites shall respond and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
Deu 27:15 - Cursed is the man who amakes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, the work of the craftsman’s hands, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, 1bAmen.
Deu 27:16 - Cursed is he who adishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:17 - Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s aboundary marker. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:18 - Cursed is he who leads astray a ablind man on the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:19 - Cursed is he who distorts justice due a asojourner, an orphan, or a widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:20 - Cursed is he who lies with his afather’s wife, for he uncovers the skirt of his father’s garment. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:21 - Cursed is he who lies with any aanimal. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:22 - Cursed is he who lies with his asister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:23 - Cursed is he who lies with his amother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:24 - Cursed is he who aslays his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:25 - Cursed is he who atakes payment to slay someone of innocent blood. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deu 27:26 - aCursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 28 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • • 15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30 • • • • 35 • • • • 40 • • • • 45 • • • • 50 • • • • 55 • • • • 60 • • • • 65 • • •

B.  The blessings that would overtake them for their diligence in listening to Jehovah and doing His commandments — 28:1-14
Deu 28:1 - And if you listen diligently to the voice of Jehovah your God and are certain to do all His commandments, which I am commanding you today, Jehovah your God will set you high aabove all the nations of the earth;
Deu 28:2 - And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.
Deu 28:3 - aBlessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
Deu 28:4 - Blessed shall be the afruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your animals, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock.
Deu 28:5 - Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
Deu 28:6 - Blessed shall you be when you acome in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
Deu 28:7 - Jehovah will cause your enemies, who rise up against you, to be struck down before you; on one road they will come out against you, but on seven roads they will aflee before you.
Deu 28:8 - Jehovah will command the blessing upon you in your astorehouses and in all your bundertakings; and He will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.
Deu 28:9 - Jehovah will establish you as a aholy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in His ways.
Deu 28:10 - And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by Jehovah’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
Deu 28:11 - And Jehovah will give you an excess of prosperity in the afruit of your womb and in the fruit of your animals and in the fruit of your ground, upon the ground which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.
Deu 28:12 - Jehovah will open up to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give arain for your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. And you will blend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
Deu 28:13 - And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail, and you will tend only upward, and you will not tend downward, if you will listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today to keep and to do.
Deu 28:14 - And you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Deu 28:15 - But if you do anot listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and are not certain to do all His commandments and His statutes, which I am commanding you today, all these 1curses will come upon you and overtake you.
Deu 28:16 - aCursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
Deu 28:17 - Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
Deu 28:18 - Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock.
Deu 28:19 - Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
Deu 28:20 - Jehovah will send to you cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke in all your undertakings which you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your practices through which you have abandoned Me.
Deu 28:21 - Jehovah will make a plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land which you are entering to possess.
Deu 28:22 - Jehovah will strike you with aconsuming disease and fever and inflammation, and with burning heat and 1drought, and with blight and mildew; and these will pursue you until you perish.
Deu 28:23 - And your asky, which is above your head, will be bronze, and the land, which is under you, iron.
Deu 28:24 - Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down upon you until you are destroyed.
Deu 28:25 - Jehovah will cause you to be struck down before your enemies; on one road you will go out against them, but on seven roads you will aflee before them. And you will be a source of shuddering to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deu 28:26 - And your acorpse will become food for all the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.
Deu 28:27 - Jehovah will strike you with the aboils of Egypt, tumors, scabs, and itching, of which you cannot be healed.
Deu 28:28 - Jehovah will strike you with madness, ablindness, and bewilderment of heart;
Deu 28:29 - And you will be groping at noonday just as the ablind man gropes in darkness; and you will not succeed in your ventures, but will only be oppressed and plundered always; and no one will save you.
Deu 28:30 - You will get engaged to a woman, but another man will ravish her; you will build a house, but you will not dwell in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not 1partake of it.
Deu 28:31 - Your ox will be slaughtered in your sight, but you will not eat of it; your donkey will be torn away from before you, but it will not be returned to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, but no one will rescue them for you.
Deu 28:32 - Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while your eyes look on and fail from longing after them all the day, but you will be powerless.
Deu 28:33 - A people whom you have not known will eat the fruit of your ground and all your hard-earned produce, and you will be only oppressed and crushed always.
Deu 28:34 - And you will go mad because of the sight before your eyes which you will see.
Deu 28:35 - Jehovah will strike you on the knees and legs with terrible aboils, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
Deu 28:36 - Jehovah will bring you and your king, whom you will have set over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have not known; and there you will aserve other gods, mere wood and stone.
Deu 28:37 - And you will become a source of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to whom Jehovah will drive you.
Deu 28:38 - You will put out much seed in the field, but you will harvest little; for the alocust will consume it.
Deu 28:39 - You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will not drink the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm will devour them.
Deu 28:40 - You will have olive trees in all your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.
Deu 28:41 - You will beget sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you; for they will go into acaptivity.
Deu 28:42 - The alocust will take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
Deu 28:43 - The sojourner who is in your midst will rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.
Deu 28:44 - He will alend to you, and you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you will be the tail.
Deu 28:45 - And all these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes, which He commanded you;
Deu 28:46 - And they will be with you and with your seed as a sign and wonder forever.
Deu 28:47 - Because you did anot serve Jehovah your God with rejoicing and gladness of heart on account of the abundance of all things,
Deu 28:48 - You will serve your enemies, whom Jehovah will send out against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron ayoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Deu 28:49 - Jehovah will bring against you a nation from afar away, from the end of the earth, like the beagle that swoops down, a nation whose ctongue you will not understand,
Deu 28:50 - A nation of fierce countenance, who will not regard an aold man’s person nor show favor to the young man.
Deu 28:51 - And they will eat the fruit of your animals and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed; they will not leave for you grain, new wine, or fresh oil, the offspring of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they cause you to perish.
Deu 28:52 - And they will abesiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they will besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which Jehovah your God has given you.
Deu 28:53 - aAnd you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
Deu 28:54 - The man who is delicately bred and luxurious among you, he will begrudge his brother, the wife of his bosom, and the remnant of his children whom he has left,
Deu 28:55 - Not giving to one of them any of the flesh of his children whom he will eat; because nothing is left with him in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you in all your towns.
Deu 28:56 - The delicately bred and luxurious woman among you, who does not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because of her luxuriousness and delicacy, she will begrudge the husband of her bosom and her son and daughter
Deu 28:57 - The child who comes forth from her and her children whom she will bear; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and distress with which your enemy will distress you in your towns.
Deu 28:58 - If you are not certain to do all the words of this law written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—Jehovah your God—
Deu 28:59 - Jehovah will make your plagues and the plagues of your seed extraordinary, great and persistent plagues, and malignant and persistent sicknesses.
Deu 28:60 - And He will put upon you again all the aillnesses of Egypt, which you were afraid of, and they will cling to you.
Deu 28:61 - Also, every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Jehovah will raise up upon you until you are destroyed.
Deu 28:62 - And you will be left few in number, whereas you were as the astars of heaven in multitude; for you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.
Deu 28:63 - And as Jehovah exulted over you to do you good and to multiply you, so will Jehovah exult over you to make you perish and to destroy you; and you will be torn off the land which you are entering to possess.
Deu 28:64 - And Jehovah will ascatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you will bserve other gods whom you and your fathers have not known, mere wood and stone.
Deu 28:65 - And among those nations you will have no rest, nor will there be a resting place for the sole of your foot; but Jehovah will give you there a quivering heart and eyes failing with longing and a alanguishing soul.
Deu 28:66 - And your life will be hung in suspense before you, and you will dread night and day; and you will have no assurance of your life.
Deu 28:67 - In the morning you will say, Oh that it were evening! and in the evening you will say, Oh that it were morning! because of your heart’s dread with which you will dread and because of the sight before your eyes which you will see.
Deu 28:68 - And Jehovah will bring you back to aEgypt in ships, by the way concerning which I said to you, You shall never again see it. And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies, as male slaves and as female slaves, but no one will buy you.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 29 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • •

C.  The curses that would overtake them for their failing to listen to Jehovah and do His commandments — 28:15-68

IV.  The enactment of the covenant — 29:1-30:20

A.  The introductory word — 29:1-17
1.  Based upon the experiences of the past — vv. 1-8, 16-17
Deu 29:1 - These are the words of the 1acovenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the 1bcovenant that He made with them at Horeb.
Deu 29:2 - And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, You have aseen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land,
Deu 29:3 - The great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.
Deu 29:4 - But Jehovah has anot given you a 1heart to understand and eyes to see and ears to hear until this day.
Deu 29:5 - And I have led you aforty years in the wilderness; your bclothing did not wear out from upon you, nor did your sandal wear out from upon your foot;
Deu 29:6 - You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you might aknow that I am Jehovah your God.
Deu 29:7 - And when you came to this place, aSihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us in battle, and we slew them;
Deu 29:8 - And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
2.  The objects and the purpose of the enactment of the covenant — vv. 9-15
Deu 29:9 - Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them in order that you may prosper in all that you do.
Deu 29:10 - You are standing today, all of you, before Jehovah your God, 1your leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, every man of Israel,
Deu 29:11 - Your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner with you, who is in the midst of your camp, from the aman who chops your wood to the man who draws your water,
Deu 29:12 - In order to enter into a covenant with Jehovah your God and into His aoath, which Jehovah your God is making with you today,
Deu 29:13 - So that He may establish you today as His people and that He may be your God, even as He has spoken to you and even as He aswore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deu 29:14 - However not with you alone do I make this acovenant and this oath;
Deu 29:15 - But I make it with him who is here today standing with us before Jehovah our God and with him who is not here with us today.
1.  Based upon the experiences of the past (cont'd) — vv. 16-17
Deu 29:16 - For you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we passed through the midst of the nations whom you passed through,
Deu 29:17 - And you saw their detestable images and their idols, mere wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them.
B.  The contents of the covenant — 29:18-30:10
Deu 29:18 - Beware that there is not among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away, even today, from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the 1gods of those nations; that there is not among you a 2aroot bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood;
Deu 29:19 - And that when he hears the words of this 1oath, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart; 2to the ruin of the moist with the dry.
Deu 29:20 - Jehovah will not be willing to pardon him; but rather the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy will fume against that man, and all the oath that is written in this book will settle on him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
Deu 29:21 - And Jehovah will separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the oaths of the covenant written in this book of the law.
Deu 29:22 - And the following generation, your children who will rise up after you and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land and its diseases with which Jehovah has made it sick;
Deu 29:23 - And that all its land is sulfur and salt, a burning waste; that it is not sown, nor does it sprout, nor does any vegetation come up in it; that it is like the overthrow of aSodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in His anger and burning wrath—
Deu 29:24 - Indeed all the nations will say, aWhy has Jehovah done this to this land? Why the burning of this great anger?
Deu 29:25 - And they will say, It is because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out from the land of Egypt;
Deu 29:26 - And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they had not known and He had not allotted to them.
Deu 29:27 - And the anger of Jehovah burned against this land, bringing upon it all the acurses written in this book;
Deu 29:28 - And Jehovah aplucked them off their land in anger and in burning wrath and in great indignation, and sent them to another land, as they are this day.
Deu 29:29 - The things that are 1hidden belong to Jehovah our God; but the things that are 1revealed, to us and our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 30 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20

Deu 30:1 - And 1when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have aset before you; and you bring them to heart while among the nations to whom Jehovah your God will drive you;
Deu 30:2 - And you and your children areturn to Jehovah your God and listen to His voice, according to all that I am commanding you today, with all your heart and with all your soul;
Deu 30:3 - Then Jehovah your God will aturn your captivity and be compassionate to you, and He will turn and bgather you from all the peoples among whom Jehovah your God has scattered you.
Deu 30:4 - aIf any of you have been driven out to the ends of heaven, from there will Jehovah your God bgather you and from there will He take you.
Deu 30:5 - And Jehovah your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it; and He will do good for you and will multiply you more than He did your fathers.
Deu 30:6 - And Jehovah your God will circumcise your aheart and the heart of your seed, so that you will blove Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Deu 30:7 - And Jehovah your God will put all these 1oaths upon your enemies and upon them who hate you and who have persecuted you.
Deu 30:8 - And you will turn and listen to the voice of Jehovah, and you will do all His commandments, which I am commanding you today.
Deu 30:9 - And Jehovah your God will give you an excess of prosperity in all your undertakings, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your animals and in the fruit of your ground, for Jehovah will again exult over you for good as He exulted over your fathers;
Deu 30:10 - If you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes written in this book of the law; if you turn back to Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
C.  The concluding word — 30:11-20
Deu 30:11 - For this commandment which I am commanding you today, it is not too 1difficult for you, nor is it distant.
Deu 30:12 - 1aIt is not in heaven that you should say, Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us to make us hear it and do it?
Deu 30:13 - Nor is it across the 1sea that you should say, Who will go across the sea for us and bring it to us to make us hear it and do it?
Deu 30:14 - But the word is very near to you, even in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
Deu 30:15 - See, I have aput before you today life and good, and death and evil.
Deu 30:16 - 1If you obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and walk in His ways and keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, then you will live and multiply, and Jehovah your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to possess.
Deu 30:17 - But if your heart turns and you do not listen, but rather you are drawn away in worship to other gods and serve them,
Deu 30:18 - I declare to you today that you shall surely perish; your days will not be extended upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to go and possess.
Deu 30:19 - I call aheaven and earth to witness against you today: I have bset before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you and your seed may live,
Deu 30:20 - In loving Jehovah your God by listening to His voice and aholding fast to Him; for 1He is your blife and the length of your days, that you may dwell upon the land which Jehovah cswore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 31 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30

V.  The final exhortations and charges — 31:1-29

A.  Moses' exhortation to the people — vv. 1-6
Deu 31:1 - When Moses 1finished speaking these words to all Israel,
Deu 31:2 - He said to them, I am a ahundred and twenty years old today; I can no longer bgo out and come in, and Jehovah has said to me, cYou shall not cross over this Jordan.
Deu 31:3 - It is Jehovah your God who is acrossing over before you; it is He who will destroy these nations from before you, and you will dispossess them. bJoshua is the one who is crossing over before you, as Jehovah has spoken.
Deu 31:4 - And Jehovah will do to them even as He did to aSihon and bOg, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land when He destroyed them.
Deu 31:5 - And Jehovah will adeliver them up before you, and you will do to them according to the whole commandment, which I have commanded you.
Deu 31:6 - aBe strong and take courage; do bnot fear, neither be terrified of them, for it is Jehovah your God who goes cwith you; He will dnot fail you nor forsake you.
B.  Moses' exhortation to Joshua — vv. 7-8
Deu 31:7 - And Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, aBe strong and take courage, for you will go with this people into the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers to give them; and you will cause them to inherit it.
Deu 31:8 - But it is Jehovah who is going abefore you. He will be with you; He will bnot fail you nor forsake you. Do cnot fear, neither be dismayed.
C.  Moses' exhortation to the priests, the sons of Levi, and the elders of Israel — vv. 9-13
Deu 31:9 - And Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bear the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, and to all the elders of Israel.
Deu 31:10 - And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every aseven years, at the appointed time of the year of release, at the Feast of 1Tabernacles,
Deu 31:11 - When all Israel comes to aappear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Deu 31:12 - Gather the people, the men, the women, and the little ones, and the sojourner with you, who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear Jehovah your God and be certain to do all the words of this law,
Deu 31:13 - And that their achildren, who have not known these things, may hear and learn to fear Jehovah your God all the days that you live upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.
D.  Jehovah's command to Moses to write a song — vv. 14-23
Deu 31:14 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Now your days draw near for you to adie. Call bJoshua and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting that I may charge him. So Moses went with Joshua, and they presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
Deu 31:15 - And Jehovah appeared in the tent in a pillar of acloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.
Deu 31:16 - And Jehovah said to Moses, You are now about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will rise up and go as harlots after the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are entering; and they will forsake Me and break My acovenant which I made with them.
Deu 31:17 - And My anger will burn against them in that day, and I will forsake them and ahide My face from them; and they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will befall them, so that they will say in that day, Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these evils have befallen us?
Deu 31:18 - And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, for they turned to other gods.
Deu 31:19 - And now write for yourselves this asong and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouth that I may have this song as a witness against the children of Israel.
Deu 31:20 - For I will bring them into the land which I swore to their fathers, a land flowing with amilk and honey, and they will eat and become bsatisfied and cgrow fat, and they will turn to other gods and serve them and despise Me and break My covenant.
Deu 31:21 - And when many evils and troubles befall them, this song will respond as a witness before them, because it will not be forgotten in the mouth of their seed; for I know their intention, which they are making even today before I bring them into the land which I have sworn to them.
Deu 31:22 - So Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the children of Israel.
Deu 31:23 - And He charged aJoshua the son of Nun and said, Be strong and take courage, for you will bring the children of Israel into the land which I have sworn to them; and I will be with you.
E.  Moses' completion of the writing and his charges to the Levites and to all the elders of Israel — vv. 24-29
Deu 31:24 - And when Moses finished writing the words of this law in a book until they were completed,
Deu 31:25 - Moses charged the Levites who bear the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah, saying,
Deu 31:26 - Take this abook of the law and place it at the side of the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there as a witness against you.
Deu 31:27 - For I know your 1rebelliousness and your 1stiff neck: See, while I am yet here alive with you today, you have been rebelling against Jehovah; so how much more after my death!
Deu 31:28 - Gather to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak in their hearing these words and that I may call aheaven and earth to witness against them;
Deu 31:29 - For I know that aafter my death you will utterly spoil yourselves and turn away from the way that I have commanded you; and evil will come upon you in the last days, for you will do what is evil in the sight of Jehovah so as to provoke Him to anger by your undertakings.

VI.  The song of Moses — 31:30-32:47

A.  The contents of the song — 31:30-32:43
Deu 31:30 - And Moses spoke in the hearing of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were completed.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 32 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • • 15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • • 30 • • • • 35 • • • • 40 • • • • 45 • • • • 50 • •

Deu 32:1 - Give ear, O aheaven, and let me speak;And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.Deu 32:2 - Let my teaching drop like the arain;Let my speech distill like the dew,Like raindrops upon tender grass,And like abundant bshowers upon herbage.Deu 32:3 - For the name of Jehovah will I declare.Ascribe greatness to our God!Deu 32:4 - The aRock—perfect is His work,For all His bways are justice:A God of faithfulness and without injustice;Righteous and upright is He.Deu 32:5 - Corruptly have they dealt with Him—their blemish is not His 1sons—A twisted and acrooked generation are they.Deu 32:6 - Do you repay Jehovah with this,Foolish and unwise people?Is He not your aFather who bought you?Was it not He who bmade you and established you?Deu 32:7 - Remember the days of long ago;Consider the years of generation upon generation;Ask your father, and he will inform you;Your elders, and they will tell you.Deu 32:8 - When the aMost High gave the nations their inheritance,When He bdivided the sons of 1man,He set the cborders of the peoplesAccording to the number of Israel’s children.Deu 32:9 - For Jehovah’s portion is His people;Jacob is the allotment of His ainheritance.Deu 32:10 - He found him in a land of awilderness,And in a howling desert waste;He encircled him, cared for him with all attention;He guarded him like the bpupil of His eye.Deu 32:11 - As the aeagle rouses his nest,Hovers over his young,Spreads his bwings, takes them,And bears them up upon his pinions;Deu 32:12 - So Jehovah alone aled him,And there was bno strange god with Him.Deu 32:13 - He made him ride on the ahigh places of the earth,And he ate the produce of the field;And He made him suck bhoney out of a crag,And coil out of flint rock:Deu 32:14 - Curd of cows and milk of sheep,With fat of lambs,And rams, the offspring of Bashan, and goats,With the choicest awheat;And the bblood of the grape you drank as fermenting wine.
Deu 32:15 - But 1aJeshurun grew fat and kicked—You have become bfat, you have grown thick, you have gorged yourself—And forsook God, who made him,And treated the cRock of his salvation disdainfully.Deu 32:16 - They made Him ajealous with strange gods;With abominations they provoked Him to anger.Deu 32:17 - They sacrificed to 1ademons, to those who were no god,To gods they did not know,To new ones who had recently come up,Before whom your fathers had not shuddered.Deu 32:18 - You have neglected the aRock who begot youAnd have forgotten the God who travailed with you.Deu 32:19 - And Jehovah saw and held them in contempt,Because of anger provoked by His asons and daughters.Deu 32:20 - And He said, I will ahide My face from them;I will see what their latter end will be.For they are a generation of perversions,Children in whom is no faithfulness.Deu 32:21 - They have made Me ajealous with a non-God;They have provoked Me to anger with their 1bvanities.Hence I will make them cjealous with a dnon-people;With a foolish nation I will provoke them to anger.Deu 32:22 - For a afire is kindled in My angerAnd burns unto nethermost 1Sheol.And it devours the earth and its produceAnd sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.Deu 32:23 - I will heap evils on them;I will use up My aarrows against them.Deu 32:24 - They shall be sucked up by famine,And eaten up by fire boltAnd bitter destruction;And I will send the teeth of beasts against them,With the venom of those that crawl in the dust.
Deu 32:25 - The sword shall bereave outside,And inside, terror;Taking both the young man and the virgin,The suckling with the gray-haired man.Deu 32:26 - I would have said, I will ascatter them,I will cause the memory of them to cease from among men;Deu 32:27 - Except I dreaded the vexation from the enemy;Lest their adversaries misjudge;Lest they say, Our hand is exalted,And it is not Jehovah who has wrought all this.Deu 32:28 - For they are a nation destitute of counsel,And there is ano understanding in them.Deu 32:29 - If they had been wise, they would have comprehended athis,They would have perceived their latter end.Deu 32:30 - How shall aone chase a thousand,And two put ten thousand to flight,Were it not that their Rock sold them,And Jehovah delivered them up?Deu 32:31 - For their rock is not like our aRock;And of this our enemies are judges.Deu 32:32 - For their vine is from Sodom’s vine,And from Gomorrah’s fields;Their grapes are the grapes of poison;Clusters of bitterness have they.Deu 32:33 - Their wine is the venom of serpentsAnd the cruel poison of cobras.Deu 32:34 - Is this not laid up in store with Me,Sealed up in My treasuries?Deu 32:35 - aVengeance is Mine and so is retribution,For the time when their foot slips;Because the day of their calamity has drawn near,And the things destined to happen to them hasten.Deu 32:36 - aFor Jehovah will 1execute judgment for His people,And He will have compassion on His servants,When He sees that their support is gone,And that neither fettered nor free remain.Deu 32:37 - And He will say, aWhere are their gods,The rock they sought refuge in,Deu 32:38 - Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,And drank the wine of their drink offering?Let them rise up and help you;Let 1them be a shelter over you.Deu 32:39 - See now that I, I am He,And there is no god with Me.It is I who kill, and I amake alive;I wound, and it is I who bheal;cAnd there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Deu 32:40 - For I alift up My hand to heavenAnd say, As I blive forever:Deu 32:41 - If I sharpen My flashing sword,And My hand takes hold of judgment,I will repay My adversaries with vengeance,And those who hate Me will I recompense.Deu 32:42 - I will make My arrows drunk with blood,And My sword will devour flesh—With the blood of the slain and of the captives,The flesh of the long-haired 1leaders of the enemy.Deu 32:43 - aShout 1joyously, you nations, with His people,Because He will bavenge the blood of His servants,And He will repay His adversaries with vengeanceAnd will cover the guilt of His land and of His people.
B.  The word of Moses and Joshua to the people — 32:44-47
Deu 32:44 - And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and aHoshea the son of Nun.
Deu 32:45 - And Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel.
Deu 32:46 - And he said to them, Set your heart on all these words which I am testifying to you today. You shall command them to your achildren that they may be certain to do all the words of this law.
Deu 32:47 - For it is not a matter too vain for you, because it is your alife; and by this matter you will extend your days upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.

VII.  The death of Moses, and his successor — 32:48-52; 34:1-12

A.  The death of Moses — 32:48-52; 34:1-8
Deu 32:48 - And Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
Deu 32:49 - aGo up to this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which faces Jericho, and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel as a possession;
Deu 32:50 - And die in the mountain to which you are going up, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people;
Deu 32:51 - Because 1you were unfaithful to Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because 1you did not 2sanctify Me among the children of Israel.
Deu 32:52 - But from a distance you shall asee the land, yet you shall 1not go there into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 33 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • • • •
15 • • • • 20 • • • • 25 • • • •

VIII.  The blessing of Moses — 33:1-29

A.  The introductory word — vv. 1-5
Deu 33:1 - And this is the 1blessing with which Moses, the aman of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deu 33:2 - And he said,Jehovah came from aSinai,And He dawned upon them from Seir;He shined forth from Mount Paran,And He approached from the bmyriads of holy ones;From His right hand a fiery claw went out to them.Deu 33:3 - Indeed, He aloves the people.All His bsaints were in Your hand,And they sat down at Your cfeet;Everyone receives of Your words.Deu 33:4 - aMoses commanded us a law,A possession of the congregation of Jacob.Deu 33:5 - And He was King in aJeshurun,When the heads of the people gathered themselves,The tribes of Israel together.
B.  The blessing — vv. 6-25
Deu 33:6 - aMay 1Reuben live and not die,Nor his men be few.Deu 33:7 - And this is the blessing concerning Judah; and he said,Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah,And 1bring him to his people.With his hands he contended for them;And may You be a help against his 2adversaries.
Deu 33:8 - And concerning Levi he said,May Your Thummim and aUrim be with 1Your faithful man,Whom You tested at Massah,With whom You contended at the waters of bMeribah—Deu 33:9 - He who said of his afather and mother,I do not 1regard him;And his bbrothers he did not acknowledge,And his children he did not recognize;For they have kept Your speakingAnd have guarded Your ccovenant.Deu 33:10 - They shall show Jacob Your ordinances,And Israel Your law;They shall put aincense before Your nostrilsAnd whole burnt offerings upon Your altar.Deu 33:11 - Bless, O Jehovah, his 1might,And the work of his hands accept;Wound thoroughly the loins of those who rise up against himAnd of those who hate him, that they may not rise up again.Deu 33:12 - Concerning Benjamin he said,The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell securely beside Him;Jehovah shall cover over him all the day,And He shall adwell between his shoulders.Deu 33:13 - And concerning Joseph he said,May his land be ablessed of JehovahWith the choicest things of heaven, with the bdewAnd with the deep waters that couch beneath;Deu 33:14 - With the choicest of the crops of the sun,And with the choicest of the yield of the 1moons;Deu 33:15 - With the top of the ancient amountains,And with the choicest things of the eternal hills;Deu 33:16 - With the choicest things of the earth, and the fullness thereof,And the favor of Him who dwelt in the athornbush.May they come upon the head of Joseph,And upon the top of the head of him who is separated among his brothers.Deu 33:17 - Like his firstborn ox, he has majesty;And his horns are the ahorns of the wild ox;With them he shall drive peoplesTo the ends of the earth together.Those are the ten thousands of 1Ephraim;And those the thousands of 1Manasseh.Deu 33:18 - And concerning Zebulun he said,Rejoice, Zebulun, for your 1going forth,And Issachar, for your tents!
Deu 33:19 - They shall call peoples to the amountain;There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness;For they shall suck the abundance of the seasAnd the hidden treasures of the sand.Deu 33:20 - And concerning Gad he said,Blessed be He who enlarges Gad.He dwells as a lioness,And tears off the arm, yea, even the top of the head.Deu 33:21 - And he provided the afirst part for himself,For there the portion of a 1lawgiver is reserved;And he came with the heads of the people;He executed the righteousness of JehovahAnd His judgments with Israel.
Deu 33:22 - And concerning Dan he said,Dan is a lion’s whelpThat leaps forth from aBashan.
Deu 33:23 - And concerning Naphtali he said,O Naphtali, satisfied with favor,And full of the blessing of Jehovah:Possess the asea and the south.Deu 33:24 - And concerning Asher he said,Blessed be Asher above the sons.May he be the one favored of his brothers,And the one dipping his foot in 1oil.Deu 33:25 - Your doorbolts shall be iron and copper;And as your days are, so shall your strength be.
C.  The concluding word — vv. 26-29
Deu 33:26 - There is no one like the God of aJeshurun,Who brides through the heavens as your helpAnd in His majesty through the skies.
Deu 33:27 - The God of old is your 1ahabitation,And underneath are eternal arms.And He drove out the enemy before youAnd said, Destroy!Deu 33:28 - So Israel dwelt securely,The fountain of Jacob in solitude,On a land of grain and new wine;And the heavens over him drop their dew.Deu 33:29 - Happy are you, O Israel; who is alike you?A people bsaved by Jehovah,The shield of your chelpAnd He who is the sword of your majesty!So your enemies shall come cringing to you,And you shall tread upon their high places.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 34 of 34

Verses
vv. 1 • • • 5 • • • • 10 • •

(VII.  The death of Moses, and his successor—cont'd)

A.  The death of Moses (cont'd) — 34:1-8
Deu 34:1 - Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount aNebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And Jehovah showed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan;
Deu 34:2 - And all of Naphtali; and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh; and all the land of Judah as far as the asea beyond it;
Deu 34:3 - And the Negev; and the Plain, that is, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
Deu 34:4 - And Jehovah said to him, aThis is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your bseed I will give it. I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not go over there.
Deu 34:5 - So aMoses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab according to the word of Jehovah.
Deu 34:6 - And 1He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial site to this day.
Deu 34:7 - And Moses was a ahundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not bdim, nor had his freshness left him.
Deu 34:8 - And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for athirty days; thus, the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were completed.
B.  The successor of Moses — 34:9-12
Deu 34:9 - And 1Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had 2alaid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel listened to him and did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Deu 34:10 - And there has not arisen a aprophet since then in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah knew bface to face,
Deu 34:11 - For all the asigns and the wonders which Jehovah sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land,
Deu 34:12 - And for all the mighty power and for all the great terror which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
Book of Deuteronomy
Home