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Deuteronomy 7-11
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A Chosen People(A)

7 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to (B)possess, and has cast out many (C)nations before you, (D)the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and when the Lord your God delivers (E)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. (F)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 (G)Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; (H)so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. 5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall (I)destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their [a]wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

6 “For you are a [b]holy people to the Lord your God; (J)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 The Lord did not set His (K)love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were (L)the least of all peoples; 8 but (M)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep (N)the oath which He swore to your fathers, (O)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of [c]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, (P)the faithful God (Q)who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not [d]be (R)slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. 11 Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

Blessings of Obedience(S)

12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. 13 And He will (T)love you and bless you and [e]multiply you; (U)He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He [f]swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female (V)barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the (W)terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. 16 Also you shall [g]destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will (X)be a snare to you.

17 “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’— 18 you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall (Y)remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 (Z)the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 (AA)Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. 21 You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. 22 And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you (AB)little by little; you will be unable to [h]destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed. 24 And (AC)He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; (AD)no one shall be able to stand [i]against you until you have destroyed them. 25 You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not (AE)covet[j] the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26 Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, (AF)for it is an [k]accursed thing.

Remember the Lord Your God

8 “Every commandment which I command you today (AG)you must [l]be careful to observe, that you may live and (AH)multiply,[m] and go in and possess the land of which the Lord [n]swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God (AI)led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and (AJ)test you, (AK)to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 So He humbled you, (AL)allowed you to hunger, and (AM)fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall (AN)not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. 4 (AO)Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 (AP)You should [o]know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.

6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, (AQ)to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, (AR)a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10 (AS)When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

11 “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, 12 (AT)lest—when you have eaten and are [p]full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are [q]multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14 (AU)when your heart [r]is lifted up, and you (AV)forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 who (AW)led you through that great and terrible wilderness, (AX)in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; (AY)who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; 16 who fed you in the wilderness with (AZ)manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, (BA)to do you good in the end— 17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’

18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, (BB)for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, (BC)that He may [s]establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, (BD)I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, (BE)so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.

Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed(BF)

9 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the (BG)descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’ 3 Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who (BH)goes over before you as a (BI)consuming fire. (BJ)He will destroy them and bring them down before you; (BK)so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.

4 (BL)“Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is (BM)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you. 5 (BN)It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may [t]fulfill the (BO)word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a (BP)stiff-necked[u] people.

7 “Remember! Do not forget how you (BQ)provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. (BR)From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. 8 Also (BS)in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you. 9 (BT)When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and (BU)forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 (BV)Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire (BW)in[v] the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

12 “Then the Lord said to me, (BX)‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have (BY)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’

13 “Furthermore (BZ)the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed (CA)they are a [w]stiff-necked people. 14 (CB)Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and (CC)blot out their name from under heaven; (CD)and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

15 (CE)“So I turned and came down from the mountain, and (CF)the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And (CG)I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. 17 Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and (CH)broke them before your eyes. 18 And I (CI)fell[x] down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 19 (CJ)For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. (CK)But the Lord listened to me at that time also. 20 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21 Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I (CL)threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

22 “Also at (CM)Taberah and (CN)Massah and (CO)Kibroth Hattaavah you [y]provoked the Lord to wrath. 23 Likewise, (CP)when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and (CQ)you did not believe Him nor obey His voice. 24 (CR)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

25 (CS)“Thus I [z]prostrated myself before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said He would destroy you. 26 Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and (CT)Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, 28 lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.” 29 Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’

The Second Pair of Tablets(CU)

10 “At that time the Lord said to me, [aa]‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an (CV)ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and (CW)you shall put them in the ark.’

3 “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. 4 And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten [ab]Commandments, (CX)which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. 5 Then I turned and (CY)came down from the mountain, and (CZ)put the tablets in the ark which I had made; (DA)and there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.”

6 (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron (DB)died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his [ac]stead. 7 (DC)From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of [ad]rivers of water. 8 At that time (DD)the Lord [ae]separated the tribe of Levi (DE)to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, (DF)to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and (DG)to bless in His name, to this day. 9 (DH)Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God promised him.)

10 “As at the first time, (DI)I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; (DJ)the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you. 11 (DK)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

The Essence of the Law

12 “And now, Israel, (DL)what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to (DM)love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today (DN)for your [af]good? 14 Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the (DO)Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. 15 The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their [ag]descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. 16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your (DP)heart, and be (DQ)stiff-necked[ah] no longer. 17 For the Lord your God is (DR)God of gods and (DS)Lord of lords, the great God, (DT)mighty and awesome, who (DU)shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. 18 (DV)He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. 19 Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 (DW)You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. 21 He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. 22 Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Love and Obedience Rewarded

11 “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always. 2 Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the [ai]chastening of the Lord your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm— 3 His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land; 4 what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: (DX)how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day; 5 what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place; 6 and (DY)what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was [aj]in their possession, in the midst of all Israel— 7 but your eyes have (DZ)seen every great [ak]act of the Lord which He did.

8 “Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may (EA)be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess, 9 and (EB)that you may prolong your days in the land (EC)which the Lord [al]swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, (ED)‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’ 10 For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden; 11 (EE)but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, 12 a land for which the Lord your God cares; (EF)the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.

13 ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly [am]obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 then (EG)I[an] will give you the rain for your land in its season, (EH)the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. 15 (EI)And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may (EJ)eat and be [ao]filled.’ 16 Take heed to yourselves, (EK)lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and (EL)serve other gods and worship them, 17 lest (EM)the Lord’s anger be aroused against you, and He (EN)shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and (EO)you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

18 “Therefore (EP)you shall [ap]lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your (EQ)soul, and (ER)bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 (ES)You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20 (ET)And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 that (EU)your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like (EV)the days of the heavens above the earth.

22 “For if (EW)you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and (EX)to hold fast to Him— 23 then the Lord will (EY)drive out all these nations from before you, and you will (EZ)dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. 24 (FA)Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: (FB)from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the [aq]Western Sea, shall be your territory. 25 No man shall be able to (FC)stand [ar]against you; the Lord your God will put the (FD)dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.

26 (FE)“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: 27 (FF)the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; 28 and the (FG)curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known. 29 Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the (FH)blessing on Mount Gerizim and the (FI)curse on Mount Ebal. 30 Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, (FJ)beside the terebinth trees of Moreh? 31 For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it. 32 And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
  2. Deuteronomy 7:6 set-apart
  3. Deuteronomy 7:8 slavery
  4. Deuteronomy 7:10 delay
  5. Deuteronomy 7:13 cause you to increase
  6. Deuteronomy 7:13 promised
  7. Deuteronomy 7:16 consume
  8. Deuteronomy 7:22 consume
  9. Deuteronomy 7:24 before
  10. Deuteronomy 7:25 desire
  11. Deuteronomy 7:26 devoted or banned
  12. Deuteronomy 8:1 observe to do
  13. Deuteronomy 8:1 increase in number
  14. Deuteronomy 8:1 promised
  15. Deuteronomy 8:5 consider
  16. Deuteronomy 8:12 satisfied
  17. Deuteronomy 8:13 increased
  18. Deuteronomy 8:14 becomes proud
  19. Deuteronomy 8:18 confirm
  20. Deuteronomy 9:5 perform
  21. Deuteronomy 9:6 stubborn or rebellious
  22. Deuteronomy 9:10 when you were all gathered together
  23. Deuteronomy 9:13 stubborn or rebellious
  24. Deuteronomy 9:18 prostrated myself
  25. Deuteronomy 9:22 caused the Lord to be angry
  26. Deuteronomy 9:25 fell down
  27. Deuteronomy 10:1 Cut out
  28. Deuteronomy 10:4 Lit. Words
  29. Deuteronomy 10:6 place
  30. Deuteronomy 10:7 brooks
  31. Deuteronomy 10:8 set apart
  32. Deuteronomy 10:13 benefit or welfare
  33. Deuteronomy 10:15 Lit. seed
  34. Deuteronomy 10:16 rebellious
  35. Deuteronomy 11:2 discipline
  36. Deuteronomy 11:6 at their feet
  37. Deuteronomy 11:7 work
  38. Deuteronomy 11:9 promised
  39. Deuteronomy 11:13 Lit. listen to
  40. Deuteronomy 11:14 So with MT, Tg.; Sam., LXX, Vg. He
  41. Deuteronomy 11:15 satisfied
  42. Deuteronomy 11:18 Lit. put
  43. Deuteronomy 11:24 Mediterranean
  44. Deuteronomy 11:25 before
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Driving Out the Nations

7 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess(A) and drives out before you many nations(B)—the Hittites,(C) Girgashites,(D) Amorites,(E) Canaanites, Perizzites,(F) Hivites(G) and Jebusites,(H) seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the Lord your God has delivered(I) them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy(J) them totally.[a](K) Make no treaty(L) with them, and show them no mercy.(M) 3 Do not intermarry with them.(N) Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods,(O) and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy(P) you. 5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[b](Q) and burn their idols in the fire.(R) 6 For you are a people holy(S) to the Lord your God.(T) The Lord your God has chosen(U) you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(V)

7 The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous(W) than other peoples, for you were the fewest(X) of all peoples.(Y) 8 But it was because the Lord loved(Z) you and kept the oath he swore(AA) to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand(AB) and redeemed(AC) you from the land of slavery,(AD) from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God;(AE) he is the faithful God,(AF) keeping his covenant of love(AG) to a thousand generations(AH) of those who love him and keep his commandments.(AI) 10 But

those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;
    he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.(AJ)

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

12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.(AK) 13 He will love you and bless you(AL) and increase your numbers.(AM) He will bless the fruit of your womb,(AN) the crops of your land—your grain, new wine(AO) and olive oil(AP)—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.(AQ) 14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young.(AR) 15 The Lord will keep you free from every disease.(AS) He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt,(AT) but he will inflict them on all who hate you.(AU) 16 You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you.(AV) Do not look on them with pity(AW) and do not serve their gods,(AX) for that will be a snare(AY) to you.

17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?(AZ)” 18 But do not be afraid(BA) of them; remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.(BB) 19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand(BC) and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.(BD) 20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet(BE) among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. 21 Do not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God, who is among you,(BF) is a great and awesome God.(BG) 22 The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little.(BH) You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. 23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.(BI) 24 He will give their kings(BJ) into your hand,(BK) and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you;(BL) you will destroy them.(BM) 25 The images of their gods you are to burn(BN) in the fire. Do not covet(BO) the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared(BP) by it, for it is detestable(BQ) to the Lord your God. 26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction.(BR) Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Do Not Forget the Lord

8 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live(BS) and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.(BT) 2 Remember how the Lord your God led(BU) you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test(BV) you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled(BW) you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna,(BX) which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach(BY) you that man does not live on bread(BZ) alone but on every word that comes from the mouth(CA) of the Lord.(CB) 4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.(CC) 5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.(CD)

6 Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him(CE) and revering him.(CF) 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land(CG)—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills;(CH) 8 a land with wheat and barley,(CI) vines(CJ) and fig trees,(CK) pomegranates, olive oil and honey;(CL) 9 a land where bread(CM) will not be scarce and you will lack nothing;(CN) a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.(CO)

10 When you have eaten and are satisfied,(CP) praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget(CQ) the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,(CR) 13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget(CS) the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15 He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness,(CT) that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes(CU) and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.(CV) 16 He gave you manna(CW) to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known,(CX) to humble and test(CY) you so that in the end it might go well with you. 17 You may say to yourself,(CZ) “My power and the strength of my hands(DA) have produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth,(DB) and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

19 If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods(DC) and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.(DD) 20 Like the nations(DE) the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.(DF)

Not Because of Israel’s Righteousness

9 Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan(DG) to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you,(DH) with large cities(DI) that have walls up to the sky.(DJ) 2 The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up against the Anakites?”(DK) 3 But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you(DL) like a devouring fire.(DM) He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly,(DN) as the Lord has promised you.

4 After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself,(DO) “The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness(DP) of these nations(DQ) that the Lord is going to drive them out before you. 5 It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity(DR) that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness(DS) of these nations,(DT) the Lord your God will drive them out(DU) before you, to accomplish what he swore(DV) to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.(DW) 6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.(DX)

The Golden Calf

7 Remember this and never forget how you aroused the anger(DY) of the Lord your God in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious(DZ) against the Lord.(EA) 8 At Horeb you aroused the Lord’s wrath(EB) so that he was angry enough to destroy you.(EC) 9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant(ED) that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days(EE) and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.(EF) 10 The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.(EG) On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.(EH)

11 At the end of the forty days and forty nights,(EI) the Lord gave me the two stone tablets,(EJ) the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt.(EK) They have turned away quickly(EL) from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”

13 And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people(EM), and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! 14 Let me alone,(EN) so that I may destroy them and blot out(EO) their name from under heaven.(EP) And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”

15 So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.(EQ) 16 When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf.(ER) You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. 17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.

18 Then once again I fell(ES) prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water,(ET) because of all the sin you had committed,(EU) doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger. 19 I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you.(EV) But again the Lord listened to me.(EW) 20 And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too. 21 Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust(EX) and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.(EY)

22 You also made the Lord angry(EZ) at Taberah,(FA) at Massah(FB) and at Kibroth Hattaavah.(FC)

23 And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea,(FD) he said, “Go up and take possession(FE) of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled(FF) against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust(FG) him or obey him. 24 You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you.(FH)

25 I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights(FI) because the Lord had said he would destroy you.(FJ) 26 I prayed to the Lord and said, “Sovereign Lord, do not destroy your people,(FK) your own inheritance(FL) that you redeemed(FM) by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.(FN) 27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness(FO) of this people, their wickedness and their sin. 28 Otherwise, the country(FP) from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them,(FQ) he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’(FR) 29 But they are your people,(FS) your inheritance(FT) that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm.(FU)”

Tablets Like the First Ones

10 At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets(FV) like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.[c] 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”(FW)

3 So I made the ark out of acacia wood(FX) and chiseled(FY) out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. 4 The Lord wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments(FZ) he had proclaimed(GA) to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.(GB) And the Lord gave them to me. 5 Then I came back down the mountain(GC) and put the tablets in the ark(GD) I had made,(GE) as the Lord commanded me, and they are there now.(GF)

6 (The Israelites traveled from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah.(GG) There Aaron died(GH) and was buried, and Eleazar(GI) his son succeeded him as priest.(GJ) 7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah and on to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.(GK) 8 At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi(GL) to carry the ark of the covenant(GM) of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister(GN) and to pronounce blessings(GO) in his name, as they still do today.(GP) 9 That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the Lord is their inheritance,(GQ) as the Lord your God told them.)

10 Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.(GR) 11 “Go,” the Lord said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.”

Fear the Lord

12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you(GS) but to fear(GT) the Lord your God, to walk(GU) in obedience to him, to love him,(GV) to serve the Lord(GW) your God with all your heart(GX) and with all your soul,(GY) 13 and to observe the Lord’s commands(GZ) and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?(HA)

14 To the Lord your God belong the heavens,(HB) even the highest heavens,(HC) the earth and everything in it.(HD) 15 Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved(HE) them, and he chose you,(HF) their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.(HG) 16 Circumcise(HH) your hearts,(HI) therefore, and do not be stiff-necked(HJ) any longer. 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods(HK) and Lord of lords,(HL) the great God, mighty and awesome,(HM) who shows no partiality(HN) and accepts no bribes.(HO) 18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow,(HP) and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.(HQ) 19 And you are to love(HR) those who are foreigners,(HS) for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.(HT) 20 Fear the Lord your God and serve him.(HU) Hold fast(HV) to him and take your oaths in his name.(HW) 21 He is the one you praise;(HX) he is your God, who performed for you those great(HY) and awesome wonders(HZ) you saw with your own eyes. 22 Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all,(IA) and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.(IB)

Love and Obey the Lord

11 Love(IC) the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.(ID) 2 Remember today that your children(IE) were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God:(IF) his majesty,(IG) his mighty hand, his outstretched arm;(IH) 3 the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country;(II) 4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots,(IJ) how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea[d](IK) as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them. 5 It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place, 6 and what he did(IL) to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened(IM) its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them. 7 But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the Lord has done.(IN)

8 Observe therefore all the commands(IO) I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,(IP) 9 and so that you may live long(IQ) in the land the Lord swore(IR) to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.(IS) 10 The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt,(IT) from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. 11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys(IU) that drinks rain from heaven.(IV) 12 It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes(IW) of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

13 So if you faithfully obey(IX) the commands I am giving you today—to love(IY) the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul(IZ)— 14 then I will send rain(JA) on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains,(JB) so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. 15 I will provide grass(JC) in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.(JD)

16 Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.(JE) 17 Then the Lord’s anger(JF) will burn against you, and he will shut up(JG) the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce,(JH) and you will soon perish(JI) from the good land the Lord is giving you. 18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(JJ) 19 Teach them to your children,(JK) talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.(JL) 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,(JM) 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many(JN) in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.(JO)

22 If you carefully observe(JP) all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love(JQ) the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast(JR) to him— 23 then the Lord will drive out(JS) all these nations(JT) before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.(JU) 24 Every place where you set your foot will be yours:(JV) Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River(JW) to the Mediterranean Sea. 25 No one will be able to stand against you. The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror(JX) and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.(JY)

26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing(JZ) and a curse(KA)— 27 the blessing(KB) if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; 28 the curse if you disobey(KC) the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods,(KD) which you have not known. 29 When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim(KE) the blessings, and on Mount Ebal(KF) the curses.(KG) 30 As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh,(KH) in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.(KI) 31 You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession(KJ) of the land the Lord your God is giving(KK) you. When you have taken it over and are living there, 32 be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26.
  2. Deuteronomy 7:5 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy
  3. Deuteronomy 10:1 That is, a chest
  4. Deuteronomy 11:4 Or the Sea of Reeds
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