Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} If there be a controversy between men, and they come to
judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the
righteous, and condemn the wicked; {25:2} and it shall be, if the
wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to
lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his
wickedness, by number. {25:3} Forty stripes he may give him, he shall
not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with
many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you. {25:4} You
shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain]. {25:5} If
brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the
wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her
husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and
perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. {25:6} It shall be,
that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his
brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
{25:7} If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his
brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My
husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel;
he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me." {25:8}
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if
he stand, and say, "I don't want to take her;" {25:9} then his
brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and
loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall
answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up
his brother's house." {25:10} His name shall be called in Israel, The
house of him who has his shoe untied.
{25:11} When men strive together one with another, and the wife of
the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who
strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
{25:12} then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
{25:13} You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and
a small. {25:14} You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a
great and a small. {25:15} You shall have a perfect and just weight.
You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long
in the land which the LORD your God gives you. {25:16} For all who do
such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to
the LORD your God. {25:17} Remember what Amalek did to you by the way
as you came forth out of Egypt; {25:18} how he met you by the way, and
struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you
were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God. {25:19} Therefore it
shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your
enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for
an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of
Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
{26:1} It shall be, when you are come in to the land which the LORD
your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell
therein, {26:2} that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of
the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your
God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the
place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there. {26:3} You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days,
and tell him, "I profess this day to the LORD your God, that I am come
to the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us." {26:4}
The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down
before the altar of the LORD your God. {26:5} You shall answer and say
before the LORD your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and
he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became
there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. {26:6} The Egyptians
dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:
{26:7} and we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD
heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our
oppression; {26:8} and the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a
mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and
with signs, and with wonders; {26:9} and he has brought us into this
place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
{26:10} Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the
ground, which you, the LORD, have given me." You shall set it down
before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.
{26:11} You shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has
given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the
foreigner who is in the midst of you.
{26:12} When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your
increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you
shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and
to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
{26:13} You shall say before the LORD your God, "I have put away the
holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite,
and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according
to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not
transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
{26:14} I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away
of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to
the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that you
have commanded me. {26:15} Look down from your holy habitation, from
heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have
given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and
honey."
{26:16} This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes
and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your
heart, and with all your soul. {26:17} You have declared the LORD this
day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his
statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his
voice: {26:18} and the LORD has declared you this day to be a people
for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should
keep all his commandments; {26:19} and to make you high above all
nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and
that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.
{27:1} Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
"Keep all the commandment which I command you this day. {27:2} It
shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land
which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up
great stones, and plaster them with plaster: {27:3} and you shall
write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over;
that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a
land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your
fathers, has promised you. {27:4} It shall be, when you have passed
over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command
you this day, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
{27:5} There you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar
of stones: you shall lift up no iron [tool] on them. {27:6} You shall
build the altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones; and you shall
offer burnt offerings thereon to the LORD your God: {27:7} and you
shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall
rejoice before the LORD your God. {27:8} You shall write on the stones
all the words of this law very plainly."
{27:9} Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel,
saying, "Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become
the people of the LORD your God. {27:10} You shall therefore obey the
voice of the LORD your God, and do his commandments and his statutes,
which I command you this day."
{27:11} Moses commanded the people the same day, saying, {27:12}
"These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have
passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and
Joseph, and Benjamin. {27:13} These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the
curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. {27:14}
The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud
voice, {27:15} 'Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten
image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the
craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' All the people shall answer and
say, 'Amen.' {27:16} 'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his
mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' {27:17} 'Cursed is he who
removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
{27:18} 'Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way.'
All the people shall say, 'Amen.' {27:19} 'Cursed is he who wrests the
justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people
shall say, 'Amen.' {27:20} 'Cursed is he who lies with his father's
wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people
shall say, 'Amen.' {27:21} 'Cursed is he who lies with any kind of
animal.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' {27:22} 'Cursed is he who
lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of
his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' {27:23} 'Cursed is he
who lies with his mother-in-law.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
{27:24} 'Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.' All the
people shall say, 'Amen.' {27:25} 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to
kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.' {27:26}
'Cursed is he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them.'
All the people shall say, 'Amen.'"
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