Category: Deuteronomy

Expiation of a Crime

1 “If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lordyour God gives you to possess,andit is not known who has struck him,

2 then your elders and your judges shall go out and measurethe distanceto the cities which are around the slain one.

3 It shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;

4 and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the Lordyour God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the Lord; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them.

6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

7 and they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes seeit.

8 Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O Lord, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.’ And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them.

9 So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Domestic Relations

10 “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lordyour God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive,

11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself,

12 then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.

13 She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

14 It shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money, you shall not mistreat her, because you have humbled her.

15 “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, andboththe loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

16 then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn.

17 But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn.

18 “If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,

19 then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

20 They shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hearof itand fear.

22 “If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

23 his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance.

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Sundry Laws

1 “You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman.

2 If your countryman is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall remain with you until your countryman looks for it; then you shall restore it to him.

3 Thus you shall do with his donkey, and you shall do the same with his garment, and you shall do likewise with anything lost by your countryman, which he has lost and you have found. You are not allowed to neglectthem.

4 You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly help him to raisethemup.

5 “A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lordyour God.

6 “If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

7 you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

8 “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

10 “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11 “You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together.

12 “You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

Laws on Morality

13 “If any man takes a wife and goes in to her andthenturns against her,

14 and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman,butwhen I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’

15 then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out theevidenceof the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

16 The girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he turned against her;

17 and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

18 So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,

19 and they shall fine him a hundredshekelsof silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.

20 “But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,

21 then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

22 “If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

23 “If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, andanotherman finds her in the city and lies with her,

24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

25 “But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die.

26 But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.

27 When he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.

28 “If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered,

29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fiftyshekelsof silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.

30 “A man shall not take his father’s wife so that he will not uncover his father’s skirt.

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Persons Excluded from the Assembly

1 “No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

2 No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of hisdescendants,even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

3 No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of theirdescendants,even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the Lord,

4 because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

5 Nevertheless, the Lordyour God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lordyour God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lordyour God loves you.

6 You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

7 “You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.

8 The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

9 “When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

10 “If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp.

11 But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may reenter the camp.

12 “You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there,

13 and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement.

14 Since the Lordyour God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

15 “You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.

16 He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him.

17 “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.

18 You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of adog into the house of the Lordyour God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lordyour God.

19 “You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food,oranything that may be loaned at interest.

20 You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the Lordyour God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess.

21 “When you make a vow to the Lordyour God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the Lordyour God will surely require it of you.

22 However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you.

23 You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lordyour God, what you have promised.

24 “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your basket.

25 “When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain.

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Law of Divorce

1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and putsitin her hand and sends her out from his house,

2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’swife,

3 and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and putsitin her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

4 thenher former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance.

5 “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Sundry Laws

6 “No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

7 “If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

8 “Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

9 Remember what the Lordyour God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.

10 “When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.

11 You shall remain outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

12 If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

13 When the sun goes down you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before the Lordyour God.

14 “You shall not oppress a hired servantwho ispoor and needy, whetherhe isone of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.

15 You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will not cry against you to the Lordand it become sin in you.

16 “Fathers shall not be put to death fortheirsons, nor shall sons be put to death fortheirfathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

17 “You shall not pervert the justice due an alienoran orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge.

18 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lordyour God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

19 “When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lordyour God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

21 “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

22 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

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Sundry Laws

1 “If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

2 then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.

3 He may beat him forty timesbutno more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.

4 “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

5 “When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not bemarriedoutsidethe familyto a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

7 But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. Andifhe persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’

9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

10 In Israel his name shall be called, ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

11 “Iftwomen, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

12 then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

13 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

15 You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lordyour God gives you.

16 For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lordyour God.

17 “Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

18 how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did notfear God.

19 Therefore it shall come about when the Lordyour God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

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Offering First Fruits

1 “Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it,

2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the Lordyour God gives you, and you shall putitin a basket and go to the place where the Lordyour God chooses to establish His name.

3 You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare this day to the Lordmy God that I have entered the land which the Lordswore to our fathers to give us.’

4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lordyour God.

5 You shall answer and say before the Lordyour God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

6 And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

7 Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lordheard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;

8 and the Lordbrought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders;

9 and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10 Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, O Lordhave given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lordyour God, and worship before the Lordyour God;

11 and you and the Levite and the alien who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lordyour God has given you and your household.

12 “When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

13 You shall say before the Lordyour God, ‘I have removed the sacredportionfrommyhouse, and also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed or forgotten any of Your commandments.

14 I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the Lordmy God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.

15 Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.’

16 “This day the Lordyour God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

17 You have today declared the Lordto be your God, and that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and listen to His voice.

18 The Lordhas today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;

19 and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the Lordyour God, as He has spoken.”

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The Curses of Mount Ebal

1 Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I command you today.

2 So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the Lordyour God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime

3 and write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the Lordyour God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you.

4 So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up on Mount Ebal, these stones, as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime.

5 Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the Lordyour God, an altar of stones; you shall not wield an irontoolon them.

6 You shall build the altar of the Lordyour God of uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the Lordyour God;

7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the Lordyour God.

8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very distinctly.”

9 Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and listen, O Israel! This day you have become a people for the Lordyour God.

10 You shall therefore obey the Lordyour God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command you today.”

11 Moses also charged the people on that day, saying,

12 “When you cross the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

13 For the curse, these shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

14 The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setsitup in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

16 ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

17 ‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

18 ‘Cursed is he who misleads a blindpersonon the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

19 ‘Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

20 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s skirt.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

21 ‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

22 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

23 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

24 ‘Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

25 ‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

26 ‘Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Blessings at Gerizim

1 “Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lordyour God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lordyour God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

2 All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lordyour God:

3 “Blessedshallyoubein the city, and blessedshallyoubein the country.

4 “Blessedshall bethe offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

5 “Blessedshall beyour basket and your kneading bowl.

6 “Blessedshallyoubewhen you come in, and blessedshallyoubewhen you go out.

7 “The Lordshall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.

8 The Lordwill command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the Lordyour God gives you.

9 The Lordwill establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lordyour God and walk in His ways.

10 So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.

11 The Lordwill make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lordswore to your fathers to give you.

12 The Lordwill open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

13 The Lordwill make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lordyour God, which I charge you today, to observethemcarefully,

14 and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Consequences of Disobedience

15 “But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lordyour God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16 “Cursedshallyoubein the city, and cursedshallyoubein the country.

17 “Cursedshall beyour basket and your kneading bowl.

18 “Cursedshall bethe offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

19 “Cursedshallyoubewhen you come in, and cursedshallyoubewhen you go out.

20 “The Lordwill send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.

21 The Lordwill make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.

22 The Lordwill smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and withthe sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

23 The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.

24 The Lordwill make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

25 “The Lordshall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will bean example ofterror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

26 Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frightenthemaway.

27 “The Lordwill smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.

28 The Lordwill smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;

29 and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.

30 You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.

31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.

32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

33 A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.

34 You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see.

35 The Lordwill strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36 The Lordwill bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

37 You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lorddrives you.

38 “You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.

39 You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gatherthe grapes,for the worm will devour them.

40 You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

41 You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

42 The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.

43 The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

44 He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.

45 “So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lordyour God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

46 They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.

47 “Because you did not serve the Lordyour God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;

48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lordwill send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

49 “The Lordwill bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,

50 a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

51 Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

52 It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lordyour God has given you.

53 Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lordyour God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.

54 The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,

55 so that he will not giveevenone of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothingelseleft, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns.

56 The refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,

57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anythingelse,during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.

58 “If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the Lordyour God,

59 then the Lordwill bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.

60 He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.

61 Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lordwill bring on you until you are destroyed.

62 Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lordyour God.

63 It shall come about that as the Lorddelighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lordwill delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.

64 Moreover, the Lordwill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.

65 Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lordwill give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

66 So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

67 In the morning you shall say, ‘Would that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Would that it were morning!’ because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.

68 The Lordwill bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

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The Covenant in Moab

1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lordcommanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb.

2 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that the Lorddid before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land;

3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

4 Yet to this day the Lordhas not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the Lordyour God.

7 When you reached this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle, but we defeated them;

8 and we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.

9 So keep the words of this covenant to do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

10 “You stand today, all of you, before the Lordyour God: your chiefs, your tribes, your elders and your officers,evenall the men of Israel,

11 your little ones, your wives, and the alien who is within your camps, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,

12 that you may enter into the covenant with the Lordyour God, and into His oath which the Lordyour God is making with you today,

13 in order that He may establish you today as His people and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

14 “Now not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath,

15 but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lordour God and with those who are not with us here today

16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

17 moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idolsofwood, stone, silver, and gold, whichthey hadwith them);

18 so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lordour God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

19 It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will boast, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the wateredlandwith the dry.’

20 The Lordshall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lordand His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the Lordwill blot out his name from under heaven.

21 Then the Lordwill single him out for adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant which are written in this book of the law.

22 “Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the Lordhas afflicted it, will say,

23 ‘All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lordoverthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

24 All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lorddone thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

25 Thenmenwill say, ‘Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

26 They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them.

27 Therefore, the anger of the Lordburned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;

28 and the Lorduprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and cast them into another land, asit isthis day.’

29 “The secret things belong to the Lordour God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.

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Restoration Promised

1 “So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you callthemto mind in all nations where the Lordyour God has banished you,

2 and you return to the Lordyour God and obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons,

3 then the Lordyour God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lordyour God has scattered you.

4 If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lordyour God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back.

5 The Lordyour God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers.

6 “Moreover the Lordyour God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lordyour God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

7 The Lordyour God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

8 And you shall again obey the Lord, and observe all His commandments which I command you today.

9 Then the Lordyour God will prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and in the produce of your ground, for the Lordwill again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers;

10 if you obey the Lordyour God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the Lordyour God with all your heart and soul.

11 “For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach.

12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’

13 Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’

14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it.

Choose Life

15 “See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity;

16 in that I command you today to love the Lordyour God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lordyour God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.

17 But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

18 I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolongyourdays in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it.

19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

20 by loving the Lordyour God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lordswore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

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