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Deuteronomy 30

  • 30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you,
  • 30:2 And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
  • 30:3 That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you.
  • 30:4 If any of your be driven out to the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there will he fetch you:
  • 30:5 And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
  • 30:6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
  • 30:7 And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on them that hate you, which persecuted you.
  • 30:8 And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.
  • 30:9 And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers:
  • 30:10 If you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
  • 30:11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off.
  • 30:12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?
  • 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it, and do it?
  • 30:14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
  • 30:15 See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
  • 30:16 In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it.
  • 30:17 But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
  • 30:18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days on the land, where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it.
  • 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live:
  • 30:20 That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may hold to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Deuteronomy 29

  • 29:1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
  • 29:2 And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
  • 29:3 The great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
  • 29:4 Yet the LORD has not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
  • 29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old on you, and your shoe is not waxen old on your foot.
  • 29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
  • 29:7 And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote them:
  • 29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
  • 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
  • 29:10 You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
  • 29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that is in your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water:
  • 29:12 That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day:
  • 29:13 That he may establish you to day for a people to himself, and that he may be to you a God, as he has said to you, and as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  • 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
  • 29:15 But with him that stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
  • 29:16 (For you know how we have dwelled in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;
  • 29:17 And you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
  • 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
  • 29:19 And it come to pass, 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 imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
  • 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
  • 29:21 And the LORD shall separate him to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
  • 29:22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it;
  • 29:23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
  • 29:24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
  • 29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
  • 29:26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:
  • 29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book:
  • 29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
  • 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 28

  • 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth:
  • 28:2 And all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
  • 28:3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
  • 28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.
  • 28:5 Blessed shall be your basket and your store.
  • 28:6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
  • 28:7 The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
  • 28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses, and in all that you set your hand to; and he shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
  • 28:9 The LORD shall establish you an holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.
  • 28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you.
  • 28:11 And the LORD shall make you plenteous in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
  • 28:12 The LORD shall open to you his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain to your land in his season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.
  • 28:13 And the LORD shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if that you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them:
  • 28:14 And you shall not go 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.
  • 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD 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:
  • 28:16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
  • 28:17 Cursed shall be your basket and your store.
  • 28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.
  • 28:19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
  • 28:20 The LORD shall send on you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand to for to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, whereby you have forsaken me.
  • 28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence stick to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go to possess it.
  • 28:22 The LORD shall smite you with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
  • 28:23 And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
  • 28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down on you, until you be destroyed.
  • 28:25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • 28:26 And your carcass shall be meat to all fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
  • 28:27 The LORD will smite you with the botch of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof you can not be healed.
  • 28:28 The LORD shall smite you with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
  • 28:29 And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and spoiled ever more, and no man shall save you.
  • 28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build an house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.
  • 28:31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your ass 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 rescue them.
  • 28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in your hand.
  • 28:33 The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:
  • 28:34 So that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
  • 28:35 The LORD shall smite you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
  • 28:36 The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.
  • 28:37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
  • 28:38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
  • 28:39 You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
  • 28:40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast his fruit.
  • 28:41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
  • 28:42 All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.
  • 28:43 The stranger that is within you shall get up above you very high; and you shall come down very low.
  • 28:44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
  • 28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, till you be destroyed; because you listened not to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:
  • 28:46 And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed for ever.
  • 28:47 Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
  • 28:48 Therefore shall you serve your enemies which the LORD 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.
  • 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;
  • 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:
  • 28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you be destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your cows, or flocks of your sheep, until he have destroyed you.
  • 28:52 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced walls come down, wherein you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.
  • 28:53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the narrow place, with which your enemies shall distress you:
  • 28:54 So that the man that 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 which he shall leave:
  • 28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the narrow place, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.
  • 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which 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,
  • 28:57 And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and narrow place, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
  • 28:58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
  • 28:59 Then the LORD 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.
  • 28:60 Moreover he will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall stick to you.
  • 28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring on you, until you be destroyed.
  • 28:62 And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
  • 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.
  • 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.
  • 28:65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
  • 28:66 And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of your life:
  • 28:67 In the morning you shall say, Would God it were even! and at even you shall say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
  • 28:68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall be sold to your enemies for slaves and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Deuteronomy 27

  • 27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
  • 27:2 And it shall be on the day when you shall pass over Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set you up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
  • 27:3 And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are passed over, that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land that flows with milk and honey; as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.
  • 27:4 Therefore it shall be when you be gone over Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
  • 27:5 And there shall you build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up any iron tool on them.
  • 27:6 You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to the LORD your God:
  • 27:7 And you shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God.
  • 27:8 And you shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
  • 27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Take heed, and listen, O Israel; this day you are become the people of the LORD your God.
  • 27:10 You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.
  • 27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
  • 27:12 These shall stand on mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
  • 27:13 And these shall stand on mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
  • 27:14 And the Levites shall speak, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
  • 27:15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
  • 27:16 Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:17 Cursed be he that removes his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:18 Cursed be he that makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:19 Cursed be he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:20 Cursed be he that lies with his father’s wife; because he uncovers his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:21 Cursed be he that lies with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:22 Cursed be he that lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:23 Cursed be he that lies with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:24 Cursed be he that smites his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:25 Cursed be he that takes reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 27:26 Cursed be he that confirms not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 26

  • 26:1 And it shall be, when you are come in to the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein;
  • 26:2 That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name there.
  • 26:3 And you shall go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD your God, that I am come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers for to give us.
  • 26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
  • 26:5 And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
  • 26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:
  • 26:7 And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression:
  • 26:8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
  • 26:9 And he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, even a land that flows with milk and honey.
  • 26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the first fruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me. And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God:
  • 26:11 And you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
  • 26:12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;
  • 26:13 Then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
  • 26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that you have commanded me.
  • 26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.
  • 26:16 This day the LORD your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.
  • 26:17 You have avouched the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to listen to his voice:
  • 26:18 And the LORD has avouched you this day to be his peculiar people, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;
  • 26:19 And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be an holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.

Deuteronomy 25

  • 25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
  • 25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
  • 25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
  • 25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn.
  • 25:5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother to her.
  • 25:6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
  • 25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife 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 my husband’s brother.
  • 25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
  • 25:9 Then shall his brother’s wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother’s house.
  • 25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed.
  • 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets:
  • 25:12 Then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her.
  • 25:13 You shall not have in your bag divers weights, a great and a small.
  • 25:14 You shall not have in your house divers measures, a great and a small.
  • 25:15 But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
  • 25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
  • 25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were come forth out of Egypt;
  • 25:18 How he met you by the way, and smote the hindmost of you, even all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.
  • 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it.

Deuteronomy 24

  • 24:1 When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
  • 24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
  • 24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
  • 24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
  • 24:5 When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he has taken.
  • 24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he takes a man’s life to pledge.
  • 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put evil away from among you.
  • 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
  • 24:9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam by the way, after that you were come forth out of Egypt.
  • 24:10 When you do lend your brother any thing, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
  • 24:11 You shall stand abroad, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring out the pledge abroad to you.
  • 24:12 And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:
  • 24:13 In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
  • 24:14 You shall not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:
  • 24:15 At 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 the LORD, and it be sin to you.
  • 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
  • 24:17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
  • 24:18 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
  • 24:19 When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
  • 24:20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  • 24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  • 24:22 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

Deuteronomy 23

  • 23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
  • 23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
  • 23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
  • 23:4 Because they met you not 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 of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
  • 23:5 Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.
  • 23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days for ever.
  • 23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian; because you were a stranger in his land.
  • 23:8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
  • 23:9 When the host goes forth against your enemies, then keep you from every wicked thing.
  • 23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chances him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
  • 23:11 But it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
  • 23:12 You shall have a place also without the camp, where you shall go forth abroad:
  • 23:13 And you shall have a paddle on your weapon; and it shall be, when you will ease yourself abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:
  • 23:14 For the LORD your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
  • 23:15 You shall not deliver to his master the servant which is escaped from his master to you:
  • 23:16 He shall dwell with you, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of your gates, where it likes him best: you shall not oppress him.
  • 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
  • 23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are abomination to the LORD your God.
  • 23:19 You shall not lend on usury to your brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent on usury:
  • 23:20 To a stranger you may lend on usury; but to your brother you shall not lend on usury: that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land where you go to possess it.
  • 23:21 When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not slack to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
  • 23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
  • 23:23 That which is gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.
  • 23:24 When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.
  • 23:25 When you come into the standing corn of your neighbor, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing corn.

Deuteronomy 22

  • 22:1 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall in any case bring them again to your brother.
  • 22:2 And if your brother be not near to you, or if you know him not, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him again.
  • 22:3 In like manner shall you do with his ass; and so shall you do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found, shall you do likewise: you may not hide yourself.
  • 22:4 You shall not see your brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
  • 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination to the LORD your God.
  • 22:6 If a bird’s nest chance to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young:
  • 22:7 But you shall in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to you; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
  • 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
  • 22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.
  • 22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.
  • 22:11 You shall not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together.
  • 22:12 You shall make you fringes on the four quarters of your clothing, with which you cover yourself.
  • 22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,
  • 22:14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
  • 22:15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate:
  • 22:16 And the damsel’s father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
  • 22:17 And, see, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not your daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
  • 22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
  • 22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, 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.
  • 22:20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
  • 22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she has worked folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shall you put evil away from among you.
  • 22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from Israel.
  • 22:23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed to an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
  • 22:24 Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife: so you shall put away evil from among you.
  • 22:25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
  • 22:26 But to the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter:
  • 22:27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
  • 22:28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
  • 22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give to the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
  • 22:30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

Deuteronomy 21

  • 21:1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who has slain him:
  • 21:2 Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him that is slain:
  • 21:3 And it shall be, that the city which is next to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which has not been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
  • 21:4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
  • 21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
  • 21:6 And all the elders of that city, that are next to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
  • 21:7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
  • 21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to your people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
  • 21:9 So shall you put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
  • 21:10 When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,
  • 21:11 And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to her, that you would have her to your wife;
  • 21:12 Then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
  • 21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and mourn 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.
  • 21:14 And it 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 make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.
  • 21:15 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:
  • 21:16 Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
  • 21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, 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.
  • 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them:
  • 21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
  • 21:20 And they shall say to 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.
  • 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
  • 21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:
  • 21:23 His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.