Tribes beyond Jordan Return 1 Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2 and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lordcommanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you. 3 You have not forsaken your brothers these […]
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Joshua 23
Joshua’s Farewell Address 1 Now it came about after many days, when the Lordhad given rest to Israel from all their enemies on every side, and Joshua was old, advanced in years, 2 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers, and said to them, […]
Joshua 24
Joshua Reviews Israel’s History 1 Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘From ancient […]
Deuteronomy 1
Israel’s History after the Exodus 1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. 2 It is eleven days’journeyfrom Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 3 In the fortieth […]
Deuteronomy 2
Wanderings in the Wilderness 1 “Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lordspoke to me, and circled Mount Seir for many days. 2 And the Lordspoke to me, saying, 3 ‘You have circled this mountain long enough.Nowturn north, 4 and command the people, saying, […]
Deuteronomy 3
Conquests Recounted 1 “Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. 2 But the Lordsaid to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your […]
Deuteronomy 4
Israel Urged to Obey God’s Law 1 “Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 You shall not add to […]
Deuteronomy 5
The Ten Commandments Repeated 1 Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully. 2 The Lordour God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3 The Lorddid not make […]
Deuteronomy 6
Obey God and Prosper 1 “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lordyour God has commandedmeto teach you, that you might dothemin the land where you are going over to possess it, 2 so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lordyour God, to keep all […]
Deuteronomy 7
Warnings 1 “When the Lordyour God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, 2 and when […]