THE BOOK OF
DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTERS 9-17
1 ¶ Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this
day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities
great and fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great
and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of
Anak!
3 Understand
therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee;
as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before
thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD
hath said unto thee.
4
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast
them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought
me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD
doth drive them out from before thee.
5 Not for thy
righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations
the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform
the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand
therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for
thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
7 ¶ Remember, and forget not, how
thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that
thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye
have been rebellious against the LORD.
8 Also in Horeb
ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have
destroyed you.
9
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even
the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the
mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And the LORD
delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on
them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day
of the assembly.
11 And it came to
pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two
tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said
unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou
hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded
them; they have made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore
the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a
stiffnecked people:
14 Let me alone,
that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven:
and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
15 So I turned
and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two
tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I looked,
and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten
calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD
had commanded you.
17 And I took the
two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18 And I fell
down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did
neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned,
in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger.
19 For I was
afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against
you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
20 And the LORD
was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for
Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took
your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it,
and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the
dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at
Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
23 Likewise when
the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I
have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God,
and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24 Ye have been
rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
25
Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell
down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed
therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast
brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the
stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 Lest the land
whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them
into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath
brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
29
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out
by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
1 ¶ At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two
tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and
make thee an ark of wood.
2
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables
which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3 And I made an
ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and
went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
4 And he wrote on
the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of
the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
5 And I turned
myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had
made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
6 And the
children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried;
and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
7 From thence
they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of
waters.
8 At that time
the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant
of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his
name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath
no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance,
according as the LORD thy God promised him.
10 And I stayed
in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and
the LORD would not destroy thee.
11 And the LORD
said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in
and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
12 ¶ And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require
of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his
ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy soul,
13 To keep the
commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for
thy good?
14 Behold, the
heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
15 Only the LORD
had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them,
even you above all people, as it is this day.
16 Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
17 For the LORD
your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty,
and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
18 He doth execute
the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving
him food and raiment.
19 Love ye
therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt
fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
21 He is thy
praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible
things, which thine eyes have seen.
22 Thy fathers
went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God
hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
1 ¶ Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his
charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
2 And know ye
this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which
have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
3 And his
miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the
king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
4 And what he did
unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made
the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
5 And what he did
unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
6 And what he did
unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth
opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents,
and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
7 But your eyes
have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
8 ¶ Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I
command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land,
whither ye go to possess it;
9 And that ye may
prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers
to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
10 For the land,
whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence
ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a
garden of herbs:
11 But the land,
whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
12 A land which
the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it,
from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13 And it shall
come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I
command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 That I will
give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter
rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
15 And I will
send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
16 Take heed to
yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
17 And then the
LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be
no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from
off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your
heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your
hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 And ye shall
teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up.
20
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon
thy gates:
21 That your days
may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD
sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command
you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to
cleave unto him;
23 Then will the
LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater
nations and mightier than yourselves.
24
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours:
from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto
the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
25 There shall no
man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of
you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
26 ¶ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a
curse;
27 A blessing, if
ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
28 And a curse,
if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn
aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods,
which ye have not known.
29 And it shall
come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither
thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim,
and the curse upon mount Ebal.
30
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth
down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against
Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
31 For ye shall
pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth
you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
32
And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set
before you this day.
1 ¶ These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall
observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess
it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
2 Ye shall
utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess
served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every
green tree:
3 And ye shall
overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their
gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
4 Ye shall not do
so unto the LORD your God.
5 ¶ But unto the place which the LORD your God shall
choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation
shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
6 And thither ye
shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and
heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and
the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
7 And there ye
shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee.
8 Ye shall not do
after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in
his own eyes.
9 For ye are not
as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your
God giveth you.
10 But when ye go
over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to
inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that
ye dwell in safety;
11 Then there
shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command
you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave
offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
12 And ye shall
rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and
your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor
inheritance with you.
13 Take heed to
thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
14 But in the
place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer
thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates,
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy
God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of
the roebuck, and as of the hart.
16 Only ye shall
not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
17
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy
wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of
thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of
thine hand:
18 But thou must
eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and
thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands
unto.
19 Take heed to
thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
20 When the LORD
thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and
thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou
mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
21 If the place
which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee,
then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given
thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
22 Even as the
roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the
clean shall eat of them alike.
23 Only be sure
that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat
the life with the flesh.
24
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
25 Thou shalt not
eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when
thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
26 Only thy holy
things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place
which the LORD shall choose:
27
And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon
the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured
out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
28 Observe and
hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and
with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
29 When the LORD
thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to
possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
30 Take heed to
thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed
from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do
likewise.
31 Thou shalt not
do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he
hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters
they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
32 What thing
soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
1 ¶ If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or
the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us
serve them;
3 Thou shalt not
hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD
your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your
heart and with all your soul.
4 Ye shall walk
after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments,
and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
5 And that
prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath
spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the
land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out
of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
6 ¶ If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or
thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own
soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou
hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7 Namely, of the
gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto
the other end of the earth;
8 Thou shalt not
consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him,
neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
9 But thou shalt
surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterwards the hand of all the people.
10
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath
sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11 And all Israel
shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among
you.
12 ¶ If thou shalt hear say in one
of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
13 Certain men,
the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the
inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye
have not known;
14
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and,
behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought
among you;
15 Thou shalt
surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword,
destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with
the edge of the sword.
16
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street
thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every
whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be
built again.
17 And there
shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn
from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn
unto thy fathers;
18 When thou
shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments
which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the
LORD thy God.
1 ¶ Ye are the children of the LORD
your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes
for the dead.
2 For thou art an
holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a
peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
3
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
4 These are the
beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
5 The hart, and
the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the
wild ox, and the chamois.
6 And every beast
that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
7 Nevertheless
these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the
cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud,
but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
8 And the swine,
because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their
dead carcase.
9 These ye shall
eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
10 And whatsoever
hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
11 Of all clean
birds ye shall eat.
12
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the
ossifrage, and the ospray,
13 And the glede,
and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
14 And every
raven after his kind,
15 And the owl,
and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
16
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
17 And the
pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
18 And the stork,
and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
19 And every
creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
20 But of all
clean fowls ye may eat.
21
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it
unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell
it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt
not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
22 ¶ Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed,
that the field bringeth forth year by year.
23 And thou shalt
eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his
name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the
firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the
LORD thy God always.
24
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry
it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose
to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
25 Then shalt
thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto
the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
26
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after,
for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy
soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt
rejoice, thou, and thine household,
27 And the Levite
that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
28 At the end of
three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same
year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
29 And the
Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger,
and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may
bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
1 ¶ At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a
release.
2 And this is the
manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his
neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.
3 Of a foreigner
thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand
shall release;
4 Save when there
shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee
in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess
it:
5 Only if thou
carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all
these commandments which I command thee this day.
6 For the LORD
thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt
reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
7 If there be
among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut
thine hand from thy poor brother:
8
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him
sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
9 Beware that
there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year
of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and
thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin
unto thee.
10 Thou shalt
surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him:
because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works,
and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
11 For the poor
shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy
poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
12 ¶ And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew
woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year
thou shalt let him go free from thee.
13
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go
away empty:
14 Thou shalt
furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy
winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give
unto him.
15
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt,
and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
16 And it shall
be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee
and thine house, because he is well with thee;
17 Then thou
shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant
thou shalt do likewise.
18 It shall not
seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath
been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the
LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
19 ¶ All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of
thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou
shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of
thy sheep.
20 Thou shalt eat
it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall
choose, thou and thy household.
21 And if there
be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
22 Thou shalt eat
it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as
the roebuck, and as the hart.
23 Only thou
shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
1 ¶ Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto
the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth
out of Egypt by night.
2 Thou shalt
therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the
herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
3
Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat
unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth
out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou
camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
4 And there shall
be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou
sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
5 Thou mayest not
sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee:
6 But at the
place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down
of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt
roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou
shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
8 Six days thou
shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn
assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
9 Seven weeks
shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as
thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
10 And thou shalt
keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill
offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt
rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and
the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the
place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
12
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou
shalt observe and do these statutes.
13 Thou shalt
observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in
thy corn and thy wine:
14 And thou shalt
rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
15 Seven days
shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the
LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine
increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
16 Three times in
a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he
shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and
in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
17 Every man
shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which
he hath given thee.
18 ¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy
gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they
shall judge the people with just judgment.
19 Thou shalt not
wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift
doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
20 That which is
altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
21
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of
the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
22 Neither shalt
thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.
1 ¶ Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any
bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any
evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
2 If there be
found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in
transgressing his covenant,
3
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the
sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told
thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be
true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
5 Then shalt thou
bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked
thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with
stones, till they die.
6 At the mouth of
two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to
death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
7 The hands of
the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the
evil away from among you.
8 ¶ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in
judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke
and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou
arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy
God shall choose;
9 And thou shalt
come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those
days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
10 And thou shalt
do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall
choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
11 According to
the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the
judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from
the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
12 And the man
that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or
unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from
Israel.
13 And all the
people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14 ¶ When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say,
I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that
are about me;
15 Thou shalt in
any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from
among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a
stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
16 But he shall
not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch
as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
17 Neither shall
he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he
greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
18 And it shall
be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is
before the priests the Levites:
19 And it shall
be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may
learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these
statutes, to do them:
20
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not
aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that
he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of
Israel.