Bible in 90 Days

¹² “You shall also have a place outside the camp to which you shall go out.

¹³ “And you shall have an implement among your weapons. And when you would sit down outside, you shall dig with it. And upon returning, you shall cover your excrements.

¹⁴ “For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give you your enemies before you. Therefore, your camp shall be holy, so that He sees no filthy thing in you, and turn away from you.

¹⁵ “You shall not deliver the servant to his master, who has escaped from his master to you.

¹⁶ “He shall dwell with you, amongxus you, in whatever place he shall choose, in one of your cities he likes best. You shall not trouble him.

¹⁷ “There shall be no whore from the daughters of Israel. Nor shall there be a whore keeper from the sons of Israel.

¹⁸ “You shall bring neither the price of a whore nor the price of a dog into the House of the LORD your God, for any vow. For both of these are abomination to the LORD your God.

¹⁹ “You shall not charge interest to your brother — on money, on meat, on anything that may be lent with interest.

²⁰ “You may lend with interest to a stranger. But you shall not lend with interest to your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land to which you go to possess.

²¹ “When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slow to pay it. For the LORD your God will surely require it of you. And so it would be sin to you.

²² “But when you abstain from vowing, it shall be no sin to you.

²³ “That which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform, as you have vowed it willingly to the LORD your God. You have spoken it with your mouth.

²⁴ “When you come to your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes at your pleasure, as much as you will. But you shall put none in your container.

²⁵ “When you come to your neighbor’s corn, you may pluck the ears with your hand. But you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s corn.”

24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if so be she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some filthiness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement and put it in her hand and send her out of his house.

² “And when she has departed out of his house, and gone her way, and marries another man —

³ “if the latter husband hates her and writes her a letter of divorcement and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man who took her for his wife dies —

⁴ “her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that is abomination in the sight of the LORD. And you shall not cause the land to sin which the LORD your God gives you to inherit.

⁵ “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go to war. Nor shall he be charged with any business, but shall be free at home for one year and rejoice with his wife whom he has taken.

⁶ “No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge. For this gage is his living.

⁷ “If any man is found stealing any of his brothers from the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him, that thief shall die. So shall you put evil away from among you.

⁸ “Be careful of the plague of leprosy, so that you observe diligently and do according to all that the priests of the Levites shall teach you. Be careful you do as I commanded them.

⁹ “Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way, after you had come out of Egypt.

¹⁰ “When you shall lend your neighbor anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

¹¹ “But you shall stand outside. And the man who borrowed it from you shall bring the pledge out of the doors to you.

¹² “Furthermore, if it is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge,

¹³ “but you shall restore to him the pledge when the Sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his clothes and bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

¹⁴ “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is needy and poor, from your brothers or from the stranger who is in your land within your gates.

¹⁵ “You shall give him his wages for his day and the Sun shall not go down upon it (for he is poor and with such sustains his life), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it is sin to you.

¹⁶ “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children put to death for the fathers. But every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

¹⁷ “You shall not pervert the right of the stranger or of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s clothes to pledge.

¹⁸ “But remember that you were a servant in Egypt, and how the LORD your God delivered you from there. Therefore, I command you to do this thing.

¹⁹ “When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to fetch it. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.

²⁰ “When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²¹ “When you gather your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward. They shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²² “And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt. Therefore, I command you to do this thing.”

25 “When there shall be strife between men, and they shall come to judgment, and sentence shall be given upon them, and the righteous shall be justified, and the wicked condemned,

² “then, if the wicked is worthy to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his trespass, to a certain number.

³ “Forty shall he cause him to have, and not past, lest if he should exceed and beat him above that with many stripes, your brother should be dishonored.

⁴ “You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.

⁵ “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside, to a stranger. But, his kinsman shall go in to her, and take her to wife, and do the kinsman’s office to her.

⁶ “And the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his dead brother, so that his name is not put out of Israel.

⁷ “And if the man will not take his kinswoman, then let his kinswoman go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, ‘My kinsman refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not do the office of a kinsman to me.’

⁸ “Then the elders of the city shall call him and commune with him. If he stands and says, ‘I will not take her’,

⁹ “then his kinswoman shall come to him in the presence of the elders and loosen his shoe from his foot and spit in his face and answer, and say, ‘So shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

¹⁰ “And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him whose shoe is put off.’

¹¹ “When men strive together, one with another, if the wife of one tries to save her husband from the hand of him who strikes him by putting forth her hand and taking him by his privates,

¹² “then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not spare her.

¹³ “You shall not have two kinds of weights in your bag, a great and a small.

¹⁴ “Nor shall you have diverse measures, a great and a small, in your house.

¹⁵ “You shall have a right and just weight. A perfect and a just measure shall you have, so that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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

¹⁷ “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you had come out of Egypt —

¹⁸ “how he met you on the way and struck the last of you, all who were feeble behind you—when you were faint and weary. And he did not fear God.

¹⁹ “Therefore, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, to possess it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven. Do not forget.”

26 “Also, when you shall come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for inheritance, and shall possess it, and dwell in it,

² “then you shall take from the first of all the fruit of the earth and bring it out of the land that the LORD your God gives you and put it in a basket and go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to place his Name there.

³ “And you shall come to the Priest appointed in those days and say to him, ‘This day, I acknowledge to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’

⁴ “Then the Priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

⁵ “And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God, ‘A Syrian, my father, being ready to perish, went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a small company, and there grew to a great nation, mighty and full of people.

⁶ ‘And the Egyptians troubled us, and afflicted us, and laid cruel bondage upon us.

⁷ ‘But when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice and looked on our adversity, and on our labor, and on our oppression.

⁸ ‘And the LORD brought us out of Egypt in a mighty Hand and outstretched Arm, with great terribleness, both in signs and wonders.

⁹ ‘And He has brought us into this place and has given us this land, a land that flows with milk and honey.

¹⁰ ‘And now, lo, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me.’ And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.

¹¹ “And you shall rejoice in all the good things which the LORD your God has given to you and to your household, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you.

¹² “When you have ended tithing all the tithes of your increase in the third year (the year of tithing) —and have given it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied—

¹³ “then you shall say before the LORD your God, ‘I have brought the hallowed thing out of my house and have also given it to the Levites, to the strangers, to the fatherless and to the widow, according to all your Commandments which You have commanded me. I have transgressed none of the Commandments, nor forgotten.

¹⁴ ‘I have not eaten from it in my mourning, nor allowed anything to perish through uncleanness, nor given anything from it for the dead. I have obeyed the Voice of the LORD my God. I have followed all that You have Commanded me.

¹⁵ ‘Look down from Your holy habitation, from Heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the land which You have given us (as You swore to our fathers) the land that flows with milk and honey.’

¹⁶ “This day, the LORD your God Commands you to do these Ordinances and Laws. Keep them, therefore, and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹⁷ “You have set up the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in His ways, and to keep His Ordinances and His Commandments and His Laws, and to obey His Voice.

¹⁸ “And the LORD has set you up this day to be a precious people to Him (as He has promised you), so that you should keep all His Commandments

¹⁹ “And He makes you high above all nations which He has made—in praise and in name and in glory—so that you should be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has said.”

27 Then Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the Commandments which I command you this day.

² “And when you shall pass over Jordan, to the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall set yourself up great stones and plaster them with plaster.

³ “And when you come over, write all the words of this Law upon them, so that you may go into the land which the LORD your God gives you (a land that flows with milk and honey, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you).

⁴ “Therefore, when you shall pass over Jordan, you shall set up these stones which I command you this day on Mount Ebal. And you shall plaster them with plaster.

⁵ “And there you shall build an Altar to the LORD your God, an Altar of stones. You shall lift no iron to them.

⁶ “You shall make the Altar of the LORD your God out of whole stones, and offer upon it Burnt Offerings to the LORD your God.

⁷ “And you shall offer Peace Offerings, and shalt eat there and rejoice before the LORD your God.

⁸ “And you shall write all the words of this Law upon the stones, well and plainly.”

⁹ And Moses and the priests of the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and hear, O Israel. This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

¹⁰ “You shall therefore obey the Voice of the LORD your God, and do His Commandments and His Ordinances which I command you this day.”

¹¹ And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

¹² “These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim, to bless the people when you shall pass over Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

¹³ “And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal, to curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

¹⁴ “And the Levites shall answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

¹⁵ ‘Cursed is the man who shall make any carved or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman—and puts it in a secret place.’ And all the people shall answer and say: ‘So be it’.

¹⁶ ‘Cursed is he who curses his father and his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

¹⁷ ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s boundary.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

¹⁸ ‘Cursed is he who makes the blind misstep.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

¹⁹ ‘Cursed is he who hinders the right of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²⁰ ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, for he has uncovered his father’s extremity.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²¹ ‘Cursed is he who lies with any beast.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²² ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²³ ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²⁴ ‘Cursed is he who slanders his neighbor.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²⁵ ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

²⁶ ‘Cursed is he who does not establish all the words of this Law, to do them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘So be it’.

28 “If you shall diligently obey the Voice of the LORD your God and observe and do all His Commandments which I command you this day, then the LORD your God will set you on high, above all the nations of the Earth.

² “And all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall obey the Voice of the LORD your God.

³ “Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed also in the field.

⁴ “Blessed shall the fruit of your body be, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep.

⁵ “Blessed shall your basket be, and your dough.

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

⁷ “The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise against you to fall before your face. They shall come out against you one way and shall flee before you seven ways.

⁸ “The LORD shall Command the blessing to be with you in your store houses and in all to which you set your hand and will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

⁹ “The LORD shall make you a holy people to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you shall keep the Commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

¹⁰ “Then all people of the Earth shall see that the Name of the LORD is called upon over you. And they shall be afraid of you.

¹¹ “And the LORD shall make you plenteous in goods, in the fruit of your body and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to give you.

¹² “The LORD shall open His good treasure to you, the heavens to give rain to your land in due season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations but shall not borrow yourself.

¹³ “And the LORD shall make you the head and not the tail. And you shall only be above, and shall not be beneath, if you obey the Commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day, to keep and to do.

¹⁴ “But you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

¹⁵ “But if you will not obey the Voice of the LORD your God, to keep and to do all His Commandments and His Ordinances which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:

¹⁶ “Cursed shall you be in the town and cursed also in the field.

¹⁷ “Cursed shall your basket be, and your dough.

¹⁸ “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep.

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

²⁰ “The LORD shall send cursing, trouble, and shame upon you, in all that which you set your hand to, ‘until you are destroyed and perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your works whereby you have forsaken Me’.

²¹ “The LORD shall make the pestilence cling to you, until He has consumed you from the land to which you go to possess.

²² “The LORD shall strike you with a consumption and with the fever and with a burning inflammation, with fervent heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. And they shall pursue you until you perish.

²³ “And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you, iron.

²⁴ “The LORD shall make the rain of your land into dust and ashes. It shall come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

²⁵ “The LORD shall cause you to fall before your enemies. You shall come out one way against them and shall flee seven ways before them and shall be scattered through all the kingdoms of the Earth.

²⁶ “And your carcass shall be food for all the birds of the air and for the beasts of the Earth. And no one shall frighten them away.

²⁷ “The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with the hemorrhoids and with the scab and with the itch, which cannot be healed.

²⁸ “And the LORD shall strike you with madness and with blindness and with confusion of heart.

²⁹ “You shall also grope at noon, as the blind gropes in darkness, and shall not prosper in your ways. You shall only be oppressed with wrong and be plundered evermore. Nothing shall save you.

³⁰ “You shall betroth a wife and another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house and shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard and shall not eat the fruit.

³¹ “Your ox shall be killed before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be violently taken away before your face and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies. And nothing shall rescue them for you.

³² “Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people. And your eyes shall keep looking for them with longing. And there shall be no power in your hand.

³³ “A people which you do not know shall eat the fruit of your land and all your labors. And you shall only suffer wrong and violence, always,

³⁴ “so that you shall go mad because of the sight which your eyes shall see.

³⁵ “The LORD shall strike you in the knees, and in the thighs, with severe boils that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

³⁶ “The LORD shall bring you and your king (which you shall set over yourselves) to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.

³⁷ “And you shall be a wonder, a proverb, and a sharp word among all people where the LORD shall carry you.

³⁸ “You shall carry out much seed into the field but shall gather in little. For the grasshoppers shall destroy it.

³⁹ “You shall plant a vineyard, and dress it, but shall neither drink of the wine nor gather. For the worms shall eat it.

⁴⁰ “You shall have olive trees on all your coasts but shall not anoint yourself with the oil. For your olives shall fall.

⁴¹ “You shall beget sons and daughters but shall not keep them. For they shall go into captivity.

⁴² “All your trees and fruit of your land shall the grasshopper consume.

⁴³ “The stranger who is among you shall climb above you, up on high. And you shall come down low, beneath.

⁴⁴ “He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head and you shall be the tail.

⁴⁵ “Moreover, all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His Commandments, and His Ordinances, which He commanded you.

⁴⁶ “And they shall be upon you for signs and wonders, and upon your seed, forever,

⁴⁷ “because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with a good heart, for the abundance of all things.

⁴⁸ “Therefore, you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send upon you, in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck until he has destroyed you.

⁴⁹ “The LORD shall bring a nation upon you from far — from the end of the world, flying as an eagle—a nation whose tongue you shall not understand,

⁵⁰ “a nation of a fierce countenance, which will not respect the old or be gracious to the young.

⁵¹ “The same shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed. And he shall leave you neither wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor the increase of your cattle, nor the flocks of your sheep, until he has brought you to nothing.

⁵² “And he shall besiege you in all your cities, until your high and strong walls in which you trusted in all the land fall down. And he shall besiege you in all your cities throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you.

⁵³ “And you shall eat the fruit of your body — the flesh of your sons and your daughters which the LORD your God has given you — during the siege and dire straits in which your enemies shall enclose you.

⁵⁴ “The exceedingly dainty and soft man among you shall be injurious to his brother, and to his wife in his bosom, and to the remnant of his children who still remain

⁵⁵ “when he gives any of them the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat because he has nothing left from that siege and dire straits with which your enemy shall besiege you in all your cities.

⁵⁶ “The tender and dainty woman among you, who never would venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground (because of her weakness and tenderness) shall be injurious to her husband in her bosom, and to her son, and to her daughter,

⁵⁷ “and to her afterbirth that shall come out from between her legs, and to her children which she shall bear. For when all things lack, she shall eat them secretly, during the siege and dire straits with which your enemy shall besiege you in your cities.

⁵⁸ “If you will not keep and do all the words of the Law that are written in this Book, and fear this glorious and fearful Name: THE LORD YOUR GOD,

⁵⁹ “Then the LORD will make your plagues extraordinary. And the plagues of your seed will be great prolonged plagues and terrible diseases of long duration.

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

⁶¹ “And every sickness and every plague which is not written in the Book of this Law will the LORD heap upon you, until you are destroyed.

⁶² “And you shall be left few in number, where you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the Voice of the LORD your God.

⁶³ “And as the LORD has rejoiced over you, to do you good, and to multiply you, so He will rejoice over you, to destroy you, and bring you to nothing. And you shall be rooted out of the land to which you go to possess.

⁶⁴ “And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the world to the other. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

⁶⁵ “Also, you shall find no rest among these nations. Nor shall the sole of your foot have rest. For the LORD shall give you a trembling heart there, and failing eyes, and a sorrowful mind.

⁶⁶ “And your life shall hang in doubt before you. And you shall fear both night and day and shall have no assurance of your life.

⁶⁷ “In the morning, you shall say, ‘If only it were evening’, and at evening you shall say, ‘I wish it were morning’, because of the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and because of the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

⁶⁸ “And the LORD shall bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall see it no more again.’ And there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, with no buyers.”

29 These are the words of the Covenant which the LORD Commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the Covenant which He had made with them in Horeb.

² And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all the Earth in the land of Egypt,

³ “the great temptations which your eyes have seen, those great miracles and wonders.

⁴ “Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

⁵ ‘And I have led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old upon you, nor has your shoe grown old upon your foot.

⁶ ‘You have neither eaten bread nor drunk wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.’

⁷ “Afterward, you came to this place. And Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us to battle. And we killed them

⁸ “and took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh.

⁹ “Therefore, keep the words of this Covenant and do them, so that you may prosper in all that you shall do.

¹⁰ “Every one of you stands before the LORD your God this day—the heads of your tribes, your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel,

¹¹ “your children, your wives and the stranger who is in your camp (from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water) —

¹² “so that you could enter into the Covenant of the LORD your God and into His oath (which the LORD your God makes with you this day)

¹³ “to establish you this day as a people to Himself, and so that He may be to you a God, as He has said to you and as He has sworn to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁴ “Nor do I make this Covenant and this Oath with you only,

¹⁵ “but also with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, as with him who is not here with us this day.

¹⁶ “For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the midst of the nations by which you have passed.

¹⁷ “And you have seen their abominations and their idols (wood and stone, silver and gold) which were among them,

¹⁸ “so that there should not be among you man or woman or family or tribe which should turn his heart away from the LORD our God this day — to go and serve the gods of these nations — so that there should not be a root among you who brings forth bitterness and wormwood;

¹⁹ “so that when he hears the words of this curse, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, although I walk according to the stubbornness of my own heart’, thus adding drunkenness to thirst.

²⁰ “The LORD will not be merciful to him. But then the wrath of the LORD and His jealousy shall smolder against that man. And every curse that is written in this Book shall land upon him. And the LORD shall put out his name from under Heaven.

²¹ “And the LORD shall separate him for affliction, out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the Covenant that are written in the Book of this Law.

²² “The generation to come — your children who shall rise up after you and the stranger who shall come from a far off land — shall say, when they shall see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the LORD shall strike it

²³ “(All that land shall burn with brimstone and salt. It shall not be sown or bring forth fruit. Nor shall any grass grow in it, like as in the overthrowing of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His wrath and in His anger),

²⁴ “then shall all nations say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land? How fierce is this great wrath?’

²⁵ “And they shall answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which He had made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²⁶ ‘And they went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods which they did not know, and which had given them nothing.

²⁷ ‘Therefore the wrath of the LORD grew hot against this land, to bring upon it every curse that is written in this Book.

²⁸ ‘And the LORD has rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation, and has cast them into another land, as they are this day.’

²⁹ “The secret things belong to the LORD our God. But the revealed things belong to us and to our children, forever, so that we may do all the words of this Law.”

30 “Now when all these things shall come upon you (the blessing or the curse which I have set before you) and you shall turn into your heart among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

² “and shall return to the LORD your God and obey His Voice in all that I command you this day (you and your children) with all your heart and with all your soul,

³ “then the LORD your God will cause your captives to return, and have compassion upon you, and will return to gather you out of all the people where the LORD your God has scattered you.

⁴ “Though you were cast to the utmost part of Heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you. And from there will He take you.

⁵ “And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed. And you shall possess it. And He will show you favor and will multiply you above your fathers.

⁶ “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, so that you may love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, so that you may live.

⁷ “And the LORD your God will lay all these curses upon your enemies, and on those who hate you, and who persecute you.

⁸ “Return, therefore, and obey the Voice of the LORD, and do all His Commandments which I command you this day.

⁹ “And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of the land, for your wealth. For the LORD will turn again and rejoice over you, to do you good (as He rejoiced over your fathers)

¹⁰ “because you shall obey the Voice of the LORD your God — in keeping His Commandments and His Ordinances which are written in the Book of this Law — when you shall return to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹¹ “For this Commandment which I command you this day is not hidden from you, nor is it far off.

¹² “It is not in Heaven, so that you should say, ‘Who shall go up for us to Heaven and bring it to us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’

¹³ “Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you should say, ‘Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?’

¹⁴ “But the Word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, for you to do it.

¹⁵ “Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil,

¹⁶ “in that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His Commandments, and His Ordinances, and His Laws, so that you may live and be multiplied, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land to which you go to possess.

¹⁷ “But if your heart turns away, so that you will not obey but shall be seduced and worship other gods and serve them,

¹⁸ “I pronounce to you this day that you shall surely perish. You shall not prolong your days in the land which you pass over Jordan to possess.

¹⁹ “I call Heaven and Earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that you and your seed may live

²⁰ “by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His Voice, and by clinging to Him. For He is your life, and the length of your days, so that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give them.”

31 Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel,

² and said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old this day. I cannot go out and in anymore. Also, the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

³ “The LORD your God, He will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you. And you shall possess them. Joshua, he shall go before you, as the LORD has said.

⁴ “And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites (whom He destroyed), and to their land.

⁵ “And the LORD shall give them before you, so that you may do to them according to every Commandment which I have commanded you.

⁶ “Have courage, therefore, and be strong. Do not fear or be afraid of them. For the LORD your God Himself goes with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you.”

⁷ And Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be of a good courage and strong. For you shall go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers, to give them. And you shall give it to them to inherit.

⁸ “And the LORD Himself goes before you. He will be with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear or be discomforted.”

⁹ And Moses wrote this Law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi (who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD) and to all the elders of Israel.

¹⁰ And Moses commanded them, saying, “Every seventh year, the year of freedom in the Feast of the Tabernacles,

¹¹ “when all Israel shall come to appear before the LORD your God and the place which He shall choose, you shall read this Law before all Israel so that they may hear it.

¹² “Gather the people together — men, women, children, and the stranger who is within your gates — so that they may hear, and that they may learn and fear the LORD your God, and keep and observe all the words of this Law,

¹³ “and that their children who have not known it may hear it and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land to which you go over Jordan to possess.”

¹⁴ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the day has come that you must die. Call Joshua and stand in the Tabernacle of the Congregation so that I may give him a charge.” So, Moses and Joshua went and stood in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

¹⁵ And the LORD appeared in the Tabernacle, in the pillar of a cloud. And the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the Tabernacle.

¹⁶ And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. And this people will rise up and go a whoring after the gods of a strange land (wherever they go in) and will forsake Me and break My Covenant which I have made with them.

¹⁷ “Therefore, My wrath will grow hot against them on that day. And I will forsake them and will hide My Face from them. Then they shall be consumed. And many adversities and tribulations shall come upon them. “So, then, they will say, ‘Have not these troubles come upon me because God is not with me?’

¹⁸ “But I will surely hide My Face on that day because of all the evil which they shall commit on the day they are turned to other gods.

¹⁹ “Now, therefore, write this song for yourselves and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, so that this song may be My witness against the children of Israel.

²⁰ “For I will bring them into the land which I swore to their fathers, that flows with milk and honey. And they shall eat, and fill themselves, and grow fat. Then they shall turn to other gods and serve them, and contemn Me and break My Covenant.

²¹ “And then, when many adversities and tribulations shall come upon them, this song shall answer them to their faces as a witness. For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants. For I know the intent of their imagination even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”

²² Moses, therefore, wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel,

²³ and gave Joshua, the son of Nun, a charge, and said, “Be strong and of a good courage. For you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. And I will be with you.”

²⁴ And when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this Law in a Book — when he had finished them —

²⁵ then Moses commanded the Levites who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, saying,

²⁶ “Take the Book of this Law and put it inside of the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may be there for a witness against you.

²⁷ “For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, I am still alive with you this day and you are rebellious against the LORD. How much more so, then, after my death?

²⁸ “Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I may speak these words in their audience and call Heaven and Earth to record against them.

²⁹ “For I am sure that after my death, you will be utterly corrupt and turn from the way which I have commanded you. Therefore, evil will come upon you in the end, because you will commit evil in the sight of the LORD by provoking Him to anger through the work of your hands.”

³⁰ Thus Moses spoke the words of this song in the audience of all the Congregation of Israel, until he had ended them.

32 “Listen, you heavens, and I will speak. And let the Earth hear the words of my mouth.

² “My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall still as the dew, as the shower upon the herbs and as the great rain upon the grass.

³ “For I will publish the Name of the LORD. Give glory to our God.

⁴ “Perfect is the work of the mighty God. For all His ways are judgment. God is true, and without wickedness. Just and righteous are He.

⁵ “They have corrupted themselves toward Him by their vice, not being his children, a perverse and crooked generation.

⁶ “Do you so reward the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not He your father, Who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

⁷ “Remember the days of old. Consider the years of so many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

⁸ “When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He appointed the borders of the people, according to the number of the children of Israel.

⁹ “For the LORD’s portion is His people. Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.

¹⁰ “He found himself in the land of the wilderness, in a wasteland and roaring wilderness. He led him about. He taught him, kept him as the apple of His eye.

¹¹ “As an eagle stirs up her nest — flutters over her birds, stretches out her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings —

¹² “the LORD alone led him. And there was no strange god with him.

¹³ “He carried him up to the high places of the Earth, So that he might eat the fruits of the fields. And He caused him to suck honey out of the stone, and oil out of the hard rock.

¹⁴ “Butter from cattle, and milk from sheep with fat from the lambs, and rams fed in Bashan, and goats with the fat from the grains of wheat, and the red liquor of the grape have you drunk.

¹⁵ “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You are fat, you are thick, you are engorged with fatness. Therefore, he forsook God, Who made him, and did not regard the strong God of his salvation.

¹⁶ “They provoked Him with strange gods. They provoked Him to anger with abominations.

¹⁷ “They offered to demons, not to God, to gods whom they did not know, newcomers, whom their fathers did not fear.

¹⁸ “You have forgotten the mighty God Who begat you, and have forgotten the God Who formed you.

¹⁹ “The LORD then saw it and was angry, because of the provocation of His sons and of His daughters.

²⁰ “And He said, ‘I will hide My Face from them. I will see what their end shall be. For they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faith.

²¹ ‘They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

²² ‘For fire is kindled in My wrath, and shall burn to the bottom of Hell, and shall consume the Earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³ ‘I will use all My plagues upon them. I will heap My arrows upon them.

²⁴ ‘They shall be empty with hunger and consumed with heat and bitter destruction. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the venom of serpents in the dust.

²⁵ ‘The sword shall kill them outside and fear shall be within them: the young man, the young woman, the suckling and the man of gray hair.

²⁶ “I have said, ‘I would have scattered them abroad. I would have made their remembrance cease from among men,

²⁷ ‘if not for my fear of the fury of the enemy, lest their adversaries should grow proud, lest they should say, “Our high hand, and not the LORD, has done all this.’

²⁸ “For they are a nation void of counsel. Nor is there understanding in them.

²⁹ “Oh that they were wise, they would understand this! They would consider their latter end!

³⁰ “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

³¹ “For their god is not as our God. Even our enemies are judges.

³² “For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

³³ “Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps.

³⁴ ‘Is not this laid in store with Me, sealed up among My treasures?

³⁵ ‘Vengeance and recompense are Mine. Their foot shall slide in due time. For the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them, make haste.

³⁶ ‘For the LORD shall judge His people, and have compassion on His servants, when He sees that their power is gone, and that no one remains, bond or free.

³⁷ ‘When men shall say, “Where are their gods, their mighty god, in whom they trusted,

³⁸ “who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you. Let him be your refuge.”

³⁹ ‘Behold now. For I, I am He. And there are no gods with Me. I kill and give life. I wound. And I make whole. Nor is there anyone who can deliver out of My hand.

⁴⁰ ‘For I lift up My hand to Heaven, and say, ‘I live forever.

⁴¹ ‘If I whet My glittering sword, and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will execute vengeance on My enemies, and will reward those who hate Me.

⁴² ‘I will make My arrows drunk with blood and My sword shall eat flesh —for the blood of the slain and of the captives—when I begin to take vengeance on the enemy.’

⁴³ “Rejoice, O you nations of His people! For He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will execute vengeance upon His adversaries, and will be merciful to His land, and to His people.”

⁴⁴ Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the audience of the people, he and Hoshea (or Joshua), the son of Nun.

⁴⁵ When Moses had made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel,

⁴⁶ then he said to them, “Set your hearts to all the words which I testify against you this day, so that you may command them to your children, so that they may observe and do all the Words of this Law.

⁴⁷ “For it is no empty word concerning you. But it is your life. And by this word you shall prolong your days in the land to which you go over Jordan to possess.”

⁴⁸ And the LORD spoke to Moses the same day, saying,

⁴⁹ “Go up into the mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho) and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.

⁵⁰ “And die on the mount which you go up to. And you shall be gathered to your people (as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people)

⁵¹ “because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah, at Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin. For you did not sanctify Me among the children of Israel.

⁵² “You shall, therefore, see the land before you but shall not go there, into the land which I give the children of Israel.”

33 Now this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death, and said,

² “The LORD came from Sinai, rose up from Seir to them, and appeared clearly from Mount Paran. And He came with tens of thousands of saints at his right hand, and a fiery Law for them.

³ “Also, He loves the people. All Your saints are in Your hands. And they are humbled at Your feet, to receive Your words.

⁴ “Moses commanded us a Law for an inheritance of the Congregation of Jacob.

⁵ “Then He was among the righteous, king, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were assembled.

⁶ “Let Reuben live, and not die, though his men are a small number.

⁷ And thus he blessed Judah, and said, “Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people. His hands shall be sufficient for him, if You help him against his enemies.

⁸ And of Levi, he said, “Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with your holy one, whom you tested in Massah and caused to strive at the waters of Meribah,

⁹ “who said to his father and to his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ Nor did he acknowledge his brothers. Nor did he acknowledge his own children. For they observed Your Word and kept Your Covenant.

¹⁰ “They shall teach Jacob Your Judgments, and Israel Your Law. They shall put incense before Your Face, and the Burnt Offering upon Your Altar.

¹¹ “Bless, O LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands. Strike through the loins of those who rise against him, and of those who hate him, so that they do not rise again.

¹² Of Benjamin he said, “The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him, he shall cover him all the day long, and dwell between his shoulders.

¹³ And of Joseph he said, “Blessed of the LORD is his land, with the sweetness of Heaven, with the dew, and with the depths lying beneath,

¹⁴ “and with the sweet increase of the Sun, and with the sweet increase of the Moon,

¹⁵ “and with the top of the ancient mountains, and with the sweetness of the old hills,

¹⁶ “and with the sweetness of the Earth, and abundance, therefore. And the goodwill of Him Who dwelt in the bush shall come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.

¹⁷ “His beauty shall be like his firstborn bullock, and his horns as the horns of a unicorn. Together with them he shall strike the people to the ends of the world. These are also the tens of thousands of Ephraim. And these are the thousands of Manasseh.

¹⁸ And of Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar in your tents!

¹⁹ “They shall call the people to the mountain. There they shall offer the sacrifices of righteousness. For they shall partake of the abundance of the sea, and of the treasures hid in the sand.

²⁰ Also of Gad he said, “Blessed is he who enlarges Gad. He dwells as a lion who catches the arm with the head for his prey.

²¹ “And he looked to himself at the beginning, because a portion of the Law-giver was hidden. Yet, he shall come with the heads of the people to execute the justice of the LORD and His Judgments with Israel.

²² And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s whelp. He shall leap from Bashan.

²³ Also of Naphtali he said, “O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and filled with the blessing of the LORD, possess the west and the south!

²⁴ And of Asher he said, “Asher shall be blessed with children. He shall be acceptable to his brothers, and shall dip his foot in oil.

²⁵ “Your shoes shall be iron and brass, and your strength shall continue as long as you live.

²⁶ There is none like God, O righteous, Who rides upon the heavens for your help, and on the clouds in His Glory.

²⁷ “The eternal God is your refuge, and you are forever under his arms. He shall cast out the enemy before you, and will say, ‘Destroy.’

²⁸ “Then Israel, the fountain of Jacob, shall dwell alone in safety in a land of wheat and wine. Also, His heavens shall drop the dew.

²⁹ “Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, O people saved by the LORD (the shield of your help and the sword of your glory)? Therefore, your enemies shall be in subjection to you. And you shall tread upon their high places.

34 Then Moses went from the plain of Moab up into Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah that is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,

² and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the western sea,

³ and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar.

⁴ And the LORD said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your seed.’ I have allowed you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”

⁵ So Moses, the servant of the LORD, died there in the land of Moab, according to the Word of the LORD.

⁶ And He buried him in a valley, in the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor. But no one knows of his sepulcher to this day.

⁷ Moses was now a hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

⁸ And the children of Israel wept for Moses on the plain of Moab for thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

⁹ And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom. For Moses had put his hands upon him. And the children of Israel were obedient to him and did as the LORD had Commanded Moses.

¹⁰ But since then there has not arisen a Prophet like Moses in Israel — whom the LORD knew face to face —

¹¹ in all the miracles and wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, before Pharaoh and before all his servants and before all his land,

¹² and in all the mighty hand and all the great fear which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.