DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 1
Deuteronomy 1:1 These [are] the words which Moses hath spoken unto all Israel, beyond the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain over-against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-Zahab;
1:2 eleven days' from Horeb, the way of mount Seir, unto Kadesh-Barnea.
1:3 And it cometh to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month hath Moses spoken unto the sons of Israel according to all that YHWH hath commanded him concerning them;
1:4 after his smiting Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan who is dwelling in Ashtaroth in Edrei,
1:5 beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, hath Moses begun to explain this law, saying:
1:6 `YHWH our God hath spoken unto us in Horeb, saying, Enough to you -- of dwelling in this mount;
1:7 turn ye and journey for you, and enter the mount of the Amorite, and unto all its neighbouring places, in the plain, in the hill-country, and in the low country, and in the south, and in the haven of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and of Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Phrat;
1:8 see, I have set before you the land; go in and possess the land which YHWH hath sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them, and to their seed after them.
1:9 `And I speak unto you at that time, saying, I am not able by myself to bear you;
Deuteronomy 1:10 YHWH your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye [are] to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;
1:11 YHWH, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye [are], a thousand times, and doth bless you as He hath spoken to you.
1:12 `How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?
1:13 Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;
1:14 and ye answer me and say, Good [is] the thing which thou hast spoken -- to do.
1:15 `And I take the heads of your tribes, men, wise and known, and I appoint them heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities, for your tribes.
1:16 And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren -- then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;
1:17 ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;
1:18 and I command you, at that time, all the things which ye do.
1:19 `And we journey from Horeb, and go [through] all that great and fearful wilderness which ye have seen -- the way of the hill-country of the Amorite, as YHWH our God hath commanded us, and we come in unto Kadesh-Barnea.
Deuteronomy 1:20 `And I say unto you, Ye have come in unto the hill-country of the Amorite, which YHWH our God is giving to us;
1:21 see, YHWH thy God hath set before thee the land; go up, possess, as YHWH, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee; fear not, nor be affrighted.
1:22 `And ye come near unto me, all of you, and say, Let us send men before us, and they search for us the land, and they bring us back word [concerning] the way in which we go up into it, and the cities unto which we come in;
1:23 and the thing is good in mine eyes, and I take of you twelve men, one man for a tribe.
1:24 `And they turn and go up to the hill-country, and come in unto the valley of Eshcol, and spy it,
1:25 and they take with their hand of the fruit of the land, and bring down unto us, and bring us back word, and say, Good is the land which YHWH our God is giving to us.
1:26 `And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of YHWH your God,
1:27 and murmur in your tents, and say, In YHWH's hating us He hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite -- to destroy us;
1:28 whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim -- we have seen there.
1:29 `And I say unto you, Be not terrified, nor be afraid of them;
Deuteronomy 1:30 YHWH your God, who is going before you -- He doth fight for you, according to all that He hath done with you in Egypt before your eyes,
1:31 and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen that YHWH thy God hath borne thee as a man beareth his son, in all the way which ye have gone, till your coming in unto this place.
1:32 `And in this thing ye are not stedfast in YHWH your God,
1:33 who is going before you in the way to search out to you a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shew you in the way in which ye go, and in a cloud by day.
1:34 `And YHWH heareth the voice of your words, and is wroth, and sweareth, saying,
1:35 Not one of these men of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,
1:36 save Caleb son of Jephunneh -- he doth see it, and to him I give the land on which he hath trodden, and to his sons, because that he hath been fully after YHWH.
1:37 `Also with me hath YHWH been angry for your sake, saying, Also, thou dost not go in thither;
1:38 Joshua son of Nun, who is standing before thee, he goeth in thither; him strengthen thou; for he doth cause Israel to inherit.
1:39 `And your infants, of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known to-day good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it;
Deuteronomy 1:40 and ye, turn for yourselves, and journey toward the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea.
1:41 `And ye answer and say unto me, We have sinned against YHWH; we -- we go up, and we have fought, according to all that which YHWH our God hath commanded us; and ye gird on each his weapons of war, and ye are ready to go up into the hill-country;
1:42 and YHWH saith unto me, Say to them, Ye do not go up, nor fight, for I am not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies.
1:43 `And I speak unto you, and ye have not hearkened, and provoke the mouth of YHWH, and act proudly, and go up into the hill-country;
1:44 and the Amorite who is dwelling in that hill-country cometh out to meet you, and they pursue you as the bees do, and smite you in Seir -- unto Hormah.
1:45 `And ye turn back and weep before YHWH, and YHWH hath not hearkened to your voice, nor hath he given ear unto you;
1:46 and ye dwell in Kadesh many days, according to the days which ye had dwelt.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 2
Deuteronomy 2:1 `And we turn, and journey into the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea, as YHWH hath spoken unto me, and we go round the mount of Seir many days.
2:2 `And YHWH speaketh unto me, saying,
2:3 Enough to you -- is the going round of this mount; turn for yourselves northward.
2:4 `And the people command thou, saying, Ye are passing over into the border of your brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, and they are afraid of you; and ye have been very watchful,
2:5 ye do not strive with them, for I do not give to you of their land even the treading of the sole of a foot; for a possession to Esau I have given mount Seir.
2:6 `Food ye buy from them with money, and have eaten; and also water ye buy from them with money, and have drunk,
2:7 for YHWH thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hands; He hath known thy walking in this great wilderness these forty years; YHWH thy God [is] with thee; thou hast not lacked anything.
2:8 `And we pass by from our brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, by the way of the plain, by Elath, and by Ezion-Gaber; and we turn, and pass over the way of the wilderness of Moab;
2:9 and YHWH saith unto me, Do not distress Moab, nor stir thyself up against them [in] battle, for I do not give to thee of their land [for] a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given Ar [for] a possession.'
Deuteronomy 2:10 `The Emim formerly have dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim;
2:11 Rephaim they are reckoned, they also, as the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.
2:12 And in Seir have the Horim dwelt formerly; and the sons of Esau dispossess them, and destroy them from before them, and dwell in their stead, as Israel hath done to the land of his possession, which YHWH hath given to them;
2:13 now, rise ye, and pass over for yourselves the brook Zered; and we pass over the brook Zered.
2:14 `And the days which we have walked from Kadesh-Barnea until that we have passed over the brook Zered, [are] thirty and eight years, till the consumption of all the generation of the men of battle from the midst of the camp, as YHWH hath sworn to them;
2:15 and also the hand of YHWH hath been against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, till they are consumed.
2:16 `And it cometh to pass, when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people,
2:17 that YHWH speaketh unto me, saying,
2:18 Thou art passing over to-day the border of Moab, even Ar,
2:19 and thou hast come near over-against the sons of Ammon, thou dost not distress them, nor stir up thyself against them, for I do not give [any] of the land of the sons of Ammon to thee [for] a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given it [for] a possession.
Deuteronomy 2:20 `A land of Rephaim it is reckoned, even it; Rephaim dwelt in it formerly, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;
2:21 a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim, and YHWH destroyeth them before them, and they dispossess them, and dwell in their stead,
2:22 as He hath done for the sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, when He destroyed the Horim from before them, and they dispossess them, and dwell in their stead, unto this day.
2:23 `As to the Avim who are dwelling in Hazerim unto Azzah, the Caphtorim -- who are coming out from Caphtor -- have destroyed them, and dwell in their stead.
2:24 `Rise ye, journey and pass over the brook Arnon; see, I have given into thy hand Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land; begin to possess, and stir up thyself against him [in] battle.
2:25 This day I begin to put thy dread and thy fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear thy fame, and have trembled and been pained because of thee.
2:26 `And I send messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth, unto Sihon king of Heshbon, -- words of peace -- saying,
2:27 Let me pass over through thy land; in the several ways I go; I turn not aside -- right or left --
2:28 food for money thou dost sell me, and I have eaten; and water for money thou dost give to me, and I have drunk; only, let me pass over on my feet, --
2:29 as the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seir, and the Moabites who are dwelling in Ar, have done to me -- till that I pass over the Jordan, unto the land which YHWH our God is giving to us.
Deuteronomy 2:30 `And Sihon king of Heshbon hath not been willing to let us pass over by him, for YHWH thy God hath hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, so as to give him into thy hand as at this day.
2:31 `And YHWH saith unto me, See, I have begun to give before thee Sihon and his land; begin to possess -- to possess his land.
2:32 `And Sihon cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle to Jahaz;
2:33 and YHWH our God giveth him before us, and we smite him, and his sons, and all his people;
2:34 and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants -- we have not left a remnant;
2:35 only, the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured.
2:36 `From Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which [is] by the brook, even unto Gilead there hath not been a city which [is] too high for us; the whole hath YHWH our God given before us.
2:37 `Only, unto the land of the sons of Ammon thou hast not drawn near, any part of the brook Jabbok, and cities of the hill-country, and anything which YHWH our God hath [not] commanded.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 3
Deuteronomy 3:1 `And we turn, and go up the way to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle, [to] Edrei.
3:2 `And YHWH saith unto me, Fear him not, for into thy hand I have given him, and all his people, and his land, and thou hast done to him as thou hast done to Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon.
3:3 `And YHWH our God giveth into our hands also Og king of Bashan, and all his people, and we smite him till there hath not been left to him a remnant;
3:4 and we capture all his cities at that time, there hath not been a city which we have not taken from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
3:5 All these [are] cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many;
3:6 and we devote them, as we have done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting every city, men, the women, and the infants;
3:7 and all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we have spoiled for ourselves.
3:8 `And we take, at that time, the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorite, which is beyond the Jordan, from the brook Arnon unto mount Hermon;
3:9 (Sidonians call Hermon, Sirion; and the Amorites call it Senir,)
Deuteronomy 3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan,
3:11 for only Og king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; lo, his bedstead [is] a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, by the cubit of a man.
3:12 `And this land we have possessed, at that time; from Aroer, which [is] by the brook Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I have given to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite;
3:13 and the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I have given to the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, to all that Bashan, called the land of Rephaim.
3:14 `Jair son of Manasseh hath taken all the region of Argob, unto the border of Geshuri, and Maachathi, and calleth them by his own name, Bashan-Havoth-Jair, unto this day.
3:15 And to Machir I have given Gilead.
3:16 `And to the Reubenite and to the Gadite I have given from Gilead even unto the brook Arnon, the middle of the valley and the border, even unto Jabbok the brook, the border of the sons of Ammon,
3:17 and the plain, and the Jordan, and the border, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, the salt sea, under the springs of Pisgah, at the [sun]-rising.
3:18 `And I command you, at that time, saying, YHWH your God hath given to you this land to possess it; armed ye pass over before your brethren the sons of Israel, all the sons of might.
3:19 Only, your wives, and your infants, and your cattle -- I have known that ye have much cattle -- do dwell in your cities which I have given to you,
Deuteronomy 3:20 till that YHWH give rest to your brethren like yourselves, and they also have possessed the land which YHWH your God is giving to them beyond the Jordan, then ye have turned back each to his possession, which I have given to you.
3:21 `And Jehoshua I have commanded at that time, saying, Thine eyes are seeing all that which YHWH your God hath done to these two kings -- so doth YHWH to all the kingdoms whither thou are passing over;
3:22 fear them not, for YHWH your God, He is fighting for you.
3:23 `And I entreat for grace unto YHWH, at that time, saying,
3:24 Lord YHWH, Thou -- Thou hast begun to shew Thy servant Thy greatness, and Thy strong hand; for who [is] a God in the heavens or in earth who doth according to Thy works, and according to Thy might?
3:25 Let me pass over, I pray Thee, and see the good land which [is] beyond the Jordan, this good hill-country, and Lebanon.
3:26 `And YHWH sheweth himself wroth with me, for your sake, and hath not hearkened unto me, and YHWH saith unto me, Enough for thee; add not to speak unto Me any more about this thing:
3:27 go up [to] the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with thine eyes -- for thou dost not pass over this Jordan;
3:28 and charge Jehoshua, and strengthen him, and harden him, for he doth pass over before this people, and he doth cause them to inherit the land which thou seest.
3:29 `And we dwell in a valley over-against Beth-Peor.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4
Deuteronomy 4:1 `And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which YHWH God of your fathers is giving to you.
4:2 Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of YHWH your God which I am commanding you.
4:3 `Your eyes are seeing that which YHWH hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, YHWH thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;
4:4 and ye who are cleaving to YHWH your God, [are] alive, all of you, to-day.
4:5 `See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as YHWH my God hath commanded me -- to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;
4:6 and ye have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation.
4:7 `For which [is] the great nation that hath God near unto it, as YHWH our God, in all we have called unto him?
4:8 and which [is] the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?
4:9 `Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.
Deuteronomy 4:10 `The day when thou hast stood before YHWH thy God in Horeb -- in YHWH's saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach; --
4:11 and ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens -- darkness, cloud, yea, thick darkness:
4:12 `And YHWH speaketh unto you out of the midst of the fire; a voice of words ye are hearing and a similitude ye are not seeing, only a voice;
4:13 and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.
4:14 `And me hath YHWH commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it;
4:15 and ye have been very watchful of your souls, for ye have not seen any similitude in the day of YHWH's speaking unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
4:16 lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female --
4:17 a form of any beast which [is] in the earth -- a form of any winged bird which flieth in the heavens --
4:18 a form of any creeping thing on the ground -- a form of any fish which [is] in the waters under the earth;
4:19 `And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which YHWH thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.
Deuteronomy 4:20 `And you hath YHWH taken, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people -- an inheritance, as [at] this day.
4:21 `And YHWH hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land which YHWH thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance;
4:22 for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, and ye are passing over, and have possessed this good land.
4:23 `Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of YHWH your God, which He hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image, a similitude of anything [concerning] which YHWH thy God hath charged thee:
4:24 for YHWH thy God is a fire consuming -- a zealous God.
4:25 `When thou begettest sons and sons' sons, and ye have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image, a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of YHWH, to provoke Him to anger: --
4:26 I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed;
4:27 and YHWH hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither YHWH leadeth you,
4:28 and ye have served there gods, work of man's hands, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
4:29 `And -- ye have sought from thence YHWH thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 4:30 in distress [being] to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto YHWH thy God, and hast hearkened to His voice;
4:31 for a merciful God [is] YHWH thy God; He doth not fail thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which He hath sworn to them.
4:32 `For, ask, I pray thee, at the former days which have been before thee, from the day that God prepared man on the earth, and from the [one] end of the heavens even unto the [other] end of the heavens, whether there hath been as this great thing -- or hath been heard like it?
4:33 Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou -- and doth live?
4:34 Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors -- according to all that YHWH your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?
4:35 Thou, thou hast been shewn [it], to know that YHWH He [is] God; there is none else besides Him.
4:36 `From the heavens He hath caused thee to hear His voice, to instruct thee, and on earth He hath shewed thee His great fire, and His words thou hast heard out of the midst of the fire.
4:37 `And because that He hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt:
4:38 to dispossess nations greater and stronger than thou, from thy presence, to bring thee in to give to thee their land -- an inheritance, as [at] this day.
4:39 `And thou hast known to-day, and hast turned [it] back unto thy heart, that YHWH He [is] God, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath -- there is none else;
Deuteronomy 4:40 and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which YHWH thy God is giving to thee -- all the days.'
4:41 Then Moses separateth three cities beyond the Jordan, towards the sun-rising,
4:42 for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath lived:
4:43 Bezer, in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, of the Reubenite; and Ramoth, in Gilead, of the Gadite; and Golan, in Bashan, of the Manassahite.
4:44 And this [is] the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel;
4:45 these [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses hath spoken unto the sons of Israel, in their coming out of Egypt,
4:46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley over-against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have smitten, in their coming out of Egypt,
4:47 and they possess his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan, [towards] the sun-rising;
4:48 from Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the brook Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon --
4:49 and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 5
Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them.
5:2 YHWH our God made with us a covenant in Horeb;
5:3 not with our fathers hath YHWH made this covenant, but with us; we -- these -- here to-day -- all of us alive.
5:4 Face to face hath YHWH spoken with you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;
5:5 I am standing between YHWH and you, at that time, to declare to you the word of YHWH, for ye have been afraid from the presence of the fire, and ye have not gone up into the mount; saying:
5:6 `I YHWH [am] thy God, who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants.
5:7 `Thou hast no other gods in My presence.
5:8 `Thou dost not make to thee a graven image, any similitude which [is] in the heavens above, and which [is] in the earth beneath, and which [is] in the waters under the earth;
5:9 thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I YHWH thy God [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third [generation], and on a fourth, to those hating Me;
Deuteronomy 5:10 and doing kindness to thousands, to those loving Me, and to those keeping My commands.
5:11 `Thou dost not take up the Name of YHWH thy God for a vain thing, for YHWH doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.
5:12 `Observe the day of the sabbath -- to sanctify it, as YHWH thy God hath commanded thee;
5:13 six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,
5:14 and the seventh day [is] a sabbath to YHWH thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who [is] within thy gates; so that thy man-servant, and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;
5:15 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and YHWH thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath YHWH thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.
5:16 `Honour thy father and thy mother, as YHWH thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which YHWH thy God is giving to thee.
5:17 `Thou dost not murder.
5:18 `Thou dost not commit adultery.
5:19 `Thou dost not steal.
Deuteronomy 5:20 `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour -- a false testimony.
5:21 `Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which [is] thy neighbour's.
5:22 `These words hath YHWH spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness -- a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.
5:23 `And it cometh to pass as ye hear the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and of the mountain burning with fire, that ye come near unto me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders,
5:24 and say, Lo, YHWH our God hath shewed us His honour, and His greatness; and His voice we have heard out of the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God doth speak with man -- and he hath lived.
5:25 `And, now, why do we die? for consume us doth this great fire -- if we add to hear the voice of YHWH our God any more -- then we have died.
5:26 For who of all flesh [is] he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us -- and doth live?
5:27 Draw near thou, and hear all that which YHWH our God saith, and thou, thou dost speak unto us all that which YHWH our God speaketh unto thee, and we have hearkened, and done it.
5:28 `And YHWH heareth the voice of your words, in your speaking unto me, and YHWH saith unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; they have done well [in] all that they have spoken.
5:29 O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons -- to the age!
Deuteronomy 5:30 `Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents;
5:31 and thou here stand thou with Me, and let Me speak unto thee all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou dost teach them, and they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it.
5:32 `And ye have observed to do as YHWH your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside -- right or left;
5:33 in all the way which YHWH your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and [it is] well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6
Deuteronomy 6:1 `And this [is] the command, the statutes and the judgments which YHWH your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it,
6:2 so that thou dost fear YHWH thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.
6:3 `And thou hast heard, O Israel, and observed to do, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest multiply exceedingly, as YHWH, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee, [in] the land flowing with milk and honey.
6:4 `Hear, O Israel, YHWH our God [is] one YHWH;
6:5 and thou hast loved YHWH thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,
6:6 and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,
6:7 and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
6:8 and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,
6:9 and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deuteronomy 6:10 `And it hath been, when YHWH thy God doth bring thee in unto the land which He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to thee -- cities great and good, which thou hast not built,
6:11 and houses full of all good things which thou hast not filled, and wells digged which thou hast not digged, vineyards and olive-yards which thou hast not planted, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied;
6:12 `Take heed to thyself lest thou forget YHWH who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;
6:13 YHWH thy God thou dost fear, and Him thou dost serve, and by His name thou dost swear;
6:14 ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about you;
6:15 for a zealous God [is] YHWH thy God in thy midst -- lest the anger of YHWH thy God burn against thee, and He hath destroyed thee from off the face of the ground.
6:16 `Ye do not try YHWH your God as ye tried in Massah;
6:17 ye do diligently keep the commands of YHWH your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,
6:18 and thou hast done that which is right and good in the eyes of YHWH, so that it is well with thee, and thou hast gone in and possessed the good land which YHWH hath sworn to thy fathers,
6:19 to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as YHWH hath spoken.
Deuteronomy 6:20 `When thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which YHWH our God hath commanded you?
6:21 then thou hast said to thy son, Servants we have been to Pharaoh in Egypt, and YHWH bringeth us out of Egypt by a high hand;
6:22 and YHWH giveth signs and wonders, great and sad, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
6:23 and us He hath brought out thence, in order to bring us in, to give to us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.
6:24 And YHWH commandeth us to do all these statutes, to fear YHWH our God, for good to ourselves all the days, to keep us alive, as [at] this day;
6:25 and righteousness it is for us, when we observe to do all this command before YHWH our God, as He hath commanded us.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 7
Deuteronomy 7:1 `When YHWH thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, and He hath cast out many nations from thy presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than thou,
7:2 and YHWH thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them -- thou dost utterly devote them -- thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.
7:3 `And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,
7:4 for he doth turn aside thy son from after Me, and they have served other gods, and the anger of YHWH hath burned against you, and hath destroyed thee hastily.
7:5 `But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire;
7:6 for a holy people [art] thou to YHWH thy God; on thee hath YHWH thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.
7:7 `Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath YHWH delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye [are] the least of all the peoples,
7:8 but because of YHWH's loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He hath sworn to your fathers, hath YHWH brought you out by a strong hand, and doth ransom you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
7:9 `And thou hast known that YHWH thy God He [is] God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands -- to a thousand generations,
Deuteronomy 7:10 and repaying to those hating Him, unto their face, to destroy them; He delayeth not to him who is hating Him -- unto his face, He repayeth to him --
7:11 and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.
7:12 `And it hath been, because ye hear these judgments, and have kept, and done them, that YHWH thy God hath kept to thee the covenant and the kindness which He hath sworn to thy fathers,
7:13 and hath loved thee, and blessed thee, and multiplied thee, and hath blessed the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil, the increase of thine oxen, and the wealth of thy flock, on the ground which He hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.
7:14 `Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman -- nor among your cattle;
7:15 and YHWH hath turned aside from thee every sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which thou hast known) doth He put on thee, and He hath put them on all hating thee.
7:16 `And thou hast consumed all the peoples whom YHWH thy God is giving to thee; thine eye hath no pity on them, and thou dost not serve their gods, for a snare it [is] to thee.
7:17 `When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --
7:18 thou art not afraid of them; thou dost surely remember that which YHWH thy God hath done to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt,
7:19 the great trials which thine eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched-out arm, with which YHWH thy God hath brought thee out; so doth YHWH thy God to all the peoples of whose presence thou art afraid.
Deuteronomy 7:20 `And also the locust doth YHWH thy God send among them, till the destruction of those who are left, and of those who are hidden from thy presence;
7:21 thou art not terrified by their presence, for YHWH thy God [is] in thy midst, a God great and fearful.
7:22 `And YHWH thy God hath cast out these nations from thy presence little [by] little, (thou art not able to consume them hastily, lest the beast of the field multiply against thee),
7:23 and YHWH thy God hath given them before thee, and destroyed them -- a great destruction -- till their destruction;
7:24 and He hath given their kings into thy hand, and thou hast destroyed their name from under the heavens; no man doth station himself in thy presence till thou hast destroyed them.
7:25 `The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken [it] to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of YHWH thy God it [is];
7:26 and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house -- or thou hast been devoted like it; -- thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it [is] devoted.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 8
Deuteronomy 8:1 `All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which YHWH hath sworn to your fathers;
8:2 and thou hast remembered all the way which YHWH thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which [is] in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.
8:3 `And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of YHWH man doth live.
8:4 `Thy raiment hath not worn out from off thee, and thy foot hath not swelled these forty years,
8:5 and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son YHWH thy God is chastising thee,
8:6 and thou hast kept the commands of YHWH thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.
8:7 `For YHWH thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain:
8:8 a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;
8:9 a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it; a land whose stones [are] iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass;
Deuteronomy 8:10 and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied, and hast blessed YHWH thy God, on the good land which he hath given to thee.
8:11 `Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget YHWH thy God so as not to keep His commands, and His judgments, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day;
8:12 lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;
8:13 and thy herd and thy flock be multiplied, and silver and gold be multiplied to thee; and all that is thine be multiplied:
8:14 `And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten YHWH thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;
8:15 who is causing thee to go in the great and the terrible wilderness -- burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst -- where there is no water; who is bringing out to thee waters from the flinty rock;
8:16 who is causing thee to eat manna in the wilderness, which thy fathers have not known, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee, to do thee good in thy latter end),
8:17 and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth:
8:18 `And thou hast remembered YHWH thy God, for He it [is] who is giving to thee power to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He hath sworn to thy fathers as [at] this day.
8:19 `And it hath been -- if thou really forget YHWH thy God, and hast gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed thyself to them, I have testified against you to-day that ye do utterly perish;
Deuteronomy 8:20 as the nations whom YHWH is destroying from your presence, so ye perish; because ye hearken not to the voice of YHWH your God.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 9
Deuteronomy 9:1 `Hear, Israel, thou art passing over to-day the Jordan, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself; cities great and fenced in the heavens;
9:2 a people great and tall, sons of Anakim, whom thou -- thou hast known, (and thou -- thou hast heard: Who doth station himself before sons of Anak?)
9:3 and thou hast known to-day, that YHWH thy God [is] He who is passing over before thee -- a fire consuming; He doth destroy them, and He doth humble them before thee, and thou hast dispossessed them, and destroyed them hastily, as YHWH hath spoken to thee.
9:4 `Thou dost not speak in thy heart (in YHWH thy God's driving them away from before thee), saying, For my righteousness hath YHWH brought me in to possess this land, seeing for the wickedness of these nations is YHWH dispossessing them from thy presence;
9:5 not for thy righteousness, and for the uprightness of thy heart, art thou going in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations is YHWH thy God dispossessing them from before thee; and in order to establish the word which YHWH hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob;
9:6 and thou hast known, that not for thy righteousness is YHWH thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck thou [art].
9:7 `Remember -- do not forget -- that [with] which thou hast made YHWH thy God wroth in the wilderness; even from the day that thou hast come out of the land of Egypt till your coming in unto this place rebels ye have been with YHWH;
9:8 even in Horeb ye have made YHWH wroth, and YHWH sheweth Himself angry against you -- to destroy you.
9:9 `In my going up into the mount to receive the tables of stone (tables of the covenant which YHWH hath made with you), and I abide in the mount forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk;
Deuteronomy 9:10 and YHWH giveth unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which YHWH hath spoken with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly.
9:11 `And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, YHWH hath given unto me the two tables of stone -- tables of the covenant,
9:12 and YHWH saith unto me, Rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt; they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them -- they have made to themselves a molten thing!
9:13 `And YHWH speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it [is];
9:14 desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it.
9:15 `And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands,
9:16 and I see, and lo, ye have sinned against YHWH your God; ye have made to yourselves a molten calf; ye have turned aside hastily out of the way which YHWH hath commanded you.
9:17 `And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes,
9:18 and I throw myself before YHWH, as at first, forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, because of all your sins which ye have sinned, by doing the evil thing in the eyes of YHWH, to make Him angry.
9:19 `For I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which YHWH hath been wroth against you, to destroy you; and YHWH doth hearken unto me also at this time.
Deuteronomy 9:20 `And with Aaron hath YHWH shewed himself very angry, to destroy him, and I pray also for Aaron at that time;
9:21 and your sin, which ye have made -- the calf -- I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it [is] small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount.
9:22 `And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making YHWH wroth:
9:23 and in YHWH's sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up, and possess the land which I have given to you, then ye provoke the mouth of YHWH your God, and have not given credence to Him, nor hearkened to His voice;
9:24 rebels ye have been with YHWH from the day of my knowing you.
9:25 `And I throw myself before YHWH, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for YHWH hath said -- to destroy you;
9:26 and I pray unto YHWH, and say, Lord YHWH, destroy not Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast ransomed in Thy greatness; whom Thou hast brought out of Egypt with a strong hand;
9:27 be mindful of Thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, turn not unto the stiffness of this people, and unto its wickedness, and unto its sin;
9:28 lest the land say from which Thou hast brought us out, Because of YHWH's want of ability to bring them in unto the land of which He hath spoken to them, and because of His hating them, He brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness;
9:29 and they [are] Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast brought out by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm!
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 10
Deuteronomy 10:1 `At that time hath YHWH said unto me, Grave for thee two tables of stone, like the first, and come up unto Me, into the mount, and thou hast made for thee an ark of wood,
10:2 and I write on the tables the words which were on the first tables, which thou hast broken, and thou hast placed them in the ark;
10:3 and I make an ark of shittim wood, and grave two tables of stone like the first, and go up to the mount, and the two tables in my hand.
10:4 `And He writeth on the tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Matters, which YHWH hath spoken unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, and YHWH giveth them unto me,
10:5 and I turn and come down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and they are there, as YHWH commanded me.
10:6 `And the sons of Israel have journeyed from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera, there Aaron died, and he is buried there, and Eleazar his son doth act as priest in his stead;
10:7 thence they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
10:8 `At that time hath YHWH separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of YHWH, to stand before YHWH, to serve Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day,
10:9 therefore there hath not been to Levi a portion and inheritance with his brethren; YHWH Himself [is] his inheritance, as YHWH thy God hath spoken to him.
Deuteronomy 10:10 `And I -- I have stood in the mount, as the former days, forty days and forty nights, and YHWH hearkeneth unto me also at that time; YHWH hath not willed to destroy thee.
10:11 `And YHWH saith unto me, Rise, go to journey before the people, and they go in and possess the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them.
10:12 `And now, Israel, what is YHWH thy God asking from thee, except to fear YHWH thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve YHWH thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
10:13 to keep the commands of YHWH, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee?
10:14 `Lo, to YHWH thy God [are] the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that [is] in it;
10:15 only in thy fathers hath YHWH delighted -- to love them, and He doth fix on their seed after them -- on you, out of all the peoples as [at] this day;
10:16 and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
10:17 for YHWH your God -- He [is] God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe;
10:18 He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.
10:19 `And ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:20 `YHWH thy God thou dost fear, Him thou dost serve, and to Him thou dost cleave, and by His name thou dost swear.
10:21 He [is] thy praise, and He [is] thy God, who hath done with thee these great and fearful [things] which thine eyes have seen:
10:22 with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath YHWH thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 11
Deuteronomy 11:1 `And thou hast loved YHWH thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;
11:2 and ye have known to-day -- for it is not your sons who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of YHWH your God, His greatness, His strong hand, and His stretched-out arm,
11:3 and His signs, and His doings, which He hath done in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;
11:4 and that which He hath done to the force of Egypt, to its horses, and to its chariot, when He hath caused the waters of the Red Sea to flow against their faces in their pursuing after them, and YHWH destroyeth them, unto this day;
11:5 and that which He hath done to you in the wilderness, till your coming in unto this place;
11:6 and that which He hath done to Dathan, and to Abiram, sons of Eliab, sons of Reuben, when the earth hath opened her mouth and swalloweth them, and their houses, and their tents, and all that liveth, which is at their feet, in the midst of all Israel:
11:7 `-- But [it is] your eyes which are seeing all the great work of YHWH, which He hath done;
11:8 and ye have kept all the command which I am commanding thee to-day, so that ye are strong, and have gone in, and possessed the land whither ye are passing over to possess it,
11:9 and so that ye prolong days on the ground which YHWH hath sworn to your fathers to give to them and to their seed -- a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:10 `For the land whither thou art going in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence ye have come out, where thou sowest thy seed, and hast watered with thy foot, as a garden of the green herb;
11:11 but the land whither ye are passing over to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys; of the rain of the heavens it drinketh water;
11:12 a land which YHWH thy God is searching; continually [are] the eyes of YHWH thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the latter end of the year.
11:13 `And it hath been -- if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love YHWH your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul --
11:14 that I have given the rain of your land in its season -- sprinkling and gathered -- and thou hast gathered thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil,
11:15 and I have given herbs in thy field for thy cattle, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied.
11:16 `Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and ye have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them,
11:17 and the anger of YHWH hath burned against you, and He hath restrained the heavens, and there is no rain, and the ground doth not give her increase, and ye have perished hastily from off the good land which YHWH is giving to you.
11:18 `And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes;
11:19 and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
Deuteronomy 11:20 and hast written them on the side-posts of thy house, and on thy gates,
11:21 so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which YHWH hath sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens on the earth.
11:22 `For, if ye diligently keep all this command which I am commanding you -- to do it, to love YHWH your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him,
11:23 then hath YHWH dispossessed all these nations from before you, and ye have possessed nations, greater and mightier than you;
11:24 every place on which the sole of your foot treadeth is yours; from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Phrat, even unto the farther sea is your border;
11:25 no man doth station himself in your presence; your dread and your fear doth YHWH your God put on the face of all the land on which ye tread, as He hath spoken to you.
11:26 `See, I am setting before you to-day a blessing and a reviling:
11:27 the blessing, when ye hearken unto the commands of YHWH your God, which I am commanding you to-day;
11:28 and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of YHWH your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.
11:29 `And it hath been, when YHWH thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, that thou hast given the blessing on mount Gerizim, and the reviling on mount Ebal;
Deuteronomy 11:30 are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going in of the sun, in the land of the Canaanite, who is dwelling in the plain over-against Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?
11:31 for ye are passing over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which YHWH your God is giving to you; and ye have possessed it, and dwelt in it,
11:32 and observed to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you to day.
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 12
Deuteronomy 12:1 `These [are] the statutes and the judgments which ye observe to do in the land which YHWH, God of thy fathers, hath given to thee to possess it, all the days that ye are living on the ground:
12:2 ye do utterly destroy all the places where the nations which ye are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the heights, and under every green tree;
12:3 and ye have broken down their altars, and shivered their standing pillars, and their shrines ye burn with fire, and graven images of their gods ye cut down, and have destroyed their name out of that place.
12:4 `Ye do not do so to YHWH your God;
12:5 but unto the place which YHWH your God doth choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, to His tabernacle ye seek, and thou hast entered thither,
12:6 and hast brought in thither your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock;
12:7 and ye have eaten there before YHWH your God, and have rejoiced in every putting forth of your hand, ye and your households, with which YHWH thy God hath blessed thee.
12:8 `Ye do not do according to all that we are doing here to-day, each anything that is right in his own eyes,
12:9 for ye have not come in hitherto unto the rest, and unto the inheritance, which YHWH thy God is giving to thee;
Deuteronomy 12:10 and ye have passed over the Jordan, and have dwelt in the land which YHWH your God is causing you to inherit, and He hath given rest to you from all your enemies round about, and ye have dwelt confidently:
12:11 `And it hath been, the place on which YHWH your God doth fix to cause His name to tabernacle there, thither ye bring in all that which I am commanding you, your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all the choice of your vows which ye vow to YHWH;
12:12 and ye have rejoiced before YHWH your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your handmaids, and the Levite who [is] within your gates, for he hath no part and inheritance with you.
12:13 `Take heed to thee, lest thou cause thy burnt-offerings to ascend in any place which thou seest,
12:14 except in the place which YHWH doth choose in one of thy tribes, there thou dost cause thy burnt-offerings to ascend, and there thou dost do all that which I am commanding thee.
12:15 `Only, with all the desire of thy soul thou dost sacrifice, and hast eaten flesh according to the blessing of YHWH thy God which He hath given to thee, in all thy gates; the unclean and the clean do eat it, as of the roe, and as of the hart.
12:16 `Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;
12:17 thou art not able to eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, and of thy new wine, and thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock, and any of thy vows which thou vowest, and thy free-will offerings, and heave-offering of thy hand;
12:18 but before YHWH thy God thou dost eat it, in the place which YHWH thy God doth fix on, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who [is] within thy gates, and thou hast rejoiced before YHWH thy God in every putting forth of thy hand;
12:19 take heed to thee lest thou forsake the Levite all thy days on thy ground.
Deuteronomy 12:20 `When YHWH thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath spoken to thee, and thou hast said, Let me eat flesh -- for thy soul desireth to eat flesh -- of all the desire of thy soul thou dost eat flesh.
12:21 `When the place is far from thee which YHWH thy God doth choose to put His name there, then thou hast sacrificed of thy herd and of thy flock which YHWH hath given to thee, as I have commanded thee, and hast eaten within thy gates, of all the desire of thy soul;
12:22 only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.
12:23 `Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood [is] the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;
12:24 thou dost not eat it, on the earth thou dost pour it as water;
12:25 thou dost not eat it, in order that it may be well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, when thou dost that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH.
12:26 `Only, thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou dost take up, and hast gone in unto the place which YHWH doth choose,
12:27 and thou hast made thy burnt-offerings -- the flesh and the blood -- on the altar of YHWH thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices is poured out by the altar of YHWH thy God, and the flesh thou dost eat.
12:28 Observe, and thou hast obeyed all these words which I am commanding thee, in order that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee -- to the age, when thou dost that which [is] good and right in the eyes of YHWH thy God.
12:29 `When YHWH thy God doth cut off the nations -- whither thou art going in to possess them -- from thy presence, and thou hast possessed them, and hast dwelt in their land --
Deuteronomy 12:30 take heed to thee, lest thou be snared after them, after their being destroyed out of thy presence, and lest thou enquire about their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, and I do so -- even I?
12:31 `Thou dost not do so to YHWH thy God; for every abomination of YHWH which He is hating they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire to their gods.
12:32 The whole thing which I am commanding you -- it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.
Numbers 25-36 - Deuteronomy 13-23