1:1  These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side
 Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between
 Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

1:2  (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir
 unto Kadeshbarnea.)

1:3  And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on
 the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel,
 according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;

1:4  After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in
 Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:

1:5  On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this
 law, saying,

1:6  The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long
 enough in this mount:

1:7  Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the
 Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills,
 and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the
 Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

1:8  Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land
 which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give
 unto them and to their seed after them.

1:9  And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you
 myself alone:

1:10  The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day
 as the stars of heaven for multitude.

1:11  (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more
 as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

1:12  How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your
 strife?

1:13  Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your
 tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

1:14  And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is
 good for us to do.

1:15  So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made
 them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and
 captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your
 tribes.

1:16  And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes
 between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his
 brother, and the stranger that is with him.

1:17  Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small
 as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the
 judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto
 me, and I will hear it.

1:18  And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

1:19  And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and
 terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites,
 as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.

1:20  And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites,
 which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

1:21  Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and
 possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not,
 neither be discouraged.

1:22  And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men
 before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by
 what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

1:23  And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of
 a tribe:

1:24  And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the
 valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

1:25  And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it
 down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which
 the LORD our God doth give us.

1:26  Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the
 commandment of the LORD your God:

1:27  And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us,
 he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the
 hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

1:28  Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart,
 saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and
 walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

1:29  Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

1:30  The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you,
 according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

1:31  And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God
 bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye
 came into this place.

1:32  Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

1:33  Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch
 your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in
 a cloud by day.

1:34  And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware,
 saying,

1:35  Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see
 that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.

1:36  Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I
 give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath
 wholly followed the LORD.

1:37  Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also
 shalt not go in thither.

1:38  But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in
 thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

1:39  Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your
 children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they
 shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

1:40  But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness
 by the way of the Red sea.

1:41  Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD,
 we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us.
 And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go
 up into the hill.

1:42  And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither fight;
 for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

1:43  So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the
 commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.

1:44  And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against
 you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

1:45  And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not
 hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

1:46  So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye
 abode there.

2:1  Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way
 of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many
 days.

2:2  And the LORD spake unto me, saying,

2:3  Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

2:4  And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast
 of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be
 afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:

2:5  Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not
 so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a
 possession.

2:6  Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall
 also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.

2:7  For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand:
 he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the
 LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

2:8  And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which
 dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber,
 we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

2:9  And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend
 with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession;
 because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

2:10  The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and
 tall, as the Anakims;

2:11  Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites
 called them Emims.

2:12  The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau
 succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt
 in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD
 gave unto them.

2:13  Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went
 over the brook Zered.

2:14  And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come
 over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation
 of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto
 them.

2:15  For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them
 from among the host, until they were consumed.

2:16  So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead
 from among the people,

2:17  That the LORD spake unto me, saying,

2:18  Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:

2:19  And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon,
 distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land
 of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the
 children of Lot for a possession.

2:20  (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in
 old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

2:21  A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD
 destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their
 stead:

2:22  As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he
 destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt
 in their stead even unto this day:

2:23  And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the
 Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt
 in their stead.)

2:24  Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold,
 I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his
 land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

2:25  This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee
 upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report
 of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

2:26  And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon
 king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

2:27  Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will
 neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.

2:28  Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water
 for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;

2:29  (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which
 dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which
 the LORD our God giveth us.

2:30  But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD
 thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might
 deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

2:31  And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his
 land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.

2:32  Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at
 Jahaz.

2:33  And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and
 his sons, and all his people.

2:34  And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the
 men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to
 remain:

2:35  Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil
 of the cities which we took.

2:36  From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the
 city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too
 strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:

2:37  Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto
 any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto
 whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.

3:1  Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of
 Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

3:2  And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and
 all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as
 thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

3:3  So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of
 Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him
 remaining.

3:4  And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we
 took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom
 of Og in Bashan.

3:5  All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside
 unwalled towns a great many.

3:6  And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon,
 utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

3:7  But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to
 ourselves.

3:8  And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the
 Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto
 mount Hermon;

3:9  (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it
 Shenir;)

3:10  All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto
 Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

3:11  For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold
 his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of
 Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it,
 after the cubit of a man.

3:12  And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is
 by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I
 unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

3:13  And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave
 I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan,
 which was called the land of giants.

3:14  Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the
 coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name,
 Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.

3:15  And I gave Gilead unto Machir.

3:16  And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even
 unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river
 Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

3:17  The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth
 even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah
 eastward.

3:18  And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath
 given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your
 brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.

3:19  But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know
 that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;

3:20  Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto
 you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given
 them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession,
 which I have given you.

3:21  And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all
 that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do
 unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.

3:22  Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

3:23  And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,

3:24  O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and
 thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do
 according to thy works, and according to thy might?

3:25  I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond
 Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

3:26  But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me:
 and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this
 matter.

3:27  Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
 westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with
 thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

3:28  But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he
 shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land
 which thou shalt see.

3:29  So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.

4:1  Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
 judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and
 possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

4:2  Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye
 diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your
 God which I command you.

4:3  Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the
 men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among
 you.

4:4  But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of
 you this day.

4:5  Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my
 God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess
 it.

4:6  Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
 understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these
 statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding
 people.

4:7  For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as
 the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

4:8  And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so
 righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

4:9  Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou
 forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy
 heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

4:10  Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in
 Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will
 make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that
 they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

4:11  And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain
 burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick
 darkness.

4:12  And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard
 the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

4:13  And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to
 perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

4:14  And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
 judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess
 it.

4:15  Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of
 similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst
 of the fire:

4:16  Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the
 similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

4:17  The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any
 winged fowl that flieth in the air,

4:18  The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness
 of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

4:19  And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the
 sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be
 driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided
 unto all nations under the whole heaven.

4:20  But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron
 furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are
 this day.

4:21  Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that
 I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land,
 which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

4:22  But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall
 go over, and possess that good land.

4:23  Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD
 your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the
 likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.

4:24  For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

4:25  When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall
 have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a
 graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight
 of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

4:26  I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye
 shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to
 possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be
 destroyed.

4:27  And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be
 left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

4:28  And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and
 stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

4:29  But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find
 him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

4:30  When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon
 thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be
 obedient unto his voice;

4:31  (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee,
 neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware
 unto them.

4:32  For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since
 the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of
 heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great
 thing is, or hath been heard like it?

4:33  Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst
 of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

4:34  Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of
 another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by
 a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to
 all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

4:35  Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is
 God; there is none else beside him.

4:36  Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct
 thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his
 words out of the midst of the fire.

4:37  And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after
 them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

4:38  To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou
 art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is
 this day.

4:39  Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the
 LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none
 else.

4:40  Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I
 command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children
 after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the
 LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

4:41  Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
 sunrising;

4:42  That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour
 unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these
 cities he might live:

4:43  Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the
 Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the
 Manassites.

4:44  And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

4:45  These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which
 Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt.

4:46  On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land
 of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the
 children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:

4:47  And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two
 kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

4:48  From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount
 Sion, which is Hermon,

4:49  And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea
 of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

5:1  And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the
 statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn
 them, and keep, and do them.

5:2  The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

5:3  The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even
 us, who are all of us here alive this day.

5:4  The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst
 of the fire,

5:5  (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word
 of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into
 the mount;) saying,

5:6  I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
 from the house of bondage.

5:7  Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

5:8  Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
 thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is
 in the waters beneath the earth:

5:9  Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the
 LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
 children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

5:10  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
 commandments.

5:11  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the
 LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

5:12  Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath
 commanded thee.

5:13  Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

5:14  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou
 shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
 manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy
 cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and
 thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

5:15  And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that
 the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a
 stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the
 sabbath day.

5:16  Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded
 thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee,
 in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

5:17  Thou shalt not kill.

5:18  Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

5:19  Neither shalt thou steal.

5:20  Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

5:21  Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou
 covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his
 maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

5:22  These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out
 of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a
 great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of
 stone, and delivered them unto me.

5:23  And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the
 darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me,
 even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

5:24  And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and
 his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we
 have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.

5:25  Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us:
 if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

5:26  For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the
 living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

5:27  Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak
 thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will
 hear it, and do it.

5:28  And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me;
 and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this
 people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they
 have spoken.

5:29  O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and
 keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with
 their children for ever!

5:30  Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.

5:31  But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee
 all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt
 teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess
 it.

5:32  Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded
 you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

5:33  Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded
 you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may
 prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

6:1  Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which
 the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land
 whither ye go to possess it:

6:2  That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and
 his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son,
 all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

6:3  Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well
 with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers
 hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

6:4  Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

6:5  And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with
 all thy soul, and with all thy might.

6:6  And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine
 heart:

6:7  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk
 of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the
 way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

6:8  And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be
 as frontlets between thine eyes.

6:9  And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy
 gates.

6:10  And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into
 the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
 to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

6:11  And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and
 wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou
 plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

6:12  Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out
 of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

6:13  Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by
 his name.

6:14  Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are
 round about you;

6:15  (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger
 of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the
 face of the earth.

6:16  Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

6:17  Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and
 his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

6:18  And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the
 LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess
 the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers.

6:19  To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath
 spoken.

6:20  And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the
 testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath
 commanded you?

6:21  Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt;
 and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

6:22  And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt,
 upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:

6:23  And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give
 us the land which he sware unto our fathers.

6:24  And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD
 our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at
 this day.

6:25  And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
 commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

7:1  When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
 goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the
 Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
 Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and
 mightier than thou;

7:2  And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt
 smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them,
 nor shew mercy unto them:

7:3  Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt
 not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

7:4  For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve
 other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy
 thee suddenly.

7:5  But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and
 break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven
 images with fire.

7:6  For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God
 hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that
 are upon the face of the earth.

7:7  The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye
 were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

7:8  But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath
 which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a
 mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of
 Pharaoh king of Egypt.

7:9  Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God,
 which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his
 commandments to a thousand generations;

7:10  And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he
 will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

7:11  Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the
 judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

7:12  Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments,
 and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the
 covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

7:13  And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will
 also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and
 thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy
 sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

7:14  Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or
 female barren among you, or among your cattle.

7:15  And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none
 of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay
 them upon all them that hate thee.

7:16  And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall
 deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou
 serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

7:17  If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how
 can I dispossess them?

7:18  Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the
 LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

7:19  The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the
 wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy
 God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of
 whom thou art afraid.

7:20  Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they
 that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

7:21  Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among
 you, a mighty God and terrible.

7:22  And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little
 and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the
 field increase upon thee.

7:23  But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy
 them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

7:24  And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt
 destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand
 before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

7:25  The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt
 not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest
 thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

7:26  Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou
 be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt
 utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

8:1  All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to
 do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the
 LORD sware unto your fathers.

8:2  And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee
 these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to
 know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or
 no.

8:3  And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with
 manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might
 make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that
 proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

8:4  Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these
 forty years.

8:5  Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his
 son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

8:6  Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to
 walk in his ways, and to fear him.

8:7  For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks
 of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

8:8  A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and
 pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

8:9  A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not
 lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills
 thou mayest dig brass.

8:10  When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy
 God for the good land which he hath given thee.

8:11  Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his
 commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this
 day:

8:12  Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses,
 and dwelt therein;

8:13  And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy
 gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

8:14  Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God,
 which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

8:15  Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were
 fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who
 brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

8:16  Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew
 not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good
 at thy latter end;

8:17  And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath
 gotten me this wealth.

8:18  But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth
 thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware
 unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

8:19  And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk
 after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you
 this day that ye shall surely perish.

8:20  As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall
 ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your
 God.

9:1  Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to
 possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up
 to heaven,

9:2  A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou
 knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children
 of Anak!

9:3  Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth
 over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall
 bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy
 them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

9:4  Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast
 them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought
 me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD
 doth drive them out from before thee.

9:5  Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost
 thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the
 LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform
 the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

9:6  Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good
 land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

9:7  Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to
 wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land
 of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the
 LORD.

9:8  Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was
 angry with you to have destroyed you.

9:9  When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even
 the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the
 mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

9:10  And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the
 finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the
 LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day
 of the assembly.

9:11  And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that
 the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

9:12  And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence;
 for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted
 themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded
 them; they have made them a molten image.

9:13  Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this
 people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

9:14  Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from
 under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than
 they.

9:15  So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with
 fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

9:16  And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your
 God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the
 way which the LORD had commanded you.

9:17  And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and
 brake them before your eyes.

9:18  And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and
 forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your
 sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke
 him to anger.

9:19  For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD
 was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that
 time also.

9:20  And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I
 prayed for Aaron also the same time.

9:21  And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with
 fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as
 dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the
 mount.

9:22  And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked
 the LORD to wrath.

9:23  Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and
 possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the
 commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to
 his voice.

9:24  Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew
 you.

9:25  Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I
 fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

9:26  I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not
 thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy
 greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

9:27  Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the
 stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

9:28  Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was
 not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he
 hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

9:29  Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
 out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

10:1  At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like
 unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of
 wood.

10:2  And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first
 tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

10:3  And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like
 unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine
 hand.

10:4  And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
 commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst
 of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.

10:5  And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables
 in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

10:6  And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the
 children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and
 Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

10:7  From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
 Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

10:8  At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark
 of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto
 him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

10:9  Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the
 LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.

10:10  And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days
 and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the
 LORD would not destroy thee.

10:11  And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
 people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their
 fathers to give unto them.

10:12  And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to
 fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve
 the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

10:13  To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I
 command thee this day for thy good?

10:14  Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy
 God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

10:15  Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he
 chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

10:16  Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
 stiffnecked.

10:17  For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great
 God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh
 reward:

10:18  He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth
 the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

10:19  Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of
 Egypt.

10:20  Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him
 shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

10:21  He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these
 great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

10:22  Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons;
 and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

11:1  Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and
 his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

11:2  And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have
 not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his
 greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,

11:3  And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt
 unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;

11:4  And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and
 to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as
 they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;

11:5  And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this
 place;

11:6  And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of
 Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
 households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their
 possession, in the midst of all Israel:

11:7  But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.

11:8  Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this
 day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to
 possess it;

11:9  And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware
 unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth
 with milk and honey.

11:10  For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the
 land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and
 wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

11:11  But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and
 valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

11:12  A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy
 God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end
 of the year.

11:13  And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my
 commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to
 serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

11:14  That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the
 first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy
 wine, and thine oil.

11:15  And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest
 eat and be full.

11:16  Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye
 turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

11:17  And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the
 heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and
 lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

11:18  Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your
 soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets
 between your eyes.

11:19  And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou
 sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest
 down, and when thou risest up.

11:20  And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and
 upon thy gates:

11:21  That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children,
 in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days
 of heaven upon the earth.

11:22  For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I
 command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways,
 and to cleave unto him;

11:23  Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and
 ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

11:24  Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be
 yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates,
 even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

11:25  There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your
 God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye
 shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

11:26  Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

11:27  A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which
 I command you this day:

11:28  And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your
 God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after
 other gods, which ye have not known.

11:29  And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee
 in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the
 blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

11:30  Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun
 goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over
 against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

11:31  For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the
 LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.

11:32  And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I
 set before you this day.

12:1  These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do
 in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all
 the days that ye live upon the earth.

12:2  Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye
 shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills,
 and under every green tree:

12:3  And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and
 burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their
 gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

12:4  Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

12:5  But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all
 your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye
 seek, and thither thou shalt come:

12:6  And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
 and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your
 freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

12:7  And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice
 in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD
 thy God hath blessed thee.

12:8  Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every
 man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

12:9  For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which
 the LORD your God giveth you.

12:10  But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD
 your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your
 enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

12:11  Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to
 cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you;
 your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave
 offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

12:12  And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons,
 and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the
 Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor
 inheritance with you.

12:13  Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in
 every place that thou seest:

12:14  But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy
 tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do
 all that I command thee.

12:15  Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates,
 whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy
 God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as
 of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

12:16  Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as
 water.

12:17  Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of
 thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor
 any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave
 offering of thine hand:

12:18  But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which
 the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
 manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and
 thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine
 hands unto.

12:19  Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as
 thou livest upon the earth.

12:20  When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised
 thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat
 flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

12:21  If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name
 there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy
 flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou
 shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

12:22  Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them:
 the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

12:23  Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life;
 and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

12:24  Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

12:25  Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy
 children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight
 of the LORD.

12:26  Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt
 take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:

12:27  And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood,
 upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be
 poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

12:28  Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may
 go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest
 that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

12:29  When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee,
 whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest
 in their land;

12:30  Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them,
 after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not
 after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so
 will I do likewise.

12:31  Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination
 to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their
 sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

12:32  What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not
 add thereto, nor diminish from it.

13:1  If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and
 giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

13:2  And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee,
 saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us
 serve them;

13:3  Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that
 dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love
 the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

13:4  Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his
 commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto
 him.

13:5  And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death;
 because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought
 you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage,
 to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk
 in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

13:6  If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter,
 or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice
 thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not
 known, thou, nor thy fathers;

13:7  Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh
 unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the
 other end of the earth;

13:8  Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall
 thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

13:9  But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to
 put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

13:10  And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath
 sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out
 of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

13:11  And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such
 wickedness as this is among you.

13:12  If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God
 hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

13:13  Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among
 you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and
 serve other gods, which ye have not known;

13:14  Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and,
 behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is
 wrought among you;

13:15  Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge
 of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle
 thereof, with the edge of the sword.

13:16  And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the
 street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof
 every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall
 not be built again.

13:17  And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand:
 that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee
 mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn
 unto thy fathers;

13:18  When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep
 all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right
 in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

14:1  Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut
 yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

14:2  For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath
 chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that
 are upon the earth.

14:3  Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

14:4  These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the
 goat,

14:5  The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild
 goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

14:6  And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into
 two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

14:7  Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or
 of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the
 coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are
 unclean unto you.

14:8  And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud,
 it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead
 carcase.

14:9  These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins
 and scales shall ye eat:

14:10  And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is
 unclean unto you.

14:11  Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

14:12  But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the
 ossifrage, and the ospray,

14:13  And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

14:14  And every raven after his kind,

14:15  And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after
 his kind,

14:16  The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

14:17  And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

14:18  And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and
 the bat.

14:19  And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall
 not be eaten.

14:20  But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

14:21  Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give
 it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest
 sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God.
 Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

14:22  Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field
 bringeth forth year by year.

14:23  And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he
 shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and
 of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou
 mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

14:24  And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to
 carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall
 choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

14:25  Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine
 hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:

14:26  And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth
 after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for
 whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy
 God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

14:27  And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him;
 for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

14:28  At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of
 thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

14:29  And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,)
 and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy
 gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may
 bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

15:1  At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

15:2  And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth
 ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his
 neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.

15:3  Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine
 with thy brother thine hand shall release;

15:4  Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall
 greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
 inheritance to possess it:

15:5  Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to
 observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

15:6  For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou
 shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign
 over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

15:7  If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of
 thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not
 harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

15:8  But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend
 him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

15:9  Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The
 seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against
 thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD
 against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

15:10  Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved
 when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall
 bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

15:11  For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command
 thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy
 poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

15:12  And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto
 thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him
 go free from thee.

15:13  And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him
 go away empty:

15:14  Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy
 floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath
 blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

15:15  And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
 Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this
 thing to day.

15:16  And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee;
 because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

15:17  Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the
 door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant
 thou shalt do likewise.

15:18  It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free
 from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving
 thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

15:19  All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou
 shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the
 firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

15:20  Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place
 which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

15:21  And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or
 have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

15:22  Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person
 shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

15:23  Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon
 the ground as water.

16:1  Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy
 God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of
 Egypt by night.

16:2  Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God,
 of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place
 his name there.

16:3  Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat
 unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest
 forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day
 when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

16:4  And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast
 seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou
 sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

16:5  Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which
 the LORD thy God giveth thee:

16:6  But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his
 name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down
 of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

16:7  And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God
 shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

16:8  Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day
 shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work
 therein.

16:9  Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven
 weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.

16:10  And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a
 tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the
 LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

16:11  And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy
 son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
 Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and
 the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath
 chosen to place his name there.

16:12  And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou
 shalt observe and do these statutes.

16:13  Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that
 thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

16:14  And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy
 daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the
 stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

16:15  Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God
 in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall
 bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands,
 therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

16:16  Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy
 God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and
 in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not
 appear before the LORD empty:

16:17  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the
 LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

16:18  Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the
 LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the
 people with just judgment.

16:19  Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,
 neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert
 the words of the righteous.

16:20  That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest
 live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

16:21  Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar
 of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

16:22  Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God
 hateth.

17:1  Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep,
 wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto
 the LORD thy God.

17:2  If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD
 thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight
 of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

17:3  And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the
 sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

17:4  And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired
 diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
 abomination is wrought in Israel:

17:5  Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
 committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and
 shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

17:6  At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is
 worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not
 be put to death.

17:7  The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to
 death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil
 away from among you.

17:8  If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood
 and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being
 matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee
 up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

17:9  And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge
 that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the
 sentence of judgment:

17:10  And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that
 place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to
 do according to all that they inform thee:

17:11  According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach
 thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt
 do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee,
 to the right hand, nor to the left.

17:12  And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto
 the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto
 the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from
 Israel.

17:13  And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
 presumptuously.

17:14  When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth
 thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will
 set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

17:15  Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God
 shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou
 mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

17:16  But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to
 return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the
 LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

17:17  Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not
 away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

17:18  And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom,
 that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is
 before the priests the Levites:

17:19  And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of
 his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words
 of this law and these statutes, to do them:

17:20  That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn
 not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end
 that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the
 midst of Israel.

18:1  The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no
 part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD
 made by fire, and his inheritance.

18:2  Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the
 LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

18:3  And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that
 offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the
 priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

18:4  The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and
 the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

18:5  For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand
 to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

18:6  And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where
 he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which
 the LORD shall choose;

18:7  Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his
 brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.

18:8  They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the
 sale of his patrimony.

18:9  When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
 thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

18:10  There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or
 his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an
 observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

18:11  Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or
 a necromancer.

18:12  For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and
 because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from
 before thee.

18:13  Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

18:14  For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
 observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath
 not suffered thee so to do.

18:15  The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst
 of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

18:16  According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb
 in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the
 LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

18:17  And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they
 have spoken.

18:18  I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto
 thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all
 that I shall command him.

18:19  And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my
 words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

18:20  But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
 which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of
 other gods, even that prophet shall die.

18:21  And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the
 LORD hath not spoken?

18:22  When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow
 not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but
 the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

19:1  When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD
 thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities,
 and in their houses;

19:2  Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land,
 which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

19:3  Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land,
 which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every
 slayer may flee thither.

19:4  And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he
 may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time
 past;

19:5  As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and
 his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head
 slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he
 shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

19:6  Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is
 hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was
 not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

19:7  Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities
 for thee.

19:8  And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy
 fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy
 fathers;

19:9  If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command
 thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then
 shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

19:10  That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God
 giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

19:11  But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise
 up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one
 of these cities:

19:12  Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and
 deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

19:13  Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of
 innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

19:14  Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old
 time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that
 the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

19:15  One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for
 any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the
 mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

19:16  If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him
 that which is wrong;

19:17  Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
 before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those
 days;

19:18  And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the
 witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

19:19  Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his
 brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

19:20  And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
 commit no more any such evil among you.

19:21  And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for
 eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

20:1  When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest
 horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for
 the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of
 Egypt.

20:2  And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the
 priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

20:3  And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto
 battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not
 tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

20:4  For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you
 against your enemies, to save you.

20:5  And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is
 there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and
 return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

20:6  And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet
 eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the
 battle, and another man eat of it.

20:7  And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken
 her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and
 another man take her.

20:8  And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall
 say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and
 return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

20:9  And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto
 the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

20:10  When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim
 peace unto it.

20:11  And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto
 thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be
 tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

20:12  And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against
 thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

20:13  And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou
 shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

20:14  But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is
 in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and
 thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given
 thee.

20:15  Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from
 thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

20:16  But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give
 thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

20:17  But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the
 Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
 as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

20:18  That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which
 they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

20:19  When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it
 to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe
 against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down
 (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

20:20  Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,
 thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against
 the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

21:1  If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee
 to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:

21:2  Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall
 measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

21:3  And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even
 the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought
 with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;

21:4  And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough
 valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's
 neck there in the valley:

21:5  And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD
 thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the
 LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:

21:6  And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,
 shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

21:7  And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,
 neither have our eyes seen it.

21:8  Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast
 redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And
 the blood shall be forgiven them.

21:9  So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you,
 when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

21:10  When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy
 God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

21:11  And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire
 unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

21:12  Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave
 her head, and pare her nails;

21:13  And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and
 shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full
 month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she
 shall be thy wife.

21:14  And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let
 her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou
 shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

21:15  If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they
 have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn
 son be hers that was hated:

21:16  Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he
 hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son
 of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

21:17  But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by
 giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of
 his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

21:18  If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the
 voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have
 chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

21:19  Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him
 out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

21:20  And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is
 stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a
 drunkard.

21:21  And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he
 die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall
 hear, and fear.

21:22  And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be
 put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

21:23  His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in
 any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that
 thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
 inheritance.

22:1  Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide
 thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

22:2  And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him
 not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee
 until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

22:3  In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with
 his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath
 lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide
 thyself.

22:4  Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the
 way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up
 again.

22:5  The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither
 shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto
 the LORD thy God.

22:6  If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or
 on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon
 the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

22:7  But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young
 to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy
 days.

22:8  When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for
 thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from
 thence.

22:9  Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of
 thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

22:10  Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

22:11  Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and
 linen together.

22:12  Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture,
 wherewith thou coverest thyself.

22:13  If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

22:14  And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name
 upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not
 a maid:

22:15  Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring
 forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the
 gate:

22:16  And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my
 daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

22:17  And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I
 found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's
 virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

22:18  And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

22:19  And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give
 them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name
 upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away
 all his days.

22:20  But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found
 for the damsel:

22:21  Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's
 house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die:
 because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's
 house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

22:22  If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then
 they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the
 woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

22:23  If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man
 find her in the city, and lie with her;

22:24  Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye
 shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried
 not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's
 wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

22:25  But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force
 her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.

22:26  But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no
 sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and
 slayeth him, even so is this matter:

22:27  For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and
 there was none to save her.

22:28  If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and
 lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

22:29  Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father
 fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled
 her, he may not put her away all his days.

22:30  A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's
 skirt.

23:1  He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off,
 shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

23:2  A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to
 his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

23:3  An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the
 LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the
 congregation of the LORD for ever:

23:4  Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when
 ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the
 son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

23:5  Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the
 LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy
 God loved thee.

23:6  Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for
 ever.

23:7  Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt
 not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

23:8  The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the
 congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

23:9  When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from
 every wicked thing.

23:10  If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of
 uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the
 camp, he shall not come within the camp:

23:11  But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with
 water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

23:12  Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go
 forth abroad:

23:13  And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when
 thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back
 and cover that which cometh from thee:

23:14  For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver
 thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be
 holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

23:15  Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped
 from his master unto thee:

23:16  He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he
 shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not
 oppress him.

23:17  There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite
 of the sons of Israel.

23:18  Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog,
 into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are
 abomination unto the LORD thy God.

23:19  Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury
 of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

23:20  Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother
 thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all
 that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

23:21  When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not
 slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it
 would be sin in thee.

23:22  But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

23:23  That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even
 a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God,
 which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

23:24  When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat
 grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy
 vessel.

23:25  When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou
 mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto
 thy neighbour's standing corn.

24:1  When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass
 that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness
 in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her
 hand, and send her out of his house.

24:2  And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another
 man's wife.

24:3  And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
 divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or
 if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

24:4  Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be
 his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD:
 and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee
 for an inheritance.

24:5  When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither
 shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one
 year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

24:6  No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he
 taketh a man's life to pledge.

24:7  If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of
 Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall
 die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

24:8  Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and
 do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I
 commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

24:9  Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that
 ye were come forth out of Egypt.

24:10  When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into
 his house to fetch his pledge.

24:11  Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall
 bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

24:12  And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

24:13  In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun
 goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it
 shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

24:14  Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy,
 whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land
 within thy gates:

24:15  At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go
 down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry
 against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

24:16  The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither
 shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to
 death for his own sin.

24:17  Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the
 fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

24:18  But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the
 LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

24:19  When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a
 sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the
 stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may
 bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

24:20  When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the
 boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the
 widow.

24:21  When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean
 it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the
 widow.

24:22  And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
 Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

25:1  If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment,
 that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and
 condemn the wicked.

25:2  And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the
 judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face,
 according to his fault, by a certain number.

25:3  Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should
 exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should
 seem vile unto thee.

25:4  Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

25:5  If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
 child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her
 husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and
 perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

25:6  And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed
 in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of
 Israel.

25:7  And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his
 brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's
 brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not
 perform the duty of my husband's brother.

25:8  Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and
 if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

25:9  Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the
 elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall
 answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his
 brother's house.

25:10  And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath
 his shoe loosed.

25:11  When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one
 draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth
 him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

25:12  Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

25:13  Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

25:14  Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a
 small.

25:15  But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just
 measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which
 the LORD thy God giveth thee.

25:16  For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an
 abomination unto the LORD thy God.

25:17  Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come
 forth out of Egypt;

25:18  How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all
 that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared
 not God.

25:19  Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest
 from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
 thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the
 remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

26:1  And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD
 thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest
 therein;

26:2  That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth,
 which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and
 shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God
 shall choose to place his name there.

26:3  And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and
 say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto
 the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.

26:4  And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it
 down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

26:5  And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready
 to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there
 with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

26:6  And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon
 us hard bondage:

26:7  And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard
 our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

26:8  And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and
 with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and
 with wonders:

26:9  And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land,
 even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

26:10  And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which
 thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy
 God, and worship before the LORD thy God:

26:11  And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God
 hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the
 stranger that is among you.

26:12  When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine
 increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto
 the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat
 within thy gates, and be filled;

26:13  Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the
 hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the
 Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according
 to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed
 thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

26:14  I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away
 ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but
 I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to
 all that thou hast commanded me.

26:15  Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy
 people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto
 our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

26:16  This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes
 and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine
 heart, and with all thy soul.

26:17  Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in
 his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments,
 and to hearken unto his voice:

26:18  And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people,
 as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

26:19  And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in
 praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people
 unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.

27:1  And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
 Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

27:2  And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the
 land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great
 stones, and plaister them with plaister:

27:3  And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou
 art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God
 giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy
 fathers hath promised thee.

27:4  Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set
 up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt
 plaister them with plaister.

27:5  And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar
 of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.

27:6  Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and
 thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:

27:7  And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and
 rejoice before the LORD thy God.

27:8  And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very
 plainly.

27:9  And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying,
 Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the
 LORD thy God.

27:10  Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his
 commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

27:11  And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

27:12  These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye
 are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and
 Joseph, and Benjamin:

27:13  And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and
 Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

27:14  And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with
 a loud voice,

27:15  Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an
 abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
 putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

27:16  Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all
 the people shall say, Amen.

27:17  Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the
 people shall say, Amen.

27:18  Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all
 the people shall say, Amen.

27:19  Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,
 fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

27:20  Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he
 uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

27:21  Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people
 shall say, Amen.

27:22  Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father,
 or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

27:23  Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people
 shall say, Amen.

27:24  Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people
 shall say, Amen.

27:25  Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all
 the people shall say, Amen.

27:26  Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do
 them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

28:1  And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the
 voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I
 command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all
 nations of the earth:

28:2  And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if
 thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

28:3  Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the
 field.

28:4  Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
 ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks
 of thy sheep.

28:5  Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

28:6  Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be
 when thou goest out.

28:7  The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
 smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee
 before thee seven ways.

28:8  The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and
 in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land
 which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

28:9  The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath
 sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and
 walk in his ways.

28:10  And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
 name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

28:11  And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
 body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the
 land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

28:12  The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give
 the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine
 hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

28:13  And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou
 shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto
 the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to
 observe and to do them:

28:14  And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command
 thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to
 serve them.

28:15  But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice
 of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes
 which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon
 thee, and overtake thee:

28:16  Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the
 field.

28:17  Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

28:18  Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
 land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

28:19  Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be
 when thou goest out.

28:20  The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all
 that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and
 until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby
 thou hast forsaken me.

28:21  The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have
 consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

28:22  The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and
 with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and
 with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

28:23  And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
 that is under thee shall be iron.

28:24  The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from
 heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

28:25  The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
 shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt
 be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

28:26  And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto
 the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

28:27  The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
 emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
 healed.

28:28  The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
 astonishment of heart:

28:29  And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in
 darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only
 oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

28:30  Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou
 shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a
 vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

28:31  Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
 thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and
 shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies,
 and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

28:32  Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and
 thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and
 there shall be no might in thine hand.

28:33  The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which
 thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

28:34  So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou
 shalt see.

28:35  The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore
 botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy
 head.

28:36  The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over
 thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there
 shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

28:37  And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
 among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

28:38  Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but
 little in; for the locust shall consume it.

28:39  Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink
 of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

28:40  Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou
 shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

28:41  Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them;
 for they shall go into captivity.

28:42  All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

28:43  The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;
 and thou shalt come down very low.

28:44  He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be
 the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

28:45  Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue
 thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not
 unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes
 which he commanded thee:

28:46  And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon
 thy seed for ever.

28:47  Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with
 gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

28:48  Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send
 against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all
 things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have
 destroyed thee.

28:49  The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end
 of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt
 not understand;

28:50  A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person
 of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

28:51  And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land,
 until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine,
 or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have
 destroyed thee.

28:52  And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and
 fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and
 he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the
 LORD thy God hath given thee.

28:53  And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy
 sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the
 siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

28:54  So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye
 shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and
 toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

28:55  So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children
 whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the
 straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

28:56  The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure
 to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,
 her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her
 son, and toward her daughter,

28:57  And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and
 toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of
 all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall
 distress thee in thy gates.

28:58  If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are
 written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name,
 THE LORD THY GOD;

28:59  Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of
 thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore
 sicknesses, and of long continuance.

28:60  Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which
 thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

28:61  Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the
 book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be
 destroyed.

28:62  And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of
 heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD
 thy God.

28:63  And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do
 you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy
 you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land
 whither thou goest to possess it.

28:64  And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end
 of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods,
 which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

28:65  And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the
 sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling
 heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

28:66  And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear
 day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:

28:67  In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even
 thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart
 wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt
 see.

28:68  And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the
 way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye
 shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall
 buy you.

29:1  These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses
 to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant
 which he made with them in Horeb.

29:2  And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen
 all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and
 unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

29:3  The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and
 those great miracles:

29:4  Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to
 see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

29:5  And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are
 not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

29:6  Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink:
 that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

29:7  And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og
 the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

29:8  And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the
 Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

29:9  Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may
 prosper in all that ye do.

29:10  Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains
 of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

29:11  Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp,
 from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

29:12  That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and
 into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

29:13  That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and
 that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath
 sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

29:14  Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

29:15  But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our
 God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

29:16  (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came
 through the nations which ye passed by;

29:17  And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and
 stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

29:18  Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe,
 whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the
 gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth
 gall and wormwood;

29:19  And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that
 he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk
 in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

29:20  The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his
 jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in
 this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under
 heaven.

29:21  And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of
 Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this
 book of the law:

29:22  So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up
 after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when
 they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath
 laid upon it;

29:23  And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning,
 that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the
 overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew
 in his anger, and in his wrath:

29:24  Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto
 this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

29:25  Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the
 LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth
 out of the land of Egypt:

29:26  For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom
 they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

29:27  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring
 upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

29:28  And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
 wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is
 this day.

29:29  The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things
 which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may
 do all the words of this law.

30:1  And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon
 thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou
 shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath
 driven thee,

30:2  And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice
 according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with
 all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

30:3  That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have
 compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations,
 whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

30:4  If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from
 thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

30:5  And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers
 possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply
 thee above thy fathers.

30:6  And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of
 thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy
 soul, that thou mayest live.

30:7  And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies,
 and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

30:8  And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his
 commandments which I command thee this day.

30:9  And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine
 hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the
 fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for
 good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

30:10  If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep
 his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
 law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with
 all thy soul.

30:11  For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden
 from thee, neither is it far off.

30:12  It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us
 to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

30:13  Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go
 over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

30:14  But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart,
 that thou mayest do it.

30:15  See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and
 evil;

30:16  In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in
 his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments,
 that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee
 in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

30:17  But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt
 be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

30:18  I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that
 ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over
 Jordan to go to possess it.

30:19  I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have
 set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life,
 that both thou and thy seed may live:

30:20  That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey
 his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the
 length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware
 unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

31:1  And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.

31:2  And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day;
 I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt
 not go over this Jordan.

31:3  The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy
 these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he
 shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.

31:4  And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings
 of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.

31:5  And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto
 them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.

31:6  Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for
 the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor
 forsake thee.

31:7  And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all
 Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people
 unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and
 thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

31:8  And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with
 thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be
 dismayed.

31:9  And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons
 of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the
 elders of Israel.

31:10  And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years,
 in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

31:11  When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the
 place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel
 in their hearing.

31:12  Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy
 stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may
 learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this
 law:

31:13  And that their children, which have not known any thing, may
 hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land
 whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

31:14  And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou
 must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the
 congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and
 presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

31:15  And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and
 the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

31:16  And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
 fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the
 strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake
 me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

31:17  Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will
 forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be
 devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will
 say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not
 among us?

31:18  And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which
 they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

31:19  Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children
 of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me
 against the children of Israel.

31:20  For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto
 their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten
 and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods,
 and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

31:21  And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen
 them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall
 not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their
 imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into
 the land which I sware.

31:22  Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the
 children of Israel.

31:23  And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and
 of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land
 which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

31:24  And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words
 of this law in a book, until they were finished,

31:25  That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant
 of the LORD, saying,

31:26  Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the
 covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against
 thee.

31:27  For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet
 alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how
 much more after my death?

31:28  Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,
 that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to
 record against them.

31:29  For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves,
 and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall
 you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to
 provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

31:30  And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the
 words of this song, until they were ended.

32:1  Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the
 words of my mouth.

32:2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the
 dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the
 grass:

32:3  Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness
 unto our God.

32:4  He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a
 God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

32:5  They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
 children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

32:6  Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he
 thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established
 thee?

32:7  Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask
 thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

32:8  When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he
 separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the
 number of the children of Israel.

32:9  For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
 inheritance.

32:10  He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness;
 he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

32:11  As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
 spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

32:12  So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with
 him.

32:13  He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat
 the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the
 rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

32:14  Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams
 of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou
 didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

32:15  But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
 grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made
 him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

32:16  They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations
 provoked they him to anger.

32:17  They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not,
 to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

32:18  Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten
 God that formed thee.

32:19  And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking
 of his sons, and of his daughters.

32:20  And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their
 end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no
 faith.

32:21  They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have
 provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy
 with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a
 foolish nation.

32:22  For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest
 hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the
 foundations of the mountains.

32:23  I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

32:24  They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and
 with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with
 the poison of serpents of the dust.

32:25  The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young
 man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

32:26  I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
 remembrance of them to cease from among men:

32:27  Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
 adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our
 hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

32:28  For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
 understanding in them.

32:29  O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would
 consider their latter end!

32:30  How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight,
 except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

32:31  For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being
 judges.

32:32  For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
 Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

32:33  Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

32:34  Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
 treasures?

32:35  To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in
 due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall
 come upon them make haste.

32:36  For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his
 servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up,
 or left.

32:37  And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they
 trusted,

32:38  Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine
 of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your
 protection.

32:39  See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I
 kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can
 deliver out of my hand.

32:40  For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

32:41  If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment;
 I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

32:42  I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour
 flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the
 beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

32:43  Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood
 of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be
 merciful unto his land, and to his people.

32:44  And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears
 of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

32:45  And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

32:46  And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I
 testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe
 to do, all the words of this law.

32:47  For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and
 through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over
 Jordan to possess it.

32:48  And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

32:49  Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is
 in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of
 Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:

32:50  And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy
 people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his
 people:

32:51  Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the
 waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me
 not in the midst of the children of Israel.

32:52  Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go
 thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

33:1  And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the
 children of Israel before his death.

33:2  And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto
 them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of
 saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

33:3  Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they
 sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.

33:4  Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of
 Jacob.

33:5  And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the
 tribes of Israel were gathered together.

33:6  Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.

33:7  And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice
 of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him;
 and be thou an help to him from his enemies.

33:8  And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy
 one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the
 waters of Meribah;

33:9  Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him;
 neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they
 have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

33:10  They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall
 put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

33:11  Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; smite
 through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him,
 that they rise not again.

33:12  And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in
 safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall
 dwell between his shoulders.

33:13  And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the
 precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth
 beneath,

33:14  And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the
 precious things put forth by the moon,

33:15  And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the
 precious things of the lasting hills,

33:16  And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and
 for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon
 the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated
 from his brethren.

33:17  His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are
 like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together
 to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they
 are the thousands of Manasseh.

33:18  And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and,
 Issachar, in thy tents.

33:19  They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer
 sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the
 seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.

33:20  And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as
 a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

33:21  And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a
 portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the
 people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.

33:22  And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from
 Bashan.

33:23  And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full
 with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.

33:24  And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be
 acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

33:25  Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy
 strength be.

33:26  There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the
 heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

33:27  The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting
 arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say,
 Destroy them.

33:28  Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall
 be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.

33:29  Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by
 the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and
 thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their
 high places.

34:1  And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo,
 to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him
 all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

34:2  And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the
 land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,

34:3  And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of
 palm trees, unto Zoar.

34:4  And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto
 Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I
 have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over
 thither.

34:5  So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab,
 according to the word of the LORD.

34:6  And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against
 Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

34:7  And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye
 was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

34:8  And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab
 thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

34:9  And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses
 had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto
 him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

34:10  And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom
 the LORD knew face to face,

34:11  In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do
 in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his
 land,

34:12  And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses
 shewed in the sight of all Israel.

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