THE BOOK OF
DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTERS 27-34
1 ¶ And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the
people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
2 And it shall be
on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great
stones, and plaister them with plaister:
3 And thou shalt
write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou
mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that
floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
4 Therefore it
shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which
I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with
plaister.
5 And there shalt
thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
6 Thou shalt
build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt
offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
7 And thou shalt
offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy
God.
8
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very
plainly.
9 And Moses and
the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken,
O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.
10 Thou shalt
therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his
statutes, which I command thee this day.
11 ¶ And Moses charged the people
the same day, saying,
12 These shall
stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan;
Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
13 And these
shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
14 And the
Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
15 Cursed be the
man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the
work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all
the people shall answer and say, Amen.
16
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
17 Cursed be he
that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
18 Cursed be he
that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
19 Cursed be he
that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all
the people shall say, Amen.
20 Cursed be he
that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt.
And all the people shall say, Amen.
21
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people
shall say, Amen.
22 Cursed be he
that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his
mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
23 Cursed be he
that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
24 Cursed be he
that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
25 Cursed be he
that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say,
Amen.
26
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.
And all the people shall say, Amen.
1 ¶ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken
diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his
commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD
thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these
blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the
voice of the LORD thy God.
3 Blessed shalt
thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 Blessed shall
be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy
sheep.
5 Blessed shall
be thy basket and thy store.
6 Blessed shalt
thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
7 The LORD shall
cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee
before thee seven ways.
8 The LORD shall
command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest
thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee.
9 The LORD shall
establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy
God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people
of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they
shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the LORD
shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground,
in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12 The LORD shall
open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in
his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto
many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13
And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt
be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the
commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and
to do them:
14 And thou shalt
not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day,
to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 ¶ But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and
his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come
upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt
thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall
be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine,
and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt
thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20
The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that
thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou
perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast
forsaken me.
21 The LORD shall
make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the
land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22
The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with
an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting,
and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven
that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be
iron.
24
The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven
shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25 The LORD shall
cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way
against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all
the kingdoms of the earth.
26
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the
beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
27 The LORD will
smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab,
and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
28 The LORD shall
smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
29 And thou shalt
grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper
in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man
shall save thee.
30 Thou shalt
betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant
a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
31 Thine ox shall
be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be
violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee:
thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue
them.
32 Thy sons and thy
daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and
fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in
thine hand.
33 The fruit of
thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
34 So that thou
shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
35 The LORD shall
smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be
healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
36 The LORD shall
bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and
there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
37 And thou shalt
become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the
LORD shall lead thee.
38 Thou shalt
carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
39 Thou shalt
plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor
gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40 Thou shalt
have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself
with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
41
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for
they shall go into captivity.
42 All thy trees
and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger
that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down
very low.
44
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the
head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45 ¶ Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and
shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou
hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments
and his statutes which he commanded thee:
46 And they shall
be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
47 Because thou
servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for
the abundance of all things;
48
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send
against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all
things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed
thee.
49 The LORD shall
bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as
the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
50
A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the
old, nor shew favour to the young:
51 And he shall
eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be
destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase
of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced
walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall
besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God
hath given thee.
53 And thou shalt
eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
54 So that the
man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward
his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his
children which he shall leave:
55 So that he
will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in
the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
56 The tender and
delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot
upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward
the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
57 And toward her
young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which
she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the
siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
58
If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are
written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE
LORD THY GOD;
59 Then the LORD
will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great
plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
60
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou
wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
61 Also every
sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them
will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
62 And ye shall
be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the
LORD thy God.
63 And it shall
come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to
multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring
you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to
possess it.
64
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of
the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which
neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
65 And among
these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have
rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of
eyes, and sorrow of mind:
66 And thy life
shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt
have none assurance of thy life:
67 In the morning
thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God
it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
68 And the LORD
shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto
thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your
enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
1 ¶ These are the words of the
covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in
the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses
called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did
before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3 The great
temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
4 Yet the LORD
hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear,
unto this day.
5
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not
waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
6 Ye have not eaten
bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am
the LORD your God.
7 And when ye
came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
8 And we took
their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9 Keep therefore
the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
10 ¶ Ye stand this day all of you
before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your
officers, with all the men of Israel,
11 Your little
ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy
wood unto the drawer of thy water:
12 That thou
shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
13 That he may
establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a
God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14 Neither with
you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our
God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16 (For ye know
how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations
which ye passed by;
17 And ye have
seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
18 Lest there
should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth
away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations;
lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
19 And it come to
pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself
in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of
mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
20 The LORD will
not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke
against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie
upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21
And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of
Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this
book of the law:
22 So that the
generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the
stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues
of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning,
that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the
overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew
in his anger, and in his wrath:
24 Even all
nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
25 Then men shall
say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers,
which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
26 For they went
and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew
not, and whom he had not given unto them:
27 And the anger
of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that
are written in this book:
28 And the LORD
rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation,
and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which
are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all
the words of this law.
1 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when all these things are
come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have
set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,
whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
2 And shalt
return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I
command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with
all thy soul;
3
That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion
upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the
LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
4 If any of thine
be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy
God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5
And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers
possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply
thee above thy fathers.
6 And the LORD
thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the
LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
7 And the LORD
thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate
thee, which persecuted thee.
8 And thou shalt
return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I
command thee this day.
9
And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine
hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the
fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for
good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
10 If thou shalt
hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments
and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn
unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
11 ¶ For this commandment which I command thee this day,
it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
12 It is not in
heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13 Neither is it
beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and
bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14 But the word
is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
15 ¶ See, I have set before thee
this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I
command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to
keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live
and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou
goest to possess it.
17
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be
drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce
unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong
your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set
before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that
both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou
mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that
thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto
thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
1 ¶ And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
2 And he said
unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me,
Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
3 The LORD thy
God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before
thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as
the LORD hath said.
4
And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of
the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
5 And the LORD
shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto
all the commandments which I have commanded you.
6 Be strong and
of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee.
7 And Moses
called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and
of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the
LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to
inherit it.
8
And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee,
he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
9 ¶ And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the
priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and
unto all the elders of Israel.
10 And Moses
commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of
tabernacles,
11 When all
Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall
choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
12 Gather the
people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within
thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
13 And that their
children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD
your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess
it.
14 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days
approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present
yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge.
And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the
congregation.
15 And the LORD
appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud
stood over the door of the tabernacle.
16
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers;
and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers
of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break
my covenant which I have made with them.
17 Then my anger
shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them,
and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils
and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not
these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
18 And I will
surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have
wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
19
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of
Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against
the children of Israel.
20 For when I
shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that
floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other
gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
21 And it shall
come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song
shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of
the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about,
even now, before I have brought them into the land which I
sware.
22 ¶ Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and
taught it the children of Israel.
23 And he gave
Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for
thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
24 And it came to
pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book,
until they were finished,
25 That Moses
commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
26
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the
covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
27 For I know thy
rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day,
ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
28
Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I
may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record
against them.
29 For I know
that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the
way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days;
because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
30 And Moses
spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song,
until they were ended.
1 ¶ Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O
earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine
shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain
upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will
publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock,
his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have
corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a
perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus
requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath
bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7 ¶ Remember the days of old,
consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee;
thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8 When the most
High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of
Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children
of Israel.
9
For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance.
10 He found him
in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he
instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle
stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings,
taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12
So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him
ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the
fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the
flinty rock;
14 Butter of
kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou
didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 ¶ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen
fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God
which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations
provoked they him to anger.
17 They
sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods
that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock
that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
19 ¶ And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because
of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I
will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a
very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have
provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with
those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish
nation.
22 For a fire is
kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume
the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap
mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall be
burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction:
I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of
the dust.
25
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man
and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 ¶ I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would
make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27 Were it not
that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our
hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
28 For they are a
nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they
were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30 How should one
chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had
sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock
is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine
is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes
are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is
the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this
laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me
belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for
the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD
shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that
their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
37 And he shall
say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat
the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your
protection.
39 ¶ See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god
with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any
that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up
my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41 If I whet my
glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render
vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make
mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the
blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the
enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye
nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants,
and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his
land, and to his people.
44 ¶ And Moses came and spake all the words of this song
in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
45 And Moses made
an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
46
And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I
testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to
do, all the words of this law.
47 For it is not
a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall
prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
48
And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
49 Get thee up
into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is
over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the
children of Israel for a possession:
50 And die in the
mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto
his people:
51 Because ye
trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of
Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the
midst of the children of Israel.
52 Yet thou shalt
see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
1 ¶ And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of
God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
2 And he said,
The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined
forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his
right hand went a fiery law for them.
3 Yea, he loved
the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet;
every one shall receive of thy words.
4 Moses commanded
us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
5
And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes
of Israel were gathered together.
6 ¶ Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be
few.
7 And this is the
blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him
unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
8 ¶ And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be
with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst
strive at the waters of Meribah;
9 Who said unto
his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they
have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
10 They shall
teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before
thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
11 Bless, LORD,
his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate
him, that they rise not again.
12 ¶ And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD
shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long,
and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
13
And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious
things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
14 And for the
precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth
by the moon,
15 And for the
chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
16 And for the
precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him
that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon
the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
17 His glory is
like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the
ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the
thousands of Manasseh.
18 ¶ And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy
going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
19 They shall
call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the
seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
20 And of Gad he said,
Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm
with the crown of the head.
21 And he
provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the
people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
22 ¶ And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall
leap from Bashan.
23 And of
Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing
of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
24
And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be
acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
25 Thy shoes
shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
26 ¶ There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who
rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
27
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms:
and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy
them.
28 Israel then
shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn
and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
29 Happy art
thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy
excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt
tread upon their high places.
1 ¶ And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the
mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the
LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
2 And all
Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah,
unto the utmost sea,
3 And the south,
and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
4
And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham,
unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused
thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
5 ¶ So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the
land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
6
And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against
Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
7 And Moses was
an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his
natural force abated.
8 And the
children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
9 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of
wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel
hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
10 And there
arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
11 In all the
signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to
Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
12 And in all that
mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all
Israel.