The World English Bible (WEB) Part 31

19:1 When Yahweh your G.o.d shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your G.o.d gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; 19:2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you to possess it. 19:3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your G.o.d causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there. 19:4 This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; 19:5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live: 19:6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past. 19:7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you. 19:8 If Yahweh your G.o.d enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; 19:9 if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your G.o.d, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for you, besides these three: 19:10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you. 19:11 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities; 19:12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

19:13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you. 19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your G.o.d gives you to possess it. 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established. 19:16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, 19:17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; 19:18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother; 19:19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you. 19:20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you. 19:21 Your eyes shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

20:1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your G.o.d is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 20:2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, 20:3 and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; 20:4 for Yahweh your G.o.d is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. 20:5 The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. 20:6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit. 20:7 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. 20:8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart. 20:9 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people. 20:10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

20:11 It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you. 20:12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: 20:13 and when Yahweh your G.o.d delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword: 20:14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your G.o.d has given you.

20:15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. 20:16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your G.o.d gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; 20:17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hitt.i.te, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your G.o.d has commanded you; 20:18 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their G.o.ds; so would you sin against Yahweh your G.o.d. 20:19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you? 20:20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

21:1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him; 21:2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain: 21:3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; 21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 21:5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your G.o.d has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. 21:6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 21:7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 21:8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood to remain in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them. 21:9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh. 21:10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your G.o.d delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive, 21:11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife; 21:12 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 21:13 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 21:14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her. 21:15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated; 21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn: 21:17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his. 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; 21:19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 21:20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21:21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 21:22 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree; 21:23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of G.o.d; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you for an inheritance.

22:1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother. 22:2 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.

22:3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself. 22:4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again. 22:5 A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your G.o.d. 22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young: 22:7 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there. 22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. 22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. 22:11 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together. 22:12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself. 22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her, 22:14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity; 22:15 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate; 22:16 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her; 22:17 and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

22:18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; 22:19 and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; 22:21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prost.i.tute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you. 22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel. 22:23 If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

22:25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die: 22:26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter; 22:27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her. 22:28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days. 22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

23:1 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the a.s.sembly of Yahweh. 23:2 A b.a.s.t.a.r.d shall not enter into the a.s.sembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the a.s.sembly of Yahweh. 23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the a.s.sembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the a.s.sembly of Yahweh forever: 23:4 because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 23:5 Nevertheless Yahweh your G.o.d wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your G.o.d turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your G.o.d loved you. 23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. 23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land. 23:8 The children of the third generation who are born to them shall enter into the a.s.sembly of Yahweh.

23:9 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing. 23:10 If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 23:11 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. 23:12 You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where you shall go forth abroad: 23:13 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you: 23:14 for Yahweh your G.o.d walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you. 23:15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you: 23:16 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him. 23:17 There shall be no prost.i.tute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a prost.i.tute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Yahweh your G.o.d for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your G.o.d. 23:19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest: 23:20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your G.o.d may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it. 23:21 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your G.o.d, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh your G.o.d will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. 23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you. 23:23 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your G.o.d, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth. 23:24 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel. 23:25 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.

24:1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 24:2 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. 24:3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; 24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you for an inheritance. 24:5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be a.s.signed any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. 24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a man's life to pledge. 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you. 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do. 24:9 Remember what Yahweh your G.o.d did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt. 24:10 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. 24:11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you. 24:12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; 24:13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your G.o.d. 24:14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates: 24:15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 24:17 You shall not wrest the justice due to the foreigner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge; 24:18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your G.o.d redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing. 24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your G.o.d may bless you in all the work of your hands. 24:20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 24:22 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; 25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. 25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you. 25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain. 25:5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 25:6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

25:7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me. 25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her; 25:9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house. 25:10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied. 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets; 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

25:13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. 25:14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. 25:15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you. 25:16 For all who do such things, even all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your G.o.d. 25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt; 25:18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear G.o.d. 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your G.o.d has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.

26:1 It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein, 26:2 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your G.o.d gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your G.o.d shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 26:3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your G.o.d, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us. 26:4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your G.o.d.

26:5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your G.o.d, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 26:6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: 26:7 and we cried to Yahweh, the G.o.d of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; 26:8 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders; 26:9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

26:10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down before Yahweh your G.o.d, and wors.h.i.+p before Yahweh your G.o.d. 26:11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your G.o.d has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you. 26:12 When you have made an end of t.i.thing all the t.i.the of your increase in the third year, which is the year of t.i.thing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled. 26:13 You shall say before Yahweh your G.o.d, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 26:14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my G.o.d; I have done according to all that you have commanded me. 26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. 26:16 This day Yahweh your G.o.d commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul. 26:17 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your G.o.d, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice: 26:18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments; 26:19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your G.o.d, as he has spoken.

27:1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you this day. 27:2 It shall be on the day when you shall pa.s.s over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster: 27:3 and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are pa.s.sed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the G.o.d of your fathers, has promised you. 27:4 It shall be, when you are pa.s.sed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster. 27:5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your G.o.d, an altar of stones: you shall lift up no iron tool on them.

27:6 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your G.o.d of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your G.o.d: 27:7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your G.o.d. 27:8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly. 27:9 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you are become the people of Yahweh your G.o.d. 27:10 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your G.o.d, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day. 27:11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying, 27:12 These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are pa.s.sed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. 27:13 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 27:14 The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 27:15 Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen. 27:16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:18 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:19 Cursed be he who wrests the justice due to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.

27:20 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:21 Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:22 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:23 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:24 Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret.

All the people shall say, Amen. 27:25 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amen. 27:26 Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amen.

28:1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your G.o.d, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your G.o.d will set you on high above all the nations of the earth: 28:2 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your G.o.d.

28:3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field. 28:4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock. 28:5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed. 28:6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out. 28:7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways. 28:8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your G.o.d gives you. 28:9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your G.o.d, and walk in his ways. 28:10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you. 28:11 Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

28:12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow. 28:13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your G.o.d, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them, 28:14 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other G.o.ds to serve them. 28:15 But it shall come to pa.s.s, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your G.o.d, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. 28:16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field. 28:17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed. 28:18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed. 28:19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out. 28:20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me. 28:21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it. 28:22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish. 28:23 Your sky that is over your head shall be bra.s.s, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

28:24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed. 28:25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. 28:26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away. 28:27 Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed. 28:28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; 28:29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you. 28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit. 28:31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you. 28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand. 28:33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always; 28:34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 28:35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. 28:36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other G.o.ds, wood and stone. 28:37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.

28:38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. 28:39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them. 28:40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast its fruit. 28:41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. 28:42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess. 28:43 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower. 28:44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 28:45 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your G.o.d, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: 28:46 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever. 28:47 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your G.o.d with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; 28:48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you. 28:49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand; 28:50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young, 28:51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. 28:52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your G.o.d has given you. 28:53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your G.o.d has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 28:54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining; 28:55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 28:57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates. 28:58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR G.o.d; 28:59 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 28:60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you. 28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Yahweh bring on you, until you are destroyed. 28:62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for mult.i.tude; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your G.o.d. 28:63 It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it. 28:64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other G.o.ds, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. 28:65 Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 28:66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no a.s.surance of your life.

28:67 In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. 28:68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with s.h.i.+ps, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.

29:1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in h.o.r.eb. 29:2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; 29:3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: 29:4 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. 29:5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot. 29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your G.o.d. 29:7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them: 29:8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half- tribe of the Mana.s.sites. 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. 29:10 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your G.o.d; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 29:11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water; 29:12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your G.o.d, and into his oath, which Yahweh your G.o.d makes with you this day; 29:13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a G.o.d, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 29:15 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our G.o.d, and also with him who is not here with us this day 29:16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you pa.s.sed; 29:17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 29:18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our G.o.d, to go to serve the G.o.ds of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; 29:19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. 29:20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky. 29:21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. 29:22 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick; 29:23 and that the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any gra.s.s grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 29:24 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?

29:25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the G.o.d of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 29:26 and went and served other G.o.ds, and wors.h.i.+ped them, G.o.ds that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them: 29:27 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book; 29:28 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. 29:29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our G.o.d; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

30:1 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your G.o.d has driven you, 30:2 and shall return to Yahweh your G.o.d, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 30:3 that then Yahweh your G.o.d will turn your captivity, and have compa.s.sion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your G.o.d has scattered you. 30:4 If any of your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your G.o.d gather you, and from there he will bring you back: 30:5 and Yahweh your G.o.d will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. 30:6 Yahweh your G.o.d will circ.u.mcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your G.o.d with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. 30:7 Yahweh your G.o.d will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 30:8 You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. 30:9 Yahweh your G.o.d will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; 30:10 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your G.o.d, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your G.o.d with all your heart, and with all your soul. 30:11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. 30:12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? 30:14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it. 30:15 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 30:16 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your G.o.d, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your G.o.d may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

30:17 But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and wors.h.i.+p other G.o.ds, and serve them; 30:18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pa.s.s over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; 30:20 to love Yahweh your G.o.d, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

31:1 Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 31:2 He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan. 31:3 Yahweh your G.o.d, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken. 31:4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed. 31:5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. 31:6 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your G.o.d, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you. 31:7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it. 31:8 Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. 31:9 Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. 31:10 Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents, 31:11 when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your G.o.d in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 31:12 a.s.semble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your G.o.d, and observe to do all the words of this law; 31:13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your G.o.d, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it. 31:14 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting. 31:15 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 31:16 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prost.i.tute after the strange G.o.ds of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our G.o.d is not among us? 31:18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other G.o.ds. 31:19 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other G.o.ds, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. 31:21 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore. 31:22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

31:23 He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you. 31:24 It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 31:25 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying, 31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your G.o.d, that it may be there for a witness against you. 31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death? 31:28 a.s.semble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 31:29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 31:30 Moses spoke in the ears of all the a.s.sembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.

32:1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth. 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender gra.s.s, as the showers on the herb. 32:3 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh.

Ascribe greatness to our G.o.d! 32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a G.o.d of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he. 32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish. They are a perverse and crooked generation. 32:6 Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise?

Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you. 32:7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. 32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

32:9 For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. 32:11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers. 32:12 Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign G.o.d with him. 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; 32:14 b.u.t.ter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine. 32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook G.o.d who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 32:16 They moved him to jealousy with strange G.o.ds. They provoked him to anger with abominations. 32:17 They sacrificed to demons, which were no G.o.d, to G.o.ds that they didn't know, to new G.o.ds that came up of late, which your fathers didn't dread. 32:18 Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten G.o.d who gave you birth. 32:19 Yahweh saw it, and abhorred them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. 32:20 He said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not G.o.d. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 32:22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire. 32:23 I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them. 32:24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust. 32:25 Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers, terror; on both young man and virgin, The suckling with the gray-haired man. 32:26 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men; 32:27 were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this. 32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel.

There is no understanding in them. 32:29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 32:30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up? 32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their cl.u.s.ters are bitter.

32:33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.

32:34 Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste. 32:36 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compa.s.sion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, There is none remaining, shut up or left at large. 32:37 He will say, Where are their G.o.ds, The rock in which they took refuge; 32:38 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.

32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, There is no G.o.d with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. 32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever, 32:41 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me. 32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy. 32:43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people. 32:44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. 32:45 Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel; 32:46 He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, even all the words of this law. 32:47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it. 32:48 Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying, 32:49 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession; 32:50 and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people: 32:51 because you trespa.s.sed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel. 32:52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.

33:1 This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of G.o.d blessed the children of Israel before his death. 33:2 He said,

Yahweh came from Sinai, And rose from Seir to them. He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them. 33:3 Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet; Everyone shall receive of your words. 33:4 Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the a.s.sembly of Jacob. 33:5 He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together. 33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few. 33:7 This is the blessing of Judah: and he said,

Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries. 33:8 Of Levi he said,

Your Thummim and your Urim are with your G.o.dly one, whom you proved at Ma.s.sah, with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah; 33:9 who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he know his own children: For they have observed your word, and keep your covenant. 33:10 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar. 33:11 Yahweh, bless his substance. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise again. 33:12 Of Benjamin he said,

The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him. He covers him all the day long. He dwells between his shoulders. 33:13 Of Joseph he said,

His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath, 33:14 for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things of the growth of the moons, 33:15 for the chief things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills, 33:16 for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers. 33:17 The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox.

With them he shall push the peoples all of them, even the ends of the earth: They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Mana.s.seh. 33:18 Of Zebulu