Chapter II: Part 2

05:010:005 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the
tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the
LORD commanded me.

05:010:006 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of
the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there
he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's
office in his stead.

05:010:007 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.

05:010:008 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the
ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to
minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

05:010:009 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren;
the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God
promised him.

05:010:010 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty
days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that
time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.

05:010:011 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I
sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

05:010:012 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee,
but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to
love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy soul,

05:010:013 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which
I command thee this day for thy good?

05:010:014 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy
God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

05:010:015 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and
he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as
it is this day.

05:010:016 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no
more stiffnecked.

05:010:017 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a
great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not
persons, nor taketh reward:

05:010:018 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and
loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

05:010:019 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the
land of Egypt.

05:010:020 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to
him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

05:010:021 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee
these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

05:010:022 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten
persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars
of heaven for multitude.

05:011:001 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his
charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his
commandments, alway.

05:011:002 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which
have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of
the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his
stretched out arm,

05:011:003 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of
Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;

05:011:004 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and
to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to
overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath
destroyed them unto this day;

05:011:005 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into
this place;

05:011:006 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the
son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed
them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the
substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all
Israel:

05:011:007 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which
he did.

05:011:008 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command
you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the
land, whither ye go to possess it;

05:011:009 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD
sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a
land that floweth with milk and honey.

05:011:010 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as
the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst
thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of
herbs:

05:011:011 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills
and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

05:011:012 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD
thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year
even unto the end of the year.

05:011:013 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto
my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD
your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all
your soul,

05:011:014 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season,
the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in
thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

05:011:015 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou
mayest eat and be full.

05:011:016 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and
ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

05:011:017 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut
up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield
not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good
land which the LORD giveth you.

05:011:018 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in
your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they
may be as frontlets between your eyes.

05:011:019 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when
thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

05:011:020 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house,
and upon thy gates:

05:011:021 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers
to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

05:011:022 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I
command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in
all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

05:011:023 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before
you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than
yourselves.

05:011:024 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall
be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the
river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast
be.

05:011:025 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD
your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon
all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto
you.

05:011:026 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

05:011:027 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God,
which I command you this day:

05:011:028 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD
your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you
this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

05:011:029 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought
thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that
thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse
upon mount Ebal.

05:011:030 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the
sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in
the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

05:011:031 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land
which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it,
and dwell therein.

05:011:032 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments
which I set before you this day.

05:012:001 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe
to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth
thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

05:012:002 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations
which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high
mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

05:012:003 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars,
and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the
graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out
of that place.

05:012:004 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

05:012:005 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of
all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his
habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

05:012:006 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand,
and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings
of your herds and of your flocks:

05:012:007 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall
rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your
households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

05:012:008 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,
every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

05:012:009 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
which the LORD your God giveth you.

05:012:010 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the
LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you
rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in
safety;

05:012:011 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall
choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye
bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand,
and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:

05:012:012 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your
sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your
maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates;
forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.

05:012:013 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings
in every place that thou seest:

05:012:014 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy
tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there
thou shalt do all that I command thee.

05:012:015 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy
gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the
blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the
unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and
as of the hart.

05:012:016 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the
earth as water.

05:012:017 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or
of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or
of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy
freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

05:012:018 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place
which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and
thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before
the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

05:012:019 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long
as thou livest upon the earth.

05:012:020 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath
promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because
thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh,
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

05:012:021 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his
name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy
herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I
have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

05:012:022 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat
them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

05:012:023 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the
life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

05:012:024 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as
water.

05:012:025 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with
thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is
right in the sight of the LORD.

05:012:026 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt
take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:

05:012:027 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the
blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of
thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD
thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

05:012:028 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it
may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for
ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the
sight of the LORD thy God.

05:012:029 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before
thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest
them, and dwellest in their land;

05:012:030 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following
them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that
thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these
nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

05:012:031 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every
abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto
their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have
burnt in the fire to their gods.

05:012:032 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt
not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

05:013:001 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,
and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

05:013:002 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto
thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not
known, and let us serve them;

05:013:003 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that
dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know
whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with
all your soul.

05:013:004 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep
his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him,
and cleave unto him.

05:013:005 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to
death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD
your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out
of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in.
So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

05:013:006 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as
thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and
serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy
fathers;

05:013:007 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you,
nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the
earth even unto the other end of the earth;

05:013:008 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither
shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither
shalt thou conceal him:

05:013:009 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon
him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the
people.

05:013:010 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he
hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage.

05:013:011 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any
such wickedness as this is among you.

05:013:012 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

05:013:013 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among
you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying,
Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

05:013:014 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently;
and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought among you;

05:013:015 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the
edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is
therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

05:013:016 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of
the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all
the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it
shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

05:013:017 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine
hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger,
and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and
multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

05:013:018 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to
keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do
that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

05:014:001 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the
dead.

05:014:002 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the
LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself,
above all the nations that are upon the earth.

05:014:003 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

05:014:004 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep,
and the goat,

05:014:005 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild
goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

05:014:006 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft
into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye
shall eat.

05:014:007 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the
hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the
hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

05:014:008 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not
the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their
flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

05:014:009 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that
have fins and scales shall ye eat:

05:014:010 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is
unclean unto you.

05:014:011 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

05:014:012 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and
the ossifrage, and the ospray,

05:014:013 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

05:014:014 And every raven after his kind,

05:014:015 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
after his kind,

05:014:016 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

05:014:017 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

05:014:018 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing,
and the bat.

05:014:019 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they
shall not be eaten.

05:014:020 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

05:014:021 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt
give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may
eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an
holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid
in his mother's milk.

05:014:022 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the
field bringeth forth year by year.

05:014:023 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which
he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy
corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy
herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the
LORD thy God always.

05:014:024 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able
to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the
LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee:

05:014:025 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in
thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God
shall choose:

05:014:026 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul
lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for
strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou
shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt
rejoice, thou, and thine household,

05:014:027 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not
forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

05:014:028 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe
of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within
thy gates:

05:014:029 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with
thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,
which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the
work of thine hand which thou doest.

05:015:001 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

05:015:002 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that
lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall
not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it
is called the LORD's release.

05:015:003 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is
thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

05:015:004 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall
greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance to possess it:

05:015:005 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command
thee this day.

05:015:006 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and
thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow;
and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not
reign over thee.

05:015:007 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within
any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand
from thy poor brother:

05:015:008 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely
lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

05:015:009 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,
saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and
thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest
him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be
sin unto thee.

05:015:010 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be
grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing
the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all
that thou puttest thine hand unto.

05:015:011 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I
command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy
brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

05:015:012 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold
unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year
thou shalt let him go free from thee.

05:015:013 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not
let him go away empty:

05:015:014 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of
thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the
LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

05:015:015 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land
of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I
command thee this thing to day.

05:015:016 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from
thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is
well with thee;

05:015:017 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear
unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also
unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

05:015:018 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away
free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant
to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall
bless thee in all that thou doest.

05:015:019 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock
thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no
work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the
firstling of thy sheep.

05:015:020 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the
place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

05:015:021 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or
blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it
unto the LORD thy God.

05:015:022 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean
person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

05:015:023 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it
upon the ground as water.

05:016:001 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD
thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought
thee forth out of Egypt by night.

05:016:002 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy
God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD
shall choose to place his name there.

05:016:003 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt
thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of
affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in
haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest
forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

05:016:004 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy
coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh,
which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all
night until the morning.

05:016:005 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy
gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

05:016:006 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place
his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even,
at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest
forth out of Egypt.

05:016:007 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD
thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and
go unto thy tents.

05:016:008 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh
day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt
do no work therein.

05:016:009 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the
seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle
to the corn.

05:016:010 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God
with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which
thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee:

05:016:011 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy
son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy
maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among
you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place
his name there.

05:016:012 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and
thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

05:016:013 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

05:016:014 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and
thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that
are within thy gates.

05:016:015 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy
God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD
thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the
works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

05:016:016 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the
LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast
of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the
feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the
LORD empty:

05:016:017 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

05:016:018 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and
they shall judge the people with just judgment.

05:016:019 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,
neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the
wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

05:016:020 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou
mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee.

05:016:021 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the
altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

05:016:022 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy
God hateth.

05:017:001 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or
sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that
is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

05:017:002 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought
wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing
his covenant,

05:017:003 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them,
either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I
have not commanded;

05:017:004 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain,
that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

05:017:005 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or
that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

05:017:006 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he
that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of
one witness he shall not be put to death.

05:017:007 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him
to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou
shalt put the evil away from among you.

05:017:008 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between
blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and
stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then
shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the
LORD thy God shall choose;

05:017:009 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the
judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall
shew thee the sentence of judgment:

05:017:010 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of
that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and
thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform
thee:

05:017:011 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach
thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell
thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence
which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the
left.

05:017:012 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken
unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the
LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and
thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

05:017:013 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.

05:017:014 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt
say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that
are about me;

05:017:015 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD
thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou
set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee,
which is not thy brother.

05:017:016 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply
horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall
henceforth return no more that way.

05:017:017 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart
turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold.

05:017:018 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his
kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book
out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

05:017:019 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the
days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God,
to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do
them:

05:017:020 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that
he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or
to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his
kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

05:018:001 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have
no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.

05:018:002 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren:
the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

05:018:003 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them
that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they
shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks,
and the maw.

05:018:004 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine
oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give
him.

05:018:005 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to
stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons
for ever.

05:018:006 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel,
where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind
unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

05:018:007 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all
his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the
LORD.

05:018:008 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh
of the sale of his patrimony.

05:018:009 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of
those nations.

05:018:010 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son
or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a
witch.

05:018:011 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a
wizard, or a necromancer.

05:018:012 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD:
and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive
them out from before thee.

05:018:013 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

05:018:014 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the
LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

05:018:015 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye
shall hearken;

05:018:016 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in
Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear
again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this
great fire any more, that I die not.

05:018:017 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which
they have spoken.

05:018:018 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like
unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall
speak unto them all that I shall command him.

05:018:019 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken
unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require
it of him.

05:018:020 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my
name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall
speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

05:018:021 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word
which the LORD hath not spoken?

05:018:022 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing
follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD
hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

05:019:001 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the
LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and
dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

05:019:002 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy
land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

05:019:003 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy
land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into
three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

05:019:004 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither,
that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom
he hated not in time past;

05:019:005 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew
wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down
the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth
upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of
those cities, and live:

05:019:006 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his
heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and
slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he
hated him not in time past.

05:019:007 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three
cities for thee.

05:019:008 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn
unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised
to give unto thy fathers;

05:019:009 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I
command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk
ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for
thee, beside these three:

05:019:010 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon
thee.

05:019:011 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him,
and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die,
and fleeth into one of these cities:

05:019:012 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence,
and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he
may die.

05:019:013 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the
guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with
thee.

05:019:014 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of
old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt
inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to
possess it.

05:019:015 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity,
or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of
two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the
matter be established.

05:019:016 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against
him that which is wrong;

05:019:017 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall
stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges,
which shall be in those days;

05:019:018 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,
if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely
against his brother;

05:019:019 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto
his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

05:019:020 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall
henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

05:019:021 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

05:020:001 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest
horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not
afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

05:020:002 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that
the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

05:020:003 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day
unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint,
fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because
of them;

05:020:004 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for
you against your enemies, to save you.

05:020:005 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man
is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated
it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man dedicate it.

05:020:006 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not
yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house,
lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

05:020:007 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not
taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die
in the battle, and another man take her.

05:020:008 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they
shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted?
let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's
heart faint as well as his heart.

05:020:009 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of
speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the
armies to lead the people.

05:020:010 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then
proclaim peace unto it.

05:020:011 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open
unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found
therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve
thee.

05:020:012 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war
against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

05:020:013 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,
thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the
sword:

05:020:014 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all
that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou
take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine
enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

05:020:015 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off
from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

05:020:016 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth
give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing
that breatheth:

05:020:017 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and
the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,
and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

05:020:018 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations,
which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against
the LORD your God.

05:020:019 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees
thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of
them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the
field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

05:020:020 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for
meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt
build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee,
until it be subdued.

05:021:001 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not
known who hath slain him:

05:021:002 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they
shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that
is slain:

05:021:003 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain
man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which
hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the
yoke;

05:021:004 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a
rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall
strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

05:021:005 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the
LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in
the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every
controversy and every stroke be tried:

05:021:006 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain
man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded
in the valley:

05:021:007 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this
blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

05:021:008 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast
redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of
Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

05:021:009 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among
you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of
the LORD.

05:021:010 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the
LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou
hast taken them captive,

05:021:011 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a
desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

05:021:012 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall
shave her head, and pare her nails;

05:021:013 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her,
and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her
mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her,
and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

05:021:014 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou
shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her
at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her,
because thou hast humbled her.

05:021:015 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and
they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated;
and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

05:021:016 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that
which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved
firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the
firstborn:

05:021:017 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the
firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath:
for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
firstborn is his.

05:021:018 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not
obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and
that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto
them:

05:021:019 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and
bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate
of his place;

05:021:020 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son
is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is
a glutton, and a drunkard.

05:021:021 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that
he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all
Israel shall hear, and fear.

05:021:022 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be
to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

05:021:023 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou
shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is
accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD
thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

05:022:001 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them
again unto thy brother.

05:022:002 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him
not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it
shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou
shalt restore it to him again.

05:022:003 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou
do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's,
which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do
likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

05:022:004 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by
the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help
him to lift them up again.

05:022:005 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man,
neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do
so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.