The fifth book of Moses called
Deuteronomy. Chapter 1. These be the words
which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness
in the plain over against the Red Sea between Paran and Tophel
and Laban and Hazeroth and Izahab. There are eleven days journey
from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir unto Kadesh Barnea. And
it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month,
on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children
of Israel according unto all that the Lord had given him in
commandment unto them. After he had slain Sihon, the
king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og, the king
of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth, in Edrei. On this side Jordan,
in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt
long enough in this mount. Turn you, and take your journey,
and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh
thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in
the south, and by the seaside, to the land of the Canaanites,
and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Behold,
I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land, which
the Lord sware unto your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to
give unto them and to their seed after them. And I spake unto
you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone. The Lord your God hath multiplied
you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for
multitude. The Lord God of your fathers
make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless
you as he hath promised you. How can I myself alone bear your
cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Take you wise men,
and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will
make them rulers over you.' And he answered me and said, The
thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. So I took
the chief of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them
heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers
among your tribes. And I charged your judges at
that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge
righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger
that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons
in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the great.
Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment
is God's, and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it
unto me, and I will hear it. And I commanded you at that time
all the things which ye should do. And when we departed from
Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness
which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as
the Lord our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh Barnea.
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites,
which the Lord our God doth give unto us. Behold, the Lord thy
God hath set the land before thee. Go up, and possess it,
as the Lord God of thy fathers hath set unto thee. Fear not,
neither be discouraged. And he came near unto me, every
one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they
shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what
way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. And the
saying pleased me well. And I took twelve men of you,
one of a tribe. And they turned and went up into the mountain,
and came unto the valley of Ershkul, and searched it out. And they
took the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down
unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good
land, which the Lord our God doth give us, notwithstanding
He would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the
Lord your God. And he murmured in your tents and said, Because
the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt,
to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged
our hearts, saying, The people is greater and taller than we,
the cities are great and walled up to heaven, and moreover we
have seen the sons of the Anakims there. Then said I unto you,
Dread not, neither be afraid of them. the Lord your God which
goeth before you, he shall fight for you according to all that
he did for you in Egypt before your eyes. And in the wilderness,
where thou hast seen, how did the Lord thy God bear thee, as
a man doth bear his son, in all the way that he went, until he
came into this place. Yet in this thing ye did not
believe the Lord your God, who went in the way before you, to
search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night,
to show you by what way he should go, and in a cloud by day. And
the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wrath and swear,
saying, Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil
generation see that good land which I swear to give unto your
fathers, save Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it.
And to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and
to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord. Also
the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also
shall not go in thither. But Joshua, the son of Nun, which
standeth before thee, he shall go in thither. Encourage him,
for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. Moreover, your little
ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which
in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall
go in thither. But unto them will I give it,
and they shall possess it. But as for you, turn you, and
take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea. Then
he answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord,
we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God
commanded us. And when he had girded on every man his weapons
of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. And the Lord said
unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight, for I am not
among you, lest ye be smitten before your enemies. So I speak
unto you, and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment
of the Lord, and went presumptuously up into the hill. And the Amorites,
which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased
you as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
And ye returned, and wept before the LORD. But the LORD would
not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. So ye abode
in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
Deuteronomy chapter 2 Then we turned and took our journey
into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spake
unto me. And we compassed Mount Seir many
days. And the Lord spake unto me, saying,
Ye have come past this mountain long enough, turn you northward.
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through
the coast of your brethren, the children of Esau, which dwell
in Seir, and they shall be afraid of you. Take ye good heed unto
yourselves therefore. Meddle not with them, for I will
not give you of their land, no, not so much as a footbreadth,
because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. Ye
shall buy meat of them for money that ye may eat, and ye shall
also buy water of them for money that ye may drink. For the Lord
thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand. He
knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness. These forty
years the Lord thy God hath been with thee, thou hast lacked nothing.
And when we passed by from our brethren, the children of Esau,
which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain, from Elath,
and from Esion-geber, we turned and passed by the way of the
wilderness of Moab. And the Lord said unto me, Distress
not the Moabites. Neither contend with them in
battle, for I will not give thee of their land for a possession,
because I have given our unto the children of Lot for a possession.
The Emams dwelt therein in times past, a people great and many,
and tall as the Anakims, which also were accounted giants as
the Anakims. But the Moabites called them
Emams. The Horems also dwelt in Seir before time. But the
children of Esau succeeded them when they had destroyed them
from before them and dwelt in their stead as Israel did unto
the land of his possession which the Lord gave unto them. Now
rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zerud. And we
went over the brook Zerud. And the space in which we came
from Kadesh Barnea, until we were come over the brook Zerud,
was thirty and eight years, until all the generation of the men
of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord swear unto
them. For indeed the hand of the Lord
was against them, to destroy them from among the host until
they were consumed. So it came to pass, when all
the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
that the Lord spake unto me, saying, Thou art to pass over
through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day. And when thou comest
nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not,
nor meddle with them, for I will not give thee of the land of
the children of Ammon any possession, because I have given it unto
the children of Lot for a possession. That also was accounted a land
of giants, Giants dwelt therein in old time, and the Ammonites
called them Zamzamims, a people great and many and tall as the
Anakims. But the Lord destroyed them before
them, and they succeeded them and dwelt in their stead. As
he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he
destroyed the Horems from before them, and they succeeded them,
and dwelt in their stead, even unto this day. And the Avims,
which dwelt in Hazirim, even unto Azar. The Kephtorims, which
came forth out of Kephtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon.
Behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king
of Heshbon and his land. Begin to possess it, and contend
with him in battle. This day will I begin to put
the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that
are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and
shall tremble and be in anguish because of thee. And I sent messengers
out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon, king of Heshmon,
with words of peace, saying, Let me pass through thy land.
I will go along by the highway. I will neither turn unto the
right hand nor to the left. Thou shalt sell me meat for money
that I may eat, and give me water for money that I may drink. Only
I will pass through on my feet, as the children of Esau, which
dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, which dwell in Ar, did unto me.
until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord
our God giveth us. But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would
not let us pass by him. For the Lord thy God hardened
his spirit, and made his heart obstinate that he might deliver
him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. And the Lord said unto
me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee. Begin to possess, that thou mayest
inherit this land. Then Sihon came out against us,
he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. And the Lord our God
delivered him before us, and we smote him and his sons and
all his people, and we took all his cities at that time, and
utterly destroyed the men and the women and the little ones
of every city. We left none to remain, only
the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil
of the city which we took. From Oroa, which is by the brink
of the river of Anan, and from the city that is by the river,
even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us. The
Lord our God delivered all unto us. Only unto the land of the
children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the
river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever
the Lord our God forbade us. Deuteronomy chapter 3 Then we
turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og, the king of Bashan,
came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not, for I will deliver him
and all his people and his land into thy hand. And thou shalt
do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon, king of the Amorites,
which dwelt at Heshbon. So the Lord our God delivered
into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people,
and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. And we
took all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we
took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob,
the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these cities were fenced
with high walls, gates, and bars. Beside unwalled towns were great
many, and we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon, king
of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children
of every city. But all the cattle and the spoil
of the cities we took for a prey to ourselves. And we took at
that time, out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites,
the land that was on this side, Jordan, from the river of Arnon
unto Mount Hermon, which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and
the Amorites call it Shenia. All the cities of the plain,
and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities
of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, for only Og King of Bashan remained
of the remnant of giants. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead
of iron. Is it not in Rabbath of the children
of Ammon? Nine cubits was the length thereof,
and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
And this land, which we possessed at that time from Oroa, which
is by the river Arnon, and half Mount Gilead, and the cities
thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and the rest
of Gilead, and all Bashan being the kingdom of Og. Gave I unto
the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob, with all
Bashan, which was called the Land of Giants. Jeir, the son
of Manasseh, took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshurai
and Maakethi, and called them after his own name, Bashan Haivoth
Jeir, unto this day. And I gave Gilead unto Macchae,
and unto the Reubenites, and unto the Gadites I gave from
Gilead even unto the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border
even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children
of Ammon. The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof,
from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt
sea, under Ashtoth Pisgah eastward. And I commanded you at that time,
saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess
it. He shall pass over armed before your brethren, the children
of Israel, all that are meat for the war. But your wives,
and your little ones, and your cattle, for I know that ye have
much cattle, shall abide in your cities which I have given you.
until the Lord have given rest unto your brethren as well as
unto you and until they also possess the land which the Lord
your God hath given them beyond Jordan. And then shall he return
every man unto his possession which I have given you. And I
commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen
all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings. So
shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
He shall not fear them, for the Lord your God, He shall fight
for you. And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, O Lord
God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness and
thy mighty hand. For what God is there in heaven
or in earth that can do according to thy works and according to
thy might? I pray thee, let me go over and
see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain,
and Lebanon. But the LORD was wrath with me
for your sakes, and would not hear me. And the LORD said unto
me, Let it suffice thee, speak no more unto me of this matter.
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward
and northward and southward and eastward, and behold it with
thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. But charge
Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him, for he shall
go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit
the land which thou shalt see. So we abode in the valley over
against Beth Peor. Deuteronomy chapter 4. Now therefore
hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which
I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and
possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments
of the Lord your God which I command you. Your eyes have seen what
the Lord did because of Baal-peor. For all the men that followed
Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every
one of you this day. Behold, I have taught you statutes
and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye
should do so in the land with the ego to possess it. Keep,
therefore, and do them. For this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear
all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a
wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great,
who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all
things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there
so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as
all this law, which I set before you this day? Only take heed
to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget
the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from
thy heart all the days of thy life. But teach them thy sons,
and thy sons' sons. especially the day that thou
stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb. When the Lord said
unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them
hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days
that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach
their children. And he came near and stood unto
the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst
of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. And the Lord
spake unto you out of the midst of the fire, He heard the voice
of the words, but saw no similitude, only he heard a voice. And he
declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform,
even ten commandments. And he wrote them upon two tables
of stone. And the Lord commanded me at
that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that he might
do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. Take ye
therefore good heed unto yourselves, for ye saw no manner of similitude
on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the
midst of the fire. Lest ye corrupt yourselves and
make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the
likeness of male or female, the likeness of any beast that is
on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flyeth in
the air, the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,
the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the
earth. And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when
thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the hosts
of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them,
which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole
heaven. But the Lord hath taken you,
and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of
Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this
day. furthermore the Lord was angry
with me for your sakes and swear that I should not go over Jordan
and that I should not go in unto that good land which the Lord
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance but I must die in this land I
must not go over Jordan but ye shall go over and possess that
good land Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of
the Lord your God which he made with you, and make you a graven
image, or the likeness of anything which the Lord thy God hath forbidden
thee. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous
God. When thou shalt beget children,
and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in
the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the
likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord
thy God to provoke him to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness
against you this day that ye shall soon utterly perish from
off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it. Ye
shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. And the Lord shall scatter you
among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the
heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you. And there he shall
serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which
neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But if from thence
thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if
thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou
art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even
in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt
be obedient unto his voice, for the Lord thy God is a merciful
God, he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget
the covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them. For
ask now of the days that are past which were before thee since
the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from
the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath been
any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard
like it. Did ever people hear the voice
of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard,
and live? Or hath God assayed to go and
take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations,
by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand,
and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to
all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your
eyes? Unto thee it was showed. For thou mightest know that the
Lord, He is God, there is none else beside Him. Out of heaven
He made thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct thee.
And upon earth He showed thee His great fire, and thou heardest
His words out of the midst of the fire. And because he loved
thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought
thee out in his sight, with his mighty power, out of Egypt, to
drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than
thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance,
as it is this day. Know therefore this day, and
consider it in thine heart, that the Lord, he is God in heaven
above, and upon the earth beneath there is none else. Thou shalt
keep therefore his statutes and his commandments, which I command
thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days
upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for ever.
Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
sun rising, that the slayer might flee thither which should kill
his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in times past, and that
fleeing unto one of these cities he might live, namely Beza in
the wilderness in the plain country of the Reubenites, and Ramoth
in Gilead of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan of the Manusites. And this is the law which Moses
set before the children of Israel. These are the testimonies, and
the statutes, and the judgments which Moses spake unto the children
of Israel after they came forth out of Egypt. On this side Jordan,
in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of
the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of
Israel smote after they were come forth out of Egypt. And
they possessed his land, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.
two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan, toward
the sun rising, from Oroa, which is by the bank of the river Arnon,
even unto Mount Sion, which is Hermon, and all the plain on
this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under
the springs of Pisgah. Deuteronomy chapter 5 And Moses called all Israel,
and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which
I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep,
and do them. The Lord our God made a covenant
with us in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant
with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here
alive this day. The Lord talked with you face
to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire. I stood between
the Lord and you at that time to show you the word of the Lord,
for you were afraid by reason of the fire and went not up into
the mount, saying, I am the Lord thy God. which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage. Thou shalt
have none other gods before me. Thou shalt not make thee any
graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters
beneath the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself
unto them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God, am a
jealous God. visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them
that love me and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him
guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Keep the Sabbath day,
to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six
days thou shalt labour and do all thy work, but the seventh
day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not
do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant,
nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of
thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, that
thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. And
remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that
the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand
and by a stretched-out arm. Therefore the Lord thy God commanded
thee to keep the sabbath day. Honor thy father and thy mother,
as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thy days may be prolonged,
and that it may go well with thee in the land which the Lord
thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill, neither
shalt thou commit adultery, neither shalt thou steal, neither shalt
thou bear false witness against thy neighbor, neither shalt thou
desire thy neighbor's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's
house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, His ox, or
his ass, or anything that is thy neighbor's. These words the
Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount, out of the midst
of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a
great voice. And he added no more. And he
wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. And
it came to pass, when he heard the voice out of the midst of
the darkness, for the mountain did burn with fire, that he came
near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
And he said, Behold, the Lord our God hath showed us his glory
and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst
of the fire. We have seen this day that God doth talk with man,
and he liveth. Now therefore, why should we
die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice
of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die. For who is
there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living
God speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have and lived?
Go thou near and hear all that the Lord our God shall say. And
speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto
thee. And we will hear it and do it. And the Lord heard the
voice of your words when you spoke unto me. And the Lord said
unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which
they have spoken unto thee. They have well said all that
they have spoken. Oh, that there was such a heart
in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments
always, that it might be well with them and with their children
forever. Go, say to them, get you into
your tents again. But as for thee, stand thou here
by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments and
the statutes and the judgments which thou shalt teach them,
that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess
it. Ye shall observe to do, therefore, as the Lord your God hath commanded
you. Ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. Ye shall walk in all the ways
which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live,
and that it may be well with you. and that ye may prolong
your days in the land which ye shall possess. Deuteronomy chapter
6 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments
which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that he might do
them in the land with the ego to possess it. That thou mightest
fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments
which I command thee, thou and thy son, and thy son's son, all
the days of thy life, and that thy days may be prolonged. Hear,
therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well
with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of
thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with
milk and honey. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our
God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine
heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when
thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when
thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for
a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between
thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house
and on thy gates. And it shall be, when the Lord
thy God shall have brought thee into the land which ye swear
unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not, and
houses full of all good things, which thou fillest not, and wells
digged, which thou diggest not, vineyards, and olive trees, which
thou plantest not. when thou shalt have eaten, and
be full. Then beware, lest thou forget
the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy
God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Ye shall not
go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round
about you, for the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you. lest
the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and
destroy thee from off the face of the earth. He shall not tempt
the Lord your God, as he tempted him in Massa. He shall diligently
keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies,
and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. And thou shalt
do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that
it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst go in and possess
the good land, which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to cast
out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What
mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments,
which the Lord our God hath commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto
thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt, And the Lord brought
us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and the Lord showed signs
and wonders great and sore upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his household before our eyes. And he brought us out from
thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which
he sware unto our fathers. and the Lord commanded us to
do all these statutes to fear the Lord our God for our good
always that he might preserve us alive as it is at this day
and it shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these
commandments before the Lord our God as he hath commanded
us Deuteronomy chapter 7 When the
Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest
to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,
the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
greater and mightier than thou, and when the Lord thy God shall
deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them, and utterly
destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show
mercy unto them, Neither shalt thou make marriages with them.
Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter
shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son
from following me, that they may serve other gods. So will
the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee
suddenly. But thus shall he deal with them. He shall destroy their
altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves,
and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art an holy
people unto the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen
thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that
are upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love
upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any
people, for ye were the fewest of all people. But because the
Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he
had sworn unto your fathers hath the Lord brought you out with
a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondman from
the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt know therefore that the Lord
thy God he is God the faithful God which keepeth covenant and
mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to
a thousand generations and repayeth them that hate him to their face
to destroy them He will not be slack to him that hateth him,
he will repay him to his face. Thou shalt therefore keep the
commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command
thee this day to do them. Wherefore, it shall come to pass,
if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the
Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy
which ye swear unto thy fathers. And he will love thee, and bless
thee, and multiply thee. He will also bless the fruit
of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine,
and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy
sheep, in the land which ye swear unto thy fathers to give thee.
Thou shalt be blessed above all people. There shall not be male
or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord
will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of
the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but
will lay them upon all them that hate thee. And thou shalt consume
all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee. Thine
eye shall have no pity upon them, neither shalt thou serve their
gods, for that will be a snare unto thee. If thou shalt say
in thine heart, These nations are more than I, how can I dispossess
them? Thou shalt not be afraid of them,
but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh
and unto all Egypt, the great temptations which thine eyes
saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the
stretched-out arm whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out.
so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou
art afraid. Moreover the Lord thy God will
send the hornet among them, until they that are left and hide themselves
from thee be destroyed. Thou shalt not be affrighted
at them, For the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and
terrible. And the LORD thy God will put
out those nations before thee by little and little. Thou mayest
not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase
upon thee. But the Lord thy God shall deliver
them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction
until they be destroyed. And he shall deliver their kings
into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under
heaven. There shall no man be able to
stand before thee until thou have destroyed them. The graven
images of their gods shall ye burn with fire. Thou shalt not
desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto
thee, lest thou be snared therein, for it is an abomination to the
Lord thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination
into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it. But thou
shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it,
for it is a cursed thing. Deuteronomy chapter 8 All the commandments which I
command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live
and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware
unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the
way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the
wilderness, to humble thee and to prove thee, to know what was
in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments
or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and
fed thee with manna which thou knewest not, neither did thy
fathers know, that he might make thee know that man doth not live
by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
of the Lord doth man live. Thy raiment wax not old upon
thee, neither did thy foot swell these forty years. Thou shalt
also consider in thine heart that as a man chasteneth his
son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep
the commandments of the Lord thy God to walk in his ways and
to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth
thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of water, of fountains,
and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, a land of
wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a
land of oil, olive, and honey. A land wherein thou shalt eat
bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it,
a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest
dig brass. When thou hast eaten, and art
full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land
which he hath given thee. Beware that thou forget not the
Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments and his judgments
and his statutes, which I command thee this day. Lest, when thou
hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses and
dwelt therein, and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and
thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied,
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy
God which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt from
the house of bondage, who led thee through that great and terrible
wilderness wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions and drought,
where there was no water, who brought thee forth water out
of the rock of flint, who fed thee in the wilderness with manna
which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that
he might prove thee to do thee good at thy latter end. And thou
say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath
gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the Lord
thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that
he may establish his covenant which he swear unto thy fathers,
as it is this day. And it shall be, if thou do it
all, forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and
serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day
that he shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord
destroyeth before your face, so shall he perish, because he
would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy chapter 9 Hear, O
Israel, thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to
possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and
fenced up to heaven, a people great and tall, the children
of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say,
Who can stand before the children of Anak? Understand therefore
this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before
thee as a consuming fire. He shall destroy them, and he
shall bring them down before thy face. So shalt thou drive
them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath
cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness
the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land, but for the
wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from
before thee. Not for thy righteousness or
for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to possess
their land, but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy
God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may
perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. Understand, therefore, that the
Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it
for thy righteousness, for thou art a stiff-necked people. Remember,
and forget not, how thou provokest the Lord thy God to wrath in
the wilderness. From the day that thou didst
depart out of the land of Egypt until he came unto this place,
ye have been rebellious against the Lord. Also in Horeb ye provoked
the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have
destroyed you. When I was gone up into the mount
to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant
which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty
days and forty nights. I neither did eat bread nor drink
water. And the Lord delivered unto me
two tables of stone written with the finger of God. And on them
was written according to all the words which the Lord spake
with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the
day of the assembly. And it came to pass at the end
of forty days and forty nights that the Lord gave me the two
tables of stone even the tables of the covenant. And the Lord
said unto me Arise, get thee down quickly from hence, for
thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted
themselves. They are quickly turned aside
out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten
image. Furthermore the Lord spake unto
me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked
people. Let me alone that I may destroy
them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will
make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. So I turned
and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire,
and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. And I looked,
and behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made
you a molten calf. he had turned aside quickly out
of the way which the Lord had commanded you. And I took the
two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them
before your eyes. And I fell down before the Lord
as at the first forty days and forty nights. I did neither eat
bread nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned,
in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to
anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure wherewith
the Lord was wrath against you to destroy you. But the Lord
hearkened unto me at that time also. And the Lord was very angry
with Aaron to have destroyed him. And I prayed for Aaron also
the same time. And I took your sin, the calf
which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it,
and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust. And I cast the dust thereof into
the brook that descended out of the mount. And at Taborah,
and at Massah, and at Kiprothateivah ye provoked the LORD to wrath. Likewise, when the LORD sent
you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which
I have given you, then ye rebelled against the commandment of the
LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his
voice. Ye have been rebellious against
the LORD from the day that I knew you. Thus I fell down before
the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the
first, because the Lord had said He would destroy you. I prayed
therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not
Thy people and Thine inheritance, which Thou hast redeemed through
Thy greatness, which Thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with
a mighty hand. Remember thy servants, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. Look not unto the stubbornness
of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
lest the land whence thou broughtest out say, Because the Lord was
not able to bring them into the land which he promised them,
and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay
them in the wilderness. Yet they are thy people and thine
inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by
thy stretched-out arm. Deuteronomy chapter 10 At that time the Lord said unto
me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come
up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. And
I will write on the tables the words that were in the first
tables which thou breakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of
stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having
the two tables in mine hand. And he wrote on the tables, according
to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord
spake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire,
in the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them unto me.
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put
the tables in the ark which I had made. And there they be, as the
Lord commanded me. And the children of Israel took
their journey from Beeroth, of the children of Jachin, to Moserah,
where Aaron died, and there he was buried. And Eleazar, his
son, ministered in the priest's office in his stead. From thence
they journeyed unto Gad Godah, and from Gad Godah to Jotbeth,
a land of rivers of waters. At that time the Lord separated
the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
to stand before the Lord, to minister unto him, and to bless
in his name unto this day. Therefore Levi hath no part nor
inheritance with his brethren. The Lord is his inheritance,
according as the Lord thy God promised him. And I stayed in
the mount according to the first time forty days and forty nights
and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also and the Lord
would not destroy thee And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take
thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess
the land which I swear unto their fathers to give unto them. And
now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee? But
to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to
love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord and
his statutes which I command thee this day, for thy good.
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy
God, the earth also, with all that therein is. Only the Lord
had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their
seed after them, even you, above all people, as it is this day.
Circumcise, therefore, the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiff-necked. For the Lord your God is God
of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible,
which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. He doth execute
the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger
in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger,
for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Thou shalt fear
the Lord thy God, him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou
cleave, and swear by his name. He is thy praise, and he is thy
God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things
which thine eyes have seen. Thy fathers went down into Egypt
with threescore and ten persons, and now the Lord thy God hath
made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. Deuteronomy chapter 11 Therefore thou shalt love the
Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments,
and his commandments all way. And know ye this day, for I speak
not with your children which have not known, and which have
not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness,
his mighty hand, and his stretched-out arm, and his miracles, and his
acts which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king
of Egypt, and unto all his land. And what he did unto the army
of Egypt, unto their horses and to their chariots, how he made
the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you,
and how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day. And what
he did unto you in the wilderness until he came into this place.
and what he did unto Dathan, and Abiram, the sons of Eliab,
the son of Reuben, how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed
them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the
substance that was in their possession in the midst of all Israel. But
your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.
Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command
you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess
the land whither ye go to possess it, and that ye may prolong your
days in the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers to give
unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk
and honey. For the land whither thou goest in to possess it is
not as the land of Egypt from whence he came out, where thou
sowest thy seed, and waterest with thy foot as a garden of
herbs. But the land whither ye go to
possess it is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water
of the rain of heaven, a land which the Lord thy God careth
for. The eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from
the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. And
it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto
my commandments, which I command you this day, to love the Lord
your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your
soul, that I will give you the rain of your land in his due
season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest
gather in thy corn and thy wine and thine oil. And I will send
grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and
ye turn aside and serve other gods and worship them. And then
the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven,
that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit,
and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord
giveth you. Therefore shall he lay up these
my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for
a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your
eyes. And he shall teach them your
children, speaking of them, when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and
when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon
the doorposts of thine house and upon thy gates, that your
days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the
land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as
the days of heaven upon the earth. For if ye shall diligently keep
all these commandments which I command you to do them, to
love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave
unto him, Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from
before you, and he shall possess greater nations and mightier
than yourselves. Every place whereon the soles
of your feet shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness
and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto
the utmost sea shall your coast be. There shall no man be able
to stand before you. For the Lord your God shall lay
the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that
he shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. Behold, I set
before you this day a blessing and a curse. A blessing if you
obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command
you this day, and a curse if you will not obey the commandments
of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I
command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not
known. And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God hath brought
thee in unto the land, whither thou goest to possess it, that
thou shalt put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and the curse
upon Mount Ebel. Are they not on the other side,
Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of
the Canaanites, which dwell in the Champagne over against Gilgal,
beside the plains of Morii? For ye shall pass over Jordan
to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth
you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. And ye shall
observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before
you this day. Deuteronomy chapter 28 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. And all these blessings shall
come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the
voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the
city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall
be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and
the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kind, and the
flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and
thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou
comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
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. 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. The Lord shall establish
thee and 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. And all the people of the earth
shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord, and
they shall be afraid of thee. 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 swear unto thy fathers to give thee. 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. 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. 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. 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. Cursed shalt thou be in
the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall
be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of
thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kind,
and the flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when thou
comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 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. The Lord shall make
the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he hath consumed thee from
off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. 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. And thy heaven that is over thy
head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall
be iron. The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and
dust. From heaven shall it come down
upon thee until thou be destroyed. 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 unto
all the kingdoms of the earth. And thy carcass shall be meat
unto all the fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth,
and no man shall fray them away. The Lord will smite thee with
the botch of Egypt, and with the emeralds, and with the scab,
and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. The Lord
shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment
of heart, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 always. so that thou
shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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. 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. And thou shalt become an astonishment,
a proverb, and a byword among all nations whither the Lord
shall lead thee. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field,
and shalt gather but little in, for the locust shall consume
it. Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but shalt neither
drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worms shall
eat them. 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. Thou shalt forget sons and daughters,
but thou shalt not enjoy them, for they shall go into captivity.
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locusts consume.
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very
high, and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee,
and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall be the head, and thou
shalt be the tail. Moreover, all these curses shall
come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till
thou be destroyed, because thou hearkenest not unto the voice
of the Lord thy God to keep his commandments and his statutes
which he commanded thee. And they shall be upon thee for
a sign, and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. Because
thou servest not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and with
gladness of heart for the abundance of all things, 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. The Lord shall
bring a nation against thee from far. From the end of the earth,
as swift as the eagle flyeth, A nation whose tongue thou shalt
not understand, A nation of fierce countenance, Which shall not
regard the person of the old, Nor show favour to the young.
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. And he shall
besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls
come down wherein thou trustest, 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. 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 straightness wherewith thine enemies shall
distress thee, 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. 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 straightness
wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure
to set the sole of a 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, 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 straightness,
wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. 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, 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. Moreover, he will bring upon
thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of, and
they shall cleave unto thee. 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. And
he shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars
of heaven for multitude, because thou wouldst not obey the voice
of the Lord thy God. 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 naught, and ye shall be plucked from off the land
whither thou goest to possess it. 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. 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. And thy life shall hang in doubt
before thee, and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have
none assurance of thy life. 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. And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again,
with ships, by the way whereof I speak 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. Deuteronomy chapter 29 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. 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, the great
temptations which thy eyes have seen, the signs and those great
miracles. Yet the Lord hath not given you
in heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear unto
this day. 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. Ye have
not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink.
that he might know that I am the Lord your God. And when he
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, 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. Keep therefore the words of this
covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
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, your little ones, your wives, and the stranger
that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer
of thy water. 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, that he may establish
thee today 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. Neither with you
only do I make this covenant and this oath, 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. For ye know
how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through
the nations which ye passed by, and ye have seen their abominations
and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among
them. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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 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, Admar, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in His
anger and in His wrath. Even all nations shall say, Wherefore
hath the Lord done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat
of this great anger? 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. for they went and served other
gods and worshipped them gods whom they knew not and whom he
had not given unto them and the anger of the Lord was kindled
against this land to bring upon it all the curses that are written
in this book 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 The secret things belong unto the Lord our
God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to
our children forever, that we may do all the words of this
law. Deuteronomy chapter 30 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, 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,
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. If any of thine
be driven out unto the utmost parts of heaven, from thence
will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
fetch thee. 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. 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. And the Lord thy God will put
all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which
persecuted thee. And thou shalt return and obey
the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I
command thee this day. 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. 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, for this commandment which I command thee this day,
it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven
that thou shouldst say, Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring
it unto us, that we may hear it and do it? Neither is it beyond
the sea that thou shouldst say, Who shall go over the sea for
us and bring it unto us, that we may hear it and do it? but
the word is very nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart
that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this
day life and good and death and evil 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 But if thine heart turn away,
so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship
other gods, and serve them, 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.
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. that thou mayest love the Lord
thy God, that thou mayest obey his voice, 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. Deuteronomy chapter 31 And Moses went and spake these
words unto all Israel. And he said unto them, I am one
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests,
the sons of Levi, which bear the ark of the covenant of the
Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel. 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, 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. 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. And that
their children, which have not known anything, 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. 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 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 and the Lord
said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers,
and this people will rise up and go 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. 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? 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. 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.
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swear
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. And it shall come to pass, when
many evils and troubles have 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 swear. Moses therefore wrote this song
the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 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 swear unto them, and I will be with thee.
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, that
Moses commanded the Levites, which bear the ark of the covenant
of the Lord, saying, 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. 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. 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.
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. And Moses spake in the ears of
all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until
they were ended. Deuteronomy chapter 32 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I
will speak, And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine
shall drop as the rain, My speech shall distill as the dew, As
the small rain upon the tender herb, And as the showers upon
the grass, Because I will publish the name of the Lord, Escribe
ye greatness unto our God. 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. They have corrupted themselves.
Their spot is not the spot of His children. They are a perverse
and crooked generation. 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? Remember the days of old, consider
the years of many generations. Ask thy father, and he will show
thee, thy elders, and they will tell thee. 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. For the Lord's portion
is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 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. As an eagle stirreth
up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her
wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings. So the Lord alone
did lead him, and there was no strange God with him. 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, 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. 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. They provoked
him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked
they him to anger. 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. Of the rock that begat thee
thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them because of the
provoking of his sons and of his daughters. 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. 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. 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. I will heap mischiefs upon them,
I will spend mine arrows upon them, 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. The sword without, and terror
within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the
suckling also, with the man of grey hairs. I said I would scatter
them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease
from among men. 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. For they are a nation void of
counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. Oh, that
they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider
their latter end. 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? For their rock is not as our
rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 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, Their wine
is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in store
with me, And sealed up among my treasures? To me belongeth
vengeance and recompense. 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. 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. And
he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they
trusted, 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. 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. For I lift up my hand to heaven
and say, I live forever. If I wet my glittering sword
and mine hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to mine
enemies and will reward them that hate me. 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 revenge is upon the enemy. 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. And Moses came and
spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he
and Hoshea the son of Nun. And Moses made an end of speaking
all these words to all Israel. 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. For it is not a vain thing for
you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall
prolong your days in the land, with the ego over Jordan to possess
it. And the Lord spake unto Moses
that selfsame day, saying, Get thee up into this mountain Arbarim,
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. 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. 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, Yet thou shalt see the land before
thee, but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the
children of Israel. Joshua chapter 34 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 showed him all the
land of Gilead unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of
Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah unto the utmost
sea, and the south and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the
city of palm trees, unto Zoar. And the Lord said unto him, This
is the land which I swear 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.
So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land
of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him
in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor. But no
man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day. And Moses was
an hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not
dim, nor his natural force abated. 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. 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. And there arose not a prophet
since in Israel like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to face
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 and in all that mighty hand and in all the great
terror which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.