Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone
like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark
of wood. {10:2} I will write on the tables the words that were on the
first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
{10:3} So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone
like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables
in my hand. {10:4} He wrote on the tables, according to the first
writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the
mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and
Yahweh gave them to me. {10:5} I turned and came down from the
mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there
they are as Yahweh commanded me. {10:6} (The children of Israel
traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and
there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's
office in his place. {10:7} From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and
from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. {10:8} At that
time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to
bless in his name, to this day. {10:9} Therefore Levi has no portion
nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance,
according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.) {10:10} I stayed on the
mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and
Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
{10:11} Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people;
and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their
fathers to give to them. {10:12} Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your
God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your
heart and with all your soul, {10:13} to keep the commandments of
Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
{10:14} Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of
heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. {10:15} Only Yahweh had
a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after
them, even you above all peoples, as at this day. {10:16} Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
{10:17} For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the
great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't regard persons,
nor takes reward. {10:18} He does execute justice for the fatherless
and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
{10:19} Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the
land of Egypt. {10:20} You shall fear Yahweh your God; him shall you
serve; and to him shall you cleave, and by his name shall you swear.
{10:21} He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you
these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen. {10:22}
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh
your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
{11:1} Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his
charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments,
always. {11:2} Know you this day: for I don't speak with your children
who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh
your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
{11:3} and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of
Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; {11:4} and
what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their
chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as
they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
{11:5} and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to
this place; {11:6} and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and
swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every
living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel: {11:7}
but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did.
{11:8} Therefore shall you keep all the commandment which I command
you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land,
where you go over to possess it; {11:9} and that you may prolong your
days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them
and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. {11:10} For the
land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from
whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with
your foot, as a garden of herbs; {11:11} but the land, where you go
over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water
of the rain of the sky, {11:12} a land which Yahweh your God cares
for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning
of the year even to the end of the year. {11:13} It shall happen, if
you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you
this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your
heart and with all your soul, {11:14} that I will give the rain of
your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you
may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. {11:15} I
will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat
and be full. {11:16} Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be
deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
{11:17} and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up
the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield
its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh
gives you. {11:18} Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your
heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your
hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. {11:19} You
shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when
you rise up. {11:20} You shall write them on the door posts of your
house, and on your gates; {11:21} that your days may be multiplied,
and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
{11:22} For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I
command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to cleave to him; {11:23} then will Yahweh drive out all
these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations
greater and mightier than yourselves. {11:24} Every place whereon the
sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and
Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea
shall be your border. {11:25} There shall no man be able to stand
before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of
you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.
{11:26} Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
{11:27} the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of
Yahweh your God, which I command you this day; {11:28} and the curse,
if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but
turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after
other gods, which you have not known. {11:29} It shall happen, when
Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess
it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on
Mount Ebal. {11:30} Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of
the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in
the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh? {11:31} For
you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which
Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and dwell
therein. {11:32} You shall observe to do all the statutes and the
ordinances which I set before you this day.
{12:1} These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall
observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has
given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
{12:2} You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations
that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains,
and on the hills, and under every green tree: {12:3} and you shall
break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn
their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of
their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. {12:4}
You shall not do so to Yahweh your God. {12:5} But to the place which
Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name
there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall
come; {12:6} and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and
your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd
and of your flock: {12:7} and there you shall eat before Yahweh your
God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and
your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you. {12:8} You
shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man
whatever is right in his own eyes; {12:9} for you haven't yet come to
the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
{12:10} But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which
Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all
your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety; {12:11} then it
shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell there, there shall you bring all that I
command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes,
and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you
vow to Yahweh. {12:12} You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you,
and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your
female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he
has no portion nor inheritance with you. {12:13} Take heed to yourself
that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
{12:14} but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your
tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you
shall do all that I command you. {12:15} Notwithstanding, you may kill
and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your
soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given
you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and
as of the hart. {12:16} Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall
pour it out on the earth as water. {12:17} You may not eat within your
gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or
the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows
which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of
your hand; {12:18} but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and
your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the
Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh
your God in all that you put your hand to. {12:19} Take heed to
yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your
land. {12:20} When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he
has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your
soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of
your soul. {12:21} If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
put his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your
herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have
commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire
of your soul. {12:22} Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so
you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
{12:23} Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is
the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. {12:24} You
shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. {12:25}
You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your
children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes
of Yahweh. {12:26} Only your holy things which you have, and your
vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:
{12:27} and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the
blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your
sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and
you shall eat the flesh. {12:28} Observe and hear all these words
which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your
children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right
in the eyes of Yahweh your God. {12:29} When Yahweh your God shall cut
off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them,
and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; {12:30} take heed to
yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are
destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods,
saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do
likewise. {12:31} You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every
abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods;
for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to
their gods. {12:32} Whatever thing I command you, that shall you
observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
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