Deuteronomy
1 These are the words which Moses
spoke to all
2It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of
3Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the
eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children
of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them,
4after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who
dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of
5On this side of the
6"The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying:
"You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.
7Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains
of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains
and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the
Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
8See, I have set the land before you; go in and
possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers--to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob--to give to them and their descendants after them.'
9"And I spoke to you at that time, saying:
"I alone am not able to bear you.
10The LORD your God has multiplied you, and here you
are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.
11May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand
times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!
12How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens
and your complaints?
13Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men
from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.'
14And you answered me and said, "The thing which
you have told us to do is good.'
15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and
knowledgeable men, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders
of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.
16"Then I commanded your judges at that time,
saying, "Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously
between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.
17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall
hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's
presence, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring
to me, and I will hear it.'
18And I commanded you at that time all the things which
you should do.
19"So we departed from Horeb, and went through all
that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of
the Amorites, as the LORD our God had commanded us. Then we came to Kadesh
Barnea.
20And I said to you, "You have come to the
mountains of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
21Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you;
go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has spoken to you; do not
fear or be discouraged.'
22"And every one of you came near to me and said,
"Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and
bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities
into which we shall come.'
23"The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of
your men, one man from each tribe.
24And they departed and went up into the mountains, and
came to the
25They also took some of the fruit of the land in their
hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying,
"It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us.'
26"Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled
against the command of the LORD your God;
27and you complained in your tents, and said,
"Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the
28Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our
hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are
great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim
there."'
29"Then I said to you, "Do not be terrified,
or afraid of them.
30The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight
for you, according to all He did for you in
31and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your
God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until
you came to this place.'
32Yet, for all that, you did not believe the LORD your
God,
33who went in the way before you to search out a place
for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by
night and in the cloud by day.
34"And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and
was angry, and took an oath, saying,
35"Surely not one of these men of this evil generation
shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,
36except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it,
and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he
wholly followed the LORD.'
37The LORD was also angry with me for your sakes,
saying, "Even you shall not go in there.
38Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he
shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause
39"Moreover your little ones and your children,
who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they
shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
40But as for you, turn and take your journey into the
wilderness by the Way of the
41"Then you answered and said to me, "We have
sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God
commanded us.' And when everyone of you had girded on his weapons of war, you
were ready to go up into the mountain.
42"And the LORD said to me, "Tell them,
"Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; lest you be defeated
before your enemies."'
43So I spoke to you; yet you would not listen, but
rebelled against the command of the LORD, and presumptuously went up into the
mountain.
44And the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out
against you and chased you as bees do, and drove you back from Seir to Hormah.
45Then you returned and wept before the LORD, but the
LORD would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
46"So you remained in Kadesh many days, according
to the days that you spent there.
2"Then we turned and journeyed
into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me, and we
skirted Mount Seir for many days.
2"And the LORD spoke to me, saying:
3"You have skirted this mountain long enough;
turn northward.
4And command the people, saying, "You are about
to pass through the territory of your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who
live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves
carefully.
5Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any
of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given
6You shall buy food from them with money, that you may
eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.
7"For the LORD your God has blessed you in all
the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness.
These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked
nothing."'
8"And when we passed beyond our brethren, the
descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away
from Elath and Ezion Geber, we turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of
Moab.
9Then the LORD said to me, "Do not harass
10(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as
great and numerous and tall as the Anakim.
11They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim,
but the Moabites call them Emim.
12The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the
descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and
dwelt in their place, just as
13""Now rise and cross over the Valley of the
Zered.' So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered.
14And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until
we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the
generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as
the LORD had sworn to them.
15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy
them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.
16"So it was, when all the men of war had finally
perished from among the people,
17that the LORD spoke to me, saying:
18"This day you are to cross over at Ar, the
boundary of
19And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not
harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the
people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of
Lot as a possession."'
20(That was also regarded as a land of giants; giants
formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
21a people as great and numerous and tall as the
Anakim. But the LORD destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and
dwelt in their place,
22just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, who
dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They
dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day.
23And the Avim, who dwelt in villages as far as
24""Rise, take your journey, and cross over
the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle.
25This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of
you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you,
and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.'
26"And I sent messengers from the Wilderness of
Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,
27"Let me pass through your land; I will keep
strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left.
28You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and
give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot,
29just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and
the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the
30"But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass
through, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart
obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.
31"And the LORD said to me, "See, I have
begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may
inherit his land.'
32Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to
fight at Jahaz.
33And the LORD our God delivered him over to us; so we
defeated him, his sons, and all his people.
34We took all his cities at that time, and we utterly
destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none
remaining.
35We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves,
with the spoil of the cities which we took.
36From Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon,
and from the city that is in the ravine, as far as Gilead, there was not one
city too strong for us; the LORD our God delivered all to us.
37Only you did not go near the land of the people of
Ammon--anywhere along the River Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or
wherever the LORD our God had forbidden us.
3"Then we turned and went up the
road to Bashan; and Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his
people, to battle at Edrei.
2And the LORD said to me, "Do not fear him, for I
have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; you shall do
to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'
3"So the LORD our God also delivered into our
hands Og king of
4And we took all his cities at that time; there was
not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of
Argob, the
5All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates,
and bars, besides a great many rural towns.
6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon
king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
7But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we
took as booty for ourselves.
8"And at that time we took the land from the hand
of the two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, from the
River Arnon to Mount Hermon
9(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites
call it Senir),
10all the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and all
Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the
11"For only Og king of
12"And this land, which we possessed at that time,
from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and
its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
13The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the
14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of
Argob, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and called
15"Also I gave
16And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave from
17the plain also, with the
18"Then I commanded you at that time, saying:
"The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All you men of
valor shall cross over armed before your brethren, the children of
19But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock
(I know that you have much livestock) shall stay in your cities which I have
given you,
20until the LORD has given rest to your brethren as to
you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God is giving them
beyond the
21"And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying,
"Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two
kings; so will the LORD do to all the kingdoms through which you pass.
22You must not fear them, for the LORD your God Himself
fights for you.'
23"Then I pleaded with the LORD at that time,
saying:
24"O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your servant
Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on
earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds?
25I pray, let me cross over and see the good land
beyond the
26"But the LORD was angry with me on your account,
and would not listen to me. So the LORD said to me: "Enough of that! Speak
no more to Me of this matter.
27Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward
the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes, for you
shall not cross over this
28But command 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 you will see.'
29"So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth Peor.
4"Now, O Israel, listen to the
statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and
go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you.
2You shall not add to the word which I command you,
nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which
I command you.
3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor;
for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed
Baal of Peor.
4But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive
today, every one of you.
5"Surely I have taught you statutes and
judgments, just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should act according
to them in the land which you go to possess.
6Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is
your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear
all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.'
7"For what great nation is there that has God so
near to it, as the LORD our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him?
8And what great nation is there that has such statutes
and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?
9Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself,
lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your
heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your
grandchildren,
10especially concerning the day you stood before the
LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, "Gather the people to
Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the
days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'
11"Then you came near and stood at the foot of the
mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with
darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
12And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the
fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only heard a
voice.
13So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded
you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of
stone.
14And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you
statutes and judgments, that you might observe them in the land which you cross
over to possess.
15"Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no
form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
16lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a
carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,
17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or
the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or
the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth.
19And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and
when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel
driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all
the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
20But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the
iron furnace, out of
21Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your
sakes, and swore that I would not cross over the
22But I must die in this land, I must not cross over
the
23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant
of the LORD your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a carved
image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous
God.
25"When you beget children and grandchildren and
have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the
form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him
to anger,
26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this
day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the
27And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and
you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
28And there you will serve gods, the work of men's
hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
29But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and
you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30When you are in distress, and all these things come
upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His
voice
31(for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will
not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which
He swore to them.
32"For ask now concerning the days that are past,
which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask
from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened,
or anything like it has been heard.
33Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking
out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a
nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by
war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according
to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35To you it was shown, that you might know that the
LORD Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.
36Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He
might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His
words out of the midst of the fire.
37And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose
their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His
Presence, with His mighty power,
38driving out from before you nations greater and
mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance,
as it is this day.
39Therefore know this day, and consider it in your
heart, that the LORD Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath;
there is no other.
40You shall therefore keep His statutes and His
commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with
your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which
the LORD your God is giving you for all time."
41Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the
42that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his
neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by
fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
43Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the
Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in
44Now this is the law which Moses set before the
children of
45These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the
judgments which Moses spoke to the children of
46on this side of the
47And they took possession of his land and the
48from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon,
even to
49and all the plain on the east side of the
5And Moses called all
2The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers,
but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.
4The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain
from the midst of the fire.
5I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to
declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire,
and you did not go up the mountain. He said:
6"I am the LORD your God who brought you out of
the
7"You shall have no other gods before Me.
8"You shall not make for yourself a carved
image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
9you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I,
the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
10but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me
and keep My commandments.
11"You shall not take the name of the LORD your
God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in
vain.
12"Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as
the LORD your God commanded you.
13Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
14but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your
God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your
male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of
your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant
and your female servant may rest as well as you.
15And remember that you were a slave in the
16"Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD
your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well
with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
17"You shall not murder.
18"You shall not commit adultery.
19"You shall not steal.
20"You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor.
21"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; and you
shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male servant, his female
servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
22"These words the LORD spoke to all your
assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick
darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two
tablets of stone and gave them to me.
23"So it was, when you heard the voice from the
midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came
near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
24And you said: "Surely the LORD our God has shown
us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of
the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.
25Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire
will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God anymore, then we
shall die.
26For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice
of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
27You go near and hear all that the LORD our God may
say, and tell us all that the LORD our God says to you, and we will hear and do
it.'
28"Then the LORD heard the voice of your words
when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me: "I have heard the voice of
the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They are right in all
that they have spoken.
29Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they
would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with
them and with their children forever!
30Go and say to them, "Return to your tents."
31But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will speak to
you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach
them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to
possess.'
32"Therefore you shall be careful to do as the
LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or
to the left.
33You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God
has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that
you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
6"Now this is the commandment,
and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded
to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over
to possess,
2that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His
statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your
grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
3Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe
it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the LORD
God of your fathers has promised you--"a land flowing with milk and
honey.'
4"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is
one!
5You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6"And these words which I command you today shall
be in your heart.
7You shall teach them diligently to your children, and
shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when
you lie down, and when you rise up.
8You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they
shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9You shall write them on the doorposts of your house
and on your gates.
10"So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings
you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build,
11houses full of all good things, which you did not
fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you
did not plant--when you have eaten and are full--
12then beware, lest you forget the LORD who brought you
out of the
13You shall fear the LORD your God and serve Him, and
shall take oaths in His name.
14You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the
peoples who are all around you
15(for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest
the anger of the LORD your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the
face of the earth.
16"You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you
tempted Him in Massah.
17You shall diligently keep the commandments of the
LORD your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.
18And you shall do what is right and good in the sight
of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess
the good land of which the LORD swore to your fathers,
19to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the
LORD has spoken.
20"When your son asks you in time to come, saying,
"What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments
which the LORD our God has commanded you?'
21then you shall say to your son: "We were slaves
of Pharaoh in
22and the LORD showed signs and wonders before our
eyes, great and severe, against
23Then He brought us out from there, that He might
bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.
24And the LORD commanded us to observe all these
statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve
us alive, as it is this day.
25Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are
careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has
commanded us.'
7"When the LORD your God brings
you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before
you, 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 you,
2and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you,
you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant
with them nor show mercy to them.
3Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not
give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.
4For they will turn your sons away from following Me,
to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and
destroy you suddenly.
5But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy
their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden
images, and burn their carved images with fire.
6"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God;
the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure
above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
7The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because
you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all
peoples;
8but because the LORD loves you, and because He would
keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with
a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9"Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is
God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations
with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
10and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to
destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to
his face.
11Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the
statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
12"Then it shall come to pass, because you listen
to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with
you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
13And He will love you and bless you and multiply you;
He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your
grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the
offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give
you.
14You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall
not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
15And the LORD will take away from you all sickness,
and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of
16Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the LORD
your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall
you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
17"If you should say in your heart, "These
nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'--
18you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall
remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all
19the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the
wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God
brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you
are afraid.
20Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among
them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.
21You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your
God, the great and awesome God, is among you.
22And the LORD your God will drive out those nations
before you little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest
the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
23But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you,
and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed.
24And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and
you will destroy their name from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand
against you until you have destroyed them.
25You shall burn the carved images of their gods with
fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for
yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your
God.
26Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house,
lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and
utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.
8"Every commandment which I
command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and
multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your
fathers.
2And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you
all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to
know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
3So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you
with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make
you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word
that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.
4Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your
foot swell these forty years.
5You should know in your heart that as a man chastens
his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.
6"Therefore you shall keep the commandments of
the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land,
a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys
and hills;
8a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees
and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
9a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity,
in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose
hills you can dig copper.
10When you have eaten and are full, then you shall
bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.
11"Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God
by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I
command you today,
12lest--when you have eaten and are full, and have
built beautiful houses and dwell in them;
13and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your
silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
14when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD
your God who brought you out of the
15who led you through that great and terrible
wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where
there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;
16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your
fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to
do you good in the end--
17then you say in your heart, "My power and the
might of my hand have gained me this wealth.'
18"And you shall remember the LORD your God, for
it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant
which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
19Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD
your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify
against you this day that you shall surely perish.
20As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so
you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD
your God.
9"Hear, O Israel: You are to
cross over the
2a people great and tall, the descendants of the
Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, "Who can stand
before the descendants of Anak?'
3Therefore understand today that the LORD your God is
He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring
them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as
the LORD has said to you.
4"Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your
God has cast them out before you, saying, "Because of my righteousness the
LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; but it is because of the
wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you.
5It is not because of your righteousness or the
uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of
the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from
before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not
giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are
a stiff-necked people.
7"Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the
LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from
the
8Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that
the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.
9When I went up into the mountain to receive the
tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you,
then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread
nor drank water.
10Then the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone
written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the LORD
had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly.
11And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and
forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of
the covenant.
12"Then the LORD said to me, "Arise, go down
quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted
corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them;
they have made themselves a molded image.'
13"Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying,
"I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.
14Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out
their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and
greater than they.'
15"So I turned and came down from the mountain,
and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in
my two hands.
16And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the
LORD your God--had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside
quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my
two hands and broke them before your eyes.
18And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first,
forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of
all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke Him to anger.
19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure
with which the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you. But the LORD listened
to me at that time also.
20And the LORD was very angry with Aaron and would have
destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made,
and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was
as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the
mountain.
22"Also at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth
Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.
23Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea,
saying, "Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe
Him nor obey His voice.
24You have been rebellious against the LORD from the
day that I knew you.
25"Thus I prostrated myself before the LORD; forty
days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the LORD had said He
would destroy you.
26Therefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: "O
Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have
redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a
mighty hand.
27Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do
not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their
sin,
28lest the land from which You brought us should say,
"Because the LORD was not able to bring them to the land which He promised
them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the
wilderness."
29Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom
You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.'
10"At that time the LORD said to me,
"Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me
on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood.
2And I will write on the tablets the words that were
on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.'
3"So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two
tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two
tablets in my hand.
4And He wrote on the tablets according to the first
writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain
from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them
to me.
5Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and
put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, just as the
LORD commanded me."
6(Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his so