 申:1.(dt)   [申命紀]    [Deuteronomy]   [共 34 章]   [思高聖經]
  
           梅瑟第一篇演說(1-440)
 申:1.1      [時期和地點]  以下是梅瑟在約但河東岸，對全以色列所講的話。──即在穌夫對面的阿辣巴曠野中，在帕蘭與托費耳、拉班、哈則洛特和狄匝哈布之間。
 申:1.2      從曷勒布經色依爾山，到卡德士巴爾乃亞，共有十一天的程路。──
 申:1.3      在第四十年十一月一日，梅瑟將上主吩咐他的一切事，全訓示了以色列子民。
 申:1.4      當時他已擊敗住在赫市朋的阿摩黎王息紅，和住在阿舍塔洛特和厄德勒的巴商王敖格。
 申:1.5      梅瑟在約但河東岸摩阿布地方開始宣講這法律說：
 申:1.6      [選立首領]  「上主，我們的天主，在曷勒布曾訓示我們說：你們在這山下住得夠久了，
 申:1.7      現在起身出發，到阿摩黎人的山地去，到那些住在阿辣巴荒野、山地、盆地、乃革布和沿海一帶地方去，到客納罕地，到黎巴嫩，直到大河，即幼發拉的河那一帶地方去。
 申:1.8      看，我已將此地擺在你們面前，你們應去佔領上主誓許給你們的祖先亞巴郎、依撒格、雅各伯和他們後裔的地方。」
 申:1.9      那時我對你們說過：我個人無法負擔你們。
 申:1.10     上主你們的天主使你們的人數增加，看，你們今天多得有如天上的繁星。
 申:1.11     惟願上主你們祖先的天主，再千百倍地增加你們的數目，照他所應許的，祝福你們!
 申:1.12     但我個人怎能承擔起你們的煩務、重任和訴訟的事!
 申:1.13     你們各支派應推舉一些有智慧，有見識，有經驗的人，我好立他們為你們的首領。
 申:1.14     你們回答我說：「你建議的事很好。」
 申:1.15     我遂選了你們各支派中有智慧有經驗的首領，立為你們的首領：即千夫長、百夫長、五十夫長、十人長，並為各支派立了監督，
 申:1.16     同時我也吩咐你們的判官說：你們要聽斷你們兄弟間的訴訟：無論是兄弟彼此訴訟，或與方外人訴訟，都應秉公審斷。
 申:1.17     審案時不可偏袒，無論貴賤，同樣聽斷；任何人都不要怕，因為審判是天主的事。若遇有難斷的案件，該呈報給我，我來聽斷。
 申:1.18     同時，凡你們當做的事，我都吩咐了你們。
 申:1.19     [在卡德士背信]  我們由曷勒布起程，經過了你們所見的這整個遼闊的可怖的曠野：照上主我們的天主對我們的吩咐，我們向阿摩黎人山地進發，一直來到了卡德士巴爾乃亞。
 申:1.20     那時我曾對你們說：你們已來到上主我們的天主即將賜給我們的阿摩黎人的山地。
 申:1.21     看上主你的天主已將這地擺在你面前，你要照上主你祖先的天主對你所許下的，去佔領這地；不要害怕，也不要膽怯。
 申:1.22     你們眾人便來到我跟前說：「讓我們先派些人去，替我們偵探那地方，然後回報我們，我們當走那條路，當去那些城。」
 申:1.23     我就由你們中挑選了十二人，每支派一人；
 申:1.24     他們起身上了山地，一直到了厄市苛耳山谷，偵探了那地。
 申:1.25     他們帶回來那地方的一些果品，並回報我們說：「上主我們的天主即將賜給我們的地方實在好。」
 申:1.26     但你們卻不肯上去，竟違背了上主你們天主的命令，
 申:1.27     在你們的帳幕內抱怨說：「上主因為恨我們，才將我們由埃及地領出來，將我們交在阿摩黎人手中，消滅我們。
 申:1.28     我們上那裏去呢﹖我們的兄弟又說了些使我們心灰意冷的話。他們說：我們在那裏看見了一個比我們又大又高的民族，他們的城邑廣大，城牆高聳摩天；我們在那裏還看見了阿納克人的子孫。」
 申:1.29     我遂對你們說：「不要畏懼，不要害怕。
 申:1.30     因為上主你們的天主，走在你們前面，他必為你們作戰，正如他在埃及在你們眼前，為你們所做的一樣；
 申:1.31     並且在曠野裏，你也看出上主你的天主在你所走的長途中，攜帶你們，如同人攜帶自己的兒子一樣，直到你們來到這地方。
 申:1.32     雖然如此，但你們仍不信賴上主你們的天主，
 申:1.33     他一路原走在你們前面，替你們找安營的地方：夜間藉著火，日間藉著雲彩，指示你們應走的道路。
 申:1.34     上主一聽見你們的怨聲，就發怒起誓說：「
 申:1.35     這個邪惡世代的人，一個也不得見我誓許要賜給你們祖先的樂土；
 申:1.36     只要耶孚乃的兒子加肋布除外，他必見到此地，並且我要將他踏過的地，賜給他和他的子孫，因為他一心隨從了上主。」
 申:1.37     為了你們的緣故，上主也對我發怒說：「連你也不能進入那地。
 申:1.38     那侍候你的農的兒子若蘇厄，要進入那地；你應壯他的膽，因為他要使以色列佔領那地作為產業。
 申:1.39     此外，你們所說要成為戰利品的幼童，至今尚不知好歹的子女，他們都要進入那地。我要將那地賜給他們作為產業。
 申:1.40     至於你們應轉向紅海出發，往曠野裏去。」
 申:1.41     你們回答我說：「我們得罪了上主；現在我們願全照上主我們的天主的吩咐上去交戰。」你們各人遂都武裝起來，輕率地上了山地。
 申:1.42     但上主對我說：「你告訴他們說：你們不要上去，不要作戰，因為我不在你們中間，免得被敵人擊敗。」
 申:1.43     我立即告訴了你們，你們卻不聽，違背上主的命令，擅自上了山地。
 申:1.44     住在山地的阿摩黎人蜂擁而出，攻擊你們，追趕你們，由色依爾直殺到曷爾瑪。
 申:1.45     你們回來，在上主面前哭泣哀號，但上主未曾俯聽你們的哭聲，也未向你們側耳；
 申:1.46     你們只得長期地停留在卡德士，停留得這樣長久。
  
 申:2.1      [途經曠野]  以後，我們照上主對我吩咐的，轉向紅海出發，往曠野進行，我們圍著色依爾山地繞行了很久。
 申:2.2      那時上主對我說：
 申:2.3     「你們繞行這山地已夠久了，如今該轉向北方。
 申:2.4      你吩咐人民說：你們要經過你們的兄弟厄撒烏子孫所住的色依爾地區；他們必畏懼你們，但你們卻應小心，
 申:2.5      不要與他們挑戰，因為他們的地，連腳掌那麼大的一塊地，我也沒有給你們，因為我已將色依爾山地給了厄撒烏作產業。
 申:2.6      你們應用錢向他們買糧吃，用錢向他們買水喝。
 申:2.7      的確，上主你的天主祝福了你所作的一切，護衛你經過了這遼闊的曠野，這四十年來，上主你的天主常與你同在，使你什麼也不曾缺少。」
 申:2.8      於是我們繞過了我們的兄弟厄撒烏的子孫所住的色依爾，沿阿辣巴路到了厄拉特，和厄茲雍革貝爾，然後轉向摩阿布曠野進發。
 申:2.9      那時上主對我說：「不要擾亂摩阿布人，不要與他們挑戰，他們的土地我一點也不會給你作產業，因為我已將阿爾給了羅特子孫作產業。 【
 申:2.10     原先住在那裏的，是強大眾多，身材魁偉像阿納克人的厄明民族。
 申:2.11     他們像阿納克人一樣，也算是勒法因人，但摩阿布人卻稱他們為厄明人。
 申:2.12     同樣，在色依爾原先住有曷黎人；但厄撒烏的子孫侵佔了他們的產業，消滅了他們，住在他們境內，就如以色列人對上主賜給他們作產業的土地所做的一樣。】
 申:2.13     你們現在起身，過則勒得溪。」我們就過了則勒得溪。
 申:2.14     從離開卡德士巴爾乃亞到我們過了則勒得溪所用的時間，共計三十八年，直到能作戰的那一代，照上主對他們所起的誓，由營中完全消滅。
 申:2.15     實在是上主的手攻擊了他們，使他們由營中完全消滅。
 申:2.16     所有的戰士由民中死盡以後，
 申:2.17     上主吩咐我說：
 申:2.18    「你今天路過摩阿布的領土，即阿爾，
 申:2.19     就要面臨阿孟子民；但不要擾亂他們，不要與他們挑戰，阿孟子民的土地我一點也不會給你作產業，因為我已將這地給了羅特子孫作產業。 【
 申:2.20     這地也算是勒法因人地，勒法因人先前住在那裏，阿孟人稱他們為「匝默組明。」
 申:2.21     他們像阿納克人一樣，是強大眾多，身材魁偉的民族；但上主卻由阿孟人面前消滅了他們，使阿孟人佔有他們的產業，住在他們境內，
 申:2.22     正如上主為住在色依爾的厄撒烏子孫所做的一樣：即由他們面前消滅了曷黎人，使厄撒烏的子孫佔有他們的產業，住在他們的境內，直到今日。
 申:2.23     同樣，阿威人原先住在迦薩附近各村莊內，有加非托爾人由加非托爾來，將他們消滅，住在他們境內。】
 申:2.24     你們起身出發，過阿爾農河。看，我已將阿摩黎人赫市朋王息紅和他的土地交在你手中；進軍佔領，與他交戰。
 申:2.25     從今日起，我要使天下萬民在你面前驚慌害怕，使他們一聽見你的消息就戰慄；一看見你的面目就發抖。」
 申:2.26     [征服息紅王]  我於是由刻德摩特曠野，派遣使者到赫市朋王息紅那裏，和平談判說：
 申:2.27     讓我從你國內經過，我只走大道，不偏右也不偏左。
 申:2.28     你按價錢賣給我糧吃，按價錢供給我水喝；只讓我步行過去，──
 申:2.29     如住在色依爾的厄撒烏子孫和住在阿爾的摩阿布人，對我所做的一樣，──好使我過約但河，進入上主我們的天主賜給我們的地方。
 申:2.30     但是赫市朋王息紅，不肯讓我們從他那裏經過，因為上主你的天主使他頑固，使他心硬，好將他交在你手中，就如今日一樣。
 申:2.31     上主對我說：看我已將息紅和他的土地交給了你，你應進軍佔領他的土地。」
 申:2.32     那時息紅和他所有的民眾出來攻擊我們，在雅哈茲與我們交戰；
 申:2.33     但上主我們的天主將他交給了我們，我們擊殺了他，他的兒子和他所有的人民。
 申:2.34     同時我們也佔領了他所有的城邑，照毀滅律將全城破壞，不論男女或幼童，全都殺死，沒有留下一個，
 申:2.35     只留下了牲畜和由佔領的城邑中所奪的財物，作我們的戰利品。
 申:2.36     由阿爾農谷邊的阿洛厄爾和谷中的城直到基肋阿得，沒有一座城不被我們攻下的，上主我們的天主將這一切全交給了我們，
 申:2.37     只有阿孟子孫的土地，即雅波克河一帶和山地的城邑，你沒有進攻，全照上主我們的天主所吩咐的。
  
 申:3.1      [征服敖格王]  然後我們轉向巴商進發；巴商王敖格和他所有的民眾出來攻擊我們，在厄德勒與我們交戰。
 申:3.2      上主對我說：「你不要怕他，因為我已將他、他所有的民眾和土地都交在你手中；你對待他，應如對待住在赫市朋的阿摩黎人王息紅一樣。」
 申:3.3      上主我們的天主也將巴商王敖格，和他所有的民眾交在我們的手中；我們擊殺了他，一個也沒有給他留下。
 申:3.4      同時我們佔領了他所有的城邑，沒有一座城不為我們所佔領；巴商王敖格的國土，阿爾哥布全地區共有六十座城邑，
 申:3.5      都是些具有高闊的城牆，安門置閂，設防的城邑；此外尚有很多無圍牆的村莊。
 申:3.6      我們照毀滅律毀滅了這些城邑，有如對赫市朋王息紅所做的一樣，殺盡了各城中的男女和幼童，
 申:3.7      只留下了牲畜和由佔領的城中所奪的財物，作我們的戰利品。
 申:3.8      這樣，我們在那時，由這兩個阿摩黎人王的手中，奪得了約但河東岸的土地，自阿爾農河直到赫爾孟山。 【
 申:3.9      漆冬人稱赫爾孟為息爾翁；阿摩黎人則稱之為色尼爾。】
 申:3.10     即奪得了高原上所有的城邑，全基肋阿得和全巴商，直到撒耳加和厄德勒：這都是巴商王敖格國土內的城邑。 【
 申:3.11     巴商王敖格是勒法因人遺族中僅存的人物；他的床是鐵做的，以人肘為度，長九肘，寬四肘，尚存在阿孟子民的辣巴城裏。】
 申:3.12     我由我們那時所佔領的土地中，將阿爾農河邊的阿洛厄爾以北的地方，基肋阿得山地的一半和境內的城邑，給了勒烏本人和加得人；
 申:3.13     基肋阿得其餘的地方和全巴商，即敖格的國土給了默納協半個支派。 【人稱阿爾哥布全地區，即全巴商，為「勒法因人地。」
 申:3.14     默納協的兒子雅依爾，佔領了阿爾哥布全地區，直到革叔爾人和瑪阿加人的邊界，遂按自己的名字稱那地為「哈沃特雅依爾，」直到今日。】
 申:3.15     我又將基肋阿得給了瑪基爾。
 申:3.16     由基肋阿得到阿爾農河，以河中心為邊界，直到雅波克河，即阿孟人的邊界，我將那一帶地方給了勒烏本人和加得人；
 申:3.17     還有阿辣巴荒野，以約但河為界，從基乃勒特直到阿辣巴海，即直到東面靠近丕斯加山坡的鹽海一帶地方。
 申:3.18     那時我吩咐你們說：「上主你們的天主，將這地賜給了你們作產業，但你們所有戰士，應武裝起來，走在你們兄弟以色列子民前面，
 申:3.19     只有你們的婦孺和牲畜，──我知道你們有很多牲畜──可留在我給你們的城內，
 申:3.20     直到上主使你們的兄弟如你們一樣有了安身之處，等他們也佔領了，上主你們的天主賜給他們的約但河西的地方，那時你們各人才可回到我給你們為產業的地方。
 申:3.21     同時我也吩咐若蘇厄說：你親眼看見了，上主你們的天主對這兩個國王所做的一切；上主必同樣對待你要過河去攻擊的一切王國。
 申:3.22     不要怕他們，因為上主你們的天主要替你們作戰。」
 申:3.23     那時我哀求天主說：
 申:3.24     「我主，上主! 你已開始向你的僕人顯示你的偉大和你有力的手臂，天上地下有那個神能作你所作的工作，行你所行的奇事﹖
 申:3.25     求你讓我過去，得見約但河西的肥美土地，那壯麗的山嶺和黎巴嫩。」
 申:3.26     但是上主為了你們的緣故對我發怒，沒有俯聽我，且對我說，「罷了! 不要對我再提這事。
 申:3.27     你上丕斯加山頂去，舉目向東西南北，好好觀看，因為你不能過這約但河。
 申:3.28     你應訓示若蘇厄，堅固他，鼓勵他，因為他要率領這百姓過去，給他們分配你所觀看的地方。」
 申:3.29     那時我們住在貝特培敖爾對面的山谷中。
  
 申:4.1      [訓民守法]  以色列! 現在你要聽我教訓你們的法令和規律，盡力遵行：這樣你們纔能生活，纔能進入佔領，上主你們祖先的天主賜給你們的地方。
 申:4.2      我吩咐你們的話，你們不可增刪，而應全守我向你們所訓示的，上主你們天主的誡命。
 申:4.3      你們親眼見了上主在巴耳培敖爾所做的事：凡隨從巴耳培敖爾的人，上主你們的天主都由你們中間消滅了；
 申:4.4      你們依附上主你們的天主的人，今日都還活著。
 申:4.5      看，我授與你們法令和規律，都是上主我的天主吩咐與我的，好叫你們在你們要去佔領的土地內，依照遵行。
 申:4.6      你們要謹守遵行，因為這樣，在萬民眼中，纔能顯出你們的智慧和見識；他們一聽到這一切法令說：「這實在是一個有智慧，有見識的大民族! 」
 申:4.7      有那個大民族的神這樣接近他們，如同上主我們的天主，在我們每次呼求他時，這樣親近我們呢﹖
 申:4.8      又有那個大民族，有這樣公正的法令和規律，如同我今天在你們面前，所頒佈的這一切法律呢﹖
 申:4.9      你應謹慎，加意留心，不要忘了你親眼所見的奇事，終生日日不要讓這些事遠離你的心，並要將這一切傳於你的子子孫孫。
 申:4.10     當你在曷勒布，站在上主你的天主面前的那一天，上主曾對我說：「你給我召集民眾，我要叫他們聽清我的話，使他們在世有生之日，學習敬畏我，以此教訓自己的子女。」
 申:4.11     你們遂走上前來，站在山腳下，其時山上火燄沖天，且為黑暗和烏雲籠罩著。
 申:4.12     上主由火中對你們說話，你們聽到說話的聲音，卻見不到什麼形狀，只有聲音。
 申:4.13     他將他的盟約，即那十條誡命，給你們宣布出來，吩咐你們遵守，又將這誡命寫在兩塊石版上；
 申:4.14     同時上主也吩咐我將法令和規律教訓你們．叫你們在要去佔領的土地內遵行。
 申:4.15     [禁拜偶像]  你們應極其謹慎：因為上主你們的天主，在曷勒布由火中對你們說話的那天，你們既然沒有見到什麼形狀，
 申:4.16     那麼，你們切不要墮落，為自己製造任何形狀的神像，無論是男或者是女的形狀，
 申:4.17     或地上各種走獸的形狀，或空中各類飛鳥的形狀，
 申:4.18     或地上任何爬蟲的形狀，或地下水裏各種魚類的形狀。
 申:4.19     當你舉目望天，觀看日月星辰，和天上的眾星宿時，切不要為之勾引，而去敬拜事奉。那原是上主，你的天主分賜給普天下萬民享用的；
 申:4.20     至於你們，上主揀選了你們，將你們由鐵爐中──埃及──領出來，作他特有的子民，就如今日一樣。
 申:4.21     可是，上主為了你們的緣故，對我發怒起誓，不讓我過約但河，不許我進入，上主你的天主賜給你作產業的那肥美的土地；
 申:4.22     我只有死在這地方，不得過約但河；你們都要過去，佔領那肥美的土地為產業，
 申:4.23     那麼你們應謹慎，不要忘記上主你們的天主與你們所訂立的盟約，不要製造任何形狀的神像，有如上主你的天主所禁止的，
 申:4.24     因為上主你的天主是吞噬的烈火，忌邪的天主。
 申:4.25     [警告未來]  當你們生養了子孫，在那地住得久了，如果你們墮落下去，製造任何形狀的偶像，行了上主你的天主眼中視為邪惡的事，惹他發怒，
 申:4.26     我今天就指著上天下地對你們作證，你們必在過約但河後所佔領的土地上迅速滅亡，決不會在那地長久生存，必全被消滅。
 申:4.27     上主要將你們分散到萬民之中，在上主領你們所到的外邦中，你們剩下的人，必為數不多。
 申:4.28     在那裏你們要事奉人手所製造的神，即各種看不見，聽不見，不會吃，不能聞的木石神像。
 申:4.29     你在那裏必要尋求上主你的天主，只要你全心全靈尋求，你就可尋到他。
 申:4.30     日後，當這些事都臨於你，使你困惱時，你必回心歸向上主你的天主，聽從他的聲音；
 申:4.31     因為上主你的天主原是仁慈的天主，他不會捨棄你，不會毀滅你，也不會忘卻他起誓與你祖先所立的盟約。
 申:4.32     你且考察在你以前過去的世代，從天主在地上造了人以來，由天這邊到天那邊，是否有過像這樣的大事，是否聽過像這樣的事﹖
 申:4.33     是否有一民族，如同你一樣，聽到了天主由火中說話的聲音，還仍然活著﹖
 申:4.34     或者，是否有過一個神，以災難、神蹟、奇事、戰爭、強力的手、伸展的臂和可怕的威能，企圖將某一民族由另一民族中領出來，如上主你們的天主在埃及於你們眼前，對你們所做的一切一樣﹖
 申:4.35     這一切只顯示給你，是要你知道，只有上主是天主，除他以外再沒有別的神。
 申:4.36     他由天上使你聽到他的聲音，是為教訓你；在地上使你見到他的烈火，叫你聽到他由火中發出的言語。
 申:4.37     他由於愛你的祖先，纔揀選了他們的後裔，親自以強力把你由埃及領出來，
 申:4.38     由你面前趕走比你更大的民族，領你進入他們的國土，賜給你作為產業，就如今日一樣。
 申:4.39     所以今日你該知道，且要牢記在心：天上地下，只有上主是天主，再沒有別的神。
 申:4.40     你應遵守他的法令和誡命，就是我今日所訓示與你的，好使你和你的後代子孫得享幸福，在上主你的天主永久賜給你的土地內，能以久住。」
  
           梅瑟第二篇演說(441-26)
  
 申:4.41     [河東三避難城]  那時梅瑟在約但河東，向日出之地，劃定了三座城，
 申:4.42     使那素無仇恨而又無心殺死同胞的人，可逃到那裏去避難；凡逃入其中的一座，就可獲救。
 申:4.43     為勒烏本人指定了位於曠野高原的貝責爾；為加得人指地了基肋阿得的辣摩特；為默納協人指定了巴商的哥藍。
 申:4.44     這是梅瑟在以色列子民面前宣布的法律，
 申:4.45     就是梅瑟在以色列子民出埃及後，對他們所發表的勸告、法令和規則。
 申:4.46     地點是在約但河東，貝特培敖爾對面的山谷中，即在位於赫市朋的阿摩黎王息紅的國土內。息紅已為梅瑟和以色列子民由埃及出來後所殺，
 申:4.47     他的土地為他們所佔領，並且也佔了巴商王敖格的土地。──這兩個阿摩黎人王，住在約但河東，向日出之地，
 申:4.48     從阿爾農河岸的阿洛厄爾，直到息爾翁山，即赫爾孟山，
 申:4.49     連約但河東的全阿辣巴荒野在內，直到位於丕斯加山坡下的阿辣巴海。
  
           [重申十誡]
  
 申:5.1      梅瑟召集了全以色列人，對他們說：「請聽我今日向你們耳中所宣示的法令和規則，務要學習遵行。
 申:5.2      上主我們的天主在曷勒布與我們立了約。
 申:5.3      上主並不是與我們的祖先立了這約，而是與我們今日在這裏尚生存的眾人。
 申:5.4      上主在山上，從火中面對面地與你們談過話。
 申:5.5      那時我站在上主和你們中間，給你們傳達上主的話，因為你們一見火便害了怕，沒有上到山上去。上主說：
 申:5.6      「我是上主，你的天主，我曾領你離開埃及地，那為奴之家，
 申:5.7      除我以外，你不可有別的神。
 申:5.8      你不可為自己雕刻偶像，或製造任何上天下地，或地下水中所有各物的形像。
 申:5.9      你不可叩拜，也不可事奉這樣的偶像，因為我上主，你的天主是忌邪的天主。對於恨我的人，我必在子孫身上追罰他們祖先的罪惡，直到第三代，第四代；
 申:5.10     對於愛我，守我誡命的人，我對他們施行仁慈，直到千代。
 申:5.11     你不可妄呼上主，你天主的名，因為上主決不放過妄呼他名的人。
 申:5.12     當照上主，你的天主吩咐的，遵守安息日，奉為聖日。
 申:5.13     六天你當勞作，做你一切工作；
 申:5.14     第七天是上主你天主的安息日，你和你的子女、僕婢、牛驢、你所有的牲畜，以及住在你城內的外方人，都不應做任何工作，好使你的僕婢能和你一樣獲得安息。
 申:5.15     你應記得：你在埃及地也曾做過奴隸，上主你的天主以大能的手和伸展的臂，將你從那裏領出來；為此，上主你的天主吩咐你守安息日。
 申:5.16     應照上主你的天主吩咐你的，孝敬你的父母，好使你能享高壽，並在上主你的天主賜給你的土地內，獲享幸福。
 申:5.17     不可殺人。
 申:5.18     不可姦淫。
 申:5.19     不可偷盜。
 申:5.20     不可作假見證害你的近人。
 申:5.21     不可貪戀你近人的妻子；不可貪圖你近人的房屋、田地、僕婢、牛驢，以及屬於你近人的一切事物。」
 申:5.22     這是上主在山上，由火中，由濃雲黑暗裏，大聲對你們會眾所說的話，再沒有加添什麼；並將這些話寫在兩塊石版上，交給了我。
 申:5.23     [梅瑟作中保]  當山上火燄四射，你們聽到由黑暗中發出來的聲音時，你們各支派的首領和長老，都來到我跟前，
 申:5.24     說：「看，上主我們的天主，使我們看見了他的榮耀和偉大，我們也聽見了他由火中發出的聲音；今日我們見了天主與人說話，而人還能生存!
 申:5.25     現在，我們為什麼要冒死，為這大火所吞滅﹖如果我們繼續聽上主我們天主的聲音，我們必死無疑。
 申:5.26     因為凡有血肉的人，有誰如我們一樣，聽到永生的天主由火中說話的聲音，而仍能生存呢﹖
 申:5.27     請你近前去，聆聽上主我們的天主所說的一切；然後你將上主我們的天主對你所說的話，轉告給我們；我們必聽從，也必遵行。」
 申:5.28     你們對我所說的話，上主聽見了；遂對我說：「我聽見了這人民對你所說的話；他們所說的都對。
 申:5.29     惟願他們常存這樣的心思，敬畏我，遵守我的一切誡命，好使他們和他們的子孫永享幸福。
 申:5.30     你去對他們說：你們回到你們的帳幕內去。
 申:5.31     但是，你應留在我這裏，我要將一切誡命、法令和規則訓示你，你再教訓他們，好叫他們在我賜給他們作為產業的地上遵行。」
 申:5.32     所以你們應完全照上主你們的天主所吩咐你們的行事，不可偏右偏左。
 申:5.33     在一切事上，只應履行上主你們的天主給你們指定的道路，好使你們在你們要去佔領的地方，得以生存、興盛、長壽。
  
 申:6.1      [愛主為法律之本]  以下是上主你們的天主吩咐我教給你們的誡命、法令和規則，叫你們在過河後去佔領的地內遵行，
 申:6.2      好使你和你的子子孫孫，終生日日敬畏上主你的天主，遵守我吩咐你的一切法令和誡命，使你獲享長壽。
 申:6.3      以色列! 你要聽，且謹守遵行，好使你在流奶流蜜的地方，獲得幸福，人數增多，如上主你祖先的天主所許給你的。
 申:6.4      以色列! 你要聽：上主我們的天主，是唯一的上主。
 申:6.5      你當全心、全靈、全力，愛上主你的天主。
 申:6.6      我今天吩咐你的這些話，你應牢記在心，
 申:6.7      並將這些話灌輸給你的子女。不論你住在家裏，或在路上行走，或臥或立，常應講論這些話；
 申:6.8      又該繫在你的手上，當作標記；懸在額上，當作徽號；
 申:6.9      刻在你住宅的門框上和門扇上。
 申:6.10     上主你的天主，幾時領你進入他向你的祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯起誓，要賜給你的地方，那裏有高大壯觀的城邑，而不是你所建造的；
 申:6.11     有充滿各樣寶物的住宅，而不是你裝滿的；有蓄水池，而不是你挖掘的；有葡萄園和橄欖樹林，而不是你栽植的；──當你吃飽時，
 申:6.12     你應留心，不要忘了領你由埃及地，為奴之家，出來的上主。
 申:6.13     你要敬畏上主你的天主，只事奉他，只以他的名起誓。
 申:6.14     不可追隨別的神，即你們四周民族的神，
 申:6.15     因為在你中間的上主你的天主，是忌邪的天主，免得上主你的天主發怒，將你由地上消滅。
 申:6.16     你們不可試探上主你們的天主，如同在瑪撒試探了他一樣。
 申:6.17     應謹慎遵守上主你們天主所吩咐你的誡命、教訓和法令。
 申:6.18     應做上主眼中視為正義和美善的事，使你能獲得幸福，能去佔領上主誓許與你祖先的那塊肥美的土地，
 申:6.19     能由你面前驅逐你的一切仇敵，如上主所應許的。
 申:6.20     假使日後你的兒子問你說：「上主我們的天主吩咐你們的這些教訓、法令和規則，究竟有什麼意思﹖」
 申:6.21     你應對你的兒子說：我們曾在埃及作過法郎的奴隸，上主卻以大能的手將我們由埃及領了出來。
 申:6.22     上主在我們的眼前，對埃及，對法郎和他全家，行了轟轟烈烈的神蹟和奇事；
 申:6.23     將我們從那裏領出來，領我們進入他誓許給我們的祖先，要賜給我們的土地。
 申:6.24     那時，上主吩咐我們遵行這一切法令，為敬畏上主我們的天主，為使我們時時得享幸福，得保生命，就如今日一樣。
 申:6.25     我們在上主我們的天主面前，照他所吩咐我們的，謹慎遵行這一切誡命，就是我們的義德。
  
 申:7.1      [不可與外族同化]  當上主你的天主領你進入你要去佔領的地方，由你面前驅逐許多民族，即赫特人、基爾加士人、阿摩黎人、客納罕人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人，那七個比你又多又強的民族時，
 申:7.2      當上主你的天主將他們交給你，打敗他們時，你應完全消滅他們，不可與他們立約，也不可恩待他們；
 申:7.3      不可與他們通婚，不可將你的女兒嫁給他們的兒子，也不可為你的兒子娶他們的女兒；
 申:7.4      因為他們必要使你們的子女遠離我，而去事奉別的神，致使上主向你們大發忿怒，將你們迅速消滅。
 申:7.5      你們應這樣對待他們：拆毀他們的祭壇，打碎他們的石碣，砍倒他們的神柱，燒毀他們的雕像。
 申:7.6      因為你是屬於上主你天主的聖民，上主你的天主由地面上所有的民族中，揀選了你作自己特屬的人民。
 申:7.7      上主喜愛你們，揀選你們，並不是因為你們比其餘的民族人數眾多；其實你們在所有的民族中，是最少的一個；
 申:7.8      而是由於上主對你們的愛，並為履行他向你們祖先所起的誓，上主纔以大能的手解救你們，將你們由為奴之家，由埃及王法郎的手中救出來。
 申:7.9      所以，你應知道，只有上主你的天主是天主，是對那愛他，遵守他誡命的人，守約施恩直到千代的忠信的天主；
 申:7.10     但對那恨他的人，他必當面報復，將他消滅；對恨他的人，他決不遲延，必當面報復。
 申:7.11     所以你要謹慎遵行我今天吩咐你的誡命、法令和規則。
 申:7.12     [守法的賞報]  如果你們聽從這些法令，謹守遵行，上主你的天主必照他向你祖先起的誓，對你守約施恩。
 申:7.13     他必愛你，祝福你，增加你的人數；在向你的祖先起誓許給你的地上，祝福你身生的子女，你地內的出產、五穀、酒、油，以及牛羊的生產。
 申:7.14     萬民中你是最有福的；在你內沒有不育的男女，牲畜中沒有不生殖的雌雄。
 申:7.15     上主必使一切疾病遠離你；你所知道的埃及的各種惡疾，決不加在你身上，反而加在一切恨你的人身上。
 申:7.16     凡上主你的天主交給你的民族，你都要消滅，不可憐視，也不可奉事他們的神，因為這是陷害你的羅網。
 申:7.17     假如你心裏想：這些民族比我人多，我怎能趕走他們﹖
 申:7.18     你不要怕他們，只應記起上主你的天主對法郎和全埃及所做的事。
 申:7.19     你親眼見了上主你的天主為救你所用的大災難、神蹟、奇事、大能的手和伸展的臂；上主你的天主也必同樣對待你所怕的一切民族。
 申:7.20     此外，上主你的天主必打發黃蜂來攻擊他們，直到那些殘存和由你面前隱藏起來的人完全消滅為止。
 申:7.21     在他們面前，你不應畏懼，因為在你中間有上主你的天主，大而可畏的天主。
 申:7.22     上主你的天主必將這些民族由你面前漸漸驅逐；你不可將他們迅速消滅，免得野獸增多而於你不利。
 申:7.23     上主你的天主必將他們交於你，使他們大起恐慌，直到他們全被消滅。
 申:7.24     他必將他們的君王交在你手中，你必使他們的名由天下消滅；沒有一人能對抗你，直到你將他們完全消滅。
 申:7.25     你應將他們的神像，投在火中燒掉；不應貪圖神像上的金銀，而留為己有，免得陷於羅網，因為這於上主你的天主是可憎之物。
 申:7.26     可憎之物，不可帶進你屋內；免得你與那些東西一同毀滅；你應厭惡憎恨這一切，因為那是應毀滅之物。
  
 申:8.1      [應常懷念上主]  我今日吩咐你的一切誡命，你們應謹守遵行，好使你們生存，人數增多，能去佔領上主向你們的祖先所誓許的地方。
 申:8.2      你當記念上主你的天主使你這四十年在曠野中所走的路程，是為磨難你，試探你，願知道你的心懷，是否願遵守他的誡命。
 申:8.3      他磨難了你，使你感到饑餓，卻以你和你祖先所不認識的「瑪納，」養育了你，叫你知道人生活不但靠食物，而且也靠上主口中所發的一切言語生活。
 申:8.4      這四十年來，你身上的衣服沒有穿破，你的腳也沒有腫。
 申:8.5      為此，你要明瞭：上主你的天主管教你，如人管教自己的兒子一樣；
 申:8.6      所以你當謹守上主你天主的誡命，遵行他的道路，敬畏他。
 申:8.7      因為上主你的天主快要領你進入肥美的土地，那裏有溪流，有泉水，有深淵之水由谷中和山中流出；
 申:8.8      那地出產小麥、大麥、葡萄、無花果和石榴；那地出產橄欖、油和蜂蜜；
 申:8.9      在那地你決不缺糧吃，在那裏你將一無所缺；那地方的石頭是鐵，由山中可以採銅。
 申:8.10     幾時你吃飽了，應感謝上主你的天主，因為是他賜給你這樣肥美的土地。
 申:8.11     你應小心，別忘記上主你的天主，而不遵守我今天吩咐你的誡命、規則和法令。
 申:8.12     當你吃飽了，建造了華美房屋居住，
 申:8.13     牛群羊群加多，金銀增加，你所有的一切都增加了，
 申:8.14     你要小心，不要心高氣傲，以致忘記了由埃及地，由為奴之家，領你出來的上主你的天主，
 申:8.15     是他領你經過了遼闊可怖，有火蛇蝎子的曠野，經過了乾旱無水之地；是他使水由堅硬的磐石中為你流出，
 申:8.16     是他在曠野內，以你祖先不認識的「瑪納」養育了你；他這樣磨難你，試探你，終究是為使你獲得幸福。
 申:8.17     你心裏不要想：「這是我的力量，我手臂的能力，給我造就了這樣的財富。」
 申:8.18     你應記得上主你的天主，因為是他賜給你得財富的能力，為實踐他對你祖先起誓訂立的盟約，就如今日一樣。
 申:8.19     如果你真忘記了上主你的天主，而隨從別的神，奉事敬拜他們，我今日對你們作證：你們必要滅亡，
 申:8.20     上主怎樣由你們面前毀滅了那些民族，你們也要怎樣遭受毀滅，因為你們沒有聽從上主你們天主的聲音。
  
 申:9.1      [勝利來自上主]  以色列，請聽! 你今天就要過約但河，去征服比你強大的民族，廣大的城邑和高可摩天的要塞。
 申:9.2      那高大的民族，即阿納克的子孫，是你所知道的，論到他們，你曾聽說過：「誰能抵抗阿納克的子孫﹖」
 申:9.3      但你今天應該知道，上主你的天主要如吞滅的火，親自走在你前面，是他要消滅他們，是他要他們在你面前屈服；這樣你纔能將他們驅逐，使他們迅速毀滅，一如上主對你所說的。
 申:9.4      當上主你的天主將他們由你面前驅逐以後，你心中不要想：上主領我來佔領這地方，是因了我的義德。其實是因這些民族的罪惡，上主才將他們由你面前趕走。
 申:9.5      你能去佔領他們的土地，並不是因了你的義德，也不是因了你心地正直，而實是因這些民族的罪惡，上主你的天主纔將他們由你面前趕走；同時也是為實踐上主向你祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯起誓所許的諾言。
 申:9.6      由此可知，上主你的天主，把這肥美的土地賜給你作產業，並不是因了你的義德，因為你原是一個執拗的民族。
 申:9.7      [歷數以民背叛上主]  你當記念不忘：你在曠野裏怎樣激怒了上主你的天主。自從你由埃及地出來的那天起，直到你們來到這地方，你們常是反抗上主。
 申:9.8      你們在曷勒布激怒了上主，致使上主對你們發怒，幾乎將你們消滅。
 申:9.9      那時我上了山，要接受石版，就是上主與你們結約的石版，我在山上住了四十天四十夜，不吃不喝；
 申:9.10     上主交給了我兩塊天主用手指寫上字的石版。上面所寫的，是上主於集會之日，在山上由火中對你們所說的一切話。
 申:9.11     過了四十天四十夜，天主交給了我那兩塊石版、即約版，
 申:9.12     然後對我說：「起來，趕快下去，因為你由埃及領出來的人民已敗壞了，他們很快就離棄了我給他們指定的道路，為自己鑄造了偶像。」
 申:9.13     上主又對我說：「我看這民族，確是一個執拗的民族。
 申:9.14     你且由著我罷! 我要消滅他們，由天下抹去他們的名字；我要使你成為一個比他們更大更多的民族。」
 申:9.15     我於是轉身，從冒火的山上下來，手中拿著兩塊約版。
 申:9.16     我一看見你們鑄造了牛犢，犯罪背叛了上主你們的天主，迅速離棄了上主給你們指定的道路，
 申:9.17     我就把那兩塊石版，由我手中扔下去，在你們眼前摔得粉碎。
 申:9.18     為了你們所犯的一切罪過，作了上主眼中視為惡的事，使他惱怒，我就像上次一樣，俯伏在上主面前，四十天四十夜不吃不喝。
 申:9.19     因為上主對你們大發忿怒，要消滅你們，我實在恐懼不安；但上主這次又俯聽了我。
 申:9.20     同樣，上主對亞郎也大發忿怒，要消滅他；那時我也為亞郎祈求過。
 申:9.21     我把你們犯罪所鑄造的牛犢，放在火裏燒了；然後搗碎，磨成細末，將細末拋在由山上流下來的溪水內。
 申:9.22     以後，你們在塔貝辣、瑪撒、克貝洛特阿塔瓦又激怒了上主。
 申:9.23     當上主命你們由卡德士巴爾乃亞起程，說：「你們上去佔領我賜給你們的地方。」你們又違背了上主你們天主的命令，沒有信賴他，也沒有聽他的命。
 申:9.24     自從我認識你們那天起，你們常是背叛上主。
 申:9.25     因為上主決意要消滅你們，我就四十天四十夜俯伏在上主面前，
 申:9.26     哀求上主說：吾主上主! 不要消滅你的百姓，你的產業，因為是你以大能救出來的，是你以強力的手由埃及領出來的，
 申:9.27     求你記念你的僕人亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯，別看這民族的頑固、邪惡和罪過，
 申:9.28     免得你領我們出來的那地方的人說：這是由於上主不能領他們進入所許給他們的地方，又由於恨他們纔領他們出來，叫他們死在曠野。
 申:9.29     他們畢竟是你的百姓，是你的產業，是你以大能和伸開的手臂領出來的。
  
 申:10.1     [再頒約版]  那時上主對我說：「你再鑿兩塊石版，與先前的一樣，然後上山到我跟前來；還要做一個木櫃。
 申:10.2     我要把你先前摔碎的那兩塊版上的話，寫在這兩塊版上。你要將這兩塊石版放在櫃裏。」
 申:10.3     我於是做了一個皂莢木櫃，鑿了兩塊與先前一樣的石版，手裏拿著這兩塊石版上山去了。
 申:10.4     上主將先前所寫的，即在集會之日，在山上由火中對你們所說的那十句話，寫在這兩塊版上，交給了我。
 申:10.5     我遂轉身下山，照上主吩咐我的，將版放在我做的櫃內，存在那裏。
 申:10.6     以色列子民由貝洛特貝乃雅干起程，到了摩色辣，亞郎在那裏死了，也埋在那裏；他的兒子厄肋阿匝爾繼他做了大司祭。
 申:10.7     又從那裏起程，到了古德哥達，又從古德哥達到了多溪水之地約特巴達。
 申:10.8     那時，上主選拔了肋未支派，叫他們抬上主的約櫃，侍立在上主面前事奉他，並奉他的名祝福，直到今日。
 申:10.9     為此，肋未人同自己的兄弟沒有分得產業，因為照上主你的天主對他們所說的：上主自己是他們的產業。
 申:10.10    我如先前一樣，在山上逗留了四十天四十夜；上主這一次又俯聽了我，放棄了消滅你的意思。
 申:10.11    上主且對我說：「起來，在人民前面領路，叫他們去佔領我對他們祖先誓許要賜給他們的地方。」
 申:10.12    [心要受割損]  以色列! 現今上主你的天主向你要求什麼﹖是要求你敬畏上主你的天主，履行他的一切道路，愛他，全心全靈事奉上主你的天主，
 申:10.13    遵守我今天吩咐你的天主的誡命和法令，好使你能獲得幸福。
 申:10.14    看天與天上的天，地和地上的一切，都屬於上主你的天主；
 申:10.15    但上主只喜歡了你的祖先，鍾愛他們，由萬民中揀選了他們的後裔，就是你們，正如你們今日所見的一樣。
 申:10.16    為此，你們要心受割損，不要再執拗，
 申:10.17    因為上主你們的天主是萬神之神，萬主之主，偉大、有力、可畏的天主，是不顧情面，不受賄賂，
 申:10.18    為孤兒、寡婦主持正義，友愛外方人，供給他們食糧和衣服的天主。
 申:10.19    為此，你們也應友愛外方人，因為你們在埃及也曾做過外方人。
 申:10.20    你應敬畏上主你的天主，事奉依賴他，奉他的名起誓。
 申:10.21    他是你的光榮，是你的天主，是他為你做了你親眼所見的奇異可畏的事。
 申:10.22    你的祖先下到埃及時，總共不過七十人，現在上主你的天主卻使你多得有如天上的繁星。
  
 申:11.1     [以往的經驗]  你應愛上主你的天主，天天遵守他的訓令、法律、規則和誡命。
 申:11.2     今天你們應知道：你們的子孫並沒有見過，也沒有經歷過上主你們天主的懲戒、偉大強力的手和伸展的臂，
 申:11.3     以及他在埃及對埃及王法郎及其全國所行的神蹟和奇事；
 申:11.4     他如何對待了埃及的軍隊、戰馬和車輛；當他們追趕你們時，上主怎樣使紅海的水淹沒了他們，將他們消滅，直到今日；
 申:11.5     並且在曠野裏給你們作了什麼，直到你們來到此地；
 申:11.6     他怎樣對待了勒烏本的後裔厄里雅布的兒子達堂和阿彼蘭，地怎樣裂開了口，在全以色列中間吞沒了他們同他們的眷屬，帳棚以及屬他們的一切；
 申:11.7     而且你們親眼見過上主所做的這一切偉大作為。
 申:11.8     所以你們應該遵守我今日吩咐你們的一切誡命，好能有力量去佔領你們過河要去佔領的地方，
 申:11.9     並在上主向你們祖先誓許要給他們和他們後裔的地方，即流奶流蜜的地方，得享長壽。
 申:11.10    因為你要去佔領的地方，不像你們出來的埃及地，在那裏你撒了種，還要用腳灌溉，像灌溉菜園一樣；
 申:11.11    但你們過河去佔領的地方，卻是一個有山有谷，有天上的雨水所滋潤的地方，
 申:11.12    是上主你的天主自己照管的地方，是上主你的天主，自年首至年尾，時常注目眷視的地方。
 申:11.13    [祝福與詛咒]  如果你們真聽從我今日吩咐你們的誡命，愛上主你們的天主，全心全靈事奉他，
 申:11.14    他必按時給你們的土地降下時雨，秋雨和春雨；必使你豐收五穀、新酒和新油；
 申:11.15    也必使田野給你的牲畜生出青草；如此你必能吃飽。
 申:11.16    你們應謹慎，免得你們的心受迷惑，離棄正道，去事奉敬拜其他的神，
 申:11.17    叫上主對你們發怒，使蒼天封閉，雨不下降，地不生產，你們必由上主賜給你們的肥美土地上迅速滅亡。
 申:11.18    你們應將我這些話銘刻在你們的心靈上，繫在你們的手上，當作標記；懸在你們的額上，當作徽號。
 申:11.19    應將這些話教給你們的子孫，不論住在家裏，或在路上行走，或臥或立，不斷地講述；
 申:11.20    還應刻在你房屋的門框和門扇上，
 申:11.21    好使你們和你們子孫的歲月，在上主誓許給你們祖先的土地上，如天覆地之久長。
 申:11.22    如果你們謹慎遵守我吩咐你們遵行的這一切誡命，愛上主你們的天主，履行他的一切道路．一心依賴他，
 申:11.23    上主必由你們面前將這一切民族驅逐，使你們能征服比你們更強大的民族。
 申:11.24    凡你們的腳掌所踏之地，都必成為你們的；由曠野直到黎巴嫩，由大河，即幼發拉的河直到西海，是你們的疆界。
 申:11.25    沒有人能對抗你們，上主你們的天主必照他對你們所許的，將害怕和畏懼你們的心情，散佈在你們所要踏進的地面。
 申:11.26    你看，我今天將祝福和詛咒，擺在你們面前：
 申:11.27    如果你們聽從上主你們天主的誡命，就是我今天吩咐你們的，你們必蒙祝福；
 申:11.28    如果你們不聽從上主你們天主的誡命，離棄我今天吩咐你們的道路，去跟隨你們素不相識的其他神祇，必遭詛咒。
 申:11.29    幾時上主你的天主領你進入你要去佔領的地方，你應在革黎斤山上宣佈祝福，在厄巴耳山上宣佈詛咒。──
 申:11.30    這兩座位於約但河西，日落之處，在居於阿辣巴荒野的客納罕人的境內，與基耳加耳相對，靠近摩勒橡樹。
 申:11.31    你們就快要過約但河，去佔領上主你們的天主賜給你們的土地。當你們佔領了那地，居住在那裏時，
 申:11.32    你們應謹慎遵行我今天在你們面前所頒佈的一切法令和規則。
  
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 申:12.1     [聖所唯一]  這是你們在上主你祖先的天主賜給你作產業的地上，當遵守奉行的法令和規則；你們幾時生活在那地，就應日日遵守。
 申:12.2     凡你們去征服的民族供奉神祇的地方，無論在高山上，或在丘陵上，或在任何綠樹下，都應加以破壞：
 申:12.3     拆毀他們的祭壇，打碎他們的石碣，燒毀他們的神柱，砍倒他們神祇的雕像，將他們的名字由那地方完全消除。
 申:12.4     你們不可像他們那樣崇拜上主你們的天主。
 申:12.5     上主你們的天主，將由你們各支派中選擇一個地方，為立自己的名號，為做自己的住所，你們只可到那裏去尋求他，
 申:12.6     在那裏奉獻你們的全燔祭、祭獻、什一之物、獻儀、還願祭、自願祭，以及首生的牛羊；
 申:12.7     在那裏你們和你們的家屬，應在上主你們的天主面前宴會歡樂，因為上主你們的天主祝福了你們的一切事業。
 申:12.8     你們不要照我們今日在這裏所行的，各行其是，
 申:12.9     因為你們至今還沒有到安居之地，還沒有到上主你的天主賜給你為業的地方。
 申:12.10    但是，當你們過了約但河，住在上主你們的天主賜給你們為業的地方，脫免了四周的仇敵，安居樂業時，
 申:12.11    你們應在上主你們的天主所選定為立自己名號的地方，奉獻我所吩咐的一切：即你們的全燔祭、獻祭、什一之物、獻儀，以及一切向上主許願應獻的禮品；
 申:12.12    你們和你們的兒女、僕婢，以及在你們城鎮裏的肋未人，都應在上主你們的天主面前一同歡樂，因為肋未人沒有在你們中分得產業。
 申:12.13    [獻祭的規律]  你應小心，不可在你所見的任何地方奉獻你的全燔祭；
 申:12.14    只可在上主由你一支派中所選定的地方，奉獻你的全燔祭，行我所規定的一切。
 申:12.15    但是你可在各城鎮內，依照上主你的天主所賜與你的祝福，隨意殺牲食肉；不潔和潔淨的，人都可以吃，如吃羚羊和鹿肉一樣；
 申:12.16    只有血，你們不可以吃，你應將血和水一樣潑在地上。
 申:12.17    你所收的五穀、酒、油的十分之一，你的頭胎牛羊，你許願獻的供物，或自願獻的供物以及你手中的獻儀，都不可在你的城鎮內吃，
 申:12.18    只可在上主你的天主面前，在上主你的天主選定的地方，你和你的兒女、僕婢，以及在你城鎮內的肋未人一起吃；在上主你的天主面前，為了你的一切事業而歡樂。
 申:12.19    你要留意，在你的地域內，永不可忘記肋未人。
 申:12.20    當上主你的天主，照他對你所許的，擴展了你的疆域時，你若說：「我想吃肉，」你既然想肉吃，你可以任意吃肉。
 申:12.21    若上主你的天主選定建立自己名號的地方離你太遠，你可照我吩咐你的，宰殺上主賜給你的牛羊，在你的城鎮內任意吃，
 申:12.22    全如吃羚羊和鹿肉一樣；不潔和潔淨的，人都可以一起吃。
 申:12.23    但應記住：不可吃血，因為血是生命，你不可將生命與肉一起吃。
 申:12.24    你不可吃血，應將血和水一樣潑在地上。
 申:12.25    你不要吃血，好使你和你的後代子孫能享幸福，因為你行了上主眼中視為正直的事。
 申:12.26    至於你所獻的聖物和許願的祭品，應帶到上主所揀選的地方去；
 申:12.27    將你的全燔祭、肉和血全獻在上主你的天主的祭壇上；至於其他的祭獻，應將血倒在上主你的天主的祭壇上，肉可以吃。
 申:12.28    你應謹慎聽從我吩咐你的這一切事，好使你和你的後代子孫永遠享福，因為你行了上主你的天主眼中視為善良和正直的事。
 申:12.29    [禁行異民禮儀]  當上主你的天主，將你所要進佔之地的民族，由你面前剷除，而你佔領了他們的地方，住在那裏的時候，
 申:12.30    你應小心，不要在他們由你面前消滅以後，你自己反受迷惑，去仿傚他們；也不要探究他們的神說：「這些民族怎樣事奉了他們的神，我也要怎樣去做。」
 申:12.31    對上主你的天主，你不可這樣做，因為凡上主所憎恨的可惡之事，他們對自己的神都做了；甚至為自己的神，用火焚燒了自己的子女。
  
 申:13.1     [戒避敬拜邪神]  凡我吩咐你們的事，你們應謹慎遵行；不可加添，也不可刪除。
 申:13.2     若你們中出現了一位先知或作夢的人，給你提供一種神蹟或奇事，
 申:13.3     而他所說的神蹟和奇事實現了，以致向你說：「讓我們去隨從事奉其他的神罷! 」而那神是你素不相識的；
 申:13.4     你不要聽從這先知或作夢者的話，因為上主你們的天主有意試探你們，願意知道你們是否全心全靈真愛上主你們的天主。
 申:13.5     你們只應跟隨上主你們的天主，只應敬畏他，遵守他的誡命，聽從他的話，事奉他。依靠他。
 申:13.6     至於這先知或作夢的人，應處死刑，因為他出言背叛了領你出埃及地，由奴隸之家贖出你來的上主你們的天主，要你離棄上主你的天主命你當行的道路：如此你由你中間剷除了邪惡。
 申:13.7     如果你的兄弟，你父親或母親的兒子，或你的兒女，或你的愛妻，或你視如性命的朋友，暗中引誘你說：「讓我們去事奉其他的神罷! 」而那神是你和你的祖先素不相識的，
 申:13.8     是你四周，離你或近或遠，由地極這邊到地極那邊的各民族所敬拜的神；
 申:13.9     你不可對他表示同意，不可聽從他，也不可憐視他，顧惜他，袒護他；
 申:13.10    務要將他殺死，並且你應先動手，然後全體人民動手打死他。
 申:13.11    你應用石頭砸死他，因為他圖謀使你離棄領你出埃及地，出奴隸之家的上主你的天主。
 申:13.12    這樣全以色列人聽了必然害怕，在你中間不致做出這樣邪惡的事。
 申:13.13    如果你聽說，在上主你的天主賜給你居住的一座城內，
 申:13.14    由你中間出來了一些壞人，勾引本城的居民說：「讓我們去事奉其他的神罷! 」而那神是你們素不相識的；
 申:13.15    你就該調查、探尋、仔細訪問；如果真有其事，在你中間真發生了這樣可惡的事，
 申:13.16    你該用利劍殺盡這城的居民，完全破壞此城和城中所有的一切，連城中的牲畜也用劍殺盡，
 申:13.17    並把由城中掠奪的一切財物堆積在廣場上，將城和所掠奪的一切財物放火焚燒，全獻給上主你的天主，使那城永遠成為廢墟，再不得重建。
 申:13.18    凡應毀滅之物，一件也不可留在你手中，好使上主撤回他的盛怒，對你施恩，憐恤你，照他對你祖先所誓許的，使你繁昌，
 申:13.19    只要你聽從上主你的天主的話，遵守我今天所吩咐你的一切誡命，實行上主你的天主眼中視為正直的事。
  
 申:14.1     [關於喪儀和食物的規則]  你們是上主你們天主的兒女。你們不應為死者割傷自己，不應將頭頂剃光，
 申:14.2     因為你是屬於上主你天主的聖潔人民，上主由地上的萬民中，特選了你做他自己的人民。
 申:14.3     凡是可憎惡之物，你不可吃。
 申:14.4     你們可吃的走獸如下：牛、綿羊、山羊、
 申:14.5     鹿、羚羊、黈鹿、野山羊、臆羚、野牛和野羊。
 申:14.6     走獸中，凡有偶蹄分趾而又反芻的走獸，你們都可以吃。
 申:14.7     但是在反芻或有偶蹄分趾的走獸中，你們不可吃的：有駱駝、兔子或岩狸，因為牠們雖反芻，蹄卻不分趾，對你們仍是不潔的。
 申:14.8     至於豬，雖有偶蹄，卻不反芻，對你們也是不潔的；你們不可吃這些走獸的肉，也不可摸牠們的屍體。
 申:14.9     水族中你們可吃的如下：凡有鰭有鱗的，都可以吃；
 申:14.10    凡無鰭無鱗的，都不可吃；這一切對你們都是不潔的。
 申:14.11    凡是潔淨的飛禽，都可以吃。
 申:14.12    飛禽中不可吃的：有鷹、鶚、禿鷲、
 申:14.13    鳶隼、鵰類，
 申:14.14    凡烏鴉之類，
 申:14.15    駝鳥、夜鷹、海鷗，凡蒼鷹之類，
 申:14.16    小梟、鴟梟、白鷺、
 申:14.17    塘鵝、鴇、鸕鶿、
 申:14.18    鸛鷺類、戴勝和蝙蝠。
 申:14.19    凡有翅的昆蟲，對你們都是不潔的，都不可吃。
 申:14.20    凡潔淨的飛禽，都可以吃。
 申:14.21    凡自死的動物，你們不可吃，卻可送給在你城內的外方人吃，或賣給外邦人，因為你是屬於上主你天主的聖潔人民。不可煮羊羔在其母奶之中。
 申:14.22    [什一的獻儀]  你每年在田地內播種所得的出產，應繳納十分之一。
 申:14.23    你應在上主選定為立自己名號的地方，於上主你的天主面前，吃那五穀、酒、油的十分之一，及你的頭胎牛羊，好使你能學習著常敬畏上主你的天主。
 申:14.24    如果為你路途太遠，你不能把十分之一之物運去，因為上主你的天主選定為立自己名號的地方離你太遠，那麼若上主你的天主祝福了你，
 申:14.25    你可以把物品換成銀錢，手中帶著銀錢，往上主你的天主所選的地方，
 申:14.26    在那裏可隨意用銀錢買牛羊、清酒和濃酒，以及你願意要的，在上主你的天主面前吃喝，與你的家屬一同歡樂；
 申:14.27    但在你城內的肋未人，你不可忘記，因為他在你中間沒有分得產業。
 申:14.28    每過三年，你應取出全部出產的十分之一，儲藏在你城鎮內，
 申:14.29    那沒有與你分得產業的肋未人，和在你城鎮內的外方人、孤兒、寡婦都可來吃喝，得享飽飫，好叫上主你的天主，在你所做的一切事業上祝福你。
  
 申:15.1     [豁免年的規定]  每過七年，應施行豁免。
 申:15.2     豁免的方式是這樣：債主應把借與近人的一切，全部豁免，不應再向近人或兄弟追還，因為已為光榮上主宣佈了豁免。
 申:15.3     向外邦人可以追還，但你兄弟欠你的應一概豁免。
 申:15.4     其實，在你中間不會有窮人，因為在你的天主賜給你作為產業的地上，上主必豐厚地祝福你，
 申:15.5     只要你聽從上主你天主的話，謹守遵行我今日吩咐你的這一切誡命。
 申:15.6     因為你的天主必照他說的，祝福你：你要借給許多民族，而你卻不需要借貸；你要統治許多民族，但他們卻不會統治你。
 申:15.7     如果在上主你的天主賜給你的地內的一座城裏，在你中間有了一個窮人，又是你的兄弟，對這窮苦的兄弟，不可心硬，不可袖手旁觀，
 申:15.8     應向他伸手，凡他所需要的儘量借給他。
 申:15.9     你應提防，不要心生惡念說：「第七年的豁免年快到了! 」就冷眼對待你窮苦的兄弟，不借給他什麼。如果他呼求上主反對你，你應負罪。
 申:15.10    你應盡量供給他；供給他時，不應傷心，因為為了這事，上主你的天主必在你的一切工作，和你著手所作的一切事上祝福你。
 申:15.11    既然在這地上總少不了窮人，為此我吩咐你說：對你地區內困苦貧窮兄弟，你應大方地伸出援助之手。
 申:15.12    你的兄弟，無論是希伯來男人，或是希伯來女人，若賣身與你，只應服事你六年，在第七年上，你應使他自由。
 申:15.13    使他自由時，不可讓他空手離去；
 申:15.14    應由你羊群中，打禾場上，榨酒池內，取一些厚厚地酬報他，照上主你的天主祝福你的，分給他。
 申:15.15    應記得你在埃及地也曾做過奴隸，上主你的天主將你贖回。為此我今日特將這事吩咐你。
 申:15.16    倘若他對你說：「我不願離開你，」因為他愛你和你的家庭，又喜歡同你在一起，
 申:15.17    你就拿錐子在門上把他耳朵刺透，他便永遠成了你的奴僕；對你的婢女也該這樣做。
 申:15.18    使他自由的時候，你不應感到不滿，因為他六年給你服務，應得傭工的雙倍工資，並且上主你的天主也必在你所做的事業上祝福你。
 申:15.19    [頭胎牲畜的處置法]  你的牛羊中所生的，凡是頭胎雄性的，都應祝聖與上主你的天主；你不可使頭胎公牛耕作，也不可剪頭胎公羊的毛。
 申:15.20    你和你的家屬，年年在上主所選的地方，在上主你的天主面前，吃這些首生的牲畜。
 申:15.21    但如果這牲畜有殘缺、或腿瘸、或瞎眼、或有任何缺點、你不可祭獻給上主你的天主，
 申:15.22    可在家裏吃，不潔與潔淨的，人都可以吃，如吃羚羊和鹿一樣；
 申:15.23    只不可吃牠的血，應將血如水一樣潑在地上。
  
 申:16.1     [週年三大節慶：逾越節]  你應遵守「阿彼布」月，為上主你的天主舉行逾越節，因為在「阿彼布」月的一個夜裏，上主你的天主領你出了埃及。
 申:16.2     你應在上主所選定立自己名號的地方，給上主你的天主祭殺牛羊，作為逾越節犧牲。
 申:16.3     吃這祭肉時，不可吃發酵餅；七天之內，當吃無酵餅，即困苦餅，因為你曾倉猝地走出了埃及地。為此你一生應天天記念你出埃及的日子。
 申:16.4     七天之久，在你全境內不許見到酵母；你前一天晚上祭獻的牲肉，不可有剩下的，留到早晨。
 申:16.5     你不可在上主你的天主賜給你的任何城鎮內，祭殺逾越節犧牲；
 申:16.6     只可在上主你的天主所選定立自己名號的地方，晚上太陽快落時，就是你出埃及的時刻，祭殺逾越節犧牲。
 申:16.7     並應在上主你的天主所選定的地方，將祭牲煮熟分食；到了早晨，你可回到你的帳棚中去。
 申:16.8     六天內應吃無酵餅，到第七天，應為上主你的天主召開盛會，任何勞工都不許做。
 申:16.9     [五旬節]  你應數七個星期，從鐮刀收割莊稼算起，數七個星期，
 申:16.10    為上主你的天主舉行七七節，照上主你的天主祝福你的，獻上你手中自願獻的祭品。
 申:16.11    你和你的兒女、僕婢，以及在你城鎮內的肋未人，在你中間的外方人、孤兒和寡婦，都應在上主你的天主所選定立自己名號的地方，於上主你的天主面前歡樂。
 申:16.12    應記得你在埃及也曾做過奴隸，所以應謹守遵行這些法令。
 申:16.13    [帳棚節]  你由禾場和榨酒池內收藏了出產以後，應七天舉行帳棚節。
 申:16.14    在這慶節內，你和你的兒女、僕婢，以及在你城鎮內的肋未人、外方人、孤兒和寡婦都應歡樂。
 申:16.15    你應在上主所選定的地方，為上主你的天主舉行這慶節七天，因為上主你的天主，要在你的一切收穫和你著手進行的一切事業上祝福你，使你滿心喜樂。
 申:16.16    每年三次，即在無酵節、七七節和帳棚節，你所有的男子都應到上主所選的地方去，朝拜上主你的天主；但不要空手出現在上主面前，
 申:16.17    每人應照上主你的天主賜與你的，依自己的財力，奉獻禮品。
 申:16.18    [設立判官]  在上主你的天主賜給你的各城鎮內，要為各支派設立判官和書記，他們應按照公道審判人民，
 申:16.19    不可違犯公平，不可徇情顧面，不可接受賄賂，因為賄賂令智慧人的眼目失明；
 申:16.20    只應追求公道與正義，好叫你能生存，佔有上主你的天主賜給你的土地。
 申:16.21    [禁拜邪神]  在你為上主你的天主所建的祭壇旁，不許豎立任何木頭的神柱；
 申:16.22    也不可立置上主你的天主所憎惡的石碣。
  
 申:17.1     有任何殘缺或瑕疵的牛羊，不可祭獻給上主你的天主，因為這為上主你的天主是可憎惡的事。
 申:17.2     在你中間，即在上主你的天主賜給你的一座城內，若發見一個男人或女人，做了上主你的天主眼中視為惡的事，違犯了他的盟約，
 申:17.3     去事奉敬拜其他的神，或太陽，或月亮，或任何天象，反對我所吩咐的事；
 申:17.4     如果有人告訴了你，你一聽說，就應詳細調查。如果實有其事，真在以色列中做了這種可惡的事，
 申:17.5     就將那做這種惡事的男人或女人，帶到城門外，用石頭砸死他們。
 申:17.6     根據兩個或三個見證的口供，即可將這該死的人處以死刑；根據一個見證的口供，卻不可處以死刑。
 申:17.7     見證人應先下手，然後眾人纔下手將他處死：如此由你中間剷除了這邪惡。
 申:17.8     [最高裁判]  若在你城鎮內發生了訴訟案件：或是殺人，或是爭訟，或是毆傷，而又是你難以處決的案件，你應起來上到上主你的天主所選的地方，
 申:17.9     去見肋未司祭和那在職的判官，詢問他們，他們要指教你怎樣判斷這案件。
 申:17.10    你應依照他們在上主所選的地方，有關那案件指教你的話去執行；凡他們教訓你的，應完全遵行。
 申:17.11    應全依照他們給你的指導，告訴你的判斷去執行；對他們告訴你的定案，不可偏左偏右。
 申:17.12    若有人擅自行事，不聽從那侍立於上主你的天主前供職的司祭，或不聽從判官，應把這人處死。如此你由以色列中剷除了這邪惡；
 申:17.13    民眾聽見了，必都害怕，再不敢擅自行事。
 申:17.14    [選立君王]  當你進入上主你的天主賜給你的土地，佔據了那地，安住在那裏以後，你如說：「我願照我四周的各民族，設立一位君王統治我，」
 申:17.15    你應將上主你的天主所揀選的人，立為你的君王。應由你兄弟中立一人，作你的君王，不可讓不屬你兄弟的外方人統治你。
 申:17.16    但是，不可許他養許多馬，免得他叫人民回到埃及去買馬，因為上主曾對你們說過：「你們不可再回到那條路上去；」
 申:17.17    也不可許他有許多妻妾，免得他的心迷於邪途；也不可許他過於積蓄金銀。
 申:17.18    幾時他登上了王位，依照肋未司祭處所存的法律書，給他抄寫一本，
 申:17.19    叫他帶在身邊一生天天閱讀，好使他學習敬畏上主他的天主，謹守遵行這法律上的一切話和這些規則。
 申:17.20    如此他可避免對自己的同胞心高氣傲，偏離這些誡命，好使他和他的子孫在以色列中間久居王位。
  
 申:18.1     [肋未司祭]  肋未人司祭即全肋未支派，在以色列中沒有分子和產業，他們靠獻與上主的火祭祭品，和他們應得的一分維持生活。
 申:18.2     他在兄弟中間沒有產業；照上主向他所說的，上主自己要作他們的產業。
 申:18.3     這是司祭由人民應得的一份，就是宰殺牛羊作祭獻的人，應將前腿、兩腮和胃臟給司祭；
 申:18.4     初收的五穀、酒、油和初剪的羊毛，亦應給他，
 申:18.5     因為上主你的天主由各支派中揀選了他，叫他和他的子孫，時時以上主的名義服役供職。
 申:18.6     如果一個住在以色列境內任何城鎮的肋未人，離開了本地，一心一意地要到上主所選的地方去，
 申:18.7     他可因上主的名義供職，如同在那裏侍立於上主面前的肋未弟兄們一樣，
 申:18.8     分享同樣的口糧，不必變賣祖產。
 申:18.9     [真假先知]  幾時你進入了上主你的天主賜給你的土地，不要仿傚那些異民做可憎惡的事。
 申:18.10    在你中間，不可容許人使自己的兒子或女兒經過火，也不可容許人占卜、算卦、行妖術或魔術；
 申:18.11    或念咒、問鬼、算命和求問死者；
 申:18.12    因為凡做這些事的人，都是上主所憎惡的；其實就是為了這些可憎惡的事，上主你的天主纔把他們由你面前趕走。
 申:18.13    你應一心一意屬於上主你的天主。
 申:18.14    你要趕走的這些民族，聽信了算卦和占卜的人；但上主你的天主為你卻不是這樣安排；
 申:18.15    上主你的天主，要由你中間，由你兄弟中，為你興起一位像我一樣的先知，你們應聽信他。
 申:18.16    正如你在曷勒布集會之日，求上主你的天主說：「惟願我再不聽見上主我的天主的聲音，再不看見這烈火，免得我死亡。」
 申:18.17    上主遂對我說：「他們說得有理，
 申:18.18    我要由他們的兄弟中，給他們興起一位像你一樣的先知，我要將我的話放在他口中，他要向他們講述我所吩咐他的一切。
 申:18.19    若有人不聽信他因我的名所說的話，我要親自同他算賬。
 申:18.20    但是，若一位先知擅敢因我的名說我沒有吩咐他說的話，或因其他神的名說話，這位先知應該處死。」
 申:18.21    也許你心裏想：「我們怎能知道上主未曾說過這話﹖」
 申:18.22    幾時一位先知因上主之名說話，若他的話不實現，不應驗，這話就不是上主說的，是先知擅自說的，你不用怕他。
  
 申:19.1     [避難城]  當上主你天主消滅了那些異民，上主你的天主將他們的土地賜給了你，而你佔領了那地，住在他們的城鎮和房屋裏以後，
 申:19.2     應在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的地方，劃出三座城，
 申:19.3     修好到那裏去的道路，將上主你的天主給你作產業的地方，分為三個區域，這樣使殺了人的，可逃到那裏去。
 申:19.4     殺人犯逃到那裏得保全性命的案件應是這樣：假使有人無意殺了鄰人，彼此又素無仇怨：
 申:19.5     比如他與鄰人同去林中伐樹，當他手揮斧子伐樹時，斧頭脫了柄，落在鄰人身上，以致斃命，他就可逃到這些城中的一座城去，為保全性命，
 申:19.6     以免報血仇者心中發火追趕殺人者，因路途遙遠，而能趕上他，將他殺死；其實他與那人素無仇怨，罪不該死。
 申:19.7     為此我吩咐你：應劃出三座城。
 申:19.8     當上主你的天主，照他向你的祖先誓許的，擴展了你的疆域，將許下要給你祖先的整個土地賜給你時，──
 申:19.9     倘若你謹守遵行我今日吩咐你的這一切誡命，愛上主你的天主，日日履行他的道路，──你應在這三座城以外，另設三座城，
 申:19.10    免得無罪者的血，流在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的土地上，血債歸在你身上。
 申:19.11    但是，如果有人懷恨自己的鄰人，埋伏突擊他，而將他殺死，然後逃到這些城中的一座，
 申:19.12    他本城的長老應派人去，將他從那裏逮回，交於報血仇者手中，將他處死；
 申:19.13    你不可憐視他，而應由以色列中洗除無辜的血：如此你纔能平安無事。
 申:19.14    [私有權]  在上主你的天主賜給你作產業所分得的土地上，不可移動你鄰人的地界，因為是先人所劃定的。
 申:19.15    [作證法]  人無論犯了什麼不義，什麼罪惡，或什麼過錯，只憑一個見證，罪名不得成立；須憑兩個或三個見證的口供，纔可定案。
 申:19.16    若有人懷有惡意，起來作證控告某人犯法，
 申:19.17    二人應一同站在上主面前，和值班的司祭及判官面前。
 申:19.18    判官應仔細考問。若那作證的是一個假證人，誣告自己的兄弟，
 申:19.19    你就應對付他，如同他想對付自己的兄弟一樣：這樣你便由你中間剷除了這邪惡，
 申:19.20    其餘的人聽了，必然害怕，在你中間再不致有這樣的惡事發生。
 申:19.21    你不可發慈悲，要以命償命，以眼還眼，以牙還牙，以手還手，以腳還腳。
  
 申:20.1     [備戰出征]  當你出征進攻你的仇敵，見到戰馬戰車和比你更多的群眾時，你不必害怕，因為領你出埃及地的上主你的天主與你在一起。
 申:20.2     當你們快要交戰時，司祭應上前來，對民眾訓話，
 申:20.3     向他們說：「以色列，請聽! 你們今天就要上陣攻打你們的仇敵，你們不要灰心，不要害怕，不要恐慌，不要在他們面前戰慄，
 申:20.4     因為上主你們的天主與你們同去，幫助你們攻打你們的仇敵，使你們勝利。」
 申:20.5     然後長官對民眾說：「誰若蓋了新房屋，還沒有祝聖，他可回家去，免得他死在戰場，別人來替他祝聖。
 申:20.6     誰若栽種了葡萄園，還沒有享用過，他可回家去，免得他死在戰場，別人來替他收穫。
 申:20.7     誰若與女人訂了婚，還沒有迎娶，他可回家去，免得他死在戰場，別人來娶她。」
 申:20.8     長官再繼續對民眾致辭說：「誰若害怕灰心，他可回家去，免得他使兄弟的心，如他的一樣沮喪。」
 申:20.9     長官向民眾訓完話，就派定軍官統率部隊。
 申:20.10    [城池攻佔的策略]  當你臨近一城要進攻時，應先向那城提議和平；
 申:20.11    若那地給你和平的答覆，給你開門，城內所有的人民就臣服於你，給你服役。
 申:20.12    如不與你講和，反願與你作戰，你就圍攻。
 申:20.13    幾時上主你的天主將城交在你手中，你應用利刃殺盡所有的男人；
 申:20.14    至於婦女、嬰兒、牲畜和在城內所有的一切，算是你奪得的勝利品，你可享用你由仇人奪得的勝利品，因為是上主你的天主賜給你的。
 申:20.15    這是你對於離你很遠，且不屬於這些民族的城市的作法。
 申:20.16    但是在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的這些人民的城市內，你不可讓任何生靈生活，
 申:20.17    應將他們：即赫特人、阿摩黎人。客納罕人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人，盡行毀滅，如上主你的天主吩咐你的，
 申:20.18    免得他們教你學習他們對自己的神所行的一切可惡之事，使你們得罪上主你們的天主。
 申:20.19    若你圍攻一座城，需要多日纔能攻取佔領，你不可用斧頭砍伐那裏的樹木；你可以吃樹上的果子，卻不可砍倒樹；難道田間的樹可當作你圍攻的敵人看待﹖
 申:20.20    只是那些你知道不結實的樹木，你可毀壞砍伐，用來建築圍攻的設備，為進攻與你交戰的城市，直到將城攻下。
  
 申:21.1     [暗殺事件]  如果上主你的天主賜給你作產業的地方，發現有人被殺，曝屍原野，卻不知道是誰殺了他，
 申:21.2     你的長老和官長應出來，從被殺者測量到四周各城，
 申:21.3     看那一座城離被殺者最近；然後這城的長老應牽來一頭尚未耕作，尚未負軛的母牛犢。
 申:21.4     這城的長老應把母牛犢牽到尚未耕耘播種的地方，靠近常流的溪水旁，就在那溪水上砍斷母牛犢的頸。
 申:21.5     肋未的子孫司祭們應上前來，因為上主你的天主揀選了他們為事奉自己，因上主之名頒賜祝福，所以一切爭論毆打的事，都應憑他們的裁判來決斷。
 申:21.6     那離被殺者最近城市的長老，都應用溪水在被砍斷頸項的母牛犢身上洗手，
 申:21.7     同時聲明說：「這血不是我們的手流的，我們的眼也沒有看見。
 申:21.8     上主! 求你赦免你所救贖的以色列人民，不要讓這流無辜血的罪債，留在你以色列人民中間。」這樣他們算是贖了流血的罪。
 申:21.9     你由你中間也除去了流無辜血的罪，因為你行了上主眼中視為正直的事。
 申:21.10    [娶女俘為妻]  當你出征進攻你的敵人時，上主你的天主將他們交在你手中，你獲得了一些俘虜；
 申:21.11    你若在俘虜中看見了一個容貌美好的女人，對她愛戀不捨，願娶她為妻，
 申:21.12    你可帶她到你家中，叫她剃去頭髮，剪短指甲，
 申:21.13    脫去自己被擄時所穿的衣服，住在你家裏，哀悼她的父母一個月；然後，你纔能親近她：你做她的丈夫，她做你的妻子。
 申:21.14    以後如果你不喜歡她，應讓她隨意離去，決不能將她賣錢，也不能以她為奴，因為你曾玷污了她。
 申:21.15    [長子的權利]  一人如有兩妻，一為所愛，一為所惡，所愛所惡的，都給他生了兒子；但是長子卻是他所惡的妻子生的，
 申:21.16    在他將自己的產業分給他的兒子的那一天，不能將愛妻的兒子視作長子，而廢棄所惡妻子所生的長子；
 申:21.17    必須承認所惡妻子的兒子為長子，將所有的產業，多分給他一份，因為他是自己壯年時的首生子，應獲得長子的權利。
 申:21.18    [逆子的處分]  人若有一個忤逆不孝的兒子，不聽從父母的勸告，責罰他以後仍不聽從，
 申:21.19    父母就該將他捉住，帶到當地的城門前，見本城的長老，
 申:21.20    對本城的長老說：「我們這個兒子忤逆不孝，不聽我們的勸告，是個放蕩的酒徒。」
 申:21.21    本城的眾人就應用石頭將他砸死：這樣，由你中間剷除了這邪惡，每個以色列人聽了，必然害怕。
 申:21.22    若人犯了該死的罪，處死以後，應將他懸在木桿上，
 申:21.23    但不可讓他的屍體在木桿上過夜，應在當天將他埋葬。因為凡被懸者，是天主所咒罵的；你不可玷污上主你的天主所賜給你作產業的土地。
  
 申:22.1     [慈善為懷]  你如果看見你兄弟的牛羊迷了路，你不可不顧，應牽回交給你的兄弟。
 申:22.2     如果你的兄弟離你遠，或者你不認識他，你該牽到你家中，留在你處，直到你的兄弟來尋找，你就還給他。
 申:22.3     對他的驢你應這樣做，對他的衣服也應這樣做；對你兄弟所失，而由你找到的一切物件，都應這樣做；決不可不管不顧。
 申:22.4     你若看見你兄弟的驢牛在路上跌到了，你不可不顧，務要幫助他將驢牛扶起。
 申:22.5     女人不可穿男人的服裝，男人亦不可穿女人的衣服；上主你的天主厭惡做這種事的人。
 申:22.6     你在路上，如果發現樹上或地上有鳥窩，裏面有雛或有蛋，母鳥在伏雛或孵卵，你不可連母鳥帶幼雛一併拿去；
 申:22.7     應讓母鳥飛去，只拿去幼雛：好使你獲得幸福，而享長壽。
 申:22.8     當你建築新屋時，應在屋頂上做上欄杆，免得有人由上跌下，而使流血的罪歸於你家。
 申:22.9     [嚴禁混雜]  在你的葡萄園內，不可撒上兩樣種子，免得你撒種子的收穫和葡萄園的出產，都成了禁物。
 申:22.10    不可使牛驢一同耕作；
 申:22.11    不可穿羊毛和麻混合織成的布料。
 申:22.12    你所披的外衣，四邊應做上繸頭。
 申:22.13    [婚姻糾紛的處置]  若有人娶妻，與她結合後就憎惡她，
 申:22.14    捏造可恥的事，敗壞她的名譽說：「我娶了這個女人，當我與她結合時，我發現她不是處女。」
 申:22.15    那少女的父母應把少女的處女證，帶到城門，見本城長老。
 申:22.16    少女的父親應對長老說：「我將我的女兒嫁給這人為妻，他卻憎惡她，
 申:22.17    捏造可恥的事說：我發現你的女兒不是個處女。然而，請看我女兒的處女證! 」然後就將被單舖在本城的長老前。
 申:22.18    本城的長老應拿住這人，加以處罰，
 申:22.19    並罰他一百銀子，交給少女的父親，因為他壞了一個以色列處女的名譽，這少女仍是他的妻子，他一生不能休她。
 申:22.20    但這事若是真的，發現少女真不是處女，
 申:22.21    就應將少女領到她父親家門口，本城的人應用石頭砸死她，因為她在以色列中做出了可恥的事，在她父家行了邪淫：這樣你由你中間剷除了這邪惡。
 申:22.22    若發現一人與一個有夫之婦同寢，與婦人同寢的男人和那婦人，二人都應處以死刑：這樣你由以色列中剷除了這邪惡。
 申:22.23    若一年輕處女已許配與人，有人在城中遇見她，而與她同寢；
 申:22.24    你們應將他們二人領到當地城門口，用石頭砸死他們：那少女該死，因為她雖在城裏，卻沒有呼救；那男人該死，因為他強姦了人家的妻子：這樣你由你中間剷除了邪惡。
 申:22.25    但若有人在郊野遇見了一個許配與人的少女，強姦了她，與她同寢，只有這與她同寢的人該死，
 申:22.26    對那少女，不可行刑，因為她並沒有犯死罪，因為這件事就如一個人狙擊自己的鄰人，將他殺死一樣；
 申:22.27    因為那男人在郊野裏遇見了她，縱使許配與人的少女呼救，也沒有人來救她。
 申:22.28    若有人遇見一個尚未許配與人的年輕處女，抓住她而與她同寢，並被人發見。
 申:22.29    這與她同寢的人應給少女的父親五十「協刻耳」銀子外，還該娶她為妻，因為他強姦了她，一生不能休她。
  
 申:23.1     [人不可娶父親的妻子，也不可揭開父親的衣襟。]  不得加入集會的人
 申:23.2     凡外腎受傷或被閹割的人，不得進入上主的集會。
 申:23.3     私生子不得進入上主的集會；他的後代即便到了第十代，也不得進入上主的集會。
 申:23.4     阿孟人和摩阿布人不得進入上主的集會；他們的後代，即便到第十代，也永不得進入上主的集會；
 申:23.5     因為當你們出離埃及時，他們沒有帶食物和水，在路上前來迎接你們；又因他們從美索不達米亞的培托爾，雇了貝敖爾的兒子巴郎來咒罵你；
 申:23.6     但是上主你的天主不但不願聽從巴郎，上主你的天主反而將咒罵變為你的祝福，因為上主你的天主愛你。
 申:23.7     你一生永遠不要為他們謀安寧和幸福。
 申:23.8     你不可憎恨厄東人，因為他是你的兄弟；也不可憎恨埃及人，因為你曾在他們國內做過僑民。
 申:23.9     他們所生的子孫到了第三代，即能進入上主的集會。
 申:23.10    [營內應有的聖潔]  幾時你出征紮營，攻打你的仇敵，應避免一切惡事。
 申:23.11    你中間如有人夜間夢遺，即成為不潔，應走出營外，不可進入營內；
 申:23.12    傍晚時，應用水洗澡，日落時，才能進營。
 申:23.13    在營外應有廁所，你應去那裏便溺。
 申:23.14    在你的武器中；應有一把鏟；當你在外便溺時，用它來掘坑，然後用以剷土掩蓋糞便。
 申:23.15    因為上主你的天主在你營中往來，為救護你，將你的仇人交給你，所以你的營地應當聖潔，免得他在你那裏見到討厭的事，而離棄你。
 申:23.16    [仁心處世]  凡由主人逃到你這裏來的奴僕，你不應將他交給他的主人；
 申:23.17    他應在你中間與你同住，住在他自己所選的地方，住在他喜歡的一座城內；你不可欺負他。
 申:23.18    以色列婦女中不可有人當廟妓，以色列男人中亦不可有人作廟倡。
 申:23.19    你不可將賣淫的酬金和賣狗的代價，帶到上主你天主的殿內，還任何誓願，因為這兩樣於上主你的天主都是可憎惡的。
 申:23.20    借給你兄弟銀錢、食物，或任何能生利之物，你不可取利。
 申:23.21    對外方人你可取利，對你兄弟卻不可取利，好使上主你的天主在你要去佔領的地上，祝福你進行的一切事業。
 申:23.22    幾時你向上主你的天主許願，不要遲延還願，因為上主你的天主必向你追討，你就不免有罪了。
 申:23.23    如果你不許願，你就沒有罪。
 申:23.24    凡你口中說出來的，你應遵守；凡你親口說出向上主你的天主所許的願，你應執行。
 申:23.25    幾時你進入你鄰人的葡萄園，你可隨意摘食葡萄，可以吃飽，但不可裝入你的器皿內。
 申:23.26    幾時你進入你鄰人的麥田，可以伸手摘麥穗，但不可在你鄰人的麥田內動鐮刀。
  
 申:24.1     [離婚案件]  如果一人娶了妻，佔有她之後，在她身上發現了什麼難堪的事，因而不喜悅她，便給她寫了休書，交在她手中，叫她離開他的家，
 申:24.2     而這女子走出了他的家，又去嫁給了另一人為妻，
 申:24.3     如果後夫又憎惡她給她寫了休書，交在她手中，叫她離開他的家，或者娶她為妻的後夫死了，
 申:24.4     那麼，那休她的前夫，在她受了污辱之後，不能再娶她為妻，因為這在上主面前是可憎惡的事；你不可使上主你的天主賜給你作產業的土地陷於罪惡。
 申:24.5     [體恤人情]  人娶了新婦，不應從軍出征，也不可派他擔任什麼職務；他應在家享受一年自由，使他新娶的妻子快活。
 申:24.6     不可拿人的磨，或上面的一塊磨石作抵押，因為這無異是拿人的性命作抵押。
 申:24.7     若發現一人拐帶了以色列子民中的一個兄弟，叫他充當奴隸，或將他販賣於人，這拐子應處死刑：這樣你由中間剷除了這邪惡。
 申:24.8     遇有癩病的情形，應全照肋未司祭指教你們的，謹慎遵行。我怎樣吩咐了他們，你們就怎樣遵守執行。
 申:24.9     你應記得你們出埃及後，在途中，上主你的天主對米黎盎所做的事。
 申:24.10    幾時你借給你近人什麼，不可走進他家索取抵押；
 申:24.11    應站在外面，等那借貸的人把抵押給你拿出來。
 申:24.12    倘若他是個貧苦人，你不可帶著他的抵押去睡覺。
 申:24.13    反之，在日落時，務要將抵押還給他，好叫他睡在自己的外衣裏祝福你；這在上主你的天主面前，算是你的功德。
 申:24.14    貧苦可憐的傭工，不論是你的一個兄弟，或是你城鎮地區內的一個外方人，你不應欺壓他，
 申:24.15    應在當天，交給他工錢，不要等到日落；因為他貧苦，他急需工錢用，免得他對你不滿而呼求上主，你就不免有罪了。
 申:24.16    不可為兒子的罪處死父親，亦不可為父親的罪處死兒子：每人應為自己的罪被處死刑。
 申:24.17    不可侵犯外方人或孤兒的權利，不可拿寡婦的衣服作抵押；
 申:24.18    應記得你在埃及曾做過奴隸，上主你的天主曾將你由那裏救出：為此我吩咐你應遵行這條命令。
 申:24.19    當你在田間收割莊稼時，如在田中忘下了一捆，不要再回去拾取，要留下給外方人、孤兒和寡婦，好叫上主你的天主在你做的一切事上祝福你。
 申:24.20    當你打橄欖樹時，不要再回去打樹枝上所剩的，應留給外方人、孤兒和寡婦。
 申:24.21    當你收穫葡萄時，不要再摘取所剩下的，應留給外方人、孤兒和寡婦。
 申:24.22    總應記得你在埃及地曾做過奴隸：為此我吩咐你應遵行這條命令。
  
 申:25.1     幾時人與人之間發生爭訟，而對簿公庭，定案時，正直的，應聲明他正直；有罪的，應判定他有罪；
 申:25.2     如有罪的應受鞭刑，判官應命他伏下，當面按他的罪照數鞭打；
 申:25.3     只可打他四十下，不可再多；怕鞭打他超過這數目，你的兄弟在你眼前過於受辱。
 申:25.4     牛在打場的時候，不可籠住牠的嘴。
 申:25.5     [代兄弟立嗣]  如果兄弟住在一起，其中一個沒有留下兒子就死了；死者的妻子不可出嫁外人，丈夫的兄弟應走近她，以她為妻，對她履行兄弟的義務。
 申:25.6     她所生的長子，應歸亡兄名下，免得他的名由以色列中消滅。
 申:25.7     若是那人不肯娶他兄弟的妻子，他兄弟的妻子應到城門去見長老說：「我丈夫的兄弟不願在以色列中給自己的兄弟留名，不願對我盡兄弟的義務。」
 申:25.8     本城的長老應叫那人來，對他說明；如他仍堅持說：「我不願娶她。」
 申:25.9     他兄弟的妻子應當著長老的面，走到他跟前，從他腳上脫下他的鞋，向他臉上吐唾沫說：「那不願給自己兄弟建立家室的人，應這樣對待他。」
 申:25.10    從此他的名字，在以色列中，將稱為「脫鞋者的家。」
 申:25.11    [婦女應知檢點]  若兩人彼此毆打，一人的妻子前來，救她的丈夫脫離那打他者的手，伸手抓住了那人的陰部；
 申:25.12    你應砍去她的手，不應表示憐惜。
 申:25.13    [交易應公道]  在你袋裏不可有兩樣法碼：一大一小；
 申:25.14    在你家內也不可有兩樣升斗：一大一小。
 申:25.15    你應有準確公正的法碼，應有準確公正的升斗，好使你在上主你的天主賜給你的地上，得享長壽；
 申:25.16    因為凡做這些事的，凡做事不公平的，於上主你的天主都是可憎惡的。
 申:25.17    你應記得，當你由埃及出來時，阿瑪肋克在路上怎樣對待了你：
 申:25.18    怎樣在路上襲擊了你，乘你困乏無力，攻擊你後方所有疲憊的人，一點也不怕天主。
 申:25.19    所以，當上主你的天主賜你擺脫你四周的一切仇敵，在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的地上，安享太平時，你應由天下抹去阿瑪肋克的名字；不可忘記!
  
 申:26.1     [初熟的獻儀]  當你進入上主你的天主賜給你作產業的土地，佔領後住在那裏時，
 申:26.2     應由上主你的天主賜給你的土地上，將一切田產的初熟之物，取出一部分放在筐裏，往上主你的天主選定立自己名號的地方去，
 申:26.3     到當時供職的司祭前，對他說：「我今日向上主我的天主明認，我已來到了上主對我們的祖先誓許賜與我們的地方。」
 申:26.4     司祭就由你手中接過筐子，放在上主你的天主的祭壇前；
 申:26.5     然後你就在上主你的天主面前聲明說：「我的祖先原是個飄泊的阿蘭人，下到埃及，同少數的家人寄居在那裏，竟成了一強大有力，人口眾多的民族。
 申:26.6     埃及虐待我們，壓迫我們，勒令我們做苦工。
 申:26.7     我們向上主我們祖先的天主呼號，上主俯聽了我們的哀聲，垂視了我們的苦痛、勞役和所受的壓迫。
 申:26.8     上主以強力的手，伸展的臂，巨大的恐嚇，神蹟奇事，領我們出了埃及，
 申:26.9     來到這地方，將這流奶流蜜的土地賜給了我們。
 申:26.10    上主，請看! 我現今帶來了你賜給我的田地裏所出產的初熟之物。」遂將這初熟之物放在上主你的天主面前，俯伏朝拜上主你的天主。
 申:26.11    然後你與肋未人，和住在你中間的外方人，歡樂享受上主你的天主賜與你和你家庭的一切福分。
 申:26.12    [什一之物的獻儀]  在第三年，即獻什一之年，當你把你一切出產十分之一，完全取出，分給肋未人、外方人、孤兒和寡婦，並使他們在你的城鎮中吃飽之後，
 申:26.13    你應到上主你的天主面前說：「我由我家中完全交出了這祝聖的一份，分給了肋未人、外方人、孤兒和寡婦，全照你吩咐我的命令；我沒有違犯你的命令，也沒有忽略。
 申:26.14    這些聖物，在我居喪時，我沒有取食；在不潔中，我沒有交出，更沒有獻給死人；我聽從了上主我的天主的話，全照你吩咐我的一切履行了。
 申:26.15    願你由你神聖的住所，由天上俯視，祝福你的人民以色列，和你賜給我們的土地，即你向我們祖先所誓許的那流奶流蜜的地方。」
  
           第二篇演詞的結論
  
 申:26.16    上主你的天主今天吩咐你遵行這些法令和規則，你應全心全靈謹守遵行。
 申:26.17    今天你明認上主是你的天主，願履行他的道路，謹守他的法令、誡命和規則，聽從他的話。
 申:26.18    上主今天也照他對你所說的，明認你為他特屬的人民，只要你謹守他的一切誡命，
 申:26.19    並且他要使你在名譽、聲望和光榮上，遠超過祂所造的一切民族，使你如祂所說的，成為屬於上主你的天主的聖潔的人民。
  
  
 申:27.1     [命鐫刻法律]  梅瑟與以色列的長老吩咐人民說：「你們應遵守我今天吩咐你們的一切命令。
 申:27.2     在你們過約但河，進入上主你的天主賜給你的土地的那一天，應豎立幾塊大石，塗上石灰；
 申:27.3     在你過河進入上主你的天主賜給你的地方，即上主你祖先的天主許給你的流奶流蜜的地方之後，要立即將這法律的一切話刻在上面。
 申:27.4     所以，你們一過了約但河，就該照我今日吩咐你們的，在厄巴耳山上豎立這些石頭，塗上石灰；
 申:27.5     並在那裏給上主你的天主建築一座祭壇，一座未用斧鑿的石頭修的祭壇；
 申:27.6     應用未加入人工的石頭建築上主你的天主的祭壇，在上面給上主你的天主奉獻全燔祭，
 申:27.7     祭獻和平祭，並在那裏設宴，在上主你的天主面前歡樂。
 申:27.8     在這些石頭上，應清清楚楚刻上這法律的一切話。」
 申:27.9     梅瑟和肋未司祭對全以色列人說：「以色列人! 你們應靜默細聽：你今天既成了上主你的天主的人民，
 申:27.10    就應聽從上主你的天主的話，遵行我今日給你吩咐的上主的誡命和法令。」
 申:27.11    [應受咒罵的罪犯]  梅瑟在那一天又吩咐人民說：
 申:27.12    你們過了約但河以後，應站在革黎斤山上祝福人民的，是西默盎、肋未、猶大、依撒加爾、若瑟和本雅明；
 申:27.13    站在厄巴耳山上宣布詛咒的，是勒烏本、加得、阿協爾、則步隆、丹和納斐塔里。
 申:27.14    肋未人應大聲向所有的以色列人喊說：
 申:27.15    那製造上主所憎惡的雕像或鑄像，並將匠人的作品，放在暗處的人，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.16    蔑視父親和母親的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.17    移動鄰人地界的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.18    領瞎子走錯路的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.19    侵犯外方人、孤兒和寡婦權利的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.20    與父親的妻子同寢的，是可咒罵的，因為他揭開了父親的衣襟。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.21    與獸交合的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.22    與同父異母，或同母異父的姊妹同寢的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.23    與岳母同寢的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.24    暗殺鄰人的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.25    接受賄賂去殺害無辜的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
 申:27.26    不堅持這法律的話而執行的，是可咒罵的。全體人民應答說：阿們。
  
           梅瑟第三篇演說(28-30)
  
 申:28.1     守法者必蒙祝福]  你若實在聽從上主你的天主的話，謹守遵行我今天吩咐你的這一切誡命，上主你的天主必使你遠超過地上所有的民族。
 申:28.2     果你聽從上主你的天主的話，下面這些祝福必臨於你，來到你身上。
 申:28.3     在城內必蒙受祝福，在鄉下也必蒙受祝福。
 申:28.4     身所生的，田地所產的，牲畜所出的，牛所生殖的，羊所產下的，都要蒙受祝福。
 申:28.5     的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要蒙受祝福。
 申:28.6     進來，蒙受祝福；你出去，也蒙受祝福。
 申:28.7     來攻擊你的仇敵，上主必使他們在你面前崩潰；他們由一路來攻擊你，卻分七路由你面前逃去。
 申:28.8     主決定對你的倉廩和在你著手進行的事上祝福你；在上主你的天主賜給你的土地上，必要祝福你。
 申:28.9     要你謹守上主你的天主的誡命，遵行他的道路，上主必要照他誓許於你的，立你為他自己的聖民；
 申:28.10    世萬民一見你屬於上主的名下，必都怕你。
 申:28.11    上主你的天主向你祖先起誓要賜給你的土地上，上主必使你滿享幸福：兒女眾多，牲畜繁殖，地產豐富。
 申:28.12    主必為你大開天上的寶庫，給你的田地降下時雨，祝福你手所做的一切；你要借給許多民族，而你卻無須向人借貸。
 申:28.13    主必立你為首，而不做尾巴，你常是高高在上，而總不屈居在下，只要你聽從我今天吩咐你的上主你天主的誡命，並謹守遵行，
 申:28.14    左右偏離我今天吩咐你們的一切話，去跟隨事奉其他的神。
 申:28.15    [違法者被詛咒]  但是，如果你不聽從上主你天主的話，不謹守遵行我今天吩咐你的上主的一切誡命和法令，下面這些咒罵必要臨於你，來到你身上。
 申:28.16    你在城內必遭受咒罵，在鄉下也必遭受咒罵。
 申:28.17    你的筐籃，你的揉麵盆，都要遭受咒罵。
 申:28.18    你身所生的，田地所產的，牛所生殖的，羊所產下的，都要遭受咒罵。
 申:28.19    你進來，必遭受咒罵；
 申:28.20    你出去也必遭受咒罵。上主在你著手進行的一切事上，必使你遭受災難、困擾和恐嚇，直到你完全毀滅，迅速滅亡，因為你作惡，離棄了我。
 申:28.21    上主必使你瘟疫纏身，直到將你由你要去佔領的地上完全消滅。
 申:28.22    上主必用癆病、熱病、瘧疾、炎熱、乾旱、熱風和霉爛打擊你；這些災殃必追擊你，直到你滅亡。
 申:28.23    你頭上的天將變為銅，你下面的地將變為鐵。
 申:28.24    你主必使雨變成灰沙降在你的田地裏，由天上降在你身上，直到你完全毀滅。
 申:28.25    你主必使你在仇敵面前崩潰；你由一路出擊他們，卻分七路由他們前逃去；你要成為普世萬國驚駭的對象。
 申:28.26    你的屍首必成為天空飛鳥，和地上走獸的食物；無人來將牠們嚇走。
 申:28.27    上主必用埃及的膿瘡、痔漏、癬疥和紅疹打擊你，使你無法醫治。
 申:28.28    上主必用癲狂、眼瞎和心亂打擊你；
 申:28.29    在正午時，你要摸索有如在黑暗中摸索的瞎子；你的所作所為決不會順利；你必日日受人壓迫剝削，而無人援助。
 申:28.30    你與一女子訂婚，別人卻來與她同寢；你建築一座房屋，卻不得住在裏面；你栽植葡萄園，卻得不到享用。
 申:28.31    你的牛在你眼前被殺，你卻不能吃牠的肉；你的驢由你眼前被人搶去，再不歸還給你；你的羊群被交給你的敵人，卻無人來援助你。
 申:28.32    你的兒女被交給外方民族，你只有雙眼張望，日日為他們焦慮，但你卻無能為力。
 申:28.33    你田地的出產和你勞力之所得，卻為你不認識的一個民族吃盡；你只有時時被人壓迫蹂躪；
 申:28.34    你必要因你親眼所見的事而變為瘋狂。
 申:28.35    上主必用惡瘡打擊你的膝和腿，由腫至頂，使你無法醫治。
 申:28.36    上主必將你和你所立的統治你的君王，送到你和你祖先不認識的一個民族那裏去，在那裏你要事奉別的神，即木石所製的神。
 申:28.37    在上主要送你去的各民族中，你必成為驚駭、嘲笑和諷刺的對象。
 申:28.38    你在田間撒的種子雖然很多，但收穫的卻很少，因為蝗蟲要來吃盡。
 申:28.39    你雖然栽種修剪葡萄園，卻沒有酒喝，沒有收成，因為都要為蟲子吃盡。
 申:28.40    你雖然在全境栽有橄欖樹，卻沒有油抹身，因為橄欖要遂結遂落。
 申:28.41    你雖然生子養女，但他們卻不屬於你，因為他們要被擄去。
 申:28.42    害蟲要吃盡你所有的樹木和土地的出產。
 申:28.43    住在你中間的外方人不斷發達興旺，遠在你以上，你反而日趨卑下。
 申:28.44    他要借給你，你卻不能借給他；他要為首，你卻要做尾巴。
 申:28.45    這一切咒罵必臨於你，追擊你，來到你身上，直到你全被消滅，因為你沒有聽從上主你天主的話，沒有遵守他吩咐你的誡命和法令。
 申:28.46    這些咒罵對你和你的子孫，永遠是一個徽號和徵兆。
 申:28.47    因為在財物富裕時，你沒有誠心悅意地去事奉上主你的天主，
 申:28.48    你必在飢渴，赤身露體，一無所有中，服侍上主派來攻擊你的仇敵；他必將鐵軛放在你的頸上，直到將你消滅。
 申:28.49    [終必國破家亡]  上主必由遠方，由地極引來一個民族，像鷹一樣撲擊你；這民族的語言，你不明瞭；
 申:28.50    這民族又鐵面無情，不敬老，不恤幼；
 申:28.51    他必吞食你家畜的幼雛，和田地的產物，直到你被消滅；必不給你留下什麼穀、米、酒、油、牛犢或羔羊，直到將你完全毀滅。
 申:28.52    他必將你圍困在所有的城鎮內，直到你全國內所依恃的高大堅固的城牆都被攻陷；當你被圍困在上主你天主賜給你的全境各城鎮內時，
 申:28.53    在你被仇敵圍困的窮困中，你要吃你自身所生，即上主你天主賜給你子女的肉。
 申:28.54    你中間最溫柔嬌嫩的男人，這時對自己的兄弟、懷中的妻子、尚存的子女，也必冷眼相看，
 申:28.55    不願將他所吃的子女的肉，分給他們任何人，因為在你的仇敵使你在各城鎮受圍困陷於絕境時，已一無所剩。
 申:28.56    你中間最溫柔嬌嫩的女人，先前嬌嫩溫柔得連腳都不踏在地上，這時對自己懷中的丈夫、自己的子女、也要冷眼相看，
 申:28.57    暗中將她兩腿間脫出的胞衣，和她所生的子女吃掉，因為在你的仇敵使你在各城鎮中受圍困，陷於窮困時，已一無所有。
 申:28.58    如果你不謹守遵行這書上所記的法律的一切條文，敬畏這光榮可畏的名號：上主你的天主，
 申:28.59    上主必使你和你的後裔遭受更奇特的災害，大而且久的災害，毒而且頑的疾病；
 申:28.60    必使你所怕的各種埃及病災發生在你身上，纏繞著你。
 申:28.61    此外，在這法律書上所沒有記載的一切疾病和災害，上主也要引來降在你身上，直到將你完全消滅。
 申:28.62    你們以前雖然多如天上的繁星，你們所留下的，卻寥寥無幾，因為你沒有聽從上主你天主的話。
 申:28.63    有如上主先前怎樣喜歡你們獲得幸福，使你們人數眾多，將來也要怎樣喜歡你們衰落，使你們滅亡，使你們由你要去佔領的地上盡被剷除。
 申:28.64    上主要將你分散在大地兩極間所有人民中，你要在那裏事奉你和你祖先所不認識的外神，即木石之神；
 申:28.65    而且在這些民族中，你總得不到安寧，也找不到一塊歇腳的地方；上主在那裏必使你心情煩亂，眼目憔悴，精神頹喪。
 申:28.66    你未來的生活必提心吊膽，日夜驚惶；生命毫無保障。
 申:28.67    因你心情恐慌，因你眼見的景象，早晨你要說：「巴不得現在是晚上! 」到了晚上你又要說：「巴不得現在是早晨! 」
 申:28.68    上主要用船將你送回埃及，走我曾告訴你，你不會再見的那條路；在那裏你們雖自願將自己賣給你的仇敵為奴為婢，卻無人肯買。
 申:28.69    這是上主在曷勒布山與以色列子民訂立的盟約以外，在摩阿布地方吩咐梅瑟同以色列子民訂立盟約的言辭。
  
 申:29.1     [回憶往事]  梅瑟將所有的以色列人召來，對他們說：你們親自看見了上主當著你們的面，在埃及地對法郎，對他的臣僕，對他全國所做的一切，
 申:29.2     那些驚人的折磨、神蹟和偉大的奇事，你們都親眼看見過。
 申:29.3     但是，直到今天，上主還沒有給你們一顆能明瞭的心，能看見的眼，能聽見的耳。
 申:29.4     我在曠野四十年之久領導你們，你們身上的衣服沒有穿壞，腳上的鞋也沒有穿破；
 申:29.5     當時你們沒有吃糧食，也沒有喝清酒醇酒，這是要你們知道，我上主是你們的天主。
 申:29.6     你們一來到此地，赫市朋王息紅和巴商王敖格出來與我們交戰，我們擊敗了他們，
 申:29.7     佔領了他們的土地，分給了勒烏本人和加得人以及默納協半個支派作產業。
 申:29.8     所以你們應謹守遵行這盟約的話，好使你們在所做的一切事上，都能順利。
 申:29.9     [勸勿違盟]  今天你們全都站在上主你們的天主面前，──你們的首領、族長、長老、官長、和以色列所有的男子，
 申:29.10    你們的幼小和妻子，以及在你營中的外方人，從為你砍柴到為你汲水的人，──
 申:29.11    都來同上主你的天主締結盟約。即上主你的天主今天與你所立的附有詛咒的誓約，
 申:29.12    好叫他今天，有如他向你所許過的，有如他向你祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯所誓許的：立你做他的人民，他做你的天主。
 申:29.13    我不但與你們立這約和這誓，
 申:29.14    而且也與那些今天與我們同站在上主我們的天主面前的人，和那些今天不與我們同在這裏的人立約。
 申:29.15    你們清楚知道，我們怎樣在埃及地住過，怎樣由一些民族中間走過；
 申:29.16    你們也見過他們的醜惡之物和他們那裏所有的木、石、金、銀的偶像。
 申:29.17    惟願在你們中沒有一個男人或女人，或家族，或支派，今日存心遠離上主我們的天主，去奉事這些民族的神；惟願在他們中沒有一根生出毒草和苦艾的根子，
 申:29.18    以致有人在聽了這咒誓之後心中慶幸說：「我雖隨心所欲地行事，仍平安無事。」這要使濕地與乾地同歸於盡。
 申:29.19    上主決不肯寬恕他；上主的烈怒和憤恨必向這人發作，這書上載的一切詛咒都要降在他身上，上主必由天下抹去他的名字。
 申:29.20    上主將把他由以色列各支派中分出，照這法律書上所載的一切詛咒，使他遭受災禍。
 申:29.21    未來的一代，即繼你們而興起的子孫，和遠地來的外方人，見了這地的災禍和上主所降的災殃，
 申:29.22    見了硫磺、鹽鹵和被焚毀的整個地區，不能耕種，沒有出產，寸草不生，正如上主在忿怒和氣憤中消滅的索多瑪、哈摩辣、阿瑪得和責波殷所受的破壞一樣，
 申:29.23    各民族要問說：「為什麼上主這樣對待了這地﹖這盛怒為何如此猛烈﹖」
 申:29.24    人必回答說：「這是因為他們離棄了上主他們祖先的天主，領他們出埃及地時，與他們所締結的盟約，
 申:29.25    而去事奉了其他的神，叩拜了他們素不認識，沒有給他們指定的神；
 申:29.26    上主於是向這地大發忿怒，使這書上記載的一切詛咒都降在這地上。
 申:29.27    上主遂在忿怒激忿和烈怒中，將他們由本地拔除，拋棄在異國，就像今天一樣。」
 申:29.28    隱密的事，屬於上主我們的天主，已啟示的事，卻永遠與我們和我們的子孫有關，為叫我們實行這法律上的一切話。
  
 申:30.1     [上主仁慈無限]  幾時這一切事，就是我在你面前提出的祝福和詛咒，來到你身上，而你在上主你的天主驅逐你去的異族中，回心轉意，
 申:30.2     你和你的子孫全心全靈歸向上主你的天主，全照我今天吩咐你的，聽從他的話，
 申:30.3     那麼，上主你的天主必轉變你的命運，憐憫你；上主你的天主必從分散你去的各民族中，再召集你回來；
 申:30.4     即便被放逐的人遠在天涯，上主你的天主也要從那裏召回，將你從那裏領回來。
 申:30.5     上主你的天主必領你進入你祖先所佔領的土地，叫你再佔領；也必使你比你的祖先更幸福，更眾多。
 申:30.6     那時，上主你的天主必在你的心上，和你後裔的心上行割損，叫你全心全靈愛慕上主你的天主，使你得以生存。
 申:30.7     上主你的天主必將這一切詛咒，加在迫害你的仇人和敵人身上。
 申:30.8     從此，你必再聽從上主的話，遵行我今天吩咐你的一切誡命。
 申:30.9     上主你的天主必使你做的一切事，你身所生的、牲畜所出的、田地所產的，都順利興旺，因為上主要再喜歡你，使你享福，如他以前喜歡你的祖先一樣，
 申:30.10    只要你聽從上主你天主的話，謹守這法律書上所記載的誡命和法令；只要你全心全靈回頭，歸向上主你的天主。
 申:30.11    其實，我今天吩咐你的這誡命，為你並不太難，也不是達不到的。
 申:30.12    這誡命不在天上，以致你能說：「誰能為我們上到天上，給我們取下，使我們聽了好能遵行呢﹖」
 申:30.13    也不在海外，以致你能說：「誰能為我們渡到海外，給我們取來，使我們聽了好能遵行呢﹖」
 申:30.14    其實，這話離你很近，就在你口裏，就在你心裏，使你遵行。
 申:30.15    [生死由人自決]  你看，我今天將生命與幸福，死亡與災禍，都擺在你面前，
 申:30.16    如果你遵行我今天吩咐你的，上主你天主的誡命：愛慕上主你的天主，履行他的道路，謹守他的誡命、法令和規定，你必能生活繁榮，上主你的天主在要去佔領的地上，必要祝福你。
 申:30.17    但是，如果你心中叛離，不願聽從，被人引去敬拜事奉其他的神，
 申:30.18    我今天警告你們：你們必要滅亡，在你渡過約但河去佔領的土地上，決不能久存。
 申:30.19    我今天指著天地向你們作證：我已將生命與死亡，祝福與詛咒，都擺在你面前；你要選擇生命，為叫你和你的後裔得以生存；
 申:30.20    你應愛慕上主你的天主，聽從他的話，完全依賴他；因為這樣你纔能生活，纔能久存，纔能住在上主向你的祖先亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯誓許要給他們的土地上。
  
           梅瑟最後的訓示與事蹟(31-34)
  
 申:31.1     [委派若蘇厄繼任]  梅瑟又繼續用以下的話向全以色列人說：「
 申:31.2     我今天已經一百二十歲，再不能出入；而且上主曾對我說：『你不能過這約但河。』
 申:31.3     上主你的天主親自要領你過去，親自要由你面前將這些民族消滅，使你佔領他們的土地；按上主所許過的，若蘇厄將領你們過去。
 申:31.4     上主對待那些民族，必像以前對待阿摩黎人王息紅和敖格，以及他們的國一樣，將他們完全消滅。
 申:31.5     上主必將他們交於你們，你們應依照我吩咐你們的一切命令，對待他們。
 申:31.6     你們應勇敢堅決，不要害怕，在他們面前也不要畏懼，因為上主你的天主親自與你同行，決不拋棄你，也決不離開你。」
 申:31.7     然後梅瑟召若蘇厄來，當著全以色列的面對他說：「你要勇敢堅決，因為你應領這人民，進入上主向他們祖先誓許要賜予他們的土地；你應將那地分給他們作為基業。
 申:31.8     上主必親自領導你，與你同在，決不拋棄你，也決不離開你；你不要害怕，也不要膽怯。」
 申:31.9     [應依時宣讀法律]  梅瑟寫好這法律，交給抬上主約櫃的肋未子孫司祭，和以色列所有的長老；
 申:31.10    然後梅瑟吩咐他們說：「每逢七年，即在豁免年間的帳棚節期內，
 申:31.11    當全以色列人來到上主你的天主所選的地方朝拜上主時，你應在全以色列人前，大聲宣讀這法律。
 申:31.12    你應召集人民，男女幼小，和你城鎮中的外方人，叫他們都聽到，好學習敬畏上主你們的天主，謹守遵行這法律上的一切話。
 申:31.13    尚不認識這法律的子女，也應叫他們聽到，好使他們在你們渡過約但河去佔領的土地上生活的時候，日日學習敬畏上主你們的天主。」
 申:31.14    [上主最後訓示梅瑟]  上主對梅瑟說：「看，你的死期已近，你召若蘇厄來，你們一起站在會幕那裏，我好吩咐他。」梅瑟於是和若蘇厄前去，一起站在會幕那裏。
 申:31.15    上主出現在會幕上，在雲柱中，這雲柱停在會幕門口上面。
 申:31.16    上主對梅瑟說：「看，你快與你的祖先同眠；這人民要起來，在要去的地方內，同異邦之神行淫，而離棄我，破壞我與他們所訂立的盟約。
 申:31.17    那時，我必要對他們大發忿怒，拋棄他們，掩面不顧他們，讓他們被人吞併，使他們遭遇許多災禍和艱難；到那日他們必說：『我遭遇了這些災禍，豈不是因為我的天主已不在我中間了麼﹖』
 申:31.18    因了他們歸向其他的神所作的一切邪惡，那天我必掩面不顧他們。
 申:31.19    所以，現在你應寫下這篇詩歌，教給以色列子民，放在他們口中，使這詩歌成為我反對以色列子民的證據。
 申:31.20    因我領他們進了我對他們的祖先所誓許的流奶流蜜的土地，他們吃飽了，吃肥了，卻歸向了其他的神，事奉他們，而蔑視我，破壞我的盟約。
 申:31.21    當他們遭遇到許多災禍和艱難時，這詩歌就成為反對他們的證據，因為這詩歌總不會由他們後裔的口中失傳。的確，在我領他們進入我誓許的地方以前，我早已知道他們今天所懷的企圖。」
 申:31.22    梅瑟遂在那一天寫下了這篇詩歌，教給了以色列子民。
 申:31.23    此後，上主吩咐農的兒子若蘇厄說：「你要勇敢堅決，因為你要領以色列子民進入我給他們誓許的土地，我必與你同在。」
 申:31.24    [置法律書於約櫃旁]  梅瑟將這法律的話在書上寫完以後，
 申:31.25    便吩咐抬上主約櫃的肋未人說：「
 申:31.26    你們將這法律書拿去，放在上主你們天主的約櫃旁，留在那裏作為反對你的證據。
 申:31.27    因為我知道你是如何頑固執拗。看，我還同你們生活在一起的今天，你們就這樣反抗了上主；何況在我死後!
 申:31.28    你們給我將你們支派所有的長老和官員召來，我要將這些話說給他們聽，指著天地對他們作證。
 申:31.29    因為我知道在我死後，你們必定完全敗壞，離棄我吩咐你們的道；最後，你們必要遭受災禍，因為作了上主視為邪惡的事，以你們的作為，使他發怒。」
 申:31.30    梅瑟遂在以色列全體會眾前，由頭至尾，大聲朗誦了這篇詩歌的話。
  
           梅瑟歌
  
 申:32.1     [委派若蘇厄繼任]  蒼天，傾聽，我要發言；大地，聆聽我口要說的話!
 申:32.2     願我的教訓如雨下降，我的言語似露滴落，像降在綠茵上的細雨，像落在青草上的甘霖!
 申:32.3     因為我要宣揚上主的名，請讚頌我們的天主!
 申:32.4     [上主的照顧]  他是磐石，他的作為完美無比；他的行徑公平正直，他是忠實無妄的天主，公義而又正直。
 申:32.5     那不堪稱為子女的，自趨墮落，背叛了他，實在是個邪惡敗壞的世代!
 申:32.6     愚昧無知的人民，你們就這樣報答上主嗎﹖他不是生育你，創造你，使你生存的大父嗎﹖
 申:32.7     你回想往古的時日，思念歷代的歲月；問你的父親，問你的長輩，他必給你講述；
 申:32.8     當至高者為民族分配產業時，分佈人的子孫時，按照天使的數目，為萬民劃定了疆界；
 申:32.9     但雅各伯是上主所保留的一分，以色列成為他特有的產業。
 申:32.10    上主在曠野之地，在野獸咆哮的原野，發見了他，遂將他抱起，加以撫育，加以保護，有如自己的眼珠。
 申:32.11    老鷹怎樣守候自己的窩巢，飛翔在幼雛之上，上主也怎樣伸展雙翅，把他背在自己的翼上。
 申:32.12    上主獨自領導了他，他旁邊並沒有外邦的神祇。
 申:32.13    上主使他馳騁於高原之上，以田間的出產養育他，使他享受巖穴間的蜜，堅石中的油，
 申:32.14    牛酪和羊乳，肥美的羔羊和公羊，巴商的公牛與山羊，以及上等的麥麵；並以葡萄美酒作你的飲品。
 申:32.15    [以色列人辜恩負義]  雅各伯吃肥了，耶叔戎吃胖了，會踢人了。──的確，你胖了，肥了，飽滿了。──他遂拋棄了造他的天主，輕視了救他的磐石。
 申:32.16    他們以邪神的敬禮激起他的妒火，以可憎惡的事物，惹他動怒；
 申:32.17    他們所祭祀的是邪神，而非真神，是向來所不認識的神，是近來新興，你們的祖先所不敬畏的神。
 申:32.18    你忽略了那生你的磐石，忘記了那使你出世的天主。
 申:32.19    上主一見，大為震怒，遂拋棄了自己的子女，
 申:32.20    說我要掩面不顧他們，要看他們的結局如何；這實在是敗壞的一代，毫無信實的子女。
 申:32.21    他們以虛妄之神，激起我的怒火，以虛無之物，惹我動怒；我也要以那不成子民的人激起他們的妒火，以愚昧的民族惹他們發怒。
 申:32.22    我的怒火一燃起，必燒到陰府的深底，吞滅大地及其出產，焚毀山岳的基礎。
 申:32.23    我要將災禍不斷加在他們身上，向他們射盡我的箭矢。
 申:32.24    他們必因饑餓而衰弱，必為熱症、毒疫所消滅；我還使尖牙的野獸和土中爬行的毒蟲傷害他們。
 申:32.25    外有刀劍，內有恐怖，使少男少女，乳兒白頭，同歸於盡。
 申:32.26    我原想粉碎他們，將他們的記念由人間消滅；
 申:32.27    但我怕仇人自誇，怕敵人誤會說：「是我的手得勝了，而不是上主行了這一切。」
 申:32.28    他們原是無謀的民族，沒有一點見識。
 申:32.29    如果他們有點智慧，定會明瞭此事，看清未來的局勢。
 申:32.30    「若不是他們的磐石出賣了他們，上主放棄了他們一人怎能追擊一千，兩人怎能打跑一萬﹖」
 申:32.31    連我們的仇人也承認，他們的磐石不如我們的磐石。
 申:32.32    誠然，他們的葡萄秧，出自索多瑪的葡萄園，來在哈摩辣的田園；他們的葡萄是毒葡萄，粒粒葡萄皆酸苦。
 申:32.33    他們的酒是蛇的毒汁，是蝮蛇的猛烈毒液。
 申:32.34    這事豈不是貯藏在我身旁，封閉在我府庫裏﹖
 申:32.35    等到他們失足之時，我必復仇報復；他們滅亡的日子確已臨近，給他們預定的命運就要來到。
 申:32.36    因為上主要衛護自己的人民，憐恤自己的僕人。當他看見他們的能力已逝，奴隸與自由人已到絕境，
 申:32.37    必問說：「他們的神祇在那裏，他們投靠的磐石究在何處﹖
 申:32.38    一向吃他們祭牲脂肪的，喝他們奠祭酒漿的，都在那裏﹖讓他們起來援助你們罷! 讓他們做你們的保障罷!
 申:32.39    現在你們應認清，只有我是「那一位，」除我以外沒有別神；我使人死，也使人活；我擊傷人，也加以治療；誰也不能由我手中救出。
 申:32.40    我向天舉手宣誓：我生活，至於永遠!
 申:32.41    我一磨亮我的刀劍，我一掌握裁判權，必向我的敵人雪恨，對恨我的人報復。
 申:32.42    我要使我的箭矢醉飲鮮血，使我的刀劍吞食血肉：陣亡和俘虜的鮮血，仇敵將領的頭顱。」
 申:32.43    萬國，你們應向他的百姓祝賀! 因為上主必為自己的僕人報血仇，向仇敵報復，聖潔自己的土地和百姓。
 申:32.44    [勸百姓守法律]  梅瑟和農的兒子若蘇厄前來，將這篇詩歌的話朗誦給百姓聽。
 申:32.45    梅瑟向全以色列人一朗誦完了，
 申:32.46    就對他們說：「你們應把我今日警告你們的一切話記在心內，好吩咐你們的子孫，謹守遵行這法律上的一切話。
 申:32.47    因為這為你們不是空洞的話，而是關係你們的生命；由於遵守這話，你們纔能在過約但河後所要佔領的地上，長久居留。」
 申:32.48    [梅瑟死期的預告]  上主就在當天對梅瑟說：「
 申:32.49    你到摩阿布去，上這座阿巴陵山，即面對耶里哥的乃波山上去，觀看我要給以色列子民作產業的客納罕地。
 申:32.50    你要死在你所上的山上，歸到你本族那裏，像你哥哥亞郎死在曷爾山，歸到他本族那裏一樣。
 申:32.51    因為你們在親曠野，卡德士的默黎巴水邊，在以色列子民中對我失信，沒有在他們中尊我為聖；
 申:32.52    為此，我賜給以色列子民的地方，你只可由對面眺望，卻不能進去。」
  
 申:33.1     [梅瑟的祝福]  這是天主的人梅瑟，死前賜予以色列子民的祝福。
 申:33.2     他說：「上主由西乃而來，從色依爾光照他的百姓，由帕蘭山射出光輝，從卡德士的默黎巴前進，由他的右邊有烈火發出。
 申:33.3     你實在愛你的人民，眾聖者都在你手中；他們俯伏在你腳前，領受你的教導。
 申:33.4     梅瑟給我們立定法律，作為雅各伯會眾的產業時，
 申:33.5     人民的首領與以色列支派會合時，上主在耶叔戎中作了王。
 申:33.6     願勒烏本生存，不至滅亡! 願他的人數不再減少! 」
 申:33.7     他論及猶大這樣說：「上主! 願你俯聽猶大的聲音，領他重歸自己的民族；以你的手為他交戰，協助他抵抗他的仇敵! 」
 申:33.8     論及肋未說：「願你將你的「突明」賜給肋未，將你的「烏陵」，賜給對你虔誠的人，就是你在瑪撒曾試探過，在默黎巴水旁曾考驗過的人，
 申:33.9     也就是那些論及自己的父母說：我沒有顧及他們，對自己的兄弟不加重視，對自己的子女也漠不關心的人! 他們只遵守你的話，持守你的盟約。
 申:33.10    他們要將你的誡命教給雅各伯，將你的法律授給以色列；在你面前獻上馨香，在祭壇上獻上全燔祭。
 申:33.11    上主! 願你祝福他的勇力，悅納他手中的作為；對反抗他的人，願你打斷他們的腰，使惱恨他的人，再也不得起立! 」
 申:33.12    論及本雅明說：「上主所鍾愛的，他必安居樂業；至高者日日庇護他，住在他兩肩之間。」
 申:33.13    論及若瑟說：「願他的地蒙受上主的祝福! 願天上甘露，地下深藏的淵泉，
 申:33.14    因太陽而出產的美果，靠月亮而出產的寶物，
 申:33.15    太古山岳的珍品，永恒丘陵的美物，
 申:33.16    地上的寶物及其富藏，以及住在荊棘叢中者的恩惠，都臨到若瑟頭上，降在兄弟中為首者的頭頂上!
 申:33.17    他的健壯有如頭胎的公牛，他的雙角像是野牛的雙角，用以抵觸萬民，直到地極。這是厄弗辣因的萬軍，即是默納協的勁旅。」
 申:33.18    論及則步隆說：「則步隆! 你要在旅途中喜樂；至於你、依撒加爾!你要在帳幕內歡樂。
 申:33.19    他們要邀請人民上山，在那裏奉獻應獻的祭祀，因為他們要吸收海洋的富饒，沙中潛藏的珠寶。」
 申:33.20    論及加得說：「那使加得擴張的，應受讚美! 他臥下彷彿一隻母獅，撕裂了人的手臂和頭顱。
 申:33.21    他為自己選取了為首的一分，因為那原是為首領保留的一分。他走在人民之前，執行了上主的法令，和他對以色列的旨意。」
 申:33.22    論及丹說：「丹好似由巴商跳出的幼獅。」
 申:33.23    論及納斐塔里說：「納斐塔里，飽受恩愛，充滿上主的祝福，海和南部將是他的產業。」
 申:33.24    論及阿協爾說：「眾子中最受祝福的是阿協爾；願他獲得兄弟的恩待，在油中洗腳!
 申:33.25    願你有銅鐵的門閂；願你一生獲享安寧! 」
 申:33.26    沒有一個像耶叔戎的天主，他騰空駕雲，在威嚴中來援助你。
 申:33.27    亙古的天主是你的避難所，他永遠的手臂是你的支柱；他由你面前驅走了敵人，是他向你下命說：毀滅罷!
 申:33.28    因此，以色列能以安居樂業，雅各伯的後裔定居在產糧出酒之地，天也從上降下甘露。
 申:33.29    以色列，你真是有福的；為上主所拯救的人民，有誰相似你﹖他是你護身的盾牌，是使你勝利的刀劍。你的仇敵必將奉承你，而你卻要踐踏他們的背脊。
  
 申:34.1     [梅瑟逝世]  梅瑟由摩阿布曠野上了乃波山，上到耶里哥對面的丕斯加峰，上主就將全地指給他看：即由基肋阿得直到丹，
 申:34.2     納斐塔里和厄弗辣因及默納協全地，直達西海的猶大全境，
 申:34.3     乃革布和棕櫚城的耶里哥山谷盆地，直到左哈爾。
 申:34.4     上主對他說：「這就是我對亞巴郎、依撒格和雅各伯誓許說我要給你後裔的土地。我讓你親眼看見，但你不能過去。」
 申:34.5     上主的僕人梅瑟遂死在那裏，按上主所預定的，死在摩阿布地。
 申:34.6     上主將他葬在摩阿布地，面對貝特培敖爾的一個山谷內；直到今日沒有人知道埋葬他的地方。
 申:34.7     梅瑟死時，已一百二十歲；他的眼睛未花，精力也未衰退。
 申:34.8     以色列子民在摩阿布曠野哀悼了梅瑟三十日。為梅瑟舉哀的日期滿了，
 申:34.9     農的兒子若蘇厄，因梅瑟曾按手在他身上，充滿了智慧之神；為此，以色列子民都聽從他，全照上主向梅瑟所吩咐的去行。
 申:34.10    以後在以色列中，再沒有興起一位像梅瑟一樣的先知，與上主面對面地來往；
 申:34.11    至於上主派他在埃及地，向法郎，和他的一切臣僕，並向他全地所行的一切神蹟和奇蹟，
 申:34.12    以及他在全以色列眼前所行的一切大能作為，和一切令人畏懼的大事，也沒有人能與他相比。 [申命記完篇]
  
 dt:1.       [Deutoronomy]   34 chapters   [申命記]   [英文版]
  
 dt:1.1      These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan ( in the desert, in the Arabah, opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab;
 dt:1.2      it is a journey of eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of the highlands of Seir).
 dt:1.3      In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites all the commands that the LORD had given him in their regard.
 dt:1.4      After he had defeated Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,
 dt:1.5      Moses began to explain the law in the land of Moab beyond the Jordan, as follows:
 dt:1.6      "The LORD, our God, said to us at Horeb, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
 dt:1.7      Leave here and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the surrounding regions, the land of the Canaanites in the Arabah, the mountains, the foothills, the Negeb and the seacoast; to Lebanon, and as far as the Great River (the Euphrates).
 dt:1.8      I have given that land over to you. Go now and occupy the land I swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I would give to them and to their descendants.'
 dt:1.9      "At that time I said to you, 'Alone, I am unable to carry you.
 dt:1.10     The LORD, your God, has so multiplied you that you are now as numerous as the stars in the sky.
 dt:1.11     May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over, and bless you as he promised!
 dt:1.12     But how can I alone bear the crushing burden that you are, along with your bickering?
 dt:1.13     Choose wise, intelligent and experienced men from each of your tribes, that I may appoint them as your leaders.'
 dt:1.14     You answered me, 'We agree to do as you have proposed.'
 dt:1.15     So I took outstanding men of your tribes, wise and experienced, and made them your leaders as officials over thousands, over hundreds, over fifties and over tens, and other tribal officers.
 dt:1.16     I charged your judges at that time, 'Listen to complaints among your kinsmen, and administer true justice to both parties even if one of them is an alien.
 dt:1.17     In rendering judgment, do not consider who a person is; give ear to the lowly and to the great alike, fearing no man, for judgment is God's. Refer to me any case that is too hard for you and I will hear it.'
 dt:1.18     Thereupon I gave you all the commands you were to fulfill.
 dt:1.19     "Then, in obedience to the command of the LORD, our God, we set out from Horeb and journeyed through the whole desert, vast and fearful as you have seen, in the direction of the hill country of the Amorites. We had reached Kadesh-barnea
 dt:1.20     when I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD, our God, is giving us.
 dt:1.21     The LORD, your God, has given this land over to you. Go up and occupy it, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, commands you. Do not fear or lose heart.'
 dt:1.22     Then all of you came up to me and said, 'Let us send men ahead to reconnoiter the land for us and report to us on the road we must follow and the cities we must take.'
 dt:1.23     Agreeing with the proposal, I chose twelve men from your number, one from each tribe.
 dt:1.24     They set out into the hill country as far as the Wadi Eshcol, and explored it.
 dt:1.25     Then, taking along some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, 'The land which the LORD, our God, gives us is good.'
 dt:1.26     "But you refused to go up, and after defying the command of the LORD, your God,
 dt:1.27     you set to murmuring in your tents, 'Out of hatred for us the LORD has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites and destroy us.
 dt:1.28     What shall we meet with up there? Our kinsmen have made us fainthearted by reporting that the people are stronger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, they saw the Anakim there.'
 dt:1.29     "But I said to you, 'Have no dread or fear of them.
 dt:1.30     The LORD, your God, who goes before you, will himself fight for you, just as he took your part before your very eyes in Egypt,
 dt:1.31     as well as in the desert, where you saw how the LORD, your God, carried you, as a man carries his child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.'
 dt:1.32     Despite this, you would not trust the LORD, your God,
 dt:1.33     who journeys before you to find you a resting place--by day in the cloud, and by night in the fire, to show the way you must go.
 dt:1.34     When the LORD heard your words, he was angry;
 dt:1.35     and he swore, 'Not one man of this evil generation shall look upon the good land I swore to give to your fathers,
 dt:1.36     except Caleb, son of Jephunneh; he shall see it. For to him and to his sons I will give the land he trod upon, because he has followed the LORD unreservedly.'
 dt:1.37     "The LORD was angered against me also on your account, and said, 'Not even you shall enter there,
 dt:1.38     but your aide Joshua, son of Nun, shall enter. Encourage him, for he is to give Israel its heritage.
 dt:1.39     Your little ones, who you said would become booty, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad--they shall enter; to them I will give it, and they shall occupy it.
 dt:1.40     But as for yourselves: turn about and proceed into the desert on the Red Sea road.'
 dt:1.41     "In reply you said to me, 'We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up ourselves and fight, just as the LORD, our God, commanded us.' And each of you girded on his weapons, making light of going up into the hill country.
 dt:1.42     But the LORD said to me, 'Warn them: Do not go up and fight, lest you be beaten down before your enemies, for I will not be in your midst.'
 dt:1.43     I gave you this warning but you would not listen. In defiance of the LORD'S command you arrogantly marched off into the hill country.
 dt:1.44     Then the Amorites living there came out against you and, like bees, chased you, cutting you down in Seir as far as Hormah.
 dt:1.45     On your return you wept before the LORD, but he did not listen to your cry or give ear to you.
 dt:1.46     That is why you had to stay as long as you did at Kadesh.
  
 dt:2.1      "When we did turn and proceed into the desert on the Red Sea road, as the LORD had commanded me, we circled around the highlands of Seir for a long time.
 dt:2.2      Finally the LORD said to me,
 dt:2.3      'You have wandered round these highlands long enough; turn and go north.
 dt:2.4      Give this order to the people: You are now about to pass through the territory of your kinsmen, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. Though they are afraid of you, be very careful
 dt:2.5      not to come in conflict with them, for I will not give you so much as a foot of their land, since I have already given Esau possession of the highlands of Seir.
 dt:2.6      You shall purchase from them with silver the food you eat and the well water you drink.
 dt:2.7      The LORD, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned about your journey through this vast desert. It is now forty years that he has been with you, and you have never been in want.'
 dt:2.8      "Then we left behind us the Arabah route, Elath, Ezion-geber, and Seir, where our kinsmen, the descendants of Esau, live; and we went on toward the desert of Moab.
 dt:2.9      And the LORD said to me, 'Do not show hostility to the Moabites or engage them in battle, for I will not give you possession of any of their land, since I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their own.
 dt:2.10     (Formerly the Emim lived there, a people strong and numerous and tall like the Anakim;
 dt:2.11     like them they were considered Rephaim. It was the Moabites who called them Emim.
 dt:2.12     In Seir, however, the former inhabitants were the Horites; the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, clearing them out of the way and taking their place, just as the Israelites have done in the land of their heritage which the LORD has given them.)
 dt:2.13     Get ready, then, to cross the Wadi Zered.' So we crossed it.
 dt:2.14     Thirty-eight years had elapsed between our departure from Kadesh-barnea and that crossing; in the meantime the whole generation of soldiers had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn they should.
 dt:2.15     For it was the LORD'S hand that was against them, till he wiped them out of the camp completely.
 dt:2.16     "When at length death had put an end to all the soldiers among the people,
 dt:2.17     the LORD said to me,
 dt:2.18     'You are now about to leave Ar and the territory of Moab behind.
 dt:2.19     As you come opposite the Ammonites, do not show hostility or come in conflict with them, for I will not give you possession of any land of the Ammonites, since I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their own.
 dt:2.20     (This also was considered a country of the Rephaim from its former inhabitants, whom the Ammonites called Zamzummim,
 dt:2.21     a people strong and numerous and tall like the Anakim. But these, too, the LORD cleared out of the way for the Ammonites, who ousted them and took their place.
 dt:2.22     He had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who dwell in Seir, by clearing the Horites out of their way, so that the descendants of Esau have taken their place down to the present.
 dt:2.23     So also the Caphtorim, migrating from Caphtor, cleared away the Avvim, who once dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, and took their place.)
 dt:2.24     "'Advance now across the Wadi Arnon. I now deliver into your hands Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin the occupation; engage him in battle.
 dt:2.25     This day I will begin to put a fear and dread of you into every nation under the heavens, so that at the mention of your name they will quake and tremble before you.'
 dt:2.26     "So I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemoth to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with this offer of peace:
 dt:2.27     'Let me pass through your country by the highway; I will go along it without turning aside to the right or to the left.
 dt:2.28     For the food I eat which you will supply, and for the water you give me to drink, you shall be paid in silver. Only let me march through,
 dt:2.29     as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar have done, until I cross the Jordan into the land which the LORD, our God, is about to give us.'
 dt:2.30     But Sihon, king of Heshbon, refused to let us pass through his land, because the LORD, your God, made him stubborn in mind and obstinate in heart that he might deliver him up to you, as indeed he has now done.
 dt:2.31     "Then the LORD said to me, 'Now that I have already begun to hand over to you Sihon and his land, begin the actual occupation.'
 dt:2.32     So Sihon and all his people advanced against us to join battle at Jahaz;
 dt:2.33     but since the LORD, our God, had delivered him to us, we defeated him and his sons and all his people.
 dt:2.34     At that time we seized all his cities and doomed them all, with their men, women and children; we left no survivor.
 dt:2.35     Our only booty was the livestock and the loot of the captured cities.
 dt:2.36     From Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon and from the city in the wadi itself, as far as Gilead, no city was too well fortified for us to whom the LORD had delivered them up.
 dt:2.37     However, in obedience to the command of the LORD, our God, you did not encroach upon any of the Ammonite land, neither the region bordering on the Wadi Jabbok, nor the cities of the highlands.
  
 dt:3.1      "Then we turned and proceeded toward Bashan. But Og, king of Bashan, advanced against us with all his people to give battle at Edrei.
 dt:3.2      The LORD, however, said to me, 'Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hand with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.'
 dt:3.3      And thus the LORD, our God, delivered into our hands Og, king of Bashan, with all his people. We defeated him so completely that we left him no survivor.
 dt:3.4      At that time we captured all his cities, none of them eluding our grasp, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan: sixty cities in all,
 dt:3.5      to say nothing of the great number of unwalled towns. All the cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars.
 dt:3.6      As we had done to Sihon, king of Heshbon, so also here we doomed all the cities, with their men, women and children;
 dt:3.7      but all the livestock and the loot of each city we took as booty for ourselves.
 dt:3.8      "And so at that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan the territory from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon
 dt:3.9      (which is called Sirion by the Sidonians and Senir by the Amorites),
 dt:3.10     comprising all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and all the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan including Salecah and Edrei.
 dt:3.11     (Og, king of Bashan, was the last remaining survivor of the Rephaim. He had a bed of iron, nine regular cubits long and four wide, which is still preserved in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
 dt:3.12     "When we occupied the land at that time, I gave Reuben and Gad the territory from Aroer, on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, halfway up into the highlands of Gilead, with the cities therein.
 dt:3.13     The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, the whole Argob region, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All this region of Bashan was once called a land of the Rephaim.
 dt:3.14     Jair, a Manassehite clan, took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and called it after his own name Bashan Havvoth-jair, the name it bears today.)
 dt:3.15     To Machir I gave Gilead,
 dt:3.16     and to Reuben and Gad the territory from Gilead to the Wadi Arnon--including the wadi bed and its banks--and to the Wadi Jabbok, which is the border of the Ammonites,
 dt:3.17     as well as the Arabah with the Jordan and its eastern banks from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
 dt:3.18     "At that time I charged them as follows 'The LORD, your God, has given you this land as your own. But all you troops equipped for battle must cross over in the vanguard of your brother Israelites.
 dt:3.19     Only your wives and children, as well as your livestock, of which I know you have a large number, shall remain behind in the towns I have given you,
 dt:3.20     until the LORD has settled your kinsmen as well, and they too possess the land which the LORD, your God, will give them on the other side of the Jordan. Then you may all return to the possessions I have given you.'
 dt:3.21     "It was then that I instructed Joshua, 'Your eyes have seen all that the LORD, your God, has done to both these kings; so, too, will the LORD do to all the kingdoms which you will encounter over there.
 dt:3.22     Fear them not, for the LORD, your God, will fight for you.'
 dt:3.23     "And it was then that I besought the LORD,
 dt:3.24     'O Lord GOD, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and might. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform deeds as mighty as yours?
 dt:3.25     Ah, let me cross over and see this good land beyond the Jordan, this fine hill country, and the Lebanon!'
 dt:3.26     But the LORD was angry with me on your account and would not hear me. 'Enough!' the LORD said to me. 'Speak to me no more of this.
 dt:3.27     Go up to the top of Pisgah and look out to the west, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east. Look well, for you shall not cross this Jordan.
 dt:3.28     Commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall cross at the head of this people and shall put them in possession of the land you are to see.'
 dt:3.29     This was while we were in the ravine opposite Beth-peor.
  
 dt:4.1      "Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
 dt:4.2      In your observance of the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin upon you, you shall not add to what I command you nor subtract from it.
 dt:4.3      You have seen with your own eyes what the LORD did at Baal-peor: the LORD, your God, destroyed from your midst everyone that followed the Baal of Peor;
 dt:4.4      but you, who clung to the LORD, your God, are all alive today.
 dt:4.5      Therefore, I teach you the statutes and decrees as the LORD, my God, has commanded me, that you may observe them in the land you are entering to occupy.
 dt:4.6      Observe them carefully, for thus will you give evidence of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations, who will hear of all these statutes and say, 'This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.'
 dt:4.7      For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the LORD, our God, is to us whenever we call upon him?
 dt:4.8      Or what great nation has statutes and decrees that are as just as this whole law which I am setting before you today?
 dt:4.9      "However, take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live, but teach them to your children and to your children's children.
 dt:4.10     There was the day on which you stood before the LORD, your God, at Horeb, and he said to me, 'Assemble the people for me; I will have them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me as long as they live in the land and may so teach their children.'
 dt:4.11     You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, which blazed to the very sky with fire and was enveloped in a dense black cloud.
 dt:4.12     Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
 dt:4.13     He proclaimed to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep: the ten commandments, which he wrote on two tablets of stone.
 dt:4.14     The LORD charged me at that time to teach you the statutes and decrees which you are to observe over in the land you will occupy.
 dt:4.15     "You saw no form at all on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire. Be strictly on your guard, therefore,
 dt:4.16     not to degrade yourselves by fashioning an idol to represent any figure, whether it be the form of a man or a woman,
 dt:4.17     of any animal on the earth or of any bird that flies in the sky,
 dt:4.18     of anything that crawls on the ground or of any fish in the waters under the earth.
 dt:4.19     And when you look up to the heavens and behold the sun or the moon or any star among the heavenly hosts, do not be led astray into adoring them and serving them. These the LORD, your God, has let fall to the lot of all other nations under the heavens;
 dt:4.20     but you he has taken and led out of that iron foundry, Egypt, that you might be his very own people, as you are today.
 dt:4.21     Since the LORD was angered against me on your account and swore that I should not cross the Jordan nor enter the good land which he is giving you as a heritage,
 dt:4.22     I myself shall die in this country without crossing the Jordan; but you will cross over and take possession of that good land.
 dt:4.23     Take heed, therefore, lest, forgetting the covenant which the LORD, your God, has made with you, you fashion for yourselves against his command an idol in any form whatsoever.
 dt:4.24     For the LORD, your God, is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
 dt:4.25     "When you have children and grandchildren, and have grown old in the land, should you then degrade yourselves by fashioning an idol in any form and by this evil done in his sight provoke the LORD, your God,
 dt:4.26     I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall all quickly perish from the land which you will occupy when you cross the Jordan. You shall not live in it for any length of time but shall be promptly wiped out.
 dt:4.27     The LORD will scatter you among the nations, and there shall remain but a handful of you among the nations to which the LORD will lead you.
 dt:4.28     There you shall serve gods fashioned by the hands of man out of wood and stone, gods which can neither see nor hear, neither eat nor smell.
 dt:4.29     Yet there too you shall seek the LORD, your God; and you shall indeed find him when you search after him with your whole heart and your whole soul.
 dt:4.30     In your distress, when all these things shall have come upon you, you shall finally return to the LORD, your God, and heed his voice.
 dt:4.31     Since the LORD, your God, is a merciful God, he will not abandon and destroy you, nor forget the covenant which under oath he made with your fathers.
 dt:4.32     "Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created man upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of?
 dt:4.33     Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live?
 dt:4.34     Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with his strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the LORD, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
 dt:4.35     All this you were allowed to see that you might know the LORD is God and there is no other.
 dt:4.36     Out of the heavens he let you hear his voice to discipline you; on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard him speaking out of the fire.
 dt:4.37     For love of your fathers he chose their descendants and personally led you out of Egypt by his great power,
 dt:4.38     driving out of your way nations greater and mightier than you, so as to bring you in and to make their land your heritage, as it is today.
 dt:4.39     This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.
 dt:4.40     You must keep his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you forever."
 dt:4.41     Then Moses set apart three cities in the region east of the Jordan,
 dt:4.42     that a homicide might take refuge there if he unwittingly killed his neighbor to whom he had previously borne no malice, and that he might save his life by fleeing to one of these cities:
 dt:4.43     Bezer in the desert, in the region of the plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.
 dt:4.44     This is the law which Moses set before the Israelites.
 dt:4.45     These are the ordinances, statutes and decrees which he proclaimed to them when they had come out of Egypt
 dt:4.46     and were beyond the Jordan in the ravine opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and whom Moses and the Israelites defeated after coming out of Egypt.
 dt:4.47     They occupied his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan, as well--the land of these two kings of the Amorites in the region east of the Jordan:
 dt:4.48     from Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon to Mount Sion (that is Hermon)
 dt:4.49     and all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Arabah Sea under the slopes of Pisgah.
  
 dt:5.1      Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and decrees which I proclaim in your hearing this day, that you may learn them and take care to observe them.
 dt:5.2      The LORD, our God, made a covenant with us at Horeb;
 dt:5.3      not with our fathers did he make this covenant, but with us, all of us who are alive here this day.
 dt:5.4      The LORD spoke with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
 dt:5.5      Since you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain, I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to announce to you these words of the LORD:
 dt:5.6      'I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.
 dt:5.7      You shall not have other gods besides me.
 dt:5.8      You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;
 dt:5.9      you shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishments for their fathers' wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation
 dt:5.10     but bestowing mercy, down to the thousandth generation, on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments.
 dt:5.11     'You shall not take the name of the LORD, your God, in vain. For the LORD will not leave unpunished him who takes his name in vain.
 dt:5.12     'Take care to keep holy the sabbath day as the LORD, your God, commanded you.
 dt:5.13     Six days you may labor and do all your work;
 dt:5.14     but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD, your God. No work may be done then, whether by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or ass or any of your beasts, or the alien who lives with you. Your male and female slave should rest as you do.
 dt:5.15     For remember that you too were once slaves in Egypt, and the LORD, your God, brought you from there with his strong hand and outstretched arm. That is why the LORD, your God, has commanded you to observe the sabbath day.
 dt:5.16     'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD, your God, has commanded you, that you may have a long life and prosperity in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you.
 dt:5.17     'You shall not kill.
 dt:5.18     'You shall not commit adultery.
 dt:5.19     'You shall not steal.
 dt:5.20     'You shall not bear dishonest witness against your neighbor.
 dt:5.21     'You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. 'You shall not desire your neighbor's house or field, nor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass, nor anything that belongs to him.'
 dt:5.22     "These words, and nothing more, the LORD spoke with a loud voice to your entire assembly on the mountain from the midst of the fire and the dense cloud. He wrote them upon two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
 dt:5.23     But when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, you came to me in the person of all your tribal heads and elders,
 dt:5.24     and said, 'The LORD, our God, has indeed let us see his glory and his majesty! We have heard his voice from the midst of the fire and have found out today that a man can still live after God has spoken with him.
 dt:5.25     But why should we die now? Surely this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD, our God, any more, we shall die.
 dt:5.26     For what mortal has heard, as we have, the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of fire, and survived?
 dt:5.27     Go closer, you, and hear all that the LORD, our God, will say, and then tell us what the LORD, our God, tells you; we will listen and obey.'
 dt:5.28     "The LORD heard your words as you were speaking to me and said to me, 'I have heard the words these people have spoken to you, which are all well said.
 dt:5.29     Would that they might always be of such a mind, to fear me and to keep all my commandments! Then they and their descendants would prosper forever.
 dt:5.30     Go, tell them to return to their tents.
 dt:5.31     Then you wait here near me and I will give you all the commandments, the statutes and decrees you must teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.'
 dt:5.32     "Be careful, therefore, to do as the LORD, your God, has commanded you, not turning aside to the right or to the left,
 dt:5.33     but following exactly the way prescribed for you by the LORD, your God, that you may live and prosper, and may have long life in the land which you are to occupy.
  
 dt:6.1      "These then are the commandments, the statutes and decrees which the LORD, your God, has ordered that you be taught to observe in the land into which you are crossing for conquest,
 dt:6.2      so that you and your son and your grandson may fear the LORD, your God, and keep, throughout the days of your lives, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life.
 dt:6.3      Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that you may grow and prosper the more, in keeping with the promise of the LORD, the God of your fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey.
 dt:6.4      "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone!
 dt:6.5      Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.
 dt:6.6      Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today.
 dt:6.7      Drill them into your children. Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest.
 dt:6.8      Bind them at your wrist as a sign and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.
 dt:6.9      Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
 dt:6.10      "When the LORD, your God, brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that he would give you, a land with fine, large cities that you did not build,
 dt:6.11      with houses full of goods of all sorts that you did not garner, with cisterns that you did not dig, with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant; and when, therefore, you eat your fill,
 dt:6.12      take care not to forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.
 dt:6.13      The LORD, your God, shall you fear; him shall you serve, and by his name shall you swear.
 dt:6.14      You shall not follow other gods, such as those of the surrounding nations,
 dt:6.15      lest the wrath of the LORD, your God, flare up against you and he destroy you from the face of the land; for the LORD, your God, who is in your midst, is a jealous God.
 dt:6.16      "You shall not put the LORD, your God, to the test, as you did at Massah.
 dt:6.17      But keep the commandments of the LORD, your God, and the ordinances and statutes he has enjoined on you.
 dt:6.18      Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that you may, according to his word, prosper, and may enter in and possess the good land which the LORD promised on oath to your fathers,
 dt:6.19      thrusting all your enemies out of your way.
 dt:6.20      "Later on, when your son asks you what these ordinances, statutes and decrees mean which the LORD, our God, has enjoined on you,
 dt:6.21      you shall say to your son, 'We were once slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with his strong hand
 dt:6.22      and wrought before our eyes signs and wonders, great and dire, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and his whole house.
 dt:6.23      He brought us from there to lead us into the land he promised on oath to our fathers, and to give it to us.
 dt:6.24      Therefore, the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes in fear of the LORD, our God, that we may always have as prosperous and happy a life as we have today;
 dt:6.25      and our justice before the LORD, our God, is to consist in carefully observing all these commandments he has enjoined on us.'
  
 dt:7.1      "When the LORD, your God, brings you into the land which you are to enter and occupy, and dislodges great nations before you--the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites: seven nations more numerous and powerful than you--
 dt:7.2      and when the LORD, your God, delivers them up to you and you defeat them, you shall doom them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.
 dt:7.3      You shall not intermarry with them, neither giving your daughters to their sons nor taking their daughters for your sons.
 dt:7.4      For they would turn your sons from following me to serving other gods, and then the wrath of the LORD would flare up against you and quickly destroy you.
 dt:7.5      "But this is how you must deal with them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their sacred poles, and destroy their idols by fire.
 dt:7.6      For you are a people sacred to the LORD, your God; he has chosen you from all the nations on the face of the earth to be a people peculiarly his own.
 dt:7.7      It was not because you are the largest of all nations that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you, for you are really the smallest of all nations.
 dt:7.8      It was because the LORD loved you and because of his fidelity to the oath he had sworn to your fathers, that he brought you out with his strong hand from the place of slavery, and ransomed you from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
 dt:7.9      Understand, then, that the LORD, your God, is God indeed, the faithful God who keeps his merciful covenant down to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his commandments,
 dt:7.10     but who repays with destruction the person who hates him; he does not dally with such a one, but makes him personally pay for it.
 dt:7.11     You shall therefore carefully observe the commandments, the statutes and the decrees which I enjoin on you today.
 dt:7.12     "As your reward for heeding these decrees and observing them carefully, the LORD, your God, will keep with you the merciful covenant which he promised on oath to your fathers.
 dt:7.13     He will love and bless and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your soil, your grain and wine and oil, the issue of your herds and the young of your flocks, in the land which he swore to your fathers he would give you.
 dt:7.14     You will be blessed above all peoples; no man or woman among you shall be childless nor shall your livestock be barren.
 dt:7.15     The LORD will remove all sickness from you; he will not afflict you with any of the malignant diseases that you know from Egypt, but will leave them with all your enemies.
 dt:7.16     "You shall consume all the nations which the LORD, your God, will deliver up to you. You are not to look on them with pity, lest you be ensnared into serving their gods.
 dt:7.17     Perhaps you will say to yourselves, 'These nations are greater than we. How can we dispossess them?'
 dt:7.18     But do not be afraid of them. Rather, call to mind what the LORD, your God, did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
 dt:7.19     the great testings which your own eyes have seen, the signs and wonders, his strong hand and outstretched arm with which the LORD, your God, brought you out. The same also will he do to all the nations of whom you are now afraid.
 dt:7.20     Moreover, the LORD, your God, will send hornets among them, until the survivors who have hidden from you are destroyed.
 dt:7.21     Therefore, do not be terrified by them, for the LORD, your God, who is in your midst, is a great and awesome God.
 dt:7.22     He will dislodge these nations before you little by little. You cannot exterminate them all at once, lest the wild beasts become too numerous for you.
 dt:7.23     The LORD, your God, will deliver them up to you and will rout them utterly until they are annihilated.
 dt:7.24     He will deliver their kings into your hand, that you may make their names perish from under the heavens. No man will be able to stand up against you, till you have put an end to them.
 dt:7.25     The images of their gods you shall destroy by fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD, your God.
 dt:7.26     You shall not bring any abominable thing into your house, lest you be doomed with it; loathe and abhor it utterly as a thing that is doomed.
  
 dt:8.1      "Be careful to observe all the commandments I enjoin on you today, that you may live and increase, and may enter in and possess the land which the LORD promised on oath to your fathers.
 dt:8.2      Remember how for forty years now the LORD, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments.
 dt:8.3      He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD.
 dt:8.4      The clothing did not fall from you in tatters, nor did your feet swell these forty years.
 dt:8.5      So you must realize that the LORD, your God, disciplines you even as a man disciplines his son.
 dt:8.6      "Therefore, keep the commandments of the LORD, your God, by walking in his ways and fearing him.
 dt:8.7      For the LORD, your God, is bringing you into a good country, a land with streams of water, with springs and fountains welling up in the hills and valleys,
 dt:8.8      a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, of olive trees and of honey,
 dt:8.9      a land where you can eat bread without stint and where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones contain iron and in whose hills you can mine copper.
 dt:8.10     But when you have eaten your fill, you must bless the LORD, your God, for the good country he has given you.
 dt:8.11     Be careful not to forget the LORD, your God, by neglecting his commandments and decrees and statutes which I enjoin on you today:
 dt:8.12     lest, when you have eaten your fill, and have built fine houses and lived in them,
 dt:8.13     and have increased your herds and flocks, your silver and gold, and all your property,
 dt:8.14     you then become haughty of heart and unmindful of the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery;
 dt:8.15     who guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock
 dt:8.16     and fed you in the desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers, that he might afflict you and test you, but also make you prosperous in the end.
 dt:8.17     Otherwise, you might say to yourselves, 'It is my own power and the strength of my own hand that has obtained for me this wealth.'
 dt:8.18     Remember then, it is the LORD, your God, who gives you the power to acquire wealth, by fulfilling, as he has now done, the covenant which he swore to your fathers.
 dt:8.19     But if you forget the LORD, your God, and follow other gods, serving and worshiping them, I forewarn you this day that you will perish utterly.
 dt:8.20     Like the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so shall you too perish for not heeding the voice of the LORD, your God.
  
 dt:9.1      "Hear, O Israel! You are now about to cross the Jordan to enter in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourselves, having large cities fortified to the sky,
 dt:9.2      the Anakim, a people great and tall. You know of them and have heard it said of them, 'Who can stand up against the Anakim?'
 dt:9.3      Understand, then, today that it is the LORD, your God, who will cross over before you as a consuming fire; he it is who will reduce them to nothing and subdue them before you, so that you can drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD promised you.
 dt:9.4      After the LORD, your God, has thrust them out of your way, do not say to yourselves, 'It is because of my merits that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; for it is really because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
 dt:9.5      No, it is not because of your merits or the integrity of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land; but the LORD, your God, is driving these nations out before you on account of their wickedness and in order to keep the promise which he made on oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
 dt:9.6      Understand this, therefore: it is not because of your merits that the LORD, your God, is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
 dt:9.7      "Bear in mind and do not forget how you angered the LORD, your God, in the desert. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you arrived in this place, you have been rebellious toward the LORD.
 dt:9.8      At Horeb you so provoked the LORD that he was angry enough to destroy you,
 dt:9.9      when I had gone up the mountain to receive the stone tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you. Meanwhile I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights without eating or drinking,
 dt:9.10     till the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone inscribed, by God's own finger, with a copy of all the words that the LORD spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
 dt:9.11     Then, at the end of the forty days and forty nights, when the LORD had given me the two stone tablets of the covenant,
 dt:9.12     he said to me, 'Go down from here now, quickly, for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have become depraved; they have already turned aside from the way I pointed out to them and have made for themselves a molten idol.
 dt:9.13     I have seen now how stiff-necked this people is,' the LORD said to me.
 dt:9.14     'Let me be, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. I will then make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
 dt:9.15     "When I had come down again from the blazing, fiery mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in both my hands,
 dt:9.16     I saw how you had sinned against the LORD, your God: you had already turned aside from the way which the LORD had pointed out to you by making for yourselves a molten calf!
 dt:9.17     Raising the two tablets with both hands I threw them from me and broke them before your eyes.
 dt:9.18     Then, as before, I lay prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights without eating or drinking, because of all the sin you had committed in the sight of the LORD and the evil you had done to provoke him.
 dt:9.19     For I dreaded the fierce anger of the LORD against you: his wrath would destroy you. Yet once again the LORD listened to me.
 dt:9.20     With Aaron, too, the LORD was deeply angry, and would have killed him had I not prayed for him also at that time.
 dt:9.21     Then, taking the calf, the sinful object you had made, and fusing it with fire, I ground it down to powder as fine as dust, which I threw into the wadi that went down the mountainside.
 dt:9.22     "At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah likewise, you provoked the LORD to anger.
 dt:9.23     And when he sent you up from Kadesh-barnea to take possession of the land he was giving you, you rebelled against this command of the LORD, your God, and would not trust or obey him.
 dt:9.24     Ever since I have known you, you have been rebels against the LORD.
 dt:9.25     "Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the LORD, because he had threatened to destroy you.
 dt:9.26     This was my prayer to him: O Lord GOD, destroy not your people, the heritage which your majesty has ransomed and brought out of Egypt with your strong hand.
 dt:9.27     Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Look not upon the stubbornness of this people nor upon their wickedness and sin,
 dt:9.28     lest the people from whose land you have brought us say, 'The LORD was not able to bring them into the land he promised them'; or 'Out of hatred for them, he brought them out to slay them in the desert.'
 dt:9.29     They are, after all, your people and your heritage, whom you have brought out by your great power and with your outstretched arm.
  
 dt:10.1     "At that time the LORD said to me, 'Cut two tablets of stone like the former; then come up the mountain to me. Also make an ark of wood.
 dt:10.2     I will write upon the tablets the commandments that were on the former tablets that you broke, and you shall place them in the ark.'
 dt:10.3     So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the former, and went up the mountain carrying the two tablets.
 dt:10.4     The LORD then wrote on them, as he had written before, the ten commandments which he spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. After the LORD had given them to me,
 dt:10.5     I turned and came down the mountain, and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. There they have remained, in keeping with the command the LORD gave me.
 dt:10.6     (The Israelites set out from Beeroth Bene-jaakan for Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, his son Eleazar succeeding him in the priestly office.
 dt:10.7     From there they set out for Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah for Jotbathah, a region where there is water in the wadies.)
 dt:10.8     "At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to be in attendance before the LORD and minister to him, and to give blessings in his name, as they have done to this day.
 dt:10.9     For this reason, Levi has no share in the heritage with his brothers; the LORD himself is his heritage, as the LORD, your God, has told him.
 dt:10.10    "After I had spent these other forty days and forty nights on the mountain, and the LORD had once again heard me and decided not to destroy you,
 dt:10.11    he said to me, 'Go now and set out at the head of your people, that they may enter in and occupy the land which I swore to their fathers I would give them.'
 dt:10.12    "And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul,
 dt:10.13    to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD which I enjoin on you today for your own good?
 dt:10.14    Think! The heavens, even the highest heavens, belong to the LORD, your God, as well as the earth and everything on it.
 dt:10.15    Yet in his love for your fathers the LORD was so attached to them as to choose you, their descendants, in preference to all other peoples, as indeed he has now done.
 dt:10.16    Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and be no longer stiff-necked.
 dt:10.17    For the LORD, your God, is the God of gods, the LORD of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who has no favorites, accepts no bribes;
 dt:10.18    who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and befriends the alien, feeding and clothing him.
 dt:10.19    So you too must befriend the alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
 dt:10.20    The LORD, your God, shall you fear, and him shall you serve; hold fast to him and swear by his name.
 dt:10.21    He is your glory, he, your God, who has done for you those great and terrible things which your own eyes have seen.
 dt:10.22    Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy strong, and now the LORD, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.
  
 dt:11.1     "Love the LORD, your God, therefore, and always heed his charge: his statutes, decrees and commandments.
 dt:11.2     It is not your children, who have not known it from experience, but you yourselves who must now understand the discipline of the LORD, your God; his majesty, his strong hand and outstretched arm;
 dt:11.3     the signs and deeds he wrought among the Egyptians, on Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and on all his land;
 dt:11.4     what he did to the Egyptian army and to their horses and chariots, engulfing them in the water of the Red Sea as they pursued you, and bringing ruin upon them even to this day;
 dt:11.5     what he did for you in the desert until you arrived in this place;
 dt:11.6     and what he did to the Reubenites Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, when the ground opened its mouth and swallowed them up out of the midst of Israel, with their families and tents and every living thing that belonged to them.
 dt:11.7     With your own eyes you have seen all these great deeds that the LORD has done.
 dt:11.8     Keep all the commandments, then, which I enjoin on you today, that you may be strong enough to enter in and take possession of the land into which you are crossing,
 dt:11.9     and that you may have long life on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers he would give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
 dt:11.10    "For the land which you are to enter and occupy is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you would sow your seed and then water it by hand, as in a vegetable garden.
 dt:11.11    No, the land into which you are crossing for conquest is a land of hills and valleys that drinks in rain from the heavens,
 dt:11.12    a land which the LORD, your God, looks after; his eyes are upon it continually from the beginning of the year to the end.
 dt:11.13    If, then, you truly heed my commandments which I enjoin on you today, loving and serving the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul,
 dt:11.14    I will give the seasonal rain to your land, the early rain and the late rain, that you may have your grain, wine and oil to gather in;
 dt:11.15    and I will bring forth grass in your fields for your animals. Thus you may eat your fill.
 dt:11.16    But be careful lest your heart be so lured away that you serve other gods and worship them.
 dt:11.17    For then the wrath of the LORD will flare up against you and he will close up the heavens, so that no rain will fall, and the soil will not yield its crops, and you will soon perish from the good land he is giving you.
 dt:11.18    "Therefore, take these words of mine into your heart and soul. Bind them at your wrist as a sign, and let them be a pendant on your forehead.
 dt:11.19    Teach them to your children, speaking of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest.
 dt:11.20    And write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,
 dt:11.21    so that, as long as the heavens are above the earth, you and your children may live on in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers he would give them.
 dt:11.22    "For if you are careful to observe all these commandments I enjoin on you, loving the LORD, your God, and following his ways exactly, and holding fast to him,
 dt:11.23    the LORD will drive all these nations out of your way, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
 dt:11.24    Every place where you set foot shall be yours: from the desert and from Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.
 dt:11.25    None shall stand up against you; the LORD, your God, will spread the fear and dread of you through any land where you set foot, as he promised you.
 dt:11.26    "I set before you here, this day, a blessing and a curse:
 dt:11.27    a blessing for obeying the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today;
 dt:11.28    a curse if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, but turn aside from the way I ordain for you today, to follow other gods, whom you have not known.
 dt:11.29    When the LORD, your God, brings you into the land which you are to enter and occupy, then you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim, the curse on Mount Ebal.
 dt:11.30    (Are they not beyond the Jordan, on the other side of the western road in the country of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite the Gilgal beside the terebinth of Moreh?)
 dt:11.31    For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and occupy the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you. When, therefore, you take possession of it and settle there,
 dt:11.32    be careful to observe all the statutes and decrees that I set before you today.
  
 dt:12.1     "These are the statutes and decrees which you must be careful to observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to occupy, as long as you live on its soil.
 dt:12.2     Destroy without fail every place on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every leafy tree where the nations you are to dispossess worship their gods.
 dt:12.3     Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, destroy by fire their sacred poles, and shatter the idols of their gods, that you may stamp out the remembrance of them in any such place.
 dt:12.4     "That is not how you are to worship the LORD, your God.
 dt:12.5     Instead, you shall resort to the place which the LORD, your God, chooses out of all your tribes and designates as his dwelling
 dt:12.6     and there you shall bring your holocausts and sacrifices, your tithes and personal contributions, your votive and freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks.
 dt:12.7     There, too, before the LORD, your God, you and your families shall eat and make merry over all your undertakings, because the LORD, your God, has blessed you.
 dt:12.8     You shall not do as we are now doing; here, everyone does what seems right to himself,
 dt:12.9     since you have not yet reached your resting place, the heritage which the LORD, your God, will give you.
 dt:12.10    But after you have crossed the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you as a heritage, when he has given you rest from all your enemies round about and you live there in security,
 dt:12.11    then to the place which the LORD, your God, chooses as the dwelling place for his name you shall bring all the offerings I command you: your holocausts and sacrifices, your tithes and personal contributions, and every special offering you have vowed to the LORD.
 dt:12.12    You shall make merry before the LORD, your God, with your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, as well as with the Levite who belongs to your community but has no share of his own in your heritage.
 dt:12.13    Take care not to offer up your holocausts in any place you fancy,
 dt:12.14    but offer them up in the place which the LORD chooses from among your tribes; there you shall make whatever offerings I enjoin upon you.
 dt:12.15    "However, in any of your communities you may slaughter and eat to your heart's desire as much meat as the LORD, your God, has blessed you with; and the unclean as well as the clean may eat it, as they do the gazelle or the deer.
 dt:12.16    Only, you shall not partake of the blood, but must pour it out on the ground like water.
 dt:12.17    Moreover, you shall not, in your own communities, partake of your tithe of grain or wine or oil, of the first-born of your herd or flock, of any offering you have vowed, of your freewill offerings, or of your personal contributions.
 dt:12.18    These you must eat before the LORD, your God, in the place he chooses, along with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who belongs to your community; and there, before the LORD, you shall make merry over all your undertakings.
 dt:12.19    Take care, also, that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in the land.
 dt:12.20    "After the LORD, your God, has enlarged your territory, as he promised you, when you wish meat for food, you may eat it at will, to your heart's desire;
 dt:12.21    and if the place which the LORD, your God, chooses for the abode of his name is too far, you may slaughter in the manner I have told you any of your herd or flock that the LORD has given you, and eat it to your heart's desire in your own community.
 dt:12.22    You may eat it as you would the gazelle or the deer: the unclean and the clean eating it alike.
 dt:12.23    But make sure that you do not partake of the blood; for blood is life, and you shall not consume this seat of life with the flesh.
 dt:12.24    Do not partake of the blood, therefore, but pour it out on the ground like water.
 dt:12.25    Abstain from it, that you and your children after you may prosper for doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.
 dt:12.26    However, any sacred gifts or votive offerings that you may have, you shall bring with you to the place which the LORD chooses,
 dt:12.27    and there you must offer both the flesh and the blood of your holocausts on the altar of the LORD, your God; of your other sacrifices the blood indeed must be poured out against the altar of the LORD, your God, but their flesh may be eaten.
 dt:12.28    Be careful to heed all these commandments I enjoin on you, that you and your descendants may always prosper for doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD, your God.
 dt:12.29    "When the LORD, your God, removes the nations from your way as you advance to dispossess them, be on your guard! Otherwise, once they have been wiped out before you and you have replaced them and are settled in their land,
 dt:12.30    you will be lured into following them. Do not inquire regarding their gods, 'How did these nations worship their gods? I, too, would do the same.'
 dt:12.31    You shall not thus worship the LORD, your God, because they offered to their gods every abomination that the LORD detests, even burning their sons and daughters to their gods.
  
 dt:13.1     "Every command that I enjoin on you, you shall be careful to observe, neither adding to it nor subtracting from it.
 dt:13.2     "If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer who promises you a sign or wonder,
 dt:13.3     urging you to follow other gods, whom you have not known, and to serve them: even though the sign or wonder he has foretold you comes to pass,
 dt:13.4     pay no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer; for the LORD, your God, is testing you to learn whether you really love him with all your heart and with all your soul.
 dt:13.5     The LORD, your God, shall you follow, and him shall you fear; his commandment shall you observe, and his voice shall you heed, serving him and holding fast to him alone.
 dt:13.6     But that prophet or that dreamer shall be put to death, because, in order to lead you astray from the way which the LORD, your God, has directed you to take, he has preached apostasy from the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and ransomed you from that place of slavery. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
 dt:13.7     "If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or your intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known,
 dt:13.8     gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other:
 dt:13.9     do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him,
 dt:13.10    but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you.
 dt:13.11    You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.
 dt:13.12    And all Israel, hearing of it, shall fear and never again do such evil as this in your midst.
 dt:13.13    "If, in any of the cities which the LORD, your God, gives you to dwell in, you hear it said
 dt:13.14    that certain scoundrels have sprung up among you and have led astray the inhabitants of their city to serve other gods whom you have not known,
 dt:13.15    you must inquire carefully into the matter and investigate it thoroughly. If you find that it is true and an established fact that this abomination has been committed in your midst,
 dt:13.16    you shall put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, dooming the city and all life that is in it, even its cattle, to the sword.
 dt:13.17    Having heaped up all its spoils in the middle of its square, you shall burn the city with all its spoils as a whole burnt offering to the LORD, your God. Let it be a heap of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.
 dt:13.18    You shall not retain anything that is doomed, that the blazing wrath of the LORD may die down and he may show you mercy and in his mercy for you may multiply you as he promised your fathers on oath;
 dt:13.19    because you have heeded the voice of the LORD, your God, keeping all his commandments which I enjoin on you today, doing what is right in his sight.
  
 dt:14.1     "You are children of the LORD, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.
 dt:14.2     For you are a people sacred to the LORD, your God, who has chosen you from all the nations on the face of the earth to be a people peculiarly his own.
 dt:14.3     "You shall not eat any abominable thing.
 dt:14.4     These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
 dt:14.5     the red deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the ibex, the addax, the oryx, and the mountain sheep.
 dt:14.6     Any animal that has hoofs you may eat, provided it is cloven-footed and chews the cud.
 dt:14.7     But you shall not eat any of the following that only chew the cud or only have cloven hoofs: the camel, the hare and the rock badger, which indeed chew the cud, but do not have hoofs and are therefore unclean for you;
 dt:14.8     and the pig, which indeed has hoofs and is cloven-footed, but does not chew the cud and is therefore unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch.
 dt:14.9     "Of the various creatures that live in the water, whatever has both fins and scales you may eat,
 dt:14.10    but all those that lack either fins or scales you shall not eat; they are unclean for you.
 dt:14.11    "You may eat all clean birds.
 dt:14.12    But you shall not eat any of the following: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,
 dt:14.13    the various kites and falcons,
 dt:14.14    all the various species of crows,
 dt:14.15    the ostrich, the nightjar, the gull, the various species of hawks,
 dt:14.16    the owl, the screech owl, the ibis,
 dt:14.17    the desert owl, the buzzard, the cormorant,
 dt:14.18    the stork, the various species of herons, the hoopoe, and the bat.
 dt:14.19    All winged insects, too, are unclean for you and shall not be eaten.
 dt:14.20    But you may eat any clean winged creatures.
 dt:14.21    "You must not eat any animal that has died of itself, for you are a people sacred to the LORD, your God. But you may give it to an alien who belongs to your community, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
 dt:14.22    "Each year you shall tithe all the produce that grows in the field you have sown;
 dt:14.23    then in the place which the LORD, your God, chooses as the dwelling place of his name you shall eat in his presence your tithe of the grain, wine and oil, as well as the firstlings of your herd and flock, that you may learn always to fear the LORD, your God.
 dt:14.24    If, however, the journey is too much for you and you are not able to bring your tithe, because the place which the LORD, your God, chooses for the abode of his name is too far for you, considering how the LORD has blessed you,
 dt:14.25    you may exchange the tithe for money and, with the purse of money in hand, go to the place which the LORD, your God, chooses.
 dt:14.26    You may then exchange the money for whatever you desire, oxen or sheep, wine or strong drink, or anything else you would enjoy, and there before the LORD, your God, you shall partake of it and make merry with your family.
 dt:14.27    But do not neglect the Levite who belongs to your community, for he has no share in the heritage with you.
 dt:14.28    "At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithes of your produce for that year and deposit them in community stores,
 dt:14.29    that the Levite who has no share in the heritage with you, and also the alien, the orphan and the widow who belong to your community, may come and eat their fill; so that the LORD, your God, may bless you in all that you undertake.
  
 dt:15.1     "At the end of every seven-year period you shall have a relaxation of debts,
 dt:15.2     which shall be observed as follows. Every creditor shall relax his claim on what he has loaned his neighbor; he must not press his neighbor, his kinsman, because a relaxation in honor of the LORD has been proclaimed.
 dt:15.3     You may press a foreigner, but you shall relax the claim on your kinsman for what is yours.
 dt:15.4     Nay, more! since the LORD, your God, will bless you abundantly in the land he will give you to occupy as your heritage, there should be no one of you in need.
 dt:15.5     If you but heed the voice of the LORD, your God, and carefully observe all these commandments which I enjoin on you today,
 dt:15.6     you will lend to many nations, and borrow from none; you will rule over many nations, and none will rule over you, since the LORD, your God, will bless you as he promised.
 dt:15.7     If one of your kinsmen in any community is in need in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor close your hand to him in his need.
 dt:15.8     Instead, you shall open your hand to him and freely lend him enough to meet his need.
 dt:15.9     Be on your guard lest, entertaining the mean thought that the seventh year, the year of relaxation, is near, you grudge help to your needy kinsman and give him nothing; else he will cry to the LORD against you and you will be held guilty.
 dt:15.10    When you give to him, give freely and not with ill will; for the LORD, your God, will bless you for this in all your works and undertakings.
 dt:15.11    The needy will never be lacking in the land; that is why I command you to open your hand to your poor and needy kinsman in your country.
 dt:15.12    "If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, sells himself to you, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year you shall dismiss him from your service, a free man.
 dt:15.13    When you do so, you shall not send him away empty-handed,
 dt:15.14    but shall weight him down with gifts from your flock and threshing floor and wine press, in proportion to the blessing the LORD, your God, has bestowed on you.
 dt:15.15    For remember that you too were once slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD, your God, ransomed you. That is why I am giving you this command today.
 dt:15.16    If, however, he tells you that he does not wish to leave you, because he is devoted to you and your household, since he fares well with you,
 dt:15.17    you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear into the door, and he shall then be your slave forever. Your female slave, also, you shall treat in the same way.
 dt:15.18    You must not be reluctant to let your slave go free, since the service he has given you for six years was worth twice a hired man's salary; then also the LORD, your God, will bless you in everything you do.
 dt:15.19    "You shall consecrate to the LORD, your God, all the male firstlings of your herd and of your flock. You shall not work the firstlings of your cattle, nor shear the firstlings of your flock.
 dt:15.20    Year after year you and your family shall eat them before the LORD, your God, in the place he chooses.
 dt:15.21    If, however, a firstling is lame or blind or has any other serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD, your God,
 dt:15.22    but in your own communities you may eat it, the unclean and the clean eating it alike, as you would a gazelle or a deer.
 dt:15.23    Only, you shall not partake of its blood, which must be poured out on the ground like water.
  
 dt:16.1     "Observe the month of Abib by keeping the Passover of the LORD, your God, since it was in the month of Abib that he brought you by night out of Egypt.
 dt:16.2     You shall offer the Passover sacrifice from your flock or your herd to the LORD, your God, in the place which he chooses as the dwelling place of his name.
 dt:16.3     You shall not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you shall eat with it only unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, that you may remember as long as you live the day of your departure from the land of Egypt; for in frightened haste you left the land of Egypt.
 dt:16.4     Nothing leavened may be found in all your territory for seven days, and none of the meat which you sacrificed on the evening of the first day shall be kept overnight for the next day.
 dt:16.5     "You may not sacrifice the Passover in any of the communities which the LORD, your God, gives you;
 dt:16.6     only at the place which he chooses as the dwelling place of his name, and in the evening at sunset, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt, shall you sacrifice the Passover.
 dt:16.7     You shall cook and eat it at the place the LORD, your God, chooses; then in the morning you may return to your tents.
 dt:16.8     For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh there shall be a solemn meeting in honor of the LORD, your God; on that day you shall not do any sort of work.
 dt:16.9     "You shall count off seven weeks, computing them from the day when the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
 dt:16.10    You shall then keep the feast of Weeks in honor of the LORD, your God, and the measure of your own freewill offering shall be in proportion to the blessing the LORD, your God, has bestowed on you.
 dt:16.11    In the place which the LORD, your God, chooses as the dwelling place of his name, you shall make merry in his presence together with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who belongs to your community, as well as the alien, the orphan and the widow among you.
 dt:16.12    Remember that you too were once slaves in Egypt, and carry out these statutes carefully.
 dt:16.13    "You shall celebrate the feast of Booths for seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and wine press.
 dt:16.14    You shall make merry at your feast, together with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and also the Levite, the alien, the orphan and the widow who belong to your community.
 dt:16.15    For seven days you shall celebrate this pilgrim feast in honor of the LORD, your God, in the place which he chooses; since the LORD, your God, has blessed you in all your crops and in all your undertakings, you shall do nought but make merry.
 dt:16.16    "Three times a year, then, every male among you shall appear before the LORD, your God, in the place which he chooses: at the feast of Unleavened Bread, at the feast of Weeks, and at the feast of Booths. No one shall appear before the LORD empty-handed,
 dt:16.17    but each of you with as much as he can give, in proportion to the blessings which the LORD, your God, has bestowed on you.
 dt:16.18    "You shall appoint judges and officials throughout your tribes to administer true justice for the people in all the communities which the LORD, your God, is giving you.
 dt:16.19    You shall not distort justice; you must be impartial. You shall not take a bribe; for a bribe blinds the eyes even of the wise and twists the words even of the just.
 dt:16.20    Justice and justice alone shall be your aim, that you may have life and may possess the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you.
 dt:16.21    "You shall not plant a sacred pole of any kind of wood beside the altar of the LORD, your God, which you will build;
 dt:16.22    nor shall you erect a sacred pillar, such as the LORD, your God, detests.
  
 dt:17.1     "You shall not sacrifice to the LORD, your God, from the herd or from the flock an animal with any serious defect; that would be an abomination to the LORD, your God.
 dt:17.2     "If there is found among you, in any one of the communities which the LORD, your God, gives you, a man or a woman who does evil in the sight of the LORD, your God, and transgresses his covenant,
 dt:17.3     by serving other gods, or by worshiping the sun or the moon or any of the host of the sky, against my command;
 dt:17.4     and if, on being informed of it, you find by careful investigation that it is true and an established fact that this abomination has been committed in Israel:
 dt:17.5     you shall bring the man (or woman) who has done the evil deed out to your city gates and stone him to death.
 dt:17.6     The testimony of two or three witnesses is required for putting a person to death; no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
 dt:17.7     At the execution, the witnesses are to be the first to raise their hands against him; afterward all the people are to join in. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
 dt:17.8     "If in your own community there is a case at issue which proves too complicated for you to decide, in a matter of bloodshed or of civil rights or of personal injury, you shall then go up to the place which the LORD, your God, chooses,
 dt:17.9     to the levitical priests or to the judge who is in office at that time. They shall study the case and then hand down to you their decision.
 dt:17.10    According to this decision that they give you in the place which the LORD chooses, you shall act, being careful to do exactly as they direct.
 dt:17.11    You shall carry out the directions they give you and the verdict they pronounce for you, without turning aside to the right or to the left from the decision they hand down to you.
 dt:17.12    Any man who has the insolence to refuse to listen to the priest who officiates there in the ministry of the LORD, your God, or to the judge, shall die. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
 dt:17.13    And all the people, on hearing of it, shall fear, and never again be so insolent.
 dt:17.14    "When you have come into the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you, and have occupied it and settled in it, should you then decide to have a king over you like all the surrounding nations,
 dt:17.15    you shall set that man over you as your king whom the LORD, your God, chooses. He whom you set over you as king must be your kinsman; a foreigner, who is no kin of yours, you may not set over you.
 dt:17.16    But he shall not have a great number of horses; nor shall he make his people go back again to Egypt to acquire them, against the LORD'S warning that you must never go back that way again.
 dt:17.17    Neither shall he have a great number of wives, lest his heart be estranged, nor shall he accumulate a vast amount of silver and gold.
 dt:17.18    When he is enthroned in his kingdom, he shall have a copy of this law made from the scroll that is in the custody of the levitical priests.
 dt:17.19    He shall keep it with him and read it all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD, his God, and to heed and fulfill all the words of this law and these statutes.
 dt:17.20    Let him not become estranged from his countrymen through pride, nor turn aside to the right or to the left from these commandments. Then he and his descendants will enjoy a long reign in Israel.
  
 dt:18.1     "The whole priestly tribe of Levi shall have no share in the heritage with Israel; they shall live on the oblations of the LORD and the portions due to him.
 dt:18.2     Levi shall have no heritage among his brothers; the LORD himself is his heritage, as he has told him.
 dt:18.3     The priests shall have a right to the following things from the people: from those who are offering a sacrifice, whether the victim is from the herd or from the flock, the priest shall receive the shoulder, the jowls and the stomach.
 dt:18.4     You shall also give him the first fruits of your grain and wine and oil, as well as the first fruits of the shearing of your flock;
 dt:18.5     for the LORD, your God, has chosen him and his sons out of all your tribes to be always in attendance to minister in the name of the LORD.
 dt:18.6     "When a Levite goes from one of your communities anywhere in Israel in which he ordinarily resides, to visit, as his heart may desire, the place which the LORD chooses,
 dt:18.7     he may minister there in the name of the LORD, his God, like all his fellow Levites who are in attendance there before the LORD.
 dt:18.8     He shall then receive the same portions to eat as the rest, along with his monetary offerings and heirlooms.
 dt:18.9     "When you come into the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of the peoples there.
 dt:18.10    Let there not be found among you anyone who immolates his son or daughter in the fire, nor a fortune-teller, soothsayer, charmer, diviner,
 dt:18.11    or caster of spells, nor one who consults ghosts and spirits or seeks oracles from the dead.
 dt:18.12    Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of such abominations the LORD, your God, is driving these nations out of your way.
 dt:18.13    You, however, must be altogether sincere toward the LORD, your God.
 dt:18.14    Though these nations whom you are to dispossess listen to their soothsayers and fortune-tellers, the LORD, your God, will not permit you to do so.
 dt:18.15    "A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own kinsmen; to him you shall listen.
 dt:18.16    This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let us not again hear the voice of the LORD, our God, nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.'
 dt:18.17    And the LORD said to me, 'This was well said.
 dt:18.18    I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kinsmen, and will put my words into his mouth; he shall tell them all that I command him.
 dt:18.19    If any man will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name, I myself will make him answer for it.
 dt:18.20    But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.'
 dt:18.21    "If you say to yourselves, 'How can we recognize an oracle which the LORD has spoken?',
 dt:18.22    know that, even though a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if his oracle is not fulfilled or verified, it is an oracle which the LORD did not speak. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously, and you shall have no fear of him.
  
 dt:19.1     "When the LORD, your God, removes the nations whose land he is giving you, and you have taken their place and are settled in their cities and houses,
 dt:19.2     you shall set apart three cities in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you to occupy.
 dt:19.3     You shall thereby divide into three regions the land which the LORD, your God, will give you as a heritage, and so arrange the routes that every homicide will be able to find a refuge.
 dt:19.4     "It is in the following case that a homicide may take refuge in such a place to save his life: when someone unwittingly kills his neighbor to whom he had previously borne no malice.
 dt:19.5     For example, if he goes with his neighbor to a forest to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, its head flies off the handle and hits his neighbor a mortal blow, he may take refuge in one of these cities to save his life.
 dt:19.6     Should the distance be too great, the avenger of blood may in the heat of his anger pursue the homicide and overtake him and strike him dead, even though he does not merit death since he had previously borne the slain man no malice.
 dt:19.7     That is why I order you to set apart three cities.
 dt:19.8     "But if the LORD, your God, enlarges your territory, as he swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land he promised your fathers he would give
 dt:19.9     in the event that you carefully observe all these commandments which I enjoin on you today, loving the LORD, your God, and ever walking in his ways: then add three cities to these three.
 dt:19.10    Thus, in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you as a heritage, innocent blood will not be shed and you will not become guilty of bloodshed.
 dt:19.11    "However, if someone lies in wait for his neighbor out of hatred for him, and rising up against him, strikes him mortally, and then takes refuge in one of these cities,
 dt:19.12    the elders of his own city shall send for him and have him taken from there, and shall hand him over to be slain by the avenger of blood.
 dt:19.13    Do not look on him with pity, but purge from Israel the stain of shedding innocent blood, that you may prosper.
 dt:19.14    "You shall not move your neighbor's landmarks erected by your forefathers in the heritage you receive in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you to occupy.
 dt:19.15    "One witness alone shall not take the stand against a man in regard to any crime or any offense of which he may be guilty; a judicial fact shall be established only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
 dt:19.16    "If an unjust witness takes the stand against a man to accuse him of a defection from the law,
 dt:19.17    the two parties in the dispute shall appear before the LORD in the presence of the priests or judges in office at that time;
 dt:19.18    and if after a thorough investigation the judges find that the witness is a false witness and has accused his kinsman falsely,
 dt:19.19    you shall do to him as he planned to do to his kinsman. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
 dt:19.20    The rest, on hearing of it, shall fear, and never again do a thing so evil among you.
 dt:19.21    Do not look on such a man with pity. Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot!
  
 dt:20.1     "When you go out to war against your enemies and you see horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, do not be afraid of them, for the LORD, your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, will be with you.
 dt:20.2     "When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and say to the soldiers:
 dt:20.3     'Hear, O Israel! Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Be not weakhearted or afraid; be neither alarmed nor frightened by them.
 dt:20.4     For it is the LORD, your God, who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies and give you victory.'
 dt:20.5     "Then the officials shall say to the soldiers, 'Is there anyone who has built a new house and not yet had the housewarming? Let him return home, lest he die in battle and another dedicate it.
 dt:20.6     Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard and never yet enjoyed its fruits? Let him return home, lest he die in battle and another enjoy its fruits in his stead.
 dt:20.7     Is there anyone who has betrothed a woman and not yet taken her as his wife? Let him return home, lest he die in battle and another take her to wife.'
 dt:20.8     In fine, the officials shall say to the soldiers, 'Is there anyone who is afraid and weakhearted? Let him return home, lest he make his fellows as fainthearted as himself.'
 dt:20.9     "When the officials have finished speaking to the soldiers, military officers shall be appointed over the army.
 dt:20.10    "When you march up to attack a city, first offer it terms of peace.
 dt:20.11    If it agrees to your terms of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people to be found in it shall serve you in forced labor.
 dt:20.12    But if it refuses to make peace with you and instead offers you battle, lay siege to it,
 dt:20.13    and when the LORD, your God, delivers it into your hand, put every male in it to the sword;
 dt:20.14    but the women and children and livestock and all else in it that is worth plundering you may take as your booty, and you may use this plunder of your enemies which the LORD, your God, has given you.
 dt:20.15    "That is how you shall deal with any city at a considerable distance from you, which does not belong to the peoples of this land.
 dt:20.16    But in the cities of those nations which the LORD, your God, is giving you as your heritage, you shall not leave a single soul alive.
 dt:20.17    You must doom them all-the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites-as the LORD, your God, has commanded you,
 dt:20.18    lest they teach you to make any such abominable offerings as they make to their gods, and you thus sin against the LORD, your God.
 dt:20.19    "When you are at war with a city and have to lay siege to it for a long time before you capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them. You may eat their fruit, but you must not cut down the trees. After all, are the trees of the field men, that they should be included in your siege?
 dt:20.20    However, those trees which you know are not fruit trees you may destroy, cutting them down to build siegeworks with which to reduce the city that is resisting you.
  
 dt:21.1     "If the corpse of a slain man is found lying in the open on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you to occupy, and it is not known who killed him,
 dt:21.2     your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distances to the cities that are in the neighborhood of the corpse.
 dt:21.3     When it is established which city is nearest the corpse, the elders of that city shall take a heifer that has never been put to work as a draft animal under a yoke,
 dt:21.4     and bringing it down to a wadi with an everflowing stream at a place that has not been plowed or sown, they shall cut the heifer's throat there in the wadi.
 dt:21.5     The priests, the descendants of Levi, shall also be present, for the LORD, your God, has chosen them to minister to him and to give blessings in his name, and every case of dispute or violence must be settled by their decision.
 dt:21.6     Then all the elders of that city nearest the corpse shall wash their hands over the heifer whose throat was cut in the wadi,
 dt:21.7     and shall declare, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see the deed.
 dt:21.8     Absolve, O LORD, your people Israel, whom you have ransomed, and let not the guilt of shedding innocent blood remain in the midst of your people Israel.' Thus they shall be absolved from the guilt of bloodshed,
 dt:21.9     and you shall purge from your midst the guilt of innocent blood, that you may prosper for doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.
 dt:21.10    "When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives,
 dt:21.11    if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife,
 dt:21.12    you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails
 dt:21.13    and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife.
 dt:21.14    However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion.
 dt:21.15    "If a man with two wives loves one and dislikes the other; and if both bear him sons, but the first-born is of her whom he dislikes:
 dt:21.16    when he comes to bequeath his property to his sons he may not consider as his first-born the son of the wife he loves, in preference to his true first-born, the son of the wife whom he dislikes.
 dt:21.17    On the contrary, he shall recognize as his first-born the son of her whom he dislikes, giving him a double share of whatever he happens to own, since he is the first fruits of his manhood, and to him belong the rights of the first-born.
 dt:21.18    "If a man has a stubborn and unruly son who will not listen to his father or mother, and will not obey them even though they chastise him,
 dt:21.19    his father and mother shall have him apprehended and brought out to the elders at the gate of his home city,
 dt:21.20    where they shall say to those city elders, 'This son of ours is a stubborn and unruly fellow who will not listen to us; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'
 dt:21.21    Then all his fellow citizens shall stone him to death. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel, on hearing of it, shall fear.
 dt:21.22    "If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his corpse hung on a tree,
 dt:21.23    it shall not remain on the tree overnight. You shall bury it the same day; otherwise, since God's curse rests on him who hangs on a tree, you will defile the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you as an inheritance.
  
 dt:22.1     "You shall not see your kinsman's ox or sheep driven astray without showing concern about it; see to it that it is returned to your kinsman.
 dt:22.2     If this kinsman does not live near you, or you do not know who he may be, take it to your own place and keep it with you until he claims it; then give it back to him.
 dt:22.3     You shall do the same with his ass, or his garment, or anything else which your kinsman loses and you happen to find; you may not be unconcerned about them.
 dt:22.4     You shall not see your kinsman's ass or ox foundering on the road without showing concern about it; see to it that you help him lift it up.
 dt:22.5     "A woman shall not wear an article proper to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's dress; for anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, your God.
 dt:22.6     "If, while walking along, you chance upon a bird's nest with young birds or eggs in it, in any tree or on the ground, and the mother bird is sitting on them, you shall not take away the mother bird along with her brood;
 dt:22.7     you shall let her go, although you may take her brood away. It is thus that you shall have prosperity and a long life.
 dt:22.8     "When you build a new house, put a parapet around the roof; otherwise, if someone falls off, you will bring bloodguilt upon your house.
 dt:22.9     "You shall not sow your vineyard with two different kinds of seed; if you do, its produce shall become forfeit, both the crop you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.
 dt:22.10    You shall not plow with an ox and an ass harnessed together.
 dt:22.11    You shall not wear cloth of two different kinds of thread, wool and linen, woven together.
 dt:22.12    "You shall put twisted cords on the four corners of the cloak that you wrap around you.
 dt:22.13    "If a man, after marrying a woman and having relations with her, comes to dislike her,
 dt:22.14    and makes monstrous charges against her and defames her by saying, 'I married this woman, but when I first had relations with her I did not find her a virgin,'
 dt:22.15    the father and mother of the girl shall take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the elders at the city gate.
 dt:22.16    There the father of the girl shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man in marriage, but he has come to dislike her,
 dt:22.17    and now brings monstrous charges against her, saying: I did not find your daughter a virgin. But here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!' And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city.
 dt:22.18    Then these city elders shall take the man and chastise him,
 dt:22.19    besides fining him one hundred silver shekels, which they shall give to the girl's father, because the man defamed a virgin in Israel. Moreover, she shall remain his wife, and he may not divorce her as long as he lives.
 dt:22.20    "But if this charge is true, and evidence of the girl's virginity is not found,
 dt:22.21    they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her father's house and there her townsmen shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
 dt:22.22    "If a man is discovered having relations with a woman who is married to another, both the man and the woman with whom he has had relations shall die. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
 dt:22.23    "If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her,
 dt:22.24    you shall bring them both out to the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
 dt:22.25    "If, however, it is in the open fields that a man comes upon such a betrothed maiden, seizes her and has relations with her, the man alone shall die.
 dt:22.26    You shall do nothing to the maiden, since she is not guilty of a capital offense. This case is like that of a man who rises up against his neighbor and murders him:
 dt:22.27    it was in the open fields that he came upon her, and though the betrothed maiden may have cried out for help, there was no one to come to her aid.
 dt:22.28    "If a man comes upon a maiden that is not betrothed, takes her and has relations with her, and their deed is discovered,
 dt:22.29    the man who had relations with her shall pay the girl's father fifty silver shekels and take her as his wife, because he has deflowered her. Moreover, he may not divorce her as long as he lives.
  
 dt:23.1     "A man shall not marry his father's wife, nor shall he dishonor his father's bed.
 dt:23.2     "No one whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may be admitted into the community of the LORD.
 dt:23.3     No child of an incestuous union may be admitted into the community of the LORD, nor any descendant of his even to the tenth generation.
 dt:23.4     No Ammonite or Moabite may ever be admitted into the community of the LORD, nor any descendants of theirs even to the tenth generation,
 dt:23.5     because they would not succor you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because Moab hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor in Aram Naharaim, to curse you;
 dt:23.6     though the LORD, your God, would not listen to Balaam and turned his curse into a blessing for you, because he loves you.
 dt:23.7     Never promote their peace and prosperity as long as you live.
 dt:23.8     But do not abhor the Edomite, since he is your brother, nor the Egyptian, since you were an alien in his country.
 dt:23.9     Children born to them may in the third generation be admitted into the community of the LORD.
 dt:23.10    "When you are in camp during an expedition against your enemies, you shall keep yourselves from everything offensive.
 dt:23.11    If one of you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he shall go outside the camp, and not return until,
 dt:23.12    toward evening, he has bathed in water; then, when the sun has set, he may come back into the camp.
 dt:23.13    Outside the camp you shall have a place set aside to be used as a latrine.
 dt:23.14    You shall also keep a trowel in your equipment and with it, when you go outside to ease nature, you shall first dig a hole and afterward cover up your excrement.
 dt:23.15    Since the LORD, your God, journeys along within your camp to defend you and to put your enemies at your mercy, your camp must be holy; otherwise, if he sees anything indecent in your midst, he will leave your company.
 dt:23.16    "You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has taken refuge from him with you.
 dt:23.17    Let him live with you wherever he chooses, in any one of your communities that pleases him. Do not molest him.
 dt:23.18    "There shall be no temple harlot among the Israelite women, nor a temple prostitute among the Israelite men.
 dt:23.19    You shall not offer a harlot's fee or a dog's price as any kind of votive offering in the house of the LORD, your God; both these things are an abomination to the LORD, your God.
 dt:23.20    "You shall not demand interest from your countrymen on a loan of money or of food or of anything else on which interest is usually demanded.
 dt:23.21    You may demand interest from a foreigner, but not from your countryman, so that the LORD, your God, may bless you in all your undertakings on the land you are to enter and occupy.
 dt:23.22    "When you make a vow to the LORD, your God, you shall not delay in fulfilling it; otherwise you will be held guilty, for the LORD, your God, is strict in requiring it of you.
 dt:23.23    Should you refrain from making a vow, you will not be held guilty.
 dt:23.24    But you must keep your solemn word and fulfill the votive offering you have freely promised to the LORD.
 dt:23.25    "When you go through your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat as many of his grapes as you wish, but do not put them in your basket.
 dt:23.26    When you go through your neighbor's grainfield, you may pluck some of the ears with your hand, but do not put a sickle to your neighbor's grain.
  
 dt:24.1     "When a man, after marrying a woman and having relations with her, is later displeased with her because he finds in her something indecent, and therefore he writes out a bill of divorce and hands it to her, thus dismissing her from his house:
 dt:24.2     if on leaving his house she goes and becomes the wife of another man,
 dt:24.3     and the second husband, too, comes to dislike her and dismisses her from his house by handing her a written bill of divorce; or if this second man who has married her, dies;
 dt:24.4     then her former husband, who dismissed her, may not again take her as his wife after she has become defiled. That would be an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring such guilt upon the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you as a heritage.
 dt:24.5     "When a man is newly wed, he need not go out on a military expedition, nor shall any public duty be imposed on him. He shall be exempt for one year for the sake of his family, to bring joy to the wife he has married.
 dt:24.6     "No one shall take a hand mill or even its upper stone as a pledge for debt, for he would be taking the debtor's sustenance as a pledge.
 dt:24.7     "If any man is caught kidnaping a fellow Israelite in order to enslave him and sell him, the kidnaper shall be put to death. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
 dt:24.8     "In an attack of leprosy you shall be careful to observe exactly and to carry out all the directions of the levitical priests. Take care to act in accordance with the instructions I have given them.
 dt:24.9     Remember what the LORD, your God, did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.
 dt:24.10    "When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, you shall not enter his house to receive a pledge from him,
 dt:24.11    but shall wait outside until the man to whom you are making the loan brings his pledge outside to you.
 dt:24.12    If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in the mantle he gives as a pledge,
 dt:24.13    but shall return it to him at sunset that he himself may sleep in it. Then he will bless you, and it will be a good deed of yours before the LORD, your God.
 dt:24.14    "You shall not defraud a poor and needy hired servant, whether he be one of your own countrymen or one of the aliens who live in your communities.
 dt:24.15    You shall pay him each day's wages before sundown on the day itself, since he is poor and looks forward to them. Otherwise he will cry to the LORD against you, and you will be held guilty.
 dt:24.16    "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; only for his own guilt shall a man be put to death.
 dt:24.17    "You shall not violate the rights of the alien or of the orphan, nor take the clothing of a widow as a pledge.
 dt:24.18    For, remember, you were once slaves in Egypt, and the LORD, your God, ransomed you from there; that is why I command you to observe this rule.
 dt:24.19    "When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf there, you shall not go back to get it; let it be for the alien, the orphan or the widow, that the LORD, your God, may bless you in all your undertakings.
 dt:24.20    When you knock down the fruit of your olive trees, you shall not go over the branches a second time; let what remains be for the alien, the orphan and the widow.
 dt:24.21    When you pick your grapes, you shall not go over the vineyard a second time; let what remains be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.
 dt:24.22    For remember that you were once slaves in Egypt; that is why I command you to observe this rule.
  
 dt:25.1     "When men have a dispute and bring it to court, and a decision is handed down to them acquitting the innocent party and condemning the guilty party,
 dt:25.2     if the latter deserves stripes, the judge shall have him lie down and in his presence receive the number of stripes his guilt deserves.
 dt:25.3     Forty stripes may be given him, but no more; lest, if he were beaten with more stripes than these, your kinsman should be looked upon as disgraced because of the severity of the beating.
 dt:25.4     "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out grain.
 dt:25.5     "When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not marry anyone outside the family; but her husband's brother shall go to her and perform the duty of a brother-in-law by marrying her.
 dt:25.6     The first-born son she bears shall continue the line of the deceased brother, that his name may not be blotted out from Israel.
 dt:25.7     If, however, a man does not care to marry his brother's wife, she shall go up to the elders at the gate and declare, 'My brother-in-law does not intend to perform his duty toward me and refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel.'
 dt:25.8     Thereupon the elders of his city shall summon him and admonish him. If he persists in saying, 'I am not willing to marry her,'
 dt:25.9     his sister-in-law, in the presence of the elders, shall go up to him and strip his sandal from his foot and spit in his face, saying publicly, 'This is how one should be treated who will not build up his brother's family!'
 dt:25.10    And his lineage shall be spoken of in Israel as 'the family of the man stripped of his sandal.'
 dt:25.11    "When two men are fighting and the wife of one intervenes to save her husband from the blows of his opponent, if she stretches out her hand and seizes the latter by his private parts,
 dt:25.12    you shall chop off her hand without pity.
 dt:25.13    "You shall not keep two differing weights in your bag, one large and the other small;
 dt:25.14    nor shall you keep two different measures in your house, one large and the other small.
 dt:25.15    But use a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that you may have a long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you.
 dt:25.16    Everyone who is dishonest in any of these matters is an abomination to the LORD, your God.
 dt:25.17    "Bear in mind what Amalek did to you on the journey after you left Egypt,
 dt:25.18    how without fear of any god he harassed you along the way, weak and weary as you were, and cut off at the rear all those who lagged behind.
 dt:25.19    Therefore, when the LORD, your God, gives you rest from all your enemies round about in the land which he is giving you to occupy as your heritage, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget!
  
 dt:26.1     "When you have come into the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you as a heritage, and have occupied it and settled in it,
 dt:26.2     you shall take some first fruits of the various products of the soil which you harvest from the land which the LORD, your God, gives you, and putting them in a basket, you shall go to the place which the LORD, your God, chooses for the dwelling place of his name.
 dt:26.3     There you shall go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, 'Today I acknowledge to the LORD, my God, that I have indeed come into the land which he swore to our fathers he would give us.'
 dt:26.4     The priest shall then receive the basket from you and shall set it in front of the altar of the LORD, your God.
 dt:26.5     Then you shall declare before the LORD, your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as an alien. But there he became a nation great, strong and numerous.
 dt:26.6     When the Egyptians maltreated and oppressed us, imposing hard labor upon us,
 dt:26.7     we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and he heard our cry and saw our affliction, our toil and our oppression.
 dt:26.8     He brought us out of Egypt with his strong hand and outstretched arm, with terrifying power, with signs and wonders;
 dt:26.9     and bringing us into this country, he gave us this land flowing with milk and honey.
 dt:26.10    Therefore, I have now brought you the first fruits of the products of the soil which you, O LORD, have given me.' And having set them before the LORD, your God, you shall bow down in his presence.
 dt:26.11    Then you and your family, together with the Levite and the aliens who live among you, shall make merry over all these good things which the LORD, your God, has given you.
 dt:26.12    "When you have finished setting aside all the tithes of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithes, and you have given them to the Levite, the alien, the orphan and the widow, that they may eat their fill in your own community,
 dt:26.13    you shall declare before the LORD, your God, 'I have purged my house of the sacred portion and I have given it to the Levite, the alien, the orphan and the widow, just as you have commanded me. In this I have not broken or forgotten any of your commandments:
 dt:26.14    I have not eaten any of the tithe as a mourner; I have not brought any of it out as one unclean; I have not offered any of it to the dead. I have thus hearkened to the voice of the LORD, my God, doing just as you have commanded me.
 dt:26.15    Look down, then, from heaven, your holy abode, and bless your people Israel and the soil you have given us in the land flowing with milk and honey which you promised on oath to our fathers.'
 dt:26.16    "This day the LORD, your God, commands you to observe these statutes and decrees. Be careful, then, to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.
 dt:26.17    Today you are making this agreement with the LORD: he is to be your God and you are to walk in his ways and observe his statutes, commandments and decrees, and to hearken to his voice.
 dt:26.18    And today the LORD is making this agreement with you: you are to be a people peculiarly his own, as he promised you; and provided you keep all his commandments,
 dt:26.19    he will then raise you high in praise and renown and glory above all other nations he has made, and you will be a people sacred to the LORD, your God, as he promised."
  
 dt:27.1     Then Moses, with the elders of Israel, gave the people this order: "Keep all these commandments which I enjoin on you today.
 dt:27.2     On the day you cross the Jordan into the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster.
 dt:27.3     Also write on them, at the time you cross, all the words of this law, that you may thus enter into the land flowing with milk and honey, which the LORD, your God, and the God of your fathers, is giving you as he promised you.
 dt:27.4     When, moreover, you have crossed the Jordan, besides setting up on Mount Ebal these stones concerning which I command you today, and coating them with plaster,
 dt:27.5     you shall also build to the LORD, your God, an altar made of stones that no iron tool has touched.
 dt:27.6     You shall make this altar of the LORD, your God, with undressed stones, and shall offer on it holocausts to the LORD, your God.
 dt:27.7     You shall also sacrifice peace offerings and eat them there, making merry before the LORD, your God.
 dt:27.8     On the stones you shall inscribe all the words of this law very clearly."
 dt:27.9     Moses, with the levitical priests, then said to all Israel: "Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD, your God.
 dt:27.10    You shall therefore hearken to the voice of the LORD, your God, and keep his commandments and statutes which I enjoin on you today."
 dt:27.11    That same day Moses gave the people this order:
 dt:27.12    "When you cross the Jordan, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin shall stand on Mount Gerizim to pronounce blessings over the people,
 dt:27.13    while Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses.
 dt:27.14    "The Levites shall proclaim aloud to all the men of Israel:
 dt:27.15    'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or molten idol--an abomination to the LORD, the product of a craftsman's hands--and sets it up in secret!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.16    'Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.17    'Cursed be he who moves his neighbor's landmarks!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.18    'Cursed be he who misleads a blind man on his way!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.19    'Cursed be he who violates the rights of the alien, the orphan or the widow!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.20    'Cursed be he who has relations with his father's wife, for he dishonors his father's bed!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.21    'Cursed be he who has relations with any animal!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.22    'Cursed be he who has relations with his sister or his half-sister!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.23    'Cursed be he who has relations with his mother-in-law!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.24    'Cursed be he who slays his neighbor in secret!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.25    'Cursed be he who accepts payment for slaying an innocent man!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
 dt:27.26    'Cursed be he who fails to fulfill any of the provisions of this law!' And all the people shall answer, 'Amen!'
  
 dt:28.1     "Thus, then, shall it be: if you continue to heed the voice of the LORD, your God, and are careful to observe all his commandments which I enjoin on you today, the LORD, your God, will raise you high above all the nations of the earth.
 dt:28.2     When you hearken to the voice of the LORD, your God, all these blessings will come upon you and overwhelm you:
 dt:28.3     "May you be blessed in the city, and blessed in the country!
 dt:28.4     "Blessed be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your soil and the offspring of your livestock, the issue of your herds and the young of your flocks!
 dt:28.5     "Blessed be your grain bin and your kneading bowl!
 dt:28.6     "May you be blessed in your coming in, and blessed in your going out!
 dt:28.7     "The LORD will beat down before you the enemies that rise up against you; though they come out against you from but one direction, they will flee before you in seven.
 dt:28.8     The LORD will affirm his blessing upon you, on your barns and on all your undertakings, blessing you in the land that the LORD, your God, gives you.
 dt:28.9     Provided that you keep the commandments of the LORD, your God, and walk in his ways, he will establish you as a people sacred to himself, as he swore to you;
 dt:28.10    so that, when all the nations of the earth see you bearing the name of the LORD, they will stand in awe of you.
 dt:28.11    The LORD will increase in more than goodly measure the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil, in the land which he swore to your fathers he would give you.
 dt:28.12    The LORD will open up for you his rich treasure house of the heavens, to give your land rain in due season, blessing all your undertakings, so that you will lend to many nations and borrow from none.
 dt:28.13    The LORD will make you the head, not the tail, and you will always mount higher and not decline, as long as you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I order you today to observe carefully;
 dt:28.14    not turning aside to the right or to the left from any of the commandments which I now give you, in order to follow other gods and serve them.
 dt:28.15    "But if you do not hearken to the voice of the LORD, your God, and are not careful to observe all his commandments which I enjoin on you today, all these curses shall come upon you and overwhelm you:
 dt:28.16    "May you be cursed in the city, and cursed in the country!
 dt:28.17    "Cursed be your grain bin and your kneading bowl!
 dt:28.18    "Cursed be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your soil and the offspring of your livestock, the issue of your herds and the young of your flocks!
 dt:28.19    "May you be cursed in your coming in, and cursed in your going out!
 dt:28.20    "The LORD will put a curse on you, defeat and frustration in every enterprise you undertake, until you are speedily destroyed and perish for the evil you have done in forsaking me.
 dt:28.21    The LORD will bring a pestilence upon you that will persist until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to occupy.
 dt:28.22    The LORD will strike you with wasting and fever, with scorching, fiery drought, with blight and searing wind, that will plague you until you perish.
 dt:28.23    The sky over your heads will be like bronze and the earth under your feet like iron.
 dt:28.24    For rain the LORD will give your land powdery dust, which will come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.
 dt:28.25    The LORD will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven, so that you will become a terrifying example to all the kingdoms of the earth.
 dt:28.26    Your carcasses will become food for all the birds of the air and for the beasts of the field, with no one to frighten them off.
 dt:28.27    The LORD will strike you with Egyptian boils and with tumors, eczema and the itch, until you cannot be cured.
 dt:28.28    And the LORD will strike you with madness, blindness and panic,
 dt:28.29    so that even at midday you will grope like a blind man in the dark, unable to find your way. "You will be oppressed and robbed continually, with no one to come to your aid.
 dt:28.30    Though you betroth a wife, another man will have her. Though you build a house, you will not live in it. Though you plant a vineyard, you will not enjoy its fruits.
 dt:28.31    Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, and you will not eat of its flesh. Your ass will be stolen in your presence, but you will not recover it. Your flocks will be given to your enemies, with no one to come to your aid.
 dt:28.32    Your sons and daughters will be given to a foreign nation while you look on and grieve for them in constant helplessness.
 dt:28.33    A people whom you do not know will consume the fruit of your soil and of all your labor, and you will be oppressed and crushed at all times without surcease,
 dt:28.34    until you are driven mad by what your eyes must look upon.
 dt:28.35    The LORD will strike you with malignant boils of which you cannot be cured, on your knees and legs, and from the soles of your feet to the crown of your head.
 dt:28.36    "The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you have set over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have not known, and there you will serve strange gods of wood and stone,
 dt:28.37    and will call forth amazement, reproach and barbed scorn from all the nations to which the LORD will lead you.
 dt:28.38    "Though you spend much seed on your field, you will harvest but little, for the locusts will devour the crop.
 dt:28.39    Though you plant and cultivate vineyards, you will not drink or store up the wine, for the grubs will eat the vines clean.
 dt:28.40    Though you have olive trees throughout your country, you will have no oil for ointment, for your olives will drop off unripe.
 dt:28.41    Though you beget sons and daughters, they will not remain with you, but will go into captivity.
 dt:28.42    Buzzing insects will infest all your trees and the crops of your soil.
 dt:28.43    The alien residing among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.
 dt:28.44    He will lend to you, not you to him. He will become the head, you the tail.
 dt:28.45    "All these curses will come upon you, pursuing you and overwhelming you, until you are destroyed, because you would not hearken to the voice of the LORD, your God, nor keep the commandments and statutes he gave you.
 dt:28.46    They will light on you and your descendants as a sign and a wonder for all time.
 dt:28.47    Since you would not serve the LORD, your God, with joy and gratitude for abundance of every kind,
 dt:28.48    therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and utter poverty, you will serve the enemies whom the LORD will send against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he destroys you.
 dt:28.49    "The LORD will raise up against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, that swoops down like an eagle, a nation whose tongue you do not understand,
 dt:28.50    a nation of stern visage, that shows neither respect for the aged nor pity for the young.
 dt:28.51    They will consume the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil, until you are destroyed; they will leave you no grain or wine or oil, no issue of your herds or young of your flocks, until they have brought about your ruin.
 dt:28.52    They will besiege you in each of your communities, until the great, unscalable walls you trust in come tumbling down all over your land. They will so besiege you in every community throughout the land which the LORD, your God, has given you,
 dt:28.53    that in the distress of the siege to which your enemy subjects you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the LORD, your God, has given you.
 dt:28.54    The most refined and fastidious man among you will begrudge his brother and his beloved wife and his surviving children,
 dt:28.55    any share in the flesh of his children that he himself is using for food when nothing else is left him in the straits of the siege to which your enemy will subject you in all your communities.
 dt:28.56    The most refined and delicate woman among you, so delicate and refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge her beloved husband and her son and daughter
 dt:28.57    the afterbirth that issues from her womb and the infant she brings forth when she secretly uses them for food for want of anything else, in the straits of the siege to which your enemy will subject you in your communities.
 dt:28.58    "If you are not careful to observe every word of the law which is written in this book, and to revere the glorious and awesome name of the LORD, your God,
 dt:28.59    he will smite you and your descendants with severe and constant blows, malignant and lasting maladies.
 dt:28.60    He will again afflict you with all the diseases of Egypt which you dread, and they will persist among you.
 dt:28.61    Should there be any kind of sickness or calamity not mentioned in this book of the law, that too the LORD will bring upon you until you are destroyed.
 dt:28.62    Of you who were numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few will be left, because you would not hearken to the voice of the LORD, your God.
 dt:28.63    "Just as the LORD once took delight in making you grow and prosper, so will he now take delight in ruining and destroying you, and you will be plucked out of the land you are now entering to occupy.
 dt:28.64    The LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve strange gods of wood and stone, such as you and your fathers have not known.
 dt:28.65    Among these nations you will find no repose, not a foot of ground to stand upon, for there the LORD will give you an anguished heart and wasted eyes and a dismayed spirit.
 dt:28.66    You will live in constant suspense and stand in dread both day and night, never sure of your existence.
 dt:28.67    In the morning you will say, 'Would that it were evening!' and in the evening you will say, 'Would that it were morning!' for the dread that your heart must feel and the sight that your eyes must see.
 dt:28.68    The LORD will send you back in galleys to Egypt, to the region I told you that you were never to see again; and there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."
 dt:28.69    These are the words of the covenant which the LORD ordered Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them at Horeb.
  
 dt:29.1     Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "You have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt before your very eyes to Pharaoh and all his servants and to all his land;
 dt:29.2     the great testings your own eyes have seen, and those great signs and wonders.
 dt:29.3     But not even at the present day has the LORD yet given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.
 dt:29.4     'I led you for forty years in the desert. Your clothes did not fall from you in tatters nor your sandals from your feet;
 dt:29.5     bread was not your food, nor wine or beer your drink. Thus you should know that I, the LORD, am your God.'
 dt:29.6     When we came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to engage us in battle, but we defeated them
 dt:29.7     and took over their land, which we then gave as a heritage to the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
 dt:29.8     Keep the terms of this covenant, therefore, and fulfill them, that you may succeed in whatever you do.
 dt:29.9     "You are all now standing before the LORD, your God--your chiefs and judges, your elders and officials, and all of the men of Israel,
 dt:29.10    together with your wives and children and the aliens who live in your camp, down to those who hew wood and draw water for you--
 dt:29.11    that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD, your God, which he concluded with you today under this sanction of a curse;
 dt:29.12    so that he may now establish you as his people and he may be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
 dt:29.13    But it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant, under this sanction of a curse;
 dt:29.14    it is just as much with those who are not here among us today as it is with those of us who are now here present before the LORD, our God.
 dt:29.15    "You know in what surroundings we lived in the land of Egypt and what we passed by in the nations we traversed,
 dt:29.16    and you saw the loathsome idols of wood and stone, of gold and silver, that they possess.
 dt:29.17    Let there be, then, no man or woman, no clan or tribe among you, who would now turn away their hearts from the LORD, our God, to go and serve these pagan gods! Let there be no root that would bear such poison and wormwood among you.
 dt:29.18    If any such person, upon hearing the words of this curse, should beguile himself into thinking that he can safely persist in his stubbornness of heart, as though to sweep away both the watered soil and the parched ground,
 dt:29.19    the LORD will never consent to pardon him. Instead, the LORD'S wrath and jealousy will flare up against that man, and every curse mentioned in this book will alight on him. The LORD will blot out his name from under the heavens
 dt:29.20    and will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for doom, in keeping with all the curses of the covenant inscribed in this book of the law.
 dt:29.21    "Future generations, your own descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigners who will come here from far-off lands, when they see the calamities of this land and the ills with which the LORD has smitten it--
 dt:29.22    all its soil being nothing but sulphur and salt, a burnt-out waste, unsown and unfruitful, without a blade of grass, destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his furious wrath--
 dt:29.23    they and all the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD dealt thus with this land? Why this fierce outburst of wrath?'
 dt:29.24    And the answer will be, 'Because they forsook the covenant which the LORD, the God of their fathers, had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
 dt:29.25    and they went and served other gods and adored them, gods whom they did not know and whom he had not let fall to their lot:
 dt:29.26    that is why the LORD was angry with this land and brought on it all the imprecations listed in this book;
 dt:29.27    in his furious wrath and tremendous anger the LORD uprooted them from their soil and cast them out into a strange land, where they are today.'
 dt:29.28    (Both what is still hidden and what has already been revealed concern us and our descendants forever, that we may carry out all the words of this law.)
  
 dt:30.1     "When all these things which I have set before you, the blessings and the curses, are fulfilled in you, and from among whatever nations the LORD, your God, may have dispersed you, you ponder them in your heart:
 dt:30.2     then, provided that you and your children return to the LORD, your God, and heed his voice with all your heart and all your soul, just as I now command you,
 dt:30.3     the LORD, your God, will change your lot; and taking pity on you, he will again gather you from all the nations wherein he has scattered you.
 dt:30.4     Though you may have been driven to the farthest corner of the world, even from there will the LORD, your God, gather you; even from there will he bring you back.
 dt:30.5     The LORD, your God, will then bring you into the land which your fathers once occupied, that you too may occupy it, and he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.
 dt:30.6     The LORD, your God, will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, that you may love the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, and so may live.
 dt:30.7     But all those curses the LORD, your God, will assign to your enemies and the foes who persecuted you.
 dt:30.8     You, however, must again heed the LORD'S voice and carry out all his commandments which I now enjoin on you.
 dt:30.9     Then the LORD, your God, will increase in more than goodly measure the returns from all your labors, the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil; for the LORD, your God, will again take delight in your prosperity, even as he took delight in your fathers',
 dt:30.10    if only you heed the voice of the LORD, your God, and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this book of the law, when you return to the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul.
 dt:30.11    "For this command which I enjoin on you today is not too mysterious and remote for you.
 dt:30.12    It is not up in the sky, that you should say, 'Who will go up in the sky to get it for us and tell us of it, that we may carry it out?'
 dt:30.13    Nor is it across the sea, that you should say, 'Who will cross the sea to get it for us and tell us of it, that we may carry it out?'
 dt:30.14    No, it is something very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts; you have only to carry it out.
 dt:30.15    "Here, then, I have today set before you life and prosperity, death and doom.
 dt:30.16    If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.
 dt:30.17    If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods,
 dt:30.18    I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.
 dt:30.19    I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,
 dt:30.20    by loving the LORD, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
  
 dt:31.1     When Moses had finished speaking these words to all Israel,
 dt:31.2     he said to them, "I am now one hundred and twenty years old and am no longer able to move about freely; besides, the LORD has told me that I shall not cross this Jordan.
 dt:31.3     It is the LORD, your God, who will cross before you; he will destroy these nations before you, that you may supplant them. (It is Joshua who will cross before you, as the LORD promised.)
 dt:31.4     The LORD will deal with them just as he dealt with Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites whom he destroyed, and with their country.
 dt:31.5     When, therefore, the LORD delivers them up to you, you must deal with them exactly as I have ordered you.
 dt:31.6     Be brave and steadfast; have no fear or dread of them, for it is the LORD, your God, who marches with you; he will never fail you or forsake you."
 dt:31.7     Then Moses summoned Joshua and in the presence of all Israel said to him, "Be brave and steadfast, for you must being this people into the land which the LORD swore to their fathers he would give them; you must put them in possession of their heritage.
 dt:31.8     It is the LORD who marches before you; he will be with you and will never fail you or forsake you. So do not fear or be dismayed."
 dt:31.9     When Moses had written down this law, he entrusted it to the levitical priests who carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel,
 dt:31.10    giving them this order: "On the feast of Booths, at the prescribed time in the year of relaxation which comes at the end of every seven-year period,
 dt:31.11    when all Israel goes to appear before the LORD, your God, in the place which he chooses, you shall read this law aloud in the presence of all Israel.
 dt:31.12    Assemble the people--men, women and children, as well as the aliens who live in your communities--that they may hear it and learn it, and so fear the LORD, your God, and carefully observe all the words of this law.
 dt:31.13    Their children also, who do not know it yet, must hear it and learn it, that they too may fear the LORD, your God, as long as you live on the land which you will cross the Jordan to occupy."
 dt:31.14    The LORD said to Moses, "The time is now approaching for you to die. Summon Joshua, and present yourselves at the meeting tent that I may give him his commission." So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the meeting tent.
 dt:31.15    And the LORD appeared at the tent in a column of cloud, which stood still at the entrance of the tent.
 dt:31.16    The LORD said to Moses, "Soon you will be at rest with your fathers, and then this people will take to rendering wanton worship to the strange gods among whom they will live in the land they are about to enter. They will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.
 dt:31.17    At that time my anger will flare up against them; I will forsake them and hide my face from them, so that they will become a prey to be devoured, and many evils and troubles will befall them. At that time they will indeed say, 'Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have befallen us?'
 dt:31.18    Yet I will be hiding my face from them at that time only because of all the evil they have done in turning to other gods.
 dt:31.19    Write out this song, then, for yourselves. Teach it to the Israelites and have them recite it, so that this song may be a witness for me against the Israelites.
 dt:31.20    For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey which I promised on oath to their fathers, and they have eaten their fill and grown fat, if they turn to other gods and serve them, despising me and breaking my covenant;
 dt:31.21    then, when many evils and troubles befall them, this song, which their descendants will not have forgotten to recite, will bear witness against them. For I know what they are inclined to do even at the present time, before I have brought them into the land which I promised on oath to their fathers."
 dt:31.22    So Moses wrote this song that same day, and he taught it to the Israelites.
 dt:31.23    Then the LORD commissioned Joshua, son of Nun, and said to him, "Be brave and steadfast, for it is you who must bring the Israelites into the land which I promised them on oath. I myself will be with you."
 dt:31.24    When Moses had finished writing out on a scroll the words of the law in their entirety,
 dt:31.25    he gave the Levites who carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD this order:
 dt:31.26    "Take this scroll of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD, your God, that there it may be a witness against you.
 dt:31.27    For I already know how rebellious and stiff-necked you will be. Why, even now, while I am alive among you, you have been rebels against the LORD! How much more, then, after I am dead!
 dt:31.28    Therefore, assemble all your tribal elders and your officials before me, that I may speak these words for them to hear, and so may call heaven and earth to witness against them.
 dt:31.29    For I know that after my death you are sure to become corrupt and to turn aside from the way along which I directed you, so that evil will befall you in some future age because you have done evil in the LORD'S sight, and provoked him by your deeds."
 dt:31.30    Then Moses recited the words of this song from beginning to end, for the whole assembly of Israel to hear:
  
 dt:32.1     Give ear, O heavens, while I speak; let the earth hearken to the words of my mouth!
 dt:32.2     May my instruction soak in like the rain, and my discourse permeate like the dew, Like a downpour upon the grass, like a shower upon the crops.
 dt:32.3     For I will sing the LORD'S renown. Oh, proclaim the greatness of our God!
 dt:32.4     The Rock--how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways! A faithful God, without deceit, how just and upright he is!
 dt:32.5     Yet basely has he been treated by his degenerate children, a perverse and crooked race!
 dt:32.6     Is the LORD to be thus repaid by you, O stupid and foolish people? Is he not your father who created you? Has he not made you and established you?
 dt:32.7     Think back on the days of old, reflect on the years of age upon age. Ask your father and he will inform you, ask your elders and they will tell you:
 dt:32.8     When the Most High assigned the nations their heritage, when he parceled out the descendants of Adam, He set up the boundaries of the peoples after the number of the sons of God;
 dt:32.9     While the LORD'S own portion was Jacob, His hereditary share was Israel.
 dt:32.10    He found them in a wilderness, a wasteland of howling desert. He shielded them and cared for them, guarding them as the apple of his eye.
 dt:32.11    As an eagle incites its nestlings forth by hovering over its brood, So he spread his wings to receive them and bore them up on his pinions.
 dt:32.12    The LORD alone was their leader, no strange god was with him.
 dt:32.13    He had them ride triumphant over the summits of the land and live off the products of its fields, Giving them honey to suck from its rocks and olive oil from its hard, stony ground;
 dt:32.14    Butter from its cows and milk from its sheep, with the fat of its lambs and rams; Its Bashan bulls and its goats, with the cream of its finest wheat; and the foaming blood of its grapes you drank.
 dt:32.15    (So Jacob ate his fill,) the darling grew fat and frisky; you became fat and gross and gorged. They spurned the God who made them and scorned their saving Rock.
 dt:32.16    They provoked him with strange gods and angered him with abominable idols.
 dt:32.17    They offered sacrifice to demons, to "no-gods," to gods whom they had not known before, To newcomers just arrived, of whom their fathers had never stood in awe.
 dt:32.18    You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, You forgot the God who gave you birth.
 dt:32.19    When the LORD saw this, he was filled with loathing and anger toward his sons and daughters.
 dt:32.20    'I will hide my face from them," he said, "and see what will then become of them. What a fickle race they are, sons with no loyalty in them!
 dt:32.21    "Since they have provoked me with their 'no-god' and angered me with their vain idols, I will provoke them with a 'no-people'; with a foolish nation I will anger them.
 dt:32.22    "For by my wrath a fire is enkindled that shall rage to the depths of the nether world, Consuming the earth with its yield, and licking with flames the roots of the mountains.
 dt:32.23    I will spend on them woe upon woe and exhaust all my arrows against them:
 dt:32.24    "Emaciating hunger and consuming fever and bitter pestilence, And the teeth of wild beasts I will send among them, with the venom of reptiles gliding in the dust.
 dt:32.25    "Snatched away by the sword in the street and by sheer terror at home Shall be the youth and the maiden alike, the nursing babe as well as the hoary old man.
 dt:32.26    "I would have said, 'I will make an end of them and blot out their name from men's memories,'
 dt:32.27    Had I not feared the insolence of their enemies, feared that these foes would mistakenly boast, 'Our own hand won the victory; the LORD had nothing to do with it.'"
 dt:32.28    For they are a people devoid of reason, having no understanding.
 dt:32.29    If they had insight they would realize what happened, they would understand their future and say,
 dt:32.30    "How could one man rout a thousand, or two men put ten thousand to flight, Unless it was because their Rock sold them and the LORD delivered them up?"
 dt:32.31    Indeed, their "rock" is not like our Rock, and our foes are under condemnation.
 dt:32.32    They are a branch of Sodom's vinestock, from the vineyards of Gomorrah. Poisonous are their grapes and bitter their clusters.
 dt:32.33    Their wine is the venom of dragons and the cruel poison of cobras.
 dt:32.34    "Is not this preserved in my treasury, sealed up in my storehouse,
 dt:32.35    Against the day of vengeance and requital, against the time they lose their footing?" Close at hand is the day of their disaster and their doom is rushing upon them!
 dt:32.36    Surely, the LORD shall do justice for his people; on his servants he shall have pity. When he sees their strength failing, and their protected and unprotected alike disappearing,
 dt:32.37    He will say, "Where are their gods whom they relied on as their 'rock'?
 dt:32.38    Let those who ate the fat of your sacrifices and drank the wine of your libations Rise up now and help you! Let them be your protection!
 dt:32.39    "Learn then that I, I alone, am God, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them, and from my hand there is no rescue.
 dt:32.40    "To the heavens I raise my hand and swear: As surely as I live forever,
 dt:32.41    I will sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand shall lay hold of my quiver. "With vengeance I will repay my foes and requite those who hate me.
 dt:32.42    I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall gorge itself with flesh-- With the blood of the slain and the captured, Flesh from the heads of the enemy leaders."
 dt:32.43    Exult with him, you heavens, glorify him, all you angels of God; For he avenges the blood of his servants and purges his people's land.
 dt:32.44    So Moses, together with Joshua, son of Nun, went and recited all the words of this song for the people to hear.
 dt:32.45    When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,
 dt:32.46    he said, "Take to heart all the warning which I have now given you and which you must impress on your children, that you may carry out carefully every word of this law.
 dt:32.47    For this is no trivial matter for you; rather, it means your very life, since it is by this means that you are to enjoy a long life on the land which you will cross the Jordan to occupy."
 dt:32.48    On that very day the LORD said to Moses,
 dt:32.49    "Go up on Mount Nebo, here in the Abarim Mountains (it is in the land of Moab facing Jericho), and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their possession.
 dt:32.50    Then you shall die on the mountain you have climbed, and shall be taken to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and there was taken to his people;
 dt:32.51    because both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the desert of Zin by failing to manifest my sanctity among the Israelites.
 dt:32.52    You may indeed view the land at a distance, but you shall not enter that land which I am giving to the Israelites."
  
 dt:33.1     This is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, pronounced upon the Israelites before he died.
 dt:33.2     He said: "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned on his people from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and advanced from Meribath-kadesh, While at his right hand a fire blazed forth and his wrath devastated the nations.
 dt:33.3     But all his holy ones were in his hand; they followed at his feet and he bore them up on his pinions.
 dt:33.4     A law he gave to us; he made the community of Jacob his domain,
 dt:33.5     and he became king of his darling. When the chiefs of the people assembled and the tribes of Israel came together.
 dt:33.6     "May Reuben live and not die out, but let his men be few."
 dt:33.7     The following is for Judah. He said: "The LORD hears the cry of Judah; you will bring him to his people. His own hands defend his cause and you will be his help against his foes."
 dt:33.8     Of Levi he said: "To Levi belong your Thummim, to the man of your favor your Urim; For you put him to the test at Massah and you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.
 dt:33.9     He said of his father, 'I regard him not'; his brothers he would not acknowledge, and his own children he refused to recognize. Thus the Levites keep your words, and your covenant they uphold.
 dt:33.10    They promulgate your decisions to Jacob and your law to Israel. They bring the smoke of sacrifice to your nostrils, and burnt offerings to your altar.
 dt:33.11    Bless, O LORD, his possessions and accept the ministry of his hands. Break the backs of his adversaries and of his foes, that they may not rise."
 dt:33.12    Of Benjamin he said: "Benjamin is the beloved of the LORD, who shelters him all the day, while he abides securely at his breast."
 dt:33.13    Of Joseph he said: "Blessed by the LORD is his land with the best of the skies above and of the abyss crouching beneath;
 dt:33.14    With the best of the produce of the year, and the choicest sheaves of the months;
 dt:33.15    With the finest gifts of the age-old mountains and the best from the timeless hills;
 dt:33.16    With the best of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. These shall come upon the head of Joseph and upon the brow of the prince among his brothers,
 dt:33.17    The majestic bull, his father's first-born, whose horns are those of the wild ox With which to gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth." (These are the myriads of Ephraim, and these the thousands of Manasseh.)
 dt:33.18    Of Zebulun he said: "Rejoice, O Zebulun, in your pursuits, and you, Issachar, in your tents!
 dt:33.19    You who invite the tribes to the mountains where feasts are duly held, Because you suck up the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand."
 dt:33.20    Of Gad he said: "Blessed be he who has made Gad so vast! He lies there like a lion that has seized the arm and head of the prey.
 dt:33.21    He saw that the best should be his when the princely portion was assigned, while the heads of the people were gathered. He carried out the justice of the LORD and his decrees respecting Israel."
 dt:33.22    Of Dan he said: "Dan is a lion's whelp, that springs forth from Bashan!"
 dt:33.23    Of Naphtali he said: "Naphtali is enriched with favors and filled with the blessings of the LORD; The lake and south of it are his possession!"
 dt:33.24    Of Asher he said: "More blessed than the other sons be Asher! May he be the favorite among his brothers, as the oil of his olive trees runs over his feet!
 dt:33.25    May your bolts be of iron and bronze; may your strength endure through all your days!"
 dt:33.26    "There is no god like the God of the darling, who rides the heavens in his power, and rides the skies in his majesty;
 dt:33.27    He spread out the primeval tent; he extended the ancient canopy. He drove the enemy out of your way and the Amorite he destroyed.
 dt:33.28    Israel has dwelt securely, and the fountain of Jacob has been undisturbed In a land of grain and wine, where the heavens drip with dew.
 dt:33.29    How fortunate you are, O Israel! Where else is a nation victorious in the LORD? The LORD is your saving shield, and his sword is your glory. Your enemies fawn upon you, as you stride upon their heights."

 dt:34.1     Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the headland of Pisgah which faces Jericho, and the LORD showed him all the land-Gilead, and as far as Dan,
 dt:34.2     all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,
 dt:34.3     the Negeb, the circuit of the Jordan with the lowlands at Jericho, city of palms, and as far as Zoar.
 dt:34.4     The LORD then said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that I would give to their descendants. I have let you feast your eyes upon it, but you shall not cross over."
 dt:34.5     So there, in the land of Moab, Moses, the servant of the LORD, died as the LORD had said;
 dt:34.6     and he was buried in the ravine opposite Beth-peor in the land of Moab, but to this day no one knows the place of his burial.
 dt:34.7     Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated.
 dt:34.8     For thirty days the Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab, till they had completed the period of grief and mourning for Moses.
 dt:34.9     Now Joshua, son of Nun, was filled with the spirit of wisdom, since Moses had laid his hands upon him; and so the Israelites gave him their obedience, thus carrying out the LORD'S command to Moses.
 dt:34.10    Since then no prophet has arisen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.
 dt:34.11    He had no equal in all the signs and wonders the LORD sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh and all his servants and against all his land,
 dt:34.12    and for the might and the terrifying power that Moses exhibited in the sight of all Israel. [end of Deuteronomy]

