05:009:024 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
05:009:025 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
05:009:026 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
05:009:027 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
05:009:028 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
05:009:029 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thoubroughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched outarm.
05:010:001 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables ofstone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount,and make thee an ark of wood.
05:010:002 And I will write on the tables the words that were in thefirst tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them inthe ark.
05:010:003 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables ofstone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, havingthe two tables in mine hand.
05:010:004 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
05:010:005 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
05:010:006 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
05:010:007 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
05:010:008 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear theark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD tominister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
05:010:009 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren;the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy Godpromised him.
05:010:010 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, fortydays and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at thattime also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
05:010:011 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before thepeople, that they may go in and possess the land, which Isware unto their fathers to give unto them.
05:010:012 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
05:010:013 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, whichI command thee this day for thy good?
05:010:014 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thyGod, the earth also, with all that therein is.
05:010:015 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
05:010:016 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
05:010:017 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
05:010:018 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, andloveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
05:010:019 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in theland of Egypt.
05:010:020 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and tohim shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
05:010:021 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for theethese great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
05:010:022 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and tenpersons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the starsof heaven for multitude.
05:011:001 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep hischarge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and hiscommandments, alway.
05:011:002 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
05:011:003 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
05:011:004 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
05:011:005 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
05:011:006 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
05:011:007 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
05:011:008 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I commandyou this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess theland, whither ye go to possess it;
05:011:009 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORDsware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, aland that floweth with milk and honey.
05:011:010 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
05:011:011 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
05:011:012 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
05:011:013 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
05:011:014 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
05:011:015 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thoumayest eat and be full.
05:011:016 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, andye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
05:011:017 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
05:011:018 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and inyour soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that theymay be as frontlets between your eyes.
05:011:019 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them whenthou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
05:011:020 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
05:011:021 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of yourchildren, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathersto give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
05:011:022 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which Icommand you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk inall his ways, and to cleave unto him;
05:011:023 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from beforeyou, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier thanyourselves.
05:011:024 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shallbe yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, theriver Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coastbe.
05:011:025 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORDyour God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you uponall the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said untoyou.
05:011:026 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
05:011:027 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
05:011:028 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
05:011:029 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
05:011:030 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where thesun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell inthe champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
05:011:031 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the landwhich the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it,and dwell therein.
05:011:032 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
05:012:001 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observeto do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveththee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
05:012:002 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nationswhich ye shall possess served their gods, upon the highmountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
05:012:003 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
05:012:004 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
05:012:005 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
05:012:006 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
05:012:007 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
05:012:008 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
05:012:009 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,which the LORD your God giveth you.
05:012:010 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
05:012:011 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
05:012:012 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
05:012:013 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
05:012:014 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
05:012:015 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
05:012:016 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
05:012:017 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
05:012:018 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
05:012:019 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
05:012:020 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
05:012:021 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
05:012:022 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eatthem: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
05:012:023 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is thelife; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
05:012:024 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth aswater.
05:012:025 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
05:012:026 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
05:012:027 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and theblood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood ofthy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORDthy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
05:012:028 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that itmay go well with thee, and with thy children after thee forever, when thou doest that which is good and right in thesight of the LORD thy God.
05:012:029 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
05:012:030 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by followingthem, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and thatthou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did thesenations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
05:012:031 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for everyabomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done untotheir gods; for even their sons and their daughters they haveburnt in the fire to their gods.
05:012:032 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shaltnot add thereto, nor diminish from it.
05:013:001 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
05:013:002 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
05:013:003 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
05:013:004 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
05:013:005 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
05:013:006 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
05:013:007 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you,nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of theearth even unto the other end of the earth;
05:013:008 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neithershall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neithershalt thou conceal him:
05:013:009 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first uponhim to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all thepeople.
05:013:010 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
05:013:011 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more anysuch wickedness as this is among you.
05:013:012 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORDthy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
05:013:013 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from amongyou, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying,Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
05:013:014 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently;and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that suchabomination is wrought among you;
05:013:015 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with theedge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that istherein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
05:013:016 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst ofthe street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and allthe spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and itshall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
05:013:017 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thinehand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger,and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, andmultiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
05:013:018 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, tokeep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to dothat which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
05:014:001 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cutyourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for thedead.
05:014:002 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and theLORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself,above all the nations that are upon the earth.
05:014:003 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
05:014:004 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep,and the goat,
05:014:005 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wildgoat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
05:014:006 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
05:014:007 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
05:014:008 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
05:014:009 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all thathave fins and scales shall ye eat:
05:014:010 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it isunclean unto you.
05:014:011 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
05:014:012 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
05:014:013 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
05:014:014 And every raven after his kind,
05:014:015 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
05:014:016 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
05:014:017 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
05:014:018 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing,and the bat.
05:014:019 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: theyshall not be eaten.
05:014:020 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
05:014:021 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
05:014:022 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
05:014:023 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
05:014:024 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
05:014:025 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
05:014:026 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
05:014:027 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
05:014:028 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
05:014:029 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
05:015:001 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
05:015:002 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
05:015:003 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
05:015:004 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shallgreatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveththee for an inheritance to possess it:
05:015:005 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thyGod, to observe to do all these commandments which I commandthee this day.
05:015:006 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: andthou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow;and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall notreign over thee.
05:015:007 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren withinany of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveththee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine handfrom thy poor brother:
05:015:008 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
05:015:009 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
05:015:010 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
05:015:011 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore Icommand thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thybrother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
05:015:012 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be soldunto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh yearthou shalt let him go free from thee.
05:015:013 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
05:015:014 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out ofthy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith theLORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
05:015:015 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the landof Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore Icommand thee this thing to day.
05:015:016 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away fromthee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he iswell with thee;
05:015:017 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his earunto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And alsounto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
05:015:018 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him awayfree from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servantto thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shallbless thee in all that thou doest.
05:015:019 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flockthou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do nowork with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear thefirstling of thy sheep.
05:015:020 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
05:015:021 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
05:015:022 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the cleanperson shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
05:015:023 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour itupon the ground as water.
05:016:001 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORDthy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God broughtthee forth out of Egypt by night.
05:016:002 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thyGod, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORDshall choose to place his name there.
05:016:003 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
05:016:004 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
05:016:005 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
05:016:006 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
05:016:007 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORDthy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, andgo unto thy tents.
05:016:008 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventhday shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shaltdo no work therein.
05:016:009 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number theseven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickleto the corn.
05:016:010 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
05:016:011 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
05:016:012 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: andthou shalt observe and do these statutes.
05:016:013 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, afterthat thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
05:016:014 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, andthy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and theLevite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, thatare within thy gates.
05:016:015 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thyGod in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORDthy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all theworks of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
05:016:016 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
05:016:017 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
05:016:018 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: andthey shall judge the people with just judgment.
05:016:019 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of thewise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
05:016:020 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thoumayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy Godgiveth thee.
05:016:021 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto thealtar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
05:016:022 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thyGod hateth.
05:017:001 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
05:017:002 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
05:017:003 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which Ihave not commanded;
05:017:004 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquireddiligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain,that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
05:017:005 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which havecommitted that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man orthat woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
05:017:006 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall hethat is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth ofone witness he shall not be put to death.
05:017:007 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put himto death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thoushalt put the evil away from among you.
05:017:008 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
05:017:009 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
05:017:010 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
05:017:011 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
05:017:012 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
05:017:013 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
05:017:014 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveththee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shaltsay, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations thatare about me;
05:017:015 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORDthy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thouset king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee,which is not thy brother.
05:017:016 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause thepeople to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiplyhorses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shallhenceforth return no more that way.
05:017:017 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heartturn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himselfsilver and gold.
05:017:018 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of hiskingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a bookout of that which is before the priests the Levites:
05:017:019 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all thedays of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God,to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to dothem:
05:017:020 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and thathe turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, orto the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in hiskingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
05:018:001 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
05:018:002 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
05:018:003 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
05:018:004 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thineoil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou givehim.
05:018:005 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, tostand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sonsfor ever.
05:018:006 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel,where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mindunto the place which the LORD shall choose;
05:018:007 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as allhis brethren the Levites do, which stand there before theLORD.
05:018:008 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
05:018:009 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
05:018:010 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
05:018:011 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
05:018:012 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
05:018:013 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
05:018:014 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened untoobservers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, theLORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
05:018:015 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from themidst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him yeshall hearken;
05:018:016 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
05:018:017 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
05:018:018 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, likeunto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shallspeak unto them all that I shall command him.
05:018:019 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearkenunto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will requireit of him.
05:018:020 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in myname, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shallspeak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
05:018:021 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
05:018:022 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
05:019:001 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
05:019:002 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
05:019:003 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thyland, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, intothree parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
05:019:004 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither,that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whomhe hated not in time past;
05:019:005 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
05:019:006 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
05:019:007 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
05:019:008 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
05:019:009 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
05:019:010 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORDthy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be uponthee.
05:019:011 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him,and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die,and fleeth into one of these cities:
05:019:012 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence,and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that hemay die.
05:019:013 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away theguilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well withthee.
05:019:014 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they ofold time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shaltinherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee topossess it.
05:019:015 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth oftwo witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall thematter be established.
05:019:016 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
05:019:017 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shallstand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges,which shall be in those days;
05:019:018 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falselyagainst his brother;
05:019:019 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done untohis brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
05:019:020 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shallhenceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
05:019:021 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eyefor eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
05:020:001 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
05:020:002 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
05:020:003 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
05:020:004 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
05:020:005 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
05:020:006 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath notyet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house,lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
05:020:007 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath nottaken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he diein the battle, and another man take her.
05:020:008 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
05:020:009 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
05:020:010 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
05:020:011 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
05:020:012 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
05:020:013 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
05:020:014 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
05:020:015 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
05:020:016 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God dothgive thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothingthat breatheth:
05:020:017 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, andthe Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
05:020:018 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations,which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin againstthe LORD your God.
05:020:019 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
05:020:020 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
05:021:001 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy Godgiveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be notknown who hath slain him:
05:021:002 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and theyshall measure unto the cities which are round about him thatis slain:
05:021:003 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
05:021:004 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:
05:021:005 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
05:021:006 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
05:021:007 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
05:021:008 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hastredeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people ofIsrael's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
05:021:009 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from amongyou, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight ofthe LORD.
05:021:010 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and theLORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thouhast taken them captive,
05:021:011 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast adesire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
05:021:012 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shallshave her head, and pare her nails;
05:021:013 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her,and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and hermother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her,and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
05:021:014 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thoushalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell herat all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her,because thou hast humbled her.
05:021:015 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
05:021:016 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit thatwhich he hath, that he may not make the son of the belovedfirstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed thefirstborn:
05:021:017 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for thefirstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath:for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of thefirstborn is his.
05:021:018 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will notobey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, andthat, when they have chastened him, will not hearken untothem: