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Deut 10:1 “At that time יהוה said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of
stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain. And you shall make
yourself an ark of wood,
Deut 10:2 then I write on the tablets the Words that were on the first tablets,
which you broke. And you shall put them in the ark.’
Deut 10:3 “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone
like the first, and went up the mountain, with the two tablets in my hand.
Deut 10:4 “And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the
Ten Words, which יהוה had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of
the fire in the day of the assembly. Then יהוה gave them to me,
Deut 10:5 and I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets
in the ark which I had made. And they are there, as יהוה commanded me.”
Deut 10:6 Now the children of Yisra’ĕl set out from the wells of Benĕi
Ya‛aqan to Mosĕrah. Aharon died there, and he was buried there. And
El‛azar his son became priest in his place.
Deut 10:7 From there they set out to Guḏgoḏah, and from Guḏgoḏah to
Yotḇathah, a land of rivers of water.
Deut 10:8 At that time יהוה separated the tribe of Lĕwi to bear the ark of the
covenant of יהוה, to stand before יהוה, to serve Him, and to bless in His
Name, to this day.
Deut 10:9 Therefore Lĕwi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers.
יהוה is his inheritance, as יהוה your Elohim promised him.
Deut 10:10 “And I stayed in the mountain for forty days and forty nights. And
יהוה heard me at that time also, and יהוה chose not to destroy you.
Deut 10:11 “And יהוה said to me, ‘Arise, go before the people, to set out,
and let them go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give
them.’
Deut 10:12 “And now, Yisra’ĕl, what is יהוה your Elohim asking of you, but
to fear יהוה your Elohim, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, and to
serve יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being,
Deut 10:13 to guard the commands of יהוה and His laws which I command
you today for your good?
Deut 10:14 “See, the heavens and the heaven of heavens belong to יהוה your
Elohim, also the earth with all that is in it.
Deut 10:15 “ יהוה delighted only in your fathers, to love them. And He chose
their seed after them, you above all peoples, as it is today.
Deut 10:16 “And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and harden
your neck no more.
Deut 10:17 “For יהוה your Elohim is Elohim of mighty ones and Master of
masters, the great Ĕl, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes
a bribe.
Deut 10:18 “He executes right-ruling for the fatherless and the widow, and
loves the stranger, giving him food and a garment.
Deut 10:19 “And you shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the
land of Mitsrayim.
Deut 10:20 “Fear יהוה your Elohim. Serve Him, and cling to Him, and swear
by His Name.
Deut 10:21 “He is your praise, and He is your Elohim, who has done for you
these great and awesome deeds which your eyes have seen.
Deut 10:22 “Your fathers went down to Mitsrayim with seventy beings, and
now יהוה your Elohim has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
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Deut 11:1 “And you shall love יהוה your Elohim and guard His Charge: even
His laws, and His right-rulings, and His commands, always.
Deut 11:2 “And you shall know today – for it is not your children who have
not known and who have not seen the discipline of יהוה your Elohim, His
greatness, His strong hand and His outstretched arm,
Deut 11:3 and His signs, and His works which He had done in the midst of
Mitsrayim, to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and to all his land;
Deut 11:4 and that which He had done to the army of Mitsrayim, to their
horses and their chariots, when He made the waters of the Sea of Reeds
overflow them as they pursued you, and how יהוה has destroyed them to this
day;
Deut 11:5 and what He had done for you in the wilderness till you came to
this place;
Deut 11:6 and what He had done to Dathan and Aḇiram the sons of Eliyaḇ,
son of Re’uḇĕn, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up,
and their households, and their tents, and all the living creatures that were in
their possession, in the midst of all Yisra’ĕl.
Deut 11:7 “For yours are the eyes that saw all the great work of יהוה, which
He did.
Deut 11:8 “And you shall guard every command which I command you
today, so that you are strong, and shall go in, and shall possess the land
which you are passing over to possess,
Deut 11:9 and to prolong your days in the land which יהוה swore to give your
fathers, to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deut 11:10 “For the land which you are going in to possess is not like the
land of Mitsrayim from which you have come, where you sowed your seed
and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden,
Deut 11:11 but the land which you are passing over to possess is a land of
hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of the heavens,
Deut 11:12 a land which יהוה your Elohim looks after. The eyes of יהוה your
Elohim are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the latter end of the
year.
Deut 11:13 ‘And it shall be that if you diligently obey My commands which I
command you today, to love יהוה your Elohim and to serve Him with all your
heart and with all your being,
Deut 11:14 then I shall give you the rain for your land in its season, the early
rain and the latter rain, and you shall gather in your grain, and your new
wine, and your oil.
Deut 11:15 ‘And I shall give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you
shall eat and be satisfied.
Deut 11:16 ‘Guard yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn
aside and serve other mighty ones and bow down to them.
Deut 11:17 ‘Then the displeasure of יהוה shall burn against you, and He shall
shut up the heavens, and there be no rain, and the land not give its increase.
And you shall perish quickly from the good land which יהוה is giving you.
Deut 11:18 ‘And you shall lay up these Words of Mine in your heart and in
your being, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as
frontlets between your eyes.
Deut 11:19 ‘And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them
when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie
down, and when you rise up,
Deut 11:20 and shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your
gates,
Deut 11:21 so that your days and the days of your children are increased on
the soil of which יהוה swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the
heavens on the earth.
Deut 11:22 ‘For if you diligently guard all these commands which I
command you, to do it, to love יהוה your Elohim, to walk in all His ways, and
to cling to Him,
Deut 11:23 then יהוה shall drive out all these nations before you, and you
shall dispossess greater and stronger nations than you.
Deut 11:24 ‘Every place on which the sole of your foot treads is yours: from
the wilderness, and Leḇanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the
Western Sea is your border.
Deut 11:25 ‘No man shall stand against you. יהוה your Elohim shall put the
dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, as He has
spoken to you.
Deut 11:26 ‘See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:
Deut 11:27 the blessing, when you obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim
which I command you today;
Deut 11:28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commands of יהוה your
Elohim, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after
other mighty ones which you have not known.
Deut 11:29 ‘And it shall be, when יהוה your Elohim has brought you into the
land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount
Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ĕyḇal.
Deut 11:30 ‘Are they not beyond the Yardĕn, toward the setting sun, in the
land of the Kena‛anites who dwell in the desert plain opposite Gilgal, beside
the terebinth trees of Moreh?
Deut 11:31 ‘For you are passing over the Yardĕn to go in to possess the land
which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and you shall possess it and dwell in
it,
Deut 11:32 and shall guard to do all the laws and right-rulings which I am
setting before you today.’
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Deut 12:1 “These are the laws and right-rulings which you guard to do in the
land which יהוה Elohim of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days
that you live on the soil.
Deut 12:2 “Completely destroy all the places where the nations which you
are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the
hills and under every green tree.
Deut 12:3 “And you shall break down their altars, and smash their pillars,
and burn their Ashĕrim with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images
of their mighty ones and shall destroy their name out of that place.
Deut 12:4 “Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim,
Deut 12:5 but seek the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses, out of all your
tribes, to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and there you shall
enter.
Deut 12:6 “And there you shall take your burnt offerings, and your offerings,
and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and your vowed offerings,
and your voluntary offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock.
Deut 12:7 “And there you shall eat before יהוה your Elohim, and shall
rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which
יהוה your Elohim has blessed you.
Deut 12:8 “Do not do as we are doing here today – each one doing whatever
is right in his own eyes.
Deut 12:9 “Because you have not yet entered the rest and the inheritance
which יהוה your Elohim is giving you.
Deut 12:10 “But you shall pass over the Yardĕn, and shall dwell in the land
which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to inherit, and He shall give you rest
from all your enemies round about, and you shall dwell in safety.
Deut 12:11 “And it shall be, that unto the place which יהוה your Elohim
chooses to make His Name dwell there, there you are to bring all that I
command you: your burnt offerings, and your offerings, and your tithes, and
the contributions of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow
.יהוה to
Deut 12:12 “And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim, you and your
sons and your daughters, and your male servants and your female servants,
and the Lĕwite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor
inheritance with you.
Deut 12:13 “Guard yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in
every place that you see,
Deut 12:14 except in the place which יהוה chooses, in one of your tribes,
there you are to offer your burnt offerings, and there you are to do all that I
command you.
Deut 12:15 “Only, whatever your being desires you shall slaughter and eat,
according to the blessing of יהוה your Elohim which He has given you, within
all your gates. The unclean and the clean do eat of it, of the gazelle and the
deer alike.
Deut 12:16 “Only, the blood you do not eat, pour it on the earth like water.
Deut 12:17 “You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your
grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or of the firstlings of your herd or
your flock, or of any of your offerings which you vow, or of your voluntary
offerings, or of the contribution of your hand.
Deut 12:18 “But eat them before יהוה your Elohim, in the place which יהוה
your Elohim chooses, you and your son and your daughter, and your male
servant and your female servant, and the Lĕwite who is within your gates.
And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim in all that you put your hands
to.
Deut 12:19 “Guard yourself that you do not forsake the Lĕwite as long as
you live in your land.
Deut 12:20 “When יהוה your Elohim enlarges your border as He has
promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat meat,
you eat as much meat as your being desires.
Deut 12:21 “When the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to put His
Name is too far from you, then you shall slaughter from your herd and from
your flock which יהוה has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall
eat within your gates as much as your being desires.
Deut 12:22 “Only, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you are to eat of
it. The unclean and the clean alike eat of it.
Deut 12:23 “Only, be firm not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, do
not eat the life with the meat.
Deut 12:24 “Do not eat it, you pour it on the earth like water.
Deut 12:25 “Do not eat it, that it might be well with you and your children
after you, when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה.
Deut 12:26 “Only, the set-apart gifts which you have, and your vowed
offerings, you are to take up and go to the place which יהוה chooses.
Deut 12:27 “And you shall make your burnt offerings, the meat and the
blood, on the altar of יהוה your Elohim. And the blood of your offerings is
poured out on the altar of יהוה your Elohim, and you eat the meat.
Deut 12:28 “Guard, and obey all these words which I command you, that it
might be well with you and your children after you forever, when you do
what is good and right in the eyes of יהוה your Elohim.
Deut 12:29 “When יהוה your Elohim does cut off from before you the nations
which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deut 12:30 guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after
they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire about their
mighty ones, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their mighty ones? And let
me do so too.’
Deut 12:31 “Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim, for every abomination which
יהוה hates they have done to their mighty ones, for they even burn their sons
and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones.
Deut 12:32 “All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it – do not add
to it nor take away from it.
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Deut 13:1 “When there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams,
and he shall give you a sign or a wonder,
Deut 13:2 and the sign or the wonder shall come true, of which he has
spoken to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other mighty ones – which you have
not known – and serve them,’
Deut 13:3 do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of
dreams, for יהוה your Elohim is trying you to know whether you love יהוה
your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being.
Deut 13:4 “Walk after יהוה your Elohim and fear Him, and guard His
commands and obey His voice, and serve Him and cling to Him.
Deut 13:5 “And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is put to death,
because he has spoken apostasy against יהוה your Elohim – who brought you
out of the land of Mitsrayim and redeemed you from the house of bondage –
to make you stray from the way in which יהוה your Elohim commanded you to
walk. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deut 13:6 “When your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own
being, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other mighty ones’–
which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,
Deut 13:7 of the mighty ones of the people which are all around you, near to
you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth
–
Deut 13:8 do not agree with him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pardon
him, nor spare him or conceal him,
Deut 13:9 but you shall certainly kill him. Your hand is first against him to
put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people,
Deut 13:10 and you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he
sought to entice you away from יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the
land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage.
Deut 13:11 “And let all Yisra’ĕl hear and fear, and not again do any such
evil matter as this in your midst.
Deut 13:12 “When you hear someone in one of your cities, which יהוה your
Elohim gives you to dwell in, saying,
Deut 13:13 ‘Some men, sons of Beliya‛al, have gone out of you midst and
led the inhabitants of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other
mighty ones” ’ – mighty ones whom you have not known –
Deut 13:14 then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And see if
the matter is true and established that this abomination was done in your
midst,
Deut 13:15 you shall certainly smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge
of the sword, putting it under the ban, and all that is in it and its livestock,
with the edge of the sword.
Deut 13:16 “And gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and
completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, before יהוה your
Elohim. And it shall be a heap forever, never to be built again.
Deut 13:17 “And none of that which is put under the ban is to cling to your
hand, so that יהוה turns from the fierceness of His displeasure and shall show
you compassion, love you and increase you, as He swore to your fathers,
Deut 13:18 when you obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim, to guard all His
commands which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of יהוה
your Elohim.
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Deut 14:1 “You are the children of יהוה your Elohim. Do not cut yourselves
nor shave the front of your head for the dead,
Deut 14:2 for you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim, and יהוה has
chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the
peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deut 14:3 “Do not eat whatever is abominable.
Deut 14:4 “These are the living creatures which you do eat: ox, sheep, and
goat,
Deut 14:5 deer, and gazelle, and roebuck, and wild goat, and mountain goat,
and antelope, and mountain sheep.
Deut 14:6 “And every beast that has a split hoof divided in two, chewing the
cud, among the beasts, you do eat.
Deut 14:7 “But of those chewing the cud or those having a split hoof
completely divided, you do not eat, such as these: the camel, and the hare,
and the rabbit, for they chew the cud but do not have a split hoof, they are
unclean for you.
Deut 14:8 “And the pig is unclean for you, because it has a split hoof, but
does not chew the cud. You do not eat their flesh or touch their dead
carcasses.
Deut 14:9 “These you do eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins
and scales you do eat.
Deut 14:10 “And whatever does not have fins and scales you do not eat, it is
unclean for you.
Deut 14:11 “Any clean bird you do eat,
Deut 14:12 but these you do not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black
vulture,
Deut 14:13 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the buzzard after their kinds,
Deut 14:14 and every raven after its kind,
Deut 14:15 and the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the seagull, and the hawk
after their kinds,
Deut 14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl,
Deut 14:17 and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the fisher owl,
Deut 14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the
bat.
Deut 14:19 “And every creeping insect that flies is unclean for you, they are
not eaten.
Deut 14:20 “Any clean bird you do eat.
Deut 14:21 “Do not eat whatever dies of itself. Give it to the stranger who is
within your gates, to eat it, or sell it to a foreigner. For you are a set-apart
people to יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Deut 14:22 “You shall tithe without fail all the yield of your grain that the
field brings forth year by year.
Deut 14:23 “And you shall eat before יהוה your Elohim, in the place where
He chooses to make His Name dwell, the tithe of your grain and your new
wine and your oil, and of the firstlings of your herds and your sheep, so that
you learn to fear יהוה your Elohim always.
Deut 14:24 “But when the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to
bring the tithe, or when the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to put His
Name is too far from you, when יהוה your Elohim is blessing you,
Deut 14:25 then you shall give it in silver, and shall take the silver in your
hand and go to the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses.
Deut 14:26 “And you shall use the silver for whatever your being desires:
for cattle or sheep, for wine or strong drink, for whatever your being desires.
And you shall eat there before יהוה your Elohim, and you shall rejoice, you
and your household.
Deut 14:27 “And do not forsake the Lĕwite who is within your gates, for he
has no part nor inheritance with you.
Deut 14:28 “At the end of every third year you bring out all the tithe of your
increase of that year and store it up within your gates.
Deut 14:29 “And the Lĕwite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with
you, and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within your
gates, shall come and eat and be satisfied, so that יהוה your Elohim does bless
you in all the work of your hand which you do.