Deuteronomy:2:24-3
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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 .
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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 .
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And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace ,
saying ,
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Let me pass through thy land :
I will go along by the high way ,
I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left .
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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 ;
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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 .
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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 .
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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 his land .
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Then Sihon came out against us ,
he and all his people ,
to fight at Jahaz .
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And the LORD our God delivered him before us ;
and we smote him ,
and his sons ,
and all his people .
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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 :
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Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves ,
and the spoil of the cities which we took .
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From Aroer ,
which is by the brink of the river of Arnon ,
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 :
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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 forbad us .
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When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies ,
and seest horses ,
and chariots ,
and a people more than thou ,
be not afraid of them :
for the LORD thy God is with thee ,
which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt .
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And it shall be ,
when ye are come nigh unto the battle ,
that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people ,
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And shall say unto them ,
Hear ,
O Israel ,
ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies :
let not your hearts faint ,
fear not ,
and do not tremble ,
neither be ye terrified because of them ;
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For the LORD 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 to his house ,
lest he die in the battle ,
and another man dedicate it .
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And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard ,
and hath not yet eaten of it ?
let him also 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 they shall say ,
What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted ?
let him go and return unto his house ,
lest his brethren '
s heart faint as well as his heart .
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And it shall be ,
when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people ,
that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people .
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When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it ,
then proclaim peace unto it .
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And it shall be ,
if it make thee answer of peace ,
and open unto thee ,
then it shall be ,
that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee ,
and they shall serve thee .
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And if it will make no peace with thee ,
but will make war against thee ,
then thou shalt besiege it :
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And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands ,
thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword :
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But the women ,
and the little ones ,
and the cattle ,
and all that is in the city ,
even all the spoil thereof ,
shalt thou take unto thyself ;
and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies ,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee .
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which 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 people ,
which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance ,
thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth :
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But thou shalt utterly destroy them ;
namely ,
the Hittites ,
and the Amorites ,
the Canaanites ,
and the Perizzites ,
the Hivites ,
and the Jebusites ;
as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee :
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That they teach you not to do after all their abominations ,
which they have done unto their gods ;
so should ye sin against the LORD your God .
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When thou shalt besiege a city a long time ,
in making war against it to take it ,
thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them :
for thou mayest eat of them ,
and thou shalt not cut them down (
for the tree of the field is man '
s life )
to employ them in the siege :
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Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat ,
thou shalt destroy and cut them down ;
and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee ,
until it be subdued .
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If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it ,
lying in the field ,
and it be not known who hath slain him :
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Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth ,
and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain :
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And it shall be ,
that the city which is next unto the slain man ,
even the elders of that city shall take an heifer ,
which hath not been wrought with ,
and which hath not drawn in the yoke ;
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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley ,
which is neither eared nor sown ,
and shall strike off the heifer '
s neck there in the valley :
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And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near ;
for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him ,
and to bless in the name of the LORD ;
and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried :
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And all the elders of that city ,
that are next unto the slain man ,
shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley :
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And they shall answer and say ,
Our hands have not shed this blood ,
neither have our eyes seen it .
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Be merciful ,
O LORD ,
unto thy people Israel ,
whom thou hast redeemed ,
and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel '
s charge .
And the blood shall be forgiven them .
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So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you ,
when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD .
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When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies ,
and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands ,
and thou hast taken them captive ,
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And seest among the captives a beautiful woman ,
and hast a desire unto her ,
that thou wouldest have her to thy wife ;
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Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house ;
and she shall shave her head ,
and pare her nails ;
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And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her ,
and shall remain in thine house ,
and bewail her father and her mother a full month :
and after that thou shalt 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 whither she will ;
but thou shalt not sell her at all for money ,
thou shalt not make merchandise of her ,
because thou hast humbled her .
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If a man have two wives ,
one beloved ,
and another hated ,
and they have born him children ,
both the beloved and the hated ;
and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated :
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Then it shall be ,
when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath ,
that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated ,
which is indeed the firstborn :
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But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn ,
by giving him a double portion of all that he hath :
for he is the beginning of his strength ;
the right of the firstborn is his .
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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son ,
which will not obey the voice of his father ,
or the voice of his mother ,
and that ,
when they have chastened him ,
will not hearken 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 stubborn and rebellious ,
he will not obey our voice ;
he is a glutton ,
and a drunkard .
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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones ,
that he die :
so shalt thou put evil away from among you ;
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 to be put to death ,
and thou hang 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 accursed of God ;)
that thy land be not defiled ,
which the LORD 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 again unto thy brother .
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And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee ,
or if thou know him not ,
then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house ,
and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it ,
and thou shalt restore it to him again .
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In like manner shalt thou do with his ass ;
and so shalt thou do with his raiment ;
and with all lost thing of thy brother '
s ,
which he hath lost ,
and thou hast found ,
shalt thou do likewise :
thou mayest not hide thyself .
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Thou shalt not see thy brother '
s ass or his ox fall down by the way ,
and hide thyself from them :
thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again .
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The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man ,
neither shall a man put on a woman '
s garment :
for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God .
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If a bird '
s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree ,
or on the ground ,
whether they be young ones ,
or 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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But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go ,
and 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 ,
then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof ,
that thou bring not blood upon thine house ,
if any man fall from thence .
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Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds :
lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown ,
and the fruit of thy vineyard ,
be defiled .
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Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together .
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Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts ,
as of woollen and linen together .
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Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture ,
wherewith thou coverest thyself .
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If any man take a wife ,
and go in unto her ,
and hate her ,
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And give occasions of speech against her ,
and bring up an evil name upon her ,
and say ,
I took this woman ,
and when I came to her ,
I found her not a maid :
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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 to wife ,
and he hateth her ;
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And ,
lo ,
he hath given occasions of speech against her ,
saying ,
I found not thy daughter a maid ;
and yet these 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 that man and chastise him ;
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And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver ,
and give them unto the father of the damsel ,
because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel :
and she shall be his wife ;
he may not put her away all his days .
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But if this thing be true ,
and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel :
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Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father '
s house ,
and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die :
because she hath wrought folly in Israel ,
to play the whore in her father '
s house :
so shalt thou put evil away from among you .
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If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband ,
then they shall both of them die ,
both the man that lay with the woman ,
and the woman :
so shalt thou put away evil from Israel .
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If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband ,
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 ye shall 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 :
so thou shalt put away evil from among you .
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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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But 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 slayeth him ,
even so is this matter :
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For he found her in the field ,
and the betrothed damsel cried ,
and there was none to save her .
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If a man find a damsel that is a virgin ,
which 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 discover his father '
s skirt .
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He that is wounded in the stones ,
or hath his privy member cut off ,
shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD .
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A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD ;
even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD .
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An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD ;
even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever :
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Because they met you not with bread and with water in 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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Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam ;
but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee ,
because the LORD 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 stranger in his land .
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The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation .
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When the host goeth forth against thine enemies ,
then keep thee from every wicked thing .
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If there be among you any man ,
that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night ,
then shall he go abroad out of the camp ,
he shall not come within the camp :
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But it shall be ,
when evening cometh on ,
he shall wash himself with water :
and when the sun is down ,
he shall come into the camp again .
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Thou shalt have a place also without the camp ,
whither thou shalt go forth abroad :
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And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon ;
and it shall be ,
when thou wilt ease thyself abroad ,
thou shalt dig therewith ,
and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee :
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For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp ,
to deliver thee ,
and to give up thine enemies before thee ;
therefore shall thy camp be holy :
that he see no unclean thing in thee ,
and turn away from thee .
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Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee :
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He shall dwell with thee ,
even among you ,
in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates ,
where it liketh him best :
thou shalt not oppress him .
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There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel ,
nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel .
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Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore ,
or the price of a dog ,
into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow :
for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God .
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Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother ;
usury of money ,
usury of victuals ,
usury of any thing that is lent upon usury :
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Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ;
but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury :
that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it .
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When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God ,
thou shalt not slack to pay it :
for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee ;
and it would be sin in thee .
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But if thou shalt forbear to vow ,
it shall be no sin in thee .
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That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform ;
even a freewill offering ,
according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God ,
which thou hast promised with thy mouth .
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When thou comest into thy neighbour '
s vineyard ,
then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure ;
but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel .
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When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour ,
then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand ;
but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour '
s standing corn .
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When a man hath taken a wife ,
and married her ,
and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes ,
because he hath found some uncleanness in her :
then let him write her a bill of divorcement ,
and give it in her hand ,
and send her out of his house .
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And when she is departed out of his house ,
she may go and be another man '
s wife .
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And if the latter husband hate her ,
and write her a bill of divorcement ,
and giveth it in her hand ,
and sendeth her out of his house ;
or if the latter husband die ,
which took her to be his wife ;
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Her former husband ,
which sent her away ,
may not take her again to be his wife ,
after that she is defiled ;
for that is abomination before the LORD :
and thou shalt not cause the land to sin ,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance .
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When a man hath taken a new wife ,
he shall not go out to war ,
neither shall he be charged with any business :
but he shall be free at home one year ,
and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken .
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No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge :
for he taketh a man '
s life to pledge .
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If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel ,
and maketh merchandise of him ,
or selleth him ;
then that thief shall die ;
and thou shalt put evil away from among you .
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Take heed in the plague of leprosy ,
that thou observe diligently ,
and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you :
as I commanded them ,
so ye shall observe to do .
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Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way ,
after that ye were come forth out of Egypt .
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When thou dost lend thy brother any thing ,
thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge .
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Thou shalt stand abroad ,
and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee .
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And if the man be poor ,
thou shalt not sleep with his pledge :
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In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down ,
that he may sleep in his own raiment ,
and bless thee :
and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God .
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Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy ,
whether he be of thy brethren ,
or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates :
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At his day thou shalt give him his hire ,
neither shall the sun go down upon it ;
for he is poor ,
and setteth his heart upon it :
lest he cry against thee unto the LORD ,
and it be sin unto thee .
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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children ,
neither shall the children 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 ,
nor of the fatherless ;
nor take a widow '
s raiment to pledge :
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But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt ,
and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence :
therefore I command thee to do this thing .
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When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field ,
and hast forgot a sheaf in the field ,
thou shalt not go again to fetch it :
it shall be for the stranger ,
for the fatherless ,
and for the widow :
that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands .
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When thou beatest 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 afterward :
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 come unto judgment ,
that the judges may judge them ;
then they shall justify the righteous ,
and condemn the wicked .
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And it shall be ,
if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten ,
that the judge shall cause him to lie down ,
and to be beaten before his face ,
according to his fault ,
by a certain number .
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Forty stripes he may give him ,
and not exceed :
lest ,
if he should exceed ,
and beat him above these with many stripes ,
then thy brother should seem vile unto thee .
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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 child ,
the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger :
her husband '
s brother shall go in unto her ,
and take her to him to wife ,
and perform the duty of an husband '
s brother unto her .
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And it shall be ,
that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead ,
that his name be not put out of Israel .
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And if the man like not to take his brother '
s wife ,
then let his brother '
s wife 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 the duty of my 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 unto him in the presence of the elders ,
and loose his shoe from off his foot ,
and spit in his face ,
and shall answer and say ,
So shall it be done unto that 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 loosed .
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When men strive together one with another ,
and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him ,
and putteth forth her hand ,
and taketh him by the secrets :
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Then thou shalt cut off her hand ,
thine eye shall not pity her .
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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 thine house divers measures ,
a great and a small .
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But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight ,
a perfect and just measure shalt thou have :
that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee .
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For all that do such things ,
and all that do unrighteously ,
are an abomination unto the LORD thy God .
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Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way ,
when ye were come forth out of Egypt ;
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How he met thee by the way ,
and smote the hindmost of thee ,
even all that were feeble behind thee ,
when thou wast faint and weary ;
and he feared not God .
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Therefore it shall be ,
when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about ,
in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it ,
that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;
thou shalt not forget it .
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And it shall be ,
when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD 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 earth ,
which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee ,
and shalt put it in a basket ,
and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there .
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And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days ,
and say unto him ,
I profess this day unto the LORD thy God ,
that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us .
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And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand ,
and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God .
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And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God ,
A Syrian ready to perish was my father ,
and he went down into Egypt ,
and sojourned there with a few ,
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 when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers ,
the LORD heard our voice ,
and looked on our affliction ,
and our labour ,
and our oppression :
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And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand ,
and with an outstretched 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 ,
even a land that floweth with milk and honey .
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And now ,
behold ,
I have brought the firstfruits of the land ,
which thou ,
O LORD ,
hast given me .
And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God ,
and worship before the LORD thy God :
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And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee ,
and unto thine house ,
thou ,
and the Levite ,
and the stranger that is among you .
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When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year ,
which is the year of tithing ,
and hast given it unto the Levite ,
the stranger ,
the fatherless ,
and the widow ,
that they may eat within thy gates ,
and be filled ;
*
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God ,
I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house ,
and also have given them unto the Levite ,
and unto the stranger ,
to the fatherless ,
and to the widow ,
according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me :
I have not transgressed thy commandments ,
neither have I forgotten them :
*
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning ,
neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use ,
nor given ought thereof for the dead :
but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God ,
and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me .
*
Look down from thy holy habitation ,
from heaven ,
and bless thy people Israel ,
and the land which thou hast given us ,
as thou swarest unto our fathers ,
a land that floweth with milk and honey .
*
This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments :
thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart ,
and with all thy soul .
*
Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God ,
and to walk in his ways ,
and to keep his statutes ,
and his commandments ,
and his judgments ,
and to hearken unto his voice :
*
And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people ,
as he hath promised thee ,
and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments ;
*
And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made ,
in praise ,
and in name ,
and in honour ;
and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God ,
as he hath spoken .
*
And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people ,
saying ,
Keep all the commandments which I command you this day .
*
And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee ,
that thou shalt set thee up great stones ,
and plaister them with plaister :
*
And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law ,
when thou art passed over ,
that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee ,
a land that floweth with milk and honey ;
as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee .
*
Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan ,
that ye shall set up these stones ,
which I command you this day ,
in mount Ebal ,
and thou shalt plaister them with plaister .
*
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God ,
an altar of stones :
thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them .
*
Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones :
and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God :
*
And thou shalt offer peace offerings ,
and shalt eat there ,
and rejoice before the LORD thy God .
*
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly .
*
And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel ,
saying ,
Take heed ,
and hearken ,
O Israel ;
this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God .
*
Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God ,
and do his commandments and his statutes ,
which I command thee this day .
*
And Moses charged the people the same day ,
saying ,
*
These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people ,
when ye are come over Jordan ;
Simeon ,
and Levi ,
and Judah ,
and Issachar ,
and Joseph ,
and Benjamin :
*
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse ;
Reuben ,
Gad ,
and Asher ,
and Zebulun ,
Dan ,
and Naphtali .
*
And the Levites shall speak ,
and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice ,
*
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image ,
an abomination unto the LORD ,
the work of the hands of the craftsman ,
and putteth it in a secret place .
And all the people shall answer and say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that setteth light by 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 ;
because 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 slay an innocent person .
And all the people shall say ,
Amen .
*
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all 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 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 kine ,
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 an holy people unto himself ,
as he hath sworn unto thee ,
if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God ,
and walk in his ways .
*
And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD ;
and they shall be afraid of thee .
*
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods ,
in the fruit of thy body ,
and in the fruit of thy cattle ,
and in the fruit of thy ground ,
in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee .
*
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 kine ,
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 have 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 into all the kingdoms of the earth .
*
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air ,
and unto the beasts of the earth ,
and no man shall fray them away .
*
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt ,
and with the emerods ,
and with the scab ,
and with the itch ,
whereof thou canst not be healed .
*
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 alway :
*
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 beget 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 locust 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 hearkenedst 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 servedst 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 flieth ;
a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand ;
*
A nation of fierce countenance ,
which shall not regard the person of the old ,
nor shew 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 trustedst ,
throughout all thy land :
and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land ,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee .
*
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body ,
the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters ,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee ,
in the siege ,
and in the straitness ,
wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee :
*
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 straitness ,
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 her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness ,
her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom ,
and toward her son ,
and toward her daughter ,
*
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet ,
and toward her children which she shall bear :
for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness ,
wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates .
*
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 ye shall be left few in number ,
whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude ;
because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God .
*
And it shall come to pass ,
that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good ,
and to multiply you ;
so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you ,
and to bring you to nought ;
and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it .
*
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 spake unto thee ,
Thou shalt see it no more again :
and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen ,
and no man shall buy you .
*
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 thine eyes have seen ,
the signs ,
and those great miracles :
*
Yet the LORD hath not given you an 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 ye might know that I am the LORD your God .
*
And when ye came unto this place ,
Sihon the king of Heshbon ,
and Og the king of Bashan ,
came out against us unto battle ,
and we smote them :
*
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 thy 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 to day for a people unto himself ,
and that he may be unto thee a God ,
as he hath said unto thee ,
and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers ,
to Abraham ,
to Isaac ,
and to Jacob .
*
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 ,
Admah ,
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 for ever ,
that we may do all the words of this law .
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