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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;...

Deuteronomy 21 - Law concerning Murder by Persons Unknown, Right of the Firstborn, Rebel Children

If, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess, a body is found lying in open country, and it is not known who struck...

Deuteronomy 22 - Miscellaneous Laws, Laws concerning Sexual Relations

You shall not watch your neighbor’s ox or sheep straying away and ignore them; you shall take them back to their owner. 2 If the owner...

Deuteronomy 23 - Those Excluded from the Assembly, Sanitary, Ritual, and Humanitarian Precepts

No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the Lord. 2 Those born of an illicit...

Deuteronomy 24 - Laws concerning Marriage and Divorce, Miscellaneous Laws

Suppose a man enters into marriage with a woman, but she does not please him because he finds something objectionable about her, and so...

Deuteronomy 25 - Levirate Marriage, Various Commands

Suppose two persons have a dispute and enter into litigation, and the judges decide between them, declaring one to be in the right and...

Deuteronomy 26 - First Fruits and Tithes, Concluding Exhortation

When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it,...

Deuteronomy 27 - The Inscribed Stones and Altar on Mount Ebal, Twelve Curses

Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged all the people as follows: Keep the entire commandment that I am commanding you today. 2 On...

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