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 you shall 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 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;
{13:8} 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 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, {13:15}
you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of
the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its
livestock, with the edge of the sword. {13:16} You 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. {13:17} 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 young goat 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 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; {14:25} then 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: {14:26} and 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. {14:27} 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 a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you 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, is sold to
you, and serves 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 tells 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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