1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah facing the Red Sea, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
2 It is eleven days from Horeb, on the way to Mount Seir, to Kadesh-barnea.
3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, the first of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded him concerning them,
4 after he had slain Sihon king of the Amorites. , who lived in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth in Edrei.
5 On this side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses resolved to declare this law, saying:
6 The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: You have been long enough on this mountain.
7 Return and go to the mountain of the Amorite and to all its regions, in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the valleys, in the Negev, and along the coast of the sea, to the land of the Canaanite, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the Euphrates River.
8 Behold, I have given you the land; Go in and possess the land that Jehovah swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that he would give to them and to their descendants after them.
9 At that time I spoke to you saying: I alone cannot carry you.
10 Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and behold, today you are like the stars of heaven in multitude.
11 May Jehovah God of your fathers make you a thousand times greater than you are now, and bless you, as he has promised you!
12 How can I bear your annoyances, your burdens, and your disputes alone?
13 Give me from among you, from your tribes, men who are wise and knowledgeable and experienced, so that I may make them your leaders.
14 And you answered me and said, It is good to do what you have said.
15 And I took the leaders of your tribes, wise men and experts, and made them rulers over you, rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and governors of your tribes.
16 And then I commanded your judges, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge fairly between the man and his brother, and the stranger.
17 Make no distinction between persons in judgment; You will hear both the small and the great; you will not be afraid of anyone, because the judgment is from God; and the cause that is difficult for you, you will bring to me, and I will hear it.
18 So I commanded you at that time everything that you were to do.
19 And leaving Horeb, we walked through all that great and terrible wilderness that you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20 Then I said to you, You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God is giving to us.
21 See, Jehovah your God has given you the land; He goes up and takes possession of it, as Jehovah God of your fathers has told you; do not be afraid or dismayed.
22 And you all came to me and said, Let us send men ahead of us to reconnoitre the land for us, and on their return they will bring us an account of the way by which we are to ascend, and of the cities to which we are to arrive.
23 And the saying seemed good to me; and I took twelve men from among you, one man for each tribe.
24 And they set out, and went up into the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and searched out the land.
25 And they took in their hands the fruit of the land, and brought it to us, and reported it to us, and said, The land that Jehovah our God is giving us is good.
26 However, you did not want to go up, but you were rebellious to the command of Jehovah your God;
27 and you murmured in your tents, saying, Because Jehovah hates us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us.
28 Where shall we go up? Our brothers have terrified our hearts, saying: This people is greater and higher than us, the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and we also saw the sons of Anak there.
29 Then I said to you, Do not be afraid, nor be afraid of them.
30 Jehovah your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes.
31 And in the wilderness you have seen that Jehovah your God has brought you, as a man brings his son, all the way you have traveled, until you came to this place.
32 And yet you did not believe Jehovah your God,
33 who went ahead of you on the road to show you the place where you were to camp, with fire by night to show you the way where you were going, and with cloud by day.
34 And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
35 None of these men, of this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers,
36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ; He will see it, and I will give him the land he trod on, and his children; because he has faithfully followed Jehovah.
37 Jehovah was also angry with me because of you, and he said to me, “You shall not enter there either.”
38 Joshua the son of Nun, who serves you, he will go in there; encourage him, because he will make Israel inherit.
39 And your children, whom you said would be spoils, and your children who today do not know good or evil, they will enter there, and I will give it to them, and they will inherit it.
40 But you turn and go into the desert, toward the Red Sea.
41 Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Jehovah; We will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God has commanded us. And you armed yourselves, each with his weapons of war, and prepared to go up the mountain.
42 And Jehovah said to me: Tell them: Do not go up, nor fight, for I am not among you; so that you will not be defeated by your enemies.
43 And I spoke to you, and you did not listen; Before you were rebellious to the command of Jehovah, and persisting in haughtiness you went up to the mountain.
44 But the Amorites, who lived in that mountain, came out to meet you, and they pursued you like wasps do, and defeated you in Seir, as far as Hormah.
45 And you returned and wept before Jehovah, but Jehovah did not listen to your voice, nor did he give ear to you.
46 And you were in Kadesh for many days, the days that you were there.
1 Then we returned and went out into the wilderness, on the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah had told me; and we surrounded Mount Seir for a long time.
2 And Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
3 You have encircled this mountain enough; turn north.
4 And he commanded the people, saying, As you pass through the territory of your brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, they will be afraid of you; but you must be very careful.
5 Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you of their land, not even that which covers the sole of a foot; for I have given Mount Seir as an inheritance to Esau.
6 You will buy food from them for money, and you will eat; and you will also buy water from them, and drink;
7 For Jehovah your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands; He knows that you walk through this great desert; These forty years Jehovah your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.
8 And we moved away from the territory of our brothers the sons of Esau, who lived in Seir, by the way of the Arabah from Elath and Ezion-geber; and we returned, and took the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 And Jehovah said to me, Do not trouble Moab, nor engage in war with them, for I will not give you possession of their land; for I have given Ar as an inheritance to the sons of Lot.
10 (The Emites lived there before, a people great and numerous, and tall like the children of Anak.
11 They were also considered giants, like the children of Anak; and the Moabites call them Emites.
12 And the Emites lived before . Horites, whom the sons of Esau drove out, and drove them out from before them, and dwelt in their place, as Israel did in the land which Jehovah gave them for a possession.)
13 Now arise, and cross the brook Zered. And we passed the brook of Zered.
14 And the days that we traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered were thirty-eight years; until the whole generation of men of war was destroyed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn to them.
15 And the hand of Jehovah also came upon them to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were finished.
16 And it came to pass, after all the men of war among the people had died,
17 Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
18 Today you will pass over the territory of Moab to Ar.
19 And when you come near to the children of Ammon, do not trouble them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you possession of the land of the children of Ammon, for I have given it to the children of Lot for an inheritance.
20 (It was also considered a land of giants; giants once lived there, whom the Ammonites called Zomzomei;
21 a people great and numerous and tall, like the children of Anak; whom Jehovah destroyed before the Ammonites. These succeeded them, and dwelt in their place,
22 as Jehovah did unto the sons of Esau that dwelt in Seir, before whom he destroyed the Horites: and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their place unto this day
. And the Havites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Capthorites who came out of Caphtor destroyed them, and lived in their place.)
24 Arise, go out, and cross the brook Arnon; Behold, I have delivered into your hand Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land; begins to take possession of it, and goes to war with him.
25 Today I will begin to put your fear and your terror on the people under the whole heaven, who will hear your fame, and will tremble and be distressed before you.
26 And I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kademoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27 I will pass through your land on the way; I will go along the road, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
28 You will sell food to me for money, and I will eat; You will also give me water for money, and I will drink; I will only pass over on foot,
29 as the sons of Esau who lived in Seir did to me, and the Moabites who lived in Ar; until I cross the Jordan into the land that Jehovah our God is giving us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon did not want us to pass through his territory; for Jehovah your God had hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, to deliver him into your hand, as until this day.
31 And Jehovah said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land before you; he begins to take possession of it so that you inherit it.
32 And Sihon came out to meet us, he and all his people, to fight in Jahaza.
33 But Jehovah our God handed him over before us; and we defeated him and his children, and all his people.
34 Then We took all his cities, and destroyed all the cities, men, women and children; We don’t leave any.
35 We only took for ourselves the cattle and the spoils of the cities we had taken.
36 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the brook Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that escaped us; Jehovah our God gave them all into our power.
37 Only we did not come to the land of the Ammonites; nor to all that is on the banks of the brook Jabbok nor to the cities of the mountain, nor to any place that Jehovah our God had forbidden.
1 So we returned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us to fight, he and all his people, at Edrei.
2 And Jehovah said to me, Do not be afraid of him, for I have given him into your hand and all his people, with his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon.
3 And Jehovah our God also delivered into our hand Og king of Bashan, and all his people, whom we defeated until we had destroyed them all.
4 And then we took all the cities from him; There was no city left that we did not take from them; sixty cities, all the land of Argob, of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 All of these were fortified cities with high walls, with gates and bars, not to mention many other cities without walls.
6 And we destroyed them, as we made Sihon king of Heshbon, killing men, women and children in every city.
7 And we took for ourselves all the livestock, and the spoils of the cities.
8 We also took at that time the land from the brook Arnon to Mount Hermon from the two Amorite kings who were on this side of the Jordan.
9 (The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call Senir.)
10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salkah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11 For only Og king of Bashan was left of the rest of the giants. His bed, an iron bed, is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Its length is nine cubits, and its width four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.
12 And this land which we inherited at that time, from Aroer, which is by the brook Arnon, and half of Mount Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites;
13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, of the kingdom of Og, all the land of Argob, which was called the land of the giants, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh.
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the land of Argob to the border with Geshur and Maacah, and called it by his name, Bashan-havot-jair, to this day.
15 And Gilead I gave it to Machir.
16 And to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave Gilead as far as the brook Arnon, having as its boundary the middle of the valley, as far as the brook Jabbok, which is the boundary of the children of Ammon;
17 also the Arabah, with the Jordan as its border from Cinereth to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
18 And I commanded you then, saying, Jehovah your God has given you this land for an inheritance; But all you mighty men will go armed before your brothers the children of Israel.
19 Only your wives, your children, and your livestock (I know that you have many livestock) will remain in the cities that I have given you,
20 until Jehovah gives rest to your brothers, as well as to you, and they also inherit the land that Jehovah your God gives them to the other side of the Jordan; then you will each return to the inheritance that I have given you.
21 I also commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes saw all that Jehovah your God had done to those two kings; Thus will Jehovah do to all the kingdoms into which you will pass.
22 Do not fear them; for Jehovah your God, he is the one who fights for you.
23 And I prayed to Jehovah at that time, saying:
24 Jehovah, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand; Because what god is there in heaven or on earth that does works and exploits like yours?
25 Let me go over, I pray you, and see that good land that is beyond the Jordan, that good mountain, and Lebanon.
26 But Jehovah was angry with me because of you, so he did not listen to me; and Jehovah said to me: Enough, speak no more to me of this matter.
27 Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes to the west, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and see with your own eyes; because you will not cross the Jordan.
28 And command Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he will pass before this people, and he will make them inherit the land that you will see.
29 And we stopped in the valley before Beth-peor.
1 Now therefore, O Israel, hear the statutes and decrees that I teach you, that you may do them, and live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving you.
2 You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God that I command you.
3 Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did for Baal-worse; for every man that went after Baal-peor Jehovah your God destroyed from among you.
4 But you who followed Jehovah your God are all alive today.
5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as Jehovah my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land into which you are entering to take possession.
6 Keep them, therefore, and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the eyes of the people, who will hear all these statutes, and will say: Truly a wise and understanding people, this is a great nation.
7 For what great nation is there that has gods as close to them as Jehovah our God is in all that we ask of him?
8 And what great nation is there that has just statutes and judgments like all this law that I set before you today?
9 Therefore be on your guard, and guard your soul diligently, that you may not forget the things that your eyes have seen, nor let them depart from your heart all the days of your life; but you shall teach them to your children, and to your children’s children.
10 On the day when you stood before Jehovah your God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather the people to me, that I may make them hear my words, which they will learn, to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and they will teach them to their children;
11 and you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire even in the midst of the heavens with darkness, cloud and darkness;
12 and Jehovah spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; You heard the voice of his words, but except for hearing his voice, you saw no figure.
13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform; the ten commandments, and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
14 Jehovah also commanded me at that time to teach you the statutes and judgments, so that you might carry them out in the land to which you are going to take possession.
15 Therefore guard your souls closely; For you did not see any figure on the day that Jehovah spoke to you out of the fire;
16 so that you do not corrupt yourselves and make for yourselves a sculpture, an image of any figure, an image of a male or a female,
17 a figure of any animal that is on the earth, a figure of a winged bird that flies in the air,
18 a figure of no animal that crawls on the earth, a figure of any fish that is in the water under the earth.
19 Lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and see the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the host of heaven, and be moved, and bow down to them and serve them; for Jehovah your God has granted them to all the people under all the heavens.
20 But Jehovah has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace out of Egypt, so that you may be the people of his inheritance as on this day.
21 And Jehovah was angry with me because of you, and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, nor enter the good land which Jehovah your God is giving you for an inheritance.
22 So I will die in this land, and will not cross the Jordan; but you will pass over and possess that good land.
23 Beware, do not forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he established with you, and do not make for yourself a graven image or image of anything that Jehovah your God has forbidden you.
24 For Jehovah your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
25 When you have fathered children and grandchildren, and have grown old in the land, if you corrupt yourselves and make a sculpture or image of anything, and do evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, to anger him;
26 Today I call heaven and earth as witnesses that you will soon completely perish from the land to which you crossed the Jordan to take possession of it; You will not be there for long days without being destroyed.
27 And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be few in number among the nations to which Jehovah will take you.
28 And there you will serve gods made by the hands of men, of wood and stone, who do not see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 But if you seek Jehovah your God from there, you will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 When you are in trouble, and all these things overtake you, if in the last days you turn to Jehovah your God, and hear his voice;
31 For Jehovah your God is a merciful God; He will not leave you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant that he swore to your fathers.
32 For ask now whether in the past times that were before you, from the day that God created man on the earth, whether from one end of heaven to the other anything like this great thing has been done, or has been heard another like her.
33 Has any people heard the voice of God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, without perishing?
34 Or has God intended to come to take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, with trials, with signs, with miracles, and with war, and a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, and terrifying deeds, like all that Jehovah did for you? your God in Egypt before your eyes?
35 It was shown to you, that you might know that Jehovah is God, and there is no other besides him.
36 From heaven he made you hear his voice, to teach you; and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and you have heard his words from the midst of the fire.
37 And because he loved your fathers, he chose his descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt by his presence and by his great power,
38 to drive out nations great and stronger than you from before your presence, and to introduce you and give you their land as an inheritance, like today.
39 Learn therefore today and reflect in your heart that Jehovah is God in heaven above and on earth beneath, and there is no other.
40 And 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 on the land that Jehovah your God is giving you forever.
41 Then Moses set aside three cities on this side of the Jordan at the rising of the sun,
42 so that the murderer who killed his neighbor unintentionally, without having ever had enmity with him before, might flee there; and that by fleeing to one of these cities he would save his life:
43 Beser in the desert, in the land of the plain, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for those of Manasseh.
44 This then is the law that Moses set before the children of Israel.
45 These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the decrees that Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they left Egypt;
46 on this side of the Jordan, in the valley before Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt;
47 And they possessed their land, and the land of Og king of Bashan; two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, to the east.
48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the brook Arnon, to Mount Zion, which is Hermon;
49 and all the Arabah on this side of the Jordan, eastward, to the Sea of Arabah, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.
1 Moses called all Israel and said to them: Hear, Israel, the statutes and decrees that I pronounce in your ears today; Learn them, and keep them, to put them into practice.
2 Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
3 Not with our fathers did Jehovah make this covenant, but with us all who are here alive today.
4 Jehovah spoke to you face to face on the mountain out of the midst of the fire.
5 I was then between Jehovah and you, to declare to you the word of Jehovah; because you were afraid of the fire, and did not go up to the mountain. He said:
6 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
7 You will have no other gods before me.
8 You shall not make for yourself any graven image, nor any image of anything that is in heaven above, nor on the earth beneath, nor in the water under the earth.
9 You shall not bow down to them nor serve them; For I am Jehovah your God, strong and jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
10 and showing mercy to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. .
11 You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him innocent who takes his name in vain.
12 You shall keep the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as Jehovah your God has commanded you.
13 Six days you will work, and you will do all your work;
14 But the seventh day is a rest to Jehovah your God; You shall do no work, neither 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 animals, nor the foreigner who is within your gates, so that your servant may rest and your servant like you.
15 Remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm; Therefore Jehovah your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath.
16 Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.
17 Thou shalt not kill.
18 You shall not commit adultery.
19 Thou shalt not steal.
20 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor desire your neighbor’s house, nor his land, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything of yours. neighbor.
22 These words Jehovah spoke to all your congregation on the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone, which he gave to me.
23 And it came to pass, when you heard the voice out of darkness, and saw the mountain burning with fire, that you came to me, all the princes of your tribes, and your elders,
24 and you said, Behold, Jehovah our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire; Today we have seen that Jehovah speaks to man, and he still lives.
25 Now why should we die? Because this great fire will consume us; If we hear the voice of Jehovah our God again, we will die.
26 For what is man, that he should hear the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have heard, and yet live?
27 Come near and hear all that Jehovah our God says; and you will tell us everything that Jehovah our God tells you, and we will hear and do.
28 And Jehovah heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and Jehovah said to me: I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you; Everything they said is fine.
29 Would that they had such a heart that they would fear me and keep all my commandments daily, so that it would be good for them and their children forever!
30 Go and tell them: Return to your tents.
31 And stay here with me, and I will tell you all the commandments and statutes and decrees that you will teach them, so that they may now carry them out in the land that I am giving them for their possession.
32 See therefore that you do as Jehovah your God has commanded you; do not turn away to the right or to the left.
33 Walk in all the way that Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that you may live and it may go well with you, and that you may have long days in the land that you are to possess.
1 These then are the commandments, statutes and decrees that Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, so that you may do them in the land to which you are passing to take it;
2 that you may fear Jehovah your God, keeping all his statutes and his commandments that I command you, you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life, so that your days may be long.
3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and take care to do them, that it may go well with you in the land flowing with milk and honey, and that you may multiply, as Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has told you.
4 Hear, Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.
5 And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 And these words that I command you today will be on your heart;
7 and you will repeat them to your children, and you will talk about them when you are in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you get up.
8 And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals between your eyes;
9 and you will write them on the posts of your house, and on your doors.
10 When Jehovah your God has brought you into the land that he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he would give you, into great and good cities that you did not build,
11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns dug that you did not dig, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and when you eat and are satisfied,
12 be careful not to forget Jehovah, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 You will fear Jehovah your God, and you will serve him only, and you will swear by his name.
14 You shall not follow other gods, the gods of the people around you;
15 For the jealous God, Jehovah your God, is in your midst; lest the anger of Jehovah your God flare up against you, and destroy you from the earth.
16 You shall not test Jehovah your God, as you tested him at Massah.
17 Keep carefully the commandments of Jehovah your God, and the testimonies of him and the statutes of him which he has commanded you.
18 And do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land that Jehovah swore to your fathers;
19 so that he may drive out your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has said.
20 Tomorrow when your son will ask you, saying, What do the testimonies and statutes and decrees mean, which Jehovah our God commanded you?
21 Then you will say to your son: We were servants of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22 Jehovah performed great and terrible signs and wonders in Egypt, on Pharaoh and on all his house, before our eyes;
23 and he brought us out from there, to bring us and give us the land that he swore to our fathers.
24 And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, and to fear Jehovah our God, that it may go well with us always, and that he may preserve us in life, as until this day.
25 And we will have righteousness when we take care to do all these commandments before Jehovah our God, as he has commanded us.
1 When Jehovah your God has brought you into the land into which you are entering to take it, and has driven out many nations from before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and more powerful than you,
2 and Jehovah your God has delivered them before you, and you have defeated them, you will completely destroy them; You will not make an alliance with them, nor will you have mercy on them.
3 And you will not be related to them; You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for your son.
4 For he will turn away your son from following me, and they will serve other gods; and the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
5 But thus you must do to them: you will destroy their altars, and you will break their statues, and you will destroy their Asherah images, and you will burn their sculptures in the fire.
6 For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God; Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a special people to him, more than all the peoples that are on the earth.
7 It is not because you are more than all people that Jehovah loved you and chose you, because you were the least of all people;
8 But because Jehovah loved you, and was willing to keep the oath that he swore to your fathers, Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand, and has rescued you from bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that Jehovah your God is God, a faithful God, who keeps the covenant and mercy to those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10 and that he pays in person to the one who hates him, destroying him; and he does not delay with him who hates him, he will pay him in person.
11 Therefore he keeps the commandments, statutes and decrees that I command you today to observe.
12 And because you have heard these decrees and have kept them and done them, Jehovah your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy that he swore to your fathers.
13 And he will love you, and he will bless you and multiply you, and he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your herds, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land that he swore to your parents that he would give you.
14 You will be blessed more than all people; There will be no barren male or female in you, nor in your livestock.
15 And Jehovah will take away all sickness from you; and all the evil plagues of Egypt, which you know, he will not put on you, but he will put them on all those who hate you.
16 And you will consume all the people that Jehovah your God gives you; Your eye will not spare them, nor will you serve his gods, for he will be a stumbling block to you.
17 If you say in your heart, These nations are much more numerous than I; How can I exterminate them?
18 do not be afraid of them; Remember well what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
19 of the great trials that your eyes saw, and of the signs and miracles, and of the mighty hand and the outstretched arm with which Jehovah your God brought you out; Thus will Jehovah your God do to all the people whose presence you fear.
20 Jehovah your God will also send hornets on them, until those who remain and those who have hidden themselves from you perish.
21 Do not faint before them, for Jehovah your God is in your midst, a great and fearsome God.
22 And Jehovah your God will drive out these nations from before you little by little; You will not be able to put an end to them immediately, so that the wild beasts of the field will not increase against you.
23 But Jehovah your God will deliver them before you, and he will break them with great destruction, until they are destroyed.
24 He will deliver his kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; no one will stand up to you until you destroy them.
25 You will burn the sculptures of his gods in the fire; You shall not covet their silver or gold to take for yourself, lest you stumble in it, for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God;
26 and you shall not bring anything abominable into your house, lest you be accursed; You will absolutely hate and abhor it, because it is anathema.
1 You will be careful to do every commandment that I command you today, so that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to your fathers.
2 And you will remember all the way that the Lord your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to afflict you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
3 And he afflicted you, and made you hungry, and fed you with manna, food that you did not know, nor had your parents known, to let you know that man will not live on bread alone, but on everything that comes from the man shall live in the mouth of the Lord.
4 Your clothing has never grown old on you, nor has your foot swelled in these forty years.
5 Know also in your heart that as a man punishes his son, so the Lord your God punishes you.
6 Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and fearing him.
7 For the Lord your God brings you into the good land, a land of streams, waters, fountains and springs, springing up in plains and mountains;
8 land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees and pomegranates; land of olive trees, oil and honey;
9 land in which you will not eat bread in want, nor will you lack anything in it; land whose stones are iron, and from whose mountains you will get copper.
10 And you will eat and be satisfied, and you will bless the Lord your God for the good land that he has given you.
11 Be careful not to forget the Lord your God, to fulfill his commandments, his decrees and his statutes that I command you today;
12 lest you eat and be satisfied, and build good houses to live in,
13 and your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything you have increases;
14 and let your heart be proud, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
15 who made you walk through a great and terrible desert, full of fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirst, where there was no water, and he brought you water from the flint rock;
16 that he fed you with manna in the wilderness, food that your fathers had not known, afflicting you and testing you, in order to do you good in the end;
17 and say in your heart: My power and the strength of my hand have brought me this wealth.
18 But remember the Lord your God, for he gives you power to get riches, to confirm his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as on this day.
19 But if you forget the Lord your God and walk after other gods, and serve them and bow down to them, I declare it against you today, that you will surely perish.
20 Like the nations that the Lord will destroy before you, so you will perish, because you will not heed the voice of the Lord your God.
1 Hear, Israel: today you are going to cross the Jordan, to go in to dispossess nations more numerous and more powerful than you, cities great and walled up to heaven;
2 a great and high people, the children of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge, and have heard saying: Who can stand before the children of Anak?
3 Therefore understand today that it is the Lord your God who passes before you like a devouring fire, who will destroy them and humble them before you; and you shall drive them out and destroy them immediately, as the Lord has told you.
4 Do not think in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them out from before you, saying, Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me to possess this land; For because of the wickedness of these nations, Jehovah drives them out from before you.
5 Not because of your righteousness, nor because of the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and to confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham , Isaac and Jacob.
6 Therefore know that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God gives you this good land to take; because you are a tough-necked people.
7 Remember, do not forget that you have provoked the wrath of the Lord your God in the wilderness; From the day you left the land of Egypt until you entered this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
8 In Horeb you provoked the LORD to anger, and the LORD was angry with you to destroy you.
9 When I went up to the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I was then on the mountain forty days and forty nights, without eating bread or drinking water;
10 And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and in them it was written according to all the words that the Lord spoke to you on the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly.
11 It came to pass at the end of the forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said to me, Arise, come down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt; They have soon departed from the path that I commanded them; They have made a cast image.
13 And the LORD spoke to me, saying, I have observed that people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
14 Let me destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will set you over a nation that is strong and much more numerous than they.
15 And I returned and came down from the mountain, which was burning with fire, with the tables of the covenant in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made yourself a molten calf, quickly turning away from the path that Jehovah had commanded you.
17 Then I took the two boards and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18 And I worshiped the Lord as before for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread nor drink water, because of all your sin that you had committed by doing evil in the sight of the Lord to anger him.
19 For I feared because of the fury and wrath with which the LORD was angry against you to destroy you. But Jehovah heard me even this time.
20 The Lord was also very angry with Aaron to destroy him; and I also prayed for Aaron back then.
21 And I took the object of your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it in pieces, grinding it very well, until it was ground to powder; and I threw the dust of it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
22 Also in Tabera, in Massah, and in Kibrot-hataava you provoked Jehovah to anger.
23 And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land that I have given you, you also were rebellious to the command of the LORD your God, and did not believe him, nor obey his voice.
24 You have been rebels against Jehovah from the day I knew you.
25 So I fell down before the Lord; I was prostrate for forty days and forty nights, because the Lord said he would destroy you.
26 And I prayed to the Lord, saying, O Lord Jehovah, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed by your greatness, which you brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; Do not look at the hardness of this people, nor at their wickedness nor at their sin,
28 lest those of the land from which you brought us say, Because the LORD could not bring them into the land that he had promised them, or because he hated them. , took them out to kill them in the desert.
29 And they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.
1 At that time the Lord said to me, Hew for yourself two tables of stone like the first ones, and go up to me on the mountain, and make for yourself an ark of wood;
2 and I will write on those tables the words that were on the first tables that you broke; and you will put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and I went up to the mountain with the two tables in my hand.
4 And he wrote on the tables according to the first writing, the ten commandments that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.
5 And I returned and came down from the mountain, and put the boards in the ark which he had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.
6 (Then the children of Israel went out from Beeroth-benejaachan to Mosera; there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and his son Eleazar took the priesthood in his place.
7 From there they journeyed to Gudgoda, and from Gudgoda to Jotbatha, land of streams of water.
8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve him, and to bless in his name, to this day,
9 therefore Levi He had no share or inheritance with his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God told him.)
10 And I was in the mountain for about the first days, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD also heard me this time, and the LORD did not want to destroy you.
11 And the LORD said to me, Arise, go, that you may go before the people, that they may come in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
12 Now therefore, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but that you fear the LORD your God, that you walk in all his ways, and that you love him, and that you serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul;
13 that you keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes, which I command you today, so that you may prosper?
14 Behold, the heavens are the Lord your God’s, and the heaven of heavens, the earth, and all things that are in it.
15 Only the Lord was pleased with your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, you, above all people, as on this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and harden your neck no more.
17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, a great, mighty, and fearsome God, who shows no partiality, nor takes bribes;
18 that he gives justice to the orphan and the widow; that he also loves the stranger by giving him bread and clothing.
19 Therefore you will love the stranger; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 You will fear the Lord your God, you will serve him only, you will follow him, and you will swear by his name.
21 He is the object of your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and terrible things that your eyes have seen.
22 Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy people, and now the Lord has made you like the stars of heaven in multitude.
1 Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and you shall keep his ordinances, his statutes, his decrees, and his commandments always.
2 And understand today, why I do not speak to your children who have not known or seen the punishment of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
3 and his signs, and his works that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;
4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to its horses and to its chariots; how he rushed the waters of the Red Sea upon them, when they came after you, and the LORD destroyed them to this day;
5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben; how he opened his mouth the earth, and he swallowed them up with their families, their tents, and all their livestock, in the midst of all Israel.
7 But your eyes have seen all the great works that the Lord has done.
8 Therefore keep all the commandments that I command you today, so that you may be strengthened and go in and possess the land to which you are passing to take it;
9 and that your days may be prolonged on the land, of which the Lord swore to your fathers, that he would give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 The land you are entering to take is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a vegetable garden.
11 The land to which you are passing to take it is a land of mountains and plains, which drinks the waters of the rain from heaven;
12 land of which the Lord your God cares; The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end.
13 If you carefully obey my commandments that I command you today, loving the Lord your God, and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early and the late; and you will gather your grain, your wine and your oil.
15 I will also give grass in your field for your livestock; and you will eat, and you will be satisfied.
16 Beware, therefore, that your hearts do not become arrogant, and that you turn away and serve other gods, and bow down to them;
17 and the anger of the LORD may be kindled against you, and he will close the heavens, and there will be no rain, nor will the earth yield its fruit, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
18 Therefore, you will put these my words in your heart and in your soul, and you will bind them as a sign on your hand, and they will be fronts between your eyes.
19 And you will teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up,
20 and you will write them on the posts of your house, and on your doors;
21 so that your days and the days of your children may be as numerous on the earth, which the Lord swore to your fathers that he would give them, as the days of heaven are on the earth.
22 For if you carefully keep all these commandments that I command you to do, and if you love the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and following him,
23 the Lord will also drive out all these nations from before you, and You will dispossess nations great and more powerful than you.
24 Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours; from the desert to Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the western sea, it will be your territory.
25 No one will stand before you; Jehovah your God will put fear and trepidation on you over all the land you walk on, just as he has told you.
26 Behold, I set before you today the blessing and the curse:
27 the blessing, if you will hear the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today,
28 and the curse, if you will not hear the commandments of the Lord your God, and You will depart from the path that I command you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.
29 And when the LORD your God has brought you into the land where you are going to take it, you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal,
30 which are beyond the Jordan, behind the western road. in the land of the Canaanite, who dwells in the Arabah opposite Gilgal, by the oak forest of More.
31 For you are crossing the Jordan to go to possess the land that the Lord your God is giving you; and you will take it, and live in it.
32 Therefore you will be careful to fulfill all the statutes and decrees that I present before you today.
1 These are the statutes and decrees that you will be careful to carry out in the land that Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to take possession of, all the days that you live on the land.
2 You will completely destroy all the places where the nations that you will inherit served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
3 You will tear down their altars, and break their statues, and consume their Asherah images with fire; and you will destroy the sculptures of their gods, and you will blot out their name from that place.
4 You shall not do so to the Lord your God,
5 but the place which the Lord your God chooses from among all your tribes, to place there his name for his habitation, that you shall seek, and thither you shall go.
6 And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hands, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstfruits of your herds and your sheep;
7 and you will eat there before the Lord your God, and you will rejoice, you and your families, in all the work of your hands in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
8 You will not do as we do here now, each one doing what seems good to him,
9 because until now you have not entered into the rest and the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you.
10 But you will cross the Jordan, and you will live in the land that the Lord your God makes you inherit; and he will give you rest from all your enemies around, and you will dwell in safety.
11 And to the place that the Lord your God will choose to put his name, there you will bring all the things that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hands, and all the choice of the vows that you would have promised Jehovah.
12 And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your sons, your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who dwells in your towns; because he has no part or inheritance with you.
13 Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings anywhere you see;
14 But in the place that the Lord chooses, in one of your tribes, there you will offer your burnt offerings, and there you will do everything that I command you.
15 Nevertheless, you may kill and eat meat in all your towns according to your desire, according to the blessing that the Lord your God has given you; The unclean and the clean may eat it, like that of a gazelle or a deer.
16 Only you will not eat blood; You will pour it out on the earth like water.
17Neither shall you eat in your towns the tithe of your grain, of your wine, or of your oil, nor the first fruits of your herds, nor of your sheep, nor the vows that you have promised, nor the voluntary offerings, nor the heave offerings of your hands;
18 But you shall eat them before the Lord your God, in the place that the Lord your God has chosen, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who lives in your towns; You will rejoice before the Lord your God over all the work of your hands.
19 Be careful not to forsake the Levite all your days on earth.
20 When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has told you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat, because you wanted to eat it,’ you may eat according to what you wanted.
22 Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; The unclean and the clean may also eat of them.
23 Only be firm in not eating blood; for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with its flesh.
24 You shall not eat it; You will pour it on the ground like water.
25 You shall not eat of it, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
26 But the things that you have consecrated, and your vows, you will take, and you will come with them to the place that the Lord has chosen;
27 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, and you may eat the flesh.
28 Keep and listen to all these words that I command you, so that by doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God, it may go well with you and with your children after you forever.
21 If the place that the Lord your God chooses to put his name there is far from you, you may kill your herds and your sheep that the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat at your gates according to all that you desire. .
29 When the Lord your God has destroyed before you the nations where you are going to possess them, and you inherit them, and live in their land,
30 be careful that you do not stumble as you follow them, after they are destroyed before you; Do not ask about their gods, saying: As those nations served their gods, so will I also serve them.
31 You shall not do so to the Lord your God; for every abominable thing that Jehovah hates, they did to his gods; for even their sons and their daughters they burned in the fire, their gods.
32 You will be careful to do everything I command you; You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
1 When a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and announces signs or wonders to you,
2 and if the sign or wonder that he announced to you comes to pass, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;
3 You will not listen to the words of such a prophet, nor to such a dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 You shall walk after the Lord your God; you will fear him, you will keep his commandments and listen to his voice, you will serve him, and you will follow him.
5 Such a prophet or dreamer of dreams must be put to death, because he counseled rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and rescued you from the house of bondage, and sought to turn you away from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to go. you walked; and thus you will remove evil from your midst.
6 If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son, or your daughter, or your wife, or your close friend, incites you, saying in secret, “Let us go and serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers knew,
7 of the gods of the towns that are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of it;
8 You will not consent to him, nor will you listen to him; neither will your eye pity him, nor will you show him mercy, nor will you conceal him,
9 but you will kill him; Your hand will be lifted first over him to kill him, and then the hand of all the people.
10 You shall stone him until he dies, because he sought to separate you from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
11 so that all Israel may hear and fear, and may not do anything like this again among you.
12 If you hear that it is said about any of your cities that the Lord your God is giving you to live in,
13 that ungodly men have come out from among you and have instigated the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve gods.” strangers, whom you did not know;
14 You will inquire, and you will search and ask diligently; And if it seems true, a certain thing, that such an abomination was done in your midst,
15 You will inevitably strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it and everything in it, and you will also kill their livestock with the edge of the sword.
16 And you will gather all its spoils in the middle of the square, and you will consume the city and all its spoils with fire, all of it as a burnt offering to the Lord your God, and it will become a heap of ruins forever; It will never be built again.
17 And nothing of the accursed shall adhere to your hand, so that the LORD may turn away from the fierceness of his anger, and have mercy on you, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,
18 when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I command you today, to do what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.
1 You are children of the Lord your God; You shall not cut yourselves, nor shave your heads because of the dead.
2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a unique people to him from among all the peoples that are on the earth.
3 You shall eat nothing abominable.
4 These are the animals that you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the wild ram.
6 And every hoofed animal that has a split nail, and that chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.
7 But these you shall not eat, among those who chew the cud or among those who have cloven hoofs: camel, hare and rabbit; Because they chew the cud, but do not have a cloven hoof, they will be unclean;
8 nor a pig, because it has a cloven hoof, but it does not chew the cud; it will be unclean to you. You shall not eat their flesh, nor touch their dead bodies.
9 Of all that is in the water, these you may eat: everything that has fins and scales.
10 But whatever does not have fins and scales, you will not eat; it will be unclean.
11 You may eat every clean bird.
12 And these are the ones you cannot eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the goshawk,
13 the buzzard, the kite according to its kind,
14 every raven according to its kind,
15 the ostrich, the owl, the gull, and the hawk according to its kind. their species,
16 the owl, the ibis, the swallow,
17 the pelican, the vulture, the grebe,
18 the stork, the heron according to its species, the hoopoe and the bat.
19 Every winged insect will be unclean; will not be eaten.
20 You may eat every clean bird.
21 You shall eat no dead thing; You will give it to the foreigner who is in your towns, and he may eat it; or sell it to a foreigner, because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil the kid in its mother’s milk.
22 You will inevitably tithe all the grain produced by your field each year.
23 And you shall eat before the LORD your God in the place which he chooses to put his name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first fruits of your flocks and of your cattle, so that you may learn to fear to the Lord your God every day.
24 And if the road is so long that you cannot carry it, because the place that Jehovah your God has chosen to put his name on is far from you, when Jehovah your God blesses you,
25 then you must sell it and keep the money in your hand, and you will come to the place that the Lord your God will choose;
26 and you will give the money for everything you want, for cattle, for sheep, for wine, for strong drink, or for anything you want; and you will eat there before the Lord your God, and you and your household will rejoice.
27 And you shall not forsake the Levite who dwells in your towns; for he has no part or inheritance with you.
28 At the end of every three years you will take out the entire tithe of your produce from that year, and you will keep it in your cities.
29 And the Levite, who has no share or inheritance with you, and the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow who are in your towns, will come, and they will eat and be satisfied; so that the Lord your God may bless you in every work that your hands do.
1 Every seven years you will make remission.
2 And this is the way of remission: everyone who made a loan out of his hand, with which he obligated his neighbor, will forgive his debtor; He will no longer demand it from his neighbor or from his brother, because the forgiveness of Jehovah is proclaimed.
3 You will demand reimbursement from the foreigner; But what your brother has of yours, your hand will forgive,
4 so that there will be no beggar among you; for the Lord will bless you with abundance in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to take possession of,
5 if you will faithfully listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all these commandments that I command you today.
6 Since the Lord your God has blessed you, as he has told you, you will then lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; You will have dominion over many nations, but they will not have dominion over you.
7 When there is one of your brothers in need among you in any of your cities, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand against your poor brother,
8 but you shall open your hand to him liberally, and in fact you will lend him what he needs.
9 Beware of having a perverse thought in your heart, saying: The seventh year, the year of remission, is near, and you look with evil eyes on your needy brother so as not to give him; for he may cry against you to the Lord, and he will be counted a sin to you.
10 You will certainly give to him, and you will not be small-hearted when you give to him; because therefore the Lord your God will bless you in all your deeds, and in everything you undertake.
11 For there will be no shortage of needy people in the midst of the earth; Therefore I command you, saying: You will open your hand to your brother, to the poor and needy in your land.
12 If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, sells himself to you and has served you six years, on the seventh year you will send him away free.
13 And when you send him away free, you will not send him away empty-handed.
14 You will supply him liberally with your sheep, your threshing floor, and your winepress; You will give him what the Lord has blessed you with.
15 And you will remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God rescued you; Therefore I send you this today.
16 If he says to you, I will not leave you; because he loves you and your house, and because he is doing well with you;
17 Then you will take a rod and pierce his ear against the door, and he will be your servant forever; so shall you also do to your maid.
18 Do not think it is hard when you send him free, because for half the cost of a hired worker he served you six years; and the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
19 You shall consecrate to the Lord your God every firstborn male of your herds and of your sheep; You shall not use the firstborn of your herds, nor shall you shear the firstborn of your sheep.
20 Before the Lord your God you shall eat them every year, you and your family, in the place that the Lord chooses.
21 And if there is a defect in him, if he is blind, or lame, or if there is any fault in him, you shall not sacrifice him to the Lord your God.
22 In your towns you will eat it; The unclean and the clean will eat of it, as of a gazelle or a deer.
23 Only do not eat his blood; You will pour it out on the earth like water.
1 You shall keep the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God; for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 And you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, of the sheep and of the herds, in the place that the Lord will choose for his name to dwell there.
3 You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you will eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste; so that all the days of your life you may remember the day on which you left the land of Egypt.
4 And leaven will not be seen with you in all your territory for seven days; and of the meat that you kill on the evening of the first day, there will not be left until the morning.
5 You may not sacrifice the Passover in any of the cities that the Lord your God gives you;
6 But in the place that the Lord your God chooses for his name to dwell there, you will sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time you left Egypt.
7 And you shall roast it and eat it in the place that the Lord your God has chosen; and in the morning you will come back and go back to your room.
8 Six days you will eat unleavened bread, and the seventh day will be a feast to the Lord your God; you will not work on it.
9 You will count seven weeks; From the moment the sickle begins to be put into the harvest, you will begin to count the seven weeks.
10 And you shall celebrate the feast of weeks to the Lord your God; of the voluntary abundance of your hand shall be what you give, according as the Lord your God has blessed you.
11 And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who dwells in your cities, and the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow who are among you, in the place that the Lord your God would have chosen to put his name there.
12 And remember that you were a servant in Egypt; therefore you will keep and fulfill these statutes.
13 You shall celebrate the solemn feast of tabernacles for seven days, when you have harvested your threshing floor and your winepress.
14 And you will rejoice in your feasts, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow who live in your towns.
15 Seven days you will celebrate a feast to the Lord your God in the place that the Lord will choose; For the Lord your God will have blessed you in all your fruits and in all the work of your hands, and you will be truly joyful.
16 Three times a year every male of yours will appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles. And no one will appear before the Lord empty-handed;
17 each with the offering of his hand, according to the blessing that the Lord your God has given you.
18 You will appoint judges and officials in all your cities that the Lord your God will give you in your tribes, who will judge the people with righteous judgment.
19 Do not twist the right; be no respecter of persons, nor take bribes; for bribery blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
20 Righteousness, righteousness you will follow, so that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
21 You shall not plant any Asherah tree near the altar of the Lord your God, which you have made for yourself,
22 nor shall you set up a statue for yourself, which the Lord your God hates.
1 You shall not offer as a sacrifice to the LORD your God any ox or lamb in which there is any fault or any evil thing, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
2 When there is found among you, in one of your cities that the Lord your God gives you, a man or woman who has done evil in the sight of the Lord your God by transgressing his covenant,
3 who has gone and served other gods, and would have bowed down to them, either to the sun, or to the moon, or to the whole host of heaven, which I have prohibited;
4 and it was given you notice, and after you heard and had investigated well, the thing would seem truly certain, that such an abomination has been done in Israel;
5 then you shall bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, whether male or female, and you shall stone them, and they shall die.
6 By the testimony of two or three witnesses, he who is to die will die; he will not die for the saying of a single witness.
7 The hand of the witnesses will fall first on him to kill him, and then the hand of all the people; So you shall remove the evil from the midst of you.
8 When something is difficult for you in judgment, between one kind of murder and another, between one kind of legal right and another, and between one kind of injury and another, in matters of litigation in your cities; then you will arise and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose;
9 and you will come to the Levitical priests, and to the judge who will be in those days, and ask; and they will teach you the sentence of judgment.
10 And you will do according to the sentence that those of the place that Jehovah chooses tell you, and you will be careful to do according to everything that they tell you.
11 According to the law that they teach you, and according to the judgment that they tell you, you will do; You will not deviate to the right or to the left from the sentence that is declared to you.
12 And the man who acts arrogantly, not obeying the priest who is there to minister before the Lord your God, or the judge, he shall die; and you will remove evil from the midst of Israel.
13 And all the people will hear, and fear, and will not be proud.
14 When you have entered into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you take possession of it and live in it, and say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;
14 When you have entered into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you take possession of it and live in it, and say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;
15 You will surely make king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; You will make a king over you from among your brothers; You cannot put a foreign man over you who is not your brother.
16 But he will not increase horses for himself, nor will he bring the people back to Egypt in order to increase horses; for the Lord has said to you: Never return this way.
17 Neither will he take many wives for himself, so that his heart does not turn away; Neither silver nor gold will he accumulate for himself in abundance.
18 And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, then he will write for himself in a book a copy of this law, of the original that is in the care of the Levitical priests;
19 and he will have it with him, and he will read in it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
20 so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, nor turn from the commandment to the right or to the left; so that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.
1 The Levitical priests, that is, the entire tribe of Levi, will have no part or inheritance in Israel; They shall eat of the burnt offerings to the Lord and of his inheritance.
2 Therefore they will have no inheritance among their brothers; The Lord is his inheritance, as he has told you.
3 And this shall be the right of the priests on behalf of the people, of those who offer an ox or a lamb as a sacrifice: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the jaws, and the curd.
4 You will give him the first fruits of your grain, your wine, and your oil, and the first fruits of the wool of your sheep;
5 because the LORD your God has chosen him from among all your tribes, to rule in the name of the LORD, he and his children forever.
6 And when a Levite comes out of one of your cities among all Israel, where he has lived, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place that the Lord will choose,
7 he will minister in the name of the Lord his God like all his brothers the Levites that they were there before Jehovah.
8 He will eat the same portion as the others, in addition to his property.
9 When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you will not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
10 Let there not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, nor one who practices divination, nor one who uses soothsayers, nor one who casts spells, nor one who casts spells,
11 nor one who enchants, nor one who soothsays, nor one who consults the dead.
12 For everyone who does these things is an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives these nations out from before you.
13 You will be perfect before the Lord your God.
14 For these nations, which you are about to inherit, listen to soothsayers and soothsayers; But the Lord your God has not permitted this to you.
15 A prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me, the Lord your God will raise up for you; you will hear from him;
16 according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, “May I not hear the voice of the LORD my God again, nor see this great fire any more, lest I die.”
17 And the Lord said to me: They have spoken well in what they have said.
18 I will raise up a prophet for them from among his brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them whatever I command him.
19 But whoever does not hear my words that he speaks in my name, I will hold him accountable.
20 The prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name, to whom I have not commanded to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
21 And if you say in your heart, How can we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?
22 If the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah, and what he said is not fulfilled, nor comes to pass, it is a word that Jehovah has not spoken; That prophet spoke it with presumption; do not be afraid of him.
1 When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land the LORD your God gives to you, and you inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
2 you will set aside three cities in the middle of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
3 You will fix the roads, and you will divide the land that the Lord your God will give you as an inheritance into three parts, and it will be so that every murderer will flee there.
4 And this is the case of the murderer who will flee there and live: he who hurts his neighbor without intention and without having previously had enmity with him;
5 like someone who goes with his neighbor to the mountain to cut wood, and when his hand strikes with the ax to cut some wood, the iron will fly off the end and hit his neighbor and he will die; that one will flee to one of these cities, and live;
6 lest the avenger of blood, enraged, pursue the murderer, and overtake him because the road is long, and strike him to death, and he should not be condemned to death because he had no enmity with his neighbor before.
7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall separate three cities.
8 And if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers,
9 provided you keep all these commandments that I command you today, to do them; that you love the Lord your God and walk in his ways always; Then you will add three more cities to these three,
10 so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, and you will not be blamed for bloodshed.
11 But if there be any man who hates his neighbor and lays in wait for him, and rises up against him and strikes him to death, and he dies; If he flees to one of these cities,
12 then the elders of his city will send and take him out of there, and hand him over to the hand of the avenger of blood to die.
13 You will not pity him; and you will take away the innocent blood from Israel, and it will be well with you.
14 In the inheritance that you possess in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you must not reduce the limits of your neighbor’s property, which the ancients set.
15 Not a single witness will be taken into account against anyone in any crime or in any sin, in relation to any offense committed. Only by the testimony of two or three witnesses will the accusation be sustained.
16 When a false witness arises against anyone to testify against him,
17 then the two litigants shall appear before the Lord, and before the priests and the judges who will be in those days.
18 And the judges will inquire well; and if that witness proves false, and has falsely accused his brother,
19 then you will do to him as he thought to do to his brother; and you will remove evil from your midst.
20 And those who remain will hear and fear, and will do no more such evil among you.
21 And you will not pity him; life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
1 When you go out to war against your enemies, if you see horses and chariots, and a people greater than you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
2 And when you draw near to fight, the priest will stand and speak to the people,
3 and he will say to them: Hear, Israel, you are gathered together today in battle against your enemies; Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, nor be discouraged before them;
4 for the Lord your God goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
5 And the officials shall speak to the people, saying, Who has built a new house, and has not inaugurated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in battle, and someone else break it.
6 And who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed it? Go and return to his house, lest he die in battle, and someone else enjoy it.
7 And who has married a woman and has not taken her? Go and return to his house, lest he die in battle, and someone else take it.
8 And the officials will speak again to the people, and will say: Who is a fearful and timid man? Go and return to his house, and do not weaken the hearts of his brothers like yours.
9 And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then the captains of the army will take command at the head of the people.
10 When you approach a city to fight it, you will give it peace.
11 And if he answers, Peace, and opens it to you, all the people found therein will be your tribute, and will serve you.
12 But if he does not make peace with you, and wages war with you, then you will besiege it.
13 After the Lord your God gives her into your hand, you shall strike every male of her with the edge of the sword.
14 Only the women and children, and the animals, and everything that is in the city, all its spoils you will take for yourself; and you will eat the spoils of your enemies, which the Lord your God handed over to you.
15 Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, that are not from the cities of these nations.
16 But of the cities of these people that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you will not leave a single person alive,
17 but you will completely destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you;
18 lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have made for their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God.
19 When you besiege a city, fighting against it for many days to take it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an ax into them, because you can eat from them; and you shall not cut them down, for the tree of the field is not a man to come against you in the siege.
20 But the tree that you know does not bear fruit, you can destroy and cut down, to build a bulwark against the city that makes war on you, until you subdue it.
1 If in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess, someone is found dead lying in the field, and it is not known who killed him,
2 then your elders and your judges will go out and measure the distance to the cities that They are around the dead man.
3 And the elders of the city nearest to the place where the dead man is found shall take from the cows a heifer that has not worked, that has not worn a yoke;
4 and the elders of that city will bring the heifer into a rugged valley that has never been plowed or sown, and they will break the neck of the heifer there in the valley.
5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come, because the LORD your God has chosen them to serve him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word every dispute and every offense will be decided.
6 And all the elders of the city nearest to the place where the dead man was found shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
7 and they will protest and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.
8 Forgive your people Israel, whom you redeemed, O Lord; and do not blame your people Israel for innocent blood. And their blood will be forgiven.
9 And you will remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
10 When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive,
11 and you see a beautiful woman among the captives, and you lust after her, and you take her as your wife,
12 you will bring it into your house; and she shall shave her head, and cut off her nails,
13 and she shall take off her garment from her captivity, and she shall remain in your house; and she will mourn for her father and her mother for a whole month; and then you can come to her, and you will be her husband, and she will be your wife.
14 And if she does not please you, you will let her go free; You will not sell her for money, nor treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.
15 If a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and the beloved and the hated have borne him children, and the firstborn son is of the hated;
16 On the day that he causes his children to inherit what he has, he cannot give the right of birthright to the son of the beloved in preference to the son of the hated woman, who is the firstborn;
17 But he will recognize the son of the hated woman as the firstborn, to give him double what corresponds to each of the rest; for he is the beginning of his vigor, and his is the right of the birthright.
18 If anyone has a stubborn and rebellious son, who does not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and when they have punished him, he does not obey them;
19 Then his father and his mother will take him, and bring him out before the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place where he lives;
20 and they will say to the elders of the city: This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he does not obey our voice; he is gluttonous and drunk.
21 Then all the men of his city will stone him, and he will die; so you will remove evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and fear.
22 If anyone has committed a crime worthy of death, and you put him to death and hang him on a tree,
23 you must not allow his body to spend the night on the tree; You will certainly bury him the same day, because the hanged man is cursed by God; and you shall not defile your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
1 If you see your brother’s ox or his lamb astray, you will not deny him your help; you will return it to your brother.
2 And if your brother is not your neighbor, or you do not know him, you will take him into your house, and he will be with you until your brother looks for him, and you will return him to him.
3 Thus you shall do with his donkey, so you shall also do with his clothing, and you shall do the same with everything of your brother that is lost and you find it; You won’t be able to deny your help.
4 If you see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen on the road, you must not depart from it; You will help him lift it.
5 A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man wear a woman’s garment; for everyone who does this is an abomination to the Lord your God.
6 When you find along the way a bird’s nest in any tree, or on the ground, with chickens or eggs, and the mother lying on the chickens or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the children.
7 You will let the mother go, and take the chickens for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days.
8 When you build a new house, you will make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not lay the guilt of blood on your house if anyone falls from it.
9 You shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seeds, lest everything be lost, both the seed you sowed and the fruit of the vineyard.
10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
11 You shall not wear woolen and linen clothing together.
12 You will make fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
13 When a man takes a wife, and after coming to her he hates her,
14 and attributes faults to her that cause people to speak, and says, “I took this woman, and I went to her, and found her no virgin;
15 then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring forth the tokens of the maiden’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate;
16 and the father of the young woman will say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
17 and behold, he attributes faults to her that cause talk, saying: I have not found your daughter a virgin; but see here the signs of my daughter’s virginity. And they will spread the garment before the elders of the city.
18 Then the elders of the city will take the man and punish him;
19 and they will fine him a hundred pieces of silver, which they will give to the father of the young woman, because he spread a bad name about a virgin of Israel; and he will have her as his wife, and he will not be able to send her away all her days.
20 But if it turns out to be true that no virginity was found in the girl,
21 then she will be brought out to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her, and she will die, because she did vileness in Israel by fornicating in the house. his father’s; So you shall remove the evil from the midst of you.
22 If anyone is caught lying with a woman married to a husband, both of them will die, the man who slept with the woman, and the woman also; thus you will remove evil from Israel.
23 If there be a virgin girl betrothed to one of her, and one of her finds her in the city, and lies with her;
24 then you will bring them both out to the gate of the city, and stone them, and they will die; the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humiliated his neighbor’s wife; So you shall remove the evil from the midst of you.
25 But if a man finds the bride in the field, and that man forces her by sleeping with her, only the man who slept with her will die;
26 But you will not do anything to the young woman; there is no guilt of death in it; For as when someone rises up against his neighbor and takes his life, so it is in this case.
27 Because he found her in the field; The young bride cried out, and there was no one to free her from her.
28 When a man finds a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and takes her from her and lies with her, and they are discovered;
29 then the man who slept with her will give the girl’s father fifty pieces of silver, and she will be his wife, because he humiliated her; He will not be able to say goodbye to her all her days.
30 No one will take his father’s wife, nor defile his father’s bed.
1 He who has his testicles bruised or his male member amputated will not enter the congregation of Jehovah.
2 No bastard shall enter the congregation of the Lord; nor shall they enter into the congregation of Jehovah until the tenth generation.
3 Neither the Ammonite nor the Moabite shall enter into the congregation of the Lord, not even to the tenth generation of them; They will not enter the congregation of the Lord forever,
4 because they did not come out to meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor, from Pethor in Mesopotamia, to curse you.
5 But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.
6 You shall not seek their peace or their good all the days forever.
7 You shall not hate the Edomite, for he is your brother; You will not hate the Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land.
8 The children that are born to them will enter the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation.
9 When you go out to battle against your enemies, you will guard against all evil.
10 If there is anyone among you who is not clean, because of some uncleanness that occurred at night, he will go outside the camp and will not enter it.
11 But at nightfall he will wash with water, and when the sun has set, he may enter the camp.
12 You will have a place outside the camp where you go out;
13 You will also have a stake among your weapons; and when you are out there, you will dig with it, and then when you turn around you will cover your excrement;
14 For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to deliver your enemies before you; Therefore, your camp must be holy, so that he does not see anything unclean in you, and he turns back from following you.
15 You shall not hand over to his master a servant who flees to you from his master.
16 He will dwell with you, in your midst, in the place he chooses in one of your cities, where it pleases him; you will not oppress him.
17 Let there be no harlot among the daughters of Israel, nor let there be a sodomite among the sons of Israel.
18 You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord your God for any vow; for both the one and the other are an abomination to the Lord your God.
19 You shall not demand from your brother interest on money, nor interest on food, nor on anything for which interest is usually required.
20 You may demand interest from a stranger, but you will not demand it from your brother, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands in the land where you are going to take possession of it.
21 When you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not delay in paying it; for the LORD your God will certainly require it of you, and it would be sin on you.
22 But when you refrain from promising, there will be no sin in you.
23 But whatever comes out of your lips you shall keep and perform, as you promised to the Lord your God, paying the freewill offering that you promised with your mouth.
24 When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat grapes until you are satisfied; but you will not put it in your basket.
25 When you enter your neighbor’s harvest, you will be able to pluck ears with your hand; but you shall not apply a sickle to your neighbor’s harvest.
1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, if he does not like her because he has found something indecent in her, he must write her a letter of divorce, and give it to her in her hand, and send her away from his house.
2 And leaving her house, he may go and marry another man.
3 But if the latter hates her, and writes her a bill of divorce, and delivers it into her hand, and sends her away from her house; or if the last man who took her as his wife has died,
4 her first husband, who sent her away from her, will not be able to take her back from her so that she can be his wife, after she has been debased; for it is an abomination before the Lord, and you must not pervert the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5 When someone is newly married, he will not go out to war, nor will he be occupied with anything; When he is free he will be in his house for a year, to please the woman he took.
6 Thou shalt not take the millstone as a pledge, neither the bottom nor the top; because it would be taking a man’s life as a pledge.
7 When anyone is found who has stolen one of his brothers, the sons of Israel, and has enslaved him, or sold him, that thief shall die, and you shall put away the evil from among you.
8 As for the plague of leprosy, be careful to observe diligently and do everything that the Levitical priests taught you; As I have commanded you, so you will be careful to do.
9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary on the way, after you left Egypt.
10 When you lend something to your neighbor, you must not enter her house to take it as a pledge.
11 You will remain outside, and the man to whom you lent will take the pledge from you.
12 And if the man be poor, you shall not lie down still retaining his pledge.
13 You will certainly return the garment to him when the sun sets, so that he may sleep in his clothes, and he may bless you; and it will be righteousness before the Lord your God.
14 You shall not oppress the poor and needy hired servant, whether of your brothers or of the foreigners who live in your land within your cities.
15 On his day you will give him his wages, and the sun will not set without giving it to him; for he is poor, and with it he sustains his life; lest he cry against you to Jehovah, and it be sin on you.
16 Fathers will not die for their children, nor children for their parents; each one will die for his sin.
17 Thou shalt not pervert the right of a stranger or an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge,
18 But you will remember that you were a servant in Egypt, and that the Lord your God rescued you from there; therefore I command you to do this.
19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you will not return to gather it; It will be for the stranger, for the orphan and for the widow; so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
20 When you shake your olive trees, you will not go over the branches you have left behind you; They will be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow.
21 When you sell your vineyard, you will not glean behind you; It will be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow.
22 And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.
1 If there is a dispute between some, and they come to the court to be judged by the judges, the judges will acquit the righteous, and condemn the guilty.
2 And if the offender deserves to be flogged, then the judge will have him thrown to the ground, and will have him flogged in his presence; According to his crime, the number of lashes will be.
3 Forty lashes may be given, no more; lest, if they wound him with many more stripes than these, your brother may feel degraded before your eyes.
4 You shall not muzzle the ox when it threshes.
5 When brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no child, the dead man’s wife shall not marry a stranger abroad; Her brother-in-law will come to her, and take her for his wife, and will become a relative with her.
6 And the firstborn that she bears shall be in the name of her dead brother, so that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
7 And if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law will go to the door, to the elders, and say, My brother-in-law does not want to raise up a name in Israel for his brother; He doesn’t want to be related to me.
8 Then the elders of that city will bring him in and speak with him; and if he stands up and says, I do not want to take it,
9 then his sister-in-law will come to him before the elders, and take the shoe off his foot, and spit in his face, and speak and say, Thus shall it be done to the man. who does not want to build his brother’s house.
10 And it will be called this name in Israel: The house of the barefoot.
11 If some quarrel with each other, and one man’s wife comes forward to rescue her husband from the hand of him who strikes him, and stretches out his hand and takes hold of her shameful parts,
12 then you shall cut off his her hand You won’t forgive her.
13 You will not have a large scale and a small scale in your bag,
14 nor will you have a large ephah and a small ephah in your house.
15 You will have an exact and just weight; You will have a complete and righteous ephah, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
16 For everyone who does this is an abomination to the Lord your God, and everyone who does injustice.
17 Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you were leaving Egypt;
18 how he came out to meet you on the road, and destroyed your rearguard of all the weak who were following you, when you were tired and labored; and he had no fear of God.
19 Therefore, when the Lord your God gives you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you will blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; do not forget.
1 When you have entered into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you have taken possession of it and inhabited it,
2 then you shall take the firstfruits of all the fruits that you bring out of the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put them in a basket, and you will go to the place that the Lord your God will choose to make his name dwell there.
3 And you shall present yourself to the priest who will be in those days, and say to him: I declare this day to the Lord your God, that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.
4 And the priest will take the basket from your hand, and put it before the altar of the Lord your God.
5 Then you shall speak and say before the LORD your God: My father was an Aramean who was about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and lived there with a few men, and there he grew and became a great, strong, and numerous nation;
6 And the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, and put hard bondage upon us.
7 And we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression;
8 And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, with great fear, and with signs and miracles;
9 and he brought us to this place, and he gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the fruit of the land which you gave me, O Lord. And you will leave it before the Lord your God, and you will worship before the Lord your God.
11 And you will rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given you and your house, both you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you.
12 When you finish tithing all the tithe of your fruits in the third year, the year of tithe, you will also give to the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow; and they will eat in your villages, and be satisfied.
13 And you shall say before the LORD your God: I have taken out what is consecrated from my house, and I have also given it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all that you have commanded me; I have not transgressed your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.
14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, nor have I spent of it while I was unclean, nor have I offered of it to the dead; I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
15 Look from your holy abode, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
16 The Lord your God commands you today to observe these statutes and decrees; He takes care, therefore, to put them into practice with all your heart and with all your soul.
17 You have solemnly declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and you will keep his statutes, his commandments, and his decrees, and that you will obey his voice.
18 And the Lord has declared today that you are his people, his exclusive possession, as he has promised you, so that you may keep all his commandments;
19 so that he may exalt you above all the nations that he made, for praise and fame and glory, and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, as he has said.
1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “You shall keep all the commandments that I command you today.”
2 And on the day that you cross the Jordan into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you will set up large stones and plaster them with lime;
3 and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over to enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord God of your fathers has told you.
4 So when you have crossed the Jordan, you will lift up these stones that I am commanding you today on Mount Ebal, and plaster them with lime;
5 and you will build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; You shall not lift up an iron instrument over them.
6 Of whole stones you shall build the altar of the Lord your God, and you shall offer a burnt offering on it to the Lord your God;
7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God.
8 And you will write very clearly on the stones all the words of this law.
9 And Moses, with the Levitical priests, spoke to all Israel, saying, Be still and listen, O Israel; Today you have become the people of Jehovah your God.
10 Therefore you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, and you will fulfill his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.
11 And Moses commanded the people on that day, saying,
12 When you have crossed the Jordan, these will be on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin.
13 And these will be on Mount Ebal to pronounce the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.
14 And the Levites will speak, and say to every man of Israel with a loud voice:
15 Cursed is the man who makes a sculpture or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the craftsman’s hand, and hides it. And all the people will respond and say: Amen.
16 Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people will say: Amen.
17 Cursed is he who reduces the limit of his neighbor. And all the people will say: Amen.
18 Cursed is he who causes the blind to err on the way. And all the people will say: Amen.
19 Cursed is he who perverts the law of the stranger, the orphan, and the widow. And all the people will say: Amen.
20 Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he has discovered his father’s lap. And all the people will say: Amen.
21 Cursed is he who lies with any beast. And all the people will say: Amen.
22 Cursed is anyone who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter. And all the people will say: Amen.
23 Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law. And all the people will say: Amen.
24 Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor secretly. And all the people will say: Amen.
25 Cursed is he who takes a bribe to take the life of the innocent. And all the people will say: Amen.
26 Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law to do them. And all the people will say: Amen.
1 It will come to pass that if you will carefully listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will also exalt you above all the nations of the earth.
2 And all these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the Lord your God.
3 Blessed are you in the city, and blessed are you in the field.
4 Blessed is the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your land, the fruit of your cattle, the offspring of your herds, and the flocks of your sheep.
5 Blessed will be your basket and your kneading trough.
6 Blessed will you be when you enter, and blessed will you be when you go out.
7 The Lord will defeat your enemies who rise up against you; They will come out against you one way, and they will flee from before you seven ways.
8 The Lord will send you his blessing on your barns, and on everything you put your hand on; and he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he has sworn to you, when you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.
10 And all the people of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they will fear you.
11 And the Lord will make you abound in good things, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your land, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
12 The Lord will open to you his good treasure, the sky, to send rain to your land in his time, and to bless all the work of your hands. And you will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
13 The Lord will make you your head, and not your tail; and you will only be above, and you will not be below, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, to keep and do them,
14 and if you do not depart from all the words that I command you today, nor from right or left, to go after other gods and serve them.
15 But it will come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to seek to fulfill all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you, and they will overtake you.
16 Cursed are you in the city, and cursed in the field.
17 Cursed is your basket, and your kneading trough.
18 Cursed is the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your land, the offspring of your herds, and the flocks of your sheep.
19 You will be cursed when you enter, and cursed when you go out.
20 And the LORD will send against you the curse, destruction, and amazement in everything you set your hand on and do, until you are destroyed, and you perish quickly because of the evil of your works for which you have forsaken me.
21 The Lord will bring destruction upon you, until he consumes you from the land into which you are entering to take possession.
22 The Lord will strike you with consumption, fever, inflammation, and burning, with drought, with sudden calamity, and with blight; and they will pursue you until you perish.
23 And the heavens above your head will be bronze, and the earth under you will be iron.
24 The Lord will give your land dust and ashes as rain; from the heavens they will descend upon you until you perish.
25 The Lord will deliver you defeated before your enemies; You will go out against them one way, and you will flee before them seven ways; and you will be reviled by all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And your carcasses will be food for every bird in the air and wild beast on the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
27 The Lord will strike you with the ulcer of Egypt, with tumors, with scabies, and with itching that you cannot be cured.
28 The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and confusion of spirit;
29 and you will grope at noon as the blind gropes in the dark, and you will not prosper in your ways; and you will be nothing but oppressed and robbed every day, and there will be no one to save you.
30 You will marry a woman, and another man will sleep with her; you shall build a house thereof, and shall not dwell in it; You will plant a vineyard, and you will not enjoy it.
31 Your ox will be killed before your eyes, and you will not eat of it; your donkey will be taken from before you, and it will not be returned to you; Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to rescue them.
32 Your sons and your daughters will be handed over to another people, and your eyes will see it, and they will faint for them all day long; and there will be no strength in your hand.
33 The fruit of your land and of all your work will be eaten by a people you did not know; and you will only be oppressed and broken every day.
34 And you will go mad because of what you will see with your eyes.
35 The Lord will strike you with a malignant boil on your knees and on your legs, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head, so that you will not be able to be cured.
36 The Lord will bring you and the king whom you have set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers knew; and there you will serve other gods, the stick and the stone.
37 And you will be a cause of horror, and you will serve as a proverb and a mockery to all the peoples to whom the Lord will take you.
38 You will put out much seed into the field, but you will gather little, because the locusts will consume it.
39 You will plant vineyards and work, but you will not drink wine or gather grapes, because the worm will eat them.
40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olive will fall.
41 You will have sons and daughters, and they will not be yours, because they will go into captivity.
42 All your groves and the fruit of your land will be consumed by locusts.
43 The foreigner who will be among you will rise above you very high, and you will descend very low.
44 He will lend to you, and you will not lend to him; He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 And all these curses will come upon you, and they will pursue you, and they will overtake you until you perish; because you have not heeded the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes, which he commanded you;
46 and they will be in you a sign and a wonder, and in your descendants forever.
47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God with gladness and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things,
48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord sent against you, with hunger and thirst and nakedness, and with lack of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he destroys you.
49 The Lord will bring against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, that flies like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand;
50 fierce-faced people, who will not respect the elderly, nor will they forgive the child;
51 and will eat the fruit of your beast and the fruit of your land, until you perish; and he will not leave you grain, wine, oil, or the young of your herds, or the flocks of your sheep, until he destroys you.
52 He will lay siege to all your cities, until your high and fortified walls in which you trust fall, throughout your land; Therefore he will besiege all your cities and all the land that the Lord your God has given you.
53 And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the Lord your God gave you, in the siege and in the trouble with which your enemy will distress you.
54 The tender man in your midst, and the very delicate one, will look with evil eyes on his brother, and on the wife of his womb, and on the rest of his children that are left to him;
55 so as not to give to any of them the flesh of his children, which he may eat, because he had nothing left, in the siege and in the hardship with which your enemy will oppress you in all your cities.
56 The tender and delicate among you, who would never try to set the sole of her foot on the ground, out of pure delicacy and tenderness, will look with evil eyes on the husband of her womb, on her son, on her daughter,
57 on the newborn . that comes out from between her feet, and that she gives birth to her children; for he will eat them secretly, due to the lack of everything, in the siege and in the hardship with which your enemy will oppress you in your cities.
58 If you do not take care to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, fearing this glorious and fearsome name, JEHOVAH YOUR GOD,
59 then the LORD will wonderfully increase your plagues and the plagues of your descendants, great and permanent plagues. , and malignant and long-lasting diseases;
60 and he will bring upon you all the evils of Egypt, before which you feared, and they will not leave you.
61 Likewise every disease and every plague that is not written in the book of this law, the Lord will send upon you, until you are destroyed.
62 And you will remain few in number, instead of being like the stars of heaven in multitude, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
63 Just as the Lord rejoiced in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will rejoice in ruining you and destroying you; and you will be uprooted from the land into which you enter to possess it.
64 And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end; and there you will serve other gods that neither you nor your fathers knew, the wood and the stone.
65And even among these nations you will not rest, nor will the sole of your foot have rest; For there the Lord will give you a fearful heart, and failing eyes, and sadness of soul;
66 and you will have your life hanging before you, and you will be afraid night and day, and you will not be sure of your life.
67 In the morning you will say: If only it were evening! and in the evening you will say: If only it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you will be afraid, and for what your eyes will see.
68 And the LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which he said to you, ‘You will never return again; and there you will be sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, and there will be no one to buy you.
1 These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant that he made with them in Horeb.
2 So Moses called all Israel and said to them, “You have seen everything that the Lord has done before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,
3 the great trials that they saw your eyes, the signs and the great wonders.
4 But until today the Lord has not given you a heart to understand, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
5 And I have brought you forty years in the wilderness; Your clothes have not grown old on you, nor have your shoes grown old on your feet.
6 You have not eaten bread, nor drank wine or strong drink; so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.
7 And you came to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out before us to fight, and we defeated them;
8 And we took their land, and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben and Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9 Therefore you will keep the words of this covenant and put them into practice, so that you may prosper in everything you do.
10 You are all today in the presence of the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel;
11 your children, your women, and your foreigners who live in the midst of your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
12 that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today,
13 to establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, in the manner that he has said, and as he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
14 And not only do I make this covenant and this oath with you,
15 but with those who are here present with us today before the Lord our God, and with those who are not here with us today.
16 For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we passed through the nations through which you passed;
17 and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they have with them.
18 Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be a root among you that produces gall and wormwood,
19y suceda que al oír las palabras de esta maldición, él se bendiga en su corazón, diciendo: Tendré paz, aunque ande en la dureza de mi corazón, a fin de que con la embriaguez quite la sed.
20No querrá Jehová perdonarlo, sino que entonces humeará la ira de Jehová y su celo sobre el tal hombre, y se asentará sobre él toda maldición escrita en este libro, y Jehová borrará su nombre de debajo del cielo;
21y lo apartará Jehová de todas las tribus de Israel para mal, conforme a todas las maldiciones del pacto escrito en este libro de la ley.
22Y dirán las generaciones venideras, vuestros hijos que se levanten después de vosotros, y el extranjero que vendrá de lejanas tierras, cuando vieren las plagas de aquella tierra, y sus enfermedades de que Jehová la habrá hecho enfermar
23(azufre y sal, abrasada toda su tierra; no será sembrada, ni producirá, ni crecerá en ella hierba alguna, como sucedió en la destrucción de Sodoma y de Gomorra, de Adma y de Zeboim, las cuales Jehová destruyó en su furor y en su ira);
24más aún, todas las naciones dirán: ¿Por qué hizo esto Jehová a esta tierra? ¿Qué significa el ardor de esta gran ira?
25Y responderán: Por cuanto dejaron el pacto de Jehová el Dios de sus padres, que él concertó con ellos cuando los sacó de la tierra de Egipto,
26y fueron y sirvieron a dioses ajenos, y se inclinaron a ellos, dioses que no conocían, y que ninguna cosa les habían dado.
27Por tanto, se encendió la ira de Jehová contra esta tierra, para traer sobre ella todas las maldiciones escritas en este libro;
28y Jehová los desarraigó de su tierra con ira, con furor y con grande indignación, y los arrojó a otra tierra, como hoy se ve.
29Las cosas secretas pertenecen a Jehová nuestro Dios; mas las reveladas son para nosotros y para nuestros hijos para siempre, para que cumplamos todas las palabras de esta ley.
1 It will come to pass, when all these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse that I have set before you, and you will repent among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,
2 and you will turn to the Lord your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
3 then the LORD will bring back your captives, and will have mercy on you, and will gather you again from among all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
4 Even though your exiles be in the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you;
5 And the Lord your God will bring you back to the land that your fathers inherited, and it will be yours; and he will do you good, and multiply you more than your fathers.
6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your descendants, so that you may love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
7 And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on your haters who persecuted you.
8 And you will return, and you will hear the voice of the Lord, and you will do all his commandments that I command you today.
9 And the Lord your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your land, for good; for the Lord will rejoice over you again for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,
10 when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes written in this book of the law; when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
11 For this commandment that I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far away.
12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who will ascend for us into heaven, and he will bring it to us, and make it heard for us, that we may do it?
13 Nor is it on the other side of the sea, that you should say, Who will pass over the sea for us, that he may bring it to us and make it heard for us, that we may do it?
14 Because the word is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may fulfill it.
15 See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil;
16 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his decrees, so that you may live and be multiplied, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land into which you are entering. to take possession of it.
17 But if your heart turns away and you do not hear, and you allow yourself to go astray, and bow down to other gods and serve them,
18 I testify to you today that you will surely perish; You shall not prolong your days on the land whither you are going, crossing the Jordan, to enter into possession of it.
19 I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live;
20 loving the Lord your God, listening to his voice, and following him; for he is life to you, and a length of your days; so that you may live on the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give them.
1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel,
2 and said to them, This day I am one hundred and twenty years old; I can no longer leave or enter; Furthermore, the Lord has said to me: You will not cross this Jordan.
3 Jehovah your God, he passes before you; He will destroy these nations before you, and you will inherit them; Joshua will be the one who will pass before you, as the Lord has said.
4 And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, and to his land, whom he destroyed.
5 And the Lord will deliver them before you, and you will do to them according to all that I have commanded you.
6 Be strong and take courage; do not fear or be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you; He will not leave you, nor forsake you.
7 And Moses called Joshua, and said unto him in the presence of all Israel, Be strong and of good cheer; for you will enter with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their fathers to give them, and you will make them inherit it.
8 And the Lord goes before you; He will be with you, he will not leave you, nor forsake you; do not be afraid or intimidated.
9 And Moses wrote this law, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.
10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the year of release, in the festival of tabernacles,
11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which he chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
12 You shall gather together the people, men and women and children, and your foreigners who are in your cities, so that they may hear and learn, and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law;
13 And let their children who did not know hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God all the days that you live on the land where you are going over the Jordan to take possession of it.
14 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, the day of your death is at hand; Call Joshua, and wait in the tabernacle of the congregation so that I may appoint him. So Moses and Joshua went and waited in the tabernacle of the congregation.
15 And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle, in the pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud was placed over the door of the tabernacle.
16 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you are going to sleep with your fathers, and this people will rise up and commit fornication after the foreign gods of the land whither they go to be in the midst of it; and he will leave me, and will void my covenant which I have made with him;
17and my fury will be kindled against him on that day; and I will forsake them, and hide my face from them, and they shall be consumed; and many evils and troubles will come upon them, and they will say on that day: Have these evils not come upon me because my God is not among me?
18 But I will certainly hide my face on that day, because of all the evil that they will have done, because they have turned to other gods.
19 Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song may be my witness against the children of Israel.
20 For I will bring you into the land that I swore to your fathers, flowing with milk and honey; and they will eat and be satisfied, and become fat; and they will turn to other gods and serve them, and they will anger me and break my covenant.
21 And when many evils and troubles come upon them, then this song will answer in their faces as a witness, for it will be remembered by the mouths of their descendants; because I know what they intend beforehand, before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.
22 And Moses wrote this song that day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
23 And he commanded Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and of good courage, for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them, and I will be with thee.
24 And when Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book until it was finished,
25 Moses gave orders to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying:
26 Take this book of the law, and put it beside the ark. of the covenant of the Lord your God, and be there as a witness against you.
27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck; Behold, even though I live with you today, you are rebels against Jehovah; How much longer after I have died?
28 Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officials, and I will speak these words in their ears, and I will call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against them.
29 For I know that after my death you will certainly become corrupt and turn away from the way that I have commanded you; and that evil will come to you in the last days, because you have done evil in the sight of Jehovah, angering him with the work of your hands.
30 Then Moses spoke the words of this song in the ears of all the congregation of Israel until it was finished.
1 Listen, heavens, and I will speak; Let the earth hear the sayings of my mouth.
2 My teaching will drip like rain; My reasoning will distil like dew; Like the drizzle on the grass, And like the drops on the grass;
3 For I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Magnify our God.
4 He is the Rock, whose work is perfect, For all his ways are righteous; God of truth, and without any iniquity in him; He is just and upright.
5 Corruption is not yours; of his children is the stain, a crooked and perverse generation.
6 Is this how you repay Jehovah, O crazy and ignorant people? Is he not your father who created you? He made you and established you.
7 Remember the times of old, Consider the years of many generations; Ask your father, and he will tell you; To your elders, and they will tell you.
8 When the Most High made the nations inherit, When he divided the children of men, he established the boundaries of the people According to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob the inheritance that fell to him.
10 He found him in a desert land, And in a waste of horrible loneliness; He brought him around, he instructed him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 Like the eagle that stirs up his brood, He hovers over his chicks, He spreads his wings, he takes them, He carries them on his feathers,
12 The Lord alone guided him, And with him there was no foreign god.
13 He made him climb upon the heights of the earth, And he ate the fruits of the field, And he made him suck honey from the rock, And oil from the hard flint;
14 Butter of cows and milk of sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams of Bashan; also goats, With the best of the wheat; And you drank wine from the blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked (You grew fat, you covered yourself with fat); Then he forsook the God who made him, And he despised the Rock of his salvation.
16 They made him jealous of other gods; They provoked him to anger with abominations.
17 They sacrificed to demons, and not to God; To gods they had not known, To new gods come from near, That your fathers had not feared.
18 You forgot the Rock that created you; You have forgotten God your creator.
19 And the LORD saw it, and his anger burned because of the contempt of his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what will be the end of it; Because they are a perverse generation, unfaithful children.
twenty-oneThey moved me to jealousy with what is not God; They provoked me to anger with their idols; I will also provoke them to jealousy with a people that is no people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For fire is kindled in my anger, and it will burn to the depths of Sheol; He will devour the earth and its fruits, and will burn the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap evils on them; I will use my arrows on them.
24 They will be consumed by hunger, and devoured by burning fever and bitter pestilence; I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, With the poison of serpents of the earth.
25 The sword will desolate without, and fear within the chambers; So to the young man as to the maiden, to the nursing child as to the gray-haired man.
26 I had said that I would scatter them far away, That I would cause the memory of them to cease from among men,
27 If they had not feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries become conceited, Lest they say, Our mighty hand has done everything this, and not Jehovah.
28 For they are a nation deprived of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
29 Would that they were wise, that they understood this, And realized the end that awaits them!
30 How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless the Rock of Him had sold them, And the Lord had not delivered them?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock, And even our enemies are judges of it.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are poisonous grapes, They have very bitter bunches.
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps.
34 Have I not this stored up with me, Sealed in my treasures?
35 Vengeance and retribution are mine; In due time her foot will slip, For the day of her affliction is near, And what is prepared for them hastens.
36 For the LORD will judge his people, and for the sake of his servants he will repent, when he sees that his strength has perished, and that he is left neither bond nor free.
37 And he will say: Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;
38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their libations? Get up, let them help you and defend you.
39 See now that I, I am, And there are no gods with me; I cause to die, and I cause to live; I wound, and I heal; And there is no one who can deliver from my hand.
40 For I will lift up my hand to the heavens, And I will say: I live forever,
41 If I sharpen my shining sword, And lay hold of judgment, I will take vengeance on my enemies, And I will give retribution to those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, And my sword will devour flesh; In the blood of the dead and the captives, In the long-haired heads of the enemy.
43 Praise his people, O nations, for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and take vengeance on his enemies, and make atonement for the land of his people.
44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua son of Nun.
45 And Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel;
46 And he said to them: Apply your heart to all the words that I testify to you today, so that you may command them to your children, so that they may observe to fulfill all the words of this law.
47 For it is not a vain thing for you; It is your life, and through this law you will prolong your days on the land where you are going, crossing the Jordan, to take possession of it
48 And the Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
49 Go up to this mount Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho, and see the land of Canaan, which I am giving as an inheritance to the children of Israel;
50 and die on the mountain to which you go up, and be united to your people, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was united to his people;
51 Because you sinned against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.
52 Therefore you will see the land before you; but you shall not enter there, into the land that I give to the children of Israel.
1 This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before he died.
2 He said, The Lord came from Sinai, and from Seir he enlightened them; He shone from Mount Paran, And he came from among ten thousands of saints, With the law of fire at his right hand.
3 He also loved his people; All those consecrated to him were in his hand; Therefore they followed in your steps, Receiving direction from you,
4 When Moses commanded us a law, As an inheritance to the congregation of Jacob.
5 And he was king in Jeshurun, When the leaders of the people gathered together With the tribes of Israel.
6 Long live Reuben, and let him not die; And let his men be not few.
7 And this blessing he uttered for Judah. Thus he said: Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people; His hands be enough for him, And you be his help against his enemies.
8 To Levi he said: Your Thummim and your Urim be for your godly man, Whom you tested at Massah, With whom you contended at the waters of Meribah,
9 Who said of his father and his mother: I have never seen them; And he did not recognize his brothers, nor did he know his children; For they kept your words, and fulfilled your covenant.
10 They will teach your judgments to Jacob, and your law to Israel; They will put the incense before you, And the burnt offering on your altar.
11 Bless, O Lord, what they do, and he welcomes the work of their hands; He smites the loins of his enemies, And of those who hate him, so that they never rise.
12 To Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord will dwell safely near him; He will cover him always, And between his shoulders he will dwell.
13 To Joseph he said: Blessed by the Lord be your land, With the best of the heavens, with the dew, And with the deep that is below.
14 With the choicest fruits of the sun, With the rich produce of the moon,
15 With the finest fruit of the ancient mountains, With the abundance of the eternal hills,
16 And with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness; And the grace of him who lived in the bush Come on the head of Joseph, And on the forehead of him who is prince among his brothers.
17 As the firstborn of his bull is his glory, and his horns are like the horns of a buffalo; With them he will gore the people together to the ends of the earth; They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
18 To Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go out; And you, Issachar, in your tents.
19 They will call the people to his mountain; There they will sacrifice sacrifices of righteousness, For which they will suck the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand.
20 To Gad he said, Blessed is he who enlarged Gad; He rests like a lion, And he snatches arm and head.
21 He chooses the best of the earth for himself, For there the lawgiver’s portion was reserved for him. And he came in front of the people; With Israel he carried out the commands and righteous decrees of Jehovah.
22 To Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s cub That springs from Bashan.
23 To Naphtali he said: Naphtali, satisfied with favors, And full of the blessing of the Lord, Possesses the west and the south.
24 To Asher he said, Blessed be Asher above the sons; Let him be loved by his brothers, and dip his foot in oil.
25 Iron and bronze will be your bars, And your strength will be like your days.
26 There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides on the heavens for your help, And on the clouds with his greatness.
27 The eternal God is your refuge, And he here below is the eternal arms; He drove out the enemy from before you, And he said: Destroy.
28 And Israel will dwell safely, the fountain of Jacob will dwell alone In a land of grain and wine; The skies will also drop dew.
29 Blessed are you, O Israel. Who is like you, People saved by Jehovah, Shield of your help, and sword of your triumph? So your enemies will be humbled, And you will trample on their heights.
1 Moses went up from the fields of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho; and the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan,
2 all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea;
3 the Negev, and the plain, the plain of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
4 And the LORD said to him, This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your descendants I will give it. I have allowed you to see it with your eyes, but you will not go there.
5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
6 And he buried him in the valley, in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day.
7 Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died; His eyes never darkened, nor did he lose his vigor.
8 And the children of Israel mourned for Moses in the fields of Moab thirty days; and thus the days of Moses’ weeping and mourning were fulfilled.
9 And Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands on him; and the children of Israel obeyed him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.
10 And there arose no more a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah knew face to face;
11 No one is like him in all the signs and wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,
12 and in the great power and the great and terrible deeds that Moses did to the view of all Israel.
