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¹“Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had told me, and we traveled around the hill country of Seir for many days.

²The LORD then said to me,

³‘You’ve been traveling around this hill country long enough; turn north.

⁴Command the people: You are about to travel through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so be very careful.

⁵Don’t provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot of it, because I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his possession.

⁶You may purchase food from them, so that you may eat, and buy water from them to drink.

⁷For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you this past forty years, and you have lacked nothing.’

⁸“So we bypassed our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road and from Elath and Ezion-geber. We traveled along the road to the Wilderness of Moab.

⁹The LORD said to me, ‘Show no hostility toward Moab, and do not provoke them to battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, since I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’”

¹⁰The Emim, a great and numerous people as tall as the Anakim, had previously lived there.

¹¹They were also regarded as Rephaim, like the Anakim, though the Moabites called them Emim.

¹²The Horites had previously lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out, destroying them completely and settling in their place, just as Israel did in the land of its possession the LORD gave them.

¹³“The LORD said, ‘Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.’ So we crossed the Zered Valley.

¹⁴The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was thirty-eight years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

¹⁵Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp until they had all perished.

¹⁶“When all the fighting men had died among the people,

¹⁷the LORD spoke to me,

¹⁸‘Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.

¹⁹When you get close to the Ammonites, don’t show any hostility to them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the Ammonites’ land as a possession; I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’”

²⁰This too used to be regarded as the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim lived there previously, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,

²¹a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim. The LORD destroyed the Rephaim at the advance of the Ammonites, so that they drove them out and settled in their place.

²²This was just as he had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them; they drove them out and have lived in their place until now.

²³The Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and settled in their place.

²⁴“The LORD also said, ‘Get up, move out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have handed the Amorites’ King Sihon of Heshbon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession of it; engage him in battle.

²⁵Today I will begin to put the fear and dread of you on the peoples everywhere under heaven. They will hear the report about you, tremble, and be in anguish because of you.’

²⁶“So I sent messengers with an offer of peace to King Sihon of Heshbon from the Wilderness of Kedemoth, saying,

²⁷‘Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.

²⁸You can sell us food in exchange for silver so we may eat, and give us water for silver so we may drink. Only let us travel through on foot,

²⁹just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for us, and the Moabites who live in Ar, until we cross the Jordan into the land the LORD our God is giving us.’

³⁰But King Sihon of Heshbon would not let us travel through his land, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to hand him over to you, as has now taken place.

³¹“Then the LORD said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take possession of it.’

³²So Sihon and his whole army came out against us for battle at Jahaz.

³³The LORD our God handed him over to us, and we defeated him, his sons, and his whole army.

³⁴At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed the people of every city, including the women and children. We left no survivors.

³⁵We took only the livestock and the spoil from the cities we captured as plunder for ourselves.

³⁶There was no city that was inaccessible to us, from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead. The LORD our God gave everything to us.

³⁷But you did not go near the Ammonites’ land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River, the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.

¹“Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and King Og of Bashan came out against us with his whole army to do battle at Edrei.

²But the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with his whole army and his land. Do to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’

³So the LORD our God also handed over King Og of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left.

⁴We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn’t a city that we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

⁵All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

⁶We completely destroyed them, as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon, destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

⁷But we took all the livestock and the spoil from the cities as plunder for ourselves.

⁸“At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon,

⁹which the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call Senir,

¹⁰all the cities of the plateau, Gilead, and Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

¹¹(Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed was made of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It is 13½ feet long and 6 feet wide by a standard measure. )

¹²“At that time we took possession of this land. I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Aroer by the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead along with its cities.

¹³I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og. The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.

¹⁴Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took over the entire region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He called Bashan by his own name, Jair’s Villages, as it is today.

¹⁵I gave Gilead to Machir,

¹⁶and I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.

¹⁷The Arabah and Jordan are also borders from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

¹⁸“I commanded you at that time: The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your valiant men will cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers the Israelites.

¹⁹But your wives, dependents, and livestock — I know that you have a lot of livestock — will remain in the cities I have given you

²⁰until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession that I have given you.

²¹“I commanded Joshua at that time: Your own eyes have seen everything the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.

²²Don’t be afraid of them, for the LORD your God fights for you.

²³“At that time I begged the LORD:

²⁴Lord GOD, you have begun to show your greatness and your strong hand to your servant, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can perform deeds and mighty acts like yours?

²⁵Please let me cross over and see the beautiful land on the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.

²⁶“But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. The LORD said to me, ‘That’s enough! Do not speak to me again about this matter.

²⁷Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west, north, south, and east, and see it with your own eyes, for you will not cross the Jordan.

²⁸But commission Joshua and encourage and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit this land that you will see.’

²⁹So we stayed in the valley facing Beth-peor.

¹“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live, enter, and take possession of the land the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

²You must not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it, so that you may keep the commands of the LORD your God I am giving you.

³Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.

⁴But you who have remained faithful to the LORD your God are all alive today.

⁵Look, I have taught you statutes and ordinances as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to possess.

⁶Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’

⁷For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call to him?

⁸And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

⁹“Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you don’t forget the things your eyes have seen and so that they don’t slip from your mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

¹⁰The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Assemble the people before me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’

¹¹You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire into the heavens and enveloped in a totally black cloud.

¹²Then the LORD spoke to you from the fire. You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn’t see a form; there was only a voice.

¹³He declared his covenant to you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments, which he wrote on two stone tablets.

¹⁴At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to follow in the land you are about to cross into and possess.

¹⁵“Diligently watch yourselves — because you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb —

¹⁶so you don’t act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form,

¹⁷or the form of any animal on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,

¹⁸any creature that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the waters under the earth.

¹⁹When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars — all the stars in the sky — do not be led astray to bow in worship to them and serve them. The LORD your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.

²⁰But the LORD selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace to be a people for his inheritance, as you are today.

²¹“The LORD was angry with me on your account. He swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

²²I won’t be crossing the Jordan because I am going to die in this land. But you are about to cross over and take possession of this good land.

²³Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you, and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of anything he has forbidden you.

²⁴For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

²⁵“When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, angering him,

²⁶I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.

²⁷The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors among the nations where the LORD your God will drive you.

²⁸There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

²⁹But from there, you will search for the LORD your God, and you will find him when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul.

³⁰When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, in the future you will return to the LORD your God and obey him.

³¹He will not leave you, destroy you, or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them by oath, because the LORD your God is a compassionate God.

³²“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created mankind on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

³³Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?

³⁴Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

³⁵You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.

³⁶He let you hear his voice from heaven to instruct you. He showed you his great fire on earth, and you heard his words from the fire.

³⁷Because he loved your fathers, he chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by his presence and great power,

³⁸to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as is now taking place.

³⁹Today, recognize and keep in mind that the LORD is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.

⁴⁰Keep his statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”

⁴¹Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east.

⁴²Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:

⁴³Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau land, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; or Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.

⁴⁴This is the law Moses gave the Israelites.

⁴⁵These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,

⁴⁶across the Jordan in the valley facing Beth-peor in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites. He lived in Heshbon, and Moses and the Israelites defeated him after they came out of Egypt.

⁴⁷They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings who were across the Jordan to the east,

⁴⁸from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon)

⁴⁹and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.

¹Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully.

²The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

³He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

⁴The LORD spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.

⁵At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to report the word of the LORD to you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. And he said:

⁶I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

⁷Do not have other gods besides me.

⁸Do not make an idol for yourself in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

⁹Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ iniquity to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,

¹⁰but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commands.

¹¹Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

¹²Be careful to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as the LORD your God has commanded you.

¹³You are to labor six days and do all your work,

¹⁴but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Do not do any work — you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or donkey, any of your livestock, or the resident alien who lives within your city gates, so that your male and female slaves may rest as you do.

¹⁵Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

¹⁶Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and so that you may prosper in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

¹⁷Do not murder.

¹⁸Do not commit adultery.

¹⁹Do not steal.

²⁰Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.

²¹Do not covet your neighbor’s wife or desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

²²“The LORD spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and total darkness on the mountain; he added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

²³All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.

²⁴You said, ‘Look, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that God speaks with a person, yet he still lives.

²⁵But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us and we will die if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

²⁶For who out of all mankind has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and lived?

²⁷Go near and listen to everything the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.’

²⁸“The LORD heard your words when you spoke to me. He said to me, ‘I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. Everything they have said is right.

²⁹If only they had such a heart to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that they and their children would prosper forever.

³⁰Go and tell them: Return to your tents.

³¹But you stand here with me, and I will tell you every command — the statutes and ordinances — you are to teach them, so that they may follow them in the land I am giving them to possess.’

³²“Be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or the left.

³³Follow the whole instruction the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live, prosper, and have a long life in the land you will possess.

¹“This is the command — the statutes and ordinances — the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.

²Do this so that you may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life by keeping all his statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.

³Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴“Listen, Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

⁵Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

⁶These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.

⁷Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

⁸Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.

⁹Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.

¹⁰“When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give you — a land with large and beautiful cities that you did not build,

¹¹houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant  — and when you eat and are satisfied,

¹²be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

¹³Fear the LORD your God, worship him, and take your oaths in his name.

¹⁴Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,

¹⁵for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise, the LORD your God will become angry with you and obliterate you from the face of the earth.

¹⁶Do not test the LORD your God as you tested him at Massah.

¹⁷Carefully observe the commands of the LORD your God, the decrees and statutes he has commanded you.

¹⁸Do what is right and good in the LORD’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,

¹⁹by driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

²⁰“When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?’

²¹tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

²²Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household,

²³but he brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that he swore to our fathers.

²⁴The LORD commanded us to follow all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God for our prosperity always and for our preservation, as it is today.

²⁵Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’

¹“When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and he drives out many nations before you — the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you  —

²and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

³You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

⁴because they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and he will swiftly destroy you.

⁵Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images.

⁶For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

⁷“The LORD had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

⁸But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your fathers, he brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

⁹Know that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commands.

¹⁰But he directly pays back and destroys those who hate him. He will not hesitate to pay back directly the one who hates him.

¹¹So keep the command — the statutes and ordinances — that I am giving you to follow today.

¹²“If you listen to and are careful to keep these ordinances, the LORD your God will keep his covenant loyalty with you, as he swore to your fathers.

¹³He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless your offspring, and the produce of your land — your grain, new wine, and fresh oil — the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks, in the land he swore to your fathers that he would give you.

¹⁴You will be blessed above all peoples; there will be no infertile male or female among you or your livestock.

¹⁵The LORD will remove all sickness from you; he will not put on you all the terrible diseases of Egypt that you know about, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.

¹⁶You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

¹⁷“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’

¹⁸do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

¹⁹the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, the strong hand and outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you fear.

²⁰The LORD your God will also send hornets against them until all the survivors and those hiding from you perish.

²¹Don’t be terrified of them, for the LORD your God, a great and awesome God, is among you.

²²The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once; otherwise, the wild animals will become too numerous for you.

²³The LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

²⁴He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.

²⁵Burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

²⁶Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to abhor and detest it utterly because it is set apart for destruction.

¹“Carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the LORD swore to your fathers.

²Remember that the LORD your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

³He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

⁴Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.

⁵Keep in mind that the LORD your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

⁶So keep the commands of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and fearing him.

⁷For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills;

⁸a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

⁹a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.

¹⁰When you eat and are full, you will bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.

¹¹“Be careful that you don’t forget the LORD your God by failing to keep his commands, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.

¹²When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,

¹³and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases,

¹⁴be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

¹⁵He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint rock for you.

¹⁶He fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end he might cause you to prosper.

¹⁷You may say to yourself, ‘My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,’

¹⁸but remember that the LORD your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm his covenant he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

¹⁹If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods to serve them and bow in worship to them, I testify against you today that you will perish.

²⁰Like the nations the LORD is about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.

¹“Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and drive out nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

²The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them and you have heard it said about them, ‘Who can stand up to the sons of Anak? ’

³But understand that today the LORD your God will cross over ahead of you as a consuming fire; he will devastate and subdue them before you. You will drive them out and destroy them swiftly, as the LORD has told you.

⁴When the LORD your God drives them out before you, do not say to yourself, ‘The LORD brought me in to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.’ Instead, the LORD will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

⁵You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the LORD your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to fulfill the promise he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

⁶Understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

⁷“Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the LORD from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place.

⁸You provoked the LORD at Horeb, and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

⁹When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat food or drink water.

¹⁰On the day of the assembly the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God’s finger. The exact words were on them, which the LORD spoke to you from the fire on the mountain.

¹¹The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, at the end of the forty days and forty nights.

¹²“The LORD said to me, ‘Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.’

¹³The LORD also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

¹⁴Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’

¹⁵“So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

¹⁶I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the LORD had commanded for you.

¹⁷So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

¹⁸I fell down like the first time in the presence of the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the LORD’s sight and angering him.

¹⁹I was afraid of the fierce anger the LORD had directed against you, because he was about to destroy you. But again the LORD listened to me on that occasion.

²⁰The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also.

²¹I took the sinful calf you had made and burned it. I crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust, and threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

²²“You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.

²³When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, he said, ‘Go up and possess the land I have given you’; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You did not believe or obey him.

²⁴You have been rebelling against the LORD ever since I have known you.

²⁵“I fell down in the presence of the LORD forty days and forty nights because the LORD had threatened to destroy you.

²⁶I prayed to the LORD: Lord GOD, do not annihilate your people, your inheritance, whom you redeemed through your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

²⁷Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Disregard this people’s stubbornness, and their wickedness and sin.

²⁸Otherwise, those in the land you brought us from will say, ‘Because the LORD wasn’t able to bring them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

²⁹But they are your people, your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great power and outstretched arm.

¹“The LORD said to me at that time, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to me on the mountain and make a wooden ark.

²I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.’

³So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and climbed the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

⁴Then on the day of the assembly, the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that he had spoken to you on the mountain from the fire. The LORD gave them to me,

⁵and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. And they have remained there, as the LORD commanded me.”

⁶The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. Aaron died and was buried there, and Eleazar his son became priest in his place.

⁷They traveled from there to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with flowing streams.

⁸“At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the LORD’s covenant, to stand before the LORD to serve him, and to pronounce blessings in his name, as it is today.

⁹For this reason, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance like his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God told him.

¹⁰“I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time. The LORD also listened to me on this occasion; he agreed not to annihilate you.

¹¹Then the LORD said to me, ‘Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their fathers.’

¹²“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you except to fear the LORD your God by walking in all his ways, to love him, and to worship the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul?

¹³Keep the LORD’s commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good.

¹⁴The heavens, indeed the highest heavens, belong to the LORD your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

¹⁵Yet the LORD had his heart set on your fathers and loved them. He chose their descendants after them — he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

¹⁶Therefore, circumcise your hearts and don’t be stiff-necked any longer.

¹⁷For the LORD your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.

¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him food and clothing.

¹⁹You are also to love the resident alien, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt.

²⁰You are to fear the LORD your God and worship him. Remain faithful to him and take oaths in his name.

²¹He is your praise and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awe-inspiring works your eyes have seen.

²²Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy people in all, and now the LORD your God has made you numerous, like the stars of the sky.

¹“Therefore, love the LORD your God and always keep his mandate and his statutes, ordinances, and commands.

²Understand today that it is not your children who experienced or saw the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, strong hand, and outstretched arm;

³his signs and the works he did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;

⁴what he did to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots, when he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued you, and he destroyed them completely;

⁵what he did to you in the wilderness until you reached this place;

⁶and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.

⁷Your own eyes have seen every great work the LORD has done.

⁸“Keep every command I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to cross into and possess the land you are to inherit,

⁹and so that you may live long in the land the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁰For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden.

¹¹But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky.

¹²It is a land the LORD your God cares for. He is always watching over it from the beginning to the end of the year.

¹³“If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and worship him with all your heart and all your soul,

¹⁴I will provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains, and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and fresh oil.

¹⁵I will provide grass in your fields for your livestock. You will eat and be satisfied.

¹⁶Be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside, serve, and bow in worship to other gods.

¹⁷Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you. He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the LORD is giving you.

¹⁸“Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol on your foreheads.

¹⁹Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

²⁰Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates,

²¹so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be many in the land the LORD swore to give your fathers.

²²For if you carefully observe every one of these commands I am giving you to follow — to love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, and remain faithful to him —

²³the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will drive out nations greater and stronger than you are.

²⁴Every place the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.

²⁵No one will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put fear and dread of you in all the land where you set foot, as he has promised you.

²⁶“Look, today I set before you a blessing and a curse:

²⁷there will be a blessing, if you obey the commands of the LORD your God I am giving you today,

²⁸and a curse, if you do not obey the commands of the LORD your God and you turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods you have not known.

²⁹When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.

³⁰Aren’t these mountains across the Jordan, beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?

³¹For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you possess it and settle in it,

³²be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances I set before you today.

¹“Be careful to follow these statutes and ordinances in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days you live on the earth.

²Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods  — on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

³Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

⁴Don’t worship the LORD your God this way.

⁵Instead, turn to the place the LORD your God chooses from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.

⁶You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

⁷You will eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

⁸“You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone is doing whatever seems right in his own sight.

⁹Indeed, you have not yet come into the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.

¹⁰When you cross the Jordan and live in the land the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you live in security,

¹¹then the LORD your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

¹²You will rejoice before the LORD your God — you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your city gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

¹³Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in all the sacred places you see.

¹⁴You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.

¹⁵“But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your city gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer,

¹⁶but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

¹⁷Within your city gates you may not eat the tenth of your grain, new wine, or fresh oil; the firstborn of your herd or flock; any of your vow offerings that you pledge; your freewill offerings; or your personal contributions.

¹⁸You are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God chooses — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your city gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you do,

¹⁹and be careful not to neglect the Levite, as long as you live in your land.

²⁰“When the LORD your God enlarges your territory as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I want to eat meat’ because you have a strong desire to eat meat, you may eat it whenever you want.

²¹If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock he has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your city gates whenever you want.

²²Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.

²³But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

²⁴Do not eat blood; pour it on the ground like water.

²⁵Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.

²⁶“But you are to take the holy offerings you have and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD chooses.

²⁷Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.

²⁸Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

²⁹“When the LORD your God annihilates the nations before you, which you are entering to take possession of, and you drive them out and live in their land,

³⁰be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, ‘How did these nations worship their gods? I’ll also do the same.’

³¹You must not do the same to the LORD your God, because they practice every detestable act, which the LORD hates, for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

³²Be careful to do everything I command you; do not add anything to it or take anything away from it.

¹“If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,

²and that sign or wonder he has promised you comes about, but he says, ‘Let us follow other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us worship them,’

³do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul.

⁴You must follow the LORD your God and fear him. You must keep his commands and listen to him; you must worship him and remain faithful to him.

⁵That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has urged rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the place of slavery, to turn you from the way the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. You must purge the evil from you.

⁶“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’ — which neither you nor your fathers have known,

⁷any of the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other —

⁸do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.

⁹Instead, you must kill him. Your hand is to be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

¹⁰Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

¹¹All Israel will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do anything evil like this among you.

¹²“If you hear it said about one of your cities the LORD your God is giving you to live in,

¹³that wicked men have sprung up among you, led the inhabitants of their city astray, and said, ‘Let us go and worship other gods,’ which you have not known,

¹⁴you are to inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable act has been done among you,

¹⁵you must strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword. Completely destroy everyone in it as well as its livestock with the sword.

¹⁶You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn the city and all its spoil for the LORD your God. The city is to remain a mound of ruins forever; it is not to be rebuilt.

¹⁷Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the LORD will turn from his burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as he swore to your fathers.

¹⁸This will occur if you obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commands I am giving you today, doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.

¹“You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,

²for you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

³“You must not eat any detestable thing.

⁴These are the animals you may eat: oxen, sheep, goats,

⁵deer, gazelles, roe deer, wild goats, ibexes, antelopes, and mountain sheep.

⁶You may eat any animal that has hooves divided in two and chews the cud.

⁷But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these: camels, hares, and hyraxes, though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves — they are unclean for you;

⁸and pigs, though they have hooves, they do not chew the cud — they are unclean for you. Do not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

⁹“You may eat everything from the water that has fins and scales,

¹⁰but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales — it is unclean for you.

¹¹“You may eat every clean bird,

¹²but these are the ones you may not eat: eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

¹³the kites, any kind of falcon,

¹⁴every kind of raven,

¹⁵ostriches, short-eared owls, gulls, any kind of hawk,

¹⁶little owls, long-eared owls, barn owls,

¹⁷eagle owls, ospreys, cormorants,

¹⁸storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes, and bats.

¹⁹All winged insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

²⁰But you may eat every clean flying creature.

²¹“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a resident alien within your city gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

²²“Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields.

²³You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and fresh oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place where he chooses to have his name dwell, so that you will always learn to fear the LORD your God.

²⁴But if the distance is too great for you to carry it, since the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his name is too far away from you and since the LORD your God has blessed you,

²⁵then exchange it for silver, take the silver in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God chooses.

²⁶You may spend the silver on anything you want: cattle, sheep, goats, wine, beer, or anything you desire. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your family.

²⁷Do not neglect the Levite within your city gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

²⁸“At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and store it within your city gates.

²⁹Then the Levite, who has no portion or inheritance among you, the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates may come, eat, and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.

¹“At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

²This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s release of debts has been proclaimed.

³You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

⁴“There will be no poor among you, however, because the LORD is certain to bless you in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance  —

⁵if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.

⁶When the LORD your God blesses you as he has promised you, you will lend to many nations but not borrow; you will rule many nations, but they will not rule you.

⁷“If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your city gates in the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother.

⁸Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him enough for whatever need he has.

⁹Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, ‘The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty.

¹⁰Give to him, and don’t have a stingy heart when you give, and because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you do.

¹¹For there will never cease to be poor people in the land; that is why I am commanding you, ‘Open your hand willingly to your poor and needy brother in your land.’

¹²“If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.

¹³When you set him free, do not send him away empty-handed.

¹⁴Give generously to him from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You are to give him whatever the LORD your God has blessed you with.

¹⁵Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

¹⁶But if your slave says to you, ‘I don’t want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your family, and is well off with you,

¹⁷take an awl and pierce through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. Also treat your female slave the same way.

¹⁸Do not regard it as a hardship when you set him free, because he worked for you six years — worth twice the wages of a hired worker. Then the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

¹⁹“Consecrate to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herd and flock. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work or shear the firstborn of your flock.

²⁰Each year you and your family are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD chooses.

²¹But if there is a defect in the animal, if it is lame or blind or has any serious defect, you may not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

²²Eat it within your city gates; both the unclean person and the clean may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or deer.

²³But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water.