Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} At that time the LORD 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 mitzvot, which the LORD spoke to you on the mountain
out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD
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 the
LORD 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 the LORD
set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the
LORD, to stand before the LORD 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; the LORD is his inheritance, according
as the LORD your God spoke to him.) {10:10} I stayed on the mountain,
as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and the LORD
listened to me that time also; the LORD would not destroy you. {10:11}
The LORD 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 the LORD your God
require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your
heart and with all your soul, {10:13} to keep the mitzvot of the LORD,
and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good? {10:14}
Behold, to the LORD your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens,
the earth, with all that is therein. {10:15} Only the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for
multitude.
{11:1} Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his
charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his mitzvot, 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 the LORD
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 the LORD 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 the LORD which he did.
{11:8} Therefore shall you keep all the mitzvah 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 the LORD 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 the LORD your God cares
for: the eyes of the LORD 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 mitzvot which I command
you this day, to love the LORD 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 the LORD 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
the LORD 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 the LORD
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 mitzvah
which I command you, to do it, to love the LORD your God, to walk in
all his ways, and to cleave to him; {11:23} then will the LORD 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: the LORD 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
mitzvot of the LORD your God, which I command you this day; {11:28}
and the curse, if you shall not listen to the mitzvot of the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD your God. {12:5} But to the place
which the LORD 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 the LORD
your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you
and your households, in which the LORD 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 the LORD your God
gives you. {12:10} But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the
land which the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD. {12:12} You shall rejoice before the
LORD 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 the LORD
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 the
LORD 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 the LORD your God in the place which the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD
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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD. {12:26} Only
your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go
to the place which the LORD shall choose: {12:27} and you shall offer
your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the
LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on
the altar of the LORD 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 the LORD your God. {12:29}
When the LORD 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 the LORD your God: for every abomination to the LORD, 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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