Book of Deuteronomy

re-stating of the law

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Moses, (verse.31:9,22)	Deuteronomy means "repeating of the law". It contains several instructional speeches given by Moses to the Israelites. Encouraging them to remain faithful to God and to His law. However, the book also foretells of their captivity. Warning that their God is a jealous God and will pay back either blessings or cursing. Now after forty years, in the desert, there is a new generation of Israelites. And the focus is the preparation to enter the promise land across the Jordan, ending with the death of Moses and the instatement of Joshua as a leader. thirty-four chapters	Right before the death of Moses, around 1400 BC.

noted events
The 10 Commandments regiven. Blessings & Curses, (choose blessings).	The covenant given at Moab. The death of Moses.

Verse by verse, account of the book of Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy: chapter 1

¹These are the words that Moses spoke to Israel, on the east side of the Jordan river, while still yet in the wilderness. ²It's only an eleven day journey from the mountains of Sinai to the mountains on Canaan's border, but Israel took forty years to come to it. (NOTE: the cause for this was when Israel sent the twelve spies out to spy out the land of Canaan, ten came back with a bad report, Numbers chapter 13) ³They came to it on the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year and Moses spoke to the Israelites, according to the LORD's commandment. ⁴This was after the king of the Amorites and the king of Bashan had been destroyed.

⁵Moses began to explain the laws, while on this side of the Jordan river, saying. ⁶The LORD has said that we have dwelt long enough on these mountains. ⁷Go now and enter the country of the Amorites, in the land of Canaan, as far as to the great Euphrates river. ⁸For all of this land is set before you for you to possess, the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give to their descendants.

⁹Shortly after we had come out of Egypt, I spoke to you saying. I am not able to bear all the Israelites by myself. ¹⁰For the LORD your God has multiplied you and today you are a great multitude of people, as the stars of the heavens. ¹¹And may the LORD even multiply you a thousand times more than you are and bless you, as He has promised. ¹²As I questioned how I could bear this great task alone? ¹³I was instructed to appoint men of understanding over you, Exodus 18:13. ¹⁴And all the people agreed. ¹⁵So I took the wise and noted leaders of your tribes and put them as captains over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. ¹⁶At that time, I also set judges to hear the causes of the people, whether it be between brothers or be between an Israelite and a stranger. ¹⁷To judge either small or great cases, without fear of men but with the fear of God, not showing partiality. Bringing only the hard cases to me to judge. ¹⁸At that time, in the mountains of Sinai, those were my commands.

¹⁹We then left the Sinai region and went through great and terrible wilderness even through a war with the Amorites, Exodus 17:8, as the LORD commanded us to do and later we came to Kadesh-Barnea. ²⁰There I said to you, we have come to the land of the Amorites, which the LORD our God has given us. ²¹Go up and possess it, for this is the inheritance that the LORD has spoken to your father about, do not be afraid. ²²That is when, everyone agreed that we needed to send spies into the land, Numbers 13:1, to bring back word of the land, the way in which to take it and the cities to be occupied. ²³The plan pleased me, so I took one man from each of the twelve tribes. ²⁴And they left to search out the land, coming to the valley of Eshcol. ²⁵When they returned, they brought back some of the fruit of the land, also bringing back word that it is a good land that the LORD God has given us. ²⁶However, you would not go up, for you were scared of the people in the land and you rebelled against the LORD's command. ²⁷And you murmured in your tents, saying, the LORD hates us and has brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites and destroy us. ²⁸Wondering how you could take the land? For the report the spies brought back, was that the people of the land are greater and taller than we are and their cities are fortified.

²⁹Even though I told you not to be afraid of them. ³⁰Saying, your God goes before you and He shall fight for you, just as He set you free from bondage in Egypt. ³¹And you have also witnessed how the LORD provides for you in the wilderness. ³²Yet you did not believe the LORD your God. ³³Your God who went before you in the wilderness, in a cloud by day and a fire by night, Exodus 13:17.

³⁴When the LORD heard your words, He was angry and swore. ³⁵That none of these men, of that evil generation, would see that land. ³⁶Except for the two spies who were willing to take the land. ³⁷The LORD also later became angry with me, Numbers 20:2, for your sakes and told me that I would not enter into the promise land. ³⁸Joshua, shall go before you, encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit the promise land. ³⁹The little children that your fathers said would be prey to the enemy, they are the ones that shall inherit the land, ⁴⁰by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea.

⁴¹But, afterwards your fathers said to me, we have sinned against the LORD and we will go up and fight, according as the LORD has commanded us to do. Everyone then put on his weapons and went off to battle. ⁴²However, the LORD warned them not to go up, saying; I will not be among you, least you be defeated by your enemies. ⁴³But your fathers would not listen and they went up to battle anyway. ⁴⁴And the Amorites came against them and chased them, destroying some, even as far back to Hormah. ⁴⁵And even though you returned weeping before the LORD, He would not listen to you. ⁴⁶Thus you remained many days in Kadesh.

Deuteronomy: chapter 2

¹We then journeyed into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, as the LORD commanded Moses and we circled Mount Seir for many days. ²The LORD then said to me; ³You have gone around this mountain long enough, now turn northward. ⁴Tell the people to pass over the land of Seir, along its borders. This is the land of your brothers the sons of Esau and they will be afraid of you, therefore, be watchful. ⁵But do not provoke the people, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. ⁶Any food or drink of theirs that you use, you shall pay for. ⁷For the LORD your God has blessed you in all that you do and He knows just where you are as you walk through this vast wilderness. He has been with you these forty years and you have lacked nothing.

⁸As we left our brothers the sons of Esau, who lived in Seir, we traveled by the way of the wilderness of Moab. ⁹The LORD then said to me; Do not fight with the people of Moab, I will not give you any of their land, for I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession. ¹⁰For a giant war like people used to live there in the past, much like the Anakim people. ¹¹Known as giants, but the Moabites called the people Emim, (the name means: frightful). ¹²As in the past, the Horim people lived in Seir and the sons of Esau destroyed them, taking their land, as Israel also did with their land inheritance that the LORD gave to them. ¹³Now you shall cross over the brook Zered. So we then crossed over the brook Zered.

¹⁴And the days from Kadesh-Barnea, until we had crossed the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until one whole generation of men of war had died in the wilderness, as the LORD had sworn to them. ¹⁵For the hand of the LORD was against them, destroying and consuming them. ¹⁶And when that generation of people was destroyed, ¹⁷the LORD spoke to me, saying; ¹⁸As you pass through the border of Moab. ¹⁹And come near to the sons of Ammon, do not provoke them. For I will not give you any of their land, for I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.

²⁰In the past, this land was also known to be a land of giants, but the Ammonites call them Zamzumim. ²¹A great, tall and numerous people, but the LORD destroyed them and the Ammonites took their land. ²²Just as the LORD destroyed the Horim and the sons of Esau that lived in Seir, took their land. ²³Then people came from Crete and destroyed them and took their land.

²⁴Now, cross over the river Arnon, for the LORD has given the land of Heshbon to you. This is the land of Sihon the Amorites, king of Heshbon. Go to war and possess the land. ²⁵As of today, the LORD shall begin to cause the people under the entire nation to be in fear of you, whoever shall hear a report of you shall tremble.

Israel denied passage through Heshbon, war brakes out and Israel takes the land.

²⁶Moses then sent messengers to the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying. ²⁷Allow us to pass through your land. We shall travel the main road and will not turn off of it. ²⁸We shall buy food and water from you, so that we can eat and drink, while we pass through your land. ²⁹As we did with the Edomites, who live in the land of Seir and the Moabites, who live in Ar, we shall pass over your land, on our way to cross over Jordan river to the land which the LORD our God gave us.

³⁰However the king of Heshbon would not let the Israelites pass through his land. For the LORD had hardened his heart, making him stubborn so that He might deliver him into our hands. ³¹The LORD then said; I have begun to give this land to you, Go and possess it, so that you may inherit the land.

³²The king then came out to fight and Israel defeated him. ³³For the LORD delivered him to us and we struck his sons and the people with the sword. ³⁴And we took the cities, utterly destroying the men, women and the children, we left none remain. ³⁵We only took as plunder, their cattle and some of the spoil within the cities. ³⁶From border to border, there was not one city too strong for us. For the LORD, our God delivered all to us. ³⁷However the lands the LORD our God denied us, we did not attempt to take.

Deuteronomy: chapter 3

Land east of the Jordan river, part of the inheritance

¹We then turned and headed to the land of Bashan. And the king of Bashan and his army came against us in battle. ²The LORD then said to me; Do not be afraid, for I will deliver him, his people and his land to you. Utterly destroy him, as you also did the king of the Amorites, at Heshbon. ³We then fought and the LORD our God delivered the king and his people to us. ⁴We took every city in the region, sixty cities in all. ⁵Every city was fortified with high walls, gates and bars and there were also numerous unwalled villages. ⁶And we completely destroyed the men, woman and children, as we did to the king of Heshbon. ⁷Taking their cattle and the spoil of the cities as our reward. ⁸At that time, we also took the land under the domain of the two kings of the Amorites, on this side of the Jordan river. ¹⁰Every city within the plain of Bashan and all of Gilead, were taken. ¹¹The only remaining thing of the giant race was the king of Bashan bedstead, it was made of iron. Thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide and is today kept by the sons of Ammon in Rabbah.

¹²This is the land and the cities that we possessed, on the east side of the Jordan river, that I gave to the men of the tribes of Reuben and Gad. ¹³The lands of Gilead and all of Bashan, were given to the half tribe of Manasseh. ¹⁴However, Jair the son of Manasseh took even further land calling them after his own name. ¹⁵To Machir, Manasseh son, I gave the city of Gilead. ¹⁶To the tribe of Reuben and Gad I gave the valley from the borders of Gilead to the river Arnon to the river Jabbok, to the border of the sons of Ammon. ¹⁷And the plain of the Jordan, from Chinnereth, to the Dead Sea, eastward to the Slopes of Pisgah.

¹⁸I then told you that, the LORD your God has given you this land to possess. However, you also shall pass over the Jordan river armed with your brothers, ¹⁹Your wives and children along with your numbers of cattle, can stay in your cities which I have given you. ²⁰Until all is conquered and the LORD has given rest to your brothers, you shall stay in the land across the Jordan river. Then you may return to your own lands, Numbers chapter 32.

²¹At that time, I said to Joshua. Recall what the LORD your God has done to the two kings, He shall also do the same to all the kingdoms on the other side of the Jordan. ²²Do not fear them! For the LORD, your God shall fight for you.

²³I then begged the LORD, saying. ²⁴LORD God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand. For there is no god in heaven or on earth who can do according to Your works. ²⁵I pray of You to let me cross over the Jordan and see this good hill country and the land of Lebanon. ²⁶But the LORD was angry with me, Numbers 20:2, because of you and He said to me; Enough! Do not speak to Me anymore concerning this matter. ²⁷Go up to the top of Mount Pisgah and there you will be able to see, in all four directions, the land. But, you shall not go over the Jordan river. ²⁸But encourage, strengthen and charge Joshua, for he shall lead the people and shall cause them to inherit the land that you will see.

²⁹We then stayed in the valley opposite of Beth-peor.

Deuteronomy: chapter 4

¹Israel, listen now to the statutes and judgments that I teach you, keep them and do them, so that you may possess the land and live. ²Do not add to or take away from the Word that I command you, so that you may keep the commands of the LORD your God. ³You have seen how the LORD destroyed all the men, at the last battle, that followed after Baal-peor, their false god. ⁴And because you held steadfast to the LORD your God, all of you are alive today. ⁵For, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as the LORD has commanded me, that you may continue doing these things in the land that you go to possess. ⁶Keep them and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding and other nations will hear of these things and say, this great nation is a wise and understanding people. ⁷For as we call upon LORD our God, He is coming near and making us a great nation. ⁸For there is no other nation greater whose laws and judgments are as righteous as the ones that I give to you today. ⁹But remain alert and guard your beliefs, lest you forget the things you have seen, keep them in your heart all the days of your life. Teaching them to your sons and to their sons.

¹⁰Remember the day when the LORD instructed me to gather you together and you stood before the LORD your God. And He said; I will let them hear My Words so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live on this earth, also teaching that to their sons. ¹¹You then came near and stood by the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire having lighting and thick clouds of darkness overhead, Exodus chapter 19 ¹²The LORD then spoke to you out of the midst of the fire and you heard the voice but did not see a likeness. ¹³That is when He declared to you, His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the ten commandments. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone, Exodus chapter 20. ¹⁴At that time, He commanded me to teach you these statutes and precepts so that you might keep and do them in the land of your possession.

¹⁵Therefore, guard your souls, for on the day that the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire, you saw no likeness. ¹⁶Lest you become corrupt and make a graven image to worship, in the likeness of anything, whether male or female, ¹⁷The likeness of a beast on the earth, or a bird of the air, ¹⁸The likeness of a creeping thing on the earth, or of a fish in the sea. ¹⁹Also do not worship the heavens, the sun, moon, or stars, lest you should be driven to serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all nations under all the heavens.

²⁰For the LORD has brought you out of bondage from the land of Egypt, to be to a people of His inheritance. ²¹As for me, the LORD became angry with me, Numbers 20:2, because of your sakes and swore that I would not go over the Jordan river into the good land that the LORD your God gave you as an inheritance. ²²Rather I would die in this land, but you would cross over the Jordan river and possess the good land. ²³However, be aware and do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God, that He made with you. And do not make for yourselves an image, a likeness of anything that He has forbidden you. ²⁴For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

²⁵Now when your generations have remained long in the land. And they begin to do evil in the sight of the LORD, corrupting themselves, by making images to worship, thereby provoking the LORD to anger, ²⁶Therefore today, I call Heaven and earth to witness against you, that you shall shortly thereafter utterly perish from the land. Your days shall not be prolonged in the land, but rather you shall be utterly destroyed. ²⁷The LORD shall scatter you among the nations and you shall be few in number wherever you shall be. ²⁸There you shall serve false gods, the work of men's hands, of wood and stone, which neither sees, hears, eats nor can smell.

²⁹But if you seek the LORD your God, with all your heart and soul, from there, you shall find Him. ³⁰In the latter days, when you find yourself in trouble because of these things, you will return to the LORD your God and shall be obedient to His voice. ³¹And the LORD your God being a merciful God, will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He made with them.

³²But, remember now of the past days while they are still in your memory, from the time when God created man on earth, has there ever been a thing so great as this, or has anything like this been heard of. ³³Have people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as you have heard and have lived? ³⁴Or has God ever taken for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, through the use of (trials, signs and wonders) and by war of a mighty hand, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes, Exodus chapters 7-12? ³⁵All this was shown to you so that you might know that the LORD is God and no one else is beside Him. ³⁶He caused you to hear His voice from heaven so that He might teach you, showing you His great fire upon earth and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. ³⁷And because He loved your fathers, therefore, He chose their generation, bringing them out of Egypt, into His sight by His mighty power. ³⁸Driving out great nations from before you, who were much greater and mightier than yourself, so He could bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance. ³⁹Therefore, know within your heart, that the LORD is God in Heaven and on the earth, that there is no other. ⁴⁰That is why you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you, so that it may go well with you and with the generations after you, so your days may be longer upon the earth which the LORD your God has given you.

Cities of refuge east of the Jordan.

⁴¹I then set apart three cities on the east side of the Jordan river. ⁴²That the manslayer, who unintentionally kills, might be able to flee there and live. ⁴³The names of the cities and the corresponding tribes were Bezer for the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth for the tribe of Gad and Golan for the tribe of Manasseh, Numbers 35:14.

⁴⁴Here is the law that Moses spoke to the Israelites. ⁴⁵The testimonies, laws and judgments after they came out of Egypt, ⁴⁶While still yet on this side of the Jordan river, in the valley bordering Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, Whom Moses and the sons of Israel killed, after they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷Taking possession of the land, on the east side of the Jordan river. ⁴⁸From one side of the river Arnon, to Mount Zion, ⁴⁹all the lands of the Jordan river eastward, to the Slopes of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy: chapter 5

Moses repeating of the ten commandments, first given in Exodus chapter 20.

¹Moses, then called the people of Israel together and said to them, Hear, the ordinances and the laws that I speak to you this day, so that you may learn them, keep them and do them. ²For the LORD our God made a covenant with us, on Mount Sinai. ³The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with we who stand here alive today. ⁴When the LORD talked with us face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire. ⁵At that time, I stood between you and the LORD, allowing you to hear the Word of the LORD, for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up into the mountain. And this is what the LORD said;

⁶I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of bondage within the land of Egypt, ⁷you shall have no other gods before Me.
⁸You shall not make for yourself any carved images, of anything in heaven or on the earth. ⁹You shall not bow down to them or serve them, For I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me. ¹⁰But, I show mercy and steadfast love to thousands of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
¹¹You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless.
¹²Observe the Sabbath day and keep it Holy, as the LORD commanded you to do so. ¹³Six days you shall labor and do your work. ¹⁴But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. On it you shall do no work, neither shall your son and daughters, your male nor female servants, your animals or even the stranger who is within your gates. ¹⁵Remembering that you were once a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, therefore, you are commanded to keep the Sabbath.
¹⁶Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long and that it may be well with you in the land that the LORD is giving you.
¹⁷You shall not murder.
¹⁸You shall not commit adultery.
¹⁹You shall not steal.
²⁰You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
²¹You shall not covet your neighbors, wife, house, male or female servants, property or possessions.

²²These are the Words the LORD spoke to all of you, from the mountain, with a loud voice, from out of the midst of a fire and a thick dark cloud. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and presented them to me.

²³Remember, when you heard the LORD's voice, that all the heads of your tribes and elders came to me. ²⁴Saying, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness. We have heard His voice from the midst of the fire and seen today that God speaks with man, yet we still live. ²⁵However, if we hear the voice of the LORD again this great fire will consume us. ²⁶For is there anyone of flesh who has heard the voice of the living God, from the midst of the fire, as we have and yet lived? ²⁷Therefore Moses, you go near and intercede for us and tell us what the LORD says and we will do it, Exodus 20:18.

²⁸The LORD heard the people as they talked to Moses and said; The people are right, in what they have spoken. ²⁹Oh that there would always be such a heart in them, that they would always fear Me and keep all My commandments, so that it might be well with them and with their generations forever! ³⁰Then the LORD told me to send the people back to their tents. ³¹But that I would stand with Him and He would give me the commandments, statutes and the judgments, so that I could teach the people. ³²Therefore, be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. ³³Walk in all the ways which the LORD has commanded you, so that you may live and that good may come to you and your days in the land may be increased.

Deuteronomy: chapter 6

¹These are the commandments, ordinances and laws, which the LORD our God commanded me to teach you, so that you might practice them in the land that you will take possession of. ²That you might fear the LORD your God and keep His commandments and His ways, throughout all your generations, so that your days might be prolonged. ³Hear them Israel and be careful to keep them, so that all may be well with you and that in your land, you may greatly multiply as the LORD has promised you.

⁴Israel, know that the LORD our God is the one and the only LORD. ⁵You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, soul and might.

⁶These words that I command you today, shall be first in your mind and heart. ⁷Carefully teach them to your sons, speaking and meditating on them always. ⁸You shall make remembrances before your eyes. ⁹Writing them also upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

¹⁰For it shall be when the LORD your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, giving you cities that you did not build. ¹¹Even furnished houses that you did not fill, wells that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant and you eat and are filled, ¹²Guard your hearts and minds, lest you forget it was the LORD, who brought you out of bondage in the land of Egypt. ¹³Fear the LORD your God serving Him and back your word swearing only by His name. ¹⁴Do not go after other gods, of the people around you, ¹⁵For the LORD your God is a jealous God, lest you kindle His anger against you and be destroyed. ¹⁶You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Meribah, Numbers 20:2-13. ¹⁷Diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His testimonies and statutes. ¹⁸And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the promise land. ¹⁹Casting out all your enemies, just as the LORD has spoken.

²⁰And when your sons, in generations to come, ask you of the testimonies, statutes and judgments of the LORD. ²¹You shall say to them, we were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²²Using great and evil signs and wonders, over Egypt, upon Pharaoh and his household, before our eyes, Exodus chapters 7-12. ²³The LORD brought us out of there that He might bring us into and give us this land that He swore to our fathers. ²⁴And the LORD commanded us to keep and perform all these statutes. Keeping the fear of the LORD our God always for our own good, so that He might preserve our lives. ²⁵Being careful to keep all of His commandments, for they are our righteousness.

Deuteronomy: chapter 7

¹Now when the LORD God brings you into the promise land, casting out seven nations greater and mightier than you, (the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and the Jebusites). ²And when He gives them over to you, you shall destroy them completely. You shall not make a covenant with them nor show mercy to them. ³You shall not intermarry with them, or give your sons or daughters to them in marriage. ⁴For by doing so, they would turn your sons away from the LORD, so that they may serve other gods and the LORD's anger would be kindled against you and would destroy you suddenly. ⁵But, this is how you shall deal with them, you shall destroy their altars, breaking and burning their idols, totally demolishing their high places.

⁶For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all other people's. ⁷In fact He did not choose you and set His love upon you, because you were more numerous than other nations, actually you were the smallest of all nations. ⁸Rather, because the LORD loved you and in keeping the oath that He had sworn to your fathers. He has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the bondage of Egypt.

⁹Therefore, know that your LORD, is God. He is faithful to keep His covenant, showing mercy to them that love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations. ¹⁰But to those who hate Him, He is not slow to repay and will repay them to their face, destroying them. ¹¹Therefore you shall keep and do the commandments, the statutes and the laws which I command you today.

¹²And it will be, when you hear, keep and do these judgments, that the LORD your God will keep the covenant that He has sworn to your fathers, ¹³The LORD will love and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, even increasing your cattle and flocks of your field, in the promise land. ¹⁴For you shall be blessed beyond all people. There will not be male or female barren among you or even among your cattle. ¹⁵The LORD will take away all sickness from you, putting none of the evil diseases, plagues of Egypt upon you and will put them upon all who hate you. ¹⁶Thus you shall destroy all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver to you. Showing no pity to them, nor shall you serve their gods, for if you do, they will be a snare to you.

¹⁷When you question in your heart, how you could ever conquer and dispose of a nation more numerous than you are. ¹⁸Do not be afraid of them, but carefully recall what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, Exodus chapter 14. ¹⁹Remember the great signs and wonders that you saw with your own eyes and the mighty hand and the stretched out arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. Thus will the LORD your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid. ²⁰For the LORD your God will even send the hornet among them until all that hide from you are destroyed. ²¹There is no cause to be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is among you, a mighty and terrible God. ²²The LORD your God shall cast out those nations before you, little by little. You shall not destroy them all at once, lest the beasts of the field increase and overpower you. ²³But the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, confusing them with a mighty panic until they are all destroyed. ²⁴He shall deliver their kings to you and you shall cause their names to perish upon the earth and no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them. ²⁵You shall burn the images of their false gods. Not even desiring the silver or gold they are made with, or taking it for yourself. If you do, it will be a snare to you, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. ²⁶Neither shall you bring a false idol into your house, lest you also become a cursed thing like it. Rather you shall despise it, for it is a cursed thing.

Deuteronomy: chapter 8

¹All the commandments that I give you today, you shall carefully follow them, that you may live and multiply, go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers. ²Keeping in mind the ways in which the LORD your God led you in the wilderness these past forty years, in order to humble you and prove you, so as to reveal what is in your heart, to know whether you would keep His commandments or not? ³For the LORD humbled you and allowed you to hunger, then He fed you supernaturally with manna, Exodus 16:1. He did this to make known to you that, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD, (NOTE: this was quoted by Jesus in Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4).

⁴In the wilderness these forty years, your clothing did not wear out, nor did your feet swell. ⁵For you have known in your heart, that just as a human father disciplines his son, so the LORD your God also disciplines His sons. ⁶Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and to fear Him. ⁷For He brings you into a good land of brooks and fountains of water that come out of the valleys and hills. ⁸A land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees and pomegranates, olive oil and honey. ⁹A land where you will eat bread without want, lacking nothing. A land whose stones have iron in them and out of whose hills you may mine for copper. ¹⁰There you shall eat and be satisfied, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.

¹¹But, beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, neglecting to keep His commandments, laws and statutes, that I command you today, ¹²Lest when you have eaten and are filled, having built good houses to live in. ¹³Reaping the increase of your herds and flocks, your silver and gold and all your increases. ¹⁴And your heart is lifted up with pride, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of bondage from the land of Egypt. ¹⁵For He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions and dry ground, where there was no water, who brought forth water out of the rock, Exodus 17:1-7. ¹⁶Feeding you in the wilderness with manna, Exodus 16:1, so that He might humble you and prove you, that you may do good in your latter end. ¹⁷So that you might not become proud, thinking your own human power has gotten you this wealth. ¹⁸But, remembering the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, so that He may confirm His covenant which He has sworn to your fathers. ¹⁹For it shall be, that if you leave the LORD your God and follow after other gods worshiping and serving them, I testify against you this day that you will surely perish. ²⁰Just as the nations, that would not listen to the voice of the LORD have perished, whom the LORD destroyed before your eyes, so you shall also perish.

Deuteronomy: chapter 9

¹People of Israel, you are about to cross over the Jordan river this day, to expel nations greater and mightier than yourself, living within great and fortified cities. ²The Anakims, a people tall and mighty, of whom you have heard it said, who can stand before the children of Anak! ³Therefore understand, that it is the LORD your God that goes over before you, as a consuming fire He shall bring them down and you shall drive them out, destroying them completely and quickly, as the LORD has commanded you.

⁴After the LORD has cast them out before you, do not think in your heart that it is because of your righteousness the LORD has brought you into this land. Rather it is because of the wickedness of these nation that the LORD is driving them out from before you. ⁵Therefore, understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land because of your righteousness, but because of their wickedness and that He may fulfill the promise that He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. ⁶Know that it is not because of your righteous, for you are a stiff-necked people. ⁷Do not forget how you provoked the LORD to wrath in the wilderness. Even from the first day when you left Egypt up until now, you have rebelled against the LORD.

⁸At Mount Sinai you provoked the LORD to wrath, so much so that He would have destroyed you. ⁹That was when I went up the mountain to receive the ten commandments, Exodus 20:3-17, the covenant that the LORD made with you and I was on the mountain forty days and nights, neither eating or drinking. ¹⁰And the LORD delivered to me two tablets written by the hand of God. According to the words that you heard Him speak out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. ¹¹Then, at the end of forty days and nights, the LORD gave me the two tables of stone. ¹²And said to me; Go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from the way I commanded them. They have made them a molten image, Exodus chapter 32. ¹³I have seen that this is a stiff-necked people. ¹⁴Now let Me alone, so that I may destroy them, blotting out their names. And I shall make a great and mighty nation of you, even greater than they. ¹⁵I then came down from the mountain, while the mountain yet burned with fire. Having the two stone tablets of the covenant in my hands.

¹⁶I then saw what you had done. You had sinned against your LORD your God, making a molten calf. Turning aside quickly from the way the LORD had commanded you, Exodus chapter 32. ¹⁷So I threw the two tablets down, breaking them before your eyes. ¹⁸Falling down before the LORD, again neither eating nor drinking, because of your sins, doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger. ¹⁹I was afraid of the mighty anger the LORD held against you, wanting to destroy you, but, the LORD listened to me. ²⁰He was also very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him. But I prayed and interceded also for Aaron at that time. ²¹I then took the calf which you had made, (your sin), burnt it and ground it into very small pieces, as small as dust, putting the dust into the stream that descended out of the mountain.

²²Also at Taberah, Numbers 11:1-3 and at Massah, Exodus 17:1-7 and at the Graves of Lust, Numbers 11:4-35, you provoked the LORD to anger.

²³And when the LORD sent you up from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, go up and possess the land that I had given you. You rebelled against the LORD's commandment not believing Him. (NOTE: This was where the 12 spies were sent out and 10 of them returned with a bad report, Numbers chapter 13.

²⁴You have been rebellious against the LORD since the day that I first knew you. ²⁵I have thrown myself down before the LORD for your sakes, when the LORD wanted to destroy you. ²⁶Therefore, I prayed and interceded to the LORD for your sakes, saying, LORD, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand, Exodus 20:18. ²⁷Remember, your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of the people, or their wickedness of their sin, ²⁸Lest the people in Egypt say, because the LORD was not able to bring them into the promised land and since He hated them, He brought them out to die in the wilderness. ²⁹For they are Your people and Your inheritance that You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched out arm.

Deuteronomy: chapter 10

¹Soon after that, the LORD told me to cut two more tablets of stone, like the first ones and make an ark of wood and to come up to Him on the mountain. ²That He would write the words that were on the first tablets, (that were broken) and I was to put them into the ark. ³So I made an ark of acacia-wood, cut out two tablets of stone and went up into the mountain. ⁴And according to the first writings the LORD wrote the Ten Commandments on the tablets, which the LORD also spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. ⁵I then came down the mountain, putting the two tablets in the ark, as the LORD had commanded me.

⁶We then broke camp and left the wells of Jaakan traveling to Mosera. The place where Aaron the priest died and was buried, Numbers 20:22-29. After Aaron's death, Eleazar his son served in the priest's office in his place. ⁷From there they went to Gudgodah and from there to Jotbath, a land of many brooks. ⁸At that time the LORD called out the tribe of Levi to carry the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD and minister to Him. ⁹That is why, Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers. For the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God promised him.

¹⁰And I again stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights interceding for you and the LORD heard me and did not destroy you. ¹¹For He said to me; Arise and lead the people to take possession of the land which I swore to give to their fathers.

¹²People of Israel, the LORD your God is asking of you that you fear the LORD your God, walking in all His ways and to love Him, serving the LORD your God with all your heart and soul. ¹³Keeping the statutes and commandments of the LORD, which are for your own good, as I command you. ¹⁴For the heaven and all that you see belong to the LORD your God. ¹⁵Yet the LORD chose to delight in your fathers and to love them, choosing their seed after them. ¹⁶Therefore, circumcise your heart and mind, no longer being stiff-necked. ¹⁷For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty and terrible God, who shows no partiality to persons nor take bribes. ¹⁸But, He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves to give the sojourner bread and clothing. ¹⁹Therefore also love strangers, for you were once strangers in the land of Egypt. ²⁰Fear the LORD your God, serve Him and hold fast to Him, backing up your word by His name. ²¹For He is your praise and your God, who has done these great and terrible things which you have seen. ²²Remember, your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons, Genesis chapter 46 and now the LORD your God has made you a vast multitude.

Deuteronomy: chapter 11

¹Therefore, you shall love the LORD your God, keeping His charge, statutes, judgments and commandments always. ²And it's very clear this day, for I speak with people whom have known and seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand and out stretched arm. ³The miracles and acts He did in Egypt, to Pharaoh and his land, Exodus chapter 7-12. ⁴How the LORD destroyed the Egyptian army, their horses and their chariots in the Red Sea, by drowning them as they pursued after you, Exodus chapter 14. ⁵You know what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place. ⁶And you also know what He did to Dathan and Abiram, of the tribe of Reuben when they rebelled, how the earth swallowed them up, together with their households and all their possession, Numbers chapter 16. ⁷For your eyes have seen these great acts that the LORD did.

⁸Therefore you shall keep all the commandments that I give you today, so that you will be strong and shall take possession of the land. ⁹That you will increase your days in this land, a land that flows with milk and honey. ¹⁰For the land that you are going to possess is not a hard land such as was Egypt, where you labored continually. ¹¹But the land that you will possess is a land of hills and valleys, with plenty of drinking water. ¹²A land that the LORD your God cares for. His eyes are always upon it, regardless of the season of the year.

¹³Now, if you listen carefully to the commandments which I speak to you today, to love and serve the LORD your God with all your heart and soul, ¹⁴He will give you the rain of your land in its due season, that you may gather in your grain, wine and oil. ¹⁵There will be grass in your fields for your cattle. ¹⁶But, be on guard that you are not deceived, turning aside to worship and serve other gods. ¹⁷For if you do, the LORD's wrath will be kindled against you and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, causing the land not to yield her fruit and you shall perish quickly. ¹⁸Therefore keep His words always in your hearts and souls, remember them in all that you do, keeping them before your eyes always. ¹⁹Teach them to your sons, speaking of them always. ²⁰Write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates. ²¹So that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied in the land that you go to possess and the days may be like the days of the heavens upon the earth.

²²If you do carefully keep and do all these commandments, loving the LORD your God, walking in His ways, holding fast to Him. ²³The LORD will then drive out the nations from before you, even greater and mightier nations than you. ²⁴Every place that you walk shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the Euphrates river, to the furthest sea shall be your border. ²⁵No man shall stand before you, for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon the face of all the land that you shall tread upon.

²⁶Today, I set before you blessing and a curse: ²⁷A blessing shall be yours if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God. ²⁸And a curse is yours if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, choosing to go after other gods. ²⁹When the LORD brings you into the promise land, you shall speak forth the blessing from Mount Gerizim and the curse from Mount Ebal, chapters 27 and 28. ³⁰For both mountains are on the other side of the Jordan river, in the land of the Canaanites. ³¹Yes, you shall cross the Jordan river, possess and dwell in the land, that the LORD your God gave you. ³²But be careful to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

Deuteronomy: chapter 12

¹When you enter into the promise land, these are the statutes and judgments that you shall keep, all the days that you live upon the earth. ²You shall completely destroy the places of worship, in which the other nations serve their gods. ³Destroying their altars and breaking and burning the statues of their gods, so that even the name of that false god perishes. ⁴But you shall not do so such with the LORD your God.

⁵But for your LORD you shall seek the dwelling place that He chooses to put His name on. ⁶There you shall bring your sacrifices, burnt offerings and tithes, together with the heave offering of your hands, your vows, your free-will offerings and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. ⁷There you and your household shall eat before the LORD your God, rejoicing in all that you put your hand forth to do, in which the LORD has blessed you. ⁸You shall not continue to do according as you do today, each doing whatever is right in his own eyes.

⁹For you have not yet come into the rest and the full inheritance which the LORD your God has given you. ¹⁰But when you cross over the Jordan river to dwell in the promise land that the LORD has given you, He will give you rest from all the enemies around you and you will live in safety, ¹¹There the LORD your God shall choose a place where His name shall dwell. And you shall bring your burnt offerings, tithes and sacrifices, the heave offering of your hand and the vows which you vow to the LORD to that place. ¹²There your entire household, your sons and daughters, male and female servants, shall rejoice before the LORD your God, together with the Levite that is within your gates (because he has no part nor inheritance with you). ¹³Be aware that you do not offer burnt offerings in every place that you see. ¹⁴But only in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings and do all that I command you.

¹⁵As your soul's desire you may eat flesh in your gates, according to the blessing of the LORD your God, one may eat of both the unclean and clean animals. ¹⁶But you shall not eat the blood, it shall be poured on the earth like water. ¹⁷However, if it is a sacrificial offering, you may not eat of it within your gates, whether it be of your grain, wine or oil, or of your herds or flocks. Whether it be a free-will or a heave offering or anything associated with a vow that you made. ¹⁸Rather you and your household, your sons and daughters, male and female servants and the Levite within your gates, must eat of it before the LORD your God in the place where He chooses. And there you shall rejoice before the LORD. ¹⁹But, beware that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.

²⁰When the LORD brings you into the promise land and your borders become larger and you crave animal flesh to eat, you may eat flesh whatever your soul desires. ²¹However, if the place which the LORD your God has marked with His name is too far of a distance away from you. Then you may kill of your herds or flocks, which the LORD has given you and eat in your gates as your soul desires. ²²You can eat of both the unclean and clean animals. ²³But be sure that you do not eat of the blood. For the life in the blood and you may not eat the life with the flesh. ²⁴It shall not be eaten but rather poured out on the earth like water. ²⁵You shall not eat of it, so it may go well with you and your generations after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

²⁶But you shall bring your holy things that you have and your vows, to the place that the LORD shall choose. ²⁷There you shall offer burnt offerings, flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God and the blood shall be poured out on the altar and you shall eat the flesh. ²⁸But again be careful to hear all the words that I command you, so that it may go well with you and your future generations, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

²⁹Now, when the LORD your God cuts off the nations before you and you dwell in their land, ³⁰Remain alert! That you do not become snared by the people whom are destroyed before you. That you do not ask about their gods, how they served their gods, that you may also do likewise. ³¹This is an abomination to the LORD and you shall not do this, for people of other nations have even sacrificed their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. ³²Everything that I have commanded you to do, be diligent to do it. Do not add to it, nor take away from it.

Deuteronomy: chapter 13

¹Now, if a prophet should rise among you or a dreamer of dreams, giving you a sign or a wonder. ²And the sign or the wonder that he spoke of happens and he thus encourages others to follow after and serve other gods that you have not known of. ³Do not listen to that prophet, or that dreamer. For the LORD, your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴Walk after the LORD your God fearing Him, keeping His commandments, obeying His voice, serving Him and holding fast to Him. ⁵That prophet or dreamer shall be put to death, because he has tried to turn you away from the way the LORD your God commanded you to walk, who brought you out of your bondage within the land of Egypt.

⁶If a member of your household, a son or a daughter, your own wife or a good friend, attempts to lure you away secretly to serve other gods that you have not known. ⁷To serve the gods of the people of other nations, whether they be near to you or far. ⁸You shall not consent nor listen to that person, nether shall you pity that person, sparing or concealing their actions. ⁹But they shall be put to death, with your hand being the first to carry out the sentence and afterwards joined by all the people. ¹⁰You shall stone that person until they are dead, because they attempted to drive you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of bondage in the land of Egypt. ¹¹This shall be an example, for all of Israel shall hear and fear, thus they shall not do any more wickedness, such as this among you.

¹²If in any of your cities that the LORD your God has given you, you hear it reported that. ¹³Certain lawless men have gone out, drawing away their neighbors to go and serve other gods, that you have not known, ¹⁴After you have carefully inquired and searched the matter out. If it is true that this abomination was done among you, ¹⁵Those men who live in that city shall be destroyed and all that is in that city, even the cattle of that city shall be destroyed. ¹⁶all the goods of that city shall be gathered in a pile and burn and this shall be a heap forever, for the city shall not be rebuilt. ¹⁷None of the cursed things of that city shall you cling to, so that the LORD may turn from His anger and show you mercy and multiply you as He has sworn to your fathers. ¹⁸As when you listen to the voice of the LORD your God, keep all His commandments that I have commanded you and do right in the sight of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy: chapter 14

¹As sons of the LORD your God, you shall not make cuts in your body or make any baldness on your head for the dead. ²For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God and the LORD has chosen you to be a cherished treasure to Himself, above all the nations. ³You shall not eat any abominable thing.

Clean and unclean food defined.

⁴The animals that you can eat of are the: The ox and its kind, the sheep and its kind, the goat and its kind, ⁵the dear and it kind and the gazelle. ⁶Every animal that divides the hoof in two and chews the cud, that animal you may eat of. ⁷But you shall not eat the animals that either chew the cud, or have a divided hoof, but do not have both. Such as the camel, the hare and the badger, for they chew the cud, but do not have a divided hoof, thus they are unclean to you. ⁸Likewise the swine, has a divided hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean to you. You shall not eat of it or even touch its dead body.

⁹Of the fish in the waters, you may eat of those having fins and scales. ¹⁰Whatever does not have fins and scales, is unclean and you shall not eat of it.

¹¹You may eat of every clean bird. ¹²But you shall not eat these birds: the eagle and the vulture and its kind, ¹³the hawk and its kind, the falcon, ¹⁴the raven and its kind, ¹⁵the owl and its kind and the cuckoo, ¹⁶the swan, ¹⁷the pelican and the cormorant, ¹⁸the stork, the heron and its kind, the hoopoe and the bat.

¹⁹Every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you and shall not be eaten. ²⁰But of all clean winged things you may eat.

²¹Whatever dies of itself you shall not eat, rather give it to the stranger who is staying with you or sell it to a stranger, (NOTE: for they are not under God laws). But, you are a holy people to the LORD, you shall not even boil a kid in its mother's milk, (NOTE: you shall not take what is meant to nourish and pervert it for evil).

²²Tithe all the increase of your seed that your fields each year brings forth a harvest. ²³You shall tithe of your grain, wine and oil of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks. Then you shall eat before the LORD your God in the place that He chose, so that you may learn to always fear the LORD your God. ²⁴But if the place the LORD chose is too far for you, that you are not able to carry it or is too great a distance. ²⁵Then you shall take money and go to the place the LORD your God has chosen. ²⁶And there you shall convert your money into whatever you desire, whether it be for oxen, sheep, wine or strong drink. There you shall eat it before the LORD your God, rejoicing there you and your household.

The tithe of the third year.

²⁷But, don't forget nor forsake the Levite, (God's minister) within your gates, for he has not been given an inheritance with you. ²⁸And at the end of three years, you shall gather all the tithe of your increase for that year. ²⁹And the Levite, because he has no part of the inheritance with you, together with the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, that are part of your community. They Shall eat and be filled, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Deuteronomy: chapter 15

The Sabbath year of release.

¹Every seventh year you shall grant a release, (of debts held by a fellow Israelites). ²Every man who holds a loan to his neighbor shall release his neighbor from the debt. Not collecting it from him or his brother, this is called the LORD's release. ³You may require payment of the debt from a foreigner, but you shall release your brother from his debt. ⁴When there shall be no needy among you, the LORD shall greatly bless you. ⁵But only if you carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God and do all of His commandments. ⁶For the LORD your God will bless you as He has promised. You shall lend to many nations, but not borrow, also you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

⁷If one of your brothers within your community is poor among you, do not harden your heart, shutting of your poor brother. ⁸Rather open up your purse to him, lending to him whatever his need is. ⁹Not thinking wickedly in your heart, that the seventh year of release is near and giving him nothing. For if he cries to the LORD against you, it is sin to you. ¹⁰Give to him and do not let your heart be grieved. Knowing that in this the LORD your God will bless you in all your works, everything you put your hand to do. ¹¹For you shall always have the poor! But, I command you to give generously to your poor and needy brother in your land.

¹²Now If your Hebrew neighbor, either a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year you shall release them. ¹³And you shall not release him or her empty handed. ¹⁴You shall richly bless them with gifts of your flock, your grain and your winepress, as the LORD your God has blessed you. ¹⁵Remembering that you were once a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you. ¹⁶If that Hebrew servant wishes to stay on with you, because they love your household, for all has been good for them. ¹⁷You shall then pierce their earlobe and they shall be your servant forever. ¹⁸If they wish to go free, do not let this grieve you, for he has served you six years and been worth a double hired servant, for the LORD has blessed you in all that you do.

¹⁹Every firstborn male of your herd or your flock, shall be set apart unto the LORD your God. Do not do any field work with him, neither shear the firstborn of your sheep. ²⁰But you and your household shall eat of these before the LORD your God year after year in the place which the LORD chooses. ²¹But if there is a blemish on it, or if it is lame, or blind, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. ²²Rather you shall eat it within your gates, either of the unclean and clean animals. ²³But the blood of it shall be poured on the ground.

Deuteronomy: chapter 16

Observance of various feast days.

: The Passover, followed by the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
¹In the month of Abib, (March / April) keep the Passover to the LORD your God. For in this month He brought you out of Egypt. ²And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to put His name. ³For seven days, you shall only eat unleavened bread with it. For unleavened bread is the bread of affection, for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste, that you might always remember this. ⁴During these seven days, there shall be no leavened bread seen within your household and the meat from the sacrificed animal on the first day shall not be left until the next morning. ⁵You shall not hold the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns or cities, ⁶but only at the place where the LORD your God chose to place His name, you shall sacrifice it at evening, the time when you came out of Egypt. ⁷There you shall roast and eat the sacrifice and in the morning you shall return to your households. ⁸Six days you shall eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, no work shall be done on that day.
: The Feast of Weeks, (this aligns with Pentecost).
⁹After the Passover, you shall count seven weeks, until the time when you harvest the grain. ¹⁰This is the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God. You shall give a free-will offering according as the LORD has blessed you. ¹¹Your entire household and all who are with you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, in the place that God chose. ¹²You shall always remember that you were once a slave in Egypt, being careful to do these ordinances.
: The Feast of Tabernacles.
¹³After you have gathered in the harvest from your corn and of your vineyard, you shall keep the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days. ¹⁴Your household and all who are within your gate shall rejoice at the feast. ¹⁵Seven days you shall keep this solemn feast to the LORD your God, in the place chosen by the LORD. For the LORD will bless you in all the works of your hands, thus shall you rejoice.

¹⁶For these three feasts times shall every male appear before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD chooses, The Passover along with the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles. Neither shall they come empty handed before the LORD, ¹⁷Each shall bring their gift, according to the blessing that the LORD has given him.

¹⁸You shall appoint judges and officers in all of your towns, according to tribes, which the LORD your God will help you establish And they shall righteously judge the people. ¹⁹These men shall not pervert justice, they shall not show partiality, taking gifts or bribes. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ²⁰But they shall follow uncompromising righteousness, that they may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

²¹You shall not plant any dedicated thing to a false god, near the altar of the LORD your God. ²²Nether shall you set up an image, which the LORD your God hates.

Deuteronomy: chapter 17

¹You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any animal in which there is a blemish, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

²If there is a man or a woman among you who does evil and breaks the convent of the LORD your God. ³Serving and worshiping other gods, whether it be the sun, the moon or any of the heavenly bodies, that I have not commanded. ⁴After carefully searching this matter out and if it is true and certain, that such an abomination has been done in Israel. ⁵You shall bring that person forth and stone them to death. ⁶The testimony of two or three witnesses shall seal his death, but by the testimony of one witness shall not warrant his death. ⁷And when executing the stoning, the witnesses shall be first to cause his death, afterwards followed by all the towns people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.

⁸If there is a matter that is too hard for you to judge, whatever it may be concerning, you shall go up to the place which the LORD your God shall choose. ⁹There you shall ask the Levites, the priests to judge the matter and they shall declare to you their judgment. ¹⁰Then you shall do according to the sentence which they declare to you. ¹¹You shall carry out their judgment exactly as they spoke to you, without any modifications. ¹²For the man who acts presumptuously, not listening to the priest who ministers before the LORD your God or to the judge, that man shall die, so that all evil is taken out from Israel. ¹³Thus, all the people shall hear and fear, leaving their presumptuous ways behind them.

¹⁴Now when you come into the promise land that the LORD your God shall give you, dwelling in it and then wishing for a king to dwell over you, as the other nations have. ¹⁵You will indeed appoint a king, one from your brothers, whom the LORD your God shall choose, not a stranger. ¹⁶The king shall not multiply power and might to himself, causing the people to desire to return to Egypt, because the LORD has made it clear there is no going back. ¹⁷Nor shall he multiply wives to himself, so his heart does not turn away. Nor shall he multiply great wealth to himself. ¹⁸But when he sits on his throne, he shall write a copy of this law in a book from before the priests, the Levites. ¹⁹And he shall keep it with him, reading it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and statutes. ²⁰That way, his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, not turning aside from the commandment, so that he may make his days longer within his kingdom, for both, he and his sons.

Deuteronomy: chapter 18

¹The priests, the Levites and all of the tribe of Levi, shall be separated from Israel, nether shall they have a land inheritance with Israel. But, they shall eat the offerings of the LORD and His portion. ²The LORD shall be their inheritance, they shall not have an inheritance among their brothers, Numbers 18:20-24.

³Therefore, this shall be the priest's due from the people's sacrifice, whether it be an ox or a sheep the priests shall receive the shoulder, the two cheeks and the stomach. ⁴They shall give the priest the first-fruit of their grain, wine and oil and the first of the fleece of their sheep. ⁵For the LORD, God has chosen them out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, through their generations, forever.

⁶If a Levite should choose to leave the place he was dwelling, having the desire to go to the place where the LORD shall guide him. ⁷There, he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as with all his fellow Levites, who stand there before the LORD. ⁸all the Levites there shall receive the same portions to eat, even though he has received money from the sale of his father's inheritance.

⁹Now, when you come to the promise land that the LORD your God will give you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations the other nations do. ¹⁰Absolutely no one among you shall, sacrifice his son or daughter by fire, or using divination, or shall be a observer of times, a fortune teller, or a witch, ¹¹a charmer, one who take counsel with familiar spirits, a wizard, or one who calls upon the dead. ¹²Everyone who does such things are an abomination to the LORD and because of this, the LORD shall drive them out from before you. ¹³You shall be blameless and true before the LORD your God. ¹⁴For these nations that you are about to conquer, do all these things, but the LORD has not appointed such for you.

¹⁵Now the LORD your God will raise up a Prophet from the midst of you, like me and you shall listen to him. ¹⁶For when you were back at Mount Sinai and God came down upon the mountain with great fire. You said to me, let us not hear the voice of the LORD again least we die, but you intercede for us Moses, Exodus 20:18 ¹⁷And the LORD said to me, the people have spoken well. ¹⁸Therefore, from the people, the LORD will raise up another Prophet for you, as I was. The LORD shall put His words in his mouth and the prophet shall speak to the people, as commanded by the LORD. ¹⁹And whoever will not obey the LORD's words, spoken by the prophet, the LORD will hold him responsible for his actions. ²⁰Any prophet who presumes to speak words of the LORD that He has not commanded him to speak or if that one speaks in the name of false gods, that prophet shall be put to death. ²¹When you question in your heart, how you can know the Words of the LORD which He has not spoken to you? ²²When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not follow what is known to be true or come to pass, the LORD has not spoken it, the words were presumptuously spoken by this prophet and you shall not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy: chapter 19

¹When the LORD your God has cut off the nations and you dwell in their cities and in their houses. ²You shall set aside three cities, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess. ³Therefore divide your land that the LORD has given you, into thirds and within each third there shall be a city designated as a city of refuge, so that a manslayer may flee to it.

⁴That a manslayer may flee there and live, whoever kills his neighbor in error, who did not hate his neighbor. ⁵An example of this is, if two men go to cut wood and as they cut wood the axe head slips off the axe handle, killing his neighbor. Thus the other man may flee to a city of refuge and he shall live, Numbers 35:6. ⁶And if the way to the city of refuge is a far distance, the avenger may not pursue to overtake and kill the man, while his anger is raging. For the man has no sentence worthy of death. ⁷Therefore I command you to set aside three cities.

⁸Now if the LORD your God expands your borders, as He has sworn to your fathers. ⁹If you keep the commandments and do them as I command you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways, then you shall add three more cities of refuge. ¹⁰So innocent blood may not be shed on the land which the LORD your God gave you as an inheritance and thus blood may not be on your head.

¹¹But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and kills him and then flees to one of these cities, ¹²The elders of the city he came from, shall bring him back and deliver him into the hand of his avenger and he shall be put to death. ¹³You shall not pity him, but you shall clear Israel of deceitful wrongdoing concerning innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.

¹⁴Do not remove your neighbor's landmark, which was set in the past to mark each one inheritance, in the land that the LORD your God shall give to you.

¹⁵A man shall not be convicted by the word of only one witness, but by two or three witness the matter may be known. ¹⁶If a false witness rises up and accuses a man of wrongdoing. ¹⁷Both the men who disagree shall stand before the LORD, the priests and the judges. ¹⁸The judges shall then make careful inquiry and if the witness has testified falsely against his brother, ¹⁹Whatever he had thought to do to his brother, shall be done to him. Thus you shall put the evil away from among you. ²⁰This shall set an example for those who have heard and they shall fear, not committing this evil among you again. ²¹And you shall not pity them! It shall be, life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand and foot for foot.

Deuteronomy: chapter 20

¹When you battle against your enemies and you realize that they are a people mightier and greater than you are, do not be afraid of them! Know that the LORD your God is with you, whom brought you up out of the land of Egypt. ²When the men approach the battle, the priest shall speak to them. ³Saying, today as you go to battle, do not be faint hearted, afraid, do not tremble and do not let the enemy see fear. ⁴For the LORD your God goes with you and He will fight for you against your enemies, so that you will be saved.

^5-7The officers shall then speak to the men saying. If any man has unfinished business, whether it be concerning a new house, crops that have been planted or a recent engagement to a wife, let that man go take care of his business, least he die in battle and it be left incomplete. ⁸Then the officers will further speak to the men, saying. If any man is fearful and faint-hearted, let him return to his house, lest he also discourage his brothers. ⁹After these words, the officers will appoint captains of the armies to lead the people.

¹⁰When you come to a city to fight against it, first make an offer of peace to that city. ¹¹If the people of that city accept the offer, then all the people in that city shall be forced laborers to you and they shall serve you. ¹²But if they will not make peace with you and they choose to fight, you shall besiege that city. ¹³And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male with the edge of the sword. ¹⁴But the women, children, the cattle and all the spoil that is in the city, you shall take for yourself, eating the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you. ¹⁵You shall do so to all the cities that are a far distance from you, which are not of the nations of your immediate inheritance.

¹⁶The cities that the LORD your God has given you as an inheritance, you shall completely destroy all that has breath. ¹⁷Utterly destroying the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded you to do. ¹⁸So they do not teach you the ways of their abominations, that they perform for their false gods. So you do not sin against the LORD your God. ¹⁹Now when you war against a city for a length of time. You shall not destroy its fruit trees by cutting them down, for you can eat of their fruit, for you are not fighting the trees. ²⁰The trees that are not used for food, you shall destroy and cut them down to build bulwarks against that city, until it is subdued.

Deuteronomy: chapter 21

¹If the dead body of a Hebrew is found lying in the field of the land that the LORD your God gave you and it is not known who has killed him. ²The elders and judges shall determine the nearest city. ³And the elders of that city shall take a heifer that has never been worked or even had a yoke put on it. ⁴They shall bring the heifer to a stream that flows continually, a field that is neither plowed nor sown and there they shall behead the heifer. ⁵The priests, the sons of Levi, shall then come near, for the LORD your God has chosen them as ministers and by their word shall every controversy be settled. ⁶All the elders of that city shall then wash their hands over the heifer that has been beheaded in the stream. ⁷Saying, our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen who did this. ⁸LORD, be merciful to Your people, whom You have redeemed and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel. Thus the blood shall be forgiven them. ⁹And you shall put away innocent blood from among you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

¹⁰Now when you go to war and the LORD your God deliverers your enemies into your hands and you take them captive. ¹¹If you see among the captives a beautiful woman and desire to take her as a wife, ¹²you can bring her to your house, but she shall shave her head and cut her nails. ¹³She shall remove the clothing of her captivity, she shall then remain in your house mourning her father and mother for a full month. After that you may go into her, becoming her husband and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴And if you find you have no delight in her, you shall let her go free, you shall not sell her or make a slave of her, because you have humbled her.

¹⁵If a man has two wives and he favors one and not the other. If they have both bore him sons, where the firstborn son was a child of the ill-favored wife. ¹⁶In the days of the inheritance, the father shall not put the firstborn son of the wife he loves in the place of the actual firstborn son of his ill-favored wife. ¹⁷Rather, he shall acknowledge the son of the ill-favored wife as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For he is the beginning of his strength and the right of the firstborn is his.

¹⁸If there is a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his parent's voice even when they have disciplined him. ¹⁹His parents shall then bring him to the elders of the city. ²⁰Saying to the elders, our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us, for he is a glutton and a drunkard. ²¹Then all the men of that city shall stone him, unto death. Thus shall you put evil away from you and through this all of Israel shall hear and fear.

²²If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, hung on a tree. ²³You shall not leave his body on that tree all night long. Rather you shall bury him that day, so that the land that the LORD gave you may not be defiled, (for everyone that is hung is accursed of God).

Deuteronomy: chapter 22

¹If you see your brother's ox or sheep being driven away. You shall not look the other way. You shall intercede and return them to your brother. ²And if your brother lives a distance away or if the owner is a man you do not know, you shall then bring them to your own house and wait until the proper owner seeks after them. ³Likewise shall you do with his donkey, with his clothing, or with any thing of your brother's that he has lost and you have found. ⁴Nor shall you see your brother's donkey or oxen fall down by the way and look the other way. You shall help him to lift it up again.

⁵A woman shall not wear clothing that pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on woman's clothing, for everyone who does such is an abomination unto the Lord your God.

⁶If you come across a bird's nest and the mother is sitting on the young or on eggs, you are not to take the mother with her young. ⁷ You shall let the mother go and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you and your days may be long.

⁸When you build a house, you shall put a railing around a flat roof, so that no one shall fall from it, bringing blood unto that house.

⁹You shall not sow in your vineyard different kinds of seeds, lest both the increase of your seed and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.

¹⁰You shall not plow your fields with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

¹¹You shall not wear a garment woven of different kinds of material.

¹²You shall make for yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak, Numbers 15:37-41.

¹³If any man takes a wife and goes into her, only later to scorn her. ¹⁴Bringing an evil name upon her, making accusations against her that, I took this woman as a wife and upon lying with her, I found no proof of her virginity. ¹⁵The parents of the girl along with the girl, shall then bring proof of the girl's virginity to the town leaders. ¹⁶The girl's father shall then say, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife and he hates her. ¹⁷For he has shamefully charged her, saying. I have not found your daughter to be a virgin. Yet, this cloth is the proof of her virginity. ¹⁸Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him. ¹⁹Fining him one hundred shekels of silver and giving this to the father of the girl, because he has brought an evil name on a virgin of Israel. She shall then be his wife and her husband may not be allowed to put her away, all of his days. ²⁰But if the accusation is true and no proof of virginity is found, ²¹The girl shall be brought to the door of her father's house and she shall be stoned to death. For she has foolishly played the harlot while in her father's house. Thus you shall put the evil away from among you.

²²If a man lies with a married woman, both shall die, so that the evil may be put away from Israel.

²³If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man finds her in a city and lies with her, ²⁴They shall both be brought to the public square and stoned until death. The girl because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. Thus you shall put away evil from among you. ²⁵But if the man finds an engaged girl in the field and the man forces her and lies with her, only the man shall die. ²⁶Nothing shall be done to the girl, for she did nothing wrong. ²⁷For she cried out, but there was no one nearby to hear or help.

²⁸If a man finds a virgin who is not engaged and lays with her. ²⁹The man shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, for he has humbled her and he may not put her away all his days.

³⁰A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's wife.

Deuteronomy: chapter 23

¹ He who has been wounded in the testicles or has been castrated, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

² A person born out of wedlock shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD, even up to his tenth generation.

³ An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Even to their tenth generation. ⁴Because they did not give you bread and water, as you passed by when you came out of Egypt, yet they hired Balaam to curse the Israelites, Numbers chapters 22-24. ⁵Nevertheless, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but turned the curse to a blessing, for the LORD loves you. ⁶You shall not ever seek after the peace or the prosperity that these nations seem to have.

⁷You shall not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother, (Esau's descendants). You shall not despise an Egyptian, because you were a once stranger in his land. ⁸Their descendants shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

⁹When you are at war and the army is at camp, keep yourself from all wickedness. ¹⁰Any man who is unclean because of an emission at night, shall go outside of the camp. ¹¹When evening comes, he shall wash with water and when the sun goes down, he can come back into the camp. ¹²There shall be a place outside the camp where you shall relieve yourself. ¹³Along with your weapon you shall have a shovel, that when you relieve yourself, you shall dig a hole and cover it with dirt. ¹⁴For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, so as to deliver you from your enemies. Therefore, your camp shall be holy, so that the LORD shall see no unclean thing and therefore turn away from you.

¹⁵You shall not return an escaped servant back to his master. ¹⁶Rather, he shall dwell within your city gates, wherever he chooses, you shall not oppress him.

¹⁷There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

¹⁸You shall not bring the wages of a female or male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God associated with a vow. For this is an abomination to the LORD your God.

¹⁹You shall not lend to your brother for interest. ²⁰You may lend to a stranger for interest, but not to your brother. Lending to your brother, the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do in the promise land.

²¹When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to complete it, for the LORD requires it of you and it would be sin to be lax about it. ²²But if you abstain from making a vow, it is not sin. ²³However, what you have spoken, you shall keep and perform, even a free-will offering, according as you have vowed.

²⁴When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat grapes at your own pleasure, but you shall not store up reserves of you neighbor's grapes. ²⁵Likewise, when you stand in your neighbor's field, you may eat of the heads of grain, but not harvest his field for your own sake.

Deuteronomy: chapter 24

¹When a man marries a wife and later she looses all favor in his eyes, because he has found some filthiness in her. The husband may give her a writing of divorce, thus sending her out of his house. ²After she departs, if she marries another man. ³Only to receive divorce papers from her second husband, or if her second husband dies. ⁴The first husband, may not take her again as his wife, for she has been defiled. For this is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

⁵When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out to war or carry the responsibility of any duty. But, shall remain at home one year enjoying the wife that he has taken.

⁶A man shall not take another mans daily substance in pledge, for he would be taking a man's life in pledge.

⁷Any man found kidnapping one of his brothers in Israel, to make a slave of him or sell him, shall surely die. Thus you shall put away evil from among you.

⁸Stay alert, of the plague of leprosy, watch carefully and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you. ⁹Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam, Aaron's wife, in the wilderness, after you had come out of Egypt, Numbers chapter 12.

¹⁰If you give your Hebrew brother a loan, you shall not go into his house to retrieve his pledge. ¹¹You shall stand outside and the man shall bring the pledge out to you. ¹²And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight. ¹³At sundown, you shall give his pledge back to him, allowing him to sleep in his own clothing, so that he may bless you. This shall be accounted to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.

¹⁴You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is a Hebrew brother or a stranger within your gates. ¹⁵You shall give him his day's wages before the sun go down. For he is poor and it is his substance, lest he cries out to the LORD against you, for that would be sin against you.

¹⁶The fathers shall not be put to death for the son's sins, neither shall the sons be put to death for the father's sins. But, every man shall be responsible for his own sin.

¹⁷You shall not pervert the rightful judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow's clothing to pledge. ¹⁸Always remember that you were once a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you, therefore, I command you to do this.

¹⁹When you harvest your field and forget a tool in the field, you shall not go back to retrieve it. It shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand. ²⁰When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the branches again. The remaining olives shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless and for the widow. ²¹Likewise, when you gather the grapes from your vineyard, you shall not go back over it, the remaining grapes shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. ²²Always remember that you were once a slave in the land of Egypt, therefore, I command you to do this thing.

Deuteronomy: chapter 25

¹When there is a dispute between men and it is judged, where one man is declared righteous and the wrongdoer is found guilty. ²If the man at fault is worthy to be beaten. The man shall be beaten right there in the presence of the judge according to the number of stripes that his crime deserves. ³No more than forty stripes may be given, for if he is given more than forty lashes, your brother would be dishonored before your eyes.

⁴ You shall not muzzle the ox while he treads out the grain, (NOTE: for the laborer is worthy of his hire), Luke 10:7.

Marriage responsibilities of the surviving brother.

⁵If brothers dwell together and one brother dies without having an heir, the wife of the dead brother shall not marry outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall take her as a wife and lay with her, fulfilling the duty of a husband's brother to her. ⁶And the firstborn that she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name may not be removed from the record of Israel. ⁷Now if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go to the town elders and state that my husband's brother refused to continue his brother's name in Israel, for he will not perform the duties of my husband's brother. ⁸The elders shall then talk to the brother. And if he still refuses to take her. ⁹In the presence of the elders, his brothers wife shall take off his shoe and spit in his face and say, So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house. ¹⁰And his families name in Israel, shall be called "the house of him who had his shoe taken off".

¹¹When men are fighting and the wife of one attempts to deliver her husband from the man who struck him, grabbing the genitals of the other man. ¹²Her hand shall be cut off and your eye shall not pity her.

¹³As you do business, you shall not carry with you a true and a false weight, a heavy weight and a light weight. ¹⁴Nor in your house shall you have two kinds of measures, a great and a small ephah. ¹⁵Your measures and weights shall be perfect and just, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you. ¹⁶For they that use deceitful weights and measures practice unrighteousness and are hateful to the LORD your God.

¹⁷Remember what Amalek did to you in the wilderness when you came out of Egypt, ¹⁸How he struck those of you who were trailing behind, the feeble, the faint and weary, for he did not fear God, Exodus 17:8-13. ¹⁹And when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies in the promise land, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek, do not forget this.

Deuteronomy: chapter 26

¹When you come into the land of your inheritance, that the LORD your God has given you. ²You shall take the first of the fruit that the LORD gives you, put them in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God has put His name. ³Then you shall go to the priest and proclaim that you have come into the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us. ⁴And the priest shall take the basket and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.

⁵And you shall say to the priest and before the LORD your God. My father, Jacob was a wonderer, he went down to Egypt as a sojourner with a few men and there became a great, numerous and mighty nation, Genesis chapter 46. ⁶Only to be ill-treated and afflicted by the Egyptians. ⁷As we cried out to the God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice and looked upon our afflictions and our oppression. ⁸And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with fearful might, through miracles and with wonders. ⁹He has brought us to this land, a land that flows with milk and honey. ¹⁰I have now brought the firstfruits of the land which You LORD have given me. And you shall worship before the LORD your God. ¹¹Your entire household, the Levite and the stranger with you, shall all rejoice in the good that the LORD your God has given to you.

¹²At the end of the third year, when you have completed all of your tithing and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow (that they may eat inside your gates and be filled). ¹³You shall say before the LORD your God, I have also brought out the holy things from my house, giving them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, according to all Your commandments, I have not broken Your commandments. ¹⁴I have not eaten of my holy offerings while in my mourning nor have I handled any of it when I have been unclean or given any of it for the dead, (making it unclean). But, I have listened to Your voice and have done all that You have commanded me. ¹⁵Look down from Heaven and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given them, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁶Today, as you have commanded us to do, we have kept and done these statues and ordinances and done them with all our heart and soul. ¹⁷You have told us today that the LORD is our God, to walk in His ways keeping His statutes, commandments and judgments and listening to His voice. ¹⁸For the LORD has taken you today to be His precious treasure, as He has promised you and that you shall keep all His commandments. ¹⁹He has lifted you high above all nations, in praise, in name and in honor, that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, exactly as He has spoken.

Deuteronomy: chapter 27

Blessings and Curses spoken from Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal.

¹Moses together with the elders of Israel, commanded the people to keep all the commandments that they had heard that day. ²Now, on the day when you cross over the Jordan river, to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall whitewash and set up large stones. ³Writing on them all the words of the law, so that you may go into the promise land, a land that flows with milk and honey. ⁴Therefore, you shall set up these stones in Mount Ebal, as I command you and whitewash them. ⁵There you shall build an altar of stones to the LORD your God, you shall not use any iron tool. ⁶The alter shall be built of uncut stones and on it, you shall offer burnt offerings to the LORD your God. ⁷You shall also offer peace offerings and shall eat and rejoice there before the LORD your God. ⁸There you shall write all the words of this law very plainly on the stones. ⁹Moses and the priests then spoke this to all the people of Israel, saying; Hear this well, for today you have become the people of the LORD your God. ¹⁰Therefore, you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, doing His commandments and statutes as I command you today.

¹¹That day Moses also charged the people, saying; ¹²These six tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people. Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin. ¹³These six tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal speaking the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.

¹⁴The Levites shall speak to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

¹⁵Cursed is the man that makes a molded image, this is an abomination to the LORD. And the people said, Amen.
¹⁶Cursed is he who thinks lightly of his father or his mother. And the people said, Amen.
¹⁷Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark, (his property line). And the people said, Amen.
¹⁸Cursed is he who misleads the blind in their way. And the people said, Amen.
¹⁹Cursed is he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless or the widow. And the people said, Amen.
²⁰Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, for he has violated his father. And the people said, Amen.
²¹Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal. And the people said, Amen.
²²Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or his mother. And the people said, Amen.
²³Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law. And the people said, Amen.
²⁴Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor secretly. And the people said, Amen.
²⁵Cursed is he who takes reward to kill an innocent person. And the people said, Amen.
²⁶Cursed is he who does not support all the words of this law and do them. And the people said, Amen.

Deuteronomy: chapter 28

¹Now, if you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, observing all His commandments, your God will set you above all nations of the earth. ²And these blessings shall come on you and overtake you, if you will listen to His voice.

³Blessed shall you be in the city and in the country.
⁴Blessed shall be the offspring of your body, the fruit of the ground, your cattle and herds shall bring forth their increase.
⁵Blessed shall be your food and its preparation.
⁶Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed when you go out.

⁷The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you, to be defeated before you. They will come out against you one way, but will flee before you seven ways. ⁸He shall command the blessing on your storehouses and all that you set your hand to do in the land which the LORD your God gives you. ⁹The LORD shall establish you as a holy people, as He has sworn to you, if you keep His commandments and walk in His ways. ¹⁰And all the people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD and they shall be afraid of you. ¹¹And the LORD shall prosper you in goods, the offspring of your body, the fruit of the ground and the increase of your cattle, in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to give to you. ¹²The LORD will open to you His good treasure, the heavens will give rain to your land in its season, blessing the work of your hands. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. ¹³For the LORD shall make you the head and not the tail, you shall always be above all things and not under, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, observing them and doing them. ¹⁴You shall follow the exact words that I command you, you shall not deviate from them, thereby going after other gods and serving them.

¹⁵But it shall be, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, observing and doing all His commandments and statutes, all these curses shall come on you and overtake you.

¹⁶Cursed shall you be in the city and in the country.
¹⁷Cursed shall be your food and its preparation.
¹⁸Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, the fruit of your land, the increase of your flocks and your herds.
¹⁹Cursed shall you be when you come in and go out.

²⁰The LORD shall put upon you cursing, confusion and shall rebuke you in all that you set your hand to do, until you quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your ways, for you have forsaken My way. ²¹the LORD shall make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land that you go to possess. ²²He shall strike you and your body shall waste away with a fever, with inflammation and extreme burning. With the sword, with blasting, with mildew and these shall pursue you until you perish. ²³And the heavens over you shall scorch you and the earth under you shall be as barren as concrete. ²⁴the LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust. It shall come down on you until you are destroyed. ²⁵the LORD shall cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶Your body shall be food to the birds and the beasts of the earth, for they shall no longer be terrified by you. ²⁷And the LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the hemorrhoids, with the scab and with an incurable itch, ²⁸madness and blindness, you shall be oppressed in your heart. ²⁹And you shall wander around as blind people groping in the darkness, none of your ways shall prosper and you shall be abused continually with no man to save you.

³⁰The wife you become engaged to, another man shall lie with. The house you build, you shall not live in. Even the vineyard you plant, you shall not eat of its grapes. ³¹Your ox shall be slain before your eyes and you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be forcibly taken away from you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies and none shall come to your side. ³²Your sons and your daughters shall be taken captive and you shall mourn for them all of your days, for there shall be no power in your hand to prevent this. ³³The increase of your land and the toil of your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation that you do not know and you shall continually be oppressed and crushed. ³⁴For you shall be driven mad by the sights of what you see. ³⁵The LORD shall strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil that cannot be healed, even from your feet to the top of your head.

³⁶The LORD shall bring you and your king, captive to a nation that you do not know and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone. ³⁷And you shall become an astonishment, an example, an object of contempt to all nations wherever the LORD leads you. ³⁸You shall do much planting and gather little harvest, for the locust shall eat it. ³⁹You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but shall not gather the harvest or drink the wine, for the worm shall eat them. ⁴⁰Through all of your coast lines shall be olive trees, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for the trees shall drop their fruit. ⁴¹You shall father sons and daughters, but shall not enjoy your children, for they shall go into captivity. (NOTE: Israel was taken captive in 722bc and Judah was taken captive in 597bc). ⁴²all the fruit trees of your land the locust shall consume. ⁴³The stranger among you shall rise up above you, while your stature shrinks very low. ⁴⁴He shall loan to you, but you shall not loan to him, for He shall be the head and you shall be the tail.

⁴⁵All these curses shall come on you, pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, keeping His commandments, His statutes that He commanded you. ⁴⁶And these shall be on you as a sign and a warning to other nations and upon your children forever. ⁴⁷Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, rejoicing in the abundance of all things. ⁴⁸Therefore in hunger, thirst, nakedness and want of all things you shall serve your enemies, that the LORD will send against you. And they shall put heavy burdens upon you until they have destroyed you. ⁴⁹The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far off, a nation whose language you do not understand. ⁵⁰A fierce nation who shall not regard the old, or show favor to the young. ⁵¹And they shall eat the fruit of your land and the increase of your cattle, nothing shall be left for you and you shall perish.

⁵²Throughout all of your land that the LORD your God has given you, the enemy will attack your fortified walls and gates, in which you placed your trust, until they come down. ⁵³And you shall eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, that the LORD has given you, in your anguish and time of distress. ⁵⁴Even the tender hearted men among you, shall be scheming evil thoughts toward his brother, his wife and toward his children that remain. ⁵⁵Not willing to give to any of them, the flesh of his sons whom he shall eat, because there is nothing left for him in the midst of this great siege. ⁵⁶Also the tender and delicate woman shall think evil toward her husband and toward her children. ⁵⁷And the young she gives birth to. She shall eat in secret during the time of the great siege.

⁵⁸If you do not observe all the words of this law written in this book, that you may fear the glorious and fearful name of the LORD YOUR GOD. ⁵⁹The LORD then will make your plagues unforgettable and the plagues of your children great and persistent, with long lasting sicknesses. ⁶⁰He shall also bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt and they shall cling to you. ⁶¹Along with every sickness and plague that are not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring them on you until you are destroyed. ⁶²You shall then be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God, whereas you were once as numerous as the stars of the heavens. ⁶³Just as the LORD rejoiced over you and multiplied you when you were doing good. So will it also be that the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing.

⁶⁴Over all the earth and among all nations, the LORD will scatter you and you will serve other gods of wood and stone, that you have not known. ⁶⁵Among these nations you shall not find any rest and the LORD shall give you a trembling heart and your soul shall grieve. ⁶⁶As your life hangs in doubt before you and you fear day and night, having no assurance of your life. ⁶⁷In the morning you shall wish it were evening! And in the evening, morning, for your heart shall be filled with fear, because of what your eyes shall see. ⁶⁸And the LORD shall bring you into captivity again, via a way that I said to you, while in the wilderness, "you shall not see this pathway again", (NOTE: the road back to bondage into Egypt). There you will be marketed as male and female slaves, yet no one will even buy you.

Deuteronomy: chapter 29

The covenant the LORD made at Moab, restating the covenant made at Mount Sinai.

¹This is the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, restating the covenant that He made with them at Mount Sinai, Exodus 34:17-26.

²Moses spoke to all of Israel, saying. You have seen all that the LORD did to Pharaoh, his servants and to all the land of Egypt, Exodus chapters 7-12. ³Your eyes have seen the great trials, signs and miracles. ⁴Yet the LORD has not given you a heart and mind to perceive, eyes to see and ears to hear, until today. ⁵For forty years, I led you in the wilderness. Your clothes did not wear out, neither did your shoes become old. ⁶You have nether eaten bread or drunk wine or strong drink, so that you might know that your dependence is on the LORD your God. ⁷And when you came to the borders between Moab and the Amorites, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan, both came out against us in battle and we defeated them, Numbers 21:21-26. ⁸Their land we took and gave it for an inheritance to the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh. ⁹Therefore, keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may act wisely and prosper, in all that you do.

¹⁰Today, all of you stand here before the LORD your God, the captains of your tribes, your elders, the officers and all the men of Israel, ¹¹Together with your children, your wives and the stranger in your camp who cuts your wood and draws your water. ¹²Now you shall enter into covenant with the LORD your God and into His oath, that He makes with you today. ¹³So that He may establish you as a people to Himself and that He may be a God to you, as He has spoken to you and sworn to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

¹⁴I do not make this covenant and this oath with you only. ¹⁵But with you who stands here today before the LORD our God and your future generations that are not with us today. ¹⁶You all know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed by the nations in the wilderness. ¹⁷You have also seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold. ¹⁸Therefore, there should not be among you a man, woman, family or tribe, whose heart turns away from the LORD our God, to serve the gods of these other nations, lest there spring up among you a poisonous root that spreads among you. ¹⁹And yet it will happen that when this person hears the words of this curse, he shall bless himself, thinking to himself, I have peace, even though he walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, deceiving himself to believe his ways are that of the righteous.

²⁰The LORD will not forgive him and His anger and jealousy will come against that man. Every curse written in this book will come upon him and the LORD shall blot out his name among God's people. ²¹The LORD shall single him out for ruin and destruction from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law. ²²So that the next generation of your sons, even the stranger from a far land. Shall see the plagues of the land as an example, saying. The LORD has laid a great sickness on the land.

²³The entire land shall be barren, burned with brimstone and salt, there shall be no planting or harvest. It shall be like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, that the LORD overthrew in His wrath, Genesis 18:16. ²⁴Every nation shall question why the LORD has done this to the land and what is the reason for His great anger? ²⁵And the men shall answer, because the Israelites have forsaken the covenant of the LORD, that He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶For they served and worshiped other gods that they did not know, nor could these gods do anything for them. ²⁷Therefore, the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land and brought upon it all the curses that are written in this book. ²⁸The LORD uprooted the people out of their land in His anger and wrath and with great indignation, casting them into captivity into another land, as you see today.

²⁹Now the secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may do all the words of the law.

Deuteronomy: chapter 30

¹When all these things come on you, either the blessing or the curse that I have set before you, You shall recall them to your mind, as you dwell in the nations where the LORD your God has driven you to. ²You and your sons shall then return to the LORD your God and obey His voice according to all that I have commanded you today, with all your heart and soul. ³The LORD your God will then have compassion on you in your captivity. And He will return and gather you from all the nations where He has scattered you. ⁴Even if you are driven out into the outermost parts of the earth, the LORD your God will gather you up from there. ⁵He will then bring you back to dwell in the land that your fathers possessed. And He will do good for you, multiplying you above your fathers. ⁶The LORD your God will then circumcise your heart and the hearts of your children, to love Him with all your heart and soul, so that you may live.

⁷The LORD your God will then put all these curses on your enemies, those who hate you and persecuted you. ⁸Then shall you return and obey the voice of the LORD and do all His commandments that I have given you today. ⁹The LORD your God will then give you an abundance of work and will prosper your hand, you shall again have children, increasing in cattle and in the fruit of your land. The LORD will once again rejoice over you for good, as He also rejoiced over your fathers. ¹⁰Because you now listen to the voice of the LORD your God, keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this book of the law, having return to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.

¹¹This commandment which I give you today is not hidden from you, neither is it far off. ¹²It is not a mystery laid up in heaven, that you need someone to teach and explain it to you. ¹³Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should need someone to retrieve it for you. ¹⁴But the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it.

¹⁵I have set before you today life and all that is good, death and evil, ¹⁶Today, I command you to love the LORD your God, walk in His ways, keeping His commandments, statutes and judgments, so that you may live and multiply. And the LORD will bless you in the land in which you go to possess.

¹⁷But if you do turn away and harden your heart, so that you choose not to hear and are drawn away to serve and worship other gods. ¹⁸I say to you this day, you shall surely perish. Your days shall not be prolonged. ¹⁹This day, I call heaven and earth to testify against you. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that both, you and your generations may live, ²⁰That you may love the LORD your God and that you may obey His voice and cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Deuteronomy: chapter 31

¹Moses then spoke these words to all of Israel. ²Saying to them, I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no longer go out and come in as I use to. Also, the LORD said to me, you shall not go over the Jordan river to the promise land. ³But know the LORD your God will go before you, destroying those nations and you shall possess them. As the LORD has said, Joshua shall cross over with you. ⁴And the LORD shall do to them as He did to the two kings of the Amorites, Sihon and Og whose land He destroyed, Numbers 21:21-26. ⁵The LORD shall hand the nations to you and you shall do exactly as I have commanded you. ⁶Therefore, be strong and courageous. Do not fear nor be afraid of them, for the LORD your God goes with you and will not fail or forsake you.

⁷Moses then called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, be strong and courageous. For you must go with these people to the promise land and you shall cause them to inherit the land. ⁸Do not fear or be dismayed, for the LORD goes before you. He will be with you and will not fail nor forsake you.

⁹Moses then wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD and to all the elders of Israel. ¹⁰Commanding them that every seven years, on the same year as the year of release, during the Feast of Tabernacles, ¹¹Before all of Israel and before the LORD your God in the place that He shall choose, this law shall be read before all Israel. ¹²Everyone shall gather, men, women, children and stranger together, so they may hear and learn the fear of the LORD your God, being careful to do all the words of the law. ¹³So that your sons and future generations who have not known may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the promise land over the Jordan river.

¹⁴Now the LORD said to Moses; Your days are nearing when you must die. Call Joshua and both go to the Tabernacle of the Meeting, where I shall give him his charge. ¹⁵The LORD then appeared in the Tabernacle, in a pillar of a cloud that stood over the door.

¹⁶And the LORD said to Moses; You shall die and go to be with your fathers. These people will rise up and go lusting after the gods of the strangers of the land into which they are going, forsaking Me and breaking My covenant which I made with them. ¹⁷In that day, My anger shall be kindled against them and I will forsake them. Hiding My face from them and they shall be devoured, for many evils and troubles will befall them. And in that day, they shall say, these evils have come upon us because our God is not among us. ¹⁸In that day I shall hide My face from them, because of all the evil they have done, as they turn to other gods. ¹⁹Therefore, write this song down and teach it to the sons of Israel, that the song may be a witness for Me against them. ²⁰For when I bring them into the promise land, which I swore to their fathers, the land that flows with milk and honey. After they have eaten having been filled and satisfied and becoming fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, provoking Me and will break My covenant. ²¹When many evils and troubles have found them, this song shall then testify against them, for their children shall remember this song. Yes, even before I bring them into this land, I know their thoughts and imaginations.

²²Moses then wrote this song, the same day and taught it to the sons of Israel. ²³And the LORD charged Joshua to be strong and courageous. For you shall bring the sons of Israel into the promise land and I will be with you.

²⁴Thus, Moses finished writing down all the words of the law in a book and when it was completed. ²⁵Moses commanded the Levites, who carried the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, saying; ²⁶Take this book of the law and put it beside of the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may be there for a witness against you. ²⁷For I know of your rebellion and your stubbornness. Even as I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD. And how much more shall it be after my death? ²⁸Gather together all the elders of your tribes and your officers, so that I may speak these words to them, calling Heaven and earth to testify against them. ²⁹Because I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and will turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. In those latter days evil will befall you because you do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger through your own works.

³⁰This is the song that Moses spoke to the entire congregation of Israel.

Deuteronomy: chapter 32

¹Listen yea heavens as I speak and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. ²My message shall come to you as the rain on tender plants and my speech as the dew on the grass. ³I will proclaim the name of the LORD and ascribe greatness to our God. ⁴For, He is the Rock. His work is perfect, just and upright are all His ways, a God of faithfulness and without any evil. ⁵But, Israel has corrupted themselves, they are not His sons and that is their blemish, they are a crooked and perverse, (morally corrupt) generation. ⁶You foolish and senseless people, is this how you repay the LORD? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made and established you? ⁷Do you not know of the days of old? Learn and consider your past. Ask your fathers and they shall show you, the elders will tell you. ⁸When the Most High gave to Israel their land inheritance, when He separated them out as a nation, knowing even the number of the sons of Israel. ⁹ For the LORD's portion is His people and their father, Jacob is the line of His inheritance. ¹⁰The LORD found him in a desert land, an empty place, but He turned him around and caused him to understand, keeping him as the apple of His eye. ¹¹As an eagle awakens the young in her nest, spreads its wings, bearing them up on her wing, ¹²The LORD alone, led him, for there was no strange god with him. ¹³He made him ride on the high places of the earth and eat its increase, to draw honey and oil out of unyielding situations. ¹⁴Butter from cows and milk from sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams. In the fertile plains of the Jordan with the finest of wheat, drinking the finest of wine. ¹⁵But Israel grew fat and rebelled. They became satisfied and they grew dense, forsaking the God, who made them, lightly esteeming and even despising the Rock of their salvation. ¹⁶They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods and with abominations, they provoked Him to anger. ¹⁷They sacrificed to devils rather than the true God, gods that they did not know of, even to new trendy gods. ¹⁸They were unmindful of the Rock, whom brought them forth and they ceased to care for their Creator. ¹⁹And the LORD saw their disdain and He rejected them, out of indignation with His sons and daughters. ²⁰Saying, I will hide My face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a perverse, (morally corrupt) generation, in whom is no faithfulness. ²¹They have moved Me to jealousy by what is not of God, therefore, I shall move them to jealousy with those who are not God's chosen people. They have provoked Me to anger with their idols, therefore, I will provoke them to anger through a foolish nation. ²²For My anger is kindled and shall burn to the lowest hell, consuming the earth and setting on fire the foundations of the mountains. ²³I will heap evils on them, casting My arrows on them. ²⁴Exhausted through famine, weakened by burning heat, consumed by wild beasts, that I send on them, along with the poison of crawling insects. ²⁵Together by the sword outside and the terror inside, both the young man and the virgin, the child and the old man shall be destroyed.

²⁶I said, I would dash them to pieces, causing the memory of them to cease from before all men. ²⁷If it was not for the jesting remarks of the enemy, lest their enemies should misconstrue, thinking that, "they have archived greatness and thinking, the LORD has not done any of this". ²⁸For they are a nation without counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. ²⁹For if they were wise, they would understand and would consider their latter end! ³⁰How could one soldier have chased a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock, their foundation had crumbled beneath them, for the LORD had delivered them over. ³¹For their rock, (false god) is not as our Rock, our God, even our enemies themselves can see this clearly. ³²For their vineyard is that of Sodom and Gomorrah, having bitter fruit. ³³Their wine is as the poisonous venom of snakes. ³⁴Is not this rebellion laid up in store with Me and sealed up among My treasures? ³⁵For vengeance and retribution belong to the LORD. The day of their calamity is at hand and their foot shall slide in time, bringing the things upon them with haste. ³⁶The LORD shall bring justice to His people, but shall have compassion on His servants, when He sees that their power is gone and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain. ³⁷And the LORD shall mock them saying, where are your gods, the rock in whom you trusted? ³⁸These false gods, who ate the fat of your sacrifices and drank the wine of your drink offerings. Let them now rise up and help you, let it be your place of safe refuge.

³⁹See now that I am God and there is no falseness in me. I kill and make alive, I wound and heal, no one is outside My hand. ⁴⁰For I swear by Heaven that I am the eternal God, who lives forever! ⁴¹When I sharpen My sword and bring forth judgment, giving vengeance to My enemies and those who hate Me shall receive their just reward. ⁴²My arrows shall seek after blood and My sword shall devour flesh, rendering the blood of the slain and of the captives, to the leaders of the enemy. ⁴³Therefore, let the nations rejoice with His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants, rendering vengeance to His enemies yet being merciful to His land and to His people.

⁴⁴Moses and Joshua spoke all these words of this song to the people. ⁴⁵When Moses had finished speaking this to Israel. ⁴⁶He said to them, Remember in your hearts and minds these words which I testify among you, command your sons to observe and keep all the words of this law. ⁴⁷This is not a trite thing for you, rather it is your life. By this Word, you shall prolong your days in the promise land over the Jordan river.

⁴⁸Now, the same day the LORD spoke to Moses, saying; ⁴⁹Go up Mount Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho. From there you can see the land of Canaan that I am giving to the sons of Israel. ⁵⁰There you shall die and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, Numbers 20:22-29. ⁵¹For you sinned against Me among the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah, Numbers 20:2, in the wilderness of Zin at Kadesh, because you did not sanctify Me in the midst of the sons of Israel. ⁵²You will see the land, but you shall not go into the promise land that I am giving the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy: chapter 33

Moses blessing the tribes of Israel before his death.

¹This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the sons of Israel with, before his death. ²And Moses said, the LORD came from Sinai and rose up from Seir. He shone forth from Mount Paran, with a multitude of saints, with a flaming fire and a law in his right hand. ³For, He loved the people so. All the saints are in His hand and they sit at His feet, receiving His Word and His direction. ⁴Then Moses commanded us a law, for the taking of the inheritance of the people of Jacob. ⁵And the LORD was king in Israel, when the heads of the tribes of Israel were called out.

⁶May the tribe of Reuben live and not die out and let his men not be few.
⁷The tribe of Judah is who listens for the voice of the LORD, may You led his people. May Judah's hands always be sufficient for him and the LORD be a help to him from his enemies.
⁸To the tribe of Levi, Moses said; Let your priestly tools, your decisions, judgment and discernment remain holy and righteous, as you proved at the waters of Meribah. ⁹For Aaron did not regard his father and mother, nether did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew his own son, for the priests observed only Your Word and kept Your covenant. ¹⁰May they teach Israel Your judgments and Your law. Let them put incense before the LORD and whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar. ¹¹LORD, bless his strength and accept the work of his hands. Strike through the ranks of those who rise against him and of those who hate him, that they should not rise again.
¹²The tribe of Benjamin, The beloved of the LORD, they shall live in safety beside Him and He shall cover them all the day long, making his dwelling near to Him.
¹³To the tribe of Joseph, Moses said; Blessed of the LORD be your land and its dew, with the deep springs of water, along with the precious things of heaven. ¹⁴With the precious fruit yield of the sun and the moon. ¹⁵Reaping a harvest from both the ancient mountains and the everlasting hills. ¹⁶That he may enjoy the precious things of the earth and fullness of it, knowing the favor and the good will of God. May these blessings come on the head of Joseph and on the heads of both the half tribes Ephraim and Manasseh. ¹⁷His glory is that of a firstborn and his horns are mighty as a wild ox. With them, he shall push other nations to the ends of the earth. By the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.
¹⁸To the tribe of Zebulun Moses, said; Rejoice, in your interests abroad and Issachar in your tents at home. ¹⁹They shall call the people to the mountain to offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall have riches from the seas and treasures of the land.
²⁰To the tribe of Gad, Moses said; Blessed is He who makes Gad greater. He lives as a lion, tearing down his enemies, for he is the crown of the head. ²¹Glad took the leader's portion for himself, (the land this side of the Jordan), yet he crossed over with the heads of the tribes and executed the justice of the LORD and performed his ordinance with Israel.
²²To the tribe of Dan, Moses said; Dan is a young lion, that leaps forth from the fertile plain.
²³To the tribe of Naphtali, Moses said; the favor of the LORD has satisfied Naphtali. For he is full with the blessing of the LORD, possessing the lands of the west and the south.
²⁴To the tribe of Asher, Moses said; blessed above all the sons is Asher, let him be acceptable to his brothers, his feet are anointed. ²⁵His shoes are beautiful and strong as also shall your strength be, all your days.

²⁶There is none like the God of Israel, who in His majesty rides on the heaven and the clouds coming to our aid. ²⁷The eternal God is your refuge with His everlasting arms. He casts out the enemy from before you, with one single word, Destroy! ²⁸Israel shall dwell in safety alone, the root of Jacob's dwelling in the promise land of grain and wine, with the heavens providing forth their dew. ²⁹Israel is blessed, there is no one like you, people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help and the sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall be found to be subject to you and you shall tread on their worship places.

Deuteronomy: chapter 34

The death of Moses, on Mount Pisgah.

¹Moses then left the plains of Moab and climbed mount Nebo, to the peak of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. There the LORD showed him all the land, from the rocky land, to the promise land of the tribe of Dan. ²The land of Naphtali and of Ephraim and Manasseh and all the land of Judah, to the furthest sea. ³The land to the south and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar, near the southeast corner of the Dead Sea. ⁴Now the LORD said to Moses; This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give to the seed of Israel. I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross over the Jordan river.

⁵And Moses, the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the Word of the LORD. ⁶The LORD then buried Moses in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-Peor. But, the exact location of the grave is not known to man, even to this very day. ⁷Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not failing, neither had he lost any of his natural strength.

⁸The sons of Israel then wept for Moses, staying in the plains of Moab thirty days and when the days of weeping and mourning had ended. ⁹Joshua, being full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the sons of Israel listened to Joshua and did as the LORD had commanded. ¹⁰However, there has not ever been a prophet in Israel like Moses, that the LORD knew face to face. ¹¹Doing all the signs and wonders that the LORD had him do to Pharaoh and his servants, in the land of Egypt. ¹²Showing the mighty hand of the LORD, through great and terrible deeds, which Moses showed to all the people of Israel.

Book of Deuteronomy

re-stating of the law

Verse by verse, account of the book of Deuteronomy.

The Passover, followed by the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

The Feast of Weeks, (this aligns with Pentecost).

The Feast of Tabernacles.