Category: Deuteronomy

Introduction

1 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness,in the Arabahopposite Suph,between Paranand Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth,and Di-zahab.

2 It is an eleven-day journey from Horebto Kadesh-barneaby way of Mount Seir.

3 In the fortieth year,in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses told the Israelites everything theLordhad commanded him to say to them.

4 This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

5 Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:

Departure from Horeb

6 “TheLordour God spoke to us at Horeb: ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

7 Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amoritesand their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Judean foothills,the Negevand the sea coast — to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon as far as the Euphrates River.

8 See, I have set the land before you. Enter and take possession of the landtheLordswore to give to your fathersAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their future descendants.’

Leaders for the Tribes

9 “I said to you at that time: I can’t bear the responsibility for you on my own.

10 TheLordyour God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.

11 May Yahweh, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as He promised you.

12 But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?

13 Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.

14 “You replied to me, ‘What you propose to do is good.’

15 “So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and set them over you as leaders: officials for thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.

16 I commanded your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge rightly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.

17 Do not show partiality when deciding a case;listen to small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God.Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.

18 At that time I commanded you about all the things you were to do.

Israel’s Disobedience at Kadesh-barnea

19 “We then set out from Horeb and went across all the great and terrible wilderness you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as theLordour God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

20 I said to you: You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which theLordour God is giving us.

21 See, theLordyour God has set the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.

22 “Thenall of you approached me and said, ‘Let’s send men ahead of us, so that they may explore the land for us and bring us back a report about the route we should go up and the cities we will come to.’

23 The plan seemed good to me, so I selected 12 men from among you, one man for each tribe.

24 They left and went up into the hill country and came to the Valley of Eshcol, scouting the land.

25 They took some of the fruit from the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us back a report: ‘The land theLordour God is giving us is good.’

26 “But you were not willing to go up, rebelling against the command of theLordyour God.

27 You grumbled in your tentsand said, ‘TheLordbrought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites so they would destroy us, because He hated us.

28 Where can we go? Our brothers have discouraged us,saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens.We also saw the descendants of the Anakimthere.’

29 “So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them!

30 TheLordyour God who goes before youwill fight for you,just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt.

31 And you saw in the wilderness how theLordyour God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place.

32 But in spite of this you did not trust theLordyour God,

33 who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.

34 “When theLordheard yourwords, He grew angry and swore an oath:

35 ‘None of these men in this evil generation will see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed theLordcompletely.’

37 “TheLordwas angry with me also because of you and said: ‘You will not enter there either.

38 Joshua son of Nun, who attends you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit it.

39 Your little children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons whodon’t know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.

40 But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’

41 “You answered me, ‘We have sinned against theLord. We will go up and fight just as theLordour God commanded us.’ Then each of you put on his weapons of war and thought it would be easy to go up into the hill country.

42 “But theLordsaid to me, ‘Tell them: Don’t go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from being defeated by your enemies.’

43 So I spoke to you, but you didn’t listen. You rebelled against theLord’s command and defiantly went up into the hill country.

44 Then the Amorites who lived there came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir as far as Hormah.

45 When you returned, you wept before theLord, but He didn’t listen to your requests or pay attention to you.

46 For this reason you stayed in Kadesh as long as you did.

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Journey past Seir

1 “Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea,as theLordhad told me, and we traveled around the hill country of Seir for many days.

2 TheLordthen said to me,

3 ‘You’ve been traveling around this hill country long enough; turn north.

4 Command the people: You are about to travel through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.

5 Don’t fight with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even an inch of it,because I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his possession.

6 You may purchase food from them with silver, so that you may eat, and buy water from them to drink.

7 For theLordyour God has blessed you in all the work of your hands.He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. TheLordyour God has been with you this past 40 years, and you have lacked nothing.’

Journey past Moab

8 “So we bypassed our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road and from Elath and Ezion-geber.We traveled along the road to the Wilderness of Moab.

9 TheLordsaid to me, ‘Show no hostility toward Moab, and do not provoke them to battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, since I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’ ”

10 The Emim, a great and numerous people as tall as the Anakim,had previously lived there.

11 They were also regarded as Rephaim,like the Anakim, though the Moabites called them Emim.

12 The Horiteshad previously lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out, destroying them completelyand settling in their place, just as Israel did in the land of its possession theLordgave them.

13 “TheLordsaid, ‘Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.’ So we crossed the Zered Valley.

14 The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was 38 years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as theLordhad sworn to them.

15 Indeed, theLord’s hand was against them, to eliminatethem from the camp until they had all perished.

Journey past Ammon

16 “When all the fighting men had died among the people,

17 theLordspoke to me,

18 ‘Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.

19 When you get close to the Ammonites, don’t show any hostility to them or fight with them, for I will not give you any of the Ammonites’ land as a possession; I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’ ”

20 This too used to be regarded as the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim lived there previously, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,

21 a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim. TheLorddestroyed the Rephaim at the advance of the Ammonites, so that they drove them out and settled in their place.

22 This was just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites before them; they drove them out and have lived in their place until now.

23 The Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor,destroyed the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and settled in their place.

Defeat of Sihon the Amorite

24 “TheLordalso said, ‘Get up, move out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have handed Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land over to you. Begin to take possession of it; engage him in battle.

25 Today I will begin to put the fear and dread of you on the peoples everywhere under heaven. They will hear the report about you, tremble, and be in anguish because of you.’

26 “So I sent messengers with an offer of peaceto Sihon king of Heshbon from the Wilderness of Kedemoth, saying,

27 ‘Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.

28 You can sell us food in exchange for silver so we may eat, and give us water for silver so we may drink. Only let us travel through on foot,

29 just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for us, and the Moabites who live in Ar, until we cross the Jordan into the land theLordour God is giving us.’

30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us travel through his land, for theLordyour God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to hand him over to you, as has now taken place.

31 “Then theLordsaid to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take possession of it.’

32 So Sihon and his whole army came out against us for battle at Jahaz.

33 TheLordour God handed him over to us,and we defeated him, his sons, and his whole army.

34 At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed the people of every city, including the women and children. We left no survivors.

35 We took only the livestock and the spoil from the cities we captured as plunder for ourselves.

36 There was no city that was inaccessible tous, from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead.TheLordour God gave everything to us.

37 But you did not go near the Ammonites’ land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River,the cities of the hill country, or any place that theLordour God had forbidden.

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Defeat of Og of Bashan

1 “Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashancame out against us with his whole army to do battle at Edrei.

2 But theLordsaid to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites,who lived in Heshbon.’

3 So theLordour God also handed over Og king of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left.

4 We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn’t a city that we didn’t take from them: 60 cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

5 All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

6 We completely destroyed them, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

7 But we took all the livestock and the spoil from the cities as plunder for ourselves.

The Land of the Transjordan Tribes

8 “At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan,from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon,

9 which the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir,

10 all the cities of the plateau, Gilead, and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

11 (Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim.His bed was made of iron.Isn’t it in Rabbah of the Ammonites?It is 13 feet six inches long and six feet wide by a standard measure.)

12 “At that time we took possession of this land.I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Aroer by the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead along with its cities.

13 I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og. The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.

14 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took over the entire region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He called Bashan by his own name, Jair’s Villages,as it is today.

15 I gave Gilead to Machir,

16 and I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.

17 The Arabah and Jordan are also borders from Chinnerethas far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

18 “I commanded you at that time: TheLordyour God has given you this land to possess. All your fighting men will cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers the Israelites.

19 But your wives, young children, and livestock — I know that you have a lot of livestock — will remain in the cities I have given you

20 until theLordgives restto your brothers as He has to you, and they also take possession of the land theLordyour God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession that I have given you.

The Transfer of Israel’s Leadership

21 “I commanded Joshua at that time: Your own eyes have seen everything theLordyour God has done to these two kings. TheLordwill do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.

22 Don’t be afraid of them, for theLordyour God fights for you.

23 “At that time I begged theLord:

24 LordGod, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can perform deeds and mighty acts like Yours?

25 Please let me cross over and see the beautiful landon the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.

26 “But theLordwas angry with me on account of you and would not listen to me. TheLordsaid to me, ‘That’s enough! Do not speak to Me again about this matter.

27 Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west, north, south, and east, and see it with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.

28 But commission Joshua and encourage and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit this land that you will see.’

29 So we stayed in the valley facing Beth-peor.

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Call to Obedience

1 “Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinancesI am teaching you to follow, so that you may live,enter, and take possession of the land Yahweh, the God of your fathers,is giving you.

2 You must not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it,so that you may keep the commands of theLordyour God I am giving you.

3 Your eyes have seen what theLorddid at Baal-peor, for theLordyour God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.

4 But you who have remained faithfulto theLordyour God are all alive today.

5 Look, I have taught you statutes and ordinances as theLordmy God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to possess.

6 Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’

7 For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as theLordour God is to us whenever we call to Him?

8 And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

9 “Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves,so that you don’t forgetthe things your eyes have seen and so that they don’t slip from your mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

10 The day you stood before theLordyour Godat Horeb, theLordsaid to me, ‘Assemble the people before Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Meall the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’

11 You came near and stood at the base of the mountain,a mountain blazing with fireinto the heavens and enveloped in a dense, black cloud.

12 Then theLordspoke to you from the fire.You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn’t see a form; there was only a voice.

13 He declared His covenantto you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments,which He wrote on two stone tablets.

14 At that time theLordcommanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to follow in the land you are about to cross into and possess.

Worshiping the True God

15 “For your own good, be extremely careful — because you did not see any form on the day theLordspoke to you out of the fire at Horeb —

16 not to act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form,

17 or the form of any beast on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,

18 any creature that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the waters under the earth.

19 When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars — all the array of heaven — do not be led astray to bow down and worship them.TheLordyour God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.

20 But theLordselected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnaceto be a people for His inheritance, as you are today.

21 “TheLordwas angry with me on your account.He swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good landtheLordyour God is giving you as an inheritance.

22 I won’t be crossing the Jordan because I am going to die in this land.But you are about to cross over and take possession of this good land.

23 Be careful not to forget the covenant of theLordyour God that He made with you, and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of anything He has forbidden you.

24 For theLordyour God is a consuming fire,a jealous God.

25 “When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of theLordyour God, provoking Him to anger,

26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perishfrom the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.

27 TheLordwill scatter you among the peoples,and you will be reduced to a few survivorsamong the nations where theLordyour God will drive you.

28 There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

29 But from there, you will search for theLordyour God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.

30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, you will return to theLordyour God in later days and obey Him.

31 He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenantwith your fathers that He swore to them by oath, because theLordyour God is a compassionate God.

32 “Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created man on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

33 Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?

34 Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as theLordyour God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

35 You were shown these things so that you would know that theLordis God; there is no other besides Him.

36 He let you hear His voice from heaven to instruct you.He showed you His great fire on earth, and you heard His words from the fire.

37 Because He lovedyour fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

38 to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance,as is now taking place.

39 Today, recognize and keep in mind that theLordis God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.

40 Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land theLordyour God is giving you for all time.”

Cities of Refuge

41 Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east.

42 Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:

43 Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau land, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; or Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.

Introduction to the Law

44 This is the law Moses gave the Israelites.

45 These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,

46 across the Jordan in the valley facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites. He lived in Heshbon, and Moses and the Israelites defeated him after they came out of Egypt.

47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings who were across the Jordan to the east,

48 from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon)

49 and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.

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The Ten Commandments

1 Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully.

2 TheLordour God made a covenantwith us at Horeb.

3 He did not make this covenant with our fathers,but with all of us who are alive here today.

4 TheLordspoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.

5 At that time I was standing between theLordand you to report the wordof theLordto you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. And He said:

6 I am theLordyour God,who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

7 Do not have other gods besides Me.

8 Do not make an idol for yourself in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

9 You must not bow down to them or worship them, because I, theLordyour God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

10 but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.

11 Do not misuse the nameof theLordyour God, because theLordwill not leave anyone unpunished who misuses His name.

12 Be careful to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as theLordyour God has commanded you.

13 You are to labor six days and do all your work,

14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to theLordyour God. You must not do any work — you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or donkey, any of your livestock, or the foreigner who lives within your gates, so that your male and female slaves may rest as you do.

15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and theLordyour God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why theLordyour God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

16 Honor your father and your mother,as theLordyour God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land theLordyour God is giving you.

17 Do not murder.

18 Do not commit adultery.

19 Do not steal.

20 Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.

21 Do not covet your neighbor’s wife or desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

The People’s Response

22 “TheLordspoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and thick darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

23 All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.

24 You said, ‘Look, theLordour God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice from the fire. Today we have seen that God speaks with a person, yet he still lives.

25 But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us and we will die if we hear the voice of theLordour God any longer.

26 For who out of all mankind has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and lived?

27 Go near and listen to everything theLordour God says. Then you can tell us everything theLordour God tells you; we will listen and obey.’

28 “TheLordheard yourwords when you spoke to me. He said to me, ‘I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. Everything they have said is right.

29 If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commands always, so that they and their children will prosper forever.

30 Go and tell them: Return to your tents.

31 But you stand here with Me, and I will tell you every command — the statutes and ordinances — you are to teach them, so that they may follow them in the land I am giving them to possess.’

32 “Be careful to do as theLordyour God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or the left.

33 Follow the whole instruction theLordyour God has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper, and have a long life in the land you will possess.

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The Greatest Commandment

1 “This is the command — the statutes and ordinances — theLordyour God has instructed me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.

2 Do this so that you may feartheLordyour Godall the days of your lifeby keeping all His statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.

3 Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.

4 “Listen, Israel: TheLordour God, theLordis One.

5 Love theLordyour God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.

7 Repeat them to your children.Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbolon your forehead.

9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Remembering God through Obedience

10 “When theLordyour God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would give you — a land with large and beautiful cities that you did not build,

11 houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, wells dug that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant— and when you eat and are satisfied,

12 be careful not to forget theLordwho brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

13 Fear Yahweh your God, worship Him, and take your oaths in His name.

14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,

15 for theLordyour God, who is among you, is a jealous God.Otherwise, theLordyour God will become angry with you and wipe you off the face of the earth.

16 Do not testtheLordyour God as you tested Him at Massah.

17 Carefully observe the commands of theLordyour God, the decrees and statutes He has commanded you.

18 Do what is right and good in theLord’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good landtheLordyour God swore to give your fathers,

19 by driving out all your enemies before you, as theLordhas said.

20 “When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaningof the decrees, statutes, and ordinances, which theLordour God has commanded you? ’

21 tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but theLordbrought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

22 Before our eyes theLordinflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt,on Pharaoh, and on all his household,

23 but He brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers.

24 TheLordcommanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear theLordour God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today.

25 Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before theLordour God, as He has commanded us.’

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Israel to Destroy Idolatrous Nations

1 “When theLordyour God brings you into the landyou are entering to possess,and He drives out many nations before you — the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nationsmore numerous and powerful than you—

2 and when theLordyour God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroythem. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

4 because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods.Then theLord’s anger will burn against you,and He will swiftly destroy you.

5 Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles,and burn up their carved images.

6 For you are a holy peoplebelonging to theLordyour God. TheLordyour God has chosen you to be His own possessionout of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

7 “TheLordwas devoted to you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

8 But because theLordlovedyou and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a strong hand and redeemedyou from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Know that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commands.

10 But He directly pays backand destroys those who hate Him.He will not hesitate to directly pay backthe one who hates Him.

11 So keep the command — the statutes and ordinances — that I am giving you to follow today.

12 “If you listen to and are careful to keep these ordinances, theLordyour God will keep His covenant loyalty with you, as He swore to your fathers.

13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless your descendants,and the produce of your land — your grain, new wine, and oil — the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks, in the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you.

14 You will be blessed above all peoples; there will be no infertile male or female among you or your livestock.

15 TheLordwill remove all sickness from you; He will not put on youall the terrible diseases of Egypt that you know about, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.

16 You must destroy all the peoples theLordyour God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

17 “If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out? ’

18 do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what theLordyour God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

19 the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, the strong hand and outstretched arm, by which theLordyour God brought you out. TheLordyour God will do the same to all the peoples you fear.

20 TheLordyour God will also send the hornet against them until all the survivors and those hiding from you perish.

21 Don’t be terrified of them, for theLordyour God, a great and awesome God, is among you.

22 TheLordyour God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once; otherwise, the wild animals will become too numerous for you.

23 TheLordyour God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

24 He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.

25 You must burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to theLordyour God.

26 You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

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Remember the Lord

1 “You must carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the landtheLordswore to your fathers.

2 Remember that theLordyour God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.

3 He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of theLord.

4 Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these 40 years.

5 Keep in mind that theLordyour God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

6 So keep the commands of theLordyour God by walking in His ways and fearing Him.

7 For theLordyour God is bringing you into a good land,a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills;

8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

9 a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.

10 When you eat and are full,you will praise theLordyour God for the good landHe has given you.

11 “Be careful that you don’t forget theLordyour God by failing to keep His command — the ordinances and statutes — I am giving you today.

12 When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,

13 and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases,

14 be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget theLordyour God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

15 He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonoussnakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you.

16 He fed you in the wilderness with mannathat your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

17 You may say to yourself, ‘My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,’

18 but remember that theLordyour God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant He swore to your fathers,as it is today.

19 If you ever forget theLordyour God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will perish.

20 Like the nations theLordis about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey theLordyour God.

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Warning against Self-Righteousness

1 “Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go and drive out nations greater and stronger than you,with large cities fortified to the heavens.

2 The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim.You know about them and you have heard it said about them, ‘Who can stand up to the sons of Anak? ’

3 But understand that today theLordyour God will cross over ahead of youas a consuming fire;He will devastate and subdue them before you. You will drive them out and destroy them swiftly,as theLordhas told you.

4 When theLordyour God drives them out before you, do not say to yourself, ‘TheLordbrought me in to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.’Instead, theLordwill drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

5 You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, theLordyour God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 Understand that theLordyour God is not giving you this good landto possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Israel’s Rebellion and Moses’ Intercession

7 “Rememberand do not forget how you provoked theLordyour God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against theLordfrom the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place.

8 You provoked theLordat Horeb, and He was angry enough with you to destroy you.

9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenanttheLordmade with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.

10 On the day of the assembly theLordgave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God’s finger.The exact words were on them, which theLordspoke to you from the fire on the mountain.

11 TheLordgave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights.

12 “TheLordsaid to me, ‘Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.’

13 TheLordalso said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

14 Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven.Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’

15 “So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

16 I saw how you had sinned against theLordyour God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way theLordhad commanded for you.

17 So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

18 Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of theLordfor 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in theLord’s sight and provoking Him to anger.

19 I was afraid of the fierce anger theLordhad directed against you,because He was about to destroy you. But again theLordlistened to me on that occasion.

20 TheLordwas angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also.

21 I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

22 “You continued to provoke theLordat Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.

23 When theLordsent you from Kadesh-barnea, He said, ‘Go up and possess the land I have given you’; you rebelled against the command of theLordyour God. You did not believe or obey Him.

24 You have been rebelling against theLordever since I haveknown you.

25 “I fell down in the presence of theLord40 days and 40 nights because theLordhad threatened to destroy you.

26 I prayed to theLord:

LordGod, do not annihilate Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemedthrough Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

27 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Disregard this people’s stubbornness, and their wickedness and sin.

28 Otherwise, those in the land you brought us from will say, ‘Because theLordwasn’t able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

29 But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.

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The Covenant Renewed

1 “TheLordsaid to me at that time, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to Me on the mountain and make a wooden ark.

2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.’

3 So I made an ark of acacia wood,cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and climbed the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

4 Then on the day of the assembly, theLordwrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain from the fire. TheLordgave them to me,

5 and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. And they have remained there, as theLordcommanded me.”

6 The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakanto Moserah. Aaron died and was buried there, and Eleazar his son became priest in his place.

7 They traveled from there to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.

8 “At that time theLordset apart the tribe of Levito carry the ark of theLord’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as it is today.

9 For this reason, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance like his brothers; theLordis his inheritance, as theLordyour God told him.

10 “I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights like the first time. TheLordalso listened to me on this occasion;He agreed not to annihilate you.

11 Then theLordsaid to me, ‘Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their fathers.’

What God Requires

12 “And now, Israel, what does theLordyour God ask of you except to feartheLordyour God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, and to worship theLordyour God with all your heart and all your soul?

13 Keep theLord’s commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good.

14 The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, belong to theLordyour God, as does the earth and everything in it.

15 Yet theLordwas devoted to your fathers and loved them.He chose their descendants after them — He chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

16 Therefore, circumcise your heartsand don’t be stiff-necked any longer.

17 For theLordyour God is the God of godsand Lord of lords,the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.

18 He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

19 You also must love the foreigner, since you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

20 You are to fear Yahweh your God and worship Him. Remain faithfulto Him and take oaths in His name.

21 He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome works your eyes have seen.

22 Your fathers went down to Egypt, 70 people in all,and now theLordyour God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

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