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Deuteronomy Chapter 1

Deuteronomy 1:1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.	Deuteronomy 1:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)	Deuteronomy 1:2 Notes Why thank you, now I know exactly where you are.
Deuteronomy 1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;	Deuteronomy 1:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:	Deuteronomy 1:4 Notes The Amorites (or Amurru) lived in what is now Syria and southern Iraq. Heshbon was a city east of the Jordan River near modern-day Madaba, and according to the Bible seat of King Sihon. Og was another king nearby: Talmudic tradition says he was a giant who picked up a mountain and tried to crush the Israelites with it, but God sent ants who dug away at it and saved the Israelites. This verse refers to two of the legendary victories of the Israelites in conquering their Middle East homeland.
Deuteronomy 1:5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,	Deuteronomy 1:5 Notes Moab was a mountainous kingdom on the east side of the Dead Sea. It was frequently at war with Israel, and archaeological evidence includes the Mesha Stele erected around 840 BCE to commemorate a Moabite victory over the Israelites, and is one of the best pieces of evidence we have for the existence of the Biblical kingdom of Israel. Anyway ... get on with it!
Deuteronomy 1:6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:	Deuteronomy 1:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.	Deuteronomy 1:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.	Deuteronomy 1:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:	Deuteronomy 1:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.	Deuteronomy 1:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)	Deuteronomy 1:11 Notes If this means that there will be 1000 times as many as there are now, according to numbers, there should be around 603 million male Israelites capable of bearing arms. According to the CIA World Factbook, there are ~1.5 million male "manpower fit for military service" as of 2012. Even if you include the female population able to join the military, they have since regressed.
Deuteronomy 1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?	Deuteronomy 1:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.	Deuteronomy 1:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.	Deuteronomy 1:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.	Deuteronomy 1:15 Notes Majors and Lieutenants haven't been invented yet. Some translations use other terms such as leaders or commanders (and the Hebrew uses a slightly different word for the smaller groups), but the Young Literal Translation calls them princes.
Deuteronomy 1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.	Deuteronomy 1:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.	Deuteronomy 1:17 Notes Yahweh, the world's first court of appeals?
Deuteronomy 1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.	Deuteronomy 1:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.	Deuteronomy 1:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.	Deuteronomy 1:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.	Deuteronomy 1:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.	Deuteronomy 1:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:	Deuteronomy 1:23 Notes Restatement of Numbers 13:1-14:45, where Israelites scout the land, find nice food but become panicky about the large people. Skip to Deuteronomy 2:1 to start with new stuff related to the battle, or Deuteronomy 4:1 for the next story.
Deuteronomy 1:24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.	Deuteronomy 1:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.	Deuteronomy 1:25 Notes Yes, this is a good land that Yahweh has given you indeed, trespassing on land that already belonged to other peoples and committing ethnic cleansing against them to get said land notwithstanding. What was that about Yahweh being a "righteous" god, again?
Deuteronomy 1:26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:	Deuteronomy 1:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.	Deuteronomy 1:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.	Deuteronomy 1:28 Notes See the main article on this topic: Tower of Babel Because the Anakiam's walls are apparently just as tall. Unless this statement is metaphor?
Deuteronomy 1:29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.	Deuteronomy 1:29 Notes Unless they have have Chariots of Iron, of course.
Deuteronomy 1:30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;	Deuteronomy 1:30 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.	Deuteronomy 1:31 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,	Deuteronomy 1:32 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.	Deuteronomy 1:33 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,	Deuteronomy 1:34 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.	Deuteronomy 1:35 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.	Deuteronomy 1:36 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.	Deuteronomy 1:37 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.	Deuteronomy 1:38 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.	Deuteronomy 1:39 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.	Deuteronomy 1:40 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.	Deuteronomy 1:41 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.	Deuteronomy 1:42 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.	Deuteronomy 1:43 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.	Deuteronomy 1:44 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.	Deuteronomy 1:45 Notes
Deuteronomy 1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.	Deuteronomy 1:46 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 2

Deuteronomy 2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.	Deuteronomy 2:1 Notes Mount Seir is a range of hills running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea. So (for once) the geography sort of makes sense.
Deuteronomy 2:2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,	Deuteronomy 2:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.	Deuteronomy 2:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:	Deuteronomy 2:4 Notes Esau was the brother of Jacob; they squabbled a lot and Esau went to live with the Ishmaelites in the mountains of Seir. But apparently God still has a certain fondness for Esau's descendents.
Deuteronomy 2:5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.	Deuteronomy 2:5 Notes God says you cannot kill these people, or take their land. Seemingly a first for the Almighty.
Deuteronomy 2:6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.	Deuteronomy 2:6 Notes This shows capitalism is divinely ordained.
Deuteronomy 2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.	Deuteronomy 2:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.	Deuteronomy 2:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.	Deuteronomy 2:9 Notes You can't fight the Moabites either.
Deuteronomy 2:10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;	Deuteronomy 2:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.	Deuteronomy 2:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.	Deuteronomy 2:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.	Deuteronomy 2:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.	Deuteronomy 2:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.	Deuteronomy 2:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,	Deuteronomy 2:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,	Deuteronomy 2:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:	Deuteronomy 2:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.	Deuteronomy 2:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;	Deuteronomy 2:20 Notes We now have three different terms for these giants, though this one is the coolest.
Deuteronomy 2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:	Deuteronomy 2:21 Notes This is one of the Bible verses people reference to support the myth that giants once existed on Earth. This belief is widespread in the folktales of humanity, and may suggest a primordial, Paleolithic origin for such myths.
Deuteronomy 2:22 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:	Deuteronomy 2:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)	Deuteronomy 2:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.	Deuteronomy 2:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.	Deuteronomy 2:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,	Deuteronomy 2:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.	Deuteronomy 2:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;	Deuteronomy 2:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.	Deuteronomy 2:29 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.	Deuteronomy 2:30 Notes Here you can see the same thing that was previously saw in Exodus 4:21 and in all the Book of Exodus: God hardens Sihon's heart so the Israelites can make war against him. Just how He did with the Pharaoh in order to cast the plagues on the Egyptians.
Deuteronomy 2:31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.	Deuteronomy 2:31 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.	Deuteronomy 2:32 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.	Deuteronomy 2:33 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:	Deuteronomy 2:34 Notes Yep, you read that right. Apparently discrimination isn't one of God's vices. Kill everyone equally, regardless of their age or gender, even the children. Clearly God is the source of all that is moral.
Deuteronomy 2:35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.	Deuteronomy 2:35 Notes There's a word for people like this; what was it again? Oh yeah, "vultures".
Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:	Deuteronomy 2:36 Notes
Deuteronomy 2:37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.	Deuteronomy 2:37 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 3

Deuteronomy 3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.	Deuteronomy 3:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:2 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.	Deuteronomy 3:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.	Deuteronomy 3:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.	Deuteronomy 3:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.	Deuteronomy 3:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.	Deuteronomy 3:6 Notes Divinely-ordained genocide, people. Hey, it's not immoral if God's doing it, right?
Deuteronomy 3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.	Deuteronomy 3:7 Notes Add theft to the long list of God's crimes. Hey, wait, doesn't this violate the Ten Commandments? Apparently God is selective when wanting to enforce his demands.
Deuteronomy 3:8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;	Deuteronomy 3:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)	Deuteronomy 3:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.	Deuteronomy 3:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.	Deuteronomy 3:11 Notes Equivalent of two King-sized beds one after another.
Deuteronomy 3:12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.	Deuteronomy 3:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.	Deuteronomy 3:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.	Deuteronomy 3:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.	Deuteronomy 3:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;	Deuteronomy 3:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.	Deuteronomy 3:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.	Deuteronomy 3:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;	Deuteronomy 3:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.	Deuteronomy 3:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.	Deuteronomy 3:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.	Deuteronomy 3:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,	Deuteronomy 3:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?	Deuteronomy 3:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.	Deuteronomy 3:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.	Deuteronomy 3:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.	Deuteronomy 3:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.	Deuteronomy 3:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.	Deuteronomy 3:29 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 4

Deuteronomy 4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.	Deuteronomy 4:1 Notes We've had the fun back-story of the journeys and battles, now comes the real meat of the book — lots of rules!
Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.	Deuteronomy 4:2 Notes Make note of this verse - useful if you think some Spacebook-type preacher isn't obeying the word of God. (And if he says "Old Testamane, doesn't count", use Matthew 5:17.)
Deuteronomy 4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.	Deuteronomy 4:3 Notes See also Numbers 25:1-15 and Heresy of Peor: basically lots of sex and worship of other gods.
Deuteronomy 4:4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.	Deuteronomy 4:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.	Deuteronomy 4:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.	Deuteronomy 4:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:7 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?	Deuteronomy 4:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?	Deuteronomy 4:8 Notes Egypt. Babylonia also codified laws, and Sumer got another set with the Code of Ur-Nammu. This is all before Israelites escaped from Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;	Deuteronomy 4:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.	Deuteronomy 4:10 Notes Moses recalls his volcano-worshipping adventure back in Exodus.
Deuteronomy 4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.	Deuteronomy 4:11 Notes More evidence that the God of the Israelites, Yahweh, was a volcano god.
Deuteronomy 4:12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.	Deuteronomy 4:12 Notes SHIRE ... BAGGINS ...
Deuteronomy 4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.	Deuteronomy 4:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.	Deuteronomy 4:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:	Deuteronomy 4:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,	Deuteronomy 4:16 Notes Catholics, take note.
Deuteronomy 4:17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,	Deuteronomy 4:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:	Deuteronomy 4:18 Notes 4:16-18 appear to ban artwork entirely. As noted in Exodus, this blanket prohibition is probably less about worshipping idols and more related to a fear of idols created in the likeness of living things becoming animated through magic, as with Semitic Golem myths.
Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.	Deuteronomy 4:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.	Deuteronomy 4:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:	Deuteronomy 4:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.	Deuteronomy 4:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.	Deuteronomy 4:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.	Deuteronomy 4:24 Notes God is made of fire and very jealous. Sounds vaguely familiar.
Deuteronomy 4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:	Deuteronomy 4:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.	Deuteronomy 4:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.	Deuteronomy 4:27 Notes Deuteronomy was written during the Babylonian Exodus, so this passage seems to "forewarn" of the exodus from Israel, and thereby painting the Exile as divine punishment from a raging supernatural toddler. Note that this passage was written with the benefit of hindsight, and so does not count as a true example of an accurate Biblical prophecy.
Deuteronomy 4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.	Deuteronomy 4:28 Notes At least the Bible tacitly admits that gods are man-made.
Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.	Deuteronomy 4:29 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;	Deuteronomy 4:30 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.	Deuteronomy 4:31 Notes Jealous, but merciful.
Deuteronomy 4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?	Deuteronomy 4:32 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?	Deuteronomy 4:33 Notes Yes, quite a lot of people have claimed they know how to make the local volcano not kill all of them over the years. It's kind of amusing how the "primitive" island tribe worshipping a volcano god that demands sacrifices has become a trope over the years, yet there's one doing it right here in the "enlightened" Bible.
Deuteronomy 4:34 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?	Deuteronomy 4:34 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.	Deuteronomy 4:35 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.	Deuteronomy 4:36 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;	Deuteronomy 4:37 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.	Deuteronomy 4:38 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.	Deuteronomy 4:39 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.	Deuteronomy 4:40 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:41 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;	Deuteronomy 4:41 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:	Deuteronomy 4:42 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:43 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.	Deuteronomy 4:43 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:	Deuteronomy 4:44 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt.	Deuteronomy 4:45 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:	Deuteronomy 4:46 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;	Deuteronomy 4:47 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:48 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,	Deuteronomy 4:48 Notes
Deuteronomy 4:49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.	Deuteronomy 4:49 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 5

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Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.	Deuteronomy 5:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.	Deuteronomy 5:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.	Deuteronomy 5:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,	Deuteronomy 5:4 Notes Further evidence for Yahweh being a volcano god.
Deuteronomy 5:5 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,	Deuteronomy 5:5 Notes No, you didn't actually hear or see him I did. I'm totally not making this up.
Deuteronomy 5:6 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.	Deuteronomy 5:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.	Deuteronomy 5:7 Notes This commandment implies that there are other gods out there, but Yahweh is greater than them all (monolatrism). Even though modern day Judaism is monotheistic, and by extension Islam (though see jinn), as well as (this is debatable, see the article on the Trinity for further details) Christianity, this verse was written at a time when the ancient Israelites were polytheistic, worshiping the Semitic pantheon (albeit the Canaanite version of the pan-Semitic pantheon), Yahweh even had a wife named Asherah (cognates of this deity include Ashur of the Akkadians, and Ishtar of the Babylonians, known as Astarte among the Greeks). The best the writers of Deuteronomy could hope for was to mandate that only Yahweh be worshiped (albeit in a way that implies that other gods can be worshiped alongside Yahweh, but none is greater than Him).
Deuteronomy 5:8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:	Deuteronomy 5:8 Notes Fundies, pay close attention to this.
Deuteronomy 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,	Deuteronomy 5:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.	Deuteronomy 5:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.	Deuteronomy 5:11 Notes This actually means that one should not swear an oath to Yahweh and fail to uphold that oath, it does not imply that yelling "Jesus Christ!" or any other form of blasphemy will get one in Hell. Hence why it says "in vain".
Deuteronomy 5:12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.	Deuteronomy 5:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:	Deuteronomy 5:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.	Deuteronomy 5:14 Notes Observe the Sabbath.
Deuteronomy 5:15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.	Deuteronomy 5:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.	Deuteronomy 5:16 Notes This has to be remembered that this was a culture that permitted parents to kill their children, so this should be taken as advice that if you obey your parents, then you might not get murdered by your parents.
Deuteronomy 5:17 Thou shalt not kill.	Deuteronomy 5:17 Notes Some idiots want to change the wording of the Commandment to "Thou Shalt Not Murder", in order to justify such thing as capital punishment and war. The debate lies over the fact that the original Hebrew word "ratsach" is ambiguous to an English speaker because in Hebrew a word can refer to many different things at once, while English doesn't. Therefore, unlike in English which has different words for different "styles" of killing, such as "murder", "killing", and "assassination", the Hebrew word "ratsach" refers to all of those things.
Deuteronomy 5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.	Deuteronomy 5:18 Notes A slight wording change from the original commandment. You'll note that the original Hebrew also has an additional letter.
Deuteronomy 5:19 Neither shalt thou steal.	Deuteronomy 5:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.	Deuteronomy 5:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.	Deuteronomy 5:21 Notes This is essentially outlawing a fundamental human emotion, that is jealousy (or for the stuck-up among us, envy). Envy is one of the six basic emotions, and everyone is jealous at least once in their lifetime, most likely way more, so this would be condemning every human to Hell as a result.
Deuteronomy 5:22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.	Deuteronomy 5:22 Notes Even more evidence that Yahweh is a volcano god.
Deuteronomy 5:23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;	Deuteronomy 5:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.	Deuteronomy 5:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.	Deuteronomy 5:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?	Deuteronomy 5:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.	Deuteronomy 5:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.	Deuteronomy 5:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!	Deuteronomy 5:29 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.	Deuteronomy 5:30 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.	Deuteronomy 5:31 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.	Deuteronomy 5:32 Notes
Deuteronomy 5:33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.	Deuteronomy 5:33 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 6

Deuteronomy 6:1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:	Deuteronomy 6:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.	Deuteronomy 6:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.	Deuteronomy 6:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:	Deuteronomy 6:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.	Deuteronomy 6:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:	Deuteronomy 6:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.	Deuteronomy 6:7 Notes This is known as developing an obsession — modern society considers that dysfunctional, especially as it would interfere with normal work.
Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.	Deuteronomy 6:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.	Deuteronomy 6:9 Notes So this was apparently written everywhere, just in case you forget.
Deuteronomy 6:10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,	Deuteronomy 6:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:11 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;	Deuteronomy 6:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.	Deuteronomy 6:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.	Deuteronomy 6:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;	Deuteronomy 6:14 Notes Even more evidence that other gods than Yahweh exist. As stated above, this was written at a time when the ancient Israelites were still polytheists, so the best the writers of Deuteronomy could hope for was henotheism.
Deuteronomy 6:15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.	Deuteronomy 6:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:16 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.	Deuteronomy 6:16 Notes Matthew 4:7 refers back to this.
Deuteronomy 6:17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.	Deuteronomy 6:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers.	Deuteronomy 6:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.	Deuteronomy 6:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:20 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?	Deuteronomy 6:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:	Deuteronomy 6:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:	Deuteronomy 6:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.	Deuteronomy 6:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.	Deuteronomy 6:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.	Deuteronomy 6:25 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 7

Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;	Deuteronomy 7:1 Notes This chapter sets out how the Israelites are the chosen people, most beloved by God.
Deuteronomy 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:	Deuteronomy 7:2 Notes Biblical genocide! Because God is the source of all morality.
Deuteronomy 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.	Deuteronomy 7:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.	Deuteronomy 7:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.	Deuteronomy 7:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.	Deuteronomy 7:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:	Deuteronomy 7:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.	Deuteronomy 7:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;	Deuteronomy 7:9 Notes 1000 × 20 = 20,000 years. Unless you believe Harold Camping, in which case 3500 years / 1000 generations = childbirth at 3.5 years.
Deuteronomy 7:10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.	Deuteronomy 7:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.	Deuteronomy 7:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:	Deuteronomy 7:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.	Deuteronomy 7:13 Notes Corn here means wheat, rather than maize.
Deuteronomy 7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.	Deuteronomy 7:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.	Deuteronomy 7:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.	Deuteronomy 7:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?	Deuteronomy 7:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;	Deuteronomy 7:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.	Deuteronomy 7:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.	Deuteronomy 7:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.	Deuteronomy 7:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.	Deuteronomy 7:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.	Deuteronomy 7:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.	Deuteronomy 7:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 7:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 7:26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.	Deuteronomy 7:26 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 8

Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.	Deuteronomy 8:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.	Deuteronomy 8:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.	Deuteronomy 8:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.	Deuteronomy 8:4 Notes God made sure nobody got blisters for 40 years.
Deuteronomy 8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.	Deuteronomy 8:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.	Deuteronomy 8:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;	Deuteronomy 8:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;	Deuteronomy 8:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.	Deuteronomy 8:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.	Deuteronomy 8:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:	Deuteronomy 8:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;	Deuteronomy 8:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;	Deuteronomy 8:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;	Deuteronomy 8:14 Notes Tee hee, house of bondage
Deuteronomy 8:15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;	Deuteronomy 8:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;	Deuteronomy 8:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.	Deuteronomy 8:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.	Deuteronomy 8:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.	Deuteronomy 8:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 8:20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.	Deuteronomy 8:20 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 9

Deuteronomy 9:1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,	Deuteronomy 9:1 Notes After having told the Israelites that they're the chosen people, Moses now tells them how awful they were.
Deuteronomy 9:2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!	Deuteronomy 9:2 Notes The Anakim were one of several races of Biblical giants; they supposedly lived near Hebron or in Edom and Moab.
Deuteronomy 9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.	Deuteronomy 9:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.	Deuteronomy 9:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.	Deuteronomy 9:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.	Deuteronomy 9:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.	Deuteronomy 9:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.	Deuteronomy 9:8 Notes Mount Horeb was where Moses received the Ten Commandments (although other parts of the Bible have these events happening at Mount Sinai, so people don't really know where Horeb was or if it was the same or different to Sinai). According to the Biblical narrative, while Moses was off writing collecting the Commandments, the Israelites were very much of the opinion that when the cat's away the mice will play, the cat being Moses.
Deuteronomy 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:	Deuteronomy 9:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.	Deuteronomy 9:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.	Deuteronomy 9:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.	Deuteronomy 9:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:	Deuteronomy 9:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.	Deuteronomy 9:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.	Deuteronomy 9:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.	Deuteronomy 9:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.	Deuteronomy 9:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.	Deuteronomy 9:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.	Deuteronomy 9:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.	Deuteronomy 9:20 Notes Wait a second, if the Lard Lord was angry with Aaron, how come Aaron and his sons got to become the priestly caste of the ancient Jews, while the people who conducted the ceremony got off, and Aaron, the guy who led the damn thing, not only got away scot-free but was rewarded for his efforts. Apparently internal consistency wasn't something the writers of this book of lies, atrocities, half-truths, and abominations heard of.
Deuteronomy 9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.	Deuteronomy 9:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.	Deuteronomy 9:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.	Deuteronomy 9:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.	Deuteronomy 9:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.	Deuteronomy 9:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.	Deuteronomy 9:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:	Deuteronomy 9:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.	Deuteronomy 9:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 9:29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.	Deuteronomy 9:29 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 10

Deuteronomy 10:1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.	Deuteronomy 10:1 Notes See the main article on this topic: Ark of the Covenant Unlike Exodus, the replacment tables aren't re-described.
Deuteronomy 10:2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.	Deuteronomy 10:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.	Deuteronomy 10:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.	Deuteronomy 10:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.	Deuteronomy 10:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.	Deuteronomy 10:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.	Deuteronomy 10:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.	Deuteronomy 10:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.	Deuteronomy 10:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.	Deuteronomy 10:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.	Deuteronomy 10:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,	Deuteronomy 10:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?	Deuteronomy 10:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.	Deuteronomy 10:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.	Deuteronomy 10:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.	Deuteronomy 10:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:	Deuteronomy 10:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.	Deuteronomy 10:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.	Deuteronomy 10:19 Notes Take notes, Israel...
Deuteronomy 10:20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.	Deuteronomy 10:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.	Deuteronomy 10:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.	Deuteronomy 10:22 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 11

Deuteronomy 11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.	Deuteronomy 11:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,	Deuteronomy 11:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;	Deuteronomy 11:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;	Deuteronomy 11:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;	Deuteronomy 11:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:	Deuteronomy 11:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.	Deuteronomy 11:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;	Deuteronomy 11:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.	Deuteronomy 11:9 Notes Sounds rather sticky.
Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:	Deuteronomy 11:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:	Deuteronomy 11:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.	Deuteronomy 11:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,	Deuteronomy 11:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.	Deuteronomy 11:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.	Deuteronomy 11:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;	Deuteronomy 11:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:17 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.	Deuteronomy 11:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.	Deuteronomy 11:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.	Deuteronomy 11:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:	Deuteronomy 11:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.	Deuteronomy 11:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;	Deuteronomy 11:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.	Deuteronomy 11:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.	Deuteronomy 11:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.	Deuteronomy 11:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;	Deuteronomy 11:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:	Deuteronomy 11:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.	Deuteronomy 11:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.	Deuteronomy 11:29 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?	Deuteronomy 11:30 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.	Deuteronomy 11:31 Notes
Deuteronomy 11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.	Deuteronomy 11:32 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 12

Deuteronomy 12:1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.	Deuteronomy 12:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:	Deuteronomy 12:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.	Deuteronomy 12:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.	Deuteronomy 12:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:	Deuteronomy 12:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:	Deuteronomy 12:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.	Deuteronomy 12:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.	Deuteronomy 12:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.	Deuteronomy 12:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:10 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;	Deuteronomy 12:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:	Deuteronomy 12:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.	Deuteronomy 12:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:	Deuteronomy 12:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.	Deuteronomy 12:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.	Deuteronomy 12:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.	Deuteronomy 12:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:	Deuteronomy 12:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.	Deuteronomy 12:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.	Deuteronomy 12:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.	Deuteronomy 12:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.	Deuteronomy 12:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.	Deuteronomy 12:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.	Deuteronomy 12:23 Notes The repetition is starting to get old
Deuteronomy 12:24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.	Deuteronomy 12:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.	Deuteronomy 12:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:	Deuteronomy 12:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.	Deuteronomy 12:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 12:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;	Deuteronomy 12:29 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.	Deuteronomy 12:30 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.	Deuteronomy 12:31 Notes
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.	Deuteronomy 12:32 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 13

Deuteronomy 13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,	Deuteronomy 13:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;	Deuteronomy 13:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.	Deuteronomy 13:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.	Deuteronomy 13:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.	Deuteronomy 13:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;	Deuteronomy 13:6 Notes Some have used this verse against atheism. Yet, they don't apply it to worshiping Jesus instead of the God described in the Old Testament (which requires burnt offerings). Meanwhile, this passage concerning non-believers is the odd one out. The opposite statement "Love thy neighbor as thyself." is first shown in Leviticus 19:18, and appears sporadically until James 2:8.
Deuteronomy 13:7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;	Deuteronomy 13:7 Notes This verse demonstrates that the authors of Deuteronomy, as those of Genesis, thought that the Earth was flat, specifically, a flat surface surrounded by a glass dome (a.k.a., the firmament) that had holes in it that let water pour into the "interior" of the dome, thus "explaining" rain. There are no ends of the Earth, saying that there are "ends of the Earth" is like saying something is "North of the North Pole", it's wrong. Funny how a supposedly omniscient god would only have knowledge that reflects the knowledge of Iron Age goat-herders rather than the truly accurate knowledge we have now.
Deuteronomy 13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:	Deuteronomy 13:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.	Deuteronomy 13:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.	Deuteronomy 13:10 Notes Truly progressive policy concerning the freedom of religion during Biblical times. This is just one of many instances where the death penalty is applied to seemingly innocuous things such as preaching a religion different from the one the theocrats who rule you adhere to, or a child disobeying their parents, or eating shrimp. Why do some people think that the Bible is the source of all morality, again?
Deuteronomy 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.	Deuteronomy 13:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,	Deuteronomy 13:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;	Deuteronomy 13:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;	Deuteronomy 13:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.	Deuteronomy 13:15 Notes God endorses genocide. This is more the work of a petty, vindictive, malevolent bully than a truly peaceful and all-loving hero, like Jesus Christ or Superman. So much for the Bible being the source of all morality, or even a guide to morality at all, unless one's morality is akin to a toddler.
Deuteronomy 13:16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.	Deuteronomy 13:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;	Deuteronomy 13:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 13:18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 13:18 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 14

Deuteronomy 14:1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.	Deuteronomy 14:1 Notes God doesn't feel like putting up with your emo crap. Shaving a bald patch between the eyebrows (or perhaps on the forehead) was apparently a sign of lamentation for the dead.
Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.	Deuteronomy 14:2 Notes God's an ethnocentric racist.
Deuteronomy 14:3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.	Deuteronomy 14:3 Notes Until Deuteronomy 14:23, this is a restatement of the diet starting at Leviticus 11:1.
Deuteronomy 14:4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,	Deuteronomy 14:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.	Deuteronomy 14:5 Notes Pygarg is assumed to be a type of antelope, chamois are also antelope.
Deuteronomy 14:6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.	Deuteronomy 14:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.	Deuteronomy 14:7 Notes Hares don't have hooves, nor do they chew their cud. So much for infallibility.
Deuteronomy 14:8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.	Deuteronomy 14:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:	Deuteronomy 14:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.	Deuteronomy 14:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.	Deuteronomy 14:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,	Deuteronomy 14:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,	Deuteronomy 14:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:14 And every raven after his kind,	Deuteronomy 14:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,	Deuteronomy 14:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,	Deuteronomy 14:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,	Deuteronomy 14:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.	Deuteronomy 14:18 Notes The Bible states that bats are birds. At least they weren't called bugs.
Deuteronomy 14:19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.	Deuteronomy 14:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.	Deuteronomy 14:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.	Deuteronomy 14:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.	Deuteronomy 14:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.	Deuteronomy 14:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:	Deuteronomy 14:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:	Deuteronomy 14:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,	Deuteronomy 14:26 Notes Because God forbid that God, I mean, the priesthood, get a real job and work like everyone else.
Deuteronomy 14:27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.	Deuteronomy 14:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:	Deuteronomy 14:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 14:29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.	Deuteronomy 14:29 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 15

Deuteronomy 15:1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.	Deuteronomy 15:1 Notes The so-called Lord's Release granted release from debt every 7 years; it's not entirely clear if this was permanent or temporary, but it only applied to Israelites not debts of foreigners.
Deuteronomy 15:2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.	Deuteronomy 15:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;	Deuteronomy 15:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:	Deuteronomy 15:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.	Deuteronomy 15:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.	Deuteronomy 15:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:	Deuteronomy 15:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.	Deuteronomy 15:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.	Deuteronomy 15:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.	Deuteronomy 15:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.	Deuteronomy 15:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.	Deuteronomy 15:12 Notes If you're a Hebrew and you're a slave, you can go free after a certain number of years, if you're not a Hebrew and you're a slave, well, tough luck.
Deuteronomy 15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:	Deuteronomy 15:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.	Deuteronomy 15:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.	Deuteronomy 15:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;	Deuteronomy 15:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.	Deuteronomy 15:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.	Deuteronomy 15:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.	Deuteronomy 15:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.	Deuteronomy 15:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 15:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.	Deuteronomy 15:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.	Deuteronomy 15:23 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 16

Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.	Deuteronomy 16:1 Notes Abib, Aviv, or Nisan is the month in March-April which includes Passover.
Deuteronomy 16:2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.	Deuteronomy 16:2 Notes Leviticus 23:5-8 and Deuteronomy 16:2-6 are read during the Jewish holiday of Passover.
Deuteronomy 16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.	Deuteronomy 16:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.	Deuteronomy 16:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:	Deuteronomy 16:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:6 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.	Deuteronomy 16:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.	Deuteronomy 16:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.	Deuteronomy 16:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.	Deuteronomy 16:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:	Deuteronomy 16:10 Notes Exodus 34:22, Deuteronomy 16:10, and Numbers 28:26 are read during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
Deuteronomy 16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.	Deuteronomy 16:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.	Deuteronomy 16:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:	Deuteronomy 16:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.	Deuteronomy 16:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.	Deuteronomy 16:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:	Deuteronomy 16:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.	Deuteronomy 16:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.	Deuteronomy 16:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.	Deuteronomy 16:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.	Deuteronomy 16:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.	Deuteronomy 16:21 Notes This likely refers to the groves that were planted in honor of the goddess Asherah, formerly Yahweh's wife as mentioned above.
Deuteronomy 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.	Deuteronomy 16:22 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 17

Deuteronomy 17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 17:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,	Deuteronomy 17:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;	Deuteronomy 17:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:	Deuteronomy 17:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.	Deuteronomy 17:5 Notes Worship another god? Death to you!
Deuteronomy 17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.	Deuteronomy 17:6 Notes But they do have some standards: two witnesses are required before you're STONED TO DEATH!
Deuteronomy 17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.	Deuteronomy 17:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;	Deuteronomy 17:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:	Deuteronomy 17:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:	Deuteronomy 17:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.	Deuteronomy 17:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.	Deuteronomy 17:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.	Deuteronomy 17:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;	Deuteronomy 17:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.	Deuteronomy 17:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.	Deuteronomy 17:16 Notes Some literal readings imply the king should have exactly 1 horse — and a few verses later, have exactly 1 gold coin.
Deuteronomy 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.	Deuteronomy 17:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:	Deuteronomy 17:18 Notes This is one of the first mentions about restricting polygamy. However, earlier patriarchs were polygamous, even if it was using a slave within the household.
Deuteronomy 17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:	Deuteronomy 17:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.	Deuteronomy 17:20 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 18

Deuteronomy 18:1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.	Deuteronomy 18:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.	Deuteronomy 18:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.	Deuteronomy 18:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.	Deuteronomy 18:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.	Deuteronomy 18:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;	Deuteronomy 18:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.	Deuteronomy 18:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.	Deuteronomy 18:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.	Deuteronomy 18:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.	Deuteronomy 18:10 Notes Ezekiel 20:26 would like to have a word. So would Judges 11:29-40.
Deuteronomy 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.	Deuteronomy 18:11 Notes Hey, all you channellers, mediums and Harry Potter wannabes, get up on the wagon with all the carnie sideshow fortune tellers from verse 10. Bye bye Lisa Williams, Robin Foy, Bruce Siegel and all the rest of you ghost whisperers. Perhaps we should dig up Sylvia Browne's remains and send them out of the country too, just for good measure? As noted in Exodus 22:18, this is contradicted in 1 Samuel 28:7 when Saul uses the services of a witch to contact the dead Samuel.
Deuteronomy 18:12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.	Deuteronomy 18:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 18:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.	Deuteronomy 18:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;	Deuteronomy 18:15 Notes Some Muslims believe this verse prophesied the coming of Muhammad.
Deuteronomy 18:16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.	Deuteronomy 18:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.	Deuteronomy 18:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.	Deuteronomy 18:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.	Deuteronomy 18:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.	Deuteronomy 18:20 Notes See 18:22 below. Don't forget to add the likes of Harold Camping, David Meade, and others.
Deuteronomy 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?	Deuteronomy 18:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.	Deuteronomy 18:22 Notes This leaves us with a remarkably long list of false prophets whom God seemingly forgot to off. See these examples.
Deuteronomy 19:1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;	Deuteronomy 19:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.	Deuteronomy 19:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.	Deuteronomy 19:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;	Deuteronomy 19:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:	Deuteronomy 19:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.	Deuteronomy 19:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.	Deuteronomy 19:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;	Deuteronomy 19:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:	Deuteronomy 19:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.	Deuteronomy 19:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:	Deuteronomy 19:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.	Deuteronomy 19:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.	Deuteronomy 19:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.	Deuteronomy 19:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.	Deuteronomy 19:15 Notes Most mainstream Christian sects interpret this as sensible advice about the reliability of witness testimony, but Mormons take this to an...interesting level with their Law of Witnesses.
Deuteronomy 19:16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;	Deuteronomy 19:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;	Deuteronomy 19:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;	Deuteronomy 19:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.	Deuteronomy 19:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.	Deuteronomy 19:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.	Deuteronomy 19:21 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 20 (Rules of War)

Deuteronomy 20:1 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.	Deuteronomy 20:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,	Deuteronomy 20:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;	Deuteronomy 20:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.	Deuteronomy 20:4 Notes Except if the enemy has iron chariots.
Deuteronomy 20:5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.	Deuteronomy 20:5 Notes Exclusions from military duty for those with new houses, new wives, and new wine. The rest get to pillage and murder.
Deuteronomy 20:6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.	Deuteronomy 20:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.	Deuteronomy 20:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.	Deuteronomy 20:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.	Deuteronomy 20:9 Notes Apparently the captains weren't appointed before this point.
Deuteronomy 20:10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.	Deuteronomy 20:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.	Deuteronomy 20:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:	Deuteronomy 20:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:	Deuteronomy 20:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.	Deuteronomy 20:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.	Deuteronomy 20:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:	Deuteronomy 20:16 Notes Shining example of morality, what with God ordering his followers to commit genocide...oh, wait.
Deuteronomy 20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:	Deuteronomy 20:17 Notes The people of Canaan were not annihilated as this passage indicates, but instead they left many descendants according to DNA evidence.
Deuteronomy 20:18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.	Deuteronomy 20:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:	Deuteronomy 20:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 20:20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.	Deuteronomy 20:20 Notes Despite this, you don't see any bacon trees or ham bushes. The term "meat" appears in the KJV and few other translations; other translations use fruit, or the general word "food". While God clearly approves of circumvallations, the status of contravallations is left unclear by this verse.

Deuteronomy Chapter 21

Deuteronomy 21:1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:	Deuteronomy 21:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:	Deuteronomy 21:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;	Deuteronomy 21:3 Notes Munchkins would travel far away from their own city, commit murder, then return.
Deuteronomy 21:4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:	Deuteronomy 21:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:	Deuteronomy 21:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:	Deuteronomy 21:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.	Deuteronomy 21:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.	Deuteronomy 21:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.	Deuteronomy 21:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,	Deuteronomy 21:10 Notes Here begins one of the most disturbing passages in the whole bible
Deuteronomy 21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;	Deuteronomy 21:11 Notes So if the woman is hawt...
Deuteronomy 21:12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;	Deuteronomy 21:12 Notes ...force her into your home and shave her head...
Deuteronomy 21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.	Deuteronomy 21:13 Notes …strip her naked… In Eastern cultures, the women would wear their best clothing to inspire the soldiers before they (the men) went off to battle. This outfit gets burnt and the woman gets a new set of clothes. She is allowed to mourn for a month, while trapped in your home, in which case you'd notice if she was pregnant. After the month (at which point despair or Stockholm syndrome has set in), no need for wedding ceremony, if you still want her, go rape her.
Deuteronomy 21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.	Deuteronomy 21:14 Notes But if you decide you don't want her anymore, e.g., you discover she's pregnant, or maybe the Stockholm hasn't taken, boot her out of your home. You can't sell her into slavery, but this is ancient times when women couldn't own property or work, so basically she's now a prostitute for everyone to use.
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:	Deuteronomy 21:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:	Deuteronomy 21:16 Notes Unless that man was Abraham, the beloved was Sarah and Isaac, and the hated Hagar and Ishmael. Then they are shit out of luck. So what was this about Abraham following everything in the bible before the bible was given?
Deuteronomy 21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.	Deuteronomy 21:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:	Deuteronomy 21:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;	Deuteronomy 21:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.	Deuteronomy 21:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.	Deuteronomy 21:21 Notes The lack of age limit here would seem to indicate that the terrible twos could be lethal.
Deuteronomy 21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:	Deuteronomy 21:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 21:23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.	Deuteronomy 21:23 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 22

Deuteronomy 22:1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.	Deuteronomy 22:1 Notes Don't be hiding your brother's shit. That's mean.
Deuteronomy 22:2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.	Deuteronomy 22:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.	Deuteronomy 22:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.	Deuteronomy 22:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 22:5 Notes One would think this meant that women should therefore not wear pants, and Scotsmen should therefore not wear kilts. However, there are no specific details regarding "that which parteith of a man" or "that which parteith of a woman," so logically it is cultural. Therefore, pants are OK for women now since they are now both "that which parteith of a man" and "that which parteith of a woman". Same goes for kilts. Alternatively, one could interpret it as that neither gender could wear either since they are associated with the opposite and not just the individuals. So in other words Deuteronomy is very confusing when it comes to unisex garments.
Deuteronomy 22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:	Deuteronomy 22:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.	Deuteronomy 22:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.	Deuteronomy 22:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.	Deuteronomy 22:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.	Deuteronomy 22:10 Notes This is a bit of a mysterious rule, which leads to the suggestion that it's metaphorical: don't yoke disparate things together. It's even considered by some as a prohibition on interracial marriage, or a lesson that the Israelites should keep apart from other people.
Deuteronomy 22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.	Deuteronomy 22:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.	Deuteronomy 22:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,	Deuteronomy 22:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:	Deuteronomy 22:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:	Deuteronomy 22:15 Notes The "token of virginity" was the bloody sheet from the wedding night (privacy wasn't really a thing back then, or washing machines). So just imagine your parents running in the street with a bloody sheet!
Deuteronomy 22:16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;	Deuteronomy 22:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.	Deuteronomy 22:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;	Deuteronomy 22:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.	Deuteronomy 22:19 Notes Whoa, whoa, hold on there, Moses, are you saying that rape is a prelude to matrimony? You hear that, kiddos? If you want to have a wife, all you have to do is rape her and pay a fine, and she's yours, forever, and there's nothing she can do about it.
Deuteronomy 22:20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:	Deuteronomy 22:20 Notes “Tokens of virginity” refers to bloody sheets, presumably from tearing the hymen. However, hymens don’t work that way.
Deuteronomy 22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.	Deuteronomy 22:21 Notes So you're gonna stone someone for simply being a rape victim? Sounds legit. Just to clarify, according to the Bible it's only adultery if the woman does it, if a man cheats on his wife it's technically not adultery, the woman he's banging may just become another one of his wives, or concubines, or one of his slaves.
Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.	Deuteronomy 22:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;	Deuteronomy 22:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.	Deuteronomy 22:24 Notes Punishment for being raped in the city. Note the Bible assumes that there will always be someone available to help, which doesn't apply in modern Western society. There is also no exception made for cases where the woman was unable to cry out for help, whether because the rapist physically prevented her from doing so, threatened her, or simply knocked her out.
Deuteronomy 22:25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.	Deuteronomy 22:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:	Deuteronomy 22:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.	Deuteronomy 22:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;	Deuteronomy 22:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.	Deuteronomy 22:29 Notes Punishment for being raped as an unbetrothed virgin. While not an explicit approval of pedophilia, there is no minimum age here or anywhere else in the Bible.
Deuteronomy 22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.	Deuteronomy 22:30 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 23

Deuteronomy 23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.	Deuteronomy 23:1 Notes Eunuchs can’t enter the “congregation of the LORD.” However, other parts of the Bible say otherwise.
Deuteronomy 23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.	Deuteronomy 23:2 Notes Generational curse.
Deuteronomy 23:3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:	Deuteronomy 23:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.	Deuteronomy 23:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.	Deuteronomy 23:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.	Deuteronomy 23:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.	Deuteronomy 23:7 Notes This contradicts passages where Goat God tells his followers to butcher anyone who's not a Hebrew, and that non-Hebrews are less than human.
Deuteronomy 23:8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.	Deuteronomy 23:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.	Deuteronomy 23:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:	Deuteronomy 23:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.	Deuteronomy 23:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:	Deuteronomy 23:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:	Deuteronomy 23:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.	Deuteronomy 23:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:	Deuteronomy 23:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.	Deuteronomy 23:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.	Deuteronomy 23:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 23:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:	Deuteronomy 23:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.	Deuteronomy 23:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.	Deuteronomy 23:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.	Deuteronomy 23:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.	Deuteronomy 23:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:24 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.	Deuteronomy 23:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 23:25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.	Deuteronomy 23:25 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 24

Deuteronomy 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.	Deuteronomy 24:1 Notes Rules for divorce, which is perfectly OK if a man doesn't like his wife.
Deuteronomy 24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.	Deuteronomy 24:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;	Deuteronomy 24:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.	Deuteronomy 24:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.	Deuteronomy 24:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.	Deuteronomy 24:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.	Deuteronomy 24:7 Notes This suggests that only enslavement of Israelites by Israelites is a crime. See slavery in the Bible for other such passages.
Deuteronomy 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.	Deuteronomy 24:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.	Deuteronomy 24:9 Notes Miriam was Moses's sister; she criticised him according to different accounts either for marrying Zipporah (aka Tzipora), or for neglecting her. As a result she was punished for not respecting Moses and God.
Deuteronomy 24:10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.	Deuteronomy 24:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.	Deuteronomy 24:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:	Deuteronomy 24:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 24:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:	Deuteronomy 24:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.	Deuteronomy 24:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.	Deuteronomy 24:16 Notes Except for Adam of course. It’s perfectly okay to put Adam’s children (and the rest of his descendants) to death for Adam’s sin
Deuteronomy 24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:	Deuteronomy 24:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.	Deuteronomy 24:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.	Deuteronomy 24:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.	Deuteronomy 24:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.	Deuteronomy 24:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 24:22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.	Deuteronomy 24:22 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 25

Deuteronomy 25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.	Deuteronomy 25:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.	Deuteronomy 25:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.	Deuteronomy 25:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.	Deuteronomy 25:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.	Deuteronomy 25:5 Notes Continuing the fact that there isn't a single consensual marriage in the Bible, here we have the instruction that again negates women's rights. In this case, that she can be forced to marry the brother of her recently-departed husband.
Deuteronomy 25:6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.	Deuteronomy 25:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.	Deuteronomy 25:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;	Deuteronomy 25:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.	Deuteronomy 25:9 Notes However should her brother-in-law not wish to marry her, there is a suggestion as to how to address the issue (endorsed by the omniscient creator of the universe). Namely, that the wife should take off the brother's shoe and spit in his face. Problem solved: Iron-age style! Imagine the passing of sentence in a modern-day court of law: "I find the defendant guilty and order the plaintiff to remove the defendant's shoe and then spit in his face"?
Deuteronomy 25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.	Deuteronomy 25:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:	Deuteronomy 25:11 Notes One of the stranger and probably least useful of all edicts: namely that if a woman tries to help her husband and accidentally touches the junk of a man who is fighting with her husband then the woman's hand must be cut off. WTF?!?!?. Just once I'd like a church to display this one on their sign facing the street or for someone to hold up a "Deuteronomy 25:11-12" sign at the golf. Could there be any greater proof that the buy-bull is nothing more than the collected writings of superstitious and ignorant Iron-age men?
Deuteronomy 25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.	Deuteronomy 25:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.	Deuteronomy 25:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.	Deuteronomy 25:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.	Deuteronomy 25:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 25:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;	Deuteronomy 25:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.	Deuteronomy 25:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.	Deuteronomy 25:19 Notes We have here two of the 613 commandments: “ wipe out the memory of Amalek” and  “not to forget Amalek's atrocities and ambush on our journey from Egypt in the desert”. The first one has been described as genocidal by the Stanford historian Norman Naimark.

Deuteronomy Chapter 26

Deuteronomy 26:1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;	Deuteronomy 26:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.	Deuteronomy 26:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.	Deuteronomy 26:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 26:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:	Deuteronomy 26:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:	Deuteronomy 26:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:	Deuteronomy 26:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:	Deuteronomy 26:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.	Deuteronomy 26:9 Notes And the way He gave you this "land of milk and honey" was to mercilessly butcher the people that already lived there.
Deuteronomy 26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:	Deuteronomy 26:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.	Deuteronomy 26:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;	Deuteronomy 26:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.	Deuteronomy 26:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.	Deuteronomy 26:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.	Deuteronomy 26:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.	Deuteronomy 26:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:	Deuteronomy 26:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;	Deuteronomy 26:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 26:19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.	Deuteronomy 26:19 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 27 (Mount Ebal)

Deuteronomy 27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.	Deuteronomy 27:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:	Deuteronomy 27:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.	Deuteronomy 27:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.	Deuteronomy 27:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.	Deuteronomy 27:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:	Deuteronomy 27:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 27:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.	Deuteronomy 27:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 27:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.	Deuteronomy 27:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,	Deuteronomy 27:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:	Deuteronomy 27:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.	Deuteronomy 27:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,	Deuteronomy 27:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:15 Notes You hear that, Catholics? Art of any kind is illegal.
Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.	Deuteronomy 27:26 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 28 (Obedience)

Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:	Deuteronomy 28:1 Notes This passage is later contradicted in the Book of Job. Deuteronomy 28:1-14 is part of the prosperity gospel.
Deuteronomy 28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 28:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.	Deuteronomy 28:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.	Deuteronomy 28:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.	Deuteronomy 28:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.	Deuteronomy 28:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.	Deuteronomy 28:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.	Deuteronomy 28:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.	Deuteronomy 28:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.	Deuteronomy 28:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.	Deuteronomy 28:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.	Deuteronomy 28:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:	Deuteronomy 28:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.	Deuteronomy 28:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:	Deuteronomy 28:15 Notes Thus begins a long list of punishments, continuing until Deuteronomy 28:68.
Deuteronomy 28:16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.	Deuteronomy 28:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.	Deuteronomy 28:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.	Deuteronomy 28:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.	Deuteronomy 28:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.	Deuteronomy 28:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.	Deuteronomy 28:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.	Deuteronomy 28:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.	Deuteronomy 28:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.	Deuteronomy 28:24 Notes Yet another clue to indicate the God of the Bible is a volcano god.
Deuteronomy 28:25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.	Deuteronomy 28:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.	Deuteronomy 28:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.	Deuteronomy 28:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:	Deuteronomy 28:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.	Deuteronomy 28:29 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.	Deuteronomy 28:30 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.	Deuteronomy 28:31 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.	Deuteronomy 28:32 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:	Deuteronomy 28:33 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.	Deuteronomy 28:34 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.	Deuteronomy 28:35 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.	Deuteronomy 28:36 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.	Deuteronomy 28:37 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.	Deuteronomy 28:38 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.	Deuteronomy 28:39 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.	Deuteronomy 28:40 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.	Deuteronomy 28:41 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.	Deuteronomy 28:42 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.	Deuteronomy 28:43 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.	Deuteronomy 28:44 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:	Deuteronomy 28:45 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.	Deuteronomy 28:46 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;	Deuteronomy 28:47 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.	Deuteronomy 28:48 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;	Deuteronomy 28:49 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:	Deuteronomy 28:50 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.	Deuteronomy 28:51 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.	Deuteronomy 28:52 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:	Deuteronomy 28:53 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:	Deuteronomy 28:54 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.	Deuteronomy 28:55 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,	Deuteronomy 28:56 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.	Deuteronomy 28:57 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;	Deuteronomy 28:58 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.	Deuteronomy 28:59 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.	Deuteronomy 28:60 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.	Deuteronomy 28:61 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.	Deuteronomy 28:62 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.	Deuteronomy 28:63 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.	Deuteronomy 28:64 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:	Deuteronomy 28:65 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:	Deuteronomy 28:66 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.	Deuteronomy 28:67 Notes
Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.	Deuteronomy 28:68 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.	Deuteronomy 29:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;	Deuteronomy 29:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:	Deuteronomy 29:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.	Deuteronomy 29:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.	Deuteronomy 29:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.	Deuteronomy 29:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:	Deuteronomy 29:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.	Deuteronomy 29:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.	Deuteronomy 29:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,	Deuteronomy 29:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:	Deuteronomy 29:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:	Deuteronomy 29:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.	Deuteronomy 29:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;	Deuteronomy 29:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:	Deuteronomy 29:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;	Deuteronomy 29:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)	Deuteronomy 29:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;	Deuteronomy 29:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:	Deuteronomy 29:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.	Deuteronomy 29:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:	Deuteronomy 29:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;	Deuteronomy 29:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:	Deuteronomy 29:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?	Deuteronomy 29:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:	Deuteronomy 29:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:	Deuteronomy 29:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:	Deuteronomy 29:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.	Deuteronomy 29:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.	Deuteronomy 29:29 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 30

Deuteronomy 30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,	Deuteronomy 30:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;	Deuteronomy 30:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.	Deuteronomy 30:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:	Deuteronomy 30:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.	Deuteronomy 30:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.	Deuteronomy 30:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.	Deuteronomy 30:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.	Deuteronomy 30:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:	Deuteronomy 30:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.	Deuteronomy 30:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.	Deuteronomy 30:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?	Deuteronomy 30:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?	Deuteronomy 30:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.	Deuteronomy 30:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;	Deuteronomy 30:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.	Deuteronomy 30:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;	Deuteronomy 30:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.	Deuteronomy 30:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:	Deuteronomy 30:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.	Deuteronomy 30:20 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 31

Deuteronomy 31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.	Deuteronomy 31:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.	Deuteronomy 31:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.	Deuteronomy 31:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.	Deuteronomy 31:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.	Deuteronomy 31:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.	Deuteronomy 31:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.	Deuteronomy 31:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.	Deuteronomy 31:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.	Deuteronomy 31:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,	Deuteronomy 31:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.	Deuteronomy 31:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:12 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:	Deuteronomy 31:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.	Deuteronomy 31:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.	Deuteronomy 31:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.	Deuteronomy 31:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.	Deuteronomy 31:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?	Deuteronomy 31:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.	Deuteronomy 31:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.	Deuteronomy 31:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.	Deuteronomy 31:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.	Deuteronomy 31:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.	Deuteronomy 31:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.	Deuteronomy 31:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,	Deuteronomy 31:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,	Deuteronomy 31:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.	Deuteronomy 31:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?	Deuteronomy 31:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.	Deuteronomy 31:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.	Deuteronomy 31:29 Notes
Deuteronomy 31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.	Deuteronomy 31:30 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 32 (Song of Moses)

Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.	Deuteronomy 32:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:	Deuteronomy 32:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.	Deuteronomy 32:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.	Deuteronomy 32:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.	Deuteronomy 32:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?	Deuteronomy 32:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.	Deuteronomy 32:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.	Deuteronomy 32:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.	Deuteronomy 32:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.	Deuteronomy 32:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:	Deuteronomy 32:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.	Deuteronomy 32:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;	Deuteronomy 32:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.	Deuteronomy 32:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.	Deuteronomy 32:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.	Deuteronomy 32:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.	Deuteronomy 32:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.	Deuteronomy 32:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.	Deuteronomy 32:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.	Deuteronomy 32:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.	Deuteronomy 32:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.	Deuteronomy 32:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.	Deuteronomy 32:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.	Deuteronomy 32:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.	Deuteronomy 32:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:	Deuteronomy 32:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.	Deuteronomy 32:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.	Deuteronomy 32:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!	Deuteronomy 32:29 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?	Deuteronomy 32:30 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.	Deuteronomy 32:31 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:	Deuteronomy 32:32 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.	Deuteronomy 32:33 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?	Deuteronomy 32:34 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.	Deuteronomy 32:35 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.	Deuteronomy 32:36 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,	Deuteronomy 32:37 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.	Deuteronomy 32:38 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.	Deuteronomy 32:39 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.	Deuteronomy 32:40 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.	Deuteronomy 32:41 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.	Deuteronomy 32:42 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.	Deuteronomy 32:43 Notes This verse is problematic, and it's a result of tampering by a later editor. Firstly, this verse breaks the style seen throughout the entire poem; a pattern of AA'BB'. For example, in v. 2: “”My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass Doctrine as rain; speech as dew. Rain upon herb; showers upon grass. This style of parallelism is broken in v. 43. The first and second line are very different concepts. What's more, the parallelism is seen instead in the middle two lines. 43's pattern could be seen as A'BB'C', with some lyrics missing. Another problem is it's absurdity. Read as is, the verse calls for the same nations being vengefully destroyed to rejoice for Israel. Luckily, the missing parts have been preserved through the Septuagint and Dead Sea Scrolls. With these, a reconstruction can be made: “”Rejoice, O heavens, with Him! Worship Him, O every god! For He'll avenge the blood of His children, Wreak vengeance on His foes; He will repay those who hate him, And cleanse the land of His people. Now it becomes clear that a monotheistic editor made sloppy work of removing the polytheistic imagery. 'Heavens' gets changed to 'nations' to erase God's role in governing a divine council. And the the mention of deities in the plural gets censored completely.
Deuteronomy 32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.	Deuteronomy 32:44 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:	Deuteronomy 32:45 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.	Deuteronomy 32:46 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.	Deuteronomy 32:47 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:48 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,	Deuteronomy 32:48 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:	Deuteronomy 32:49 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:	Deuteronomy 32:50 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.	Deuteronomy 32:51 Notes
Deuteronomy 32:52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.	Deuteronomy 32:52 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 33

Deuteronomy 33:1 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.	Deuteronomy 33:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.	Deuteronomy 33:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.	Deuteronomy 33:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:4 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.	Deuteronomy 33:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.	Deuteronomy 33:5 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.	Deuteronomy 33:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.	Deuteronomy 33:7 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;	Deuteronomy 33:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.	Deuteronomy 33:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.	Deuteronomy 33:10 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.	Deuteronomy 33:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.	Deuteronomy 33:12 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,	Deuteronomy 33:13 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,	Deuteronomy 33:14 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,	Deuteronomy 33:15 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.	Deuteronomy 33:16 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.	Deuteronomy 33:17 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.	Deuteronomy 33:18 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.	Deuteronomy 33:19 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.	Deuteronomy 33:20 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.	Deuteronomy 33:21 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.	Deuteronomy 33:22 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.	Deuteronomy 33:23 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.	Deuteronomy 33:24 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.	Deuteronomy 33:25 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.	Deuteronomy 33:26 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.	Deuteronomy 33:27 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.	Deuteronomy 33:28 Notes
Deuteronomy 33:29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.	Deuteronomy 33:29 Notes

Deuteronomy Chapter 34

Deuteronomy 34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,	Deuteronomy 34:1 Notes
Deuteronomy 34:2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,	Deuteronomy 34:2 Notes
Deuteronomy 34:3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.	Deuteronomy 34:3 Notes
Deuteronomy 34:4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.	Deuteronomy 34:4 Notes
Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.	Deuteronomy 34:5 Notes This and the final few verses are remarkable when accepting the traditional claim that Moses is the author of Deuteronomy. Apologists tend to argue that Moses wrote everything prior to his death, with someone else filling in the bits that followed his death. It's probably best that someone else finished the book. One can only imagine Moses' mood on finding out that he can see the promised land but shall never set foot on it.
Deuteronomy 34:6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.	Deuteronomy 34:6 Notes
Deuteronomy 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.	Deuteronomy 34:7 Notes Moses living to 120 years old is technically possible, since the oldest known person in history lived to the ripe old age of 122 years old.
Deuteronomy 34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.	Deuteronomy 34:8 Notes
Deuteronomy 34:9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.	Deuteronomy 34:9 Notes
Deuteronomy 34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,	Deuteronomy 34:10 Notes Well, other than Micaiah (1 Kings 22:19), Job (Job 42:5), David (Psalm 63:2), Isaiah (Isaiah 6:1-2), Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1:27-28), and Amos (Amos 7:7, Amos 9:1). But apart from them, and Jesus who was kind of on the next step up due to being God and all, nobody did. It's also questionable what "face to face" means since while in Exodus 33:11 the two speak "face to face", in Exodus 33:20 God tells Moses that he can't show him his actual face.
Deuteronomy 34:11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,	Deuteronomy 34:11 Notes
Deuteronomy 34:12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.	Deuteronomy 34:12 Notes