Deuteronomy 23:1

<ft>1</ft>No one who has been emasculated<cr>1</cr>  by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.

No one born of a forbidden marriage<ft>1</ft> nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.

Deuteronomy 23:2

No Ammonite<cr>1</cr>  or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:3

For they did not come to meet you with bread and water<cr>1</cr>  on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam<cr>2</cr>  son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim<ft>1</ft><cr>3</cr>  to pronounce a curse on you.<cr>4</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:4

However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse<cr>1</cr>  into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves<cr>2</cr>  you.

Deuteronomy 23:5

Do not seek a treaty<cr>1</cr>  of friendship with them as long as you live.<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:6

Do not despise an Edomite,<cr>1</cr>  for the Edomites are related to you.<cr>2</cr>  Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.<cr>3</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:7

The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:8

Deuteronomy 23:9

When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.<cr>1</cr> 

If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:10

But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset<cr>1</cr>  he may return to the camp.<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:11

Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.

Deuteronomy 23:12

As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

Deuteronomy 23:13

For the Lord your God moves<cr>1</cr>  about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy,<cr>2</cr>  so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 23:14

Deuteronomy 23:15

If a slave has taken refuge<cr>1</cr>  with you, do not hand them over to their master.<cr>2</cr> 

Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress<cr>1</cr>  them.

Deuteronomy 23:16

No Israelite man<cr>1</cr>  or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:17

You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute<ft>1</ft> into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:18

Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:19

You may charge a foreigner<cr>1</cr>  interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless<cr>2</cr>  you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 23:20

If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it,<cr>1</cr>  for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:21

But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:22

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

Deuteronomy 23:23

If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket.

Deuteronomy 23:24

If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 23:25

If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him<cr>1</cr>  because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce,<cr>2</cr>  gives it to her and sends her from his house,

Deuteronomy 24:1

and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man,

Deuteronomy 24:2

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

Deuteronomy 24:3

then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord<cr>1</cr>  your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 24:4

If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:5

Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:6

If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die.<cr>1</cr>  You must purge the evil from among you.<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:7

In cases of defiling skin diseases,<ft>1</ft> be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical<cr>1</cr>  priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them.<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:8

Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:9

When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:10

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

Deuteronomy 24:11

If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge<cr>1</cr>  in your possession.

Deuteronomy 24:12

Return their cloak by sunset<cr>1</cr>  so that your neighbor may sleep in it.<cr>2</cr>  Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.<cr>3</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:13

Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:14

Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor<cr>1</cr>  and are counting on it.<cr>2</cr>  Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.<cr>3</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:15

Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:16

Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless<cr>1</cr>  of justice,<cr>2</cr>  or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt<cr>1</cr>  and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

Deuteronomy 24:18

When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.<cr>1</cr>  Leave it for the foreigner,<cr>2</cr>  the fatherless and the widow,<cr>3</cr>  so that the Lord your God may bless<cr>4</cr>  you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 24:19

When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time.<cr>1</cr>  Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:20

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

Deuteronomy 24:21

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 24:22

When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges<cr>1</cr>  will decide the case,<cr>2</cr>  acquitting<cr>3</cr>  the innocent and condemning the guilty.<cr>4</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:1

If the guilty person deserves to be beaten,<cr>1</cr>  the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes the crime deserves,

Deuteronomy 25:2

but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes.<cr>1</cr>  If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:3

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:4

If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:5

The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:6

However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife,<cr>1</cr>  she shall go to the elders at the town gate<cr>2</cr>  and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”<cr>3</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:7

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

Deuteronomy 25:8

his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals,<cr>1</cr>  spit in his face<cr>2</cr>  and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”

Deuteronomy 25:9

That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.

Deuteronomy 25:10

If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,

Deuteronomy 25:11

you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:12

Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:13

Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small.

Deuteronomy 25:14

You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long<cr>1</cr>  in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 25:15

For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:16

Remember what the Amalekites<cr>1</cr>  did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:17

When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 25:18

When the Lord your God gives you rest<cr>1</cr>  from all the enemies<cr>2</cr>  around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek<cr>3</cr>  from under heaven. Do not forget!

Deuteronomy 25:19

Deuteronomy 26:1

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

take some of the firstfruits<cr>1</cr>  of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 26:2

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

Deuteronomy 26:3

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

Deuteronomy 26:4

Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering<cr>1</cr>  Aramean,<cr>2</cr>  and he went down into Egypt with a few people<cr>3</cr>  and lived there and became a great nation,<cr>4</cr>  powerful and numerous.

Deuteronomy 26:5

But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer,<cr>1</cr>  subjecting us to harsh labor.<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 26:6

Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and the Lord heard our voice<cr>1</cr>  and saw<cr>2</cr>  our misery,<cr>3</cr>  toil and oppression.<cr>4</cr> 

Deuteronomy 26:7

So the Lord brought us out of Egypt<cr>1</cr>  with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,<cr>2</cr>  with great terror and with signs and wonders.<cr>3</cr> 

Deuteronomy 26:8

He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey;<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 26:9

and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, Lord, have given me.<cr>1</cr> ” Place the basket before the Lord your God and bow down before him.

Deuteronomy 26:10

Then you and the Levites<cr>1</cr>  and the foreigners residing among you shall rejoice<cr>2</cr>  in all the good things the Lord your God has given to you and your household.

Deuteronomy 26:11

When you have finished setting aside a tenth<cr>1</cr>  of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe,<cr>2</cr>  you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 26:12

Then say to the Lord your God: “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 26:13

I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean,<cr>1</cr>  nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the Lord my God; I have done everything you commanded me.

Deuteronomy 26:14

Look down from heaven,<cr>1</cr>  your holy dwelling place, and bless<cr>2</cr>  your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 26:15

Deuteronomy 26:16

The Lord your God commands you this day to follow these decrees and laws; carefully observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.<cr>1</cr> 

You have declared this day that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in obedience to him, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws—that you will listen to him.<cr>1</cr> 

Deuteronomy 26:17

And the Lord has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession<cr>1</cr>  as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands.

Deuteronomy 26:18

He has declared that he will set you in praise,<cr>1</cr>  fame and honor high above all the nations<cr>2</cr>  he has made and that you will be a people holy<cr>3</cr>  to the Lord your God, as he promised.

Deuteronomy 26:19

Deuteronomy 27:1

Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all these commands<cr>1</cr>  that I give you today.

When you have crossed the Jordan<cr>1</cr>  into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up some large stones<cr>2</cr>  and coat them with plaster.<cr>3</cr> 

Deuteronomy 27:2

Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey,<cr>1</cr>  just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

Deuteronomy 27:3

And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal,<cr>1</cr>  as I command you today, and coat them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 27:4

Build there an altar<cr>1</cr>  to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool<cr>2</cr>  on them.

Deuteronomy 27:5

Build the altar of the Lord your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 27:6

Sacrifice fellowship offerings<cr>1</cr>  there, eating them and rejoicing<cr>2</cr>  in the presence of the Lord your God.<cr>3</cr> 

Deuteronomy 27:7

And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law on these stones<cr>1</cr>  you have set up.”<cr>2</cr> 

Deuteronomy 27:8

Deuteronomy 27:9

 1  No one who has been emasculated   by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord. 2 No one born of a forbidden marriage  nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation. 3 No Ammonite   or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.   4 For they did not come to meet you with bread and water   on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam   son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim    to pronounce a curse on you.   5 However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse   into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves   you. 6 Do not seek a treaty   of friendship with them as long as you live.   7 Do not despise an Edomite,   for the Edomites are related to you.   Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.   8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord. 9 When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.   10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.   11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset   he may return to the camp.   12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the Lord your God moves   about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy,   so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you. 15 If a slave has taken refuge   with you, do not hand them over to their master.   16 Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress   them. 17 No Israelite man   or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.   18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute  into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.   19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.   20 You may charge a foreigner   interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless   you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess. 21 If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it,   for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.   22 But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.   23 Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the Lord your God with your own mouth. 24 If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. 25 If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.   1 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him   because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce,   gives it to her and sends her from his house, 2 and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, 3 and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, 4 then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord   your God is giving you as an inheritance. 5 If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.   6 Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.   7 If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die.   You must purge the evil from among you.   8 In cases of defiling skin diseases,  be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical   priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them.   9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.   10 When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.   11 Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. 12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge   in your possession. 13 Return their cloak by sunset   so that your neighbor may sleep in it.   Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.   14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.   15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor   and are counting on it.   Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.   16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.   17 Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless   of justice,   or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. 18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt   and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this. 19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.   Leave it for the foreigner,   the fatherless and the widow,   so that the Lord your God may bless   you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time.   Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. 22 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.   1 When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges   will decide the case,   acquitting   the innocent and condemning the guilty.   2 If the guilty person deserves to be beaten,   the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes the crime deserves, 3 but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes.   If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.   4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.   5 If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.   6 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.   7 However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife,   she shall go to the elders at the town gate   and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”   8 Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,” 9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals,   spit in his face   and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.” 10 That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled. 11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.   13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light.   14 Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. 15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long   in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.   17 Remember what the Amalekites   did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. 18 When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.   19 When the Lord your God gives you rest   from all the enemies   around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek   from under heaven. Do not forget! 1 When you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, 2 take some of the firstfruits   of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name   3 and say to the priest in office at the time, “I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come to the land the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.” 4 The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God. 5 Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering   Aramean,   and he went down into Egypt with a few people   and lived there and became a great nation,   powerful and numerous. 6 But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer,   subjecting us to harsh labor.   7 Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and the Lord heard our voice   and saw   our misery,   toil and oppression.   8 So the Lord brought us out of Egypt   with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,   with great terror and with signs and wonders.   9 He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey;   10 and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, Lord, have given me.  ” Place the basket before the Lord your God and bow down before him. 11 Then you and the Levites   and the foreigners residing among you shall rejoice   in all the good things the Lord your God has given to you and your household. 12 When you have finished setting aside a tenth   of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe,   you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. 13 Then say to the Lord your God: “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.   14 I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean,   nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the Lord my God; I have done everything you commanded me. 15 Look down from heaven,   your holy dwelling place, and bless   your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.” 16 The Lord your God commands you this day to follow these decrees and laws; carefully observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.   17 You have declared this day that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in obedience to him, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws—that you will listen to him.   18 And the Lord has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession   as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands. 19 He has declared that he will set you in praise,   fame and honor high above all the nations   he has made and that you will be a people holy   to the Lord your God, as he promised. 1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all these commands   that I give you today. 2 When you have crossed the Jordan   into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up some large stones   and coat them with plaster.   3 Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey,   just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you. 4 And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal,   as I command you today, and coat them with plaster. 5 Build there an altar   to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool   on them. 6 Build the altar of the Lord your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. 7 Sacrifice fellowship offerings   there, eating them and rejoicing   in the presence of the Lord your God.   8 And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law on these stones   you have set up.”   9 Then Moses and the Levitical   priests said to all Israel, “Be silent, Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the Lord your God.   10 Obey the Lord your God and follow his commands and decrees that I give you today.” 11 On the same day Moses commanded the people: 12 When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim   to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar,   Joseph and Benjamin.   13 And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal   to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali. 14 The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:  15 “Cursed is anyone who makes an idol  —a thing detestable   to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”    16 “Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  17 “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  18 “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  19 “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner,   the fatherless or the widow.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  20 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father’s bed.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  21 “Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  22 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  23 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  24 “Cursed is anyone who kills   their neighbor secretly.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  25 “Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  26 “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”   Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”  

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Deut. 23-27 - NIV

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