rsv Deuteronomy:2:24-3
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:24 @ `Rise up, take your journey, and go over the valley of the Arnon; behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:25 @ This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:26 @ "So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Ked'emoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:27 @ `Let me pass through your land; I will go only by the road, I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:28 @ You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot,
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:29 @ as the sons of Esau who live in Se'ir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives to us.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:30 @ But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as at this day.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:31 @ And the LORD said to me, `Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you; begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:32 @ Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:33 @ And the LORD our God gave him over to us; and we defeated him and his sons and all his people.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:34 @ And we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city, men, women, and children; we left none remaining;
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:35 @ only the cattle we took as spoil for ourselves, with the booty of the cities which we captured.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:36 @ From Aro'er, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; the LORD our God gave all into our hands.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:37 @ Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God forbade us.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:1 @ "When you go forth to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:2 @ And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people,
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:3 @ and shall say to them, `Hear, O Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; do not fear, or tremble, or be in dread of them;
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:4 @ for the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:5 @ Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, `What man is there that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:6 @ And what man is there that has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:7 @ And what man is there that has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:8 @ And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, 'What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest the heart of his fellows melt as his heart.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:9 @ And when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:10 @ "When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:11 @ And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:12 @ But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it;
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:13 @ and when the LORD your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its males to the sword,
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:14 @ but the women and the little ones, the cattle, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourselves; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:15 @ Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:16 @ But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:17 @ but you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Per'izzites, the Hivites and the Jeb'usites, as the LORD your God has commanded;
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:18 @ that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices which they have done in the service of their gods, and so to sin against the LORD your God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:19 @ "When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field men that they should be besieged by you?
rsv@Deuteronomy:20:20 @ Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:1 @ "If in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, any one is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:2 @ then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure the distance to the cities which are around him that is slain;
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:3 @ and the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has never been worked and which has not pulled in the yoke.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:4 @ And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:5 @ And the priests the sons of Levi shall come forward, 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 every dispute and every assault shall be settled.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:6 @ And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:7 @ and they shall testify, `Our hands did not shed this blood, neither did our eyes see it shed.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:8 @ Forgive, O LORD, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and set not the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of thy people Israel; but let the guilt of blood be forgiven them.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:9 @ So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:10 @ "When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hands, and you take them captive,
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:11 @ and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have desire for her and would take her for yourself as wife,
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:12 @ then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and pare her nails.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:13 @ And she shall put off her captive's garb, and shall remain in your house and bewail her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:14 @ Then, if you have no delight in her, you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her for money, you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:15 @ "If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked,
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:16 @ then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born,
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:17 @ but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:18 @ "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they chastise him, will not give heed to them,
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:19 @ then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:20 @ and they shall say to 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.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:21 @ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:22 @ "And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
rsv@Deuteronomy:21:23 @ his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God; you shall not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:1 @ "You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and withhold your help from them; you shall take them back to your brother.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:2 @ And if he is not near you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:3 @ And so you shall do with his ass; so you shall do with his garment; so you shall do with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not withhold your help.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:4 @ You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and withhold your help from them; you shall help him to lift them up again.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:5 @ "A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:6 @ "If you chance to come upon a bird's nest, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:7 @ you shall let the mother go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:8 @ "When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if any one fall from it.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:9 @ "You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited to the sanctuary, the crop which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:10 @ You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:11 @ You shall not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:12 @ "You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:13 @ "If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and then spurns her,
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:14 @ and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings an evil name upon her, saying, `I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,'
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:15 @ then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:16 @ and the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, `I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he spurns her;
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:17 @ and lo, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, "I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity." And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:18 @ Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him;
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:19 @ and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:20 @ But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman,
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:21 @ then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:22 @ "If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:23 @ "If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:24 @ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:25 @ "But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:26 @ But to the young woman you shall do nothing; in the young woman there is no offense punishable by death, for this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor;
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:27 @ because he came upon her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:28 @ "If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:29 @ then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.
rsv@Deuteronomy:22:30 @ "A man shall not take his father's wife, nor shall he uncover her who is his father's.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:1 @ "He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the LORD.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:2 @ "No bastard shall enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:3 @ "No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of the LORD for ever;
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:4 @ because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Be'or from Pethor of Mesopota'mia, to curse you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:5 @ Nevertheless the LORD your God would not hearken to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:6 @ You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days for ever.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:7 @ "You shall not abhor an E'domite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:8 @ The children of the third generation that are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:9 @ "When you go forth against your enemies and are in camp, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:10 @ "If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of what chances to him by night, then he shall go outside the camp, he shall not come within the camp;
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:11 @ but when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water, and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:12 @ "You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it;
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:13 @ and you shall have a stick with your weapons; and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it, and turn back and cover up your excrement.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:14 @ Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to save you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, that he may not see anything indecent among you, and turn away from you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:15 @ "You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you;
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:16 @ he shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place which he shall choose within one of your towns, where it pleases him best; you shall not oppress him.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:17 @ "There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:18 @ You shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:19 @ "You shall not lend upon interest to your brother, interest on money, interest on victuals, interest on anything that is lent for interest.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:20 @ To a foreigner you may lend upon interest, but to your brother you shall not lend upon interest; that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:21 @ "When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin in you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:22 @ But if you refrain from vowing, it shall be no sin in you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:23 @ You shall be careful to perform what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:24 @ "When you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your vessel.
rsv@Deuteronomy:23:25 @ When you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:1 @ "When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:2 @ and if she goes and becomes another man's wife,
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:3 @ and the latter husband dislikes 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, who took her to be his wife,
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:4 @ then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring guilt upon the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:5 @ "When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:6 @ "No man shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge; for he would be taking a life in pledge.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:7 @ "If a man is found stealing one of his brethren, the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:8 @ "Take heed, in an attack of leprosy, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you; as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:9 @ Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:10 @ "When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:11 @ You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:12 @ And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge;
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:13 @ when the sun goes down, you shall restore to him the pledge that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:14 @ "You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brethren or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns;
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:15 @ you shall give him his hire on the day he earns it, before the sun goes down (for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it); lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin in you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:16 @ "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:17 @ "You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge;
rsv@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.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:19 @ "When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:20 @ When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:21 @ When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.
rsv@Deuteronomy:24:22 @ You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:1 @ "If there is a dispute between men, and they come into court, and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:2 @ then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:3 @ Forty stripes may be given him, but not more; lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:4 @ "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ "If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside the family to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:6 @ And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:7 @ And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, `My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:8 @ Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he persists, saying, `I do not wish to take her,'
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:9 @ then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, `So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:10 @ And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, The house of him that had his sandal pulled off.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:11 @ "When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:12 @ then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:13 @ "You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:14 @ You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:15 @ A full and just weight you shall have, a full and just measure you shall have; that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:16 @ For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:17 @ "Remember what Am'alek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt,
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:18 @ how he attacked you on the way, when you were faint and weary, and cut off at your rear all who lagged behind you; and he did not fear God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:19 @ Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the remembrance of Am'alek from under heaven; you shall not forget.
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:1 @ "When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and have taken possession of it, and live in it,
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:2 @ you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:3 @ And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, `I declare this day to the LORD your God that I have come into the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:4 @ Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:5 @ "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, `A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:6 @ And the Egyptians treated us harshly, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:7 @ Then we cried to the LORD the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression;
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:8 @ and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders;
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:9 @ and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:10 @ And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O LORD, hast given me.' And you shall set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God;
rsv@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 sojourner who is among you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:12 @ "When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your towns and be filled,
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:13 @ then you shall say before the LORD your God, `I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me; I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them;
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:14 @ I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God, I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:15 @ Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel and the ground which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:16 @ "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances; you shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:17 @ You have declared this day concerning the LORD that he is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinances, and will obey his voice;
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:18 @ and the LORD has declared this day concerning you that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,
rsv@Deuteronomy:26:19 @ that he will set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has spoken."
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:1 @ Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:2 @ And on the day you pass over the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall set up large stones, and plaster them with plaster;
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:3 @ and you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you pass over to enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:4 @ And when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:5 @ And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you shall lift up no iron tool upon them.
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:6 @ You shall build an altar to the LORD your God of unhewn stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God;
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:7 @ and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:8 @ And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly."
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:9 @ And Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:10 @ You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day."
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:11 @ And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:12 @ "When you have passed over the Jordan, these shall stand upon Mount Ger'izim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:13 @ And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zeb'ulun, Dan, and Naph'tali.
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:14 @ And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:15 @ "`Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:16 @ "`Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:17 @ "`Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:18 @ "`Cursed be he who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:19 @ "`Cursed be he who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:20 @ "`Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered her who is his father's.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:21 @ "`Cursed be he who lies with any kind of beast.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:22 @ "`Cursed be he who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:23 @ "`Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:24 @ "`Cursed be he who slays his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:25 @ "`Cursed be he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:27:26 @ "`Cursed be he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, `Amen.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:1 @ "And if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:2 @ And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:3 @ Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:4 @ Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:5 @ Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:6 @ Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:7 @ "The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:8 @ The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:9 @ The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:10 @ And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:11 @ And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, within the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:12 @ The LORD will open to you his good treasury the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:13 @ And the LORD will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall tend upward only, and not downward; if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, being careful to do them,
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:14 @ and if you do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:15 @ "But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:16 @ Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:17 @ Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:18 @ Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:19 @ Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:20 @ "The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration, in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your doings, because you have forsaken me.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:21 @ The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to take possession of it.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:22 @ The LORD will smite you with consumption, and with fever, inflammation, and fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:23 @ And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:24 @ The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:25 @ "The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:26 @ And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to frighten them away.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:27 @ The LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt, and with the ulcers and the scurvy and the itch, of which you cannot be healed.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:28 @ The LORD will smite you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind;
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:29 @ and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:30 @ You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and you shall not use the fruit of it.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:31 @ Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away before your face, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be no one to help you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:32 @ Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all the day; and it shall not be in the power of your hand to prevent it.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:33 @ A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually;
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:34 @ so that you shall be driven mad by the sight which your eyes shall see.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:35 @ The LORD will smite you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:36 @ "The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:37 @ And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:38 @ You shall carry much seed into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:39 @ You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:40 @ You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:41 @ You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:42 @ All your trees and the fruit of your ground the locust shall possess.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:43 @ The sojourner who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:44 @ He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:45 @ All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:46 @ They shall be upon you as a sign and a wonder, and upon your descendants for ever.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:47 @ "Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things,
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:48 @ therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:49 @ The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand,
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:50 @ a nation of stern countenance, who shall not regard the person of the old or show favor to the young,
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:51 @ and shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; who also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:52 @ They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:53 @ And you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:54 @ The man who is the most tender and delicately bred among you will grudge food to his brother, to the wife of his bosom, and to the last of the children who remain to him;
rsv@Deuteronomy:28:55 @ so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}