Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} At that time the LORD said to me, "Cut two tables of stone
like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark
of wood. {10:2} I will write on the tables the words that were on the
first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark."
{10:3} So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone
like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables
in my hand. {10:4} He wrote on the tables, according to the first
writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and
the LORD gave them to me. {10:5} I turned and came down from the
mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there
they are as the LORD commanded me. {10:6} (The children of Israel
traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and
there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's
office in his place. {10:7} From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and
from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. {10:8} At that
time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and
to bless in his name, to this day. {10:9} Therefore Levi has no
portion nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his
inheritance, according as the LORD your God spoke to him.) {10:10} I
stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty
nights: and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD would not
destroy you. {10:11} The LORD said to me, "Arise, take your journey
before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I
swore to their fathers to give to them."
{10:12} Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but
to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him,
and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul, {10:13} to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes,
which I command you this day for your good? {10:14} Behold, to the
LORD your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth,
with all that is therein. {10:15} Only the LORD had a delight in your
fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you
above all peoples, as at this day. {10:16} Circumcise therefore the
foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. {10:17} For the
LORD your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God,
the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons, nor takes
reward. {10:18} He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow,
and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing. {10:19}
Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of
Egypt. {10:20} You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him;
and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name. {10:21}
He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these
great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. {10:22} Your
fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD
your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
{11:1} Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his
instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his
commandments, always. {11:2} Know this day: for I don't speak with
your children who have not known, and who have not seen the
chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and
his outstretched arm, {11:3} and his signs, and his works, which he
did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his
land; {11:4} and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses,
and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Sea of Suf to
overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has
destroyed them to this day; {11:5} and what he did to you in the
wilderness, until you came to this place; {11:6} and what he did to
Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth
opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and
their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst
of all Israel: {11:7} but your eyes have seen all the great work of
the LORD which he did. {11:8} Therefore you shall keep all the
commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and
go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it; {11:9}
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore
to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with
milk and honey. {11:10} For the land, where you go in to possess it,
isn't as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed
your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
{11:11} but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of
hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the sky, {11:12} a
land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your God
are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of
the year. {11:13} It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to
my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your
God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
{11:14} that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the
former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain,
and your new wine, and your oil. {11:15} I will give grass in your
fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. {11:16} Take
heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside,
and serve other gods, and worship them; {11:17} and the anger of the
LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there
shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you
perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.
{11:18} Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in
your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they
shall be for symbols between your eyes. {11:19} You shall teach them
your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when
you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
{11:20} You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on
your gates; {11:21} that your days may be multiplied, and the days of
your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to
give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth. {11:22} For if
you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to
do it, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to
cling to him; {11:23} then will the LORD drive out all these nations
from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier
than yourselves. {11:24} Every place whereon the sole of your foot
shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the
river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your
border. {11:25} No man shall be able to stand before you: the LORD
your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the
land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you. {11:26} Behold,
I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: {11:27} the
blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of the LORD your
God, which I command you this day; {11:28} and the curse, if you shall
not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside
out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods,
which you have not known. {11:29} It shall happen, when the LORD your
God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you
shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
{11:30} Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going
down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the
Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? {11:31} For you
are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the
LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell therein.
{11:32} You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances
which I set before you this day.
{12:1} These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall
observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has
given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
{12:2} You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations
that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains,
and on the hills, and under every green tree: {12:3} and you shall
break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn
their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of
their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. {12:4}
You shall not do so to the LORD your God. {12:5} But to the place
which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put
his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you
shall come; {12:6} and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and
your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand,
and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your
herd and of your flock: {12:7} and there you shall eat before the LORD
your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you
and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
{12:8} You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,
every man whatever is right in his own eyes; {12:9} for you haven't
yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God
gives you. {12:10} But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the
land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you
rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;
{12:11} then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring
all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice
vows which you vow to the LORD. {12:12} You shall rejoice before the
LORD your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male
servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your
gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you. {12:13}
Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in
every place that you see; {12:14} but in the place which the LORD
shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt
offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. {12:15}
Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates,
after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of the
LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may
eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. {12:16} Only you
shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
{12:17} You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or
of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of
your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill
offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; {12:18} but you shall
eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God
shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male
servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your
gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you
put your hand to. {12:19} Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake
the Levite as long as you live in your land.
{12:20} When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has
promised you, and you shall say, "I want to eat meat," because your
soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of
your soul. {12:21} If the place which the LORD your God shall choose,
to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of
your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have
commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire
of your soul. {12:22} Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so
you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
{12:23} Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is
the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. {12:24} You
shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. {12:25}
You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your
children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes
of the LORD. {12:26} Only your holy things which you have, and your
vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:
{12:27} and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the
blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your
sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God; and
you shall eat the flesh. {12:28} Observe and hear all these words
which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your
children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right
in the eyes of the LORD your God.
{12:29} When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before
you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and
dwell in their land; {12:30} take heed to yourself that you not be
ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before
you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these
nations serve their gods? I will do likewise." {12:31} You shall not
do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, which
he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their
daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods. {12:32} Whatever
thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.
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