021:017 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his. 021:018 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; 021:019 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 021:020 and they shall tell 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. 021:021 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 021:022 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree; 021:023 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance. 022:001 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. 022:002 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him. 022:003 So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself. 022:004 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again. 022:005 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God. 022:006 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young: 022:007 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. 022:008 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there. 022:009 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. 022:010 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. 022:011 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together. 022:012 You shall make yourselves fringes{or, tassles} on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself. 022:013 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her, 022:014 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity; 022:015 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate; 022:016 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her; 022:017 and behold, he has laid shameful things [to her charge], saying, I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. 022:018 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; 022:019 and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 022:020 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; 022:021 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. 022:022 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel. 022:023 If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 022:024 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you. 022:025 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die: 022:026 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter; 022:027 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her. 022:028 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 022:029 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady'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. 022:030 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt. 023:001 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh. 023:002 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh. 023:003 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever: 023:004 because they didn't 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 from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 023:005 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you. 023:006 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. 023:007 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. 023:008 The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh. 023:009 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing. 023:010 If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 023:011 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. 023:012 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall go forth abroad: 023:013 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you: 023:014 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you. 023:015 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you: 023:016 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him. 023:017 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 023:018 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God. 023:019 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest: 023:020 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it. 023:021 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. 023:022 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you. 023:023 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth. 023:024 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel. 023:025 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain. 024:001 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 024:002 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]. 024:003 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; 024:004 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance. 024:005 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. 024:006 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge. 024:007 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. 024:008 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do. 024:009 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt. 024:010 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. 024:011 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you. 024:012 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; 024:013 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God. 024:014 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates: 024:015 in 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 Yahweh, and it be sin to you. 024:016 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. 024:017 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge; 024:018 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing. 024:019 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 024:020 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 024:021 When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 024:022 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing. 025:001 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; 025:002 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 wickedness, by number. 025:003 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you. 025:004 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain]. 025:005 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 025:006 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel. 025:007 If the man doesn't want 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 raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me. 025:008 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her; 025:009 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from 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. 025:010 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied. 025:011 When men strive together one with 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 secrets; 025:012 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity. 025:013 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. 025:014 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. 025:015 A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. 025:016 For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God. 025:017 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt; 025:018 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God. 025:019 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget. 026:001 It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein, 026:002 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 026:003 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us. 026:004 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God. 026:005 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 026:006 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: 026:007 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; 026:008 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders; 026:009 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 026:010 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God. 026:011 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you. 026:012 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled. 026:013 You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 026:014 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me. 026:015 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. 026:016 This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul. 026:017 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice: 026:018 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments; 026:019 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken. 027:001 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you this day. 027:002 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: 027:003 and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you. 027:004 It shall be, when you are passed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster. 027:005 There shall you build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them. 027:006 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God: 027:007 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God. 027:008 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly. 027:009 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you are become the people of Yahweh your God. 027:010 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day. 027:011 Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 027:012 These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. 027:013 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 027:014 The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 027:015 Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen. 027:016 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:017 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:018 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:019 Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:020 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:021 Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:022 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:023 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:024 Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:025 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amen. 027:026 Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amen. 028:001 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth: 028:002 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 028:003 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 028:004 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. 028:005 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough. 028:006 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. 028:007 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you: they shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways. 028:008 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. 028:009 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways. 028:010 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you. 028:011 Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you. 028:012 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow. 028:013 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them], 028:014 and shall 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. 028:015 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. 028:016 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 028:017 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading trough. 028:018 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. 028:019 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 028:020 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me. 028:021 Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it. 028:022 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish. 028:023 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron. 028:024 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed. 028:025 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. 028:026 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away. 028:027 Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed. 028:028 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; 028:029 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you. 028:030 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it. 028:031 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you. 028:032 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand. 028:033 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always; 028:034 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 028:035 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. 028:036 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone. 028:037 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away. 028:038 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. 028:039 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. 028:040 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit]. 028:041 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. 028:042 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess. 028:043 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower. 028:044 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 028:045 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: 028:046 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever. 028:047 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; 028:048 therefore shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you. 028:049 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand; 028:050 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, 028:051 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. 028:052 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you. 028:053 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 028:054 The man who 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 whom he has remaining; 028:055 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. 028:056 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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, 028:057 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates. 028:058 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD; 028:059 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 028:060 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you. 028:061 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Yahweh bring on you, until you are destroyed. 028:062 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 028:063 It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it. 028:064 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. 028:065 Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 028:066 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. 028:067 In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 028:068 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you. 029:001 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 029:002 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; 029:003 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: 029:004 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. 029:005 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot. 029:006 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. 029:007 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them: 029:008 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. 029:009 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. 029:010 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 029:011 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water; 029:012 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day; 029:013 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 029:014 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 029:015 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day 029:016 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed; 029:017 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 029:018 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; 029:019 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. 029:020 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. 029:021 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. 029:022 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick; 029:023 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 029:024 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger? 029:025 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 029:026 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them: 029:027 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book; 029:028 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. 029:029 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. 030:001 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you, 030:002 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 030:003 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you. 030:004 If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there he will bring you back: 030:005 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. 030:006 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. 030:007 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 030:008 You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. 030:009 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; 030:010 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. 030:011 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. 030:012 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? 030:013 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? 030:014 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it. 030:015 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 030:016 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. 030:017 But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 030:018 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 030:019 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; 030:020 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. 031:001 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 031:002 He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan. 031:003 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 031:004 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed. 031:005 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. 031:006 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you. 031:007 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. 031:008 Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. 031:009 Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. 031:010 Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents, 031:011 when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 031:012 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; 031:013 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it. 031:014 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. 031:015 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 031:016 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 031:017 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us? 031:018 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods. 031:019 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 031:020 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. 031:021 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore. 031:022 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 031:023 He gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you. 031:024 It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 031:025 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying, 031:026 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you. 031:027 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death? 031:028 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 031:029 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 031:030 Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished. 032:001 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. 032:002 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb. 032:003 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh. Ascribe greatness to our God! 032:004 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he. 032:005 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse and crooked generation. 032:006 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you. 032:007 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. 032:008 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. 032:009 For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 032:010 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. 032:011 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers. 032:012 Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him. 032:013 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; 032:014 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine. 032:015 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 032:016 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations. 032:017 They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, to gods that they didn't know, to new [gods] that came up of late, which your fathers didn't dread. 032:018 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth. 032:019 Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. 032:020 He said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. 032:021 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 032:022 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire. 032:023 I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. 032:024 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust. 032:025 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers, terror; on both young man and virgin, The suckling with the gray-haired man. 032:026 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men; 032:027 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this. 032:028 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them. 032:029 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 032:030 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up? 032:031 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 032:032 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter. 032:033 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps. 032:034 Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures? 032:035 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste. 032:036 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large. 032:037 He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge; 032:038 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection. 032:039 See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. 032:040 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever, 032:041 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me. 032:042 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy. 032:043 Rejoice, you nations, [with] his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people. 032:044 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. 032:045 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel; 032:046 He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law. 032:047 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it. 032:048 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying, 032:049 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession; 032:050 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: 032:051 because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel. 032:052 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel. 033:001 This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 033:002 He said, Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them. He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them. 033:003 Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet; [Everyone] shall receive of your words. 033:004 Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob. 033:005 He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together. 033:006 Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few. 033:007 This is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries. 033:008 Of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah; 033:009 who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he know his own children: For they have observed your word, and keep your covenant. 033:010 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar. 033:011 Yahweh, bless his substance. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise again. 033:012 Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him. He covers him all the day long. He dwells between his shoulders. 033:013 Of Joseph he said, His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath, 033:014 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things of the growth of the moons, 033:015 for the chief things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills, 033:016 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush{i. e. the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.}. Let [the blessing] come on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers. 033:017 The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the peoples all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh. 033:018 Of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents. 033:019 They shall call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand. 033:020 Of Gad he said, He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head. 033:021 He provided the first part for himself, for there was the lawgiver's portion reserved. He came [with] the heads of the people. He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, His ordinances with Israel. 033:022 Of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's cub that leaps out of Bashan. 033:023 Of Naphtali he said, Naphtali, satisfied with favor, full of the blessing of Yahweh, Possess the west and the south. 033:024 Of Asher he said, Asher is blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his foot in oil. 033:025 Your bars shall be iron and brass. As your days, so shall your strength be. 033:026 There is none like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, In his excellency on the skies. 033:027 The eternal God is [your] dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, Destroy. 033:028 Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew. 033:029 You are happy, Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you. You shall tread on their high places. 034:001 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, 034:002 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the hinder sea, 034:003 and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar. 034:004 Yahweh said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there. 034:005 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh. 034:006 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day. 034:007 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. 034:008 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended. 034:009 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses. 034:010 There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face, 034:011 in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, 034:012 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.

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