God in Deuteronomy

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1. 1:3

   In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.

2. 1:6

   The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

3. 1:8

   See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”

4. 1:10

   The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

5. 1:11

   May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.

6. 1:17

   Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”

7. 1:19

   And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

8. 1:20

   I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.

9. 1:21

   See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

10. 1:25

    They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

11. 1:26

    But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

12. 1:27

    You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.

13. 1:30

    The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt

14. 1:31

    and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”

15. 1:32

    But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

16. 1:34

    When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,

17. 1:36

    except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

18. 1:37

    The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

19. 1:41

    “We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

20. 1:42

    But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”

21. 1:43

    So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.

22. 1:45

    And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

23. 2:1

    Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.

24. 2:2

    At this time the LORD said to me,

25. 2:7

    Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

26. 2:9

    Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

27. 2:12

    The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)

28. 2:14

    The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

29. 2:15

    Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.

30. 2:17

    the LORD said to me,

31. 2:21

    They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,

32. 2:29

    just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

33. 2:30

    But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.

34. 2:31

    Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

35. 2:33

    And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.

36. 2:36

    From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

37. 2:37

    But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.

38. 3:2

    But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

39. 3:3

    So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left.

40. 3:18

    At that time I commanded you: “The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor are to cross over, armed for battle, ahead of your brothers, the Israelites.

41. 3:20

    until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”

42. 3:21

    And at that time I commanded Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.

43. 3:22

    Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God Himself will fight for you.”

44. 3:23

    At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:

45. 3:24

    “O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?

46. 3:26

    But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.

47. 4:1

    Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

48. 4:2

    You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

49. 4:3

    Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

50. 4:4

    But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

51. 4:5

    See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

52. 4:7

    For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

53. 4:10

    The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

54. 4:12

    And the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of the words but saw no form; there was only a voice.

55. 4:14

    At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

56. 4:15

    So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful

57. 4:19

    When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

58. 4:20

    Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

59. 4:21

    The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

60. 4:23

    Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.

61. 4:24

    For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

62. 4:25

    After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—

63. 4:27

    Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

64. 4:29

    But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

65. 4:30

    When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

66. 4:31

    For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

67. 4:32

    Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

68. 4:33

    Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

69. 4:34

    Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

70. 4:35

    You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

71. 4:39

    Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

72. 4:40

    Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

73. 5:2

    The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

74. 5:3

    He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

75. 5:4

    The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

76. 5:5

    At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:

77. 5:6

    “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

78. 5:9

    You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

79. 5:11

    You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

80. 5:12

    Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

81. 5:14

    but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.

82. 5:15

    Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

83. 5:16

    Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

84. 5:22

    The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

85. 5:24

    and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.

86. 5:25

    But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

87. 5:26

    For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?

88. 5:27

    Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”

89. 5:28

    And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

90. 5:32

    So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.

91. 5:33

    You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

92. 6:1

    These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,

93. 6:2

    so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.

94. 6:3

    Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

95. 6:4

    Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

96. 6:5

    And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

97. 6:10

    And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,

98. 6:12

    be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

99. 6:13

    Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

100. 6:15

     For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

101. 6:16

     Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.

102. 6:17

     You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.

103. 6:18

     Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,

104. 6:19

     driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

105. 6:20

     In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

106. 6:21

     then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

107. 6:22

     Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.

108. 6:24

     And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.

109. 6:25

     And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”

110. 7:1

     When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

111. 7:2

     and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

112. 7:4

     because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

113. 7:6

     For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

114. 7:7

     The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

115. 7:8

     But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

116. 7:9

     Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

117. 7:12

     If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.

118. 7:15

     And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.

119. 7:16

     You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

120. 7:18

     But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

121. 7:19

     the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

122. 7:20

     Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.

123. 7:21

     Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

124. 7:22

     The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.

125. 7:23

     But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

126. 7:25

     You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

127. 8:1

     You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

128. 8:2

     Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

129. 8:3

     He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

130. 8:5

     So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

131. 8:6

     Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.

132. 8:7

     For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

133. 8:10

     When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.

134. 8:11

     Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.

135. 8:14

     then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

136. 8:18

     But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

137. 8:19

     If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

138. 8:20

     Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.

139. 9:3

     But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.

140. 9:4

     When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

141. 9:5

     It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

142. 9:6

     Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

143. 9:7

     Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.

144. 9:8

     At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.

145. 9:9

     When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

146. 9:10

     Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

147. 9:11

     And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

148. 9:12

     And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”

149. 9:13

     The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

150. 9:16

     And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

151. 9:18

     Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

152. 9:19

     For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.

153. 9:20

     The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.

154. 9:22

     You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.

155. 9:23

     And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

156. 9:24

     You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

157. 9:25

     So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

158. 9:26

     And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

159. 9:28

     Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

160. 10:1

     At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

161. 10:4

     And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,

162. 10:5

     and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.

163. 10:8

     At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.

164. 10:9

     That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.

165. 10:10

     I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

166. 10:11

     Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”

167. 10:12

     And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

168. 10:13

     and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?

169. 10:14

     Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.

170. 10:15

     Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

171. 10:17

     For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.

172. 10:20

     You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.

173. 10:21

     He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.

174. 10:22

     Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

175. 11:1

     You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

176. 11:2

     Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;

177. 11:4

     what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day;

178. 11:7

     For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.

179. 11:9

     and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

180. 11:12

     It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.

181. 11:13

     So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

182. 11:17

     or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

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     so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

184. 11:22

     For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

185. 11:23

     then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

186. 11:25

     No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.

187. 11:27

     a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,

188. 11:28

     but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

189. 11:29

     When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

190. 11:31

     For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,

191. 12:1

     These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.

192. 12:4

     You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.

193. 12:5

     Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

194. 12:7

     There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

195. 12:9

     For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

196. 12:10

     When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,

197. 12:11

     then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

198. 12:12

     And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

199. 12:14

     you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.

200. 12:15

     But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,

201. 12:18

     Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,

202. 12:20

     When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.

203. 12:21

     If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

204. 12:25

     Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

205. 12:26

     But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.

206. 12:27

     Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.

207. 12:28

     Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

208. 12:29

     When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

209. 12:31

     You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

210. 13:3

     you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

211. 13:4

     You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.

212. 13:5

     Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.

213. 13:10

     Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

214. 13:12

     If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said

215. 13:16

     And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

216. 13:17

     Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,

217. 13:18

     because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

218. 14:1

     You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

219. 14:2

     for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

220. 14:21

     You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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     And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

222. 14:24

     But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,

223. 14:25

     then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

224. 14:26

     Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.

225. 14:29

     Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

226. 15:2

     This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.

227. 15:4

     There will be no poor among you, however, because the LORD will surely bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,

228. 15:5

     if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.

229. 15:6

     When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.

230. 15:7

     If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

231. 15:9

     Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

232. 15:10

     Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.

233. 15:14

     You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.

234. 15:15

     Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

235. 15:18

     Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

236. 15:19

     You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.

237. 15:20

     Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.

238. 15:21

     But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

239. 16:1

     Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

240. 16:2

     You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.

241. 16:5

     You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

242. 16:6

     You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.

243. 16:7

     And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

244. 16:8

     For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.

245. 16:10

     And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,

246. 16:11

     and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

247. 16:15

     For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.

248. 16:16

     Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

249. 16:17

     Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.

250. 16:18

     You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

251. 16:20

     Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

252. 16:21

     Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

253. 16:22

     and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

254. 17:1

     You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.

255. 17:2

     If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant

256. 17:8

     If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.

257. 17:10

     You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,

258. 17:12

     But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

259. 17:14

     When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”

260. 17:15

     you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

261. 17:16

     But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’

262. 17:19

     It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.

263. 18:1

     The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the food offerings to the LORD; that is their inheritance.

264. 18:2

     Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

265. 18:5

     For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.

266. 18:6

     Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

267. 18:7

     then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

268. 18:9

     When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

269. 18:12

     For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

270. 18:13

     You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

271. 18:14

     Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

272. 18:15

     The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

273. 18:16

     This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”

274. 18:17

     Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.

275. 18:21

     You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

276. 18:22

     When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

277. 19:1

     When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,

278. 19:2

     then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

279. 19:3

     You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.

280. 19:8

     And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,

281. 19:9

     and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.

282. 19:10

     Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

283. 19:14

     You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

284. 19:17

     both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.

285. 20:1

     When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

286. 20:4

     For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”

287. 20:13

     When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.

288. 20:14

     But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

289. 20:16

     However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

290. 20:17

     For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,

291. 20:18

     so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.

292. 21:1

     If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

293. 21:5

     And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.

294. 21:8

     Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

295. 21:9

     So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

296. 21:10

     When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,

297. 21:23

     you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

298. 22:5

     A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

299. 23:1

     No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

300. 23:2

     No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

301. 23:3

     No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.

302. 23:5

     Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

303. 23:8

     The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

304. 23:14

     For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.

305. 23:18

     You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

306. 23:20

     You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.

307. 23:21

     If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

308. 23:23

     Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

309. 24:4

     then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

310. 24:9

     Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt.

311. 24:13

     be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.

312. 24:15

     You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

313. 24:18

     Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

314. 24:19

     If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

315. 25:15

     You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

316. 25:16

     For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

317. 25:18

     how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

318. 25:19

     When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

319. 26:1

     When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it,

320. 26:2

     you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,

321. 26:3

     to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”

322. 26:4

     Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,

323. 26:5

     and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

324. 26:7

     So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.

325. 26:8

     Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.

326. 26:10

     And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.

327. 26:11

     So you shall rejoice—you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.

328. 26:13

     Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.

329. 26:14

     I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.

330. 26:16

     The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul.

331. 26:17

     Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.

332. 26:18

     And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,

333. 26:19

     that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.

334. 27:2

     And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster.

335. 27:3

     Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

336. 27:5

     Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

337. 27:6

     You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.

338. 27:7

     There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.

339. 27:9

     Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

340. 27:10

     You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”

341. 27:15

     ‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

342. 28:1

     “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

343. 28:2

     And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:

344. 28:7

     The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.

345. 28:8

     The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.

346. 28:9

     The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

347. 28:10

     Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.

348. 28:11

     The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

349. 28:12

     The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.

350. 28:13

     The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.

351. 28:15

     If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

352. 28:20

     The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

353. 28:21

     The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

354. 28:22

     The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

355. 28:24

     The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

356. 28:25

     The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

357. 28:27

     The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.

358. 28:28

     The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,

359. 28:35

     The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

360. 28:36

     The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

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     You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

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     All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.

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     Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

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     you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

365. 28:49

     The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,

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     They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.

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     Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

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     If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—

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     He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

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     The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

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     You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

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     Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

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     Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

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     Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

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     In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.

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     The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

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     These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

378. 29:2

     Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

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     Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

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     You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

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     All of you are standing today before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

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     so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

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     and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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     but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.

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     Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

386. 29:20

     The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

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     and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

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     Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

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     All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

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     So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

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     And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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     Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

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     The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

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     The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

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     “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,

396. 30:2

     and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,

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     then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

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     Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.

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     And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.

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     The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

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     Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.

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     And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.

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     So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,

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     if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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     For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

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     and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

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     he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’

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     The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.

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     And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.

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     The LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.

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     Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”

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     Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.

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     The LORD Himself goes before you; He will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

414. 31:9

     So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

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     when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.

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     Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.

417. 31:13

     Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

418. 31:14

     Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.

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     Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.

420. 31:16

     And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

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     On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’

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     he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

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     “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

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     For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

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     For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”

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     For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

427. 32:4

     He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

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     Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

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     But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

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     The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.

431. 32:15

     But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

432. 32:17

     They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

433. 32:18

     You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

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     When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

435. 32:21

     They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

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     if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

437. 32:30

     How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

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     For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

439. 32:48

     On that same day the LORD said to Moses,

440. 33:1

     This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

441. 33:2

     He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

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     And concerning Judah he said: “O LORD, hear the cry of Judah and bring him to his people. With his own hands he defends his cause, but may You be a help against his foes.”

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     Bless his substance, O LORD, and accept the work of his hands. Smash the loins of those who rise against him, and of his foes so they can rise no more.”

444. 33:12

     Concerning Benjamin he said: “May the beloved of the LORD rest secure in Him; God shields him all day long, and upon His shoulders he rests.”

445. 33:13

     Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,

446. 33:21

     He chose the best land for himself, because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there. He came with the leaders of the people; he administered the LORD’s justice and His ordinances for Israel.”

447. 33:23

     Concerning Naphtali he said: “Naphtali is abounding with favor, full of the blessing of the LORD; he shall take possession of the sea and the south.”

448. 33:26

     “There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

449. 33:27

     The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

450. 33:29

     Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

451. 34:1

     Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,

452. 34:4

     And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”

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     So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said.

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     Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

455. 34:10

     Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—

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     no prophet who did all the signs and wonders that the LORD sent Moses to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his officials and all his land,