13:1If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,13:2and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;13:3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.13:4You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave to him.13:5That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
13:6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;13:7of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;13:8you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:13:9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.13:10You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.13:11All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
13:12If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,13:13Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;13:14then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,13:15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.13:16You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.13:17There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;13:18when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
14:1You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.14:2For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.14:3You shall not eat any abominable thing.14:4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,14:5the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.14:6Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two,andchews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.14:7Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.14:8The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud, is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.14:9These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat;14:10and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.14:11Of all clean birds you may eat.14:12But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the osprey,14:13and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,14:14and every raven after its kind,14:15and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,14:16the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,14:17and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,14:18and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.14:19All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.14:20Of all clean birds you may eat.14:21You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.14:22You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.14:23You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.14:24If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;14:25then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:14:26and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.14:27The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.14:28At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:14:29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
15:1At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.15:2This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.15:3Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.15:4However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)15:5if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.15:6For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.15:7If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;15:8but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his needin thatwhich he wants.15:9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.15:10You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.15:11For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.15:12If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.15:13When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:15:14you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.15:15You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.15:16It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;15:17then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.15:18It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.15:19All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.15:20You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.15:21If it have any blemish,as if it belame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.15:22You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the cleanshall eat italike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.15:23Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.16:2You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.16:3You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.16:4There shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.16:5You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;16:6but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.16:7You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.16:8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no worktherein.16:9You shall count seven weeks to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks.16:10You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you:16:11and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.16:12You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.16:13You shall keep the feast of tents seven days, after that you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:16:14and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.16:15You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.16:16Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your 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 tents; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:16:17every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.16:18You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.16:19You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.16:20You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.16:21You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you.16:22Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.
17:1You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish,oranything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.17:2If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,17:3and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;17:4and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,17:5then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.17:6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.17:7The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.17:8If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;17:9and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.17:10You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:17:11according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.17:12The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.17:13All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.17:14When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;17:15you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.17:16Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.17:17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.17:18It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out ofthat which isbefore the priests the Levites:17:19and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;17:20that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
18:1The priests the Levites,evenall the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.18:2They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.18:3This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.18:4The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.18:5For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.18:6If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;18:7then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.18:8They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.18:9When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.18:10There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,18:11or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.18:12For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.18:13You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.18:14For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.18:15Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.18:16This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.18:17Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.18:18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.18:19It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.18:20But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.18:21If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?18:22when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
19:1When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;19:2you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.19:3You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.19:4This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;19:5as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:19:6lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.19:7Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.19:8If Yahweh your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;19:9if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for you, besides these three:19:10that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.19:11But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;19:12then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.19:13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.19:14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.19:15One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.19:16If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,19:17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;19:18and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;19:19then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.19:20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.19:21Your eyes shall not pity; lifeshall gofor life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
20:1When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots,anda people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.20:2It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,20:3and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;20:4for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.20:5The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.20:6What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.20:7What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.20:8The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.20:9It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.20:10When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.20:11It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.20:12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:20:13and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:20:14but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.20:15Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.20:16But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;20:17but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;20:18that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.20:19When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?20:20Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
21:1If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;21:2then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:21:3and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;21:4and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.21:5The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.21:6All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;21:7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.21:8Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent bloodto remainin the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.21:9So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.21:10When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,21:11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;21:12then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;21:13and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.21:14It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.21:15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;21:16then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:21:17but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.21:18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;21:19then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;21:20and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.21:21All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.21:22If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;21:23his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
22:1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.22:2If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.22:3So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.22:4You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.22:5A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.22:6If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young:22:7you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.22:8When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.22:9You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.22:10You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.22:11You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.22:12You shall make yourselvesfringeson the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.22:13If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,22:14and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;22:15then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;22:16and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;22:17and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.22:18The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;22:19and they shall fine him one hundredshekelsof silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.22:20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;22:21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.22:22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.22:23If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;22:24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.22:25But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:22:26but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;22:27for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.22:28If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;22:29then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fiftyshekelsof silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.22:30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
23:1He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.23:2A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.23:3An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh forever:23:4because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.23:5Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.23:6You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.23:7You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.23:8The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of Yahweh.23:9When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing.23:10If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:23:11but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.23:12You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall go forth abroad:23:13and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:23:14for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.23:15You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:23:16he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.23:17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.23:18You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.23:19You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:23:20to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.23:21When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.23:22But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.23:23That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.23:24When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.23:25When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
24:1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.24:2When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man'swife.24:3If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;24:4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.24:5When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takesa man'slife to pledge.24:7If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.24:8Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.24:9Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.24:10When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.24:11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.24:12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;24:13you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.24:14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:24:15in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.24:16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.24:17You shall not wrest the justicedueto the foreigner,orto the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;24:18but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.24:19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.24:20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.24:21When you gatherthe grapes ofyour vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.24:22You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
25:1If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, andthe judgesjudge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;25:2and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.25:3Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.25:4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads outthe grain.25:5If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.25:6It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.25:7If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;25:9then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.25:10His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.25:11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;25:12then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.25:13You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.25:14You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.25:15You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.25:16For all who do such things,evenall who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.25:17Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;25:18how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.25:19Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
26:1It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,26:2that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.26:3You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.26:4The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.26:5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.26:6The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:26:7and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;26:8and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders;26:9and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.26:10Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.26:11You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.26:12When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.26:13You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:26:14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.26:15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.26:16This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.26:17You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:26:18and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;26:19and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
27:1Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.27:2It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:27:3and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.27:4It shall be, when you are passed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.27:5There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no irontoolon them.27:6You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:27:7and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.27:8You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.27:9Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you are become the people of Yahweh your God.27:10You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.27:11Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,27:12These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.27:13These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.27:14The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,27:15Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen.27:16Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.27:17Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen.27:18Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amen.27:19Cursed be he who wrests the justicedueto the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.27:20Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.27:21Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amen.27:22Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.27:23Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amen.27:24Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amen.27:25Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amen.27:26Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amen.
28:1It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:28:2and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.28:3You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.28:4You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.28:5Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.28:6You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.28:7Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.28:8Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.28:9Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.28:10All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.28:11Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.28:12Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.28:13Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to dothem,28:14and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.28:15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.28:16You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.28:17Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.28:18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.28:19You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.28:20Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.28:21Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.28:22Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.28:23Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.28:24Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.28:25Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.28:26Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.28:27Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.28:28Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;28:29and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.28:30You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.28:31Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.28:32Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.28:33The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;28:34so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.28:35Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.28:36Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.28:37You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.28:38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.28:39You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gatherthe grapes; for the worm shall eat them.28:40You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall castits fruit.28:41You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.28:42All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.28:43The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.28:44He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.28:45All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:28:46and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.28:47Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;28:48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you.28:49Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;28:50a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,28:51and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.28:52They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.28:53You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.28:54The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;28:55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.28:56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,28:57and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.28:58If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;28:59then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.28:60He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.28:61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Yahweh bring on you, until you are destroyed.28:62You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.28:63It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.28:64Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.28:65Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;28:66and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.28:67In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.28:68Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
29:1These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.29:2Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;29:3the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:29:4but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.29:5I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot.29:6You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.29:7When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:29:8and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.29:9Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.29:10You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,29:11your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;29:12that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;29:13that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.29:14Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,29:15but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day29:16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;29:17and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);29:18lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;29:19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.29:20Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.29:21Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.29:22The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;29:23and thatthe whole land of it is sulfur, and salt,anda burning,thatit is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:29:24even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?29:25Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,29:26and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:29:27therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;29:28and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.29:29The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.