mkjv - Deuteronomy:21-26

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:1 @ If [one] is found dead in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it is not known who has killed him,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:2 @ then your elders and your judges shall come forth. And they shall measure to the cities which [are] around him who is dead.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:3 @ And it shall be, the city nearest to the slain one, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer which has not been worked with, which has not drawn in the yoke.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:4 @ And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an ever-flowing stream, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the stream.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:5 @ And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near. For the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [tried].

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:6 @ And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain one, shall wash their hands over the heifer that has been beheaded in the stream.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:7 @ And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:8 @ Be merciful, O LORD, to Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:9 @ So you shall put away innocent blood from among you, when you do the right in the sight of the LORD.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:10 @ When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands and you have taken them captive,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:11 @ and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to her, that you would take [her] for your wife,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:12 @ then you shall bring her home to your house. And she shall shave her head and dress her nails.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:13 @ And she shall put off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and shall sorrow for her father and her mother a full month. And after that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:14 @ And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will. But you shall not sell her at all for silver, you shall not make a slave of her, because you have humbled her.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:15 @ If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him sons, the beloved and the hated; and [if] the first-born son was of her that was hated,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:16 @ then it shall be in the day when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, he may not cause to [inherit] the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated one, he who [is truly] the first-born.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:17 @ But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For he [is] the beginning of his strength. The right of the first-born is his.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:18 @ If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him [he] will not listen to them,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:19 @ then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:20 @ And they shall say to the elders of his city, this son of ours [is] stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. [He is] a glutton and a drunkard.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:21 @ And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies. So shall you put evil away from you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:22 @ And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and if he is put to death and you hang him on a tree,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:21:23 @ his body shall not remain all night on the tree. But you shall surely bury him that day (for he that [is] hanged is accursed of God), so that your land may not be defiled, which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:1 @ You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:2 @ And if your brother [is] not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring [it] into your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks after it, and you shall give it back to him again.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:3 @ In the same way you shall do with his ass. And so shall you do with his clothing. And with any lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do the same. You may not hide yourself.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:4 @ You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely [help] him to lift [it] up again.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:5 @ There shall not be the thing of a man on a woman, neither shall a man put a woman's garment on. For all that do so [are] abominable to the LORD your God.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:6 @ If a bird's nest happens to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [with] young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:7 @ You shall in every case let the mother go and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and you may make [your] days longer.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:8 @ When you build a new house, then you shall make a guard rail for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house, if one falls from it.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:9 @ You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seeds, lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:10 @ You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:11 @ You shall not wear a garment of different kinds, of wool and linen together.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:12 @ You shall make for yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:13 @ If any man takes a wife and goes in to her, and hates her,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:14 @ and makes shameful charges against her, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:15 @ then shall the father of the girl, and her mother, take and bring tokens of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:16 @ And the girl's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:17 @ And, lo, he has made shameful charges [against her], saying, I have not found in your daughter the tokens of virginity. And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:18 @ And the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:19 @ And they shall fine him a hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the girl, because he has brought an evil name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:20 @ But if this thing is true and tokens of virginity are not found for the girl,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:21 @ then they shall bring the girl out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies because she has done foolishness in Israel to play the harlot in her father's house. So you shall put evil away from among you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:22 @ If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall put away evil from Israel.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:23 @ If a girl [who is] a virgin is engaged to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:24 @ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So you shall put away evil from among you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:25 @ But if a man finds an engaged girl in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man that lay with her shall die.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:26 @ But you shall do nothing to the girl. No sin [worthy] of death [is] in the girl; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and slays him, even so is this matter.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:27 @ For he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but [there was] none to save her.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:28 @ If a man finds a girl, a virgin not engaged, and lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they are found,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:29 @ then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:22:30 @ A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:1 @ He who is wounded, crushed, or who has his male member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:2 @ A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Even to his tenth generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:3 @ An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Even to their tenth generation they shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:4 @ because they did not meet you with bread and with water in the way when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:5 @ But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse to a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:6 @ You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:7 @ You shall not despise an Edomite, for he [is] your brother. You shall not despise an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:8 @ The sons that are born to them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:9 @ When the army goes forth against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:10 @ If there is among you any man who is not clean because of an accident at night, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:11 @ And it shall be as evening turns, he shall wash with water. And when the sun is down, he shall come into the the middle of the camp.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:12 @ You shall also have a place outside the camp where you shall go forth.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:13 @ And you shall have a paddle on your weapon. And it shall be, when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:14 @ For the LORD your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, so that He may see no unclean thing in you and turn away from you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:15 @ You shall not deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:16 @ He shall live with you, among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of your gates, where it seems good to him. You shall not oppress him.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:17 @ There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:18 @ You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow. For even both these [are] hateful to the LORD your God.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:19 @ You shall not lend for interest to your brother, interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything that is loaned on interest.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:20 @ You may lend on interest to a stranger, but you shall not lend on interest to your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land where you go to possess it.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:21 @ When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not wait to pay it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin in you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:22 @ But if you shall cease to vow, it shall be no sin in you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:23 @ That which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform, even a free-will offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:24 @ When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat grapes to your fill at your own pleasure, but you shall not put [any] in your vessel.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:23:25 @ When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not move a sickle into your neighbor's standing grain.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:1 @ When a man has taken a wife and married her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorce and put it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:2 @ And when she has departed from his house, she goes and becomes another man's;

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:3 @ and the latter husband hates her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts [it] in her hand and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, he who took her to be his wife

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:4 @ her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that [is] hateful before the LORD. And you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:5 @ When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any duty. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:6 @ No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:7 @ If a man is found stealing a person of his brothers, the sons of Israel, and makes a slave of him, or sells him, then that thief shall die. And you shall put evil away from among you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:8 @ Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you watch carefully and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you. As I commanded them, you shall be careful to do.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:9 @ Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam by the wayside, after you had come forth out of Egypt.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:10 @ When you loan a loan of any kind to your brother, you shall not go into his house to bring forth his pledge.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:11 @ You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you loan shall bring the pledge outside to you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:12 @ And if the man [is] poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:13 @ You shall certainly give back to him the pledge at sundown, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:14 @ You shall not oppress a hired servant who [is] poor and needy, of your brothers, or of your strangers that [are] in your land within your gates.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:15 @ At his day you shall give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it. For he [is] poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it shall be sin to you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:16 @ 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.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:17 @ You shall not pervert the rightful judgment of the stranger [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing to pledge.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:18 @ But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:19 @ When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to bring it. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:20 @ When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:21 @ When you gather the grapes from your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:24:22 @ And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:1 @ If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they have been judged, and the righteous one is declared righteous, and the wrongdoer declared guilty,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:2 @ then it shall be, if the wrongdoer [is] worthy to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to fall down. And one shall strike him in his presence, enough for his wrong, by a certain number.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:3 @ He may give him forty stripes, no more, lest he should exceed and beat him above these [with] many stripes, then your brother would be dishonored before your eyes.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:4 @ You shall not muzzle an ox when he treads out [the grain].

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ If brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as a wife for himself, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:6 @ And it shall be, the first-born whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his dead brother, so that his name may not be put out of Israel.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:7 @ And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name in Israel to his brother. He will not perform my levirate.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:8 @ Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And [if] he stands and says, I do not desire to take her,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:9 @ then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of his elders, and take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother's house.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:10 @ And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe taken off.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:11 @ When men strive together with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand and takes him by the secret parts,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:12 @ then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not pity.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:13 @ You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a great stone and a small.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:14 @ You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a great ephah and a small.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:15 @ You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:16 @ For all that do such things, all that do unrighteousness, [are] hateful to the LORD your God.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:17 @ Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you came forth out of Egypt,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:18 @ how he met you by the way and struck those of you who were behind, all the feeble behind you, when you [were] faint and weary. And he did not fear God.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:25:19 @ And it shall be when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around in the land which the LORD your God gives you [for] an inheritance to possess it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heavens. You shall not forget.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:1 @ And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and live in it,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:2 @ you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put [it] in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His name there.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:3 @ And you shall go to the priest in those days, and say to him, I profess today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:4 @ And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:5 @ And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, My father [was] a Syrian ready to perish. And he went down to Egypt, and stayed there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and many.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:6 @ And the Egyptians ill-treated us, and afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:7 @ And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice and looked on our afflictions and our labor and our oppression.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:8 @ And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fearful might, and with miracles and with wonders.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:9 @ And He has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land that flows with milk and honey.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:10 @ And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which You, O LORD, have given me. And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:11 @ And [you shall] rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house; you, and the Levite, and the stranger in your midst.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:12 @ When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, the year of tithing, and have given [it] to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow (that they may eat inside your gates and be filled),

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:13 @ then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have brought away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me. I have not broken Your commandments, neither have I forgotten.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:14 @ I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put [any] of it away for unclean [use], nor have I given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:15 @ Look down from Your holy dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, as You swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:16 @ Today the LORD your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments. You therefore shall keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:17 @ You have today said that the LORD is your God, and that you would walk in His ways, and keep His statutes and His commandments and His judgments, and listen to His voice.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:18 @ And the LORD has taken you today to be His peculiar people, as He has promised you, and to keep all His commandments,

mkjv@Deuteronomy:26:19 @ and to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise and in name and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, even as He has spoken.

mkjv@Deuteronomy:27:1 @ And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you today.