May
6
Deuteronomy
27, 28
Deu
27:1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.
Deu
27:2 It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to
the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself
up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
Deu
27:3 and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you
have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your
God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God
of your fathers, has promised you.
Deu
27:4 It shall be, when you have passed over the Jordan, that you
shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount
Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
Deu
27:5 There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of
stones: you shall lift up no iron tool
on them.
Deu
27:6 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones;
and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:
Deu
27:7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there;
and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
Deu
27:8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very
plainly.
Deu
27:9 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying,
Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become the people
of Yahweh your God.
Deu
27:10 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do
his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.
Deu
27:11 Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,
Deu
27:12 These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when
you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
Deu
27:13 These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad,
and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deu
27:14 The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with
a loud voice,
Deu
27:15 Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an
abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Deu
27:16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All
the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the
people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:18 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All
the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:19 Cursed be he who wrests the justice due
to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say,
Amen.
Deu
27:20 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has
uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:21 Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the
people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:22 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his
father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say,
Amen.
Deu
27:23 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people
shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:24 Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the
people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:25 Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All
the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
27:26 Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do
them. All the people shall say, Amen.
Deu
28:1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of
Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I
command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above
all the nations of the earth:
Deu
28:2 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if
you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Deu
28:3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in
the field.
Deu
28:4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of
your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your
livestock, and the young of your flock.
Deu
28:5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
Deu
28:6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed
when you go out.
Deu
28:7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be
struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will
flee before you seven ways.
Deu
28:8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in
all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
28:9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he
has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your
God, and walk in his ways.
Deu
28:10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by
the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.
Deu
28:11 Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your
body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your
ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
Deu
28:12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give
the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of
your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not
borrow.
Deu
28:13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall
be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to
the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to
observe and to do them,
Deu
28:14 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command
you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other
gods to serve them.
Deu
28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice
of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall
come on you, and overtake you.
Deu
28:16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in
the field.
Deu
28:17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.
Deu
28:18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase
of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.
Deu
28:19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed
when you go out.
Deu
28:20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all
that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you
perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have
forsaken me.
Deu
28:21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has
consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
Deu
28:22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and
with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with
blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
Deu
28:23 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under you shall be iron.
Deu
28:24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from
the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
Deu
28:25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you
shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before
them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms
of the earth.
Deu
28:26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to
the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them
away.
Deu
28:27 Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the
tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not
be healed.
Deu
28:28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and
with astonishment of heart;
Deu
28:29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in
darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be
only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save
you.
Deu
28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall
plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.
Deu
28:31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat
of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your
face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to
your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
Deu
28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people;
and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day:
and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.
Deu
28:33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation
which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and
crushed always;
Deu
28:34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you
shall see.
Deu
28:35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot
to the crown of your head.
Deu
28:36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over
you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and
there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.
Deu
28:37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
Deu
28:38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather
little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deu
28:39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall
neither drink of the wine, nor gather the
grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
Deu
28:40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but
you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast
its fruit.
Deu
28:41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be
yours; for they shall go into captivity.
Deu
28:42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust
possess.
Deu
28:43 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above
you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
Deu
28:44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall
be the head, and you shall be the tail.
Deu
28:45 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and
overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to
the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his
statutes which he commanded you:
Deu
28:46 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on
your seed forever.
Deu
28:47 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and
with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
Deu
28:48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send
against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want
of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he
has destroyed you.
Deu
28:49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end
of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall
not understand;
Deu
28:50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not regard
the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
Deu
28:51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of
your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you
grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young
of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Deu
28:52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and
fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your
land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all
your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Deu
28:53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your
sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in
the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress
you.
Deu
28:54 The man who 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 whom he has remaining;
Deu
28:55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his
children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the
siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in
all your gates.
Deu
28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not
adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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,
Deu
28:57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet,
and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them
for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress
with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
Deu
28:58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that
are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful
name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
Deu
28:59 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues
of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore
sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deu
28:60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which
you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you.
Deu
28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in
the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are
destroyed.
Deu
28:62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars
of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of
Yahweh your God.
Deu
28:63 It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you
good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause
you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off
the land where you go in to possess it.
Deu
28:64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of
the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall
serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers,
even wood and stone.
Deu
28:65 Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be
no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
Deu
28:66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall
fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
Deu
28:67 In the morning you shall say, Would it were evening! and at
evening you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your
heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you
shall see.
Deu
28:68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way
of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you
shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for
bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.
May
7
Deuteronomy
29, 30
Deu
29:1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab,
besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deu
29:2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all
that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and
to all his servants, and to all his land;
Deu
29:3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those
great wonders:
Deu
29:4 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see,
and ears to hear, to this day.
Deu
29:5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have
not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
Deu
29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong
drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
Deu
29:7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og
the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck
them:
Deu
29:8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the
Manassites.
Deu
29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that
you may prosper in all that you do.
Deu
29:10 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your
heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men
of Israel,
Deu
29:11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the
midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who
draws your water;
Deu
29:12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and
into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
Deu
29:13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people,
and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore
to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deu
29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
Deu
29:15 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh
our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day
Deu
29:16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we
came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
Deu
29:17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood
and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
Deu
29:18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or
tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to
serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a
root that bears gall and wormwood;
Deu
29:19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he
bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk
in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
Deu
29:20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and
his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is
written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his
name from under the sky.
Deu
29:21 Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of
Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written
in this book of the law.
Deu
29:22 The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after
you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say,
when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which
Yahweh has made it sick;
Deu
29:23 and that
the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, and
a burning, that
it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the
overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh
overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Deu
29:24 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to
this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
Deu
29:25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
Deu
29:26 and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that
they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:
Deu
29:27 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land,
to bring on it all the curse that is written in this book;
Deu
29:28 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as
at this day.
Deu
29:29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things
that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we
may do all the words of this law.
Deu
30:1 It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall
call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has
driven you,
Deu
30:2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice
according to all that I command you this day, you and your children,
with all your heart, and with all your soul;
Deu
30:3 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the
peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Deu
30:4 If any of
your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there
will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there he will bring you
back:
Deu
30:5 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your
fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good,
and multiply you above your fathers.
Deu
30:6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of
your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, that you may live.
Deu
30:7 Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and
on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Deu
30:8 You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his
commandments which I command you this day.
Deu
30:9 Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your
hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock,
and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again
rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;
Deu
30:10 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul.
Deu
30:11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not
too hard for you, neither is it far off.
Deu
30:12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for
us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may
do it?
Deu
30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall
go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it,
that we may do it?
Deu
30:14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your
heart, that you may do it.
Deu
30:15 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and
death and evil;
Deu
30:16 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to
walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and
his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your
God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
Deu
30:17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall
be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
Deu
30:18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you
shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the
Jordan to go in to possess it.
Deu
30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse:
therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
Deu
30:20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to
him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may
dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
