New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Portion of the Levites

1 “The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the Lord’sofferings by fire and His portion.

2 They shall have no inheritance among their countrymen; the Lordis their inheritance, as He promised them.

3 “Now this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep, of which they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.

4 You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first shearing of your sheep.

5 For the Lordyour God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand and serve in the name of the Lordforever.

6 “Now if a Levite comes from any of your towns throughout Israel where he resides, and comes whenever he desires to the place which the Lordchooses,

7 then he shall serve in the name of the Lordhis God, like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

8 They shall eat equal portions, exceptwhat they receivefrom the sale of their fathers’estates.

Spiritism Forbidden

9 “When you enter the land which the Lordyour God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations.

10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lordyour God will drive them out before you.

13 You shall be blameless before the Lordyour God.

14 For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lordyour God has not allowed youto doso.

15 “The Lordyour God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

16 This is according to all that you asked of the Lordyour God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lordmy God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.’

17 The Lordsaid to me, ‘They have spoken well.

18 I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

19 It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will requireitof him.

20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’

21 You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the Lordhas not spoken?’

22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the Lordhas not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

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Cities of Refuge

1 “When the Lordyour God cuts off the nations, whose land the Lordyour God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,

2 you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the Lordyour God gives you to possess.

3 You shall prepare the roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lordyour God will give you as a possession, so that any manslayer may flee there.

4 “Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he kills his friend unintentionally, not hating him previously-

5 as whena mangoes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the ironheadslips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies-he may flee to one of these cities and live;

6 otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, and take his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.

7 Therefore, I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside three cities for yourself.’

8 “If the Lordyour God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give your fathers-

9 if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the Lordyour God, and to walk in His ways always-then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.

10 So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be on you.

11 “But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,

12 then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

13 You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Laws of Landmark and Testimony

14 “You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lordyour God gives you to possess.

15 “A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.

16 If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

17 then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will bein officein those days.

18 The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witnessandhe has accused his brother falsely,

19 then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

20 The rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you.

21 Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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Laws of Warfare

1 “When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariotsandpeople more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lordyour God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you.

2 When you are approaching the battle, the priest shall come near and speak to the people.

3 He shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremble before them,

4 for the Lordyour God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

5 The officers also shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would dedicate it.

6 Who is the man that has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use its fruit? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would begin to use its fruit.

7 And who is the man that is engaged to a woman and has not married her? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would marry her.’

8 Then the officers shall speak further to the people and say, ‘Who is the man that is afraid and fainthearted? Let him depart and return to his house, so that he might not make his brothers’ hearts melt like his heart.’

9 When the officers have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of armies at the head of the people.

10 “When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace.

11 If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you.

12 However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.

13 When the Lordyour God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword.

14 Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the Lordyour God has given you.

15 Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

16 Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lordyour God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

17 But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lordyour God has commanded you,

18 so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the Lordyour God.

19 “When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?

20 Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls.

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Expiation of a Crime

1 “If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lordyour God gives you to possess,andit is not known who has struck him,

2 then your elders and your judges shall go out and measurethe distanceto the cities which are around the slain one.

3 It shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;

4 and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the Lordyour God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the Lord; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them.

6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

7 and they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes seeit.

8 Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O Lord, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.’ And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them.

9 So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Domestic Relations

10 “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lordyour God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive,

11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself,

12 then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.

13 She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

14 It shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money, you shall not mistreat her, because you have humbled her.

15 “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, andboththe loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

16 then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn.

17 But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn.

18 “If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,

19 then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

20 They shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hearof itand fear.

22 “If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

23 his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance.

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Sundry Laws

1 “You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman.

2 If your countryman is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall remain with you until your countryman looks for it; then you shall restore it to him.

3 Thus you shall do with his donkey, and you shall do the same with his garment, and you shall do likewise with anything lost by your countryman, which he has lost and you have found. You are not allowed to neglectthem.

4 You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly help him to raisethemup.

5 “A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lordyour God.

6 “If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

7 you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

8 “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

10 “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11 “You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together.

12 “You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

Laws on Morality

13 “If any man takes a wife and goes in to her andthenturns against her,

14 and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman,butwhen I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’

15 then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out theevidenceof the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

16 The girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he turned against her;

17 and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

18 So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,

19 and they shall fine him a hundredshekelsof silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.

20 “But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,

21 then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

22 “If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

23 “If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, andanotherman finds her in the city and lies with her,

24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

25 “But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die.

26 But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.

27 When he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.

28 “If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered,

29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fiftyshekelsof silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.

30 “A man shall not take his father’s wife so that he will not uncover his father’s skirt.

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Persons Excluded from the Assembly

1 “No one who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

2 No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of hisdescendants,even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

3 No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of theirdescendants,even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the Lord,

4 because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

5 Nevertheless, the Lordyour God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lordyour God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lordyour God loves you.

6 You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

7 “You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.

8 The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

9 “When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

10 “If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp.

11 But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may reenter the camp.

12 “You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there,

13 and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement.

14 Since the Lordyour God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

15 “You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.

16 He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one of your towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him.

17 “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.

18 You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of adog into the house of the Lordyour God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lordyour God.

19 “You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food,oranything that may be loaned at interest.

20 You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the Lordyour God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess.

21 “When you make a vow to the Lordyour God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the Lordyour God will surely require it of you.

22 However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you.

23 You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lordyour God, what you have promised.

24 “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your basket.

25 “When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain.

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Law of Divorce

1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and putsitin her hand and sends her out from his house,

2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’swife,

3 and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and putsitin her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

4 thenher former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance.

5 “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Sundry Laws

6 “No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

7 “If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

8 “Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

9 Remember what the Lordyour God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.

10 “When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.

11 You shall remain outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

12 If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

13 When the sun goes down you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before the Lordyour God.

14 “You shall not oppress a hired servantwho ispoor and needy, whetherhe isone of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.

15 You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will not cry against you to the Lordand it become sin in you.

16 “Fathers shall not be put to death fortheirsons, nor shall sons be put to death fortheirfathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

17 “You shall not pervert the justice due an alienoran orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge.

18 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lordyour God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

19 “When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lordyour God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

21 “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

22 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

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Sundry Laws

1 “If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

2 then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.

3 He may beat him forty timesbutno more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.

4 “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

5 “When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not bemarriedoutsidethe familyto a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

7 But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. Andifhe persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’

9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

10 In Israel his name shall be called, ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

11 “Iftwomen, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

12 then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

13 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

15 You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lordyour God gives you.

16 For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lordyour God.

17 “Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

18 how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did notfear God.

19 Therefore it shall come about when the Lordyour God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

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Offering First Fruits

1 “Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it,

2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the Lordyour God gives you, and you shall putitin a basket and go to the place where the Lordyour God chooses to establish His name.

3 You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare this day to the Lordmy God that I have entered the land which the Lordswore to our fathers to give us.’

4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lordyour God.

5 You shall answer and say before the Lordyour God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

6 And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

7 Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lordheard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;

8 and the Lordbrought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders;

9 and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10 Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, O Lordhave given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lordyour God, and worship before the Lordyour God;

11 and you and the Levite and the alien who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lordyour God has given you and your household.

12 “When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

13 You shall say before the Lordyour God, ‘I have removed the sacredportionfrommyhouse, and also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed or forgotten any of Your commandments.

14 I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the Lordmy God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.

15 Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.’

16 “This day the Lordyour God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

17 You have today declared the Lordto be your God, and that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and listen to His voice.

18 The Lordhas today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;

19 and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the Lordyour God, as He has spoken.”

—https://d1b84921e69nmq.cloudfront.net/80/32k/DEU/26-b5f91f16d32b4e43e90a41c533d4e4e2.mp3?version_id=100—

The Curses of Mount Ebal

1 Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I command you today.

2 So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the Lordyour God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime

3 and write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the Lordyour God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you.

4 So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up on Mount Ebal, these stones, as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime.

5 Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the Lordyour God, an altar of stones; you shall not wield an irontoolon them.

6 You shall build the altar of the Lordyour God of uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the Lordyour God;

7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the Lordyour God.

8 You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very distinctly.”

9 Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and listen, O Israel! This day you have become a people for the Lordyour God.

10 You shall therefore obey the Lordyour God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command you today.”

11 Moses also charged the people on that day, saying,

12 “When you cross the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

13 For the curse, these shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

14 The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setsitup in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

16 ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

17 ‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

18 ‘Cursed is he who misleads a blindpersonon the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

19 ‘Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

20 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s skirt.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

21 ‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

22 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

23 ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

24 ‘Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

25 ‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

26 ‘Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

—https://d1b84921e69nmq.cloudfront.net/80/32k/DEU/27-ca670c9701a8740cc3d91f22901518c5.mp3?version_id=100—