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but ye shall hear<br> + the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the<br> + face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is<br> + too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.</p> + +<p>05:001:018 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye<br> + should do.</p> + +<p>05:001:019 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that<br> + great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the<br> + mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us;<br> + and we came to Kadeshbarnea.</p> + +<p>05:001:020 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the<br> + Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.</p> + +<p>05:001:021 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up<br> + and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto<br> + thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.</p> + +<p>05:001:022 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will<br> + send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and<br> + bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what<br> + cities we shall come.</p> + +<p>05:001:023 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you,<br> + one of a tribe:</p> + +<p>05:001:024 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto<br> + the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.</p> + +<p>05:001:025 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and<br> + brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said,<br> + It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.</p> + +<p>05:001:026 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the<br> + commandment of the LORD your God:</p> + +<p>05:001:027 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD<br> + hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt,<br> + to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.</p> + +<p>05:001:028 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our<br> + heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the<br> + cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have<br> + seen the sons of the Anakims there.</p> + +<p>05:001:029 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.</p> + +<p>05:001:030 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for<br> + you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your<br> + eyes;</p> + +<p>05:001:031 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD<br> + thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way<br> + that ye went, until ye came into this place.</p> + +<p>05:001:032 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,</p> + +<p>05:001:033 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to<br> + pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way<br> + ye should go, and in a cloud by day.</p> + +<p>05:001:034 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and<br> + sware, saying,</p> + +<p>05:001:035 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil<br> + generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your<br> + fathers.</p> + +<p>05:001:036 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him<br> + will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his<br> + children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.</p> + +<p>05:001:037 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou<br> + also shalt not go in thither.</p> + +<p>05:001:038 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he<br> + shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel<br> + to inherit it.</p> + +<p>05:001:039 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and<br> + your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good<br> + and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give<br> + it, and they shall possess it.</p> + +<p>05:001:040 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the<br> + wilderness by the way of the Red sea.</p> + +<p>05:001:041 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the<br> + LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD<br> + our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his<br> + weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.</p> + +<p>05:001:042 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither<br> + fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your<br> + enemies.</p> + +<p>05:001:043 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled<br> + against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously<br> + up into the hill.</p> + +<p>05:001:044 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out<br> + against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in<br> + Seir, even unto Hormah.</p> + +<p>05:001:045 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would<br> + not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.</p> + +<p>05:001:046 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that<br> + ye abode there.</p> + +<p>05:002:001 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by<br> + the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we<br> + compassed mount Seir many days.</p> + +<p>05:002:002 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,</p> + +<p>05:002:003 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you<br> + northward.</p> + +<p>05:002:004 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through<br> + the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell<br> + in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed<br> + unto yourselves therefore:</p> + +<p>05:002:005 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land,<br> + no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount<br> + Seir unto Esau for a possession.</p> + +<p>05:002:006 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye<br> + shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.</p> + +<p>05:002:007 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy<br> + hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness:<br> + these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou<br> + hast lacked nothing.</p> + +<p>05:002:008 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau,<br> + which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath,<br> + and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the<br> + wilderness of Moab.</p> + +<p>05:002:009 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither<br> + contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their<br> + land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the<br> + children of Lot for a possession.</p> + +<p>05:002:010 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and<br> + many, and tall, as the Anakims;</p> + +<p>05:002:011 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the<br> + Moabites called them Emims.</p> + +<p>05:002:012 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of<br> + Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before<br> + them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of<br> + his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.</p> + +<p>05:002:013 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we<br> + went over the brook Zered.</p> + +<p>05:002:014 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we<br> + were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years;<br> + until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out<br> + from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.</p> + +<p>05:002:015 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy<br> + them from among the host, until they were consumed.</p> + +<p>05:002:016 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and<br> + dead from among the people,</p> + +<p>05:002:017 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,</p> + +<p>05:002:018 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:</p> + +<p>05:002:019 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon,<br> + distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give<br> + thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession;<br> + because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a<br> + possession.</p> + +<p>05:002:020 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt<br> + therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;</p> + +<p>05:002:021 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the<br> + LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and<br> + dwelt in their stead:</p> + +<p>05:002:022 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when<br> + he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded<br> + them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:</p> + +<p>05:002:023 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the<br> + Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them,<br> + and dwelt in their stead.)</p> + +<p>05:002:024 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon:<br> + behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king<br> + of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend<br> + with him in battle.</p> + +<p>05:002:025 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of<br> + thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who<br> + shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in<br> + anguish because of thee.</p> + +<p>05:002:026 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto<br> + Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,</p> + +<p>05:002:027 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way,<br> + I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.</p> + +<p>05:002:028 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me<br> + water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on<br> + my feet;</p> + +<p>05:002:029 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites<br> + which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over<br> + Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.</p> + +<p>05:002:030 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for<br> + the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart<br> + obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as<br> + appeareth this day.</p> + +<p>05:002:031 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon<br> + and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest<br> + inherit his land.</p> + +<p>05:002:032 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to<br> + fight at Jahaz.</p> + +<p>05:002:033 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote<br> + him, and his sons, and all his people.</p> + +<p>05:002:034 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed<br> + the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we<br> + left none to remain:</p> + +<p>05:002:035 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the<br> + spoil of the cities which we took.</p> + +<p>05:002:036 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and<br> + from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there<br> + was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered<br> + all unto us:</p> + +<p>05:002:037 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not,<br> + nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in<br> + the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.</p> + +<p>05:003:001 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king<br> + of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to<br> + battle at Edrei.</p> + +<p>05:003:002 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver<br> + him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou<br> + shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the<br> + Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.</p> + +<p>05:003:003 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king<br> + of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was<br> + left to him remaining.</p> + +<p>05:003:004 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city<br> + which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region<br> + of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.</p> + +<p>05:003:005 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars;<br> + beside unwalled towns a great many.</p> + +<p>05:003:006 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of<br> + Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of<br> + every city.</p> + +<p>05:003:007 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a<br> + prey to ourselves.</p> + +<p>05:003:008 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of<br> + the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the<br> + river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;</p> + +<p>05:003:009 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call<br> + it Shenir;)</p> + +<p>05:003:010 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan,<br> + unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.</p> + +<p>05:003:011 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;<br> + behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in<br> + Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length<br> + thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of<br> + a man.</p> + +<p>05:003:012 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer,<br> + which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the<br> + cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.</p> + +<p>05:003:013 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of<br> + Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of<br> + Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.</p> + +<p>05:003:014 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto<br> + the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his<br> + own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.</p> + +<p>05:003:015 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.</p> + +<p>05:003:016 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from<br> + Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the<br> + border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the<br> + children of Ammon;</p> + +<p>05:003:017 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from<br> + Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea,<br> + under Ashdothpisgah eastward.</p> + +<p>05:003:018 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God<br> + hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over<br> + armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that<br> + are meet for the war.</p> + +<p>05:003:019 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I<br> + know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities<br> + which I have given you;</p> + +<p>05:003:020 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as<br> + unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD<br> + your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye<br> + return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.</p> + +<p>05:003:021 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have<br> + seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two<br> + kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou<br> + passest.</p> + +<p>05:003:022 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight<br> + for you.</p> + +<p>05:003:023 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,</p> + +<p>05:003:024 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness,<br> + and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in<br> + earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to<br> + thy might?</p> + +<p>05:003:025 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is<br> + beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.</p> + +<p>05:003:026 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not<br> + hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak<br> + no more unto me of this matter.</p> + +<p>05:003:027 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes<br> + westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and<br> + behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this<br> + Jordan.</p> + +<p>05:003:028 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for<br> + he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them<br> + to inherit the land which thou shalt see.</p> + +<p>05:003:029 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.</p> + +<p>05:004:001 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto<br> + the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may<br> + live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of<br> + your fathers giveth you.</p> + +<p>05:004:002 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither<br> + shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the<br> + commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.</p> + +<p>05:004:003 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for<br> + all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath<br> + destroyed them from among you.</p> + +<p>05:004:004 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every<br> + one of you this day.</p> + +<p>05:004:005 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the<br> + LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land<br> + whither ye go to possess it.</p> + +<p>05:004:006 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your<br> + understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear<br> + all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a<br> + wise and understanding people.</p> + +<p>05:004:007 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto<br> + them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon<br> + him for?</p> + +<p>05:004:008 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and<br> + judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you<br> + this day?</p> + +<p>05:004:009 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest<br> + thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest<br> + they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach<br> + them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;</p> + +<p>05:004:010 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God<br> + in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people<br> + together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may<br> + learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the<br> + earth, and that they may teach their children.</p> + +<p>05:004:011 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the<br> + mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with<br> + darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.</p> + +<p>05:004:012 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye<br> + heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye<br> + heard a voice.</p> + +<p>05:004:013 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you<br> + to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two<br> + tables of stone.</p> + +<p>05:004:014 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes<br> + and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go<br> + over to possess it.</p> + +<p>05:004:015 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no<br> + manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you<br> + in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:</p> + +<p>05:004:016 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the<br> + similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,</p> + +<p>05:004:017 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness<br> + of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,</p> + +<p>05:004:018 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the<br> + likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:</p> + +<p>05:004:019 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou<br> + seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host<br> + of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve<br> + them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations<br> + under the whole heaven.</p> + +<p>05:004:020 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the<br> + iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of<br> + inheritance, as ye are this day.</p> + +<p>05:004:021 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and<br> + sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not<br> + go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee<br> + for an inheritance:</p> + +<p>05:004:022 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye<br> + shall go over, and possess that good land.</p> + +<p>05:004:023 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the<br> + LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven<br> + image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God<br> + hath forbidden thee.</p> + +<p>05:004:024 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.</p> + +<p>05:004:025 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and<br> + ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt<br> + yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any<br> + thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to<br> + provoke him to anger:</p> + +<p>05:004:026 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that<br> + ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go<br> + over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon<br> + it, but shall utterly be destroyed.</p> + +<p>05:004:027 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall<br> + be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD<br> + shall lead you.</p> + +<p>05:004:028 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood<br> + and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.</p> + +<p>05:004:029 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou<br> + shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with<br> + all thy soul.</p> + +<p>05:004:030 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come<br> + upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD<br> + thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;</p> + +<p>05:004:031 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake<br> + thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy<br> + fathers which he sware unto them.</p> + +<p>05:004:032 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee,<br> + since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask<br> + from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath<br> + been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard<br> + like it?</p> + +<p>05:004:033 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the<br> + midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?</p> + +<p>05:004:034 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst<br> + of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders,<br> + and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm,<br> + and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God<br> + did for you in Egypt before your eyes?</p> + +<p>05:004:035 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD<br> + he is God; there is none else beside him.</p> + +<p>05:004:036 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might<br> + instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire;<br> + and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.</p> + +<p>05:004:037 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their<br> + seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his<br> + mighty power out of Egypt;</p> + +<p>05:004:038 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier<br> + than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for<br> + an inheritance, as it is this day.</p> + +<p>05:004:039 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that<br> + the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth<br> + beneath: there is none else.</p> + +<p>05:004:040 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments,<br> + which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee,<br> + and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong<br> + thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee,<br> + for ever.</p> + +<p>05:004:041 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the<br> + sunrising;</p> + +<p>05:004:042 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his<br> + neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that<br> + fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:</p> + +<p>05:004:043 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the<br> + Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in<br> + Bashan, of the Manassites.</p> + +<p>05:004:044 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of<br> + Israel:</p> + +<p>05:004:045 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the<br> + judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel,<br> + after they came forth out of Egypt.</p> + +<p>05:004:046 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in<br> + the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon,<br> + whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were<br> + come forth out of Egypt:</p> + +<p>05:004:047 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of<br> + Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side<br> + Jordan toward the sunrising;</p> + +<p>05:004:048 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto<br> + mount Sion, which is Hermon,</p> + +<p>05:004:049 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the<br> + sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.</p> + +<p>05:005:001 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O<br> + Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears<br> + this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.</p> + +<p>05:005:002 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.</p> + +<p>05:005:003 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us,<br> + even us, who are all of us here alive this day.</p> + +<p>05:005:004 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the<br> + midst of the fire,</p> + +<p>05:005:005 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you<br> + the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the<br> + fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,</p> + +<p>05:005:006 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of<br> + Egypt, from the house of bondage.</p> + +<p>05:005:007 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.</p> + +<p>05:005:008 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of<br> + any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth<br> + beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:</p> + +<p>05:005:009 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for<br> + I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of<br> + the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth<br> + generation of them that hate me,</p> + +<p>05:005:010 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep<br> + my commandments.</p> + +<p>05:005:011 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for<br> + the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in<br> + vain.</p> + +<p>05:005:012 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath<br> + commanded thee.</p> + +<p>05:005:013 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:</p> + +<p>05:005:014 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it<br> + thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy<br> + daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine<br> + ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger<br> + that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy<br> + maidservant may rest as well as thou.</p> + +<p>05:005:015 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt,<br> + and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a<br> + mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy<br> + God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.</p> + +<p>05:005:016 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath<br> + commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it<br> + may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God<br> + giveth thee.</p> + +<p>05:005:017 Thou shalt not kill.</p> + +<p>05:005:018 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.</p> + +<p>05:005:019 Neither shalt thou steal.</p> + +<p>05:005:020 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.</p> + +<p>05:005:021 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt<br> + thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his<br> + manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any<br> + thing that is thy neighbour's.</p> + +<p>05:005:022 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount<br> + out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick<br> + darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he<br> + wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.</p> + +<p>05:005:023 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst<br> + of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that<br> + ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and<br> + your elders;</p> + +<p>05:005:024 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory<br> + and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the<br> + midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk<br> + with man, and he liveth.</p> + +<p>05:005:025 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will<br> + consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more,<br> + then we shall die.</p> + +<p>05:005:026 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of<br> + the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we<br> + have, and lived?</p> + +<p>05:005:027 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say:<br> + and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak<br> + unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.</p> + +<p>05:005:028 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto<br> + me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the<br> + words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they<br> + have well said all that they have spoken.</p> + +<p>05:005:029 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear<br> + me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well<br> + with them, and with their children for ever!</p> + +<p>05:005:030 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.</p> + +<p>05:005:031 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto<br> + thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the<br> + judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them<br> + in the land which I give them to possess it.</p> + +<p>05:005:032 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath<br> + commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to<br> + the left.</p> + +<p>05:005:033 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath<br> + commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with<br> + you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye<br> + shall possess.</p> + +<p>05:006:001 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the<br> + judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you,<br> + that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:</p> + +<p>05:006:002 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his<br> + statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and<br> + thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that<br> + thy days may be prolonged.</p> + +<p>05:006:003 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be<br> + well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD<br> + God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that<br> + floweth with milk and honey.</p> + +<p>05:006:004 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:</p> + +<p>05:006:005 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and<br> + with all thy soul, and with all thy might.</p> + +<p>05:006:006 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in<br> + thine heart:</p> + +<p>05:006:007 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and<br> + shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when<br> + thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when<br> + thou risest up.</p> + +<p>05:006:008 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they<br> + shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.</p> + +<p>05:006:009 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on<br> + thy gates.</p> + +<p>05:006:010 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee<br> + into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to<br> + Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities,<br> + which thou buildedst not,</p> + +<p>05:006:011 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not,<br> + and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive<br> + trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten<br> + and be full;</p> + +<p>05:006:012 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee<br> + forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.</p> + +<p>05:006:013 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt<br> + swear by his name.</p> + +<p>05:006:014 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people<br> + which are round about you;</p> + +<p>05:006:015 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the<br> + anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy<br> + thee from off the face of the earth.</p> + +<p>05:006:016 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in<br> + Massah.</p> + +<p>05:006:017 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your<br> + God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath<br> + commanded thee.</p> + +<p>05:006:018 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of<br> + the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest<br> + go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy<br> + fathers.</p> + +<p>05:006:019 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD<br> + hath spoken.</p> + +<p>05:006:020 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What<br> + mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments,<br> + which the LORD our God hath commanded you?</p> + +<p>05:006:021 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in<br> + Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty<br> + hand:</p> + +<p>05:006:022 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon<br> + Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our<br> + eyes:</p> + +<p>05:006:023 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in,<br> + to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.</p> + +<p>05:006:024 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear<br> + the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve<br> + us alive, as it is at this day.</p> + +<p>05:006:025 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all<br> + these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath<br> + commanded us.</p> + +<p>05:007:001 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither<br> + thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations<br> + before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the<br> + Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the<br> + Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier<br> + than thou;</p> + +<p>05:007:002 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou<br> + shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no<br> + covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:</p> + +<p>05:007:003 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou<br> + shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take<br> + unto thy son.</p> + +<p>05:007:004 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they<br> + may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled<br> + against you, and destroy thee suddenly.</p> + +<p>05:007:005 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their<br> + altars, and break down their images, and cut down their<br> + groves, and burn their graven images with fire.</p> + +<p>05:007:006 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD<br> + thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself,<br> + above all people that are upon the face of the earth.</p> + +<p>05:007:007 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,<br> + because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were<br> + the fewest of all people:</p> + +<p>05:007:008 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the<br> + oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD<br> + brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of<br> + the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.</p> + +<p>05:007:009 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful<br> + God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him<br> + and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;</p> + +<p>05:007:010 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy<br> + them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will<br> + repay him to his face.</p> + +<p>05:007:011 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes,<br> + and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.</p> + +<p>05:007:012 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these<br> + judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall<br> + keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto<br> + thy fathers:</p> + +<p>05:007:013 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he<br> + will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy<br> + land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of<br> + thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he<br> + sware unto thy fathers to give thee.</p> + +<p>05:007:014 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be<br> + male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.</p> + +<p>05:007:015 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will<br> + put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest,<br> + upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.</p> + +<p>05:007:016 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God<br> + shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them:<br> + neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare<br> + unto thee.</p> + +<p>05:007:017 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than<br> + I; how can I dispossess them?</p> + +<p>05:007:018 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what<br> + the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;</p> + +<p>05:007:019 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and<br> + the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm,<br> + whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD<br> + thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.</p> + +<p>05:007:020 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them,<br> + until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be<br> + destroyed.</p> + +<p>05:007:021 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is<br> + among you, a mighty God and terrible.</p> + +<p>05:007:022 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by<br> + little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest<br> + the beasts of the field increase upon thee.</p> + +<p>05:007:023 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall<br> + destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be<br> + destroyed.</p> + +<p>05:007:024 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou<br> + shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man<br> + be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.</p> + +<p>05:007:025 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou<br> + shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take<br> + it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an<br> + abomination to the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:007:026 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest<br> + thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest<br> + it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.</p> + +<p>05:008:001 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye<br> + observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and<br> + possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.</p> + +<p>05:008:002 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led<br> + thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and<br> + to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou<br> + wouldest keep his commandments, or no.</p> + +<p>05:008:003 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee<br> + with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers<br> + know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by<br> + bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth<br> + of the LORD doth man live.</p> + +<p>05:008:004 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot<br> + swell, these forty years.</p> + +<p>05:008:005 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man<br> + chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.</p> + +<p>05:008:006 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy<br> + God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.</p> + +<p>05:008:007 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of<br> + brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of<br> + valleys and hills;</p> + +<p>05:008:008 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and<br> + pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;</p> + +<p>05:008:009 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou<br> + shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron,<br> + and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.</p> + +<p>05:008:010 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the<br> + LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.</p> + +<p>05:008:011 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping<br> + his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I<br> + command thee this day:</p> + +<p>05:008:012 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly<br> + houses, and dwelt therein;</p> + +<p>05:008:013 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and<br> + thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;</p> + +<p>05:008:014 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy<br> + God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from<br> + the house of bondage;</p> + +<p>05:008:015 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness,<br> + wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where<br> + there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the<br> + rock of flint;</p> + +<p>05:008:016 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers<br> + knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove<br> + thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;</p> + +<p>05:008:017 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine<br> + hand hath gotten me this wealth.</p> + +<p>05:008:018 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that<br> + giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his<br> + covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.</p> + +<p>05:008:019 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God,<br> + and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I<br> + testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.</p> + +<p>05:008:020 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so<br> + shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the<br> + voice of the LORD your God.</p> + +<p>05:009:001 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go<br> + in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself,<br> + cities great and fenced up to heaven,</p> + +<p>05:009:002 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom<br> + thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand<br> + before the children of Anak!</p> + +<p>05:009:003 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he<br> + which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall<br> + destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so<br> + shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the<br> + LORD hath said unto thee.</p> + +<p>05:009:004 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God<br> + hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my<br> + righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this<br> + land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth<br> + drive them out from before thee.</p> + +<p>05:009:005 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine<br> + heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the<br> + wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them<br> + out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which<br> + the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.</p> + +<p>05:009:006 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not<br> + this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou<br> + art a stiffnecked people.</p> + +<p>05:009:007 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God<br> + to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst<br> + depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this<br> + place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.</p> + +<p>05:009:008 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD<br> + was angry with you to have destroyed you.</p> + +<p>05:009:009 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of<br> + stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made<br> + with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty<br> + nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:</p> + +<p>05:009:010 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written<br> + with the finger of God; and on them was written according to<br> + all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out<br> + of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.</p> + +<p>05:009:011 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights,<br> + that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables<br> + of the covenant.</p> + +<p>05:009:012 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from<br> + hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of<br> + Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside<br> + out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a<br> + molten image.</p> + +<p>05:009:013 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this<br> + people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:</p> + +<p>05:009:014 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name<br> + from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier<br> + and greater than they.</p> + +<p>05:009:015 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned<br> + with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two<br> + hands.</p> + +<p>05:009:016 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your<br> + God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside<br> + quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.</p> + +<p>05:009:017 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,<br> + and brake them before your eyes.</p> + +<p>05:009:018 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days<br> + and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water,<br> + because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in<br> + the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.</p> + +<p>05:009:019 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith<br> + the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD<br> + hearkened unto me at that time also.</p> + +<p>05:009:020 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him:<br> + and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.</p> + +<p>05:009:021 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it<br> + with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even<br> + until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof<br> + into the brook that descended out of the mount.</p> + +<p>05:009:022 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye<br> + provoked the LORD to wrath.</p> + +<p>05:009:023 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go<br> + up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye<br> + rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye<br> + believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.</p> + +<p>05:009:024 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I<br> + knew you.</p> + +<p>05:009:025 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights,<br> + as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he<br> + would destroy you.</p> + +<p>05:009:026 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD,<br> + destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast<br> + redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth<br> + out of Egypt with a mighty hand.</p> + +<p>05:009:027 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not<br> + unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness,<br> + nor to their sin:</p> + +<p>05:009:028 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the<br> + LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he<br> + promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them<br> + out to slay them in the wilderness.</p> + +<p>05:009:029 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou<br> + broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out<br> + arm.</p> + +<p>05:010:001 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of<br> + stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount,<br> + and make thee an ark of wood.</p> + +<p>05:010:002 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the<br> + first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in<br> + the ark.</p> + +<p>05:010:003 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of<br> + stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having<br> + the two tables in mine hand.</p> + +<p>05:010:004 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing,<br> + the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the<br> + mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly:<br> + and the LORD gave them unto me.</p> + +<p>05:010:005 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the<br> + tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the<br> + LORD commanded me.</p> + +<p>05:010:006 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of<br> + the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there<br> + he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's<br> + office in his stead.</p> + +<p>05:010:007 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to<br> + Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.</p> + +<p>05:010:008 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the<br> + ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to<br> + minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.</p> + +<p>05:010:009 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren;<br> + the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God<br> + promised him.</p> + +<p>05:010:010 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty<br> + days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that<br> + time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.</p> + +<p>05:010:011 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the<br> + people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I<br> + sware unto their fathers to give unto them.</p> + +<p>05:010:012 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee,<br> + but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to<br> + love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and<br> + with all thy soul,</p> + +<p>05:010:013 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which<br> + I command thee this day for thy good?</p> + +<p>05:010:014 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy<br> + God, the earth also, with all that therein is.</p> + +<p>05:010:015 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and<br> + he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as<br> + it is this day.</p> + +<p>05:010:016 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no<br> + more stiffnecked.</p> + +<p>05:010:017 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a<br> + great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not<br> + persons, nor taketh reward:</p> + +<p>05:010:018 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and<br> + loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.</p> + +<p>05:010:019 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the<br> + land of Egypt.</p> + +<p>05:010:020 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to<br> + him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.</p> + +<p>05:010:021 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee<br> + these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.</p> + +<p>05:010:022 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten<br> + persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars<br> + of heaven for multitude.</p> + +<p>05:011:001 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his<br> + charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his<br> + commandments, alway.</p> + +<p>05:011:002 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which<br> + have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of<br> + the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his<br> + stretched out arm,</p> + +<p>05:011:003 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of<br> + Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;</p> + +<p>05:011:004 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and<br> + to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to<br> + overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath<br> + destroyed them unto this day;</p> + +<p>05:011:005 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into<br> + this place;</p> + +<p>05:011:006 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the<br> + son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed<br> + them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the<br> + substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all<br> + Israel:</p> + +<p>05:011:007 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which<br> + he did.</p> + +<p>05:011:008 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command<br> + you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the<br> + land, whither ye go to possess it;</p> + +<p>05:011:009 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD<br> + sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a<br> + land that floweth with milk and honey.</p> + +<p>05:011:010 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as<br> + the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst<br> + thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of<br> + herbs:</p> + +<p>05:011:011 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills<br> + and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:</p> + +<p>05:011:012 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD<br> + thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year<br> + even unto the end of the year.</p> + +<p>05:011:013 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto<br> + my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD<br> + your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all<br> + your soul,</p> + +<p>05:011:014 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season,<br> + the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in<br> + thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.</p> + +<p>05:011:015 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou<br> + mayest eat and be full.</p> + +<p>05:011:016 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and<br> + ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;</p> + +<p>05:011:017 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut<br> + up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield<br> + not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good<br> + land which the LORD giveth you.</p> + +<p>05:011:018 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in<br> + your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they<br> + may be as frontlets between your eyes.</p> + +<p>05:011:019 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when<br> + thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,<br> + when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.</p> + +<p>05:011:020 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house,<br> + and upon thy gates:</p> + +<p>05:011:021 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your<br> + children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers<br> + to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.</p> + +<p>05:011:022 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I<br> + command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in<br> + all his ways, and to cleave unto him;</p> + +<p>05:011:023 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before<br> + you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than<br> + yourselves.</p> + +<p>05:011:024 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall<br> + be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the<br> + river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast<br> + be.</p> + +<p>05:011:025 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD<br> + your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon<br> + all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto<br> + you.</p> + +<p>05:011:026 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;</p> + +<p>05:011:027 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God,<br> + which I command you this day:</p> + +<p>05:011:028 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD<br> + your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you<br> + this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.</p> + +<p>05:011:029 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought<br> + thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that<br> + thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse<br> + upon mount Ebal.</p> + +<p>05:011:030 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the<br> + sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in<br> + the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?</p> + +<p>05:011:031 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land<br> + which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it,<br> + and dwell therein.</p> + +<p>05:011:032 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments<br> + which I set before you this day.</p> + +<p>05:012:001 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe<br> + to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth<br> + thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.</p> + +<p>05:012:002 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations<br> + which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high<br> + mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:</p> + +<p>05:012:003 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars,<br> + and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the<br> + graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out<br> + of that place.</p> + +<p>05:012:004 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.</p> + +<p>05:012:005 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of<br> + all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his<br> + habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:</p> + +<p>05:012:006 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your<br> + sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand,<br> + and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings<br> + of your herds and of your flocks:</p> + +<p>05:012:007 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall<br> + rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your<br> + households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.</p> + +<p>05:012:008 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,<br> + every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.</p> + +<p>05:012:009 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,<br> + which the LORD your God giveth you.</p> + +<p>05:012:010 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the<br> + LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you<br> + rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in<br> + safety;</p> + +<p>05:012:011 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall<br> + choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye<br> + bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your<br> + sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand,<br> + and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:</p> + +<p>05:012:012 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your<br> + sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your<br> + maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates;<br> + forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.</p> + +<p>05:012:013 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings<br> + in every place that thou seest:</p> + +<p>05:012:014 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy<br> + tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there<br> + thou shalt do all that I command thee.</p> + +<p>05:012:015 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy<br> + gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the<br> + blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the<br> + unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and<br> + as of the hart.</p> + +<p>05:012:016 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the<br> + earth as water.</p> + +<p>05:012:017 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or<br> + of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or<br> + of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy<br> + freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:</p> + +<p>05:012:018 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place<br> + which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and<br> + thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the<br> + Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before<br> + the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.</p> + +<p>05:012:019 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long<br> + as thou livest upon the earth.</p> + +<p>05:012:020 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath<br> + promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because<br> + thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh,<br> + whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.</p> + +<p>05:012:021 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his<br> + name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy<br> + herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I<br> + have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates<br> + whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.</p> + +<p>05:012:022 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat<br> + them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.</p> + +<p>05:012:023 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the<br> + life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.</p> + +<p>05:012:024 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as<br> + water.</p> + +<p>05:012:025 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with<br> + thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is<br> + right in the sight of the LORD.</p> + +<p>05:012:026 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt<br> + take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:</p> + +<p>05:012:027 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the<br> + blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of<br> + thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD<br> + thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.</p> + +<p>05:012:028 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it<br> + may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for<br> + ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the<br> + sight of the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:012:029 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before<br> + thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest<br> + them, and dwellest in their land;</p> + +<p>05:012:030 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following<br> + them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that<br> + thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these<br> + nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.</p> + +<p>05:012:031 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every<br> + abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto<br> + their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have<br> + burnt in the fire to their gods.</p> + +<p>05:012:032 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt<br> + not add thereto, nor diminish from it.</p> + +<p>05:013:001 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,<br> + and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,</p> + +<p>05:013:002 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto<br> + thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not<br> + known, and let us serve them;</p> + +<p>05:013:003 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that<br> + dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know<br> + whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with<br> + all your soul.</p> + +<p>05:013:004 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep<br> + his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him,<br> + and cleave unto him.</p> + +<p>05:013:005 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to<br> + death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD<br> + your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and<br> + redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out<br> + of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in.<br> + So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.</p> + +<p>05:013:006 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy<br> + daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as<br> + thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and<br> + serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy<br> + fathers;</p> + +<p>05:013:007 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you,<br> + nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the<br> + earth even unto the other end of the earth;</p> + +<p>05:013:008 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither<br> + shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither<br> + shalt thou conceal him:</p> + +<p>05:013:009 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon<br> + him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the<br> + people.</p> + +<p>05:013:010 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he<br> + hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which<br> + brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of<br> + bondage.</p> + +<p>05:013:011 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any<br> + such wickedness as this is among you.</p> + +<p>05:013:012 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD<br> + thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,</p> + +<p>05:013:013 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among<br> + you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying,<br> + Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;</p> + +<p>05:013:014 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently;<br> + and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such<br> + abomination is wrought among you;</p> + +<p>05:013:015 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the<br> + edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is<br> + therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.</p> + +<p>05:013:016 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of<br> + the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all<br> + the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it<br> + shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.</p> + +<p>05:013:017 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine<br> + hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger,<br> + and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and<br> + multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;</p> + +<p>05:013:018 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to<br> + keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do<br> + that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:014:001 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut<br> + yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the<br> + dead.</p> + +<p>05:014:002 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the<br> + LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself,<br> + above all the nations that are upon the earth.</p> + +<p>05:014:003 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.</p> + +<p>05:014:004 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep,<br> + and the goat,</p> + +<p>05:014:005 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild<br> + goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.</p> + +<p>05:014:006 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft<br> + into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye<br> + shall eat.</p> + +<p>05:014:007 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud,<br> + or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the<br> + hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the<br> + hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.</p> + +<p>05:014:008 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not<br> + the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their<br> + flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.</p> + +<p>05:014:009 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that<br> + have fins and scales shall ye eat:</p> + +<p>05:014:010 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is<br> + unclean unto you.</p> + +<p>05:014:011 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.</p> + +<p>05:014:012 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and<br> + the ossifrage, and the ospray,</p> + +<p>05:014:013 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,</p> + +<p>05:014:014 And every raven after his kind,</p> + +<p>05:014:015 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk<br> + after his kind,</p> + +<p>05:014:016 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,</p> + +<p>05:014:017 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,</p> + +<p>05:014:018 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing,<br> + and the bat.</p> + +<p>05:014:019 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they<br> + shall not be eaten.</p> + +<p>05:014:020 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.</p> + +<p>05:014:021 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt<br> + give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may<br> + eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an<br> + holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid<br> + in his mother's milk.</p> + +<p>05:014:022 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the<br> + field bringeth forth year by year.</p> + +<p>05:014:023 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which<br> + he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy<br> + corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy<br> + herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the<br> + LORD thy God always.</p> + +<p>05:014:024 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able<br> + to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the<br> + LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD<br> + thy God hath blessed thee:</p> + +<p>05:014:025 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in<br> + thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God<br> + shall choose:</p> + +<p>05:014:026 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul<br> + lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for<br> + strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou<br> + shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt<br> + rejoice, thou, and thine household,</p> + +<p>05:014:027 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not<br> + forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.</p> + +<p>05:014:028 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe<br> + of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within<br> + thy gates:</p> + +<p>05:014:029 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with<br> + thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,<br> + which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be<br> + satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the<br> + work of thine hand which thou doest.</p> + +<p>05:015:001 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.</p> + +<p>05:015:002 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that<br> + lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall<br> + not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it<br> + is called the LORD's release.</p> + +<p>05:015:003 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is<br> + thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;</p> + +<p>05:015:004 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall<br> + greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth<br> + thee for an inheritance to possess it:</p> + +<p>05:015:005 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy<br> + God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command<br> + thee this day.</p> + +<p>05:015:006 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and<br> + thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow;<br> + and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not<br> + reign over thee.</p> + +<p>05:015:007 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within<br> + any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth<br> + thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand<br> + from thy poor brother:</p> + +<p>05:015:008 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely<br> + lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.</p> + +<p>05:015:009 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,<br> + saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and<br> + thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest<br> + him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be<br> + sin unto thee.</p> + +<p>05:015:010 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be<br> + grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing<br> + the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all<br> + that thou puttest thine hand unto.</p> + +<p>05:015:011 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I<br> + command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy<br> + brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.</p> + +<p>05:015:012 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold<br> + unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year<br> + thou shalt let him go free from thee.</p> + +<p>05:015:013 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not<br> + let him go away empty:</p> + +<p>05:015:014 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of<br> + thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the<br> + LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.</p> + +<p>05:015:015 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land<br> + of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I<br> + command thee this thing to day.</p> + +<p>05:015:016 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from<br> + thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is<br> + well with thee;</p> + +<p>05:015:017 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear<br> + unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also<br> + unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.</p> + +<p>05:015:018 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away<br> + free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant<br> + to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall<br> + bless thee in all that thou doest.</p> + +<p>05:015:019 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock<br> + thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no<br> + work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the<br> + firstling of thy sheep.</p> + +<p>05:015:020 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the<br> + place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.</p> + +<p>05:015:021 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or<br> + blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it<br> + unto the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:015:022 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean<br> + person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.</p> + +<p>05:015:023 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it<br> + upon the ground as water.</p> + +<p>05:016:001 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD<br> + thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought<br> + thee forth out of Egypt by night.</p> + +<p>05:016:002 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy<br> + God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD<br> + shall choose to place his name there.</p> + +<p>05:016:003 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt<br> + thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of<br> + affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in<br> + haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest<br> + forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.</p> + +<p>05:016:004 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy<br> + coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh,<br> + which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all<br> + night until the morning.</p> + +<p>05:016:005 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy<br> + gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:</p> + +<p>05:016:006 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place<br> + his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even,<br> + at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest<br> + forth out of Egypt.</p> + +<p>05:016:007 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD<br> + thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and<br> + go unto thy tents.</p> + +<p>05:016:008 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh<br> + day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt<br> + do no work therein.</p> + +<p>05:016:009 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the<br> + seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle<br> + to the corn.</p> + +<p>05:016:010 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God<br> + with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which<br> + thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD<br> + thy God hath blessed thee:</p> + +<p>05:016:011 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy<br> + son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy<br> + maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the<br> + stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among<br> + you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place<br> + his name there.</p> + +<p>05:016:012 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and<br> + thou shalt observe and do these statutes.</p> + +<p>05:016:013 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after<br> + that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:</p> + +<p>05:016:014 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and<br> + thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the<br> + Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that<br> + are within thy gates.</p> + +<p>05:016:015 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy<br> + God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD<br> + thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the<br> + works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.</p> + +<p>05:016:016 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the<br> + LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast<br> + of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the<br> + feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the<br> + LORD empty:</p> + +<p>05:016:017 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing<br> + of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.</p> + +<p>05:016:018 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,<br> + which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and<br> + they shall judge the people with just judgment.</p> + +<p>05:016:019 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,<br> + neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the<br> + wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.</p> + +<p>05:016:020 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou<br> + mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God<br> + giveth thee.</p> + +<p>05:016:021 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the<br> + altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.</p> + +<p>05:016:022 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy<br> + God hateth.</p> + +<p>05:017:001 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or<br> + sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that<br> + is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:017:002 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the<br> + LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought<br> + wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing<br> + his covenant,</p> + +<p>05:017:003 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,<br> + either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I<br> + have not commanded;</p> + +<p>05:017:004 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired<br> + diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain,<br> + that such abomination is wrought in Israel:</p> + +<p>05:017:005 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have<br> + committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or<br> + that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.</p> + +<p>05:017:006 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he<br> + that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of<br> + one witness he shall not be put to death.</p> + +<p>05:017:007 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him<br> + to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou<br> + shalt put the evil away from among you.</p> + +<p>05:017:008 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between<br> + blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and<br> + stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then<br> + shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the<br> + LORD thy God shall choose;</p> + +<p>05:017:009 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the<br> + judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall<br> + shew thee the sentence of judgment:</p> + +<p>05:017:010 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of<br> + that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and<br> + thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform<br> + thee:</p> + +<p>05:017:011 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach<br> + thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell<br> + thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence<br> + which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the<br> + left.</p> + +<p>05:017:012 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken<br> + unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the<br> + LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and<br> + thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.</p> + +<p>05:017:013 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more<br> + presumptuously.</p> + +<p>05:017:014 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth<br> + thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt<br> + say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that<br> + are about me;</p> + +<p>05:017:015 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD<br> + thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou<br> + set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee,<br> + which is not thy brother.</p> + +<p>05:017:016 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the<br> + people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply<br> + horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall<br> + henceforth return no more that way.</p> + +<p>05:017:017 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart<br> + turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself<br> + silver and gold.</p> + +<p>05:017:018 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his<br> + kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book<br> + out of that which is before the priests the Levites:</p> + +<p>05:017:019 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the<br> + days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God,<br> + to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do<br> + them:</p> + +<p>05:017:020 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that<br> + he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or<br> + to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his<br> + kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.</p> + +<p>05:018:001 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have<br> + no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the<br> + offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.</p> + +<p>05:018:002 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren:<br> + the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.</p> + +<p>05:018:003 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them<br> + that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they<br> + shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks,<br> + and the maw.</p> + +<p>05:018:004 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine<br> + oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give<br> + him.</p> + +<p>05:018:005 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to<br> + stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons<br> + for ever.</p> + +<p>05:018:006 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel,<br> + where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind<br> + unto the place which the LORD shall choose;</p> + +<p>05:018:007 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all<br> + his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the<br> + LORD.</p> + +<p>05:018:008 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh<br> + of the sale of his patrimony.</p> + +<p>05:018:009 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth<br> + thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of<br> + those nations.</p> + +<p>05:018:010 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son<br> + or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth<br> + divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a<br> + witch.</p> + +<p>05:018:011 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a<br> + wizard, or a necromancer.</p> + +<p>05:018:012 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD:<br> + and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive<br> + them out from before thee.</p> + +<p>05:018:013 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:018:014 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto<br> + observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the<br> + LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.</p> + +<p>05:018:015 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the<br> + midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye<br> + shall hearken;</p> + +<p>05:018:016 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in<br> + Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear<br> + again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this<br> + great fire any more, that I die not.</p> + +<p>05:018:017 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which<br> + they have spoken.</p> + +<p>05:018:018 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like<br> + unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall<br> + speak unto them all that I shall command him.</p> + +<p>05:018:019 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken<br> + unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require<br> + it of him.</p> + +<p>05:018:020 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my<br> + name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall<br> + speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.</p> + +<p>05:018:021 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word<br> + which the LORD hath not spoken?</p> + +<p>05:018:022 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing<br> + follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD<br> + hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it<br> + presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.</p> + +<p>05:019:001 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the<br> + LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and<br> + dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;</p> + +<p>05:019:002 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy<br> + land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.</p> + +<p>05:019:003 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy<br> + land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into<br> + three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.</p> + +<p>05:019:004 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither,<br> + that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom<br> + he hated not in time past;</p> + +<p>05:019:005 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew<br> + wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down<br> + the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth<br> + upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of<br> + those cities, and live:</p> + +<p>05:019:006 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his<br> + heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and<br> + slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he<br> + hated him not in time past.</p> + +<p>05:019:007 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three<br> + cities for thee.</p> + +<p>05:019:008 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn<br> + unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised<br> + to give unto thy fathers;</p> + +<p>05:019:009 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I<br> + command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk<br> + ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for<br> + thee, beside these three:</p> + +<p>05:019:010 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD<br> + thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon<br> + thee.</p> + +<p>05:019:011 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him,<br> + and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die,<br> + and fleeth into one of these cities:</p> + +<p>05:019:012 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence,<br> + and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he<br> + may die.</p> + +<p>05:019:013 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the<br> + guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with<br> + thee.</p> + +<p>05:019:014 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of<br> + old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt<br> + inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to<br> + possess it.</p> + +<p>05:019:015 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,<br> + or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of<br> + two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the<br> + matter be established.</p> + +<p>05:019:016 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against<br> + him that which is wrong;</p> + +<p>05:019:017 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall<br> + stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges,<br> + which shall be in those days;</p> + +<p>05:019:018 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,<br> + if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely<br> + against his brother;</p> + +<p>05:019:019 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto<br> + his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.</p> + +<p>05:019:020 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall<br> + henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.</p> + +<p>05:019:021 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye<br> + for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.</p> + +<p>05:020:001 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest<br> + horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not<br> + afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which<br> + brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.</p> + +<p>05:020:002 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that<br> + the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,</p> + +<p>05:020:003 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day<br> + unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint,<br> + fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because<br> + of them;</p> + +<p>05:020:004 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for<br> + you against your enemies, to save you.</p> + +<p>05:020:005 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man<br> + is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated<br> + it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the<br> + battle, and another man dedicate it.</p> + +<p>05:020:006 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not<br> + yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house,<br> + lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.</p> + +<p>05:020:007 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not<br> + taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die<br> + in the battle, and another man take her.</p> + +<p>05:020:008 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they<br> + shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted?<br> + let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's<br> + heart faint as well as his heart.</p> + +<p>05:020:009 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of<br> + speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the<br> + armies to lead the people.</p> + +<p>05:020:010 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then<br> + proclaim peace unto it.</p> + +<p>05:020:011 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open<br> + unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found<br> + therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve<br> + thee.</p> + +<p>05:020:012 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war<br> + against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:</p> + +<p>05:020:013 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,<br> + thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the<br> + sword:</p> + +<p>05:020:014 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all<br> + that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou<br> + take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine<br> + enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.</p> + +<p>05:020:015 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off<br> + from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.</p> + +<p>05:020:016 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth<br> + give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing<br> + that breatheth:</p> + +<p>05:020:017 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and<br> + the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,<br> + and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:</p> + +<p>05:020:018 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations,<br> + which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against<br> + the LORD your God.</p> + +<p>05:020:019 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war<br> + against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees<br> + thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of<br> + them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the<br> + field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:</p> + +<p>05:020:020 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for<br> + meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt<br> + build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee,<br> + until it be subdued.</p> + +<p>05:021:001 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God<br> + giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not<br> + known who hath slain him:</p> + +<p>05:021:002 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they<br> + shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that<br> + is slain:</p> + +<p>05:021:003 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain<br> + man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which<br> + hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the<br> + yoke;</p> + +<p>05:021:004 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a<br> + rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall<br> + strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:</p> + +<p>05:021:005 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the<br> + LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in<br> + the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every<br> + controversy and every stroke be tried:</p> + +<p>05:021:006 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain<br> + man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded<br> + in the valley:</p> + +<p>05:021:007 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this<br> + blood, neither have our eyes seen it.</p> + +<p>05:021:008 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast<br> + redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of<br> + Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.</p> + +<p>05:021:009 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among<br> + you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of<br> + the LORD.</p> + +<p>05:021:010 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the<br> + LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou<br> + hast taken them captive,</p> + +<p>05:021:011 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a<br> + desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;</p> + +<p>05:021:012 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall<br> + shave her head, and pare her nails;</p> + +<p>05:021:013 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her,<br> + and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her<br> + mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her,<br> + and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.</p> + +<p>05:021:014 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou<br> + shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her<br> + at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her,<br> + because thou hast humbled her.</p> + +<p>05:021:015 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and<br> + they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated;<br> + and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:</p> + +<p>05:021:016 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that<br> + which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved<br> + firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the<br> + firstborn:</p> + +<p>05:021:017 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the<br> + firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath:<br> + for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the<br> + firstborn is his.</p> + +<p>05:021:018 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not<br> + obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and<br> + that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto<br> + them:</p> + +<p>05:021:019 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and<br> + bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate<br> + of his place;</p> + +<p>05:021:020 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son<br> + is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is<br> + a glutton, and a drunkard.</p> + +<p>05:021:021 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that<br> + he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all<br> + Israel shall hear, and fear.</p> + +<p>05:021:022 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be<br> + to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:</p> + +<p>05:021:023 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou<br> + shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is<br> + accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD<br> + thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.</p> + +<p>05:022:001 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray,<br> + and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them<br> + again unto thy brother.</p> + +<p>05:022:002 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him<br> + not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it<br> + shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou<br> + shalt restore it to him again.</p> + +<p>05:022:003 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou<br> + do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's,<br> + which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do<br> + likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.</p> + +<p>05:022:004 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by<br> + the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help<br> + him to lift them up again.</p> + +<p>05:022:005 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man,<br> + neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do<br> + so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:022:006 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any<br> + tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs,<br> + and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou<br> + shalt not take the dam with the young:</p> + +<p>05:022:007 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young<br> + to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest<br> + prolong thy days.</p> + +<p>05:022:008 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a<br> + battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine<br> + house, if any man fall from thence.</p> + +<p>05:022:009 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the<br> + fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy<br> + vineyard, be defiled.</p> + +<p>05:022:010 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.</p> + +<p>05:022:011 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen<br> + and linen together.</p> + +<p>05:022:012 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy<br> + vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.</p> + +<p>05:022:013 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,</p> + +<p>05:022:014 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil<br> + name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to<br> + her, I found her not a maid:</p> + +<p>05:022:015 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and<br> + bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the<br> + elders of the city in the gate:</p> + +<p>05:022:016 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my<br> + daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;</p> + +<p>05:022:017 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her,<br> + saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the<br> + tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the<br> + cloth before the elders of the city.</p> + +<p>05:022:018 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise<br> + him;</p> + +<p>05:022:019 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and<br> + give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath<br> + brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall<br> + be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.</p> + +<p>05:022:020 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not<br> + found for the damsel:</p> + +<p>05:022:021 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her<br> + father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with<br> + stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel,<br> + to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put<br> + evil away from among you.</p> + +<p>05:022:022 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband,<br> + then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with<br> + the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from<br> + Israel.</p> + +<p>05:022:023 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and<br> + a man find her in the city, and lie with her;</p> + +<p>05:022:024 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city,<br> + and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel,<br> + because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because<br> + he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away<br> + evil from among you.</p> + +<p>05:022:025 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man<br> + force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with<br> + her shall die.</p> + +<p>05:022:026 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the<br> + damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth<br> + against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this<br> + matter:</p> + +<p>05:022:027 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried,<br> + and there was none to save her.</p> + +<p>05:022:028 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not<br> + betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be<br> + found;</p> + +<p>05:022:029 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's<br> + father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife;<br> + because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his<br> + days.</p> + +<p>05:022:030 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his<br> + father's skirt.</p> + +<p>05:023:001 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut<br> + off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.</p> + +<p>05:023:002 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD;<br> + even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the<br> + congregation of the LORD.</p> + +<p>05:023:003 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation<br> + of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not<br> + enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:</p> + +<p>05:023:004 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way,<br> + when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired<br> + against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia,<br> + to curse thee.</p> + +<p>05:023:005 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam;<br> + but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto<br> + thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.</p> + +<p>05:023:006 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy<br> + days for ever.</p> + +<p>05:023:007 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou<br> + shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in<br> + his land.</p> + +<p>05:023:008 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the<br> + congregation of the LORD in their third generation.</p> + +<p>05:023:009 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep<br> + thee from every wicked thing.</p> + +<p>05:023:010 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of<br> + uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go<br> + abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:</p> + +<p>05:023:011 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself<br> + with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the<br> + camp again.</p> + +<p>05:023:012 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou<br> + shalt go forth abroad:</p> + +<p>05:023:013 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be,<br> + when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith,<br> + and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:</p> + +<p>05:023:014 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to<br> + deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee;<br> + therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing<br> + in thee, and turn away from thee.</p> + +<p>05:023:015 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is<br> + escaped from his master unto thee:</p> + +<p>05:023:016 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which<br> + he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best:<br> + thou shalt not oppress him.</p> + +<p>05:023:017 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a<br> + sodomite of the sons of Israel.</p> + +<p>05:023:018 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a<br> + dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even<br> + both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:023:019 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money,<br> + usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:</p> + +<p>05:023:020 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy<br> + brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God<br> + may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the<br> + land whither thou goest to possess it.</p> + +<p>05:023:021 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt<br> + not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require<br> + it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.</p> + +<p>05:023:022 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.</p> + +<p>05:023:023 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and<br> + perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast<br> + vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy<br> + mouth.</p> + +<p>05:023:024 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou<br> + mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou<br> + shalt not put any in thy vessel.</p> + +<p>05:023:025 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then<br> + thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not<br> + move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.</p> + +<p>05:024:001 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to<br> + pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath<br> + found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill<br> + of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of<br> + his house.</p> + +<p>05:024:002 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be<br> + another man's wife.</p> + +<p>05:024:003 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of<br> + divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of<br> + his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be<br> + his wife;</p> + +<p>05:024:004 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her<br> + again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is<br> + abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land<br> + to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.</p> + +<p>05:024:005 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war,<br> + neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be<br> + free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he<br> + hath taken.</p> + +<p>05:024:006 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge:<br> + for he taketh a man's life to pledge.</p> + +<p>05:024:007 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children<br> + of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then<br> + that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among<br> + you.</p> + +<p>05:024:008 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe<br> + diligently, and do according to all that the priests the<br> + Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall<br> + observe to do.</p> + +<p>05:024:009 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way,<br> + after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.</p> + +<p>05:024:010 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go<br> + into his house to fetch his pledge.</p> + +<p>05:024:011 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend<br> + shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.</p> + +<p>05:024:012 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:</p> + +<p>05:024:013 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the<br> + sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and<br> + bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the<br> + LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:024:014 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and<br> + needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that<br> + are in thy land within thy gates:</p> + +<p>05:024:015 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun<br> + go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon<br> + it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto<br> + thee.</p> + +<p>05:024:016 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,<br> + neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers:<br> + every man shall be put to death for his own sin.</p> + +<p>05:024:017 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of<br> + the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:</p> + +<p>05:024:018 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and<br> + the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command<br> + thee to do this thing.</p> + +<p>05:024:019 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast<br> + forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch<br> + it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for<br> + the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the<br> + work of thine hands.</p> + +<p>05:024:020 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the<br> + boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the<br> + fatherless, and for the widow.</p> + +<p>05:024:021 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not<br> + glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the<br> + fatherless, and for the widow.</p> + +<p>05:024:022 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land<br> + of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.</p> + +<p>05:025:001 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto<br> + judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall<br> + justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.</p> + +<p>05:025:002 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten,<br> + that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten<br> + before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.</p> + +<p>05:025:003 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he<br> + should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes,<br> + then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.</p> + +<p>05:025:004 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.</p> + +<p>05:025:005 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no<br> + child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a<br> + stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take<br> + her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's<br> + brother unto her.</p> + +<p>05:025:006 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall<br> + succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his<br> + name be not put out of Israel.</p> + +<p>05:025:007 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let<br> + his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say,<br> + My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a<br> + name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's<br> + brother.</p> + +<p>05:025:008 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto<br> + him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;</p> + +<p>05:025:009 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of<br> + the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in<br> + his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto<br> + that man that will not build up his brother's house.</p> + +<p>05:025:010 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that<br> + hath his shoe loosed.</p> + +<p>05:025:011 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the<br> + one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of<br> + him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh<br> + him by the secrets:</p> + +<p>05:025:012 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity<br> + her.</p> + +<p>05:025:013 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a<br> + small.</p> + +<p>05:025:014 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great<br> + and a small.</p> + +<p>05:025:015 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and<br> + just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened<br> + in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.</p> + +<p>05:025:016 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously,<br> + are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:025:017 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were<br> + come forth out of Egypt;</p> + +<p>05:025:018 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee,<br> + even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint<br> + and weary; and he feared not God.</p> + +<p>05:025:019 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee<br> + rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the<br> + LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it,<br> + that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under<br> + heaven; thou shalt not forget it.</p> + +<p>05:026:001 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the<br> + LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest<br> + it, and dwellest therein;</p> + +<p>05:026:002 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the<br> + earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy<br> + God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go<br> + unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place<br> + his name there.</p> + +<p>05:026:003 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days,<br> + and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God,<br> + that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our<br> + fathers for to give us.</p> + +<p>05:026:004 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and<br> + set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:026:005 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian<br> + ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt,<br> + and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation,<br> + great, mighty, and populous:</p> + +<p>05:026:006 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and<br> + laid upon us hard bondage:</p> + +<p>05:026:007 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD<br> + heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour,<br> + and our oppression:</p> + +<p>05:026:008 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand,<br> + and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and<br> + with signs, and with wonders:</p> + +<p>05:026:009 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this<br> + land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.</p> + +<p>05:026:010 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land,<br> + which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it<br> + before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:</p> + +<p>05:026:011 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy<br> + God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the<br> + Levite, and the stranger that is among you.</p> + +<p>05:026:012 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine<br> + increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and<br> + hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless,<br> + and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be<br> + filled;</p> + +<p>05:026:013 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought<br> + away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have<br> + given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the<br> + fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy<br> + commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not<br> + transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.</p> + +<p>05:026:014 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken<br> + away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought<br> + thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the<br> + LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast<br> + commanded me.</p> + +<p>05:026:015 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy<br> + people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou<br> + swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and<br> + honey.</p> + +<p>05:026:016 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these<br> + statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them<br> + with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.</p> + +<p>05:026:017 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to<br> + walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his<br> + commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his<br> + voice:</p> + +<p>05:026:018 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar<br> + people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep<br> + all his commandments;</p> + +<p>05:026:019 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in<br> + praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an<br> + holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.</p> + +<p>05:027:001 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people,<br> + saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this<br> + day.</p> + +<p>05:027:002 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto<br> + the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt<br> + set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:</p> + +<p>05:027:003 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when<br> + thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land<br> + which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with<br> + milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised<br> + thee.</p> + +<p>05:027:004 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye<br> + shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in<br> + mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.</p> + +<p>05:027:005 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an<br> + altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon<br> + them.</p> + +<p>05:027:006 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole<br> + stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the<br> + LORD thy God:</p> + +<p>05:027:007 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and<br> + rejoice before the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:027:008 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law<br> + very plainly.</p> + +<p>05:027:009 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,<br> + saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art<br> + become the people of the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:027:010 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and<br> + do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee<br> + this day.</p> + +<p>05:027:011 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,</p> + +<p>05:027:012 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when<br> + ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and<br> + Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:</p> + +<p>05:027:013 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad,<br> + and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.</p> + +<p>05:027:014 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of<br> + Israel with a loud voice,</p> + +<p>05:027:015 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an<br> + abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the<br> + craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the<br> + people shall answer and say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:016 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother.<br> + And all the people shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:017 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all<br> + the people shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:018 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way.<br> + And all the people shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:019 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,<br> + fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:020 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he<br> + uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say,<br> + Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:021 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the<br> + people shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:022 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his<br> + father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people<br> + shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:023 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the<br> + people shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:024 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the<br> + people shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:025 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person.<br> + And all the people shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:027:026 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to<br> + do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.</p> + +<p>05:028:001 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently<br> + unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all<br> + his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD<br> + thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:</p> + +<p>05:028:002 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee,<br> + if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:028:003 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be<br> + in the field.</p> + +<p>05:028:004 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy<br> + ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine,<br> + and the flocks of thy sheep.</p> + +<p>05:028:005 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.</p> + +<p>05:028:006 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt<br> + thou be when thou goest out.</p> + +<p>05:028:007 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee<br> + to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against<br> + thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.</p> + +<p>05:028:008 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy<br> + storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and<br> + he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth<br> + thee.</p> + +<p>05:028:009 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as<br> + he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments<br> + of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.</p> + +<p>05:028:010 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by<br> + the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.</p> + +<p>05:028:011 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit<br> + of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit<br> + of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy<br> + fathers to give thee.</p> + +<p>05:028:012 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to<br> + give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all<br> + the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations,<br> + and thou shalt not borrow.</p> + +<p>05:028:013 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and<br> + thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if<br> + that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God,<br> + which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:</p> + +<p>05:028:014 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I<br> + command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to<br> + go after other gods to serve them.</p> + +<p>05:028:015 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the<br> + voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his<br> + commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day;<br> + that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:</p> + +<p>05:028:016 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in<br> + the field.</p> + +<p>05:028:017 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.</p> + +<p>05:028:018 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy<br> + land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.</p> + +<p>05:028:019 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt<br> + thou be when thou goest out.</p> + +<p>05:028:020 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke,<br> + in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou<br> + be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the<br> + wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.</p> + +<p>05:028:021 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he<br> + have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to<br> + possess it.</p> + +<p>05:028:022 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a<br> + fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning,<br> + and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and<br> + they shall pursue thee until thou perish.</p> + +<p>05:028:023 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the<br> + earth that is under thee shall be iron.</p> + +<p>05:028:024 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from<br> + heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.</p> + +<p>05:028:025 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies:<br> + thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways<br> + before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the<br> + earth.</p> + +<p>05:028:026 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and<br> + unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.</p> + +<p>05:028:027 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the<br> + emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou<br> + canst not be healed.</p> + +<p>05:028:028 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and<br> + astonishment of heart:</p> + +<p>05:028:029 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in<br> + darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou<br> + shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall<br> + save thee.</p> + +<p>05:028:030 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:<br> + thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein:<br> + thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes<br> + thereof.</p> + +<p>05:028:031 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not<br> + eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from<br> + before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep<br> + shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to<br> + rescue them.</p> + +<p>05:028:032 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people,<br> + and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all<br> + the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.</p> + +<p>05:028:033 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation<br> + which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only<br> + oppressed and crushed alway:</p> + +<p>05:028:034 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which<br> + thou shalt see.</p> + +<p>05:028:035 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with<br> + a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot<br> + unto the top of thy head.</p> + +<p>05:028:036 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set<br> + over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers<br> + have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and<br> + stone.</p> + +<p>05:028:037 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a<br> + byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.</p> + +<p>05:028:038 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt<br> + gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.</p> + +<p>05:028:039 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither<br> + drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall<br> + eat them.</p> + +<p>05:028:040 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but<br> + thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive<br> + shall cast his fruit.</p> + +<p>05:028:041 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy<br> + them; for they shall go into captivity.</p> + +<p>05:028:042 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.</p> + +<p>05:028:043 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very<br> + high; and thou shalt come down very low.</p> + +<p>05:028:044 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he<br> + shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.</p> + +<p>05:028:045 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall<br> + pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed;<br> + because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy<br> + God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he<br> + commanded thee:</p> + +<p>05:028:046 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and<br> + upon thy seed for ever.</p> + +<p>05:028:047 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness,<br> + and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;</p> + +<p>05:028:048 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall<br> + send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness,<br> + and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron<br> + upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.</p> + +<p>05:028:049 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the<br> + end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose<br> + tongue thou shalt not understand;</p> + +<p>05:028:050 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the<br> + person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:</p> + +<p>05:028:051 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy<br> + land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee<br> + either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or<br> + flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.</p> + +<p>05:028:052 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and<br> + fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all<br> + thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates<br> + throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given<br> + thee.</p> + +<p>05:028:053 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of<br> + thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath<br> + given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith<br> + thine enemies shall distress thee:</p> + +<p>05:028:054 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate,<br> + his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife<br> + of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he<br> + shall leave:</p> + +<p>05:028:055 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his<br> + children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him<br> + in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies<br> + shall distress thee in all thy gates.</p> + +<p>05:028:056 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not<br> + adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for<br> + delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the<br> + husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her<br> + daughter,</p> + +<p>05:028:057 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her<br> + feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she<br> + shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege<br> + and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in<br> + thy gates.</p> + +<p>05:028:058 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that<br> + are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious<br> + and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;</p> + +<p>05:028:059 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues<br> + of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and<br> + sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.</p> + +<p>05:028:060 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt,<br> + which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.</p> + +<p>05:028:061 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in<br> + the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee,<br> + until thou be destroyed.</p> + +<p>05:028:062 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the<br> + stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey<br> + the voice of the LORD thy God.</p> + +<p>05:028:063 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you<br> + to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice<br> + over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye<br> + shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to<br> + possess it.</p> + +<p>05:028:064 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one<br> + end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt<br> + serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have<br> + known, even wood and stone.</p> + +<p>05:028:065 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall<br> + the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee<br> + there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of<br> + mind:</p> + +<p>05:028:066 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt<br> + fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:</p> + +<p>05:028:067 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at<br> + even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear<br> + of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of<br> + thine eyes which thou shalt see.</p> + +<p>05:028:068 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by<br> + the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more<br> + again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for<br> + bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.</p> + +<p>05:029:001 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded<br> + Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab,<br> + beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.</p> + +<p>05:029:002 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have<br> + seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of<br> + Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all<br> + his land;</p> + +<p>05:029:003 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs,<br> + and those great miracles:</p> + +<p>05:029:004 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes<br> + to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.</p> + +<p>05:029:005 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes<br> + are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon<br> + thy foot.</p> + +<p>05:029:006 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong<br> + drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.</p> + +<p>05:029:007 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon,<br> + and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle,<br> + and we smote them:</p> + +<p>05:029:008 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto<br> + the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of<br> + Manasseh.</p> + +<p>05:029:009 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that<br> + ye may prosper in all that ye do.</p> + +<p>05:029:010 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your<br> + captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with<br> + all the men of Israel,</p> + +<p>05:029:011 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy<br> + camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:</p> + +<p>05:029:012 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God,<br> + and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee<br> + this day:</p> + +<p>05:029:013 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself,<br> + and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee,<br> + and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,<br> + and to Jacob.</p> + +<p>05:029:014 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;</p> + +<p>05:029:015 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the<br> + LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this<br> + day:</p> + +<p>05:029:016 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how<br> + we came through the nations which ye passed by;</p> + +<p>05:029:017 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and<br> + stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)</p> + +<p>05:029:018 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or<br> + tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our<br> + God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there<br> + should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;</p> + +<p>05:029:019 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,<br> + that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have<br> + peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add<br> + drunkenness to thirst:</p> + +<p>05:029:020 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD<br> + and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the<br> + curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and<br> + the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.</p> + +<p>05:029:021 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the<br> + tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant<br> + that are written in this book of the law:</p> + +<p>05:029:022 So that the generation to come of your children that shall<br> + rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far<br> + land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and<br> + the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;</p> + +<p>05:029:023 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and<br> + burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass<br> + groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah,<br> + Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and<br> + in his wrath:</p> + +<p>05:029:024 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus<br> + unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?</p> + +<p>05:029:025 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of<br> + the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he<br> + brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:</p> + +<p>05:029:026 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods<br> + whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:</p> + +<p>05:029:027 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to<br> + bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:</p> + +<p>05:029:028 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in<br> + wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another<br> + land, as it is this day.</p> + +<p>05:029:029 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those<br> + things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children<br> + for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.</p> + +<p>05:030:001 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon<br> + thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before<br> + thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,<br> + whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,</p> + +<p>05:030:002 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his<br> + voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and<br> + thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;</p> + +<p>05:030:003 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have<br> + compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all<br> + the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.</p> + +<p>05:030:004 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of<br> + heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and<br> + from thence will he fetch thee:</p> + +<p>05:030:005 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy<br> + fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do<br> + thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.</p> + +<p>05:030:006 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the<br> + heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine<br> + heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.</p> + +<p>05:030:007 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine<br> + enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.</p> + +<p>05:030:008 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do<br> + all his commandments which I command thee this day.</p> + +<p>05:030:009 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of<br> + thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy<br> + cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD<br> + will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy<br> + fathers:</p> + +<p>05:030:010 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to<br> + keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in<br> + this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God<br> + with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.</p> + +<p>05:030:011 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not<br> + hidden from thee, neither is it far off.</p> + +<p>05:030:012 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up<br> + for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it,<br> + and do it?</p> + +<p>05:030:013 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who<br> + shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we<br> + may hear it, and do it?</p> + +<p>05:030:014 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy<br> + heart, that thou mayest do it.</p> + +<p>05:030:015 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death<br> + and evil;</p> + +<p>05:030:016 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to<br> + walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his<br> + statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and<br> + multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land<br> + whither thou goest to possess it.</p> + +<p>05:030:017 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but<br> + shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;</p> + +<p>05:030:018 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and<br> + that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither<br> + thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.</p> + +<p>05:030:019 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I<br> + have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:<br> + therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:</p> + +<p>05:030:020 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest<br> + obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he<br> + is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest<br> + dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to<br> + Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.</p> + +<p>05:031:001 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.</p> + +<p>05:031:002 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old<br> + this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath<br> + said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.</p> + +<p>05:031:003 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will<br> + destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess<br> + them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD<br> + hath said.</p> + +<p>05:031:004 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og,<br> + kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he<br> + destroyed.</p> + +<p>05:031:005 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may<br> + do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have<br> + commanded you.</p> + +<p>05:031:006 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of<br> + them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee;<br> + he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.</p> + +<p>05:031:007 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight<br> + of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must<br> + go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn<br> + unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to<br> + inherit it.</p> + +<p>05:031:008 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be<br> + with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear<br> + not, neither be dismayed.</p> + +<p>05:031:009 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests<br> + the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the<br> + LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.</p> + +<p>05:031:010 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven<br> + years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast<br> + of tabernacles,</p> + +<p>05:031:011 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in<br> + the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law<br> + before all Israel in their hearing.</p> + +<p>05:031:012 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and<br> + thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and<br> + that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe<br> + to do all the words of this law:</p> + +<p>05:031:013 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may<br> + hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live<br> + in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.</p> + +<p>05:031:014 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that<br> + thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the<br> + tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge.<br> + And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the<br> + tabernacle of the congregation.</p> + +<p>05:031:015 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a<br> + cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the<br> + tabernacle.</p> + +<p>05:031:016 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with<br> + thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring<br> + after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go<br> + to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant<br> + which I have made with them.</p> + +<p>05:031:017 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I<br> + will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they<br> + shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall<br> + them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils<br> + come upon us, because our God is not among us?</p> + +<p>05:031:018 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils<br> + which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto<br> + other gods.</p> + +<p>05:031:019 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the<br> + children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may<br> + be a witness for me against the children of Israel.</p> + +<p>05:031:020 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware<br> + unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they<br> + shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then<br> + will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke<br> + me, and break my covenant.</p> + +<p>05:031:021 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are<br> + befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a<br> + witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of<br> + their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about,<br> + even now, before I have brought them into the land which I<br> + sware.</p> + +<p>05:031:022 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it<br> + the children of Israel.</p> + +<p>05:031:023 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be<br> + strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the<br> + children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and<br> + I will be with thee.</p> + +<p>05:031:024 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the<br> + words of this law in a book, until they were finished,</p> + +<p>05:031:025 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the<br> + covenant of the LORD, saying,</p> + +<p>05:031:026 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark<br> + of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for<br> + a witness against thee.</p> + +<p>05:031:027 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I<br> + am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious<br> + against the LORD; and how much more after my death?</p> + +<p>05:031:028 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your<br> + officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call<br> + heaven and earth to record against them.</p> + +<p>05:031:029 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt<br> + yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded<br> + you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye<br> + will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger<br> + through the work of your hands.</p> + +<p>05:031:030 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel<br> + the words of this song, until they were ended.</p> + +<p>05:032:001 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth,<br> + the words of my mouth.</p> + +<p>05:032:002 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as<br> + the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the<br> + showers upon the grass:</p> + +<p>05:032:003 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye<br> + greatness unto our God.</p> + +<p>05:032:004 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are<br> + judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right<br> + is he.</p> + +<p>05:032:005 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of<br> + his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.</p> + +<p>05:032:006 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is<br> + not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made<br> + thee, and established thee?</p> + +<p>05:032:007 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many<br> + generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy<br> + elders, and they will tell thee.</p> + +<p>05:032:008 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,<br> + when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the<br> + people according to the number of the children of Israel.</p> + +<p>05:032:009 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his<br> + inheritance.</p> + +<p>05:032:010 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling<br> + wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him<br> + as the apple of his eye.</p> + +<p>05:032:011 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,<br> + spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her<br> + wings:</p> + +<p>05:032:012 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god<br> + with him.</p> + +<p>05:032:013 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he<br> + might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck<br> + honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;</p> + +<p>05:032:014 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams<br> + of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of<br> + wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.</p> + +<p>05:032:015 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou<br> + art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he<br> + forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of<br> + his salvation.</p> + +<p>05:032:016 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with<br> + abominations provoked they him to anger.</p> + +<p>05:032:017 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they<br> + knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers<br> + feared not.</p> + +<p>05:032:018 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast<br> + forgotten God that formed thee.</p> + +<p>05:032:019 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the<br> + provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.</p> + +<p>05:032:020 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what<br> + their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation,<br> + children in whom is no faith.</p> + +<p>05:032:021 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;<br> + they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will<br> + move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I<br> + will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.</p> + +<p>05:032:022 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the<br> + lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase,<br> + and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.</p> + +<p>05:032:023 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon<br> + them.</p> + +<p>05:032:024 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning<br> + heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth<br> + of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.</p> + +<p>05:032:025 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the<br> + young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of<br> + gray hairs.</p> + +<p>05:032:026 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the<br> + remembrance of them to cease from among men:</p> + +<p>05:032:027 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their<br> + adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they<br> + should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all<br> + this.</p> + +<p>05:032:028 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any<br> + understanding in them.</p> + +<p>05:032:029 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they<br> + would consider their latter end!</p> + +<p>05:032:030 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to<br> + flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut<br> + them up?</p> + +<p>05:032:031 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves<br> + being judges.</p> + +<p>05:032:032 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of<br> + Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are<br> + bitter:</p> + +<p>05:032:033 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of<br> + asps.</p> + +<p>05:032:034 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my<br> + treasures?</p> + +<p>05:032:035 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall<br> + slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand,<br> + and the things that shall come upon them make haste.</p> + +<p>05:032:036 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for<br> + his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and<br> + there is none shut up, or left.</p> + +<p>05:032:037 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom<br> + they trusted,</p> + +<p>05:032:038 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine<br> + of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and<br> + be your protection.</p> + +<p>05:032:039 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I<br> + kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there<br> + any that can deliver out of my hand.</p> + +<p>05:032:040 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.</p> + +<p>05:032:041 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on<br> + judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will<br> + reward them that hate me.</p> + +<p>05:032:042 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall<br> + devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the<br> + captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.</p> + +<p>05:032:043 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the<br> + blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his<br> + adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his<br> + people.</p> + +<p>05:032:044 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the<br> + ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.</p> + +<p>05:032:045 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all<br> + Israel:</p> + +<p>05:032:046 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words<br> + which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command<br> + your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.</p> + +<p>05:032:047 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life:<br> + and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land,<br> + whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.</p> + +<p>05:032:048 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,</p> + +<p>05:032:049 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which<br> + is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and<br> + behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of<br> + Israel for a possession:</p> + +<p>05:032:050 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered<br> + unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and<br> + was gathered unto his people:</p> + +<p>05:032:051 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel<br> + at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin;<br> + because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of<br> + Israel.</p> + +<p>05:032:052 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go<br> + thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.</p> + +<p>05:033:001 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God<br> + blessed the children of Israel before his death.</p> + +<p>05:033:002 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir<br> + unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with<br> + ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law<br> + for them.</p> + +<p>05:033:003 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and<br> + they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy<br> + words.</p> + +<p>05:033:004 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the<br> + congregation of Jacob.</p> + +<p>05:033:005 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and<br> + the tribes of Israel were gathered together.</p> + +<p>05:033:006 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.</p> + +<p>05:033:007 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD,<br> + the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his<br> + hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from<br> + his enemies.</p> + +<p>05:033:008 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy<br> + holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou<br> + didst strive at the waters of Meribah;</p> + +<p>05:033:009 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen<br> + him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own<br> + children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy<br> + covenant.</p> + +<p>05:033:010 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they<br> + shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon<br> + thine altar.</p> + +<p>05:033:011 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands;<br> + smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of<br> + them that hate him, that they rise not again.</p> + +<p>05:033:012 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell<br> + in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day<br> + long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.</p> + +<p>05:033:013 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for<br> + the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep<br> + that coucheth beneath,</p> + +<p>05:033:014 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for<br> + the precious things put forth by the moon,</p> + +<p>05:033:015 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the<br> + precious things of the lasting hills,</p> + +<p>05:033:016 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof,<br> + and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the<br> + blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the<br> + head of him that was separated from his brethren.</p> + +<p>05:033:017 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns<br> + are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the<br> + people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten<br> + thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.</p> + +<p>05:033:018 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out;<br> + and, Issachar, in thy tents.</p> + +<p>05:033:019 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall<br> + offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the<br> + abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.</p> + +<p>05:033:020 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he<br> + dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the<br> + head.</p> + +<p>05:033:021 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in<br> + a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the<br> + heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and<br> + his judgments with Israel.</p> + +<p>05:033:022 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from<br> + Bashan.</p> + +<p>05:033:023 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour,<br> + and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west<br> + and the south.</p> + +<p>05:033:024 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let<br> + him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in<br> + oil.</p> + +<p>05:033:025 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall<br> + thy strength be.</p> + +<p>05:033:026 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon<br> + the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.</p> + +<p>05:033:027 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the<br> + everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from<br> + before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.</p> + +<p>05:033:028 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob<br> + shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall<br> + drop down dew.</p> + +<p>05:033:029 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people<br> + saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the<br> + sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found<br> + liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.</p> + +<p>05:034:001 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of<br> + Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And<br> + the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,</p> + +<p>05:034:002 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and<br> + all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,</p> + +<p>05:034:003 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the<br> + city of palm trees, unto Zoar.</p> + +<p>05:034:004 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware<br> + unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give<br> + it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine<br> + eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.</p> + +<p>05:034:005 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of<br> + Moab, according to the word of the LORD.</p> + +<p>05:034:006 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over<br> + against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto<br> + this day.</p> + +<p>05:034:007 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died:<br> + his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.</p> + +<p>05:034:008 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of<br> + Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for<br> + Moses were ended.</p> + +<p>05:034:009 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom;<br> + for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of<br> + Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded<br> + Moses.</p> + +<p>05:034:010 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,<br> + whom the LORD knew face to face,</p> + +<p>05:034:011 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to<br> + do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants,<br> + and to all his land,</p> + +<p>05:034:012 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which<br> + Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.</p> + +<a href="book04.htm">Previous</a> <a href="contents.htm">Home</a> <a href="book06.htm">Next</a> + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + +</body> +</html> |