Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 1 - Horeb Events, Appointment of Leaders, Penalty for Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan—in the wilderness, on the plain opposite Suph, between Paran and...

Deuteronomy 2 - The Desert Years, Defeat of King Sihon

We journeyed back into the wilderness, in the direction of the Red Sea,[a] as the Lord had told me and skirted Mount Seir for many days....

Deuteronomy 3 - Defeat of King Og, Moses Views Canaan from Pisgah

When we headed up the road to Bashan, King Og of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei. 2 The Lord said...

Deuteronomy 4 - Moses Commands Obedience, Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan, Transition

So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the...

Deuteronomy 5 - The Ten Commandments, Moses the Mediator of God’s Will

Moses convened all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall...

Deuteronomy 6 - The Great Commandment, Caution against Disobedience

Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that...

Deuteronomy 7 - A Chosen People, Blessings for Obedience

When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and he clears away many nations before you—the...

Deuteronomy 8 - A Warning Not to Forget God in Prosperity

This entire commandment that I command you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and increase, and go in and occupy the...

Deuteronomy 9 - The Consequences of Rebelling against God

Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities,...

Deuteronomy 10 - The Second Pair of Tablets, The Essence of the Law

At that time the Lord said to me, “Carve out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an...

Deuteronomy 11 - Rewards for Obedience

You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always. 2 Remember...

Deuteronomy 12 - Pagan Shrines to Be Destroyed, Place of Worship, Warning against Idolatry

These are the statutes and ordinances that you must diligently observe in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given...

Deuteronomy 13 - Warning against Idolatry

[a] If prophets or those who divine by dreams appear among you and promise you omens or portents, 2 and the omens or the portents...

Deuteronomy 14 - Pagan Practices Forbidden, Clean and Unclean Foods, Regulations concerning Tithes

You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead. 2 For you are a people holy...

Deuteronomy 15 - Laws concerning the Sabbatical Year, The Firstborn of Livestock

Every seventh year you shall grant a remission of debts. 2 And this is the manner of the remission: every creditor shall remit the claim...

Deuteronomy 16 - Passover, Festival of Weeks, Festival of Booths, Municipal Judges and Officers

Observe the month[a] of Abib by keeping the passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of...

Deuteronomy 17 - Forbidden Forms of Worship, Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges, Limits of Royals

You must not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has a defect, anything seriously wrong; for that is abhorrent to the...

Deuteronomy 18 - Privileges of Priests, No Child-Sacrifice, Divination, and Magic, New Prophet

The levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no allotment or inheritance within Israel. They may eat the sacrifices that...

Deuteronomy 19 - Laws concerning the Cities of Refuge, Property Boundaries, Law concerning Witnesses

When the Lord your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you, and you have dispossessed them and settled in...

Deuteronomy 20 - Rules of Warfare

When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots, an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them;...

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