Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, {13:2} and 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; {13:3}
you 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. {13:4} You
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. {13:5} That 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 shall you put away the evil from the
midst of you.
{13:6} If 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; {13:7} of the gods of
the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you,
from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
{13:8} you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall
your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal
him: {13:9} but 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.
{13:10} You 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. {13:11} All Israel
shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as
this is in the midst of you.
{13:12} If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which
Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying, {13:13} Certain 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; {13:14} then shall you 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, {13:15}
you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of
the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the
livestock of it, with the edge of the sword. {13:16} You shall gather
all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn
with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your
God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
{13:17} There 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; {13:18} when 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.
{14:1} You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
{14:2} For 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. {14:3} You shall not eat any
abominable thing. {14:4} These are the animals which you may eat: the
ox, the sheep, and the goat, {14:5} the hart, and the gazelle, and the
roebuck, and the wild goat, and the ibex, and the antelope, and the
chamois. {14:6} Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof
cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you
eat. {14:7} Nevertheless 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. {14:8} The 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. {14:9} These you may
eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may
you eat; {14:10} and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall
not eat; it is unclean to you. {14:11} Of all clean birds you may eat.
{14:12} But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and
the vulture, and the osprey, {14:13} and the red kite, and the falcon,
and the kite after its kind, {14:14} and every raven after its kind,
{14:15} and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk
after its kind, {14:16} the little owl, and the great owl, and the
horned owl, {14:17} and the pelican, and the vulture, and the
cormorant, {14:18} and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and
the hoopoe, and the bat. {14:19} All winged creeping things are
unclean to you: they shall not be eaten. {14:20} Of all clean birds
you may eat. {14:21} You 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. {14:22} You shall surely tithe all
the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year
by year. {14:23} You 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. {14:24} If the way be 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; {14:25} then shall you turn it into money, and
bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh
your God shall choose: {14:26} and you shall bestow the money for
whatever your soul desires, for oxen, 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. {14:27} The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not
forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. {14:28}
At 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:
{14:29} and 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.
{15:1} At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
{15:2} This 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. {15:3} Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of
your is with your brother your hand shall release. {15:4} However
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;) {15:5} if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your
God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this
day. {15:6} For 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. {15:7}
If 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; {15:8}
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him
sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants. {15:9} Beware 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. {15:10} You 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. {15:11} For 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.
{15:12} If 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. {15:13} When you let him go free from you, you
shall not let him go empty: {15:14} you 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.
{15:15} You 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. {15:16} It 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; {15:17} then 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. {15:18} It 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. {15:19} All 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. {15:20} You shall eat it before Yahweh your
God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your
household. {15:21} If it have any blemish, [as if it be] lame or
blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh
your God. {15:22} You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and
the clean [shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
{15:23} Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the
ground as water.
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