Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} At that time Yahweh said to me, "Cut 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 cut 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 respect 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; you shall serve him; and you shall cling
to him, and you shall swear by his name. {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
instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his
commandments, always. {11:2} Know 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 [1>]Red Sea[<1] 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 you shall 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 you shall 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} No man shall 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 you shall 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 around you, 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 you shall 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 want to eat meat," because your
soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of
your soul. {12:21} If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
put his name there, is 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? I will 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 you shall observe to do: you shall not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.
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Footnotes:
[1] {11:4} or, Sea of Reeds
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