The Old Testament of the
King James Version of the Bible
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10:7 From thence they journeyed unto
Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 10:13 To keep the commandments of the
LORD, and his statutes,
which I command thee this day for thy good?
10:14 Behold, the heaven
and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy
God, the earth also, with
all that therein is.
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.
10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of
your heart, and be no more
stiffnecked.
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: 10:18 He doth execute the judgment
of the fatherless and
widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving
him food and raiment.
10:19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye
were strangers in the
land of Egypt.
10:20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him
shalt thou serve, and to
him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his
name.
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.
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.
11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy
God, and keep his charge,
and his statutes, and his judgments, and his
commandments, alway.
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,
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; 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; 11:5 And what he did unto you in the
wilderness, until ye came
into this place; 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:
11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great
acts of the LORD which he
did.
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; 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.
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: 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: 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.
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,
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.
11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields
for thy cattle, that thou
mayest eat and be full.
11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your
heart be not deceived, and ye
turn aside, and serve other gods, and
worship them; 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.
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.
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.
11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the
door posts of thine house,
and upon thy gates: 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.
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; 11:23 Then
will the LORD drive out all
these nations from before you, and ye shall
possess greater nations
and mightier than yourselves.
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.
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.
11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a
blessing and a curse; 11:27
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of
the LORD your God, which I
command you this day: 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.
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.
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? 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.
11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the
statutes and judgments which
I set before you this day.
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.
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:
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.
12:4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your
God.
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: 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: 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.
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.
12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest
and to the inheritance,
which the LORD your God giveth you.
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; 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: 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.
12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer
not thy burnt offerings in
every place that thou seest: 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.
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.
12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye
shall pour it upon the earth
as water.
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:
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.
12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake
not the Levite as long as
thou livest upon the earth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
12:24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour
it upon the earth as
water.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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; 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.
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.
12:32 What thing soever I command you,
observe to do it: thou shalt
not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or
a dreamer of dreams, and
giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 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; 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.
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.
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.
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; 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; 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: 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.
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.
13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear,
and shall do no more any
such wickedness as this is among you.
13:12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy
cities, which the LORD thy
God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
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; 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; 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.
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.
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; 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.
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.
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.
14:3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable
thing.
14:4 These are the beasts which ye shall
eat: the ox, the sheep, and
the goat, 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.
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.
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.
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.
14:9 These ye shall eat of all that are in
the waters: all that have
fins and scales shall ye eat: 14:10 And
whatsoever hath not fins and
scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto
you.
14:11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
14:12 But these are they of which ye shall
not eat: the eagle, and the
ossifrage, and the ospray, 14:13 And the
glede, and the kite, and the
vulture after his kind, 14:14 And every
raven after his kind, 14:15
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the
cuckow, and the hawk after
his kind, 14:16 The little owl, and the
great owl, and the swan, 14:17
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the
cormorant, 14:18 And the
stork, and the heron after her kind, and the
lapwing, and the bat.
14:19 And every creeping thing that flieth
is unclean unto you: they
shall not be eaten.
14:20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
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.
14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the
increase of thy seed, that the
field bringeth forth year by year.
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.
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: 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: 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, 14:27 And the
Levite that is within thy
gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he
hath no part nor inheritance
with thee.
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:
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.
15:1 At the end of every seven years thou
shalt make a release.
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.
15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it
again: but that which is
thine with thy brother thine hand shall
release; 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: 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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
15:13 And when thou sendest him out free
from thee, thou shalt not let
him go away empty: 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.
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.
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; 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
15:23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood
thereof; thou shalt pour it
upon the ground as water.
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.
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.
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.
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.
16:5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover
within any of thy gates,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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: 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.
16:12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast
a bondman in Egypt: and
thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of
tabernacles seven days, after
that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy
wine: 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.
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.
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:
16:17 Every man shall
give as he is able, according to the
blessing of the LORD thy God
which he hath given thee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any
image; which the LORD thy God
hateth.
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.
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, 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; 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:
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.
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.
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.
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;
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: 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: 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.
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.
17:13 And all the people shall hear, and
fear, and do no more
presumptuously.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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: 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: 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.
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.
18:2 Therefore shall they have no
inheritance among their brethren:
the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath
said unto them.
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.
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.
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.
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; 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.
18:8 They shall have like portions to eat,
beside that which cometh of
the sale of his patrimony.
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.
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.
18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with
familiar spirits, or a wizard,
or a necromancer.
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.
18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD
thy God.
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.
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; 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.
18:17 And the LORD said unto me, They have
well spoken that which they
have spoken.
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.
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.
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.
18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How
shall we know the word which
the LORD hath not spoken? 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.
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; 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.
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.
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; 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: 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.
19:7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou
shalt separate three
cities for thee.
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; 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: 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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
19:16 If a false witness rise up against any
man to testify against
him that which is wrong; 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;
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; 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.
19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and
fear, and shall
henceforth commit no more any such evil
among you.
19:21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life
shall go for life, eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
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