The Book of Deuteronomy

Chapter 1
1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in Transjordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Di-zahab. (
2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the Mount Seir road unto Kadesh-barnea.)
3 It came to be in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on day one of the month, that Moses spoke to all the sons of Israel according to all that Yahweh had instructed him concerning them,
4 after his smiting Sihon king of the Amorite (who was dwelling in Heshbon) and Og king of Bashan (who was dwelling in Ashtaroth) at Edrei.
5 In Transjordan in the land of Moab, Moses was disposed to make this law plain by saying:
6 Yahweh our Elohim, He spoke to us at Horeb saying: Many days have you dwelt at this mountain.
7 Turn around and take your journey and enter the hill-country of the Amorite; go to all his neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill-country, in the low foothills, in the Negeb and on the sea shore, the land of the Canaanite and the Lebanon as far as the Great Stream, the stream Euphrates.
8 See! I have set the land before you. Enter and tenant the land about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
9 I spoke to you at that time saying: I am not able to bear you alone.
10 Yahweh your Elohim, He has made you multiply, and behold, you are today like the stars of the heavens for multitude.
11 Yahweh Elohim of your fathers, may He add to you a thousand times as many as you are, and may He bless you just as He promised to you.
12 How shall I alone bear the encumbrance of you, and the load of you and your disputes?
13 Grant yourselves men wise and understanding, and known to your tribes, that I may place them as your heads.
14 And you answered me and said: The word that you speak for us to do is good.
15 So I took the heads of your tribes, men wise and known, and I placed them as heads over you, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties and chiefs of tens, and clerks for your judges.
16 And I instructed your judges at that time, saying: You are to hear the disputes between your brothers, and you will judge justly between a man and his brother or his sojourner.
17 You shall not be biased in judgment. You shall hear the small as the great. You shall not shrink away from any man’s face, because the judgment, it is Elohim’s. And the matter which is too hard for you, you shall bring near to me that I may hear it.
18 Thus I instructed you at that time in all the things which you should do.
19 We journeyed from Horeb and went through all that great and fear inspiring wilderness which you saw by way of the Amorite hill-country, just as Yahweh our Elohim had instructed us, and we came as far as Kadesh-barnea.
20 Then I said to you: You have come as far as the Amorite hill-country that Yahweh our Elohim is giving to us.
21 See! Yahweh your Elohim has set the land before you. Ascend! Tenant it just as Yahweh Elohim of your fathers promised to you. Do not fear, and do not be dismayed.
22 Then you came near to me, all of you, and said: Let us send men before us that they may reconnoiter in the land for us and bring us back word about the way by which we should ascend, and about the cities to which we shall come.
23 Now the word was good in my eyes, so I took twelve men from you, one man for each tribe.
24 They turned around, ascended toward the hill-country and came back to Wadi Eshcol and spied it out.
25 Then they took in their hand some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us; they brought us back word and said: The land that Yahweh our Elohim is giving to us is good.
26 Yet you would not ascend, and you defied the bidding of Yahweh your Elohim.
27 You murmured in your tents and said: In Yahweh’s hatred of us He brought us forth from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorite to exterminate us.
28 Whither are we ascending? Our brothers, they melt our heart by saying: The people are greater and taller than we are; the cities are great and defended to the heavens; and moreover, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.
29 Yet I was saying to you: You should not be terrified, and you should not fear them.
30 Yahweh your Elohim Who is going before you, He Himself shall fight for you according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
31 and in the wilderness where you saw how Yahweh your Elohim carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way you went until you came to this place.
32 Even in this matter you were not believing in Yahweh your Elohim,
33 Who was going before you in the way to explore for you a place for you to encamp, in fire by night, to show you the way by which you should go, and in a cloud by day.
34 When Yahweh heard the sound of your words, He was wrathful; and He swore saying:
35 Assuredly no one among these mortals, this evil generation, shall see the good land about which I had sworn to give to your fathers,
36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh; he shall see it. To him shall I give the land on which he has trod, and to his sons, because he has fully followed after Yahweh.
37 Moreover, Yahweh showed Himself angered with me owing to you, saying: Not even you shall enter there.
38 Joshua son of Nun, who is standing before you, he shall enter there. Encourage him, for he shall allot it to Israel.
39 And your little ones of whom you said, They shall come to be for plunder, and your sons who today do not know good or evil, they shall enter there; to them shall I give it, and they shall tenant it.
40 Yet you, turn yourselves around and journey toward the wilderness by the Sea of Weeds road.
41 Then you answered and said to me: We have sinned against Yahweh our Elohim. We shall ascend, and we will fight according to all that Yahweh our Elohim has instructed us. So you girded, each man his implements of war, and you thought it easy to ascend to the hill-country.
42 Yet Yahweh said to me: Say to them, You shall not ascend, and you shall not fight (since I am not among you), that you may not be stricken before your enemies.
43 So I spoke to you, yet you did not hearken; you defied the bidding of Yahweh and showed arrogance, and you ascended to the hill-country.
44 Yet the Amorite who was dwelling in that hill-country came forth to meet you; they pursued you just as bees do, and they pounded you in Seir as far as Hormah.
45 Then you returned and lamented before Yahweh. Yet Yahweh did not hearken to your voice nor give ear to you.
46 So you dwelt at Kadesh many days, according to the days which you dwelt.

Chapter 2
1 Then we turned around and journeyed toward the wilderness by the Sea of Weeds road, just as Yahweh had spoken to me; and we were around the hill-country of Seir many days.
2 Then Yahweh spoke to me saying:
3 Long enough you have been around this hill-country. Turn yourselves around northward
4 and instruct the people saying, You shall pass along the boundary of your brothers, the sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir. They shall fear you, yet you must be very much on guard.
5 Do not stir yourselves up against them, for I shall not give to you any of their land, not even a tread of a foot’s sole for I have given the hill-country of Seir for a tenancy to Esau.
6 You shall purchase food from them with silver, that you may eat. Even for water you shall bargain from them with silver, that you may drink.
7 For Yahweh your Elohim, He has blessed you in every work of your hand. He knows of your going in this great wilderness. These forty years Yahweh your Elohim has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
8 So we passed on away from our brothers, the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seir, away from the Arabah road, away from Elath and away from Ezion-geber, and we turned around and passed on by the Moab wilderness road.
9 Then Yahweh said to me: Do not distress Moab, and do not stir yourself up against them in battle, for I shall not give to you any of his land as a tenancy, for I gave Ar to the sons of Lot as a tenancy. (
10 The Emim dwelt in it beforetime, a people great and numerous, and as tall as the Anakim.
11 Like the Anakim, they too were accounted as Rephaim, yet the Moabites called them Emim.
12 And the Horites dwelt beforetime in Seir, yet the sons of Esau dispossessed them and exterminated them before their face that they might dwell in their stead, just as Israel did to the land of its tenancy that Yahweh had given to them.)
13 Now arise, journey, and you cross over Wadi Zered. So we crossed over Wadi Zered.
14 The days that we went from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over Wadi Zered were thirty-eight years, until the entire generation of the men of military age had come to end from among the camp, just as Yahweh had sworn concerning them.
15 And indeed, the hand of Yahweh came to be against them to discomfit them from among the camp, until they had come to end.
16 It came to be just as all the men of military age had come to end, dying from among the people,
17 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying:
18 Today you are passing through the territory of Moab at Ar;
19 then you will come near toward the sons of Ammon. Do not distress them, and do not stir yourself up against them, for I shall not give any of the land of the sons of Ammon to you as a tenancy, since I gave it to the sons of Lot as a tenancy. (
20 It too was accounted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim, they dwelt in it beforetime, yet the Ammonites, they called them Zamzummim,
21 a people great and numerous, and as tall as the Anakim. Yet Yahweh exterminated them before their face that they might dispossess them and dwell in their stead,
22 just as He did for the sons of Esau who were dwelling in Seir, when He exterminated the Horite before their face, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their stead until this day.
23 As for the Avvim, who were dwelling in hamlets as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who were coming forth from Caphtor, they exterminated them and dwelt in their stead.)
24 Arise, journey, and cross over Wadi Arnon. See! I will give into your hand Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land. Start out, tenant it, and struggle with him in battle.
25 This day I shall start to put the awe of you and the fear of you on the face of all peoples beneath the entire heavens; whenever they should hear a report of you, they will be disturbed and in travail before your face.
26 Then I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying:
27 Do let me pass through your land along the main road. Only along the main road shall I go. I shall not withdraw to the right or to the left.
28 You may retail to me food for silver that I may eat. And you may give me water for silver that I may drink. But do let me pass through on my feet
29 (just as the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seir and the Moabites who are dwelling in Ar did for me), until I shall cross over the Jordan to the land that Yahweh our Elohim is giving to us.
30 Yet Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through it, for Yahweh your Elohim made his spirit obstinate and made his heart resolute, that He might give him into your hand (as is known this day).
31 Then Yahweh said to me: See! I have started to deliver up before you Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land. Start out, tenant, yea tenant his land.
32 When Sihon came forth to meet us, he and all his people, for battle at Jahaz,
33 Yahweh our Elohim delivered him up before us, and we smote him, his sons and all his people.
34 We seized all his cities at that time, and we doomed every city adult males, women and little ones we let not one survivor remain.
35 But the domestic beasts we plundered for ourselves, and the loot of the cities that we had seized.
36 From Aroer which is on the ridge of the wadi valley of Arnon, and the city which is in the wadi valley, even as far as Gilead, there was no town which was impregnable to us. Yahweh our Elohim gave the whole into our hands.
37 But to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the side of Wadi Jabbok and the cities of the hill-country you did not come near, wherever Yahweh our Elohim had so enjoined.

Chapter 3
1 Then we turned around and ascended the Bashan road. And Og king of Bashan came forth to meet us, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.
2 But Yahweh said to me: Do not fear him, for into your hand I will give him, all his people and his land, and you will do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorite who was dwelling in Heshbon.
3 So Yahweh our Elohim also gave into our hand Og king of Bashan and all his people, and we smote him until no survivor at all was left remaining to him.
4 Then we seized all his cities at that time. There was not a town which we did not take from them, sixty cities, the whole district of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 All these cities were defended by lofty walls, double doors and bar, aside from the unwalled villages which were exceedingly numerous.
6 And we doomed them just as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, dooming every city adult males, women and little ones.
7 All the domestic beasts and the loot of the cities we plundered for ourselves.
8 At that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorite who were in Transjordan, from Wadi Arnon as far as Mount Hermon (
9 the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorite call it Shenir),
10 all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. (
11 For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the rest of the Rephaim. Behold, his sarcophagus is a sarcophagus of wrought iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, in the cubit measure of a man.)
12 From this land which we took over at that time, the part from Aroer which is on the ridge of Wadi Arnon with half the hill-country of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenite and to the Gadite.
13 The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, including the whole district of Argob. All of that Bashan, it is called the land of the Rephaim.
14 Jair son of Manasseh, he took the whole district of Argob as far as the boundary of the Geshurite and the Maachathite and called them (that is, Bashan) by his own name, Havvoth-jair, until this day.
15 And to Machir I gave Gilead.
16 To the Reubenite and to the Gadite I gave their half of Gilead: as far as Wadi Arnon (the midst of the wadi as boundary), as far as the Wadi Jabbok, the boundary of the sons of Ammon.
17 In the west the Arabah with the Jordan was the boundary from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, below the slopes of the Pisgah ridge toward sunrise.
18 I instructed you at that time, saying: Yahweh your Elohim, He has given to you this land to tenant it. You shall cross over outfitted for war before your brothers, the sons of Israel, all you sons of valor.
19 But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (I know that you have much cattle), they may dwell in your cities which I gave to you
20 until Yahweh shall give rest to your brothers, as He gave to you, and they too will tenant the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to them across the Jordan. Then you may return, each to his tenancy, which I gave to you.
21 I instructed Joshua at that time, saying: Your eyes were the ones seeing all that Yahweh your Elohim has done to these two kings. Thus shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you are passing.
22 You shall not fear them, for Yahweh your Elohim, He is the One fighting for you.
23 I supplicated to Yahweh at that time, saying:
24 My Lord Yahweh, You Yourself have started to show Your servant Your greatness and Your steadfast hand, and Your outstretched arm. For what el is in the heavens or on the earth who could do according to Your deeds and according to Your mastery?
25 Let me cross over, I pray so I may see the good land that is across the Jordan, this good hill-country and the Lebanon.
26 Yet Yahweh was enraged with me on account of you and did not hearken to me. Yahweh said to me: Let it be enough for you! Do not continue to speak to Me further on this matter.
27 Ascend to the summit of the Pisgah ridge, and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and see with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.
28 Yet instruct Joshua and encourage him and make him resolute, for he shall cross over before this people, and he shall allot to them the land that you shall see.
29 So we dwelt in the ravine opposite Beth-peor.

Chapter 4
1 Now, Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances that I am teaching you today, to do them, that you may live and may enter and tenant the land that Yahweh Elohim of your fathers is giving to you.
2 You shall neither add to the word that I am enjoining on you, nor shall you subtract from it, but observe the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim that I am enjoining on you.
3 Your eyes were the ones seeing all that Yahweh did with regard to Baal-peor, for every man who went after Baal-peor, Yahweh your Elohim exterminated from among you.
4 Yet you who were clinging to Yahweh your Elohim, all of you are alive today.
5 See! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as Yahweh my Elohim had instructed me, for you to do thus within the land where you are entering to tenant it.
6 And you must observe and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the eyes of all the peoples who shall hear of all these statutes and will say: Surely this great nation is a people wise and understanding.
7 For what great nation is there which has elohim so near to it as Yahweh our Elohim is in all that we call to Him?
8 And what great nation is there which has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law that I am putting before you today?
9 But guard yourself and keep your soul especially vigilant, lest you should forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they should withdraw from your heart, all the days of your lives. You will make them known to your sons and to your sons’ sons, lest you forget
10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your Elohim at Horeb, when Yahweh said to me: Assemble the people to Me that I may let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground and may teach their sons.
11 Then you approached and stood below the mountain, when the mountain was consuming with fire unto the heart of the heavens, with darkness, cloud and murkiness,
12 and Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you were hearing the sound of words, yet you were not seeing a physical representation, nothing except a voice.
13 He told you His covenant which He instructed you to keep, the ten words. Then He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
14 And Yahweh instructed me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, for you to do them in the land where you are crossing over to tenant it.
15 You must be very much on guard against your soulish desires (since you saw no physical representation at all on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire)
16 lest you should bring ruin on yourselves and make for yourselves a carving, a physical representation of any figure, a model of male or female,
17 a model of any beast which is on the earth, a model of any winged bird which flies in the heavens,
18 a model of any animal moving on the ground, a model of any fish which is in the waters below the earth.
19 Guard yourselves lest you should lift up your eyes toward the heavens, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and be induced to bow yourself down to them and serve them, which Yahweh your Elohim has apportioned to all other peoples beneath the entire heavens.
20 As for you, Yahweh took you, and He brought you forth from the iron crucible, from Egypt, to become His as a people of allotment, as on this day.
21 Yet Yahweh, He showed Himself angered with me on account of your words. He swore that I would fail to cross over the Jordan and that I would fail to come to the good land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment,
22 for I am dying in this land. I am not crossing over the Jordan, but you are crossing over and will tenant that good land.
23 Guard yourselves lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your Elohim that He contracted with you, and so you make for yourselves a carving, a physical representation of anything, against which Yahweh your Elohim had instructed you;
24 for Yahweh your Elohim, He is a devouring fire, a jealous El.
25 When you beget sons and sons of sons, and you find repose in the land and then become corrupt and make a carving, a physical representation of anything, and do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim so as to provoke Him to vexation,
26 I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you today, that you shall perish, yea perish quickly off the land where you are crossing over the Jordan to tenant it. You shall not prolong your days on it, for you shall be exterminated, yea exterminated.
27 Yahweh will cause you to scatter among the peoples, and you will remain adult males of a small number among the nations where Yahweh shall lead you.
28 And there you will serve other elohim, the work of human hands, of wood and stone which are neither seeing nor hearing, neither eating nor smelling.
29 Yet from there you will seek Yahweh your Elohim, and you will find Him when you inquire for Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 In your distress, when all these things find you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your Elohim, and you will hearken to His voice.
31 For Yahweh your Elohim is a compassionate El. He shall neither neglect you nor bring ruin on you, nor shall He forget the covenant of your fathers about which He had sworn to them.
32 For ask now about the former days which came before you, from the day that Elohim created humanity on the earth, and from one end of the heavens unto the other end of the heavens. Has there occurred anything like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?
33 Has a people ever heard the voice of the living Elohim speaking from the midst of the fire just as you heard it, and lived?
34 Or has an elohim ever tried to come and take for himself a nation from among another nation by trials, by signs and by miracles, by war, by a steadfast hand and by an outstretched arm and by great fear-inspiring deeds, such as all that Yahweh your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 You were shown this to know that Yahweh, He is the only Elohim. There is no one else aside from Him.
36 From the heavens He let you hear His voice, to discipline you, and on the earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire.
37 For inasmuch as He loved your fathers and chose their seed after them and brought you forth from Egypt into His presence by His great vigor,
38 to evict greater and more substantial nations than you from your presence, to bring you in and give to you their land as an allotment, as it is this day,
39 so you know today, and you recall it to your heart that Yahweh, He is the only Elohim in the heavens above and on the earth beneath; there is no one else.
40 Hence you will observe His statutes and His instructions which I am enjoining on you today, that it may be well with you and your sons after you, and that you may prolong your days on the ground that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, all the days.
41 Then Moses separated three cities in Transjordan toward the sunrise,
42 for the fleeing there of the manslayer who slays his associate without premeditation, when he was not hating him heretofore. Then he will flee to one of these cities that he may live:
43 Bezer in the wilderness in the tableland country for the Reubenite, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadite, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassite.
44 This is the law that Moses placed before the sons of Israel.
45 These are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances that Moses pronounced to the sons of Israel when they had come forth from Egypt,
46 in Transjordan in the ravine opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorite, who was dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote when they had come forth from Egypt.
47 Then they tenanted his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who were in Transjordan toward the sunrise,
48 from Aroer, which is on the ridge above Wadi Arnon and as far as Mount Sirion (that is Hermon),
49 and all the Transjordan Arabah toward the sunrise and as far as the Sea of the Arabah below the slopes of the Pisgah ridge.

Chapter 5
1 Moses called to all Israel and said to them: Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances that I am speaking in your ears today, that you learn them and observe to do them.
2 Yahweh our Elohim, He contracted a covenant with us at Horeb.
3 Not with our fathers did Yahweh contract this covenant, but with us, us, these here today, all of us who are alive.
4 Face to face Yahweh spoke with you at the mount from the midst of the fire
5 (I was standing between Yahweh and you at that time, to tell you the words of Yahweh, for you were fearful because of the presence of the fire and did not ascend onto the mountain), saying:
6 I, Yahweh, am your Elohim Who brought you forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of servants.
7 There shall not come to be other elohim for you in preference to Me.
8 You shall not make for yourself a carving nor any physical representation of that in the heavens above or that on the earth beneath or that in the waters beneath the earth.
9 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor be made to serve them, for I, Yahweh your Elohim, am a jealous El, visiting the depravity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and on the fourth generation, to those hating Me,
10 yet showing benignity to thousands, to those loving Me and observing My instructions.
11 You shall not take up the Name of Yahweh your Elohim for futility, for Yahweh shall not hold innocent him who takes up His Name for futility.
12 You are to observe the sabbath day to hallow it, just as Yahweh your Elohim had instructed you.
13 Six days shall you serve and do all your work,
14 yet the seventh day is a sabbath to Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not do any work on it; you, your son or your daughter, your manservant or your maidservant, your bull, your donkey or any domestic beast of yours, or your sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as you do.
15 You will remember that you had become a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your Elohim brought you forth from there with a steadfast hand and with an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your Elohim instructed you to observe the sabbath day.
16 Glorify your father and your mother, just as Yahweh your Elohim had instructed you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may be well with you on the ground which Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you.
17 You shall not murder.
18 You shall not commit adultery.
19 You shall not steal.
20 You shall not answer against your associate with unfounded testimony.
21 You shall not covet the wife of your associate. You shall not lust after the house of your associate, his field, his manservant or his maidservant, his bull, his donkey or anything which is your associate’s.
22 These were the words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain, in a loud voice from the midst of the fire, the darkness, the cloud and the murkiness; and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
23 Then it came to be, as you heard the voice from the midst of the fire and the darkness, when the mountain was consuming with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,
24 and you said: Behold, Yahweh our Elohim has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we heard His voice from the midst of the fire. This day we have seen that Elohim speaks with the human, and he still lives.
25 Yet now, why should we die? For this great fire shall devour us. If we are continuing to hear the voice of Yahweh our Elohim any further, then we will die.
26 For who is there of all flesh that has heard the voice of the living Elohim speaking from the midst of the fire as we have, and he still lives?
27 As for you, go near and hear all that Yahweh our Elohim says; then you shall speak to us all that Yahweh our Elohim shall speak to you, and we will hearken and do.
28 Yahweh heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, and Yahweh said to me: I have heard the sound of the words of this people that they have spoken to you. They have done well in all they have spoken.
29 O that their heart might become this way with them: to fear Me and to observe all My instructions all the days, that it might be well with them and with their sons for the eon.
30 Go, say to them: You return to your tents!
31 As for you, stay here with Me, and let Me speak to you about all the instruction and the statutes and the ordinances that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving to them to tenant it.
32 You will observe to do just as Yahweh your Elohim had enjoined on you. You shall not withdraw to the right or to the left.
33 In all the way which Yahweh your Elohim had enjoined on you, you shall walk that you may live, and it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days in the land that you shall tenant.

Chapter 6
1 Now this is the instruction, the statutes and the ordinances that Yahweh your Elohim had enjoined on me to teach you, to keep in the land where you are crossing over to tenant it,
2 that you may fear Yahweh your Elohim, so as to observe all His statutes and His instructions which I am enjoining on you today, you and your son and your son’s son, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
3 You will hear then, Israel, and you will observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply exceedingly, just as Yahweh Elohim of your fathers promised to give to you a land gushing with milk and honey.
4 Hear, Israel! Yahweh is our Elohim; Yahweh the only One.
5 So you will love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your intensity.
6 These words which I am instructing you today will come to be in your heart.
7 You will repeat them to your sons, and you will speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you arise.
8 You will tie them for a sign on your hand, and they will come to be for the brow-bands between your eyes;
9 you will write them on the jambs of your house and on your gates.
10 When it comes to be that Yahweh your Elohim brings you into the land about which He had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give to you great and good cities which you did not build,
11 and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not hew, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, so that you will eat and be satisfied,
12 then guard yourself, lest you should forget Yahweh your Elohim Who brought you forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of servants.
13 Yahweh your Elohim shall you fear, and Him only shall you serve, and to Him shall you cling, and by His Name shall you swear.
14 You shall not go after other elohim of the elohim of the peoples who are around you
15 (for a jealous El is Yahweh your Elohim among you); otherwise the anger of Yahweh your Elohim shall grow hot against you, and He will exterminate you off the surface of the ground.
16 You shall not probe Yahweh your Elohim as you probed at Massah.
17 You shall observe, yea observe the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim and His testimonies and His statutes, which He had enjoined on you.
18 You will do the upright and the good in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim that it may be well with you and that you may enter and tenant the good land about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers,
19 to thrust out all your enemies from your presence, just as Yahweh had promised.
20 When it comes to be that your son should ask you tomorrow, saying: What are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances that Yahweh our Elohim had enjoined on you?
21 then you will say to your son: We were servants to Pharaoh in Egypt, yet Yahweh brought us forth from Egypt with a steadfast hand.
22 And Yahweh gave signs and miracles, great and bad, against Egypt, against Pharaoh and against all his household before our eyes.
23 Then He brought us forth from there, that He might bring us in and give to us the land about which Yahweh had sworn to our fathers.
24 Then Yahweh instructed us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our Elohim for our good all the days so as to keep us alive, as it is this day.
25 So it shall come to be righteousness for us when we observe to do all this instruction before Yahweh our Elohim, just as He had enjoined on us.

Chapter 7
1 When Yahweh your Elohim brings you into the land where you are about to enter in order to tenant it, and He eases many nations out before your face, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and substantial than you,
2 when Yahweh your Elohim gives them up before you, and you smite them, then you shall doom, yea doom them. You shall neither contract a covenant with them nor be gracious to them,
3 nor shall you intermarry with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter for your son.
4 For it might take away your son from following after Me, and they might serve other elohim, and the anger of Yahweh would grow hot against you, and He would exterminate you quickly.
5 But rather, thus shall you do to them: You shall tear down their altars, break their monuments, hack down their Asherah poles, and you shall burn their carvings with fire.
6 For you are a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim; Yahweh your Elohim has chosen you to become His, a special people from all the peoples who are on the surface of the ground.
7 It was not because your multitude was more than all the other peoples that Yahweh was attached to you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples.
8 But it was because of the love of Yahweh for you and because of His keeping the oath that He had sworn to your fathers that Yahweh brought you forth with a steadfast hand and ransomed you from the house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Thus you will know that Yahweh your Elohim, He is the One, Elohim, the El, Who is faithful, keeping the covenant and the kindness to those loving Him and to those observing His instructions for a thousand generations,
10 yet repaying the one hating Him right to His face, so as to destroy him. He shall not delay toward one hating Him right to His face; He shall repay him.
11 Hence you will observe the instruction and the statutes and the ordinances which I am enjoining on you today, to keep them.
12 It will come to be, insomuch as you shall hearken to these ordinances, and you observe and do them, that Yahweh your Elohim will keep with you the covenant and the kindness about which He had sworn to your fathers;
13 He will love you and bless you; He will multiply you and bless the fruit of your belly and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your grape juice and your clarified oil, the calving of your domestic animals and the lambing of your flock, on the ground about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers to give to you.
14 Blessed shall you come to be above all the peoples. There shall come to be no sterile man or barren woman among you, nor among your beasts.
15 Yahweh will take away from you every illness; and all the bad diseases of Egypt about which you know, He shall not place them among you, but He will give them to all those hating you.
16 Now you will devour all the peoples whom Yahweh your Elohim is delivering to you. Your eye shall not commiserate over them, and you shall not serve their elohim, for that is a trap to you.
17 Though you may say in your heart: These nations are more numerous than I; how shall I be able to evict them?
18 you shall not fear them. You shall remember, yea remember what Yahweh your Elohim did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt,
19 the great probings which your eyes have seen, the signs and the miracles, the steadfast hand and the outstretched arm with which Yahweh your Elohim brought you forth. So shall Yahweh your Elohim do to all the peoples of whom you are fearful because of their presence.
20 Moreover, Yahweh your Elohim shall send the hornet among them, until those remaining and those concealed perish before your face.
21 You shall not be terrified because of their presence, since Yahweh your Elohim is among you, an El great and fear inspiring.
22 Yahweh your Elohim will ease these nations out before your face, little by little. You shall not be able to finish them quickly, lest the land become a wilderness and the animal of the field multiply against you.
23 Yet Yahweh your Elohim will give them up before you and discomfit them with a great discomfiture until they are exterminated.
24 He will give their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under the heavens. No man shall station himself in your presence until you exterminate them.
25 You shall burn the carvings of their elohim with fire. You shall not covet the silver and gold on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be trapped by it, for it is an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim.
26 You shall not bring an abhorrence into your house, or you will become doomed just as it is. You shall reject it as abominable, yea abominable; you shall reject it as abhorrent, yea abhorrent, for it is doomed.

Chapter 8
1 All the instruction which I am enjoining on you today you shall observe to do, that you may live and multiply and enter and tenant the land about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers.
2 And you will remember all the way which Yahweh your Elohim caused you to go these forty years in the wilderness, that He might make you humble, to probe you so as to know what is in your heart, whether or not you shall observe His instructions.
3 So He made you humble and let you hunger; then He fed you with the manna which neither you had known, nor had your fathers known, that He might make you realize that not on bread alone shall the human live, for by every utterance from the mouth of Yahweh shall the human live.
4 Your raiment has not worn out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
5 So you know with your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, Yahweh your Elohim is disciplining you.
6 Hence you will observe the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim so as to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
7 For Yahweh your Elohim is bringing you into a land good and wide, a land of watercourses, with water from springs and from the abyss coming forth in valley and in mountain,
8 a land of wheat and barley and vine and fig and pomegranate, a land of olive oil and honey,
9 a land in which you may eat bread, not in frugality. You shall not lack anything in it, a land whose stones have iron ore, and from its mountain ranges you may hew copper.
10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, then you will bless Yahweh your Elohim for the good land that He has given to you.
11 Guard yourself lest you should forget Yahweh your Elohim by failing to observe His instructions and His ordinances and His statutes that I am enjoining on you today,
12 lest, when you eat and are satisfied and build good houses and you dwell in them,
13 and your herd and your flock, they multiply, and silver and gold, it increases for you, and all that is yours, it is abundant,
14 then your heart becomes exalted and you forget Yahweh your Elohim Who was bringing you forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of servants,
15 Who was causing you to go through the great and fear inspiring wilderness with burning serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground in which there is no water, Who was bringing forth for you water from the flinty rock,
16 Who was feeding you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers had not known, that He might make you humble and that He might probe you, to do you good in your latter days.
17 Guard yourself lest you say in your heart: My vigor and the staunchness of my hand make for me this great estate.
18 Yet you will remember Yahweh your Elohim, for He is the One giving to you the vigor to make this estate, that He may confirm His covenant that He had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, as in this day.
19 It will come to be that if you forget, yea forget Yahweh your Elohim, and you go after other elohim and serve them and bow yourself down to them, I testify against you today that you shall perish, yea perish.
20 Like the nations which Yahweh is destroying before your face so shall you perish, inasmuch as you do not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim.

Chapter 9
1 Hear, Israel! Today you are ready to cross over the Jordan, to enter to dispossess nations greater and more substantial than you, cities great and defended to the heavens,
2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim whom you know and of whom you have heard it said: Who shall station himself before the sons of Anak?
3 You will know then today that Yahweh your Elohim, He is the One crossing over before you as a devouring fire. He Himself shall exterminate them, and He Himself shall make them submit before you; yet you must evict them and destroy them quickly just as Yahweh has spoken to you.
4 Do not say in your heart when Yahweh your Elohim thrusts them out from before you, saying: Because of my own righteousness Yahweh brings me in to tenant this land. Rather it is because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh is evicting them before your face.
5 It is not because of your own righteousness or the uprightness of your own heart that you are entering to tenant their land, for it is because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh your Elohim is evicting them before your face, and that He may confirm the word that Yahweh had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.
6 You will know then that it is not because of your own righteousness that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you this good land to tenant it, for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Remember, do not forget that you provoked Yahweh your Elohim to wrath in the wilderness. From the day in which you went forth from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you were rebellious against Yahweh.
8 Even at Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh showed Himself angered with you enough to exterminate you.
9 When I ascended to the mountain to take down the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh contracted with you, I dwelt on the mountain forty days and forty nights. Bread I did not eat, and water I did not drink.
10 Then Yahweh gave to me the two tablets of stone, written by the finger of Elohim, and on them were all the words just like those that Yahweh had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
11 So it came to be at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave to me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12 Then Yahweh said to me: Arise! Go down quickly from here, for your people, whom you brought forth from Egypt have become corrupt. They have withdrawn quickly from the way which I had instructed them. They have made for themselves a molten calf.
13 And Yahweh spoke to me saying: I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
14 Hold yourself back from Me so that I may exterminate them and wipe out their name from under the heavens, and I shall make you into a more substantial and numerous nation than it.
15 Then I turned around and came down from the mountain while the mountain was consuming with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 Then I saw, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your Elohim. You had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had withdrawn quickly from the way which Yahweh had enjoined on you.
17 So I grabbed the two tablets and flung them from my two hands and broke them before your eyes.
18 Then I cast myself down before Yahweh as the first time for forty days and forty nights. Bread I did not eat, and water I did not drink on account of all your sin which you had sinned by doing what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim to provoke Him to vexation.
19 For I shrank away from the presence of the anger and the fury with which Yahweh was wrathful against you enough to exterminate you. But Yahweh hearkened to me even at that time.
20 Against Aaron Yahweh showed Himself exceedingly angered, enough to exterminate him. So I prayed also about Aaron at that time.
21 As for your sin, which was the calf you had made, I took it, and I burned it with fire and pounded it, grinding it well until it was pulverized to dust, and I flung its dust into the watercourse that was descending from the mountain.
22 Also at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you were causing Yahweh to be wrathful.
23 And when Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying: Ascend and tenant the land that I give to you, then you defied the bidding of Yahweh your Elohim and did not put your trust in Him nor hearken to His voice.
24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day I knew you.
25 When I cast myself down before Yahweh (during the forty days and forty nights that I had cast myself down, for Yahweh had said He would exterminate you),
26 then I prayed to Yahweh and said: My Lord Yahweh, do not bring ruin on Your people and Your allotment, whom You ransomed by Your greatness, whom You brought forth from Egypt by Your steadfast hand.
27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Do not face against the obstinancy of this people, against their wickedness and their sin,
28 lest the people of the land whence You brought us forth should say: Because Yahweh was unable to bring them into the land about which He had spoken to them, and because of His hatred of them He brought them forth to put them to death in the wilderness.
29 Yet they are Your people and Your allotment whom You brought forth from Egypt by Your great vigor and by Your outstretched arm.

Chapter 10
1 At that time Yahweh had said to me: Carve for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and ascend to Me to the mountain. Also you will make for yourself a coffer of wood.
2 Then I shall write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you will place them in the coffer.
3 So I made a coffer of acacia wood, carved two tablets of stone like the first ones and ascended to the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
4 Then He wrote on the tablets, like the first writing, the ten words that Yahweh had spoken to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
5 So I turned around and descended from the mountain and placed the tablets in the coffer that I had made, and there they came to be, just as Yahweh had instructed me. (
6 The sons of Israel, they journeyed from the wells of Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and he was entombed there; and Eleazar his son served as priest in his stead.
7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of watercourses with water.
8 At that time Yahweh separated the tribe of Levi to carry the coffer of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to Him and to bless in His Name until this day.
9 Therefore Levi came to have no portion or allotment with his brothers. Yahweh, He is his allotment, just as Yahweh your Elohim had spoken concerning him.)
10 As for me, I stayed on the mountain as on the first days, forty days and forty nights, and Yahweh hearkened to me also at that time: Yahweh would not bring ruin on you.
11 Then Yahweh said to me: Arise! Go on your journey before this people that they may enter and tenant the land about which I had sworn to their fathers to give to them.
12 And now, Israel, what is Yahweh your Elohim asking of you, save to fear Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in all His ways, to love Him and to serve Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul,
13 to observe the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim and His statutes that I am enjoining on you today for your good?
14 Behold, to Yahweh your Elohim belong the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that is in it.
15 But Yahweh was attached to your fathers to love them, so that He chooses their seed after them, you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day.
16 Hence you will circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and you should no longer stiffen your neck.
17 For Yahweh your Elohim, He is the Elohim of elohim and the Lord of lords, the El, the great, the masterful and the fear inspiring One, Who neither shows partiality nor takes a bribe,
18 the One enacting the customary rights of orphan and widow, the One loving the sojourner, so as to give him bread and raiment.
19 You will love the sojourner, for you became sojourners in the land of Egypt.
20 Yahweh your Elohim shall you fear, and Him shall you serve; to Him shall you cling, and by His Name shall you swear.
21 He is your praise, and He is your Elohim Who did for you these great and fear inspiring deeds that your eyes saw.
22 With seventy souls your fathers went down to Egypt. Yet now Yahweh your Elohim has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.

Chapter 11
1 Hence you will love Yahweh your Elohim and observe His charge, His statutes, His ordinances and His instructions all the days.
2 You know today (though not your sons, who have not known and who have not seen) the discipline of Yahweh your Elohim, His greatness, His steadfast hand and His outstretched arm,
3 His signs and His deeds that He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to all his land,
4 and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and to its chariots, when He caused the waters of the Sea of Weeds to float over their faces in their pursuit after you; thus Yahweh destroyed them until this day.
5 You know what He did for you in the wilderness until you came as far as this place,
6 and what He did to Dathan and to Abiram, sons of Eliab son of Reuben, when the earth opened wide its mouth and swallowed them up even with their households and their tents and everyone who had risen, who had walked in their footsteps, from among all Israel.
7 For your eyes were the ones seeing all the great deeds of Yahweh that He has done.
8 Hence you will observe every instruction which I am enjoining on you today, that you may be steadfast, and you enter and tenant the land where you are crossing over to tenant it,
9 and that you may prolong your days on the ground about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land gushing with milk and honey.
10 For the land, where you are entering to tenant it, is not like the land of Egypt, that one from where you came forth, in which you sowed your seed, and you irrigated it with your foot as a garden of greens.
11 But the land, where you are crossing over to tenant it, is a land of hills and valleys; it drinks water from the rain of the heavens;
12 a land which Yahweh your Elohim is caring for. Continually are the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim on it from the beginning of the year until the last part of the year.
13 It will come to be when you shall hearken, yea hearken to My instructions that I am enjoining on you today, to love Yahweh your Elohim and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 then He will give rain to your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain. You will gather your grain, your grape juice and your clarified oil,
15 and He will give herbage in your field for your domestic beasts; thus you will eat and be satisfied.
16 Guard yourselves lest your heart should be enticed, and you withdraw, serve other elohim and bow down to them.
17 Then the anger of Yahweh will grow hot against you, and He will restrain the heavens so that there shall be no rain, and the ground, it shall not yield its crop, and you will perish quickly off the good land that Yahweh is giving to you.
18 Hence you will place these my words in your heart and in your soul, and you will tie them as a sign on your hand, and let them come to be as brow-bands between your eyes.
19 You will teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you arise.
20 You will write them on the jambs of your house and on your gates,
21 that your days and the days of your sons may be many on the ground about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers to give to them, as many as the days of the heavens over the earth.
22 For if you should observe, yea observe all this instruction which I am enjoining on you today, to do it, to love Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in all His ways and to cling to Him,
23 then Yahweh will evict all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and more substantial than you.
24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall become yours. From the wilderness and the Lebanon, from the Great Stream, the stream Euphrates, as far as the western sea, it shall become your territory.
25 No man shall station himself in your presence. The awe of you and the fear of you shall Yahweh your Elohim put over the face of the entire land on which you shall tread, just as He has spoken to you.
26 See! I am setting before you today blessing and malediction:
27 the blessing if you should hearken to the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim that I am enjoining on you today,
28 and the malediction if you should not hearken to the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim, and you withdraw from the way that I am enjoining on you today, by going after other elohim whom you have not known.
29 When it comes to be that Yahweh your Elohim shall bring you into the land where you are entering to tenant it, then you must pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the malediction on Mount Ebal.
30 Are they not across the Jordan, behind the sunset road into the land of the Canaanite, who is dwelling in the Arabah toward Gilgal beside the oaks of Moreh?
31 For you are crossing over the Jordan to enter and to tenant the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you. When you tenant it and dwell in it,
32 then you will observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I am setting before you today.

Chapter 12
1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land that Yahweh Elohim of your fathers gives to you to tenant it all the days that you are alive on the ground.
2 You shall destroy, yea destroy all the places where the nations (whom you are dispossessing) have served their elohim on the high mountains, on the hills and under every flourishing tree.
3 You will tear down their altars and break their monuments; their Asherah poles you shall burn with fire, and the carvings of their elohim you shall hack down; thus you will destroy their name from that place.
4 Not so shall you do to Yahweh your Elohim.
5 But rather for the place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose from all your tribes, to establish His Name there, you shall inquire for His tabernacle, and there will you come.
6 You will bring there your ascent offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the heave offering of your hand, your vow offerings and your voluntary offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and your flock.
7 You will eat there before Yahweh your Elohim, and you will rejoice in every undertaking of your hand, you and your households with which Yahweh your Elohim has blessed you.
8 You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, each man everything that is upright in his own eyes
9 because until now you have not come to the resting place and to the allotment that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you.
10 When you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment, and He gives rest to you from all your enemies from round about, so that you may dwell in serenity,
11 then it will come to be: The place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to tabernacle His Name, there shall you bring all that I am instructing you, your ascent offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offering of your hand and all your choice vow offerings which you shall vow to Yahweh.
12 You will rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim, you, your sons and your daughters, your manservants, your maidservants and the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion or allotment among you.
13 Guard yourself lest you bring up your ascent offerings in any other place which you may select.
14 But rather in the place that Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there shall you bring up your ascent offerings, and there shall you do all that I am instructing you.
15 But with all the yearning of your soul you may slaughter and eat flesh, within all your gates, according to the blessing of Yahweh your Elohim which He gives to you. The unclean among you and the clean, they may eat it, as of the gazelle and as of the stag.
16 But the blood you shall not eat. On the earth shall you pour it out like water.
17 You cannot eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, of your grape juice and of your clarified oil, or the firstlings of your herd and your flock or any of your vow offerings which you shall vow, or your voluntary offerings or the heave offering of your hand.
18 But rather you shall eat it before Yahweh your Elohim in the place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose, you, your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant and the Levite who is within your gates. Then you will rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim in every undertaking of your hand.
19 Guard yourself lest you should forsake the Levite any of your days on your ground.
20 When Yahweh your Elohim widens your territory, just as He spoke to you, and you say: Do let me eat flesh, for your soul yearns to eat flesh, you may eat flesh with all the yearning of your soul.
21 In case the place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to place His Name is far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and of your flock which Yahweh gave to you, just as I instructed you; and you may eat it within your gates with all the yearning of your soul.
22 Indeed, just as the gazelle and the stag may be eaten so shall you eat it. The unclean among you and the clean may eat it together.
23 But be steadfast by no means to eat the blood, for the blood, it is the soul, and you shall not eat the soul with the flesh.
24 You shall not eat it; on the earth shall you pour it out like water.
25 You shall not eat it that it may be well with you and with your sons after you, for you shall do what is good and upright in the eyes of Yahweh.
26 But as for your holy gifts which you shall come to have, and your vow offerings, you shall carry them, and you will come to the place that Yahweh shall choose.
27 You will make your ascent offerings of the flesh and the blood on the altar of Yahweh your Elohim, and the blood of your sacrifices, it shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your Elohim, yet you may eat the flesh.
28 Observe and you will hear all these words which I am instructing you today, that it may be well with you and with your sons after you until the eon, for you shall do what is good and upright in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim.
29 When Yahweh your Elohim cuts off before your face the nations where you are entering to dispossess them, then you will dispossess them and dwell in their land.
30 Guard yourself lest you should be trapped to go after them after they are exterminated before your face, and lest you inquire about their elohim, saying: How do these nations serve their elohim that I, I too, may do thus?
31 You shall not act thus toward Yahweh your Elohim, for every abhorrence which Yahweh hates they perform for their elohim, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire for their elohim.
32 Every word which I am enjoining on you today, you shall observe to do it. You shall neither add to it, nor shall you subtract from it.

Chapter 13
1 In case there arises a prophet or a dreamer of dreams among you, and he gives to you a sign or a miracle,
2 and the sign or the miracle comes about, of which he spoke to you, saying: Do let us go after other elohim (whom you have not known), and let us serve them,
3 you shall not hearken to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams because Yahweh your Elohim is probing you to know whether you are loving Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 After Yahweh your Elohim shall you go, and Him shall you fear; His instructions shall you observe, and to His voice shall you hearken; Him shall you serve, and to Him shall you cling.
5 Then that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, he shall be put to death because he spoke of defection from Yahweh your Elohim (the One bringing you forth from the land of Egypt and the One ransoming you from the house of servants) so as to induce you from the way in which Yahweh your Elohim has instructed you to walk. Hence you will take out the evil from among you.
6 In case your brother, the son of your father, or the son of your mother or your son or your daughter or the wife of your bosom or your associate who is as your own soul should incite you in concealment, saying: Do let us go, and do let us serve other elohim (whom you have not known, you or your fathers,
7 of the elohim of the peoples who are around you, those near to you or those far from you, from one end of the land to the other end of the land),
8 neither shall you comply with him, nor shall you hearken to him; neither shall your eye commiserate over him, nor shall you spare him; and you shall not cover up for him.
9 For you shall kill, yea kill him. Your hand shall be among the first against him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people thereafter.
10 You will stone him with stones so that he dies, for he sought to induce you away from Yahweh your Elohim, the One bringing you forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of servants.
11 Thus all Israel, they shall hearken and fear, and they shall not again do anything like this evil thing among you.
12 In case you hear it said of one of your cities which Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you to dwell there,
13 that men, sons of decadence, have gone forth from among you and induced the dwellers of their city, saying: Do let us go, and do let us serve other elohim (whom you have not known),
14 then you will inquire, investigate and ask diligently. And behold, if the truth of the matter is being established that this abhorrence was done among you,
15 then you shall smite, yea smite the dwellers of that city with the edge of the sword. Doom it, all those who are in it and its domestic beasts, with the edge of the sword.
16 All its loot shall you get together to the midst of its square, and you will burn the city with fire and all its loot as a wholly fumed offering to Yahweh your Elohim. It will become an eonian ruin-mound; it shall not be built again.
17 Nothing whatsoever shall cling to your hand from the doomed loot so that Yahweh may turn back from the heat of His anger, and He will be compassionate to you. He will show you compassion and cause you to increase, just as He had sworn to your fathers,
18 provided that you shall hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim to observe all His instructions which I am enjoining on you today, to do what is upright and good in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim.

Chapter 14
1 Sons are you to Yahweh your Elohim; you shall neither slash yourselves nor make a baldness between your eyes for a dead one,
2 for you are a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim, and Yahweh your Elohim chose you to belong to Him as a special people above all the peoples who are on the surface of the ground.
3 You shall not eat anything abhorrent.
4 This is the beast that you may eat: the bull, the flockling of the sheep and the flockling of the goats;
5 the stag, the gazelle, the bubale, the wild goat, the addax, the antelope and the mountain sheep.
6 And any other beast bisecting the hoof, cleaving the cleft into two hooves and bringing up the cud, among beasts, it you may eat.
7 Only this you may not eat of those bringing up the cud and of those bisecting the cloven hoof: the camel, the hare and the coney, for they are bringing up the cud yet do not bisect the hoof; they are unclean to you;
8 and the swine, for it is bisecting the hoof and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet it is not stirring up the cud; it is unclean to you. From their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall not touch.
9 This you may eat of all that is in the waters: anything which has fins and scales you may eat.
10 Yet anything which has no fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
11 Any clean bird you may eat;
12 yet these are those of which you shall not eat: the vulture, the bearded vulture and the eagle,
13 the black kite and the falcon, all of its kind,
14 and every raven, all of its kind,
15 the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull and the hawk, all of its kind,
16 the little owl, the eagle owl and the ibis,
17 the pelican, the Egyptian vulture and the cormorant,
18 the stork and the heron, all of its kind, the hoopoe and the bat.
19 Every swarmer of the flyers, it is unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.
20 Every clean flyer you may eat.
21 You shall not eat any carcass. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your gates so that he may eat it, or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim. You shall not cook a kid in the milk of its mother.
22 You shall tithe, yea tithe all the yield of your seed which is coming forth from the field year by year.
23 You will eat before Yahweh your Elohim, in the place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to tabernacle His Name, the tenth of your grain, your grape juice and your clarified oil, the firstlings of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear Yahweh your Elohim all the days.
24 Yet in case the way is too much for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to place His Name is far from you (seeing that Yahweh your Elohim has blessed you),
25 then you will convert it into silver, bundle the silver in your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose.
26 You will give the silver for anything after which your soul may yearn: for one of the herd or one of the flock, for wine, for intoxicant or for anything which your soul may ask of you; then you will eat there before Yahweh your Elohim, and you will rejoice, you and your household.
27 Now the Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him, for he has no portion or allotment with you.
28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your yield in that year, and you will leave it within your gates,
29 that the Levite may come (for he has no portion or allotment with you), and the sojourner, the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, and they may eat and be satisfied, so that Yahweh your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Chapter 15
1 At the end of seven years you shall make a release.
2 And this is the term of the release: Every creditor is to release the loan of his hand that he lent to his associate. He shall not exact it from his associate or his brother, for Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.
3 From the foreigner you may exact it. Yet that which you came to have from your brother, let your hand release it;
4 only that there should be no needy one among you, for Yahweh shall bless, yea bless you in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment to tenant it.
5 Now if you should hearken, yea hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim so as to observe and to do all this instruction that I am enjoining on you today,
6 then Yahweh your Elohim, He will bless you, just as He promised to you. And you will cause many nations to give you securities, yet you yourself shall give no securities. You will rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
7 In case there should be among you a needy person, one of your brothers within one of your gates in your land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, you shall neither make your heart rigid nor shut your hand from your needy brother.
8 Rather you shall open, yea open your hand to him and let him give security, yea security sufficient for his lack that is lacking to him.
9 Guard yourself lest there should be in your heart the decadent word, saying: The seventh year is near, the year of the release, so that your eye is evil toward your needy brother, and you give him nothing. Then he may call out to Yahweh concerning you, and it will be held as a sin against you.
10 You shall give, yea give to him, and your heart shall not feel bad at your giving to him. For owing to this matter Yahweh your Elohim shall bless you in all your work and in every undertaking of your hand.
11 Since the needy one shall not leave off from being within the land, therefore I am instructing you, saying: You shall open, yea open your hand to your brother, to your humble one and to your needy one in your land.
12 In case your brother should be sold to you, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, who has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall dismiss him from you free.
13 And when you dismiss him from you free you shall not send him away empty-handed.
14 You shall furnish, yea furnish him some from your flock, from your threshing site and from your winevat; just as Yahweh your Elohim has blessed you shall you give to him.
15 You will remember that you had become a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your Elohim ransomed you. Therefore I am instructing you to do this word today.
16 But it may be that he says to you: I shall not go forth from you, since he loves you and your household because it was well for him with you.
17 Then you take an awl and put it through his ear and into the door, and he will come to be your eonian servant; and so you shall do to your maidservant too.
18 It should not seem hard in your eyes when you dismiss him from you free because he was worth double the hire of a hireling when he served you six years. So Yahweh your Elohim will bless you in all that you shall do.
19 All the firstborn males that shall be born in your herd and in your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your Elohim. You shall neither serve with the firstborn of your kine nor shall you shear the firstborn of your flock.
20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your Elohim year by year in the place that Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
21 Yet in case there should be a blemish in it, lame or blind, any evil blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your Elohim.
22 Within your gates you may eat it, the unclean among you and the clean together, as you would of the gazelle and of the stag.
23 But its blood you shall not eat. On the earth shall you pour it out like water.

Chapter 16
1 You are to observe the month of Abib and prepare a passover to Yahweh your Elohim, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your Elohim brought you forth from Egypt by night.
2 So you will sacrifice the passover to Yahweh your Elohim from the flock and the herd in the place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to tabernacle His Name.
3 You shall not eat anything leavened with it. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of humiliation (for in urgent haste you went forth from the land of Egypt), that you may remember the day of your going forth from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
4 Let no yeast be seen with you in all your territory seven days. And let none of the flesh that you shall sacrifice in the evening on the first day lodge until morning.
5 You cannot sacrifice the passover within any one of your gates which Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you,
6 but rather only in the place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to tabernacle His Name. There shall you sacrifice the passover in the evening as the sun sets, the appointed time of your going forth from Egypt.
7 Then you will cook and eat in the place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose, and you may turn around in the morning and go to your tents.
8 Six days shall you eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day, a day of restraint to Yahweh your Elohim, you shall do no occupational work at all.
9 You shall count off seven weeks for yourself. From the start of the scythe in the raised grain shall you start to count off seven weeks.
10 Then you will observe the festival of weeks to Yahweh your Elohim, offering a voluntary contribution from your hand which you shall give, just as Yahweh your Elohim may have blessed you.
11 You will rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim, you, your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite who is within your gates, the sojourner, the orphan and the widow who are among you, in the place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to tabernacle His Name.
12 You will remember that you had become a servant in the land of Egypt; hence you will observe and do these statutes.
13 As for the festival of booths, you shall observe it for yourself seven days when you gather in the yield from your threshing site and from your winevat.
14 You will rejoice in your festival, you, your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite, the sojourner, the orphan and the widow who are within your gates.
15 Seven days shall you celebrate to Yahweh your Elohim in the place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose, for Yahweh your Elohim shall bless you in all your yield and in every work of your hands, so that you will indeed be rejoicing.
16 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before Yahweh your Elohim in the place that He shall choose: at the festival of unleavened bread, at the festival of weeks and at the festival of booths. And none shall appear before Yahweh empty-handed,
17 but each according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of Yahweh your Elohim which He will give to you.
18 You shall appoint judges and clerks for yourselves in all your gates which Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you for your tribes; and they will judge the people with just judgment.
19 You shall not turn aside the judgment; you shall neither be biased nor take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the words of the righteous.
20 Justice and justice only shall you pursue, so that you may live and tenant the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you.
21 Neither shall you plant for yourself an Asherah pole, any kind of wood, beside the altar of Yahweh your Elohim which you may make for yourself,
22 nor shall you set up for yourself a monument that Yahweh your Elohim hates.

Chapter 17
1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your Elohim a bull or a flockling in which there is a blemish, any evil thing, for it is an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim.
2 In case there should be found among you, within one of your gates which Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, a man or a woman who does evil in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim so as to trespass against His covenant,
3 and he goes and serves other elohim and bows himself down to them or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of the heavens, something that I have instructed not to do,
4 and it has been told to you and you have heard it, then you will inquire diligently. And behold, if the truth of the matter is established that this abhorrence was done in Israel,
5 then you will bring forth that man or that woman who did this evil thing to your gates, the man or the woman, and you will stone them with stones so that they die.
6 At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses, the one about to die shall be put to death. He shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness.
7 The hands of the witnesses shall come to be the first against him to put him to death and then the hands of all the people afterward. Thus you will take out the evil from among you.
8 In case a matter for judgment should be too difficult for you, between blood and blood, between adjudication and adjudication and between assault and assault, any matters of contentions in your gates, then you will arise and ascend to the place which Yahweh your Elohim shall choose.
9 And you will come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who shall come to be in those days; they will inquire and tell you the word of judgment.
10 Then you will act in accordance with the word that they shall tell you from that place that Yahweh your Elohim shall choose. You will observe to act according to all that they shall direct you.
11 In accordance with the law by which they shall direct you and according to the judgment that they shall deliver to you, you shall act. You shall not withdraw from the word that they shall tell you, either to the right or left.
12 Yet the man who acts with arrogance by not hearkening at all to the priest (who is standing to minister in the Name of Yahweh your Elohim) or to the judge, that man must die. Thus you will take out the evil from Israel,
13 and all the people, they shall hear and fear, and not act arrogantly again.
14 When you come to the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, and you tenant it and dwell in it, and you say: Do let me set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,
15 then you shall set, yea set over you a king whom Yahweh your Elohim shall choose. From among your brothers shall you set a king over you. You cannot put over you a foreign man who is not of your brothers.
16 But he shall neither increase horses for himself nor cause his people to return to Egypt in order to get many more horses, for Yahweh, He has said to you: You should not again return in this way further.
17 He shall neither increase wives for himself, that his heart may not withdraw, nor increase silver and gold for himself to excess.
18 It will come to be when he is seated on the throne of his kingdom, that he will write for himself a duplicate of this law on a scroll from the one before the priests, the Levites.
19 And it will be with him, and he will read in it all the days of his life that he may learn: to fear Yahweh his Elohim, to observe all the words of this law and these statutes to do them,
20 by no means to exalt his heart above his brothers and by no means to withdraw from the instruction, either to the right or left, so that he may prolong his days on the throne of his kingdom, he and his sons among Israel.

Chapter 18
1 There shall be for the priests, the Levites the entire tribe of Levi neither portion nor allotment with Israel. They shall eat the fire offerings of Yahweh as their allotment.
2 Yet there shall be for them no allotment among their brothers. Yahweh, He is their allotment, just as He had spoken concerning them.
3 This then shall be the priests’ due portion from the people, from the ones sacrificing the sacrifice, whether bull or flockling; one will give to the priest the shank, both the cheeks and the pelvis.
4 The firstfruit of your grain, of your grape juice and your clarified oil and the first of the fleece of your flock shall you give to him;
5 for Yahweh your Elohim has chosen him from all your tribes to stand before Yahweh your Elohim to minister and to bless in the Name of Yahweh, him and his sons, all the days.
6 In case a Levite should come from one of your gates, from anywhere in Israel where he sojourned, he may come with all the yearning of his soul to the place that Yahweh shall choose;
7 then he may minister in the Name of Yahweh his Elohim, like all his brothers, the Levites, those standing there before Yahweh.
8 Portion for portion shall he eat, besides what comes from his sales of the fathers’ holdings.
9 When you come to the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, you shall not learn to act according to the abhorrences of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you one causing his son or his daughter to pass through fire, or one divining divinations, or consulting clouds, auguring or enchanting
11 or charming with charms, one asking of a medium or wizard or inquiring after the dead.
12 For anyone doing these things is an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim, and owing to these abhorrences Yahweh your Elohim is evicting them from your presence.
13 Flawless shall you come to be with Yahweh your Elohim.
14 For these nations whom you are dispossessing, they hearken to cloud consulters and diviners. As for you, Yahweh your Elohim does not allow you to do so.
15 A Prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me, shall Yahweh your Elohim raise up for you. To Him shall you hearken
16 according to all that you asked from Yahweh your Elohim at Horeb on the day of assembly, saying: Let me not continue to hear the voice of Yahweh my Elohim, and let me not see this great fire any further so that I may not die!
17 Then Yahweh said to me: They have done well in all that they have spoken.
18 A Prophet shall I raise up to them from among their brothers, like you, and I will put My words in His mouth, and He will speak to them all that I shall instruct Him.
19 Yet it will come to be that the man who should not hearken to My words that the Prophet shall speak in My Name, I Myself shall require his blood from him.
20 But the prophet who shall act arrogantly by speaking a word in My Name which I did not instruct him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other elohim, that prophet must die.
21 In case you should say in your heart: How shall we know the word that Yahweh has not spoken?
22 when a prophet should be speaking in the Name of Yahweh, and the word neither comes to pass nor comes about, then it is a word that Yahweh did not speak. In arrogance did the prophet speak it. You shall not shrink away from him in awe.

Chapter 19
1 When Yahweh your Elohim cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
2 you shall separate for yourself three cities in the midst of your land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you to tenant it.
3 You shall survey for yourself the distances, and you will trisect the territory of your land that Yahweh your Elohim shall give to you as an allotment; and it will come to be for every manslayer to flee there.
4 This is the word about the manslayer who may flee there and live: Whoever should smite his associate without premeditation when he was not hating him heretofore,
5 or he who should come with his associate into the wildwood to chop trees, and his hand may be impelled with the ax to cut down a tree, and the iron head flies off the wooden handle and finds his associate so that he dies, that man, he shall flee to one of these cities that he may live.
6 Otherwise the kinsman redeemer of blood may pursue after the manslayer while his heart is furious, and he might overtake him if the distance were too great, and he may smite his soul even though he had no judgment of death, since he was not hating him heretofore.
7 Therefore I am instructing you, saying: Three cities shall you separate for yourself.
8 And when Yahweh your Elohim widens your territory just as He had sworn to your fathers, and He gives to you the whole land that He had promised to give to your fathers
9 (in case you observe all of this instruction to do it, that I am enjoining on you today, to love Yahweh your Elohim and to walk in His ways all the days), then you must add for yourself three more cities to these three.
10 Thus within your land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment, the blood of the innocent shall not be shed lest guilt for blood comes to be on you.
11 But if a man is hating his associate, and he waits in ambush for him, rises against him and smites his soul so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,
12 then the elders of his city will send for him, take him from there and give him into the hand of the kinsman redeemer of blood so that he may die.
13 Your eye shall not commiserate over him. Thus you will take out from Israel the shedding of innocent blood, and it will be well with you.
14 You shall not move away the boundary marker of your associate by which the former ones have set the boundary of your allotment that you are allotted in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you to tenant it.
15 A single witness shall not rise against a man regarding any depravity or any sin. In any sin which one may sin, the matter shall be confirmed at the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses.
16 In case a malicious witness should rise against a man asserting his defection,
17 then the two men who have the dispute must stand before Yahweh and before the priests and the judges who shall come to be in those days.
18 The judges will inquire diligently, and if the false witness asserts false testimony against his brother,
19 then you must do to him just as he schemed to do to his brother. Thus you will take out the evil from among you.
20 The remainder, they shall hearken and fear, and they shall no longer continue to do anything like this evil matter among you.
21 Your eye shall not commiserate: soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Chapter 20
1 When you go forth for battle against your enemies, and you see horse and chariot and a people more numerous than you, you should not fear them, for Yahweh your Elohim is with you, the One bringing you up from the land of Egypt.
2 Then it will be as you approach to the battle that the priest will come close and speak to the people.
3 He will say to them: Hear, Israel! You are near today to the battle against your enemies. Let not your heart be timid, do not fear, do not be in consternation, and do not be terrified as you face them,
4 for Yahweh your Elohim is the One going with you to fight for you with your enemies and to save you.
5 And the superintendents will speak to the people, saying: Whoever the man be who has built a new house and has not dedicated it yet, may go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle and another man should dedicate it.
6 And whoever the man be who has planted a vineyard and has not brought it yet to general use may go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle and another man should take it for profane use.
7 And whoever the man be who has betrothed a woman and has not taken her yet, may go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle and another man should take her.
8 Then the superintendents will continue to speak to the people and say: Whoever the man be who is fearful and timid of heart may go and return to his house so that the heart of his brothers may not be melted as his own heart is.
9 And it will come to be when the superintendents have finished speaking to the people that they will commit chiefs of the militia hosts at the head of the people.
10 When you come near to a city to fight against it then you should call to it for peace.
11 And it will come to be if it should answer you with peace, and it opens up to you, then it will come to be that all the people who are being found in it shall become tributary to you, and they will serve you.
12 Yet if it should not make peace with you but engages in battle with you, then you must besiege it.
13 When Yahweh your Elohim delivers it into your hand, then you will smite every adult male of it with the edge of the sword;
14 but the women, the little ones, the domestic beasts and all that is in the city, all its loot, you may plunder for yourself; and you may eat from the loot of your enemies which Yahweh your Elohim gives to you.
15 Thus shall you deal with all the cities which are the very farthest from you, those that are not of the cities of these nations.
16 But in the cities of these peoples which Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment you shall not keep alive anything that has breath,
17 for you shall doom, yea doom them, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Girgashite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as Yahweh your Elohim had instructed you,
18 that they may not teach you to act according to all their abhorrences which they do for their elohim so that you might sin against Yahweh your Elohim.
19 When you besiege a city many days to battle against it to take possession of it, you shall bring ruin on no tree of it by wielding an ax against it; if you may eat of it, you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field a human to come before your face in the siege?
20 But a tree that you know it is not a tree for food, you may bring ruin on it and cut it down, so you may build siege works against the city which is engaging in battle with you until it comes down.

Chapter 21
1 In case someone slain is found on the ground that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you to tenant it, having fallen in the field, and it is not known who smote him,
2 then your elders and your judges will go forth and measure the distance to the cities that are around the slain one.
3 And it will come to be that of the city nearest to the slain one, the elders of that city will take a heifer of the herd by which no one has been served and which has not drawn in a yoke.
4 The elders of that city will bring the heifer down to a perennial watercourse valley by which no one was served and it was not sown, and they will behead the heifer there in the watercourse valley.
5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come close, for Yahweh your Elohim has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the Name of Yahweh, and at their bidding every controversy and every assault shall come to be settled.
6 Then all the elders of that city, the ones nearest to the slain one, they shall wash their hands over the beheaded heifer in the watercourse,
7 and they will respond and say: Our hands, they have not shed this blood, and our eyes, they have not seen it.
8 Make a propitiatory shelter for Your people Israel, whom You have ransomed, O Yahweh, and let not guilt for the blood of the innocent remain among Your people, Israel. Thus a propitiatory shelter for them will be made concerning this bloodshed.
9 So you yourself shall take out the shedding of innocent blood from among you, for you shall do what is upright in the eyes of Yahweh.
10 When you go forth for battle against your enemy, and Yahweh your Elohim delivers him into your hand, and you capture his captives,
11 and you see among the captives a woman of lovely shape and are attached to her and would take her to yourself as a wife,
12 then you will bring her into the midst of your household, where she will shave her head and pare her nails.
13 She will put away the raiment of her captivity from her and dwell in your house. Then she will lament her father and her mother a month of days, and afterward you may come to her, and you will possess her, and she will become yours as a wife.
14 Should it come to be that you find no delight in her, then you will dismiss her to go at her soul’s desire. You shall not sell, nay sell her for silver; you shall not make a chattel of her, inasmuch as you have humiliated her.
15 In case a man should come to have two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they bear sons for him, the loved and the disliked, but the firstborn is the son of the disliked one,
16 then it will come to be in the day when he gives allotments to his sons of that which is his, that he should not be able to treat as firstborn the son of the loved in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the firstborn.
17 For he shall recognize the firstborn son of the disliked by giving to him a double share of all that is being found his; since he is the beginning of his virility, the customary right of the firstling belongs to him.
18 In case a son of a man should become stubborn and rebellious, and he is not hearkening to the voice of his father or to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, but he does not hearken to them,
19 then his father and his mother will grasp him and bring him forth to the elders of his city, at the gate of his place.
20 They will say to the elders of his city: This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He is not hearkening to our voice. He is a glutton and carouser.
21 Then all the men of his city will pelt him with stones so that he dies. Thus you will take out the evil from among you, and all Israel, they shall hear and fear.
22 In case there should be in a man a sin incurring a judgment of death so that he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
23 his carcass shall not lodge on the tree all night, for you shall entomb, yea entomb him on that day, for one being hung is under a malediction of Elohim, and you shall not defile your ground that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment.

Chapter 22
1 You shall not see your brother’s bull or his flockling or any domestic beast of his having burst away and then obscure yourself from them. You shall restore, yea restore them to your brother.
2 If your brother is not near to you or you do not know him, then you will gather it to the midst of your household, and it will come to be with you until your brother inquires for it, and you restore it to him.
3 So shall you do with his donkey, so shall you do with his raiment, and so shall you do with every loss of your brother which is being lost by him, when you find it. You shall not be able to obscure yourself.
4 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his bull or any domestic beast of his fallen on the road and obscure yourself from them. You shall raise, yea raise them with him.
5 A master’s apparel shall neither come to be on a woman, nor shall a master put on a woman’s raiment, for anyone doing these things is an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim.
6 In case a bird’s nest should happen to be before you along the road in any tree or on the earth, with chicks or eggs, and the mother brooding over the chicks or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.
7 You shall let the mother go, yea go, yet the young you may take for yourself that it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days.
8 When you build a new house, then you must make a parapet for your housetop so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house in case someone falling from it might fall to death.
9 You shall not sow your vineyard dissimilarly lest the full yield shall be holy: both the seed which you are sowing and the yield of the vineyard.
10 You shall not plow with a bull and a donkey together.
11 You shall not put on linsey-woolsey, wool and flax together.
12 Braided cords shall you make for yourself on the four hems of your covering with which you cover yourself.
13 In case a man should take a wife, and he comes in to her, yet then he hates her,
14 charges her with iniquitous words and brings forth an evil name on her and says: I took this woman, and I came near to her and did not find evidence of virginity on her,
15 then the father of the maiden and her mother will take and bring forth the maiden’s proof of virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.
16 And the maiden’s father will say to the elders: I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he hates her.
17 And behold, he charges her with iniquitous words, saying: I found no evidence of virginity on your daughter. Yet this is the proof of my daughter’s virginity; and they will spread the raiment before the elders of the city.
18 Then the elders of that city will take the man and flog him,
19 fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the maiden, for he brought forth an evil name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot dismiss her all his days.
20 Yet if this matter be true and no proof of virginity is found for the maiden,
21 then they will bring forth the maiden to the portal of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her with stones so that she dies, for she committed decadence in Israel so as to prostitute herself while in her father’s house. Thus you will take out the evil from among you.
22 In case a man should be found lying with a woman espoused to her possessor, then they must die, indeed both of them, the man who was lying with the woman and the woman. Thus you will take out the evil from Israel.
23 In case there should be a maiden, a virgin, who is betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city, and he lies with her,
24 then you must bring forth both of them to the gate of that city and stone them with stones so that they die, the maiden on the score that she did not cry out in the city, and the man on the score that he humiliated the wife of his associate. Thus you will take out the evil from among you.
25 Yet if it is in the field that the man should find the maiden who is betrothed, and the man holds her fast and lies with her, then the man who lay with her must die, he alone;
26 yet to the maiden you shall do nothing. The maiden has no sin deserving death; for as when a man rises against his associate, and he murders his soul, so is this matter.
27 For he found her in the field; the maiden who is betrothed cried out, and there was no saviour for her.
28 In case a man should find a maiden, a virgin who is not betrothed, and he grasps her and lies with her, and they are found,
29 then the man who was lying with her must give to the maiden’s father fifty silver shekels, and she shall become his wife. Inasmuch as he humiliated her he shall not be able to dismiss her all his days.
30 A man shall neither take the wife of his father nor expose the hem of his father.

Chapter 23
1 No one emasculated by crushing or having his penis cut off shall come into the assembly of Yahweh.
2 No bastard shall come into the assembly of Yahweh. Even the tenth generation from him may not come into the assembly of Yahweh.
3 No Ammonite or Moabite shall come into the assembly of Yahweh. Even the tenth generation from them shall not come into the assembly of Yahweh for the eon,
4 on the score that they did not succor you with bread and with water along the main road when you came forth from Egypt and that they hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor, Aram-naharaim, to maledict you.
5 But Yahweh your Elohim would not hearken to Balaam. And Yahweh your Elohim turned the malediction into a blessing for you, for Yahweh your Elohim loves you.
6 You shall neither inquire after their well-being nor their good all your days for the eon.
7 You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you became a sojourner in his land.
8 As for the sons who shall be born to them, the third generation may come into the assembly of Yahweh.
9 When you go forth in camp against your enemies then you must be on guard against any evil matter.
10 In case there should be a man among you who is not clean because of a happening of the night, then he must go forth outside the camp; he shall not come into the midst of the camp.
11 When it comes to be just before evening he shall wash in water, and as the sun sets he may come into the midst of the camp.
12 A place aside shall come to be for you outside the camp, and you must go forth there outside.
13 You shall come to have a trowel with your gear so it will come to be when you have squatted outside that you must delve with it, then turn back and cover your filth.
14 For Yahweh your Elohim is walking about within your camp to rescue you and to deliver up your enemies before you; hence your camps will come to be holy so that He should not see among you the nakedness of anything and turn away from following you.
15 You shall not surrender to his lord a servant who rescues himself to you from his lord.
16 With you shall he dwell, among you, in the place that he shall choose within one of your gates, as seems good to him. You shall not tyrannize over him.
17 There shall come to be neither a cult-prostitute from the daughters of Israel, nor shall there come to be a cult-prostitute from the sons of Israel.
18 You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the price of a cur into the house of Yahweh your Elohim for any vow offering, for they are an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim, indeed both of them.
19 You shall not charge interest to your brother: interest on silver, interest on food, interest on anything else that might earn interest.
20 To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, so that Yahweh your Elohim may bless you in every undertaking of your hand in the land where you are coming to tenant it.
21 In case you should vow a vow to Yahweh your Elohim, you shall not delay to perform it, for Yahweh your Elohim shall require, yea require it from you, and it would be sin on your part.
22 Yet in case you should forbear to vow, it shall not become sin on your part.
23 The utterance of your lips you shall observe, and you must do just as you have vowed to Yahweh your Elohim; it is a voluntary offering that you have spoken of with your mouth.
24 In case you should come into the vineyard of your associate, then you may eat grapes to your soul’s desire, to your satisfaction, but you shall put none into your vessel.
25 In case you should come into the raised grain of your associate, then you may pluck snippets with your hand, yet no scythe shall you swing on the raised grain of your associate.

Chapter 24
1 When a man takes a wife and possesses her, and it comes to be that she should not find grace in his eyes, because he has found in her the nakedness of anything, then he would write for her a scroll of divorce, give it into her hand and send her away from his house.
2 When she goes forth from his house, goes and becomes another man’s,
3 and the man (the latter one) dislikes her, then he would write for her a scroll of divorce, give it into her hand and send her away from his house. Or when the man should die (the latter one who took her to himself as a wife),
4 then her possessor (the former one who had sent her away) shall not be able to reverse himself to take her back to become his wife after she had had herself defiled, for that is an abhorrence before Yahweh. You shall not bring about sin in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment.
5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall neither go forth with the militia host, nor shall any matter of duty pass on to him. He shall be exempt for his house one year, and he will rejoice with his wife whom he has taken.
6 No one shall take both millstones or just the rider in pledge, for he would be taking the soul in pledge.
7 In case a man should be found stealing a soul from his brothers of the sons of Israel, and he makes a chattel of him or sells him, then that thief must die. Thus you will take out the evil from among you.
8 Be on guard in a contagion of leprosy to observe especially and to do according to all the law which the priests, the Levites, shall direct you. Just as I have instructed them shall you observe to do.
9 You are to remember what Yahweh your Elohim did to Miriam along the way in your going forth from Egypt.
10 In case you should lend your associate a loan of anything, you shall not enter his house to secure his pawn.
11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you are lending, he shall bring forth the pawn to you outside.
12 And should he be a humble man, you shall not lie down in his pawn of raiment.
13 You shall restore, yea restore to him the pawn when the sun sets, that he may lie down in his restored raiment, and he will bless you, and it shall become for you an act of righteousness before Yahweh your Elohim.
14 You shall not exploit a humble and needy hireling, whether from your brothers or from your sojourner who is in your land, within your gates.
15 On his day you shall give him his hire, and the sun shall not set on it (for he is humble, and to it he is lifting his soul) that he may not call against you to Yahweh, and it would become a sin on your part.
16 Fathers shall not be put to death on account of their sons’ sins, nor shall sons be put to death on account of their fathers’ sins. Each man shall be put to death for his own sin.
17 You shall not turn aside the right judgment of the sojourner or orphan; and you shall not take the garment of a widow as a pledge.
18 You will remember that you had become a servant in Egypt, and Yahweh your Elohim ransomed you from there; therefore I am instructing you to do this word.
19 When you reap your harvest in your field and you have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to take it in. For the sojourner, for the orphan and for the widow shall it be, so that Yahweh your Elohim may bless you in every work of your hands.
20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the foliage after yourself. For the sojourner, for the orphan and for the widow shall it be.
21 When you pick the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not clean glean it after yourself. For the sojourner, for the orphan and for the widow shall it be.
22 You will remember that you had become a servant in the land of Egypt; therefore I am instructing you to do this word.

Chapter 25
1 In case there should come to be a dispute between men, and they come close for judgment, and they judge them, then they will justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
2 And it will come to be, should the wicked be a son of smiting, then the judge will cause him to fall down and have him smitten in his presence with the number of lashes sufficient for his wickedness.
3 Up to forty lashes may he smite him; he shall not add more, lest, if he should add to his smiting many smitings over these, your brother be dishonored in your eyes.
4 You shall not muzzle a bull when it threshes.
5 In case brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and he has no son, the wife of the dead one shall not come to the outside, to an alien man. Her brother-in-law, he shall come to her, and he will take her to himself as his wife and perform the levirate for her.
6 Then it will come to be, the firstborn whom she bears shall carry on the name of his father’s dead brother so that his name may not be wiped out from Israel.
7 But should the man not be inclined to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law will go up to the elders at the gate and say: My brother-in-law refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the levirate for me.
8 Then the elders of his city will call to him and speak to him. But if he persists and says: I am not inclined to take her,
9 then his sister-in-law will come close to him before the eyes of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face and answer and say: Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house.
10 And his name will be called in Israel, House of the Pulled-off Sandal.
11 In case two men should strive together, a man and his brother, and the wife of one comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one smiting him, and she puts forth her hand and holds fast onto his genitals,
12 then you will cut away her hand. Your eye shall not commiserate over her.
13 You shall not come to have in your purse two diverse stones, a large and a small.
14 You shall not come to have in your house diverse ephah measures, a large and a small.
15 You shall come to have a standard weight equitable and just; you shall come to have an ephah equitable and just, that your days may be prolonged on the ground that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you.
16 For anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, is an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim.
17 You are to remember what Amalek did to you along the main road when you came forth from Egypt,
18 that he met you on the road and curtailed from you all the stragglers behind you when you were faint and weary; and he was not fearful of Elohim.
19 It will come to be when Yahweh your Elohim gives rest to you from all your enemies around in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment to tenant it, you shall wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens. You shall not forget.

Chapter 26
1 It will come to be when you come into the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment, and you tenant it and dwell in it,
2 that you will take from the first of all the fruit of the ground which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, and you will place it in a basket and go to the place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to tabernacle His Name.
3 And you will go to the priest who shall come to be in those days and say to him: I profess today to Yahweh my Elohim that I have come to the land about which Yahweh had sworn to our fathers to give to us.
4 Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and leave it before the altar of Yahweh your Elohim.
5 And you will respond and say before Yahweh your Elohim: My father was a perishing Aramean. And he went down to Egypt, sojourned there with few adult males and became there a nation, great, substantial and numerous.
6 The Egyptians did evil to us, humiliated us and put hard service on us.
7 But we cried to Yahweh Elohim of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our humiliation, our toil and our oppression.
8 Then Yahweh brought us forth from Egypt with a steadfast hand and with an outstretched arm, with great fear-inspiring deeds, with signs and with miracles.
9 And He brought us to this place and gave to us this land, a land gushing with milk and honey.
10 Now behold, I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that You have given to me, O Yahweh. Then you will leave it before Yahweh your Elohim and bow yourself down before Yahweh your Elohim.
11 You will rejoice in all the good that Yahweh your Elohim gives to you and to your household, you and the Levite and the sojourner who is among you.
12 When you conclude tithing all the tithe from your harvest yield in the third year, the year of the tithe, and you have given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied,
13 then you will say before Yahweh your Elohim: I have taken out the holy gift from the house and have indeed given it to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the orphan and to the widow according to all Your instruction that You have enjoined on me. I have not passed aside from Your instructions, and I have not forgotten.
14 I have not eaten of it in my sorrow; I have not taken out any of it while unclean, and I have not given of it for the dead. I have hearkened to the voice of Yahweh my Elohim. I have done according to all that You have instructed me.
15 Do gaze from Your holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless Your people Israel and the ground that You have given to us just as You had sworn to our fathers a land gushing with milk and honey.
16 This day Yahweh your Elohim is instructing you to keep these statutes and ordinances, and you will observe and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
17 To Yahweh have you affirmed today that He is to be your Elohim, and you are to go in His ways and to observe His statutes, His instructions and His ordinances and to hearken to His voice.
18 As for Yahweh, He affirms today that you are to be for Him a special people, just as He promised to you, and that you are to observe all His instructions;
19 then He promises to give you supremacy over all the nations which He has made, for praise, for a name and for beauty, and for you to be a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim just as He has promised.

Chapter 27
1 Moses and the elders of Israel instructed the people saying: You are to observe all the instructions that I am enjoining on you today.
2 And it will come to be in the day on which you shall cross over the Jordan to the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, that you will set up for yourself large stones and whitewash them with lime.
3 Then you will write on them all the words of this law when you cross over, that you may enter the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, a land gushing with milk and honey, just as Yahweh Elohim of your fathers promised to you.
4 And it will come to be that when you cross over the Jordan you shall set up these stones about which I am instructing you today, at Mount Ebal, and you will whitewash them with lime.
5 When you build there an altar for Yahweh your Elohim, an altar of stones, you shall not swing an iron tool upon them.
6 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your Elohim with suitable stones, and you will bring up ascent offerings on it to Yahweh your Elohim.
7 Also you will sacrifice peace offerings and eat there and rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim.
8 Then you will write on the stones all the words of this law. Make it thoroughly plain.
9 Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying: Keep quiet and hearken, Israel. This day you have become a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim.
10 So you will hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim and keep His instructions and His statutes which I am enjoining on you today.
11 Moses instructed the people on that day, saying:
12 These shall stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin.
13 And these shall stand for the malediction on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.
14 Then the Levites will respond and say to every man of Israel in a raised up voice:
15 Cursed be the man who makes a carving or a molten image, an abhorrence to Yahweh, the work of an artificer’s hands, and places it in concealment. Then all the people will respond and say: Amen!
16 Cursed be the one dishonoring his father or his mother. Then all the people shall say: Amen!
17 Cursed be the one moving the boundary marker of his associate. Then all the people will say: Amen!
18 Cursed be the one causing the blind to err on the road. Then all the people will say: Amen!
19 Cursed be the one turning aside the right judgment of the sojourner, the orphan or the widow. Then all the people will say: Amen!
20 Cursed be the one lying with the wife of his father, for he exposes his father’s hem. Then all the people will say: Amen!
21 Cursed be the one lying with any beast. Then all the people will say: Amen!
22 Cursed be the one lying with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. Then all the people will say: Amen!
23 Cursed be the one lying with his sister-in-law. Then all the people will say: Amen!
24 Cursed be the one smiting his associate in concealment. Then all the people will say: Amen!
25 Cursed be the one taking a bribe to smite a soul of innocent blood. Then all the people will say: Amen!
26 Cursed be the one who is not carrying out all the words of this law to do them. Then all the people will say: Amen!

Chapter 28
1 It will come to be if you should hearken, yea hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim, to observe and to do all His instructions which I am enjoining on you today, that Yahweh your Elohim will give you supremacy over all the nations of the earth.
2 And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you in case you should hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim.
3 Blessed be you in the city, and blessed be you in the field.
4 Blessed be the fruit of your belly, the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beast, the calving of your domestic animals and the lambing of your flock.
5 Blessed be your basket and your kneading-trough.
6 Blessed be you in your coming in, and blessed be you in your going forth.
7 Yahweh shall make your enemies who are rising against you to be struck down before you. By a single road shall they come forth to you, and by seven roads shall they flee before you.
8 Yahweh shall instruct the blessing to be with you in your granaries and in every undertaking of your hand, and He will bless you in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you.
9 Yahweh shall raise you as a people holy to Himself, just as He had sworn to you, in case you should observe the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim, and walk in His ways,
10 so that all the peoples of the earth will see that the Name of Yahweh is proclaimed over you, and they will fear you.
11 Then through the fruit of your belly, the fruit of your domestic beast and the fruit of your ground, Yahweh will give you surplus in goods on the ground about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers to give to you.
12 Yahweh shall open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless every work of your hand. You will obligate many nations, yet you shall not borrow.
13 So Yahweh will make you to be the head and not the tail, and you will surely be above, and you shall not be below, in case you should hearken to the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim that I am enjoining on you today, to observe and to do.
14 You shall not withdraw from any of the words which I am instructing you today, neither to the right nor left, to go after other elohim to serve them.
15 It will come to be if you do not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim to observe and to do all His instructions and His statutes that I am enjoining on you today, that all these maledictions will come on you and overtake you.
16 Cursed be you in the city, and cursed be you in the field.
17 Cursed be your basket and your kneading-trough.
18 Cursed be the fruit of your belly, the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beast, the calving of your domestic animals and the lambing of your flock.
19 Cursed be you in your coming in, and cursed be you in your going forth.
20 Yahweh shall send the curse, the discomfiture and the rebuke on you in every undertaking of your hand that you shall do, until you are exterminated and you perish quickly, in view of the evil of your actions in which you have forsaken Me.
21 Yahweh shall cause the plague to cling to you until He finishes you off the ground where you are entering to tenant it.
22 Yahweh shall smite you with attenuation, with fever and inflammation, with hot heat and drought, with blast and mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.
23 Your heavens that are over your head will come to be as copper, and the earth that is beneath you as iron.
24 Yahweh shall make the rain of your land to be dust and soil-drifts; from the heavens it shall descend on you until you are exterminated.
25 Yahweh shall make you to be struck down before your enemies. By a single road shall you go forth to them, and by seven roads shall you flee before them. So you will become a stirring horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 Your carcass will become food for every flyer of the heavens and for the beast of the earth, and there will be no one causing them to tremble.
27 Yahweh shall smite you with the boil of Egypt, with piles, with eczema and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
28 Yahweh shall smite you with madness, with blindness and with derangement of heart;
29 and you will come to be groping at noon just as the blind one gropes in the gloom, and you shall not prosper in your ways and will only become exploited and pillaged all the days, and there will be no saviour.
30 A wife shall you betroth, yet another man shall ravish her. A house shall you build, yet you shall not dwell in it. A vineyard shall you plant, yet you shall not bring it to general use.
31 Your bull shall be slaughtered before your eyes, yet you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be snatched from before you, yet it shall not return to you. Your flock shall be given to your enemies, yet there will be no saviour for you.
32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall be staring and wasting away for them all the day, yet there will be nothing at the disposal of your hand.
33 A people you do not know shall devour the fruit of your ground and all your labor, and you will surely be exploited and bruised all the days,
34 so that you will become mad because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see.
35 Yahweh shall smite you with an evil boil on both the knees and on both the legs, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot and unto the crown of your head.
36 Yahweh shall conduct you and your king, whom you shall set up over you, to a nation whom you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, and you will serve there other elohim of wood and stone.
37 You will become an appalling object, a proverb and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you.
38 Much seed shall you bring forth to the field, yet little shall you gather, for the locust shall eat it up.
39 You shall plant vineyards, and you will service them, yet you shall neither drink the wine, nor shall you hoard it, for the worm shall devour it.
40 You shall come to have olives in all your territory, yet you shall not rub yourself with oil because your olives shall drop off.
41 You shall generate sons and daughters, yet they shall not become yours, for they shall go into captivity.
42 The cicada shall make all your trees and the fruit of your ground destitute.
43 The sojourner who is among you, he shall ascend over you upward and upward, yet you shall descend downward and downward.
44 He shall obligate you, yet you shall not obligate him. He shall become the head, and you shall become the tail.
45 All these maledictions will come on you, and they will pursue you and overtake you until you are exterminated, for you would not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim to observe His instructions and His statutes that He enjoined on you.
46 They will be a sign and a miracle against you and your seed until the eon.
47 Inasmuch as you would not serve Yahweh your Elohim with rejoicing and with goodness of heart over the abundance of everything,
48 then you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send forth against you, in famine and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of everything. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has exterminated you.
49 Yahweh shall lift up against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, just as the vulture swoops down, a nation whose tongue you have not heard,
50 a nation strong of face who neither shows partiality to the old one nor is gracious to the youth.
51 It will devour the fruit of your beast and the fruit of your ground until you are exterminated, a nation who shall not let grain, grape juice or clarified oil, the calving of your domestic animals or the lambing of your flock remain for you, until it destroys you.
52 It will lay siege against you in all your gates until your lofty and defended walls in which you will be trusting come down in all your land; and it will lay siege against you in all your gates in all your land that Yahweh your Elohim will have given to you.
53 Then you will eat the fruit of your own belly, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom Yahweh your Elohim will have given to you, in the siege and in the constraint with which your enemy shall constrain you.
54 The tender-hearted man among you and the one very fastidious, his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the rest of his sons whom he shall have left,
55 so as to keep from giving to one of them the flesh of his sons that he is eating because nothing at all remains for him in the siege and in the constraint with which your enemy shall constrain you in all your gates.
56 The tender-hearted woman among you, and the fastidious one, who would not try to put the sole of her foot on the earth because of fastidiousness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her son and toward her daughter,
57 even for her afterbirth coming forth from between her feet, even for her children whom she is bearing, for she shall eat them for lack of everything, in concealment during the siege and during the constraint with which your enemy shall constrain you in your gates.
58 Should you not observe to do all the words of this law, the ones written in this scroll, to fear the Name of this glorified and fearinspiring One, Yahweh your Elohim,
59 then Yahweh will make your smitings and the smitings of your seed extraordinary: smitings that are great and constant, and illnesses that are evil and constant.
60 Thus He will bring back to you every disease of Egypt from the presence of which you shrank away, and they will cling to you.
61 Moreover, every illness and every smiting that is not written in the scroll of this law, Yahweh shall bring them up on you until you are exterminated.
62 Thus you will remain few in adult males, whereas you would have become as the stars of the heavens for multitude, for you did not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim.
63 So it will come to be, just as Yahweh was elated over you to bring you good and to let you increase, so Yahweh shall be elated over you to destroy you and to exterminate you, so that you will be torn out from the ground where you are entering to tenant it.
64 And Yahweh will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth unto the other end of the earth. There you will serve other elohim, those of wood and stone which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers.
65 And among those nations you shall neither find respite, nor shall there be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh will give to you there a disturbed heart, a failure of the eyes and pining of the soul.
66 Then your lives will come to be hung in suspense in front of you. You will be afraid by night and by day, and you shall not be sure in your lives.
67 In the morning you shall say: O that it were evening! And in the evening you shall say: O that it were morning! because of the awe of your heart with which you shall be afraid and because of the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
68 Then Yahweh will bring you back complaining to Egypt by the way of which I said to you: You should not again see it further. There you will put yourselves up for sale to your enemies as manslaves and as bondmaids, yet there will be no buyer.

Chapter 29
1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh instructed Moses to contract with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, aside from the covenant that He had contracted with them at Horeb.
2 Moses called to all Israel and said to them: You saw all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,
3 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and those great miracles.
4 Yet until this day Yahweh has not given to you a heart to realize and eyes to see and ears to hear.
5 When I conducted you forty years in the wilderness, your raiment did not decay on you, and your sandal, it did not decay on your foot.
6 You did not eat bread, neither did you drink wine nor intoxicant, so that you might know that I, Yahweh, am your Elohim.
7 When you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came forth to meet us for battle, and we smote them.
8 Then we took their land and gave it as an allotment to the Reubenite and to the Gadite and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9 So you will observe the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may proceed intelligently in all that you undertake.
10 You are stationed today, all of you, before Yahweh your Elohim your heads, your tribal chiefs, your elders and your superintendents, every man of Israel,
11 your little ones, your wives, even your sojourner who is within your camps, from the chopper of your timbers to the bailer of your waters,
12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your Elohim and into His oath of imprecation that Yahweh your Elohim is contracting with you today,
13 so that He may set you up today as His people. And He shall become your Elohim just as He promised to you and just as He had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.
14 And not with you, you alone, am I contracting this covenant and this oath of imprecation,
15 for it is both with him who is here with us standing today before Yahweh our Elohim and with him who is not here with us today.
16 For you know that we had dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we had passed among the nations whom you passed;
17 and you saw their abominations and their idol clods, those of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were with them.
18 Beware lest there may be among you a man or woman or family or tribe whose heart today is turning around from being with Yahweh our Elohim to go to serve the elohim of those nations; beware lest there may be among you a root, being fruitful with poison and absinth.
19 And it will come to be when he hears the words of this imprecation that he will bless himself in his heart, saying: I shall come to have peace, though I am going in the obduracy of my own heart, with the result that the well-watered is swept up with the thirsty.
20 Yahweh shall not be willing to pardon him, because then Yahweh’s anger and His jealousy shall smolder against that man, and all the imprecation that is written in this scroll will lie on him. Yahweh will wipe out his name from under the heavens;
21 and Yahweh will separate him from all the tribes of Israel for the evil visitation according to all the imprecations of the covenant that is written in this scroll of the law.
22 The latter generation of your sons who shall rise after you and the foreigner who shall come from a land afar will ask, when they see the smitings of that land of yours and its ailments with which Yahweh has made it ill
23 its whole land a burnt waste of sulfur and salt; it shall not be sown, neither shall it sprout, nor shall any herbage ascend in it, like the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in His anger and in His fury
24 hence all the nations will ask: Why did Yahweh do thus to this land? Why the heat of this great anger?
25 Then some will answer: Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh Elohim of their fathers, that He had contracted with them when He brought them forth from the land of Egypt,
26 for they went off and served other elohim and bowed themselves down to them, elohim whom they had neither known, nor had He apportioned to them.
27 Hence the anger of Yahweh grew hot against that land so as to bring upon it all the malediction that is written in this scroll.
28 So Yahweh plucked them up off their ground in anger, in fury and in great wrath, and He flung them into another land as it is this day.
29 The things being concealed are Yahweh our Elohim’s, yet the things being revealed are ours and our sons’ until the eon, so that we might keep all the words of this law.

Chapter 30
1 It will come to be, when all these things come on you, the blessing and the malediction which I put before you, that you will recall them to your heart among all the nations where Yahweh your Elohim will have expelled you
2 and that you will return again to Yahweh your Elohim and hearken to His voice according to all that I am instructing you today, you and your sons, with all your heart and with all your soul.
3 Then Yahweh your Elohim will reverse your captivity and show compassion to you; He will return and convene you from all the peoples where Yahweh your Elohim will have scattered you.
4 If it comes to be that you should be expelled to the end of the heavens, from there Yahweh your Elohim shall convene you, and from there He shall take you.
5 Then Yahweh your Elohim will bring you to the land that your fathers tenanted; you will tenant it, and He will bring you good and let you increase more than your fathers.
6 Yahweh your Elohim will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed so as to love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may stay alive.
7 Then Yahweh your Elohim will put all these imprecations on your enemies and on those hating you, who persecute you.
8 As for you, however, you will again hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim; you will do all His instructions that I am enjoining on you today.
9 Then Yahweh your Elohim will give you surplus in goods through all the work of your hand, through the fruit of your belly, the fruit of your domestic beast and the fruit of your ground, for Yahweh shall again be elated over you for good, just as He was elated over your fathers,
10 when you hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim to observe His instructions and His statutes, the ones written in this scroll of the law, once you return to Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul.
11 For this instruction that I am enjoining on you today, it is neither too difficult for you, nor is it too far off.
12 It is neither in the heavens for you to say: Who shall ascend to the heavens for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may do it?
13 Nor is it across the sea for you to say: Who shall cross across the sea for us and take it for us and announce it to us that we may do it?
14 For the word is exceedingly near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to do it.
15 See! I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.
16 If you should hearken to the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim that I am enjoining on you today, to love Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in His ways and to observe His instructions, His statutes and His ordinances, then you will live and multiply, and Yahweh your Elohim will bless you in the land where you are entering to tenant it.
17 Yet should your heart turn around, and you are not hearkening, and you are induced to bow yourself down to other elohim and serve them,
18 I tell you today that you shall perish, yea perish. You shall not prolong your days on the ground where you are crossing over the Jordan to enter to tenant it.
19 Today I call the heavens and the earth to witness against you: Life and death I have put before you, the blessing and the malediction. Now choose life that you may live, you and your seed,
20 by loving Yahweh your Elohim, hearkening to His voice and clinging to Him (for that means life to you and prolonging of your days) so that you may dwell on the ground about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give to them.

Chapter 31
1 Then Moses concluded by speaking these words to all Israel
2 and saying to them: I am a hundred and twenty years old today. No longer am I able to go forth or to come in. And Yahweh, He has said to me: You shall not cross over this Jordan.
3 Yahweh your Elohim, He is crossing over before you; He Himself shall exterminate these nations from before you, and you will tenant in their place. Joshua, he is crossing over before you just as Yahweh has spoken,
4 and Yahweh will do to them just as He did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorite, and to their land, those whom He exterminated.
5 Yahweh will give them up before you, and you must deal with them according to all the instructions which I have enjoined on you.
6 Be steadfast, and be resolute! Do not fear, and do not be terrified because of their presence, for Yahweh your Elohim, He is the One going with you; He shall neither neglect you nor forsake you.
7 Moses called to Joshua and said to him before the eyes of all Israel: Be steadfast and be resolute, for you shall bring this people into the land about which Yahweh had sworn to their fathers to give to them, and you shall cause them to gain it as an allotment.
8 As for Yahweh, He is the One going before you; He Himself shall come to be with you. He shall neither neglect you nor forsake you. You shall neither fear nor be dismayed.
9 Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, the carriers of the coffer of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel.
10 And Moses instructed them saying: At the end of seven years, at the appointment of the year of release, at the festival of booths,
11 when all Israel comes to appear before Yahweh your Elohim in the place that He shall choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their ears.
12 Assemble the people, the men, the women, the little ones and your sojourner who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn: They must fear Yahweh your Elohim and must observe to keep all the words of this law.
13 And their sons, who have not known it, they shall hear; they too must learn to fear Yahweh your Elohim all the days that you are alive on the ground where you are crossing over the Jordan to tenant it.
14 Then Yahweh said to Moses: Behold, near are your days to die. Call Joshua and station yourselves in the tent of appointment, that I may instruct him. So Moses and Joshua went and stationed themselves in the tent of appointment.
15 Then Yahweh appeared at the tent in a column of cloud; and the column of cloud stood over the opening of the tent.
16 Yahweh said to Moses: Behold, you are about to lie with your fathers. Yet this people will rise and prostitute after the elohim of the foreigners of the land where they are entering to be among them; and they will forsake Me and annul My covenant that I contracted with them.
17 My anger will grow hot against them on that day, and I will forsake them and conceal My face from them; then they will come to be devoured, and many evils and distresses will come upon them. Then they will say on that day: Is it not because our Elohim is not among us that these evils have come upon us?
18 Yet I shall conceal, yea conceal My face from them on that day on account of all the evil which they will have done, for they will have turned around to other elohim.
19 And now, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths so that this song may come to be for Me as a testimony against the sons of Israel.
20 When I shall bring them to the ground gushing with milk and honey about which I had sworn to their fathers, when they eat and are satisfied and are sleek so that they turn around to other elohim and serve them, when they thus spurn Me and annul My covenant,
21 and it comes to be that many evils and distresses come upon them, then this song will answer as a testimony before them (for it shall not be forgotten from the mouths of their seed) that I know the bent of their heart which they are forming today ere I bring them to the land about which I had sworn. (
22 Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the sons of Israel.)
23 Then He instructed Joshua son of Nun and said: Be steadfast and be resolute! For you shall bring the sons of Israel to the land about which I had sworn to them; and I Myself shall come to be with you.
24 It came to be as Moses concluded writing all the words of this law on a scroll until they were finished,
25 that Moses instructed the Levites, the carriers of the coffer of the covenant of Yahweh, saying:
26 You are to take this scroll of the law, and you must place it by the side of the coffer of the covenant of Yahweh your Elohim, and it will come to be there as a testimony against you,
27 for I know your rebellion and your scruff of obstinacy. Behold if in my day, while I am still with you alive, you have been rebellious against Yahweh, how much more so after my death!
28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your superintendents, and do let me speak in their ears all these words, and do let me call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.
29 For I know that after my death you shall bring ruin, yea ruin on yourselves; you will withdraw from the way that I enjoined on you, and the evil visitation will befall you in the latter days, for you shall do the thing that is evil in the eyes of Yahweh so as to provoke Him to vexation by the work of your hands.
30 Then Moses spoke in the ears of the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were finished.

Chapter 32
1 Give ear, heavens, and do let me speak, And let the earth hear the sayings of my mouth.
2 My monition shall trickle as rain, And my saying shall distil as night mist: As drizzle on verdure, And as showers on herbage.
3 For the Name of Yahweh am I proclaiming: Grant greatness to our Elohim!
4 The Rock flawless are His deeds, For all His ways are right judgment. The El of faithfulness and without iniquity; Just and upright is He.
5 They have become corrupt before Him; No longer are they His sons because of their blemish: A generation perverse and twisted.
6 Is this what you requite to Yahweh, You decadent and unwise people? Is not He your Father Who acquired you? He Himself made you and established you.
7 Remember the days of the eon; Understand the years of generation after generation. Ask your father, and he shall tell you, Your elders, and they shall say to you:
8 When the Supreme gave the nations allotments, When He parted the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Elohim.
9 For the portion of Yahweh is His people; Jacob is the line of His allotment.
10 He found him in a wilderness land, And in a chaos, a howling desolation. He surrounded him; He made him understand; He preserved him as the pupil of His eye.
11 As a vulture rouses up its nest, Hovers over its fledglings, Spreads its wings, takes one, Bears it on its pinions,
12 Thus Yahweh alone, He guided him, And with him was no foreign el;
13 He made him ride on high-places of the land And made him eat produce of the field; He made him suckle honey from the crag And oil from the flinty rock,
14 Clotted cream of the herd and milk of the flock, With fat of butting lambs And rams of Bashan-breed and he-goats, With the fat of the wheat germ. And from the blood of the grape you drank turbid wine.
15 When Yeshurun grew stout and kicked (You will be stout, thick and burly), Then he abandoned Eloah Who had made him And disgraced the Rock of his salvation.
16 They made Him jealous with alien gods; With abhorrences they provoked Him to vexation.
17 They sacrificed to demons, not Eloah, To elohim they had not known them before To new ones that came from nearby; Your fathers were not horrified by them.
18 The Rock Who generated you, you were oblivious of Him, And you forgot the El travailing with you.
19 Yahweh saw and spurned them Because of the vexatiousness of His sons and His daughters.
20 And He said: Do let Me conceal My face from them; I shall examine what their latter days are to be. For they are a wayward generation, Sons with no faithfulness in them.
21 As for them, they make Me jealous with a non-el; They provoke Me to vexation with their idols of vanity. As for Me, I shall make them jealous with a non-people; With a decadent nation shall I cause them vexation.
22 For a fire, it will be kindled by My anger, And it shall glow unto the unseen beneath; It shall devour the earth and its crop, And it shall set aflame the foundations of the mountains.
23 I shall cause evils to sweep up over them; I shall exhaust My arrows among them
24 Who are gaunt with famine, Fought by pestilence and bitter sting: Even the tooth of beasts shall I send among them Along with the venom of skulkers of the soil.
25 From the outside, the sword shall bereave, And from the chambers, the dread of war, Even for the man in his prime, even for the virgin, The suckling along with the grey-haired man.
26 I would say: I might blow them away, I might indeed eradicate their remembrance from mortals,
27 Unless I shrank away from the vexatiousness of the enemy; Lest their foes misconstrue, Lest they say: Our hand, it is high, And it was not Yahweh Who contrived all this.
28 For they are a nation devoid of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise; They would proceed intelligently in this; They would understand about their latter days!
30 How could one pursue a thousand Or two put a myriad to flight, If it were not that their Rock, He had sold them, And Yahweh, He had surrendered them?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock; Even our enemies are umpires.
32 For their vine is from the vine of Sodom And from the terraces of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of poison, And clusters of bitterness are theirs;
33 Their wine is as the venom of snakes And the poison of cobras, as cruel.
34 Is it not amassed with Me, Sealed among My treasures
35 For the day of vengeance and repayment, For the season when their foot shall slip? For the day of their calamity is near, And impending doom hurries upon them.
36 For Yahweh shall adjudicate His people And show Himself merciful over His servants When He sees that the power of their hand has departed And has become nil for both the restrained and the ones set free.
37 Then Yahweh will ask: Where are their elohim, The rock in whom they sought refuge,
38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices And drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up and help you; Let them become a concealment over you.
39 See now that I, I am He, And there are no other elohim beside Me. I Myself put to death, and I keep alive; I have transfixed, and I Myself shall heal, And there is no one who could reclaim from My hand!
40 For I lift My hand to the heavens And declare: As I am the Living One for the eon,
41 When I whet My flashing sword And My hand lays hold on judgment, I shall return vengeance to My foes, And to My haters shall I make repayment.
42 I shall make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword, it shall devour flesh, The blood of the one slain and the captive, From the head of the enemy commanders.
43 Be jubilant, heavens, together with Him, And worship Him, all the messengers of Elohim! Be jubilant, nations, with His people! For the blood of His servants shall He avenge, Vengeance to His foes shall He return, And a propitiatory shelter shall He make for the ground of His people.
44 Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hosea son of Nun.
45 When Moses concluded speaking all these words to all Israel,
46 he said to them: Set your heart on all the words which I am testifying among you today, so that you may enjoin them on your sons to observe and to do all the words of this law.
47 For it is not an empty word for you; it means your life, and by this word you may prolong your days on the ground where you are crossing over the Jordan to tenant it.
48 Yahweh spoke to Moses on this very day, saying:
49 Go up to this mount of the Abarim range (Mount Nebo which is in the land of Moab that is overlooking Jericho), and see the land of Canaan that I am giving to the sons of Israel for a holding;
50 and die on the mount where you are going up, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,
51 because both of you offended Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, because neither of you hallowed Me in the midst of the sons of Israel.
52 For from a distance shall you see the land, yet you shall not enter there into the land that I am giving to the sons of Israel.

Chapter 33
1 This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of Elohim, blessed the sons of Israel before his death,
2 when he said: Yahweh came from Sinai, And He arose from Seir for them. He shone from Mount Paran, And He arrived with some from myriads of the holy ones. At His right are warriors who are His.
3 Indeed, He is cherishing the kinsmen. All the holy ones are in Your hand. And they are huddled at Your feet. Each obtains something from Your words
4 About the law Moses enjoined on us, The tenancy of the assembly of Jacob.
5 So He became king in Yeshurun When the heads of the people gathered themselves Together with the tribes of Israel.
6 Let Reuben live, let him not die Or let his adult males come to be few in number.
7 This is about Judah, and he said: Hear, O Yahweh, the voice of Judah, And may You bring him to his people; With his hands he contended for himself, Yet may You become a help against his foes.
8 About Levi he said: May your Thummim and your Urim be for your benign man Whom you probed at Massah; You contended with him at the waters of Meribah,
9 The one saying of his father and of his mother: I do not regard them, And he neither recognized his brothers, Nor did he know his sons. For they observed Your sayings And preserved Your covenant.
10 They shall point out Your ordinances for Jacob, And Your law for Israel. They shall bring incense to Your nostrils And a wholly fumed offering on Your altar.
11 Bless, O Yahweh, his estate, And the deeds of his hands may You approve. Transfix the waists of those rising up against him, And those hating him, that they may rise up no more.
12 About Benjamin he said: Let the beloved of Yahweh tabernacle in serenity near Him Who is providing a canopy over him all the day, As he tabernacles between His hillside flanks.
13 About Joseph he said: Blessed by Yahweh be his land With the finest of the heavens, the night mist, And with water from the abyss reclining beneath,
14 With the finest of the yield from the sun, And with the finest of the growth of the months,
15 With the top yield of the ancient mountain ranges, And with the finest of the hills eonian,
16 With the finest of the earth and its fullness, And the approval of the One tabernacling in the thornbush. Do let it come onto the head of Joseph And onto the crown of the one singled out from his brothers,
17 As the firstborn of his kine brings honor to him, And his horns are the horns of the wild bull. With them he shall gore the peoples Altogether, to the limits of the earth. Those are the myriads of Ephraim, And those are the thousands of Manasseh.
18 About Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going forth, And, Issachar, in your tents.
19 They shall invite their kinsmen to the mountain, And there they shall sacrifice sacrifices of righteousness; For they suck out the accumulation of the seas And the secreted treasures buried in the sand.
20 About Gad he said: Blessed be the One widening the space for Gad. Like a parent lion he tabernacles And preys upon arm and scalp,
21 And he saw the first portion given to himself, For where the apportionment of the statute-maker was, There gathered together the heads of the people; He will observe the righteous deeds of Yahweh, And His ordinances, along with Israel.
22 About Dan he said: Dan is a lion’s whelp, And he shall bound from Bashan.
23 About Naphtali he said: Naphtali, satisfied with his acceptable portion, Full of Yahweh’s blessing: He shall tenant toward the Lake and south.
24 About Asher he said: Most blessed of sons be Asher, And let him come to be approved by his brothers, And be dipping his foot in oil.
25 Iron and bronze be your door-bolts, And as your days so shall be your leisure.
26 There is none like the El of Yeshurun: Riding the heavens as your Helper And in His augustness, the skies,
27 The habitation of Elohim aforetime. And beneath are the arms eonian. He shall drive out the enemy from your presence And shall say: Exterminate him!
28 So Israel shall tabernacle in serenity; Solitary is the spring of Jacob In a land of grain and grape juice. Indeed, his heavens, they shall trickle the night mist.
29 Happy are you, Israel! Who is like you? A people saved by Yahweh, the Shield of your help, Who is also the Sword of your augustness! Your enemies shall dissimulate submission to you, Yet you, you shall tread on their high-places.

Chapter 34
1 Then Moses ascended from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the summit of the Pisgah ridge, which is overlooking Jericho. And Yahweh showed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan;
2 all the land of Naphtali, all the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the sea that is behind it,
3 the Negeb and the valley basin of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
4 Then Yahweh said to him: This is the land about which I had sworn to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, saying, To your seed shall I give it. I have let you see it with your eyes, yet you shall not cross over there.
5 Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died there in the land of Moab in accordance with the word of Yahweh.
6 Then He entombed him in a ravine in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor. And no man knows his tomb until this day.
7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old at his death. Neither had his eye dimmed nor had his vitality fled.
8 The sons of Israel lamented for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of lamentation, the mourning for Moses, came to an end.
9 Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had supported his hands on him. And the sons of Israel hearkened to him and did just as Yahweh had instructed Moses.
10 No prophet arose again in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
11 none like him in all the signs and the miracles which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants and to all his land,
12 and none like him in all the steadfast hand and in all the great and fear-inspiring deeds which Moses had done before the eyes of all Israel.