1 Offering the first-fruits. DEUTERONOMY. The covenant with God. band of him that smiteth him, and putteth out-stretched arm, and with great terribleforth her hand, and taketh him by the se-ness, and with signs, and with wonders; crets: 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small: 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small: 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the first-fruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me: and thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you. 12 T When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the 17 T Remember what Amalek did unto third year, which is the year of tithing, thee by the way, when ye were come and hast given it unto the Levite, the forth out of Egypt; stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, 18 How he met thee by the way, and that they may eat within thy gates, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that be filled: were feeble behind thee, when thou wast 13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD faint and weary and he feared not God. thy God, I have brought away the hal19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD lowed things out of mine house, and also thy God hath given thee rest from all thine have given them unto the Levite, and unto enemies round about, in the land which the the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inherit- widow, according to all thy commandance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out ments which thou hast commanded me: I the remembrance of Amalek from under have not transgressed thy commandments, heaven; thou shalt not forget it. neither have I forgotten them: CHAP. XXVI. AND it the room the ND it shall be, when thou art come in God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourninfine any unclean use, not given aught ing, neither have I taken away aught therethereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, 16 T This day the LORD thy God hath I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, commanded thee to do these statutes and that I am come unto the country which the judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and LORD Sware unto our fathers for to give us. do them with all thine heart, and with all 4 And the priest shall take the basket thy soul. out of thine hand, and set it down before 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this the altar of the LORD thy God. day to be thy God, and to walk in his 5 And thou shalt speak and say before ways, and to keep his statutes, and his the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to per- commandments, and his judgments, and ish was my father; and he went down into to hearken unto his voice: Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee and became there a nation, great, mighty, this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath and populous: promised thee, and that thou shouldest 6 And the Egyptians evil-entreated us, keep all his commandments; and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard 19 And to make thee high above all bondage: nations which he hath made, in praise, 7 And when we cried unto the LORD and in name, and in honour; and that God of our fathers, the LORD heard our thou mayest be a holy people unto the voice, and looked on our affliction, and LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. our labour, and our oppression : 8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an CHAP. XXVII. commanded the people, saying, Keep ND Moses with the elders of Israel 172 all the commandments which I command] you this day. The curses from Ebal. 18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way: and all the people shall say, Amen. 2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which 19 Cursed be he that perverteth the the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster widow: and all the people shall say, them with plaster: Amen. 3 And thou shalt write upon them all 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his fathe words of this law, when thou art pass-ther's wife; because he uncovereth his faed over, that thou mayest go in unto the ther's skirt: and all the people shall say, land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, Amen. a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. 21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast: and all the people shall say, Amen. 4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone 22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sisover Jordan, that ye shall set up these ter, the daughter of his father, or the stones, which I command you this day, in daughter of his mother: and all the peomount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them ple shall say, Amen. 23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mo5 And there shalt thou build an altar ther-in-law and all the people shall say, unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: Amen. thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon 24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly and all the people shall with plaster. them. : : 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD say, Amen. thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to offer burnt-offerings thereon unto the LORD slay an innocent person: and all the peothy God: ple shall say, Amen. 7 And thou shalt offer peace-offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God. 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them and all the people shall say, Amen. CHAP. XXVIII. 8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, very plainly. 9 T And Moses and the priests the Le- AND it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of vites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take the LORD thy God, to observe and to do heed and hearken, O Israel, this day thou all his commandments which I command art become the people of the LORD thy thee this day: that the LORD thy God will God. set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day. 11 ¶ And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 12 These shall stand upon mount Ge- 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, rizim to bless the people, when ye are and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Ben- the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy jamin: store. 13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comand Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. est in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say goest out. unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, 7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies 15 Cursed be the man that maketh any that rise up against thee to be smitten bcgraven or molten image, an abomination fore thy face: they shall come out against unto the LORD, the work of the hands of thee one way, and flee before thee seven the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret ways. place and all the people shall answer and 8 The LORD shall command the bless. say, Amen. ing upon thee in thy store-houses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto: and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen. 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neigh- 9 The LORD shall establish thee a ho bour's land-mark: and all the people shall ly people unto himself, as he hath sworn say, Amen. unto thee, if thou shalt keep the command Blessings for obedience. DEUTERONOMY. Curses for disobedience. ments of the LORD thy God, and walk in shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. his ways. 10 And all people of the earth shall 25 The LORD shall cause thee to be see that thou art called by the name of the smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD Sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his 27 The LORD will smite thee with the good treasure, the heaven to give the rain botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and unto thy land in his season, and to bless with the scab, and with the itch, whereof all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt thou canst not be healed. lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: 13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be 29 And thou shalt grope at noon-day, above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou if that thou hearken unto the command-shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou ments of the LORD thy God, which I com- shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermand thee this day, to observe and to do more, and no man shall save thee. them: 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and ano14 And thou shalt not go aside from ther man shall lie with her thou shalt any of the words which I command thee build a house, and thou shalt not dwell this day, to the right hand or to the left, to therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and go after other gods to serve them. shalt not gather the grapes thereof. 15 T But it shall come to pass, if thou 31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine thy God, to observe to do all his command-ass shall be violently taken away from bements and his statutes, which I command fore thy face, and shall not be restored to thee this day that all these curses shall thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine come upon thee, and overtake thee: enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of might in thine hand. thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy la19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou com-bours, shall a nation which thou knowest est in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou not eat up: and thou shalt be only opgoest out. pressed and crushed always: 20 The LORD shall send upon thee 34 So that thou shalt be mad for the cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. thou settest thine hand unto for to do, un- 35, The LORD shall smite thee in the til thou be destroyed, and until thou pe-knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch rish quickly because of the wickedness of that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy thy doings whereby thou hast forsaken foot unto the top of thy head. 36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy me. : 21 The LORD shall make the pestilence king which thou shalt set over thee, unto cleave unto thee, until he have consumed a nation which neither thou nor thy fathee from off the land, whither thou go- thers have known; and there shalt thou est to possess it. serve other gods, wood and stone. 22 The LORD shall smite thee with a 37 And thou shalt become an astonishconsumption, and with a fever, and with ment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all an inflammation, and with an extreme burn- nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. ing, and with the sword, and with blast- 38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into ing, and with mildew and they shall the field, and shalt gather but little in: pursue thee until thou perish. for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and 23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is dress them, but shalt neither drink of the under thee shall be iron. wine, nor gather the grapes: for the worms 24 The LORD shall make the rain of shall cat them. thy land powder and dust: from heaven 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees through 1 Plagues threatened CHAP. XXVIII. for disobedience. out all thy coasts,but thou shalt not anoint them of the flesh of his children whom he thyself with the oil: for thine olive shall shall eat: because he hath nothing left cast his fruit. him in the siege and in the straitness 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daugh- wherewith thine enemies shall distress ters, but thou shalt not enjoy them: for thee in all thy gates. they shall go into captivity. 56 The tender and delicate woman 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land among you, which would not adventure to 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt daughter, 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and to45 Moreover, all these curses shall come ward her children which she shall bear: for upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and over- she shall eat them for want of all things take thee, till thou be destroyed: be-secretly in the siege and straitness wherecause thou hearkenedst not unto the voice with thine enemy shall distress thee in thy of the LORD thy God, to keep his com- gates. mandments and his statutes which he 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy God with joyfulness and with glad- thy seed, even great plagues, and of long ness of heart, for the abundance of all things; continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine long continuance. enemies which the LORD shall send against 60 Moreover, he will bring upon thee 63 And it shall come to pass, that as 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee gates, until thy high and fenced walls among all people from the one end of the come down, wherein thou trustedst, earth even unto the other; and there throughout all thy land: and he shall be- thou shalt serve other gods, which neither siege thee in all thy gates throughout all thou nor thy fathers have known, even thy land which the LORD thy God hath wood and stone. given thee. 65 And among these nations shalt thou 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy own body, the flesh of thy sons and foot have rest: but the LORD shall give of thy daughters which the LORD thy thee there a trembling heart, and failGod hath given thee, in the siege and in ing of eyes, and sorrow of mind. the straitness wherewith thine enemies 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee: and thou shalt fear day and 54 So that the man that is tender among night, and shalt have none assurance of you, and very delicate, his eye shall be thy life: shall distress thee: evil toward his brother, and toward the 67 In the morning thou shalt say, wife of his bosom, and towards the rem- Would God it were even! and at even nant of his children which he shall leave thou shalt say, Would God it were morn55 So that he will not give to any of ing! for the fear of thine heart wherewith An exhortation to obedience. DEUTERONOMY. God covenants with Israel. thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine us this day before the LORD our God, and eyes which thou shalt see. also with him that is not here with us this 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into day: Egypt again with ships, by the way 16 (For ye know how we have dwelt whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt in the land of Egypt; and how we came see it no more again: and there ye shall through the nations which ye passed by; be sold unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women, and no man shall buy you. CHAP. XXIX. 17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:) 18 Lest there should be among you THESE are the words of the covenant man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose to make with the children of Israel in the our God, to go and serve the gods of these land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 ¶ And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 19 And it come to pass, when he hear eth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you curses that are written in this book shall heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out ears to hear, unto this day. his name from under heaven. a 5 And I have led you forty years in the 21 And the LORD shall separate him wilderness: your clothes are not waxen unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel acold upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen cording to all the curses of the covenant old upon thy foot. that are written in this book of the law: 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither 22 So that the generation to come of have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that your children that shall rise up after you, ye might know that I am the LORD your and the stranger that shall come from a far God. land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is 8 And we took their land, and gave it not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass growfor an inheritance unto the Reubenites, eth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, Manasseh. which the LORD overthrew in his anger 9 Keep therefore the words of this co- and in his wrath : venant, and do them, that ye may prosper 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherein all that ye do. fore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? 10 ¶ Ye stand this day all of you before what meaneth the heat of this great anger? the LORD your God; your captains of 25 Then men shall say, Because they your tribes, your elders, and your officers, have forsaken the covenant of the LORD with all the men of Israel, God of their fathers, which he made with 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy them when he brought them forth out of stranger that is in thy camp, from the the land of Egypt: hewer of thy wood, unto the drawer of thy 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they 12 That thou shouldest enter into co- knew not, and whom he had not given unto venant with the LORD thy God, and into them: his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh 27 And the anger of the LORD was with thee this day: kindled against this land, to bring upon it 13 That he may establish thee to-day all the curses that are written in this book: for a people unto himself, and that he may 28 And the LORD rooted them out of be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, their land in anger and in wrath, and in and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to great indignation, and cast them into Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. water: 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 15 But with him that standeth here with another land, as it is this day. 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our chil |