King James Version
1 ¶ These be the words which Moses spake
unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in
the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and
Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of
mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
3
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh
month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that
the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
4
After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which
dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
5
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to
declare this law, saying,
6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough
in this mount:
7
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of
the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the
hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of
the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the
river Euphrates.
8
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess
the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
9 ¶ And I spake unto you at
that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
10
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are
this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
11
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so
many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
12 How can I myself alone bear
your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your
tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
14
And ye answered me, and said, The
thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
15 So I took the chief of your
tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over
thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains
over tens, and officers among your tribes.
16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the
causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his
brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall
hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man;
for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it
unto me, and I will hear it.
18
And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye
should do.
19 ¶ And when we departed from Horeb,
we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way
of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came
to Kadeshbarnea.
20
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the
Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath
set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers
hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
22
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the
land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities
we shall come.
23 And the saying pleased me well:
and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
24
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came
unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
25
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and
brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth
give us.
26
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against
the commandment of the LORD your God:
27
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD
hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into
the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our
heart, saying, The people is
greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims
there.
29
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of
them.
30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all
that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
31
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the
LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye
went, until ye came into this place.
32 Yet in this thing ye did not
believe the LORD your God,
33
Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place
to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go,
and in a cloud by day.
34
And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
35 Surely there shall not one of
these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
36
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to
him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children,
because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
37 Also the LORD was angry with me
for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in
thither.
38
But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth
before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel
to inherit it.
39
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey,
and your children, which in that day had no knowledge
between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it,
and they shall possess it.
40
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
41
Then ye answered and said unto me, We
have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight,
according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on
every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
42
And the LORD said unto me, Say
unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not
among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
43
So I spake unto you; and ye
would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the
LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
44
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out
against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto
Hormah.
45
And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD
would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
46 So ye abode in Kadesh many
days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
1 ¶ Then we turned, and took our journey into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
2
And the LORD spake unto me,
saying,
3 Ye have compassed this mountain
long enough: turn you northward.
4
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass
through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir;
and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
5
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their
land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have
given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
6
Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and
ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
7
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of
thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great
wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been
with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
8 ¶ And when we passed by from our brethren the children
of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from
Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the
wilderness of Moab.
9
And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites,
neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give
thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar
unto the children of Lot for a possession.
10
The Emims dwelt therein in times
past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
12
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime;
but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from
before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his
possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
13
Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And
we went over the brook Zered.
14
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea,
until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all
the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the
LORD sware unto them.
15
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to
destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
16
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed
and dead from among the people,
17
That the LORD spake unto me,
saying,
18
Thou art to pass over through Ar,
the coast of Moab, this day:
19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress
them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the
children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of
Lot for a possession.
20
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt
therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them
Zamzummims;
21
A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
22
As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir,
when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and
dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
23
And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims,
which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
24 ¶ Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the
river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend
with him in battle.
25
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the
fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear
report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
26
And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth
unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the
left.
28
Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and
give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
29 (As the children of Esau which
dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar,
did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our
God giveth us.
30
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him:
for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he
might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth
this day.
31
And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give
Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his
land.
32
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to
fight at Jahaz.
33
And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote
him, and his sons, and all his people.
34
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly
destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left
none to remain:
35
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the
spoil of the cities which we took.
36 From Aroer, which is by the
brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto
Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered
all unto us:
37
Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor
unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the
LORD our God forbad us.
1 ¶ Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og
the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at
Edrei.
2
And the LORD said unto me, Fear
him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and
his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon
king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
3
So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the
king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him
remaining.
4
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a
city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all
the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and
bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
6
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king
of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
7 But all the cattle, and the
spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
8
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings
of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon
unto mount Hermon;
9
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion;
and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
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.
11
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of
giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of
the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the
breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
12 ¶ And this land, which we
possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount
Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites
and to the Gadites.
13
And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom
of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with
all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
14
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob
unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
15
And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even
unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river
Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
17
The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt
sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
18 And I commanded you at that
time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye
shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are
meet for the war.
19
But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle,
(for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have
given you;
20 Until the LORD have given rest
unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land
which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return
every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
21 ¶ And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD
your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the
LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
22
Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall
fight for you.
23
And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
24
O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy
greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in
heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy
might?
25
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is
beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
26
But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would
not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let
it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
27
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine
eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
28
But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him:
for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause
them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
29
So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
1 ¶ Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes
and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live,
and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your
fathers giveth you.
2
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you,
neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of
the LORD your God which I command you.
3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed
Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from
among you.
4
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive
every one of you this day.
5
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as
the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to
possess it.
6 Keep therefore and do them; for
this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which
shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this
great nation is a wise and understanding people.
7
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh
unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
8 And what nation is there so
great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I
set before you this day?
9
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently,
lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart
from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons'
sons;
10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD
said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I
will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that
they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
11
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the
mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with
darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
12
And the LORD spake unto you out
of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no
similitude; only ye heard a voice.
13
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded
you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of
stone.
14 And the LORD commanded me at
that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the
land whither ye go over to possess it.
15
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no
manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake
unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image,
the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or
female,
17
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the
likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in
the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine
eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and
the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to
worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all
nations under the whole heaven.
20
But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of
the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a
people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
21
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and
sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I
should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance:
22
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan:
but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
23
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of
the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the
likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath
forbidden thee.
24
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous
God.
25 When thou shalt beget children,
and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall
corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy
God, to provoke him to anger:
26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,
that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon
it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
27
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye
shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
28
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands,
wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor
smell.
29
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou
shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
30
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are
come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and
shalt be obedient unto his voice;
31
(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not
forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers
which he sware unto them.
32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before
thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one
side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any
such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
33
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the
midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
34
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the
midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by
wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched
out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God
did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest
know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
36 Out of heaven he made thee to
hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his
great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the
midst of the fire.
37
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their
seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of
Egypt;
38 To drive out nations from
before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to
bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
39
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart,
that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is
none else.
40
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his
commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go
well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong
thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
41 ¶ Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan
toward the sunrising;
42
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not
in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
43
Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of
the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites;
and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.
44
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of
Israel:
45 These are the testimonies, and
the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake
unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
46
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who
dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were
come forth out of Egypt:
47 And they possessed his land,
and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on
this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
48
From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even
unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
49
And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto
the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
1 ¶ And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them,
Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day,
that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
2 The LORD our God made a
covenant with us in Horeb.
3
The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with
us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
4
The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of
the midst of the fire,
5
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew
you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of
the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
6 ¶ I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
7
Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
8 Thou shalt not make thee any
graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath
the earth:
9
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them:
for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of
them that hate me,
10
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and
keep my commandments.
11
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain:
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
12 Keep the sabbath day to
sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
13
Six days thou shalt labour, and
do all thy work:
14
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in
it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine
ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy
manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
15
And remember that thou wast a
servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence
through a mighty hand and by a stretched out
arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep
the sabbath day.
16
Honour thy father and thy
mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be
prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee.
17
Thou shalt not kill.
18 Neither shalt thou commit
adultery.
19
Neither shalt thou steal.
20
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's
wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house,
his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
22
These words the LORD spake unto
all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and
of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote
them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
23 ¶ And it came to pass, when ye
heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn
with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and
your elders;
24
And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his
glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the
fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man,
and he liveth.
25
Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will
consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall
die.
26
For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice
of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
27 Go thou near, and hear all that
the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God
shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
28
And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the
voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken
unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
29
O that there were such an heart
in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it
might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
30
Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
31 But as for thee, stand thou
here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes,
and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the
land which I give them to possess it.
32
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath
commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
33 Ye shall walk in all the ways
which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may
be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall
possess.
1 ¶ Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the
judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you,
that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2
That thou mightest fear the LORD
thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee,
thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy
days may be prolonged.
3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and
observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase
mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 ¶ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be
in thine heart:
7
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when
thou liest down, and when thou risest
up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a
sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and
on thy gates.
10
And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought
thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and
goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11
And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged,
which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees,
which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten
and be full;
12
Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee
forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt
swear by his name.
14
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the
people which are round about you;
15
(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the
anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and
destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
16
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in
Massah.
17 ¶ Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the
LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded
thee.
18
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the
sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that
thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware
unto thy fathers,
19
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the
LORD hath spoken.
20
And when thy son asketh thee in
time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and
the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded
you?
21
Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We
were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a
mighty hand:
22
And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore,
upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
23 And he brought us out from
thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
24
And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to
fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as
it is at this day.
25
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all
these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath
commanded us.
1 ¶ When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it,
and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven
nations greater and mightier than thou;
2
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee;
thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant
with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter
thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt
thou take unto thy son.
4
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that
they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the
LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their
altars, and break down their images, and cut down their
groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
6
For thou art an holy people unto
the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto
himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,
because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were
the fewest of all people:
8
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep
the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out
with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand
of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the LORD
thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth
covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a
thousand generations;
10
And repayeth them that hate him
to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the
commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this
day, to do them.
12 ¶ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these
judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee
the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy
fathers:
13 And he will love thee, and
bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and
the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of
thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land
which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be
male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and
will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but
will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
16
And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy
God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon
them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
17
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These
nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
18
Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember
what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19
The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs,
and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out
arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so
shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them,
until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be
destroyed.
21
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God
is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
22
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before
thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the
beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23
But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and
shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
24
And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou
shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand
before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire:
thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto
thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy
God.
26
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house,
lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly
detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
1 ¶ All the commandments which I command thee this day
shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess
the land which the LORD sware
unto your fathers.
2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God
led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove
thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest
keep his commandments, or no.
3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed
thee with manna, which thou knewest
not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth
not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
4
Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot
swell, these forty years.
5
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God
chasteneth thee.
6
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy
God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a
land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and
hills;
8 A land of wheat, and barley,
and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
9
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness,
thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of
whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
10 ¶ When thou hast eaten and art
full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath
given thee.
11
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not
keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command
thee this day:
12 Lest when thou hast eaten and
art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
13
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver
and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
14
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD
thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage;
15
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness,
wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no
water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
16
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy
fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he
might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
17
And thou say in thine heart, My
power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
18
But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he
that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may
establish his covenant which he sware unto thy
fathers, as it is this day.
19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy
God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify
against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
20
As the nations which the LORD destroyeth
before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not
be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.