Deuteronomy:2:24-3
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Rise up ,
take your journey ,
and pass over the river Arnon .
Behold ,
I have given into thy hand Sihon the king of Heshbon ,
the Amorite ,
and his land :
begin ,
take possession ,
and engage with him in battle .
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This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples under the whole heaven ;
who will hear report of thee ,
and will tremble ,
and quake because of thee .
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And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon the king of Heshbon with words of peace ,
saying ,
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Let me pass through thy land :
by the highway alone will I go ;
I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left .
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Thou shalt sell me food for money that I may eat ;
and thou shalt give me water for money that I may drink ;
I will only pass through on my feet ,
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as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir ,
and the Moabites who dwell in Ar ,
did to me , --
until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us .
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But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him ;
for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit ,
and made his heart obdurate ,
that he might give him into thy hand ,
as it is this day .
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And Jehovah said to me ,
Behold ,
I begin to give Sihon and his land before thee :
begin ,
take possession ,
that thou mayest possess his land .
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And Sihon came out against us for battle ,
he and all his people ,
to Jahaz .
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But Jehovah our God gave him up before us ;
and we smote him ,
and his sons ,
and his whole people .
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And we took all his cities at that time ,
and utterly destroyed every city ,
men ,
and women ,
and little ones :
we let none escape .
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Only the cattle we took as booty for ourselves ,
and the spoil of the cities which we took .
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From Aroer ,
which is on the bank of the river Arnon ,
and the city that is in the ravine even to Gilead ,
there was not one city too strong for us :
Jehovah our God delivered all before us .
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Only thou didst not approach the land of the children of Ammon ,
the whole border of the river Jabbok ,
nor the cities of the mountain ,
nor to whatsoever Jehovah our God had forbidden us .
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When thou goest out to war against thine enemies ,
and seest horses ,
and chariots , [
and ]
a people more numerous than thou ,
thou shalt not fear them ;
for Jehovah thy God is with thee ,
who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt .
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And it shall be ,
when ye approach unto the battle ,
that the priest shall draw near and speak unto the people ,
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and shall say unto them ,
Hear ,
Israel ,
ye are approaching this day unto battle against your enemies :
let not your hearts faint ,
fear not ,
and do not tremble ,
neither be afraid of them ;
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for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you ,
to fight for you against your enemies ,
to save you .
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And the officers shall speak unto the people ,
saying ,
What man is there that hath built a new house ,
and hath not dedicated it ?
let him go and return unto his house ,
lest he die in the battle ,
and another man dedicate it .
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And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard ,
and hath not eaten of it ?
let him go and return unto his house ,
lest he die in the battle ,
and another man eat of it .
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And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife ,
and hath not taken her ?
let him go and return unto his house ,
lest he die in the battle ,
and another man take her .
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And the officers shall speak further unto the people ,
and shall say ,
What man is there that is timid and faint-hearted ?
let him go and return unto his house ,
lest his brethren '
s heart melt as well as his heart .
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And it shall be ,
when the officers have ended speaking unto the people ,
that they shall place captains of the hosts at the head of the people .
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When thou approachest unto a city to fight against it ,
thou shalt proclaim peace unto it .
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And it shall be ,
if it make thee answer of peace ,
and open unto thee ,
then all the people that are found therein shall be tributaries unto thee ,
and they shall serve thee .
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And if it will not make peace with thee ,
but will make war with thee ,
then thou shalt besiege it ;
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and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand ,
thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword :
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only the women ,
and the little ones ,
and the cattle ,
and all that shall be in the city ,
all the spoil thereof ,
shalt thou take as booty for thyself ;
and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies ,
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far off from thee ,
which are not of the cities of these nations .
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But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance ,
thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth ,
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but shalt utterly devote them to destruction ,
the Hittites and the Amorites ,
the Canaanites and the Perizzites ,
the Hivites and the Jebusites ,
as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee ;
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that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations ,
which they have done unto their gods ,
so that ye sin against Jehovah your God .
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When thou shalt besiege a city many days ,
in making war against it to take it ,
thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by lifting up an axe against them ;
for thou canst eat of them ;
and thou shalt not cut them down ,
for is the tree of the field a man that it should be besieged ?
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Only the trees which thou knowest are not trees for meat ,
thou mayest destroy and cut them down ,
and build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee ,
until it fall .
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If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess ,
lying in the field , [
and ]
it be not known who hath smitten him ,
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then thine elders and thy judges shall go forth ,
and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain ;
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and the city that is nearest unto him that is slain ,
even the elders of that city shall take a heifer that hath not been wrought with ,
that hath not drawn in the yoke ;
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and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto an ever-flowing watercourse ,
which is not tilled ,
nor is it sown ,
and shall break the heifer '
s neck there in the watercourse ;
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and the priests the sons of Levi shall come near ;
for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to do service unto him ,
and to bless in the name of Jehovah ;
and according to their word shall be every controversy and every stroke .
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And all the elders of that city ,
that are nearest unto him that is slain ,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck is broken in the watercourse ,
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and shall answer and say ,
Our hands have not shed this blood ,
neither have our eyes seen it .
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Forgive thy people Israel ,
whom thou ,
Jehovah ,
hast redeemed ,
and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people Israel ;
and the blood shall be expiated for them .
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So shalt thou put away innocent blood from thy midst ,
when thou shalt do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah .
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When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies ,
and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands ,
and thou hast taken captives of them ,
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and thou seest among the captives a woman of beautiful form ,
and hast a desire unto her ,
and takest her as thy wife ;
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then thou shalt bring her home to thy house ;
and she shall shave her head ,
and pare her nails ;
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and she shall put the clothes of her captivity from off her ,
and shall abide in thy house ,
and bewail her father and mother a full month ,
and afterwards thou mayest go in unto her ,
and be her husband ,
and she shall be thy wife .
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And it shall be ,
if thou have no delight in her ,
then thou shalt let her go according to her desire ;
but thou shalt in no wise sell her for money ;
thou shalt not treat her as a slave ,
because thou hast humbled her .
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If a man have two wives ,
one beloved ,
and one hated ,
and they have borne him children ,
both the beloved and the hated ,
and the firstborn son be hers that was hated ;
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then it shall be ,
in the day that he maketh his sons to inherit what he hath ,
that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated ,
who is the firstborn ;
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but he shall acknowledge as firstborn the son of the hated ,
by giving him a double portion of all that is found with him ;
for he is the firstfruits of his vigour :
the right of the firstborn is his .
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If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son ,
who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father ,
nor unto the voice of his mother ,
and they have chastened him ,
but he hearkeneth not unto them ;
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then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him ,
and bring him out unto the elders of his city ,
and unto the gate of his place ;
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and they shall say unto the elders of his city ,
This our son is unmanageable and rebellious ,
he hearkeneth not unto our voice ;
he is a profligate and a drunkard .
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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones ,
that he die .
And thou shalt put evil away from thy midst ;
and all Israel shall hear and fear .
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And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death ,
and he be put to death ,
and thou have hanged him on a tree ,
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his body shall not remain all night upon the tree ,
but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day (
for he that is hanged is a curse of God );
and thou shalt not defile thy land ,
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance .
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Thou shalt not see thy brother '
s ox or his sheep go astray ,
and hide thyself from them :
thou shalt in any case bring them back unto thy brother .
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And if thy brother be not near unto thee ,
and thou know him not ,
then thou shalt bring it unto thy house ,
and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it ,
and thou shalt restore it unto him .
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And so shalt thou do with his ass ;
and so shalt thou do with his clothing ;
and so shalt thou do with everything that is lost of thy brother ,
which he loseth ,
and thou findest :
thou mayest not hide thyself .
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Thou shalt not see thy brother '
s ass or his ox fall by the way ,
and hide thyself from them :
thou shalt in any case [
help ]
him to lift them up .
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There shall not be a man '
s apparel on a woman ,
neither shall a man put on a woman '
s clothing ;
for whoever doeth so is an abomination to Jehovah thy God .
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If a bird '
s nest chance to be before thee in the way ,
in any tree ,
or upon the ground ,
with young or with eggs ,
and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs ,
thou shalt not take the dam with the young :
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thou shalt in any case let the dam go ,
and thou mayest take the young to thee ,
that it may be well with thee ,
and that thou mayest prolong thy days .
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When thou buildest a new house ,
thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof ,
that thou bring not blood upon thy house ,
if any one should in any wise fall from it .
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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with [
seed of ]
two sorts ,
lest the whole of thy seed which thou hast sown ,
and the produce of thy vineyard ,
be forfeited .
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Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together .
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Thou shalt not wear a garment of mixed material , [
woven ]
of wool and linen together .
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Tassels shalt thou make thee on the four corners of thy clothing ,
wherewith thou coverest thyself .
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If a man take a wife ,
and go in unto her and hate her ,
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and charge her with things for scandalous talk ,
and cause an evil name against her to be spread abroad ,
and say ,
This woman have I taken ,
and I came in unto her ,
and I did not find her a virgin ;
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then shall the father of the damsel ,
and her mother ,
take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel '
s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate ;
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and the damsel '
s father shall say unto the elders ,
I gave my daughter unto this man as wife ,
and he hates her ;
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and behold ,
he charges her with things for scandalous talk ,
saying ,
I found not thy daughter a virgin ;
and here are the tokens of my daughter '
s virginity .
And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city .
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And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him ;
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and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver ,
and give them unto the father of the damsel ,
because he hath caused an evil name to be spread abroad against a virgin in Israel .
And she shall remain his wife :
he may not put her away all his days .
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But if this thing is true , [
and ]
virginity hath not been found with the damsel ;
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then they shall bring out the damsel unto the entrance of her father '
s house ,
and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die :
because she hath wrought infamy in Israel ,
committing fornication in her father '
s house ;
and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst .
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If a man be found lying with a man '
s wife ,
they shall both of them die ,
the man that lay with the woman ,
and the woman ;
and thou shalt put away evil from Israel .
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If a damsel ,
a virgin ,
be betrothed to some one ,
and a man find her in the city ,
and lie with her ,
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then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city ,
and stone them with stones that they die ;
the damsel ,
because she cried not , [
being ]
in the city ,
and the man ,
because he hath humbled his neighbour '
s wife ;
and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst .
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But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field ,
and the man force her ,
and lie with her ,
then the man only that lay with her shall die ;
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and unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing :
there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death ;
for as when a man riseth against his neighbour ,
and murdereth him ,
so is this matter ;
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for he found her in the field ,
the betrothed damsel cried ,
and there was no one to save her .
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If a man find a damsel ,
a virgin ,
who is not betrothed ,
and lay hold on her ,
and lie with her ,
and they be found ,
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then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel '
s father fifty [
shekels ]
of silver ,
and she shall be his wife ,
because he hath humbled her ;
he may not put her away all his days .
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A man shall not take his father '
s wife ,
nor uncover his father '
s skirt .
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He that is a eunuch ,
whether he have been crushed or cut ,
shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah .
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A bastard shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah ;
even his tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah .
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An Ammonite or Moabite shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah ;
even their tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah for ever ;
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because they met you not with bread and with water on the way ,
when ye came forth out of Egypt ,
and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor ,
of Pethor of Mesopotamia ,
to curse thee .
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But Jehovah thy God would not listen to Balaam ;
and Jehovah thy God turned the curse into blessing unto thee ,
because Jehovah thy God loved thee .
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Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever .
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Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite ;
for he is thy brother .
Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian ;
because thou wast a sojourner in his land .
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Children that are born to them shall come into the congregation of Jehovah in the third generation .
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When thou goest forth into camp against thine enemies ,
then keep thee from every evil thing .
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If there be with thee a man that is not clean from what hath happened in the night ,
then shall he go outside the camp ;
he shall not come inside the camp ;
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and it shall be ,
towards evening ,
he shall bathe in water :
and at the going down of the sun he may come inside the camp .
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Thou shalt have a place also outside the camp ,
and shalt go forth thither .
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And thou shalt have a shovel amongst thy weapons ,
and it shall be ,
when thou sittest down abroad ,
thou shalt dig therewith ,
and shalt turn back and cover that which is come from thee .
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For Jehovah thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp ,
to deliver thee ,
and to give up thine enemies before thee ;
and thy camp shall be holy ,
that he see nothing unseemly with thee ,
and turn away from thee .
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Thou shalt not hand over to his master a bondman that hath escaped from his master unto thee :
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he shall dwell with thee ,
even in thy midst ,
in the place that he shall choose in one of thy gates ,
where it seemeth good to him ;
thou shalt not oppress him .
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There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel ,
nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel .
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Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot ,
or the price of a dog ,
into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow ;
for even both these are an abomination to Jehovah thy God .
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Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother ,
interest of money ,
interest of victuals ,
interest of anything that can be lent upon interest :
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of a foreigner thou mayest take interest ,
but of thy brother thou shalt not take interest ;
that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the business of thy hand in the land whither thou goest to possess it .
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When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thy God ,
thou shalt not delay to perform it ;
for Jehovah thy God will certainly require it of thee ,
and it shall be sin in thee .
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But if thou forbear to vow ,
it shall be no sin in thee .
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What is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and do ,
as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God ,
the voluntary-offering that thou hast promised with thy mouth .
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When thou comest into thy neighbour '
s vineyard ,
thou mayest eat grapes thy fill ,
according to thy desire ,
but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel .
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When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour ,
thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand ;
but thou shalt not wave the sickle against thy neighbour '
s standing corn .
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When a man taketh a wife ,
and marrieth her ,
it shall be if she find no favour in his eyes ,
because he hath found some unseemly thing in her ,
that he shall write her a letter of divorce ,
and give it into her hand ,
and send her out of his house .
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And she shall depart out of his house ,
and go away ,
and may become another man '
s wife .
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And if the latter husband hate her ,
and write her a letter of divorce ,
and give it into her hand ,
and send her out of his house ;
or if the latter husband die who took her as his wife ;
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her first husband ,
who sent her away ,
may not take her again to be his wife ,
after that she is defiled ;
for it is an abomination before Jehovah ;
and thou shalt not cause the land to sin ,
which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance .
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When a man hath newly taken a wife ,
he shall not go out with the army ,
neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him ;
he shall be free for his house one year ,
and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken .
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No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge ;
for it would be taking life in pledge .
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If a man be found who hath stolen one of his brethren of the children of Israel ,
and who hath treated him as a slave and sold him ,
that thief shall die ;
and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst .
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Take heed in the plague of leprosy ,
that thou take great heed ,
and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you :
as I commanded them shall ye take heed to do .
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Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam on the way ,
after that ye came forth out of Egypt .
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When thou dost lend thy brother anything ,
thou shalt not go into his house to secure his pledge .
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Thou shalt stand outside ,
and the man to whom thou hast made a loan shall bring out the pledge to thee without .
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And if the man be needy ,
thou shalt not lie down with his pledge ;
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in any case thou shalt return him the pledge at the going down of the sun ,
that he may sleep in his own upper garment and bless thee ;
and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God .
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Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant [
who is ]
poor and needy of thy brethren ,
or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates :
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on his day thou shalt give him his hire ,
neither shall the sun go down upon it ;
for he is poor ,
and his soul yearneth after it ;
lest he cry against thee to Jehovah ,
and it be a sin in thee .
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The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons ,
neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers :
every man shall be put to death for his own sin .
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Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger , [
or ]
of the fatherless ;
and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow '
s garment .
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt ,
and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee from thence ;
therefore I command thee to do this thing .
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When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field ,
and forgettest a sheaf in the field ,
thou shalt not return to fetch it ;
it shall be for the stranger ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow ;
that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands .
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When thou shakest thine olive-tree ,
thou shalt not go over the boughs again ;
it shall be for the stranger ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow .
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When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard ,
thou shalt not glean it afterwards ;
it shall be for the stranger ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow .
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt ;
therefore I command thee to do this thing .
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If there be a controversy between men ,
and they resort to judgment ,
and they judge [
their case ];
then they shall justify the righteous ,
and condemn the wicked .
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And it shall be if the wicked man have deserved to be beaten ,
that the judge shall cause him to lie down ,
and be beaten before his face ,
according to the measure of his wickedness with a certain number [
of stripes ].
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With forty [
stripes ]
shall they beat him ;
they shall not exceed ,
lest ,
if they continue to beat him with many stripes above these ,
thy brother become despicable in thine eyes .
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Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [
the corn ].
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If brethren dwell together ,
and one of them die ,
and have no son ,
the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad :
her husband '
s brother shall go in unto her ,
and take her to him as wife ,
and perform the duty of a husband '
s brother unto her .
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And it shall be ,
that the firstborn that she beareth shall stand in the name of his brother who is dead ,
that his name be not blotted out from Israel .
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But if the man like not to take his brother '
s wife ,
his brother '
s wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders ,
and say ,
My husband '
s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel :
he will not perform for me the duty of a husband '
s brother .
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Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him ;
and if he stand to it and say ,
I like not to take her ;
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then shall his brother '
s wife come near to him before the eyes of the elders ,
and draw his sandal from his foot ,
and spit in his face ,
and shall answer and say ,
So shall it be done unto the man that will not build up his brother '
s house .
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And his name shall be called in Israel ,
The house of him that hath his shoe drawn off .
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When men fight together one with another ,
and the wife of the one come near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him ,
and stretch out her hand ,
and seize him by his secret parts ,
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thou shalt cut off her hand ;
thine eye shall not spare .
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights ,
a great and a small .
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Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs ,
a great and a small .
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A perfect and just weight shalt thou have ;
a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have ;
that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee .
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For every one that doeth such things ,
every one that doeth unrighteousness ,
is an abomination to Jehovah thy God .
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Remember what Amalek did unto thee on the way ,
when ye came forth out of Egypt ;
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how he met thee on the way ,
and smote the hindmost of thee ,
all the feeble that lagged behind thee ,
when thou wast faint and weary ,
and he feared not God .
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And it shall be ,
when Jehovah thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about ,
in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it ,
that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens ;
thou shalt not forget it .
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And it shall be when thou comest into the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance ,
and possessest it ,
and dwellest therein ,
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that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground ,
which thou shalt bring of thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee ,
and shalt put it in a basket ,
and shalt go unto the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there ;
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and thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days ,
and say unto him ,
I profess this day unto Jehovah thy God ,
that I am come unto the land that Jehovah swore unto our fathers to give us .
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And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand ,
and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God .
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And thou shalt speak and say before Jehovah thy God ,
A perishing Aramean was my father ,
and he went down to Egypt with a few ,
and sojourned there ,
and became there a nation ,
great ,
mighty ,
and populous .
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And the Egyptians evil-entreated us ,
and afflicted us ,
and laid upon us hard bondage ;
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and we cried to Jehovah ,
the God of our fathers ,
and Jehovah heard our voice ,
and looked on our affliction ,
and our labour ,
and our oppression ;
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and Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt with a powerful hand ,
and with a stretched-out arm ,
and with great terribleness ,
and with signs ,
and with wonders ;
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and he hath brought us into this place ,
and hath given us this land ,
a land flowing with milk and honey !
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And now ,
behold ,
I have brought the first of the fruits of the land ,
which thou ,
Jehovah ,
hast given me .
And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God ,
and worship before Jehovah thy God .
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And thou shalt rejoice in all the good that Jehovah thy God hath given to thee ,
and to thy house ,
thou ,
and the Levite ,
and the stranger that is in thy midst .
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When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thy produce in the third year ,
the year of tithing ,
thou shalt give it to the Levite ,
to the stranger ,
to the fatherless ,
and to the widow ,
that they may eat in thy gates ,
and be filled ;
*
and thou shalt say before Jehovah thy God ,
I have brought away the hallowed things out of the house ,
and also have given them to the Levite ,
and to the stranger ,
to the fatherless ,
and to the widow ,
according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me ;
I have not transgressed nor forgotten [
any ]
of thy commandments :
*
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning ,
neither have I brought away thereof in uncleanness ,
nor given thereof for a dead person ;
I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God ;
I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me .
*
Look down from thy holy habitation ,
from the heavens ,
and bless thy people Israel ,
and the land that thou hast given us as thou didst swear unto our fathers ,
a land flowing with milk and honey !
*
This day Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and ordinances ;
and thou shalt keep and do them with all thy heart and with all thy soul .
*
Thou hast this day accepted Jehovah to be thy God ,
and to walk in his ways ,
and keep his statutes ,
and his commandments ,
and his ordinances ,
and to hearken unto his voice ;
*
and Jehovah hath accepted thee this day to be a people of possession to him ,
as he hath told thee ,
and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments ,
*
so that he should make thee high above all the nations which he hath made ,
in praise and in name and in honour ;
and that thou shouldest be a holy people to Jehovah thy God ,
as he hath said .
*
And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people ,
saying ,
Keep all the commandment which I command you this day .
*
And it shall be on the day when ye pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee ,
that thou shalt set thee up great stones ,
and plaster them with plaster :
*
and thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law ,
when thou goest over that thou mayest enter into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee ,
a land flowing with milk and honey ,
as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath promised thee .
*
And it shall be when ye go over the Jordan ,
that ye shall set up these stones ,
as I command you this day ,
on mount Ebal ,
and thou shalt plaster them with plaster .
*
And there shalt thou build an altar to Jehovah thy God ,
an altar of stones ;
thou shalt not lift up an iron [
tool ]
upon them ;
*
of whole stones shalt thou build the altar of Jehovah thy God ;
and thou shalt offer up burnt-offerings thereon to Jehovah thy God .
*
And thou shalt sacrifice peace-offerings ,
and shalt eat there ,
and rejoice before Jehovah thy God .
*
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly .
*
And Moses and the priests ,
the Levites ,
spoke to all Israel ,
saying ,
Be silent and hearken ,
Israel !
this day thou art become the people of Jehovah thy God .
*
And thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God ,
and do his commandments and his statutes ,
which I command thee this day .
*
And Moses gave commandment to the people the same day ,
saying ,
*
These shall stand to bless the people upon mount Gerizim ,
when ye have gone over the Jordan :
Simeon ,
and Levi ,
and Judah ,
and Issachar ,
and Joseph ,
and Benjamin .
*
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse :
Reuben ,
Gad ,
and Asher ,
and Zebulun ,
Dan ,
and Naphtali .
*
And the Levites shall declare and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice :
*
Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image ,
an abomination to Jehovah ,
a work of the craftsman '
s hand ,
and putteth it up secretly !
And all the people shall answer and say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that slighteth his father or his mother !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour '
s landmark !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger ,
fatherless ,
and widow !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that lieth with his father '
s wife ;
for he uncovereth his father '
s skirt !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that lieth with his sister ,
the daughter of his father ,
or the daughter of his mother !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that taketh reward to smite mortally [
shedding ]
innocent blood !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them !
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
And it shall come to pass ,
if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God ,
to take heed to do all his commandments which I command thee this day ,
that Jehovah thy God will set thee supreme 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 Jehovah thy God .
*
Blessed shalt thou be in the city ,
and blessed shalt thou be in the field .
*
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb ,
and the fruit of thy ground ,
and the fruit of thy cattle ,
the offspring of thy kine ,
and the increase of thy sheep .
*
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough .
*
Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in ,
and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out .
*
Jehovah will give up ,
smitten before thee ,
thine enemies that rise up against thee ;
they shall come out against thee one way ,
and by seven ways shall they flee before thee .
*
Jehovah will command blessing on thee in thy granaries ,
and in all the business of thy hand ;
and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee .
*
Jehovah will establish thee unto himself a holy people as he hath sworn unto thee ,
if thou keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God ,
and walk in his ways .
*
And all peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah ,
and they shall be afraid of thee .
*
And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good ,
in the fruit of thy body ,
and in the fruit of thy cattle ,
and in the fruit of thy ground ,
in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee .
*
Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure ,
the heavens ,
to give rain unto thy land in its season ,
and to bless all the work of thy hand ;
and thou shalt lend unto many nations ,
but thou shalt not borrow .
*
And Jehovah will make thee the head ,
and not the tail ;
and thou shalt be above only ,
and thou shalt not be beneath ;
if thou hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God ,
which I command thee this day ,
to keep and to do them ,
*
and if thou turn not aside from any of the words that 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 Jehovah thy God ,
to take heed 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 kneading-trough .
*
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb ,
and the fruit of thy ground ,
the offspring of thy kine ,
and the increase of thy sheep .
*
Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in ,
and cursed shalt thou be in thy going out .
*
Jehovah will send upon thee cursing ,
confusion ,
and rebuke ,
in all the business of thy hand which thou doest ,
until thou be destroyed and until thou perish quickly ,
because of the wickedness of thy doings ,
whereby thou hast forsaken me .
*
Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee ,
until he have consumed thee from off the land whither thou goest to possess it .
*
Jehovah will smite thee with consumption ,
and with fever ,
and with inflammation ,
and with burning ague ,
and with drought ,
and with blight ,
and with mildew ,
and they shall pursue thee until thou perish .
*
And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass ,
and the earth which is under thee ,
iron .
*
Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust ;
from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed .
*
Jehovah will give thee up smitten before thine enemies ;
thou shalt go out against them one way ,
and by seven ways shalt thou flee before them ;
and thou shalt be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth .
*
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all the fowl of the air ,
and unto the beasts of the earth ,
and there shall be no man to scare them away .
*
Jehovah will smite thee with the ulcers of Egypt ,
and with boils ,
and with the scab ,
and with the itch ,
whereof thou canst not be healed .
*
Jehovah will smite thee with madness ,
and with blindness ,
and with 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 continually ,
and there shall be none to save .
*
Thou shalt betroth a wife ,
and another man shall lie with her ;
thou shalt build a house ,
and thou shalt not dwell therein ;
thou shalt plant a vineyard ,
and shalt not eat of it .
*
Thine ox shall be slaughtered before thine eyes ,
and thou shalt not eat thereof ;
thine ass shall be snatched away from before thy face ,
and shall not return to thee ;
thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies ,
and thou shalt have none to recover them .
*
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people ,
and thine eyes shall look ,
and languish for them all the day long ;
and there shall be no power in thy hand [
to help it ].
*
The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour ,
shall a people that thou knowest not eat up ;
and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually .
*
And thou shalt be mad through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see .
*
Jehovah will smite thee in the knees and in the legs with evil ulcers ,
whereof thou canst not be healed ,
from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head .
*
Jehovah will bring thee ,
and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee ,
unto a nation that 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 the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee .
*
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field ,
and shalt gather little in ;
for the locust shall devour it .
*
Thou shalt plant and till vineyards ,
but shalt drink no wine ,
nor gather [
the fruit ];
for the worms shall eat it .
*
Olive-trees shalt thou have throughout all thy borders ,
but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil ;
for thine olive-tree shall cast its fruit .
*
Sons and daughters shalt thou beget ,
but thou shalt not have them [
to be with thee ];
for they shall go into captivity .
*
All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess .
*
The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher ,
and thou shalt sink down lower and lower .
*
He shall lend to thee ,
but thou shalt not lend to him :
he shall be the head ,
and thou shalt be the tail .
*
And all these curses shall come upon thee ,
and shall pursue thee ,
and overtake thee ,
until thou be destroyed ;
because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah 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 servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness ,
and with gladness of heart ,
for the abundance of everything ,
*
thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee ,
in hunger ,
and in thirst ,
and in nakedness ,
and in want of everything ;
and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck ,
until he have destroyed thee .
*
Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar ,
from the end of the earth ,
like as the eagle flieth ,
a nation whose tongue thou understandest not ;
*
a nation of fierce countenance ,
which regardeth not the person of the old ,
nor is kind to the young ;
*
and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle ,
and the fruit of thy ground ,
until thou be destroyed ;
for he shall not leave thee corn ,
new wine ,
or oil ,
offspring of thy kine ,
or increase of thy sheep ,
until he have destroyed thee .
*
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates ,
until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down ,
throughout all thy land ;
and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land ,
which Jehovah thy God hath given thee .
*
And in the siege ,
and in the straitness ,
wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee ,
thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body ,
the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee .
*
The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother ,
and the wife of his bosom ,
and the residue of his children which he hath left ;
*
so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth ,
because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates .
*
The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness ,
shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom ,
and her son ,
and her daughter ,
*
because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet ,
and her children whom she shall bear ;
for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates .
*
If thou wilt not take heed to do all the words of this law that are written in this book ,
to fear this glorious and fearful name ,
JEHOVAH THY GOD ;
*
then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful ,
and the plagues of thy seed ,
great and persistent plagues and evil and persistent sicknesses ;
*
and he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou art 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 Jehovah bring upon thee ,
until thou be destroyed .
*
And ye shall be left a small company ,
whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude ;
because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God .
*
And it shall come to pass ,
that as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you ,
so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish ,
and to destroy you ;
and ye shall be plucked from off the land whereunto thou goest to possess it .
*
And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples ,
from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth ;
and thou shalt there serve other gods ,
whom thou hast not known ,
neither thou nor thy fathers ,
wood and stone .
*
And among these nations shalt thou have no rest ,
neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place ,
and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart ,
languishing of the eyes ,
and pining of the soul .
*
And thy life shall hang in suspense before thee ;
and thou shalt be in terror day and night and shalt be afraid of thy life .
*
In the morning thou shalt say ,
Would that it were even !
and in the evening thou shalt say ,
Would that it were morning !
through the fright of thy heart wherewith thou shalt be in terror ,
and through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see .
*
And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships ,
by the way whereof I said unto thee ,
Thou shalt see it again no more ;
and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen ,
and there shall be no man to buy [
you ].
*
These are the words of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab ,
besides the covenant that he made with them in Horeb .
*
And Moses called to all Israel ,
and said unto them ,
Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh ,
and to all his bondmen ,
and to all his land :
*
the great trials that thine eyes have seen ,
those great signs and wonders .
*
But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive ,
and eyes to see ,
and ears to hear ,
to this day .
*
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness ;
your clothes are not grown old upon you ,
and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot ;
*
ye have not eaten bread ,
neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink ,
that ye might know that I am Jehovah your God .
*
And ye came to this place ;
and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us for battle ,
and we smote them .
*
And we took their land ,
and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites ,
and to the Gadites ,
and to the half tribe of the Manassites .
*
Ye shall keep then 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 Jehovah your God :
your chiefs [
of ]
your tribes ,
your elders ,
and your officers ,
all the men of Israel ,
*
your little ones ,
your wives ,
and thy stranger that is in thy camp ,
as well the hewer of thy wood as the drawer of thy water ;
*
that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God ,
and into his oath ,
which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day ;
*
that he may establish thee this day for a people unto himself ,
and [
that ]
he may be to 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 Jehovah our God ,
and with him that is not here with us this day
* (
for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt ,
and how we came through the nations which ye passed ;
*
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 Jehovah 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 stubbornness of my heart ,
to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty .
*
Jehovah will not pardon him ,
but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man ,
and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book ;
and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens ;
*
and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel ,
according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law .
*
And the generation to come ,
your children who shall rise up after you ,
and the foreigner that shall come from a far land ,
shall say ,
when they see the plagues of that land ,
and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it ,
* [
that ]
the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt , [
and ]
burning ,
that it is not sown ,
nor beareth ,
and no grass groweth in it ,
like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah ,
Admah and Zeboim ,
which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury :
*
even all nations shall say ,
Why has Jehovah done thus to this land ?
whence the heat of this great anger ?
*
And men shall say ,
Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers ,
which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt ;
*
and they went and served other gods ,
and bowed down to them ,
gods whom they knew not ,
and whom he had not assigned to them .
*
And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land ,
to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book ;
*
and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger ,
and in fury ,
and in great indignation ,
and cast them into another land ,
as [
it appears ]
this day .
*
The hidden things belong to Jehovah our God ;
but the revealed ones are ours and our children '
s for ever ,
to do all the words of this law .
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