7K-Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy Chapter 1

Deuteronomy 1:1 (NIV)

¹ These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the desert east of the Jordan–that is, in the Arabah–opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.

Deuteronomy 1:2 (CJB)-M

² It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb to Kadesh-Barnea by way of Mount Seir.

Deuteronomy 1:3 (CJB)-M

³ On the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year, Moses spoke to the people of Israel, reviewing everything the Lord had ordered him to tell them.

Deuteronomy 1:4 (NASB)

⁴ after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

Deuteronomy 1:5 (NASB)

⁵ Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,

Deuteronomy 1:6 (NIV)

⁶ The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

Deuteronomy 1:7 (AMP)-M

⁷ Turn and take up your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South (the Negev), and on the coast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 1:8 (NIV)

⁸ See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore he would give to your fathers–to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob–and to their descendants after them.”

Deuteronomy 1:9 (NIV)

⁹ At that time I said to you, “You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone.

Deuteronomy 1:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude.

Deuteronomy 1:11 (AMP)

¹¹ May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you as He has promised you!

Deuteronomy 1:12 (NKJV)

¹² How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?

Deuteronomy 1:13 (NIV)

¹³ Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you.”

Deuteronomy 1:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ “You answered me, ‘What you have said would be a good thing for us to do.’

Deuteronomy 1:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you–as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials.

Deuteronomy 1:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ And I charged your judges at that time: Hear the disputes between your brothers and judge fairly, whether the case is between brother Israelites or between one of them and an alien.

Deuteronomy 1:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of any man, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it.

Deuteronomy 1:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ And at that time I told you everything you were to do.

Deuteronomy 1:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Then, as the LORD our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful desert that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea.

Deuteronomy 1:20 (NASB)

²⁰ “I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the LORD our God is about to give us.

Deuteronomy 1:21 (AMP)

²¹ Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you. Fear not, neither be dismayed.

Deuteronomy 1:22 (NASB)

²² “Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.’

Deuteronomy 1:23 (NASB)

²³ “The thing pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.

Deuteronomy 1:24 (NASB)

²⁴ “They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol and spied it out.

Deuteronomy 1:25 (NASB)

²⁵ “Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought us back a report and said, ‘It is a good land which the LORD our God is about to give us.’

Deuteronomy 1:26 (NASB)

²⁶ “Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God;

Deuteronomy 1:27 (NASB)

²⁷ and you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

Deuteronomy 1:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have made us lose heart. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.'”

Deuteronomy 1:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them.

Deuteronomy 1:30 (NASB)

³⁰ ~’The LORD your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

Deuteronomy 1:31 (NIV)

³¹ and in the desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”

Deuteronomy 1:32 (NIV)

³² In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God,

Deuteronomy 1:33 (NIV)

³³ who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

Deuteronomy 1:34 (NIV)

³⁴ When the LORD heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore:

Deuteronomy 1:35 (CJB)

³⁵ ‘Not a single one of these people, this whole evil generation, will see the good land I swore to give to your ancestors,

Deuteronomy 1:36 (NIV)

³⁶ except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

Deuteronomy 1:37 (NASB)

³⁷ “The LORD was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘Not even you shall enter there.

Deuteronomy 1:38 (NIV)

³⁸ But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 1:39 (NIV)

³⁹ And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad–they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it.

Deuteronomy 1:40 (CJB)

⁴⁰ But as for yourselves, turn around and head into the desert by the road to the Sea of Suf.’

Deuteronomy 1:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ Then you replied, “We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God commanded us.” So every one of you put on his weapons, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

Deuteronomy 1:42 (NIV)

⁴² But the LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.'”

Deuteronomy 1:43 (NASB)

⁴³ “So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead you rebelled against the command of the LORD, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country.

Deuteronomy 1:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ The Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you; they chased you like a swarm of bees and beat you down from Seir all the way to Hormah.

Deuteronomy 1:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ You came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you.

Deuteronomy 1:46 (CJB)

⁴⁶ This is why you had to stay in Kadesh as long as you did.

Deuteronomy Chapter 2

Deuteronomy 2:1 (NIV)

¹ Then we turned back and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea, as the LORD had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.

Deuteronomy 2:2 (NIV)

² Then the LORD said to me,

Deuteronomy 2:3 (NIV)

³ “You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north.

Deuteronomy 2:4 (NIV)

⁴ Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful.

Deuteronomy 2:5 (NIV)

⁵ Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.

Deuteronomy 2:6 (CJB)

⁶ Pay them money for the food you eat, and pay them money for the water you drink.

Deuteronomy 2:7 (NIV)

⁷ The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast desert. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.

Deuteronomy 2:8 (NIV)

⁸ So we went on past our brothers the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.

Deuteronomy 2:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”

Deuteronomy 2:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ (The Emites used to live there–a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.

Deuteronomy 2:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites, but the Moabites called them Emites.

Deuteronomy 2:12 (NIV)

¹² Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the LORD gave them as their possession.)

Deuteronomy 2:13 (NIV)

¹³ And the LORD said, “Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.” So we crossed the valley.

Deuteronomy 2:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

Deuteronomy 2:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The LORD’s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.

Deuteronomy 2:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ When all the men who were able to bear arms had died and were no longer part of the people,

Deuteronomy 2:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ the LORD said to me,

Deuteronomy 2:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar.

Deuteronomy 2:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”

Deuteronomy 2:20 (NIV)

²⁰ (That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

Deuteronomy 2:21 (NIV)

²¹ They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place.

Deuteronomy 2:22 (NIV)

²² The LORD had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

Deuteronomy 2:23 (NIV)

²³ And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor destroyed them and settled in their place.)

Deuteronomy 2:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

Deuteronomy 2:25 (NIV)

²⁵ This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

Deuteronomy 2:26 (NIV)

²⁶ From the desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying,

Deuteronomy 2:27 (NIV)

²⁷ “Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Deuteronomy 2:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot–

Deuteronomy 2:29 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 2:30 (NIV)

³⁰ But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.

Deuteronomy 2:31 (NIV)

³¹ The LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

Deuteronomy 2:32 (NIV)

³² When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz,

Deuteronomy 2:33 (NIV)

³³ the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army.

Deuteronomy 2:34 (NIV)

³⁴ At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them–men, women and children. We left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 2:35 (NIV)

³⁵ But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.

Deuteronomy 2:36 (NIV)

³⁶ From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

Deuteronomy 2:37 (NIV)

³⁷ But in accordance with the command of the LORD our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.

Deuteronomy Chapter 3

Deuteronomy 3:1 (NIV)

¹ Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 3:2 (NIV)

² The LORD said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”

Deuteronomy 3:3 (NIV)

³ So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.

Deuteronomy 3:4 (NIV)

⁴ At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them–the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 3:5 (CJB)

⁵ all of them fortified cities with high walls, gates and bars — in addition to a great number of unwalled towns.

Deuteronomy 3:6 (NIV)

⁶ We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city–men, women and children.

Deuteronomy 3:7 (NIV)

⁷ But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.

Deuteronomy 3:8 (NIV)

⁸ So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon.

Deuteronomy 3:9 (NIV)

⁹ (Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.)

Deuteronomy 3:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 3:11 (NIV)

¹¹ (Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

Deuteronomy 3:12 (NIV)

¹² Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns.

Deuteronomy 3:13 (NIV)

¹³ The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites.

Deuteronomy 3:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites; it was named after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.)

Deuteronomy 3:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ And I gave Gilead to Makir.

Deuteronomy 3:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.

Deuteronomy 3:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah, from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy 3:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ I commanded you at that time: “The LORD your God has given you this land to take possession of it. But all your able-bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of your brother Israelites.

Deuteronomy 3:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you,

Deuteronomy 3:20 (NIV)

²⁰ until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the LORD your God is giving them, across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.”

Deuteronomy 3:21 (NIV)

²¹ At that time I commanded Joshua: “You have seen with your own eyes all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going.

Deuteronomy 3:22 (NIV)

²² Do not be afraid of them; the LORD your God himself will fight for you.”

Deuteronomy 3:23 (NIV)

²³ At that time I pleaded with the LORD:

Deuteronomy 3:24 (NIV)

²⁴ “O Sovereign LORD, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do the deeds and mighty works you do?

Deuteronomy 3:25 (NIV)

²⁵ Let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan–that fine hill country and Lebanon.”

Deuteronomy 3:26 (NIV)

²⁶ But because of you the LORD was angry with me and would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said. “Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.

Deuteronomy 3:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Go up to the top of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan.

Deuteronomy 3:28 (NIV)

²⁸ But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.”

Deuteronomy 3:29 (NIV)

²⁹ So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.

Deuteronomy Chapter 4

Deuteronomy 4:1 (NIV)

¹ Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 (NASB)

² “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 4:3 (AMP)

³ Your eyes still see what the Lord did because of Baal-peor; for all the men who followed the Baal of Peor the Lord your God has destroyed from among you,

Deuteronomy 4:4 (NIV)

⁴ but all of you who held fast to the LORD your God are still alive today.

Deuteronomy 4:5 (NIV)

⁵ See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it.

Deuteronomy 4:6 (NIV)

⁶ Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Deuteronomy 4:7 (NIV)

⁷ What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him?

Deuteronomy 4:8 (NIV)

⁸ And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

Deuteronomy 4:9 (NIV)

⁹ Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

Deuteronomy 4:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”

Deuteronomy 4:11 (NIV)

¹¹ You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

Deuteronomy 4:12 (NIV)

¹² Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.

Deuteronomy 4:13 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 4:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ And the LORD directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

Deuteronomy 4:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully,

Deuteronomy 4:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ do not become corrupt and make yourselves a carved image having the shape of any figure — not a representation of a human being, male or female,

Deuteronomy 4:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ or a representation of any animal on earth, or a representation of any bird that flies in the air,

Deuteronomy 4:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ or a representation of anything that creeps along on the ground, or a representation of any fish in the water below the shoreline.

Deuteronomy 4:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars–all the heavenly array–do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:20 (NIV)

²⁰ But as for you, the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.

Deuteronomy 4:21 (NIV)

²¹ The LORD was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance.

Deuteronomy 4:22 (NIV)

²² I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land.

Deuteronomy 4:23 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 4:24 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 4:25 (NIV)

²⁵ After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time–if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and provoking him to anger,

Deuteronomy 4:26 (CJB)-M

²⁶ I call on the sky and the earth to witness against you today that you will quickly disappear from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not prolong your days there but will be completely destroyed.

Deuteronomy 4:27 (NIV)

²⁷ The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Deuteronomy 4:28 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 4:29 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 4:30 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 4:31 (NIV)

³¹ For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.

Deuteronomy 4:32 (NIV)

³² Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created man on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

Deuteronomy 4:33 (NIV)

³³ Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?

Deuteronomy 4:34 (NIV)

³⁴ Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by miraculous signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:35 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 4:36 (AMP)

³⁶ Out of heaven He made you hear His voice, that He might correct, discipline, and admonish you; and on earth He made you see His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.

Deuteronomy 4:37 (NASB)

³⁷ “Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,

Deuteronomy 4:38 (NIV)

³⁸ to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 4:39 (NASB)

³⁹ “Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

Deuteronomy 4:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the LORD your God gives you for all time.

Deuteronomy 4:41 (AMP)

⁴¹ Then Moses set apart three cities [of refuge] beyond the Jordan to the east,

Deuteronomy 4:42 (7KB)

⁴² that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, (without malice or aforethought), he could flee into one of these cities and save his life.

Deuteronomy 4:43 (NIV)

⁴³ The cities were these: Bezer in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

Deuteronomy 4:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ This is the law Moses set before the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 4:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ These are the stipulations, decrees and laws Moses gave them when they came out of Egypt

Deuteronomy 4:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ and were in the valley near Beth Peor east of the Jordan, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites as they came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 4:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan.

Deuteronomy 4:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ This land extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge to Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),

Deuteronomy 4:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy Chapter 5

Deuteronomy 5:1 (NIV)

¹ Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, O Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.

Deuteronomy 5:2 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 5:3 (NIV)

³ It was not with our fathers that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.

Deuteronomy 5:4 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 5:5 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 5:6 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 5:7 (NIV)

⁷ “You shall have no other gods before me.

Deuteronomy 5:8 (NIV)

⁸ “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

Deuteronomy 5:9 (NIV)

⁹ You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Deuteronomy 5:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

Deuteronomy 5:12 (NIV)

¹² “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

Deuteronomy 5:13 (CJB)

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

Deuteronomy 5:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do.

Deuteronomy 5:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 5:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 5:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ “You shall not murder.

Deuteronomy 5:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ “You shall not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “You shall not steal.

Deuteronomy 5:20 (NIV)

²⁰ “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 5:21 (NIV)

²¹ “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Deuteronomy 5:22 (NIV)

²² These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 5:23 (NIV)

²³ When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leading men of your tribes and your elders came to me.

Deuteronomy 5:24 (NIV)

²⁴ And you said, “The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.

Deuteronomy 5:25 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 5:26 (NIV)

²⁶ For what mortal man has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived?

Deuteronomy 5:27 (NIV)

²⁷ Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then tell us whatever the LORD our God tells you. We will listen and obey.”

Deuteronomy 5:28 (NIV)

²⁸ The LORD heard you when you spoke to me and the LORD said to me, “I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good.

Deuteronomy 5:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

Deuteronomy 5:30 (NIV)

³⁰ “Go, tell them to return to their tents.

Deuteronomy 5:31 (NIV)

³¹ But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.”

Deuteronomy 5:32 (NIV)

³² So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Deuteronomy 5:33 (NIV)

³³ Walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

Deuteronomy Chapter 6

Deuteronomy 6:1 (NIV)

¹ These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

Deuteronomy 6:2 (NIV)

² so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.

Deuteronomy 6:3 (NIV)

³ Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.

Deuteronomy 6:4 (NIV)

⁴ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 6:6 (NIV)

⁶ These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.

Deuteronomy 6:7 (NASB)

⁷ “You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

Deuteronomy 6:8 (NIV)

⁸ Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Deuteronomy 6:9 (NIV)

⁹ Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you–a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build,

Deuteronomy 6:11 (NIV)

¹¹ houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant–then when you eat and are satisfied,

Deuteronomy 6:12 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 6:13 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 6:14 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 6:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land.

Deuteronomy 6:16 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 6:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.

Deuteronomy 6:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Do what is right and good in the LORD’s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers,

Deuteronomy 6:19 (NASB)

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

Deuteronomy 6:20 (NASB)

²⁰ “When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the LORD our God commanded you?’

Deuteronomy 6:21 (NASB)

²¹ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 6:22 (NIV)

²² Before our eyes the LORD sent miraculous signs and wonders–great and terrible–upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household.

Deuteronomy 6:23 (NIV)

²³ But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers.

Deuteronomy 6:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.

Deuteronomy 6:25 (NIV)

²⁵ And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”

Deuteronomy Chapter 7

Deuteronomy 7:1 (NIV)

¹ When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations–the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you–

Deuteronomy 7:2 (NIV)

² and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

Deuteronomy 7:3 (NIV)

³ Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Deuteronomy 7:4 (NIV)

⁴ for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

Deuteronomy 7:5 (NIV)

⁵ This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.

Deuteronomy 7:6 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 7:7 (NIV)

⁷ The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Deuteronomy 7:8 (NIV)

⁸ But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7:9 (NIV)

⁹ Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.

Deuteronomy 7:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ But he repays those who hate him to their face and destroys them. He will not be slow to deal with someone who hates him; he will repay him to his face.

Deuteronomy 7:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.

Deuteronomy 7:12 (NIV)

¹² If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers.

Deuteronomy 7:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young.

Deuteronomy 7:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.

Deuteronomy 7:16 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 7:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’

Deuteronomy 7:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the miraculous signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

Deuteronomy 7:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.

Deuteronomy 7:21 (NIV)

²¹ Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

Deuteronomy 7:22 (CJB)-M

²² The Lord your God will expel those nations ahead of you little by little; you can’t put an end to them all at once, or the wild animals will become too numerous for you.

Deuteronomy 7:23 (CJB)-M

²³ Nevertheless, the Lord your God will give them over to you, sending one disaster after another upon them until they have been destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:24 (CJB)

²⁴ He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their name from under heaven; none of them will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

Deuteronomy 7:25 (NIV)

²⁵ The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 7:26 (CJB)-M

²⁶ Don’t bring something abhorrent (idols) into your house, or you will share in the curse that is on it; instead, you are to detest it completely, loathe it utterly; for it is set apart for destruction.

Deuteronomy Chapter 8

Deuteronomy 8:1 (NIV)

¹ Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers.

Deuteronomy 8:2 (NIV)

² Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

Deuteronomy 8:3 (NASB)

³ “He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 8:4 (NASB)

⁴ “Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

Deuteronomy 8:5 (NIV)

⁵ Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

Deuteronomy 8:6 (NASB)

⁶ “Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

Deuteronomy 8:7 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 8:8 (NIV)

⁸ a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;

Deuteronomy 8:9 (CJB)

⁹ a land where you will eat food in abundance and lack nothing in it; a land where the stones contain iron and the hills can be mined for copper.

Deuteronomy 8:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ So you will eat and be satisfied, and you will bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

Deuteronomy 8:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.

Deuteronomy 8:12 (CJB)

¹² Otherwise, after you have eaten and are satisfied, built fine houses and lived in them,

Deuteronomy 8:13 (NIV)

¹³ and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,

Deuteronomy 8:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Deuteronomy 8:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ He led you through the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.

Deuteronomy 8:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you.

Deuteronomy 8:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ you will think to yourself, ‘My own power and the strength of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.’

Deuteronomy 8:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ “But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 8:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 8:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy Chapter 9

Deuteronomy 9:1 (AMP)

¹ Hear O Israel. You are to cross the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you are, cities great and fortified up to the heavens,

Deuteronomy 9:2 (NKJV)

² a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’

Deuteronomy 9:3 (NIV)

³ But be assured today that the LORD your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the LORD has promised you.

Deuteronomy 9:4 (AMP)

⁴ Do not say in your [mind and] heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out from before you, It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land—whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5 (NIV)

⁵ It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the LORD your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 9:6 (AMP)

⁶ Know therefore that the Lord your God does not give you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a hard and stubborn people.

Deuteronomy 9:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ Remember, don’t forget, how you made the Lord your God angry in the desert. From the day you left the land of Egypt till you arrived at this place, you have been rebelling against the Lord.

Deuteronomy 9:8 (NASB)

⁸ “Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 9:9 (NIV)

⁹ When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

Deuteronomy 9:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “The LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

Deuteronomy 9:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “It came about at the end of forty days and nights that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:12 (NIV)

¹² Then the LORD told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made a cast idol for themselves.”

Deuteronomy 9:13 (NIV)

¹³ And the LORD said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed!

Deuteronomy 9:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”

Deuteronomy 9:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

Deuteronomy 9:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ “And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:17 (AMP)

¹⁷ I took the two tables, cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:18 (CJB)-M

¹⁸ Then I fell down before the Lord, as I had the first time, for forty days and nights, during which time I neither ate food nor drank water, all because of the sin you committed by doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord and thus provoking him.

Deuteronomy 9:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ I feared the anger and wrath of the LORD, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the LORD listened to me.

Deuteronomy 9:20 (CJB)

²⁰ In addition, the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; but I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

Deuteronomy 9:21 (NIV)

²¹ Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:22 (NIV)

²² You also made the LORD angry at Taberah, at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah.

Deuteronomy 9:23 (NIV)

²³ And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, “Go up and take possession of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You did not trust him or obey him.

Deuteronomy 9:24 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 9:25 (AMP)

²⁵ So I fell down and lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:26 (NIV)

²⁶ I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 9:27 (NASB)

²⁷ ‘Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.

Deuteronomy 9:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the desert.’

Deuteronomy 9:29 (CJB)

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

Deuteronomy Chapter 10

Deuteronomy 10:1 (NIV)

¹ At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden chest.

Deuteronomy 10:2 (NIV)

² I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the chest.”

Deuteronomy 10:3 (NIV)

³ So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Deuteronomy 10:4 (NIV)

⁴ The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 10:5 (NIV)

⁵ Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD commanded me, and they are there now.

Deuteronomy 10:6 (NIV)

⁶ (The Israelites traveled from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.

Deuteronomy 10:7 (NASB)

⁷ From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.

Deuteronomy 10:8 (NIV)

⁸ At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today.

Deuteronomy 10:9 (CJB)-M

⁹ This is why Levi has no share or inheritance with his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God had said to him.

Deuteronomy 10:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ “As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the LORD also heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 10:11 (NIV)

¹¹ “Go,” the LORD said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”

Deuteronomy 10:12 (AMP)

¹² And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you but [reverently] to fear the Lord your God, [that is] to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being,

Deuteronomy 10:13 (NIV)

¹³ and to observe the LORD’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

Deuteronomy 10:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.

Deuteronomy 10:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Yet the LORD set his affection on your forefathers and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 10:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer.

Deuteronomy 10:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

Deuteronomy 10:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ He secures justice for the orphan and the widow; he loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 10:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Fear the LORD your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.

Deuteronomy 10:21 (CJB)

²¹ He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which you have seen with your own eyes.

Deuteronomy 10:22 (NIV)

²² Your forefathers who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy Chapter 11

Deuteronomy 11:1 (AMP)

¹ Therefore you shall love the Lord your God and keep His charge, His statutes, His precepts, and His commandments always.

Deuteronomy 11:2 (CJB)-M

² Today it is you I am addressing — not your children, who haven’t known or experienced the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his strong hand, his outstretched arm,

Deuteronomy 11:3 (CJB)

³ his signs and his actions which he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to his entire country.

Deuteronomy 11:4 (CJB)-M

⁴ They didn’t experience what he did to Egypt’s army, horses and chariots — how the Lord overwhelmed them with the water of the Red Sea as they were pursuing you, so that they remain destroyed to this day.

Deuteronomy 11:5 (CJB)

⁵ They didn’t experience what he kept doing for you in the desert until you arrived at this place;

Deuteronomy 11:6 (NIV)

⁶ and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them.

Deuteronomy 11:7 (NIV)

⁷ But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the LORD has done.

Deuteronomy 11:8 (NIV)

⁸ Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

Deuteronomy 11:9 (CJB)-M

⁹ and so that you will live long in the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 11:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ “For the land you are entering in order to take possession of it isn’t like the land of Egypt. There you would sow your seed and had to use your feet to operate its irrigation system, as in a vegetable garden.

Deuteronomy 11:11 (NIV)

¹¹ But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.

Deuteronomy 11:12 (NIV)

¹² It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

Deuteronomy 11:13 (NASB)

¹³ “It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,

Deuteronomy 11:14 (NASB)

¹⁴ that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.

Deuteronomy 11:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “He will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 11:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ “Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

Deuteronomy 11:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ “Or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.

Deuteronomy 11:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ Therefore, you are to store up these words of mine in your heart and in all your being; tie them on your hand as a sign; put them at the front of a headband around your forehead;

Deuteronomy 11:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ teach them carefully to your children, talking about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up;

Deuteronomy 11:20 (CJB)

²⁰ and write them on the door-frames of your house and on your gates —

Deuteronomy 11:21 (CJB)-M

²¹ so that you and your children will live long on the land the Lord swore to your ancestors that he would give them for as long as there is sky above the earth.

Deuteronomy 11:22 (NASB)

²² “For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,

Deuteronomy 11:23 (NASB)

²³ then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

Deuteronomy 11:24 (NIV)

²⁴ Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the western sea.

Deuteronomy 11:25 (NIV)

²⁵ No man will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.

Deuteronomy 11:26 (NIV)

²⁶ See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse–

Deuteronomy 11:27 (NIV)

²⁷ the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today;

Deuteronomy 11:28 (NIV)

²⁸ the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

Deuteronomy 11:29 (NIV)

²⁹ When the LORD your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses.

Deuteronomy 11:30 (NIV)

³⁰ As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, west of the road, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.

Deuteronomy 11:31 (NIV)

³¹ You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there,

Deuteronomy 11:32 (NIV)

³² be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.

Deuteronomy Chapter 12

Deuteronomy 12:1 (CJB)- M

¹ Here are the laws and rulings you are to observe and obey in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess as long as you live on earth.

Deuteronomy 12:2 (CJB)

² You must destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, whether on high mountains, on hills, or under some leafy tree.

Deuteronomy 12:3 (CJB)

³ Break down their altars, smash their standing-stones to pieces, burn up their sacred poles completely and cut down the carved images of their gods. Exterminate their name from that place.

Deuteronomy 12:4 (NIV)

⁴ You must not worship the LORD your God in their way.

Deuteronomy 12:5 (NIV)

⁵ But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;

Deuteronomy 12:6 (NIV)

⁶ there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Deuteronomy 12:7 (NIV)

⁷ There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:8 (CJB)

⁸ You will not do things the way we do them here today, where everyone does whatever in his own opinion seems right;

Deuteronomy 12:9 (NASB)

⁹ for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 12:10 (NASB)

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

Deuteronomy 12:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name–there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the LORD.

Deuteronomy 12:12 (NIV)

¹² And there rejoice before the LORD your God, you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites from your towns, who have no allotment or inheritance of their own.

Deuteronomy 12:13 (NIV)

¹³ Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.

Deuteronomy 12:14 (CJB)-M

¹⁴ but do it in the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribal territories; there is where you are to offer your burnt offerings and do everything I order you to do.

Deuteronomy 12:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

Deuteronomy 12:16 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 12:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

Deuteronomy 12:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose–you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites from your towns–and you are to rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 12:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

Deuteronomy 12:20 (NIV)

²⁰ When the LORD your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want.

Deuteronomy 12:21 (NIV)

²¹ If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.

Deuteronomy 12:22 (NIV)

²² Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.

Deuteronomy 12:23 (NIV)

²³ But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 12:24 (NIV)

²⁴ You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:25 (NASB)

²⁵ “You shall not eat it, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 12:26 (NIV)

²⁶ But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the LORD will choose.

Deuteronomy 12:27 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 12:28 (CJB)-M

²⁸ Obey and pay attention to everything I am ordering you to do, so that things will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, as you do what the Lord sees as good and right.

Deuteronomy 12:29 (NIV)

²⁹ The LORD your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land,

Deuteronomy 12:30 (NIV)

³⁰ and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”

Deuteronomy 12:31 (NIV)

³¹ You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

Deuteronomy 12:32 (CJB)

³² “Everything I am commanding you, you are to take care to do. Do not add to it or subtract from it.

Deuteronomy Chapter 13

Deuteronomy 13:1 (CJB)

¹ “If a prophet or someone who gets messages while dreaming arises among you and he gives you a sign or wonder,

Deuteronomy 13:2 (CJB)

² and the sign or wonder comes about as he predicted when he said, ‘Let’s follow other gods, which you have not known; and let us serve them,’

Deuteronomy 13:3 (CJB)-M

³ you are not to listen to what that prophet or dreamer says. For the Lord your God is testing you, in order to find out whether you really do love the Lord your God with all your heart and being.

Deuteronomy 13:4 (NIV)

⁴ It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.

Deuteronomy 13:5 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 13:6 (CJB)

⁶ “If your brother the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or your wife whom you love, or your friend who means as much to you as yourself, secretly tries to entice you to go and serve other gods, which you haven’t known, neither you nor your ancestors —

Deuteronomy 13:7 (CJB)

⁷ gods of the peoples surrounding you, whether near or far away from you, anywhere in the world —

Deuteronomy 13:8 (CJB)

⁸ you are not to consent, and you are not to listen to him; and you must not pity him or spare him; and you may not conceal him.

Deuteronomy 13:9 (CJB)

⁹ Rather, you must kill him! Your own hand must be the first one on him in putting him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

Deuteronomy 13:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ You are to stone him to death; because he has tried to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a life of slavery.

Deuteronomy 13:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.

Deuteronomy 13:12 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 13:13 (NIV)

¹³ that wicked men have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known),

Deuteronomy 13:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ then you are to investigate the matter, inquiring and searching diligently. If the rumor is true, if it is confirmed that such detestable things are being done among you,

Deuteronomy 13:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. Destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock.

Deuteronomy 13:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 13:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ None of those condemned things shall be found in your hands, so that the LORD will turn from his fierce anger; he will show you mercy, have compassion on you, and increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your forefathers,

Deuteronomy 13:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.

Deuteronomy Chapter 14

Deuteronomy 14:1 (NASB)

¹ “You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

Deuteronomy 14:2 (NASB)

² “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 14:3 (NASB)

³ “You shall not eat any detestable thing.

Deuteronomy 14:4 (NIV)

⁴ These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Deuteronomy 14:5 (CJB)

⁵ deer, gazelle, roebuck, ibex, antelope, oryx and mountain sheep.

Deuteronomy 14:6 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 14:7 (CJB)

⁷ But you are not to eat those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof. For example, the camel, the hare and the coney are unclean for you because they chew the cud but don’t have a separate hoof;

Deuteronomy 14:8 (NIV)

⁸ The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

Deuteronomy 14:9 (NIV)

⁹ Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.

Deuteronomy 14:10 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 14:11 (NIV)

¹¹ You may eat any clean bird.

Deuteronomy 14:12 (NASB)

¹² “But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard,

Deuteronomy 14:13 (NIV)

¹³ the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon,

Deuteronomy 14:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ The raven in all its species,

Deuteronomy 14:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ ostriches, screech-owls, seagulls, any kind of hawk,

Deuteronomy 14:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ The little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,

Deuteronomy 14:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

Deuteronomy 14:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

Deuteronomy 14:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ All flying insects that swarm are unclean to you; do not eat them.

Deuteronomy 14:20 (NASB)

²⁰ “You may eat any clean bird.

Deuteronomy 14:21 (NLT2)

²¹ “You must not eat anything that has died a natural death. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, or you may sell it to a stranger. But do not eat it yourselves, for you are set apart as holy to the LORD your God. “You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 14:22 (NLT2)

²² “You must set aside a tithe of your crops—one-tenth of all the crops you harvest each year.

Deuteronomy 14:23 (NLT2)

²³ Bring this tithe to the designated place of worship—the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to be honored—and eat it there in his presence. This applies to your tithes of grain, new wine, olive oil, and the firstborn males of your flocks and herds. Doing this will teach you always to fear the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 14:24 (NIV)

²⁴ But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the LORD your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the LORD will choose to put his Name is so far away),

Deuteronomy 14:25 (7KB)

²⁵ you are to convert it into money, take the money with you, go to the place which the Lord your God will choose,

Deuteronomy 14:26 (NKJV)

²⁶ And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

Deuteronomy 14:27 (NIV)

²⁷ And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.

Deuteronomy 14:28 (NIV)

²⁸ At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns,

Deuteronomy 14:29 (NIV)

²⁹ so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy Chapter 15

Deuteronomy 15:1 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 15:2 (NIV)

² This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel the loan he has made to his fellow Israelite. He shall not require payment from his fellow Israelite or brother, because the LORD’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed.

Deuteronomy 15:3 (NIV)

³ You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your brother owes you.

Deuteronomy 15:4 (NIV2011)

⁴ However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you,

Deuteronomy 15:5 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy 15:6 (NIV)

⁶ For the LORD your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.

Deuteronomy 15:7 (NIV)

⁷ If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother.

Deuteronomy 15:8 (NIV)

⁸ Rather be openhanded and freely lend him whatever he needs.

Deuteronomy 15:9 (NIV)

⁹ Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward your needy brother and give him nothing. He may then appeal to the LORD against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 15:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 15:11 (NIV)

¹¹ There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.

Deuteronomy 15:12 (NIV)

¹² If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, sells himself to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year you must let him go free.

Deuteronomy 15:13 (NIV)

¹³ And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

Deuteronomy 15:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Supply him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor and your winepress. Give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 15:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you. That is why I give you this command today.

Deuteronomy 15:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you,

Deuteronomy 15:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ then take an awl and push it through his ear lobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life. Do the same for your maidservant.

Deuteronomy 15:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because his service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 15:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male of your herds and flocks. Do not put the firstborn of your oxen to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep.

Deuteronomy 15:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose.

Deuteronomy 15:21 (NIV)

²¹ If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 15:22 (CJB)

²² rather, eat it on your own property; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, like the gazelle or the deer.

Deuteronomy 15:23 (NIV)

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

Deuteronomy Chapter 16

Deuteronomy 16:1 (NIV)

¹ Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover of the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib he brought you out of Egypt by night.

Deuteronomy 16:2 (NIV)

² Sacrifice as the Passover to the LORD your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for his Name.

Deuteronomy 16:3 (NIV)

³ Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste–so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:4 (NIV)

⁴ Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.

Deuteronomy 16:5 (NIV)

⁵ You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the LORD your God gives you

Deuteronomy 16:6 (NIV)

⁶ except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:7 (NIV)

⁷ Roast it and eat it at the place the LORD your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents.

Deuteronomy 16:8 (NIV)

⁸ For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the LORD your God and do no work.

Deuteronomy 16:9 (NIV)

⁹ Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.

Deuteronomy 16:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Then celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the LORD your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 16:11 (NIV)

¹¹ And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name–you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, the Levites in your towns, and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows living among you.

Deuteronomy 16:12 (NASB)

¹² “You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

Deuteronomy 16:13 (NIV)

¹³ Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.

Deuteronomy 16:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Be joyful at your Feast–you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites, the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.

Deuteronomy 16:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ For seven days celebrate the Feast to the LORD your God at the place the LORD will choose. For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

Deuteronomy 16:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles. No man should appear before the LORD empty-handed:

Deuteronomy 16:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 16:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the LORD your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.

Deuteronomy 16:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16:20 (NIV)

²⁰ Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 16:21 (CJB)

²¹ “You are not to plant any sort of tree as a sacred pole beside the altar of Adonai your God that you will make for yourselves.

Deuteronomy 16:22 (AMP)

²² Neither shall you set up an idolatrous stone or image, which the Lord your God hates.

Deuteronomy Chapter 17

Deuteronomy 17:1 (NIV)

¹ Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.

Deuteronomy 17:2 (NIV)

² If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant,

Deuteronomy 17:3 (NIV)

³ and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky,

Deuteronomy 17:4 (NIV)

⁴ and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,

Deuteronomy 17:5 (NIV)

⁵ take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.

Deuteronomy 17:6 (NIV)

⁶ On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

Deuteronomy 17:7 (NIV)

⁷ The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 17:8 (NIV)

⁸ If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge–whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults–take them to the place the LORD your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 17:9 (NIV)

⁹ Go to the priests, who are Levites, and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict.

Deuteronomy 17:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they direct you to do.

Deuteronomy 17:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Act according to the law they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.

Deuteronomy 17:12 (NIV)

¹² The man who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 17:13 (NIV)

¹³ All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.

Deuteronomy 17:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”

Deuteronomy 17:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ be sure to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your own brothers. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not a brother Israelite.

Deuteronomy 17:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”

Deuteronomy 17:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ Likewise, he is not to acquire many wives for himself, so that his heart will not turn away; and he is not to acquire excessive quantities of silver and gold.

Deuteronomy 17:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites.

Deuteronomy 17:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees

Deuteronomy 17:20 (NIV)

²⁰ and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.

Deuteronomy Chapter 18

Deuteronomy 18:1 (NASB)

¹ “The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the LORD’S offerings by fire and His portion.

Deuteronomy 18:2 (NASB)

² “They shall have no inheritance among their countrymen; the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

Deuteronomy 18:3 (NASB)

³ “Now this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep, of which they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.

Deuteronomy 18:4 (NIV)

⁴ You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,

Deuteronomy 18:5 (NIV)

⁵ for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD’s name always.

Deuteronomy 18:6 (NIV)

⁶ If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

Deuteronomy 18:7 (NASB)

⁷ then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

Deuteronomy 18:8 (CJB)

⁸ Such a Levi will receive the same share as they do, in addition to what he may receive from selling his inherited ancestral property.

Deuteronomy 18:9 (CJB)-M

⁹ “When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you are not to learn how to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

Deuteronomy 18:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,

Deuteronomy 18:11 (NIV)

¹¹ or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.

Deuteronomy 18:12 (NIV)

¹² Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you.

Deuteronomy 18:13 (NIV)

¹³ You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 18:14 (CJB)-M

¹⁴ For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners; but you, the Lord your God does not allow you to do this.

Deuteronomy 18:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

Deuteronomy 18:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”

Deuteronomy 18:17 (CJB)-M

¹⁷ On that occasion the Lord said to me, ‘They are right in what they are saying.

Deuteronomy 18:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kinsmen. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I order him.

Deuteronomy 18:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ ~’It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.

Deuteronomy 18:20 (NIV)

²⁰ But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death.”

Deuteronomy 18:21 (CJB)

²¹ You may be wondering, ‘How are we to know if a word has not been spoken by the Lord?’

Deuteronomy 18:22 (NIV)

²² If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy Chapter 19

Deuteronomy 19:1 (NASB)

¹ “When the LORD your God cuts off the nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,

Deuteronomy 19:2 (NIV)

² then set aside for yourselves three cities centrally located in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 19:3 (NIV)

³ Build roads to them and divide into three parts the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that anyone who kills a man may flee there.

Deuteronomy 19:4 (7KB)

⁴ “If someone kills another person unintentionally, not having hated him in time past, the slayer may flee to any of these cities to live in safety.

Deuteronomy 19:5 (NIV)

⁵ For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.

Deuteronomy 19:6 (7KB)

⁶ otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, and take his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated his unintended victim previously.

Deuteronomy 19:7 (NIV)

⁷ This is why I command you to set aside for yourselves three cities.

Deuteronomy 19:8 (NIV)

⁸ If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your forefathers, and gives you the whole land he promised them,

Deuteronomy 19:9 (NIV)

⁹ because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today–to love the LORD your God and to walk always in his ways–then you are to set aside three more cities.

Deuteronomy 19:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

Deuteronomy 19:11 (NIV)

¹¹ But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, assaults and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

Deuteronomy 19:12 (NIV)

¹² the elders of his town shall send for him, bring him back from the city, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.

Deuteronomy 19:13 (NIV)

¹³ Show him no pity. You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 19:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 19:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ One witness is not enough to convict a man accused of any crime or offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Deuteronomy 19:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse a man of a crime,

Deuteronomy 19:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ the two men involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time.

Deuteronomy 19:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against his brother,

Deuteronomy 19:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ you are to do to him what he intended to do to his brother. In this way, you will put an end to such wickedness among you.

Deuteronomy 19:20 (NIV)

²⁰ The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you.

Deuteronomy 19:21 (NIV)

²¹ Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deuteronomy Chapter 20

Deuteronomy 20:1 (NIV)

¹ When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.

Deuteronomy 20:2 (NIV)

² When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army.

Deuteronomy 20:3 (NIV)

³ He shall say: “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or give way to panic before them.

Deuteronomy 20:4 (NIV)

⁴ For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”

Deuteronomy 20:5 (NIV)

⁵ The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may dedicate it.

Deuteronomy 20:6 (NIV)

⁶ Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it.

Deuteronomy 20:7 (NIV)

⁷ Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deuteronomy 20:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then the officers shall add, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his brothers will not become disheartened too.”

Deuteronomy 20:9 (NIV)

⁹ When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.

Deuteronomy 20:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.

Deuteronomy 20:11 (NIV)

¹¹ If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

Deuteronomy 20:12 (CJB)

¹² However, if they refuse to make peace with you but prefer to make war against you, you are to put it under siege.

Deuteronomy 20:13 (NIV)

¹³ When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.

Deuteronomy 20:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.

Deuteronomy 20:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Deuteronomy 20:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Deuteronomy 20:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Completely destroy them–the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites–as the LORD your God has commanded you.

Deuteronomy 20:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 20:19 (NIV)-M

¹⁹ When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its [fruit] trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them?

Deuteronomy 20:20 (CJB)

²⁰ However, if you know that certain trees provide no food, you may destroy them and cut them down, in order to build siege-works against the town making war with you, until it falls.

Deuteronomy Chapter 21

Deuteronomy 21:1 (CJB)-M

¹ “If, in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, a murder victim is found lying in the countryside; and the perpetrator of the murder is not known;

Deuteronomy 21:2 (NIV)

² your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.

Deuteronomy 21:3 (CJB)

³ After it has been determined which town is the closest, the leaders of that town are to take a young female cow that has never been put to work or yoked for use as a draft animal.

Deuteronomy 21:4 (CJB)-M

⁴ The leaders of that town are to bring the heifer down to a wadi with a stream in it that never dries up, to a place that is neither plowed nor sown; and they are to break the cow’s neck there in the wadi.

Deuteronomy 21:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ Then the priests, who are Levites, are to approach; for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord; they will decide the outcome of every dispute and matter involving violence.

Deuteronomy 21:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ All the leaders of the town nearest the murder victim are to wash their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the wadi.

Deuteronomy 21:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ Then they are to speak up and say, ‘This blood was not shed by our hands, nor have we seen who did it.

Deuteronomy 21:8 (NIV)

⁸ Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O LORD, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent man.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

Deuteronomy 21:9 (NIV)

⁹ So you will purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 21:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,

Deuteronomy 21:11 (NIV)

¹¹ if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

Deuteronomy 21:12 (NIV)

¹² Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails

Deuteronomy 21:13 (NIV)

¹³ and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

Deuteronomy 21:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ In the event that you lose interest in her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes; but you may not sell her for money or treat her like a slave, because you humiliated her.

Deuteronomy 21:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,

Deuteronomy 21:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love.

Deuteronomy 21:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father’s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

Deuteronomy 21:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,

Deuteronomy 21:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.

Deuteronomy 21:20 (NIV)

²⁰ They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.”

Deuteronomy 21:21 (NIV)

²¹ Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 21:22 (NASB)

²² “If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

Deuteronomy 21:23 (NASB)

²³ his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy Chapter 22

Deuteronomy 22:1 (CJB)

¹ “You are not to watch your brother’s ox or sheep straying and behave as if you hadn’t seen it; you must bring it back to your brother.

Deuteronomy 22:2 (CJB)

² If your brother is not close by, or you don’t know who the owner is, you are to bring it home to your house; and it will remain with you until your brother asks for it; then you are to give it back to him.

Deuteronomy 22:3 (CJB)

³ You are to do the same with his donkey, his coat or anything else of your brother’s that he loses. If you find something he lost, you must not ignore it.

Deuteronomy 22:4 (CJB)

⁴ “If you see your brother’s donkey or ox collapsed on the road, you may not behave as if you hadn’t seen it; you must help him get it up on its feet again.

Deuteronomy 22:5 (NASB)

⁵ “A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 22:6 (NIV)

⁶ If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.

Deuteronomy 22:7 (NIV)-M

⁷ You may take the young, (the eggs or the chicks to eat) but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

Deuteronomy 22:8 (CJB)

⁸ “When you build a new house, you must build a low wall around your roof; otherwise someone may fall from it, and you will be responsible for his death.

Deuteronomy 22:9 (NIV)

⁹ Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.

Deuteronomy 22:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

Deuteronomy 22:11 (CJB)

¹¹ You are not to wear clothing woven with two kinds of thread, wool and linen together.

Deuteronomy 22:12 (CJB)

¹² “You are to make for yourself twisted cords on the four corners of the garment you wrap around yourself.

Deuteronomy 22:13 (CJB)

¹³ “If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her and then, having come to dislike her,

Deuteronomy 22:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ brings false charges against her and defames her character by saying, ‘I married this woman, but when I had intercourse with her I did not find evidence that she was a virgin’;

Deuteronomy 22:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ then the girl’s father and mother are to take the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the leaders of the town at the gate.

Deuteronomy 22:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The girl’s father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.

Deuteronomy 22:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,

Deuteronomy 22:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ and the elders shall take the man and punish him.

Deuteronomy 22:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 22:20 (NIV)

²⁰ If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found,

Deuteronomy 22:21 (NIV)

²¹ she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 22:22 (NIV)

²² If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:23 (CJB)

²³ “If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and another man comes upon her in the town and has sexual relations with her;

Deuteronomy 22:24 (NIV)

²⁴ you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death–the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 22:25 (CJB)

²⁵ “But if the man comes upon the engaged girl out in the countryside, and the man grabs her and has sexual relations with her, then only the man who had intercourse with her is to die.

Deuteronomy 22:26 (CJB)

²⁶ You will do nothing to the girl, because she has done nothing deserving of death. The situation is like the case of the man who attacks his neighbor and kills him.

Deuteronomy 22:27 (NIV)

²⁷ for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

Deuteronomy 22:28 (NIV)

²⁸ If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,

Deuteronomy 22:29 (NIV)

²⁹ he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 22:30 (NIV)

³⁰ A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.

Deuteronomy Chapter 23

Deuteronomy 23:1 (AMP)

¹ He who is wounded in the testicles, or has been made a eunuch, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:2 (AMP)

² A person begotten out of wedlock shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall his descendants not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:3 (AMP)

³ An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation their descendants shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord forever,

Deuteronomy 23:4 (AMP)

⁴ Because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia against you to curse you.

Deuteronomy 23:5 (AMP)

⁵ Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the Lord your God loves you.

Deuteronomy 23:6 (AMP)

⁶ You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.

Deuteronomy 23:7 (NASB)

⁷ “You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.

Deuteronomy 23:8 (NASB)

⁸ “The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 23:9 (NASB)

⁹ “When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

Deuteronomy 23:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp; he is not to enter the camp.

Deuteronomy 23:11 (CJB)

¹¹ When evening arrives he is to bathe himself in water, and after sunset he may enter the camp.

Deuteronomy 23:12 (CJB)

¹² Also you are to have an area outside the camp to use as a latrine.

Deuteronomy 23:13 (CJB)

¹³ You must include a trowel with your equipment, and when you relieve yourself, you are to dig a hole first and afterwards cover your excrement.

Deuteronomy 23:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 23:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.

Deuteronomy 23:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ Allow him to stay with you, in whichever place suits him best among your settlements; do not mistreat him.

Deuteronomy 23:17 (CJB)-M

¹⁷ “No woman of Israel is to engage in ritual prostitution, and no man of Israel is to engage in ritual homosexual prostitution.

Deuteronomy 23:18 (CJB)-M

¹⁸ Nothing earned through heterosexual or homosexual prostitution is to be brought into the house of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 23:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ “You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.

Deuteronomy 23:20 (NASB)

²⁰ “You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess.

Deuteronomy 23:21 (AMP)

²¹ When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not be slack in paying it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and slackness would be sin in you.

Deuteronomy 23:22 (NIV)

²² But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.

Deuteronomy 23:23 (NIV)

²³ Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

Deuteronomy 23:24 (CJB)

²⁴ (v) “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat enough grapes to satisfy your appetite; but you are not to put any in your basket.

Deuteronomy 23:25 (NIV)

²⁵ If you enter your neighbor’s grain field, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain.

Deuteronomy Chapter 24

Deuteronomy 24:1 (CJB)

¹ “Suppose a man marries a woman and consummates the marriage but later finds her displeasing, because he has found her offensive in some respect. He writes her a divorce document, gives it to her and sends her away from his house.

Deuteronomy 24:2 (NASB)

² and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife,

Deuteronomy 24:3 (NIV)

³ and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies,

Deuteronomy 24:4 (CJB)

⁴ In such a case her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again as his wife, because she is now defiled. It would be detestable to the Lord, and you are not to bring about sin in the land the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24:5 (NASB)-M

⁵ “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall happily be united as “one-person” together with his wife whom he has taken.

Deuteronomy 24:6 (NIV)

⁶ Do not take a pair of millstones–not even the upper one–as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man’s livelihood as security.

Deuteronomy 24:7 (NIV)

⁷ If a man is caught kidnapping one of his brother Israelites and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 24:8 (NIV)

⁸ In cases of leprous diseases be very careful to do exactly as the priests, who are Levites, instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them.

Deuteronomy 24:9 (NIV)

⁹ Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into his house to get what he is offering as a pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Stay outside and let the man to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.

Deuteronomy 24:12 (AMP)

¹² And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

Deuteronomy 24:13 (NIV)

¹³ Return his cloak to him by sunset so that he may sleep in it. Then he will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 24:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother Israelite or an alien living in one of your towns.

Deuteronomy 24:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Pay him his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and is counting on it. Otherwise he may cry to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 24:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ “Fathers are not to be executed for the children, nor are children to be executed for the fathers; every person will be executed for his own sin.

Deuteronomy 24:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ “You are not to deprive the foreigner or the orphan of the justice which is his due, and you are not to take a widow’s clothing as collateral for a loan.

Deuteronomy 24:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

Deuteronomy 24:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 24:20 (NIV)

²⁰ When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:21 (NIV)

²¹ When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:22 (NIV)

²² Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

Deuteronomy Chapter 25

Deuteronomy 25:1 (NIV)

¹ When men have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.

Deuteronomy 25:2 (NIV)

² If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and have him flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime deserves,

Deuteronomy 25:3 (HCSB)

³ He may be flogged with 40 lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.

Deuteronomy 25:4 (CJB)

⁴ “You are not to muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

Deuteronomy 25:5 (NIV)

⁵ If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

Deuteronomy 25:6 (NIV)

⁶ The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Deuteronomy 25:7 (NIV)

⁷ However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”

Deuteronomy 25:8 (NIV)

⁸ Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”

Deuteronomy 25:9 (NIV)

⁹ his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”

Deuteronomy 25:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ From that time on, his family is to be known in Israel as ‘the family of the man who had his sandal pulled off.’

Deuteronomy 25:11 (NASB)

¹¹ “If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

Deuteronomy 25:12 (NASB)

¹² then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

Deuteronomy 25:13 (NIV)

¹³ Do not have two differing weights in your bag–one heavy, one light.

Deuteronomy 25:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ You are not to have in your house two sets of measures, one big, the other small.

Deuteronomy 25:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 25:16 (AMP)

¹⁶ For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 25:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ how he met you by the road, attacked those in the rear, those who were exhausted and straggling behind when you were tired and weary. He did not fear God.

Deuteronomy 25:19 (CJB)-M

¹⁹ Therefore, when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies in the land the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance to possess, you are to blot out all memory of ‘Amalek from under heaven. Don’t forget!

Deuteronomy Chapter 26

Deuteronomy 26:1 (NIV)

¹ When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it,

Deuteronomy 26:2 (CJB)-M

² you are to take the firstfruits of all the crops the ground yields, which you will harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, put them in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God will choose to have his name live.

Deuteronomy 26:3 (NIV)

³ and say to the priest in office at the time, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the land the LORD swore to our forefathers to give us.”

Deuteronomy 26:4 (NIV)

⁴ The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 26:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ “Then, in the presence of the Lord your God, you are to say, ‘My ancestor was a nomad from Aram. He went down into Egypt few in number and stayed. There he became a great, strong, populous nation.

Deuteronomy 26:6 (CJB)

⁶ But the Egyptians treated us badly; they oppressed us and imposed harsh slavery on us.

Deuteronomy 26:7 (CJB)-M

⁷ So we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors. the Lord heard us and saw our misery, toil and oppression;

Deuteronomy 26:8 (NASB)

⁸ and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders;

Deuteronomy 26:9 (CJB)

⁹ Now he has brought us to this place and given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 26:10 (7KB)

¹⁰ and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, O LORD, have given me.” Place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down and worship before him.

Deuteronomy 26:11 (NIV)

¹¹ And you and the Levites and the aliens among you shall rejoice in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.

Deuteronomy 26:12 (CJB)

¹² “After you have separated a tenth of the crops yielded in the third year, the year of separating a tenth, and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, so that they can have enough food to satisfy them while staying with you;

Deuteronomy 26:13 (NIV)

¹³ Then say to the LORD your God: “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.

Deuteronomy 26:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything you commanded me.

Deuteronomy 26:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, your holy dwelling place, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our forefathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 26:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these decrees and laws; carefully observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 26:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ You have declared this day that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in his ways, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws, and that you will obey him.

Deuteronomy 26:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ And the LORD has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands.

Deuteronomy 26:19 (CJB)-M

¹⁹ and that he will raise you high above all the nations he has made, in praise, reputation and glory; and that, as he said, you will be a holy people for the Lord your God.”

Deuteronomy Chapter 27

Deuteronomy 27:1 (NASB)

¹ Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I command you today.

Deuteronomy 27:2 (NASB)

² “So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime

Deuteronomy 27:3 (AMP)

³ And you shall write on them all the words of this law when you have passed over, that you may go into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

Deuteronomy 27:4 (NASB)

⁴ “So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up on Mount Ebal, these stones, as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime.

Deuteronomy 27:5 (NKJV)-M

⁵ And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of [ whole] uncut stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them.

Deuteronomy 27:6 (NASB)-M

⁶ “You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of [whole] uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the LORD your God;

Deuteronomy 27:7 (NASB)

⁷ and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 27:8 (NASB)

⁸ “You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very distinctly.”

Deuteronomy 27:9 (AMP)

⁹ And Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, Keep silence and hear, O Israel! This day you have become the people of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 27:10 (NASB)

¹⁰ “You shall therefore obey the LORD your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command you today.”

Deuteronomy 27:11 (NASB)

¹¹ Moses also charged the people on that day, saying,

Deuteronomy 27:12 (7KB)

¹² When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Benjamin, Issachar, and Joseph.

Deuteronomy 27:13 (NIV)

¹³ And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.

Deuteronomy 27:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ And the Levites shall declare with a loud voice to all the men of Israel:

Deuteronomy 27:15 (CJB)

¹⁵ “‘A curse on anyone who makes a carved or metal image, something Adonai detests, the handiwork of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret!’All the people are to respond by saying, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:16 (CJB)

¹⁶ “‘A curse on anyone who dishonors his father or mother.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:17 (CJB)

¹⁷ “‘A curse on anyone who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:18 (CJB)

¹⁸ “‘A curse on anyone who causes a blind person to lose his way on the road.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ “‘A curse on anyone who interferes with justice for the foreigner, orphan or widow.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:20 (CJB)

²⁰ “‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with his father’s wife, because he has violated his father’s rights.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:21 (CJB)

²¹ “‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with any kind of animal.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:22 (CJB)

²² “‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with his sister, no matter whether she is the daughter of his father or of his mother.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:23 (CJB)

²³ “‘A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law.’ All the people are to say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:24 (AMP)

²⁴ Cursed is he who slays his neighbor secretly. All the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:25 (AMP)

²⁵ Cursed is he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:26 (NASB)

²⁶ ‘Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy Chapter 28

Deuteronomy 28:1 (NASB)

¹ “Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:2 (NIV)

² All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

Deuteronomy 28:3 (NASB)

³ “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

Deuteronomy 28:4 (NASB)

⁴ “Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:5 (NASB)

⁵ “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Deuteronomy 28:6 (NASB)

⁶ “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28:7 (NASB)

⁷ “The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.

Deuteronomy 28:8 (AMP)

⁸ The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake. And He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 28:9 (NASB)

⁹ “The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

Deuteronomy 28:10 (CJB)-M

¹⁰ Then all the peoples on earth will see that the Lord’s name, his presence, is with you; so that they will be afraid of you.

Deuteronomy 28:11 (NIV)

¹¹ The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity–in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground–in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.

Deuteronomy 28:12 (NIV)

¹² The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

Deuteronomy 28:13 (NASB)

¹³ “The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully,

Deuteronomy 28:14 (AMP)

¹⁴ And you 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 gods to serve them.

Deuteronomy 28:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “But it shall come about, if you do not obey the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 28:16 (NASB)

¹⁶ “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

Deuteronomy 28:17 (NASB)

¹⁷ “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Deuteronomy 28:18 (NASB)

¹⁸ “Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:19 (NASB)

¹⁹ “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28:20 (CJB)-M

²⁰ “The Lord will send on you curses, disasters and frustration in everything you set out to do, until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of your evil actions in abandoning me.

Deuteronomy 28:21 (NIV)

²¹ The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:22 (NIV)

²² The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:23 (NIV)

²³ The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.

Deuteronomy 28:24 (NIV)

²⁴ The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:25 (CJB)-M

²⁵ “The Lord your God will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will advance on them one way and flee before them seven. You will become an object of horror to every kingdom on earth.

Deuteronomy 28:26 (NIV)

²⁶ Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

Deuteronomy 28:27 (NIV)

²⁷ The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

Deuteronomy 28:28 (CJB)-M

²⁸ The Lord will strike you with insanity, blindness and utter confusion.

Deuteronomy 28:29 (CJB)

²⁹ You will grope about at noon like a blind person groping in the dark, unable to find your way. “You will be continually oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.

Deuteronomy 28:30 (CJB)

³⁰ You will get engaged to a woman, but another man will marry her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not use its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:31 (NASB)

³¹ “Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.

Deuteronomy 28:32 (NASB)

³² “Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

Deuteronomy 28:33 (NASB)

³³ “A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.

Deuteronomy 28:34 (NASB)

³⁴ “You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see.

Deuteronomy 28:35 (NIV)

³⁵ The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

Deuteronomy 28:36 (NASB)

³⁶ “The LORD will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:37 (CJB)-M

³⁷ You will be so devastated as to become a proverb and a laughingstock among all the peoples to which the Lord will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:38 (NIV)

³⁸ You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

Deuteronomy 28:39 (NIV)

³⁹ You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:40 (CJB)

⁴⁰ You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with the oil, because your olives will fall off unripe.

Deuteronomy 28:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:42 (NKJV)

⁴² Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

Deuteronomy 28:43 (AMP)

⁴³ The transient (stranger) among you shall mount up higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:44 (CJB)

⁴⁴ He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you the tail.

Deuteronomy 28:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.

Deuteronomy 28:46 (CJB)

⁴⁶ These curses will be on you and your descendants as a sign and a wonder forever.

Deuteronomy 28:47 (CJB)

⁴⁷ Because you didn’t serve Adonai your God with joy and gladness in your heart when you had such an abundance of everything;

Deuteronomy 28:48 (CJB)-M

⁴⁸ The Lord will send your enemy against you; and you will serve him when you are hungry, thirsty, poorly clothed and lacking everything; he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he destroys you.

Deuteronomy 28:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,

Deuteronomy 28:50 (CJB)

⁵⁰ a nation grim in appearance, whose people neither respect the old nor pity the young.

Deuteronomy 28:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.

Deuteronomy 28:52 (NIV)

⁵² They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:53 (CJB)

⁵³ Then, because of the severity of the siege and distress that your enemies are inflicting on you, you will eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:54 (CJB)

⁵⁴ Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will be without pity for his brother, his beloved wife or his surviving children,

Deuteronomy 28:55 (CJB)

⁵⁵ to the degree that he will refuse to share with any of them the flesh of his children whom he is eating; because if he did, he would have nothing left for himself — in the severity of the siege and distress your enemies are inflicting on you in all your towns.

Deuteronomy 28:56 (CJB)

⁵⁶ The most delicate and sensitive woman among you, so sensitive and delicate that she wouldn’t think of touching the sole of her foot to the ground, will so begrudge her own beloved husband, son and daughter

Deuteronomy 28:57 (CJB)

⁵⁷ that she will secretly eat the afterbirth that comes out of her and even her own children as she bears them — so desperately hungry will she be in the severity of the siege and distress your enemies are inflicting on you in your towns.

Deuteronomy 28:58 (NIV)

⁵⁸ If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name–the LORD your God–

Deuteronomy 28:59 (NASB)

⁵⁹ then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.

Deuteronomy 28:60 (AMP)

⁶⁰ Moreover, He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.

Deuteronomy 28:61 (NASB)

⁶¹ “Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:62 (NIV)

⁶² You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63 (NIV)

⁶³ Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:64 (NASB)

⁶⁴ “Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.

Deuteronomy 28:65 (NIV)

⁶⁵ Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.

Deuteronomy 28:66 (CJB)

⁶⁶ Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be afraid night and day and have no assurance that you will stay alive.

Deuteronomy 28:67 (CJB)

⁶⁷ In the morning you will say, ‘Oh, how I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘Oh, how I wish it were morning!’— because of the fear overwhelming your heart and the sights your eyes will see.

Deuteronomy 28:68 (NIV)

⁶⁸ The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

Deuteronomy Chapter 29

Deuteronomy 29:1 (NIV)

¹ These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:2 (NIV)

² Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.

Deuteronomy 29:3 (NIV)

³ With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those miraculous signs and great wonders.

Deuteronomy 29:4 (NIV)

⁴ But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.

Deuteronomy 29:5 (NIV)

⁵ During the forty years that I led you through the desert, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.

Deuteronomy 29:6 (NIV)

⁶ You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 29:7 (NIV)

⁷ When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.

Deuteronomy 29:8 (NIV)

⁸ We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Deuteronomy 29:9 (CJB)

⁹ Therefore, observe the words of this covenant and obey them; so that you can make everything you do prosper.

Deuteronomy 29:10 (AMP)

¹⁰ All of you stand today before the Lord your God—your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 29:11 (NIV)

¹¹ together with your children and your wives, and the aliens living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.

Deuteronomy 29:12 (NIV)

¹² You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,

Deuteronomy 29:13 (NIV)

¹³ to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 29:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you

Deuteronomy 29:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today.

Deuteronomy 29:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.

Deuteronomy 29:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

Deuteronomy 29:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

Deuteronomy 29:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ If there is such a person, when he hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself secretly, saying to himself, ‘I will be all right, even though I will stubbornly keep doing whatever I feel like doing; so that I, although “dry,” [sinful,] will be added to the “watered” [righteous].’

Deuteronomy 29:20 (CJB)-M

²⁰ But the Lord will not forgive him. Rather, the anger and jealousy of the Lord will blaze up against that person. Every curse written in this book will be upon him. The Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

Deuteronomy 29:21 (NIV)

²¹ The LORD will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

Deuteronomy 29:22 (CJB)-M

²² “When the next generation, your children who will grow up after you, and the foreigner who arrives from a distant land, see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which the Lord has made it sick,

Deuteronomy 29:23 (NIV)

²³ The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur–nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.

Deuteronomy 29:24 (CJB)-M

²⁴ then all the nations will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land? What is the meaning of such frenzied, furious anger?’

Deuteronomy 29:25 (NIV)

²⁵ And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 29:26 (NIV)

²⁶ They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.

Deuteronomy 29:27 (CJB)

²⁷ For this reason, the anger of Adonai blazed up against this land and brought upon it every curse written in this book;

Deuteronomy 29:28 (NIV)

²⁸ In furious anger and in great wrath the LORD uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

Deuteronomy 29:29 (NLT)

²⁹ “The LORD our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.

Deuteronomy Chapter 30

Deuteronomy 30:1 (CJB)-M

“When the time arrives that all these things have come upon you, both the blessing and the curse which I have presented to you; and you are there among the nations to which the Lord your God has driven you; then, at last, you will start thinking about what has happened to you;

Deuteronomy 30:2 (NIV)

² and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,

Deuteronomy 30:3 (NIV)

³ then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.

Deuteronomy 30:4 (NIV)

⁴ Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.

Deuteronomy 30:5 (CJB)-M

⁵ The Lord your God will bring you back into the land your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; he will make you prosper there, and you will become even more numerous than your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 30:6 (NIV)

⁶ The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.

Deuteronomy 30:7 (NIV)

⁷ The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.

Deuteronomy 30:8 (AMP)

⁸ And you shall return and obey the voice of the Lord and do all His commandments which I command you today.

Deuteronomy 30:9 (NIV)

⁹ Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers,

Deuteronomy 30:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 30:11 (NIV)

¹¹ Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

Deuteronomy 30:12 (NIV)

¹² It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

Deuteronomy 30:13 (NIV)

¹³ Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

Deuteronomy 30:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.

Deuteronomy 30:15 (CJB)

“Look! I am presenting you today with, on the one hand, life and good; and on the other, death and evil

Deuteronomy 30:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 30:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

Deuteronomy 30:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 30:19 (NKJV)

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

Deuteronomy 30:20 (NKJV)

²⁰ that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

Deuteronomy Chapter 31

Deuteronomy 31:1 (NIV)

¹ Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel:

Deuteronomy 31:2 (NIV)

² “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’

Deuteronomy 31:3 (NASB)

³ “It is the LORD your God who will cross ahead of you; He will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, just as the LORD has spoken.

Deuteronomy 31:4 (NIV)

⁴ And the LORD will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he destroyed along with their land.

Deuteronomy 31:5 (NASB)

⁵ “The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

Deuteronomy 31:6 (NIV)

⁶ Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Deuteronomy 31:7 (NIV)

⁷ Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their forefathers to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance.

Deuteronomy 31:8 (NIV)

⁸ The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

Deuteronomy 31:9 (NIV)

⁹ So Moses wrote down this law and gave 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.

Deuteronomy 31:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Feast of Tabernacles,

Deuteronomy 31:11 (NASB)

¹¹ when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place which He will choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their hearing.

Deuteronomy 31:12 (NASB)

¹² “Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 31:13 (NASB)

¹³ “Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

Deuteronomy 31:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ The LORD said to Moses, “Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, where I will commission him.” So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.

Deuteronomy 31:15 (NIV)

¹⁵ Then the LORD appeared at the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the Tent.

Deuteronomy 31:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ And the LORD said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your fathers, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ On that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and difficulties will come upon them, and on that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is not with us?’

Deuteronomy 31:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ And I will certainly hide my face on that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.

Deuteronomy 31:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ “Now write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.

Deuteronomy 31:20 (NASB)

²⁰ “For when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and are satisfied and become prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and spurn Me and break My covenant.

Deuteronomy 31:21 (NIV)

²¹ And when many disasters and difficulties come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.”

Deuteronomy 31:22 (NIV)

²² So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 31:23 (NIV)

²³ The LORD gave this command to Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you.”

Deuteronomy 31:24 (NIV)

²⁴ After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,

Deuteronomy 31:25 (NIV)

²⁵ he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

Deuteronomy 31:26 (NIV)

²⁶ “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.

Deuteronomy 31:27 (NIV)

²⁷ For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!

Deuteronomy 31:28 (NIV)

²⁸ Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to testify against them.

Deuteronomy 31:29 (NIV)

²⁹ For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall upon you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD and provoke him to anger by what your hands have made.”

Deuteronomy 31:30 (NIV)

³⁰ And Moses recited the words of this song from beginning to end in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel:

Deuteronomy Chapter 32

Deuteronomy 32:1 (NIV)

¹ Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deuteronomy 32:2 (NIV)

² Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Deuteronomy 32:3 (NASB)

³ “For I proclaim the name of the LORD; Ascribe greatness to our God!

Deuteronomy 32:4 (NIV)

⁴ He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

Deuteronomy 32:5 (CJB)

⁵ “He is not corrupt; the defect is in his children, a crooked and perverted generation.

Deuteronomy 32:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ You foolish people, so lacking in wisdom, is this how you repay the Lord? He is your father, who made you his! It was he who formed and prepared you!

Deuteronomy 32:7 (NIV)

⁷ Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.

Deuteronomy 32:8 (NIV)

⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:9 (NIV)

⁹ For the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

Deuteronomy 32:10 (CJB)

¹⁰ “He found his people in desert country, in a howling, wasted wilderness. He protected him and cared for him, guarded him like the pupil of his eye,

Deuteronomy 32:11 (NIV)

¹¹ like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions.

Deuteronomy 32:12 (NIV)

¹² The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.

Deuteronomy 32:13 (CJB)-M

He made them ride on the heights of the earth. They ate the produce of the fields. He had them suck honey from the rocks and olive oil from the crags,

Deuteronomy 32:14 (NIV)

¹⁴ with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.

Deuteronomy 32:15 (AMP)

¹⁵ But Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and kicked. You became fat, you grew thick, you were gorged and sleek! Then he forsook God Who made him and forsook and despised the Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 32:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.

Deuteronomy 32:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ They sacrificed to demons, which are not God– gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear.

Deuteronomy 32:18 (NIV)

¹⁸ You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Deuteronomy 32:19 (NIV)

¹⁹ The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 32:20 (CJB)

²⁰ He said, ‘I will hide my face from them and see what will become of them; for they are a perverse generation, untrustworthy children.

Deuteronomy 32:21 (NIV)

²¹ They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.

Deuteronomy 32:22 (NIV)

²² For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 32:23 (NIV)

²³ “I will heap calamities upon them and spend my arrows against them.

Deuteronomy 32:24 (NIV)

²⁴ I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:25 (NIV)

²⁵ In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. Young men and young women will perish, infants and gray-haired men.

Deuteronomy 32:26 (CJB)

²⁶ “‘I considered putting an end to them, erasing their memory from the human race;

Deuteronomy 32:27 (CJB)-M

²⁷ but I feared the insolence of their enemy, feared that their foes would mistakenly think, “We ourselves accomplished this; the Lord had nothing to do with it.”

Deuteronomy 32:28 (CJB)

²⁸ “‘They are a nation without common sense, utterly lacking in discernment.

Deuteronomy 32:29 (NKJV)

²⁹ Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

Deuteronomy 32:30 (NIV)

³⁰ How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

Deuteronomy 32:31 (CJB)

³¹ For our enemies have no rock like our Rock — even they can see that!

Deuteronomy 32:32 (NIV)

³² Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.

Deuteronomy 32:33 (NIV)

³³ Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

Deuteronomy 32:34 (NIV)

³⁴ “Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?

Deuteronomy 32:35 (AMP)

³⁵ Vengeance is Mine, and recompense, in the time when their foot shall slide; for the day of their disaster is at hand and their doom comes speedily.

Deuteronomy 32:36 (CJB)-M

³⁶ “Yes, the Lord will judge his people, taking pity on his servants, when he sees that their strength is gone, that no one is left, slave or free.

Deuteronomy 32:37 (CJB)

³⁷ Then he will ask, ‘Where are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted?

Deuteronomy 32:38 (NIV)

³⁸ the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you! Let them give you shelter!

Deuteronomy 32:39 (CJB)

³⁹ See now that I, yes, I, am he; and there is no god beside me. I put to death, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; no one saves anyone from my hand!

Deuteronomy 32:40 (NIV)

⁴⁰ I lift my hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

Deuteronomy 32:41 (NIV)

⁴¹ when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.

Deuteronomy 32:42 (NIV)

⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

Deuteronomy 32:43 (NIV)

⁴³ Rejoice, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people.

Deuteronomy 32:44 (NIV)

⁴⁴ Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

Deuteronomy 32:45 (NIV)

⁴⁵ When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

Deuteronomy 32:46 (NIV)

⁴⁶ he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 32:47 (NIV)

⁴⁷ They are not just idle words for you–they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Deuteronomy 32:48 (NIV)

⁴⁸ On that same day the LORD told Moses,

Deuteronomy 32:49 (NIV)

⁴⁹ “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.

Deuteronomy 32:50 (NIV)

⁵⁰ There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

Deuteronomy 32:51 (NIV)

⁵¹ This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 32:52 (NIV)

⁵² Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.”

Deuteronomy Chapter 33

Deuteronomy 33:1 (AMP)

¹ This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the Israelites before his death.

Deuteronomy 33:2 (AMP)

² He said, The Lord came from Sinai and beamed upon us from Seir; He flashed forth from Mount Paran, from among ten thousands of holy ones, a flaming fire, a law, at His right hand.

Deuteronomy 33:3 (NIV)

³ Surely it is you who love the people; all the holy ones are in your hand. At your feet they all bow down, and from you receive instruction,

Deuteronomy 33:4 (NKJV)

⁴ Moses commanded a law for us, A heritage of the congregation of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 33:5 (NIV)

⁵ He was king over Jeshurun when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:6 (CJB)-M

⁶ “Let Reuben live and not die out, even though his numbers grow few.”

Deuteronomy 33:7 (AMP)

⁷ And this he [Moses] said of Judah: Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people! With his hands he contended for himself; but may You be a help against his enemies.

Deuteronomy 33:8 (NLT2)

⁸ Moses said this about the tribe of Levi: “O LORD, you have given your Thummim and Urim—the sacred lots— to your faithful servants the Levites. You put them to the test at Massah and struggled with them at the waters of Meribah.

Deuteronomy 33:9 (NLT2)

⁹ The Levites obeyed your word and guarded your covenant. They were more loyal to you than to their own parents. They ignored their relatives and did not acknowledge their own children.

Deuteronomy 33:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ He teaches your precepts to Jacob and your law to Israel. He offers incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.

Deuteronomy 33:11 (AMP)

¹¹ Bless, O Lord, [Levi’s] substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, and of those who hate him, that they arise no more.

Deuteronomy 33:12 (NIV)

¹² About Benjamin he said: “Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders.”

Deuteronomy 33:13 (NIV)

¹³ About Joseph he said: “May the LORD bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below;

Deuteronomy 33:14 (CJB)

¹⁴ with the best of what the sun makes grow, with the best of what comes up each month,

Deuteronomy 33:15 (NASB)

¹⁵ “And with the best things of the ancient mountains, And with the choice things of the everlasting hills,

Deuteronomy 33:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.

Deuteronomy 33:17 (NIV)

¹⁷ In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Deuteronomy 33:18 (7KB)

¹⁸ About Zebulun he said: “Rejoice, Zebulun, in going out (for your business interests abroad) via your highways to the coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon . . . and you, Issachar, in your tents [at home].

Deuteronomy 33:19 (CJB)

¹⁹ They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer righteous sacrifices; for they will draw from the abundance of the seas and from the hidden treasures of the sand.”

Deuteronomy 33:20 (NASB)

²⁰ Of Gad he said, “Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad; He lies down as a lion, And tears the arm, also the crown of the head.

Deuteronomy 33:21 (NIV)

²¹ He chose the best land for himself; the leader’s portion was kept for him. When the heads of the people assembled, he carried out the LORD’s righteous will, and his judgments concerning Israel.”

Deuteronomy 33:22 (CJB)

²² Of Dan he said: “Dan is a lion cub leaping forth from Bashan.”

Deuteronomy 33:23 (NASB)

²³ Of Naphtali he said, “O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the blessing of the LORD, Take possession of the sea and the south.”

Deuteronomy 33:24 (NASB)

²⁴ Of Asher he said, “More blessed than sons is Asher; May he be favored by his brothers, And may he dip his foot in oil.

Deuteronomy 33:25 (NLT)

²⁵ May the bolts of your gates be of iron and bronze; may you be secure all your days.”

Deuteronomy 33:26 (NLT2)

²⁶ “There is no one like the God of Israel. He rides across the heavens to help you, across the skies in majestic splendor.

Deuteronomy 33:27 (NIV)

²⁷ The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, ‘Destroy him!’

Deuteronomy 33:28 (CJB)-M

²⁸ So Israel lives in security; the fountain of Jacob is alone in a land of grain and new wine, where the skies drip with dew.

Deuteronomy 33:29 (NIV)

²⁹ Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample down their high places.”

Deuteronomy Chapter 34

Deuteronomy 34:1 (NIV)

¹ Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land–from Gilead to Dan,

Deuteronomy 34:2 (NIV)

² all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,

Deuteronomy 34:3 (NIV)

³ the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.

Deuteronomy 34:4 (NIV)

⁴ Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”

Deuteronomy 34:5 (NIV)

⁵ And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said.

Deuteronomy 34:6 (NIV)

⁶ He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.

Deuteronomy 34:7 (NKJV)

⁷ Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.

Deuteronomy 34:8 (NIV)

⁸ The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

Deuteronomy 34:9 (NIV)

⁹ Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites listened to him and did what the LORD had commanded Moses.

Deuteronomy 34:10 (NIV)

¹⁰ Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

Deuteronomy 34:11 (NIV)

¹¹ who did all those miraculous signs and wonders the LORD sent him to do in Egypt–to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land.

Deuteronomy 34:12 (NIV)

¹² For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

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