 26 And it hath been when thou comest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, an inheritance, and thou hast possessed it and dwelt in it, that thou hast taken of the first of all the fruits of the ground which thou dost bring in out of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and hast put it in a basket, and gone unto the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause his name to tabernacle there, and thou hast come in unto the priest who is in those days, and hast said unto him, I have declared today to Jehovah thy God that I have come in unto the land which Jehovah hath sworn to our fathers to give to us, and the priest hath taken the basket out of thy hand, and placed it before the altar of Jehovah thy God, and thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, a perishing Aramean is my father, and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becomeeth there a nation great, mighty, and numerous, and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service, and we cry unto Jehovah God of our fathers, and Jehovah heareth our voice, and seeeth our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression, and Jehovah bringeth us out from Egypt by a strong hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great fear, and by signs, and by wonders, and he bringeth us in unto this place, and giveth to us this land, a land flowing with milk, and honey, and now lo, I have brought in the first of the fruits of the ground which thou hast given to me, O Jehovah, and thou hast placed it before Jehovah thy God, and bowed thyself before Jehovah thy God, and rejoiced in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee, and to thy house, thou and the Levite, and the sojourner who is in thy midst, when thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates, and been satisfied, and thou hast said before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the separated thing out of the house, and also have given it to the Levite, and to the sojourner, and to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all thy command, which thou hast commanded me, I have not passed over from thy commandments, nor have I forgotten, I have not eaten in mine affliction of it, nor have I put away of it for uncleanness, nor have I given of it for the dead, I have harkened to the voice of Jehovah my God, I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me, look from thy holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless thy people Israel, from the ground which thou hast given to us, as thou hast sworn to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. This day Jehovah thy God is commanding thee to do these statutes and judgments, and thou hast harkened and done them with all thy heart and with all thy soul, Jehovah thou hast caused to promise today to become thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes and his commands and his judgments, and to harken to his voice, and Jehovah hath caused thee to promise today to become his people, a peculiar treasure as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commands, so as to make the uppermost above all the nations whom he hath made for a praise, and for a name, and for beauty, and for thy being a holy people to Jehovah thy God as he hath spoken. CHAPTER 27 And Moses, the elders of Israel also, commandeth the people, saying, Keep all the command which I am commanding you today, and it hath been in the day that ye pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, that thou hast raised up for the great stones and plactered them with plaster, and written on them all the words of this law in thy passing over, so that thou goest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, a land flowing with milk and honey as Jehovah God of thy fathers hath spoken to thee, and it hath been in your passing over the Jordan ye raise up these stones which I am commanding you today in Mount Ebal, and thou hast plactered them with plaster, and built there an altar to Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones thou dost not wave over them iron. Of complete stones thou buildest the altar of Jehovah thy God, and hast caused it to ascend on it, burnt offerings to Jehovah thy God, and sacrificed peace offerings, and eaten there, and rejoiced before Jehovah thy God, and written on the stones all the words of this law well engraved. And Moses speaketh, the priests, the Levites also, unto all Israel, saying, Keep silent and hear, O Israel, this day thou hast become a people to Jehovah thy God, and thou hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and done his commands and his statutes which I am commanding thee today. And Moses commandeth the people on that day, saying, These do stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim in your passing over the Jordan, Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin. And these do stand for the reviling on Mount Ebal, Reuben, Gad and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan and Naftali. And the Levites have answered and said unto every man of Israel a loud voice. Cursed is the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put it in a secret place, and all the people have answered and said, Amen. Cursed is he who is making light of his father and his mother, and all the people have said, Amen. Cursed is he who is removing his neighbor's border, and all the people have said, Amen. Cursed is he who is causing the blind to err in the way, and all the people have said, Amen. Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner and widow, and all the people have said, Amen. Cursed is he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, and all the people have said, Amen. Cursed is he who is lying with any beast, and all the people have said, Amen. Cursed is he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, and all the people have said, Amen. Cursed is he who is lying with his mother-in-law, and all the people have said Amen. Cursed is he who is smiting his neighbor in secret, and all the people have said Amen. Cursed is he who is taking a bribe to smite a person innocent blood, and all the people have said Amen. Cursed is he who doth not establish the words of this law to do them, and all the people have said Amen. Chapter 28 And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commands, which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made the uppermost above all the nations of the earth, and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God. Blessed art thou in the city, and blessed art thou in the field, blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. Blessed is thy basket and thy kneading trough, blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out. Jehovah giveth thine enemies who are rising up against thee, smitten before thy face, in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee. Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee. Jehovah doth establish thee to himself for a holy people, as he hath sworn to thee when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in his ways, and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee. And Jehovah hath made the abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee. Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give the reign of thy land in its season, to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou dost not borrow. And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail, and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath. For thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee today, to keep and to do, and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you today, right or left, to go after other gods, to serve them. And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe, to do all his commands and his statutes, which I am commanding thee today, that all these revilings have come upon thee and overtaken thee. Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field, cursed is thy basket and thy kneading trough. Cursed is the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen and wealth of thy flock. Cursed art thou in thy coming in, and cursed art thou in thy going out. Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble and the rebuke in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily because of the evil of thy doings by which thou hast forsaken me. Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till he consume thee from off the ground, whither thou art going in to possess it. Jehovah doth smite thee with consumption and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued thee till thou perish, and thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron. Jehovah giveth the reign of thy land, dust and ashes, from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed. Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies, in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth. And thy carcass hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling. Jehovah doth smite thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and with emeralds, and with scurvy, and with itch, of which thou art not able to be healed. Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart, and thou hast been grumbling at noon as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper, and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour. A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her. A house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it. A vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common. Thine ox is slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it. Thine ass is taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee. Thy sheep are given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee. Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God. The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour eat up, doth a people whom thou hast not known, and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days, and thou hast been mad because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see. Jehovah doth smite thee with an evil ulcer on the knees and on the legs of which thou art not able to be healed from the soul of thy foot even unto thy crown. Jehovah doth cons thee to go, and thy king whom thou raisedest up over thee unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, and thou hast served their other gods, wood and stone, and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the people's wither Jehovah doth lead thee. Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in for the locust doth consume it. Vineyards thou dost plant and hast labored, and whine thou dost not drink nor gather for the worm doth consume it. Olives are to thee and all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off. Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity. All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess. The sojourner who is in thy midst go with up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low, he doth lend to thee, and thou dost not lend to him, he is forehead, and thou art foretail, and come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee and overtaken thee till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not harkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God to keep his commands and his statutes which he hath commanded thee, and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder also on thy seed to the age, because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy and with gladness of heart because of the abundance of all things, thou hast served thine enemies whom Jehovah sendeth against thee in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things, and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck till he hath destroyed thee. Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth as the eagle it flyeth, a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard, a nation fierce of countenance which excepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favor, and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed, which leaveeth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock till it hath destroyed thee, and it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting in all thy land, yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates in all thy land which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee, and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee in the siege and in the straightness with which thine enemies do straighten thee, the man who is tender in thee, and who is very delicate, his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveeth, against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him in the siege and in the straightness with which thine enemy doth straighten thee in all thy gates. The tender woman in thee, and the delicate who hath not tried the soul of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness, her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter, and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straightness with which thine enemy doth straighten thee within thy gates. If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book to fear this honored and fearful name, Jehovah thy God, then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes and the strokes of thy seed, great strokes and steadfast and evil sicknesses and steadfast, and he hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law, Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed, and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not harkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and it hath been as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you and to lay you waste, and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it, and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth, and thou hast served their other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, wood and stone, and among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting place for the soul of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee very trembling heart and failing of eyes and grief of soul, and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life, in the morning thou sayest, oh, that it were evening, and in the evening thou sayest, oh, that it were morning from the fear of thy heart with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seeest, and Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men's servants and for maid's servants, and there is no buyer. And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and sayeth unto them, Ye, ye have seen all that which Jehovah hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, the great trials which thine eyes have seen, the signs and those great wonders, and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear till this day, and I cause you to go forty years in a wilderness, your garments have not been consumed from off you, and thy shoe have not worn away from off thy foot. Bread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I am Jehovah, your God. And ye come in unto this place, and Sihon king of Heshban, also Og king of Bashan, doth come out to meet us, to battle, and we smite them, and take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh. And ye have kept the words of this covenant, and done them, so that ye cause all that ye do to prosper. Ye are standing today, all of you, before Jehovah, your God, your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your authorities, every man of Israel, your infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water. For thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah, thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah, thy God, is making with thee today, in order to establish thee today to him for a people, and he himself is thy God, as he hath spoken to thee, and as he hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath, but with him who is here with us, standing today before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us today. For ye have known how ye dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed by through the midst of the nations which ye have passed by, and ye see their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are with them, lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe whose heart is turning today from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood. And it hath been in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my art I go on in order to end the fullness with the thirst. Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah's smoke also his zeal against that man, and laying down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens, and Jehovah hath separated him for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of the covenant which is written in this book of the law. And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who cometh in from a land afar off, have said when they have seen the strokes of that land, and its sicknesses which Jehovah hath sent into it, with brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt. It is not so, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it, any herb like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adma and Zeboyim, which Jehovah overturned in his anger and in his fury. Yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? What the heat of this great anger? And they have said, because that they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, God of their fathers which he made with them in his bringing them out of the land of Egypt, and they go and serve other gods and bow themselves to them, gods which they have not known, and which he hath not apportioned to them. And the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this book, and Jehovah doth pluck them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and doth cast them unto another land as at this day. The things hidden are to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed are to us and to our sons, to the age to do all the words of this law. And it hath been when all these things come upon thee, the blessing and the reviling which I have set before thee, and thou hast brought them back unto thy heart among all the nations whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee away, and hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hearkened to his voice according to all that I am commanding thee today, thou and thy sons with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Then hath Jehovah thy God turned back to thy captivity, and pitied thee, yea, he hath turned back and gathered thee out of all the peoples whither Jehovah thy God hath scattered thee. If thine outcast is in the extremity of the heavens, thenst hath Jehovah thy God gathered thee, and thenst he doth take thee, and Jehovah thy God hath brought thee in unto the land which thy fathers hath possessed, and thou hast inherited it, and he hath done thee good, and multiplied thee above thy fathers, and Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul for the sake of thy life. And Jehovah thy God hath put all this oath on thine enemies, and on those hating thee who hath pursued thee, and thou dost turn back, and hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, and hast done all his commands, which I am commanding thee today. And Jehovah thy God hath made thee abundant in every work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground for good. For Jehovah turneth back to rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers, for thou dost hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commands, and his statutes, which are written in the book of this law, for thou turnest back unto Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. For this command which I am commanding thee today, it is not too wonderful for thee, nor is it far off. It is not in the heavens saying, who dost go up for us into the heavens, and dost take it for us, and dost cause us to hear it, that we may do it. And it is not beyond the sea saying, who dost pass over for us beyond the sea, and dost take it for us, and dost cause us to hear it, that we may do it. For very near unto thee is the word, in thy mouth and in thy heart, to do it. See, I have set before thee today life, and good, and death, and evil, in that I am commanding thee today to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, and his statutes, and his judgments. And thou hast lived and multiplied, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in the land, whether thou art going in to possess it. And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not harken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them, I have declared to you this day, that ye do certainly perish, ye do not prolong days on the ground, which thou art passing over the Jordan, to go in thither to possess it. I have caused to testify against you today, the heavens and the earth, life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling, and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God, to harken to his voice, and to cleave to him, for he is thy life and the length of thy days, to dwell on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them. The Book of Deuteronomy, from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible, translated by Robert Young. Chapter 31 And Moses goeth and speaketh these words unto all Israel, and he sayeth unto them, A son of a hundred and twenty years am I today, I am not able any more to go out and to come in, and Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou dost not pass over this Jordan, Jehovah thy God, he is passing over before thee, he doth destroy these nations from before thee, and thou hast possessed them. Joshua, he is passing over before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken, and Jehovah hath done to them, as he hath done to Sihon, and to Og, kings of the Amorite, and to their land whom he destroyed. And Jehovah hath given them before your face, and ye have done to them according to all the command which I have commanded you. Be strong and courageous, fear not, nor be terrified because of them. For Jehovah thy God is he who is going with thee, he doth not fail thee nor forsake thee. And Moses calleth for Joshua, and sayeth unto him before the eyes of all Israel, Be strong and courageous, for thou dost go in with this people unto the land which Jehovah hath sworn to their fathers to give to them, and thou dost cause them to inherit it. And Jehovah is he who is going before thee, he himself is with thee, he doth not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not, nor be affrighted. And Moses writeeth this law, and giveth it unto the priests, sons of Levi, those bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and unto all the elders of Israel, and Moses commandeth them, saying, At the end of seven years, in the appointed time, the year of release, in the feast of booths, in the coming in of all Israel to see the face of Jehovah in the place which he chooses, thou dost proclaim this law before all Israel in their ears. Assemble the people, the men, and the women, and the infants, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn, and have feared Jehovah your God, and observed to do all the words of this law, and their sons who have not known do hear, and have learned to fear Jehovah your God all the days which ye are living on the ground, with or ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it. And Jehovah sayeth unto Moses, Lo, thy days have drawn near to die, call Joshua and station yourselves in the tent of meeting, and I charge him. And Moses goeth, Joshua also, and they station themselves in the tent of meeting. And Jehovah is seen in the tent, in a pillar of a cloud, and the pillar of the cloud standeth at the opening of the tent. And Jehovah sayeth unto Moses, Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-horring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken me, and broken my covenant which I made with it. And mine anger hath burned against it in that day, and I have forsaken them, and hidden my face from them. And it hath been for consumption, and many evils and distresses have found it. And it hath said in that day, Is it not because that my God is not in my midst? These evils hath found me, and I certainly hide my face in that day for all the evil which it hath done, for it hath turned unto other gods. And now, write for you this song, and teach it the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, so that this song is to me for a witness against the sons of Israel. And I bring them in unto the ground, which I have sworn to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, and been fat, and have turned unto other gods, and they have served them, and despised me, and broken my covenant. And it hath been when many evils and distresses do meet it, that this song hath testified to its face for a witness. For it is not forgotten out of the mouth of its seed, for I have known its imagining which it is doing today. Before I bring them in unto the land of which I have sworn. And Moses writeeth this song on that day, and doth teach it the sons of Israel, and he commandeth Joshua's son of Nun, and saith, Be strong and courageous, for thou dost bring in the sons of Israel unto the land which I have sworn to them, and I am with thee. And it cometh to pass when Moses finisheth to write the words of this law on a book till their completion, that Moses commandeth the Levites bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying, Take this book of the law, and thou hast set it on the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and it hath been there against thee for a witness. For I, I have known thy rebellion and thy stiff neck, lo, in my being yet alive with you today, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death. Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes and your authorities, and I speak in their ears these words, and cause to testify against them the heavens and the earth, for I have known that after my death ye do very corruptly, and have turned aside out of the way which I commanded you, and evil hath met you in the latter end of the days, because ye do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah to make him angry with the work of your hands. And Moses speaketh in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, till their completion. Give ear, O heavens, and I speak, and thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth. Drop as rain doth my doctrine, flow as dew doth my sayings, as storms on the tender grass, and as showers on the herb, for the name of Jehovah I proclaim, ascribe ye greatness to our God. The rock perfect is his work, for all his ways are just. God of steadfastness and without iniquity, righteous and upright is he. It hath done corruptly to him, their blemish is not his sons, a generation perverse and crooked. To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not he thy father, thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee. Remember days of old, understand the years of many generations, ask thy father, and he doth tell thee, thine elders, and they say to thee, in the most high causing nations to inherit, in his separating sons of Adam, he setteth up the borders of the peoples by the number of the sons of Israel. For Jehovah's portion is his people, Jacob is the line of his inheritance. He findeth him in a land, a desert, and in a void, a howling wilderness he turneth him round, he causeth him to understand, he keepeth him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle wakeeth up its nest, over its young ones fluttereth, spreadeth its wings, taketh them, bereth them on its pinions. Jehovah alone doth lead him, and there is no strange God with him. He maketh him ride on high places of earth, and he eateth increase of the fields, and he maketh him suck honey from a rock, and oil out of the flint of a rock. Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats with fat of kidneys of wheat, and of the blood of the great thou dost drink wine. And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick. Thou hast been fat, thou hast been thick, thou hast been covered, and he leaveeth God, who made him, and dishonoreth the rock of his salvation. They make him zealous with strangers, with abominations they make him angry. They sacrifice to demons, no God. Gods they have not known, new ones, from the vicinity they came, not feared them hath your fathers. The rock that begat thee thou forgettest, and neglectest God who formeth thee, and Jehovah seeeth and despiseth, for the provocation of his sons and his daughters. And he sayeth, I hide my face from them, I see what is their latter end, for a froward generation are they, sons in whom is no steadfastness. They have made me zealous by no God, they made me angry by their vanities, and I make them zealous by no people, by a foolish nation I make them angry. For a fire hath been kindled in mine anger, and it burneth unto sheil, the lowest, and consumeeth earth and its increase, and seteth on fire foundations of mountains. I gather upon them evils, mine arrows I consume upon them, exhausted by famine and consumed by heat and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I send upon them, with poison of fearful things of the dust, without bereave doth the sword, and at the inner chambers fear, both youth and virgin, suckling with man of gray hair. I have said, I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man. If not, the anger of an enemy I fear, lest their adversaries know, lest they say, our hand is high, and Jehovah hath not wrought all this. For a nation lost to councils are they, and there is no understanding in them. If they were wise, they deal wisely with this, they attend to their latter end. How doth one pursue a thousand, and two cause a myriad to flee? If not, that their rock hath sold them, and Jehovah hath shut them up. For not as our rock is their rock, and our enemies are judges. For of the vine of Sodom their vine is, and of the fields of Gomorrah, their grapes are grapes of gall, they have bitter clusters. The poison of dragons is their wine, and the fierce venom of asps. Is it not laid up with me, sealed among my treasures? Mine are vengeance and recompense at the due time, doth their foot slide. For near is a day of their calamity, and haste do things prepared for them. For Jehovah doth judge his people, and for his servants doth repent himself. For he seeeth the going away of power, and none is restrained and left. And he hath said, Where are their gods, the rock in which they trusted? Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, they drink the wine of their libation. Let them arise and help you, let it be for you a hiding place. See ye now that I, I am he, and there is no God with me. I put to death, and I keep alive. I have smitten, and I heal. And there is not from my hand a deliverer, for I lift up unto the heavens my hand, and have said, I live to the age. If I have sharpened the brightness of my sword, and my hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to my adversaries, and to those hating me I repay. I make drunk mine arrows with blood, and my sword devoureth flesh, from the blood of the pierced and captive, from the head of the freemen of the enemy. Seeing ye nations with his people, for the blood of his servants he avengeeth, and vengeance he turneth back on his adversaries, and hath pardoned his land, his people. And Moses cometh and speaketh all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshai a son of noon. And Moses finisheth to speak all these words unto all Israel, and sayeth unto them, Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you today, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law, for it is not a vain thing for you, for it is your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on the ground, whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it. And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in this self-same day, saying, Go up unto this Mount Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is on the front of Jericho, and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession, and die in the mount whither thou art going up, and be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother hath died in the mount Hor, and is gathered unto his people, because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Mirabah Kadesh, the wilderness of Zin, because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the sons of Israel, but over against thou seest the land, and thither thou dost not go in unto the land which I am giving to the sons of Israel. He hath come, and hath risen from seer for them, he hath shown from Mount Paran, and hath come with myriads of holy ones, at his right hand are springs for them. Also he is loving the peoples, all his holy ones are in thy hand, and they, they sat down at thy foot, each he lifteth up at thy words. A law hath Moses commanded us, a possession of the assembly of Jacob, and he is in Jesharun king, in the heads of the people gathering together the tribes of Israel. Let Ruben live and not die, and let his men be a number. And this is for Judah, and he saith, Here, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah, and unto his people, do thou bring him in, his hand hath striven for him, and and helped from his adversaries art thou. And of Levi, he said, Thy thumum and thy yurim are for thy pious one, whom thou hast tried in Massa, thou dost strive with him at the waters of Meribah, who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him, and his brethren he hath not discerned, and his sons he hath not known, for they have observed thy saying, and thy covenant they keep. They teach thy judgments to Jacob, and thy law to Israel, they put perfume in thy nose, and whole burnt offering on thine altar. Bless, O Jehovah, his strength, and the work of his hands, thou acceptest, smite the loins of his withstanders, and of those hating him, that they rise not. Of Benjamin, he said, The beloved of Jehovah doth Tabernacle confidently by him, covering him over all the day, yea, between his shoulders he doth Tabernacle. And of Joseph, he said, Blessed of Jehovah is his land, by precious things of the heavens, by dew and by the deep crouching beneath, and by precious things, fruits of the sun, and by precious things cast forth by the moons, and by chief things of the ancient mountains, and by precious things of the age during heights, and by precious things of earth and its fullness, and the good pleasure of him who is dwelling in the bush, let it come for the head of Joseph, and for the crown of him who is separate from his brethren. His honor is a firstling of his ox, and his horns are horns of a ream, by them peoples he doth push together to the ends of earth, and they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. And of Zebulun, he said, Rejoice, O Zebulun, and thy going out, and O Issachar in thy tents, peoples to the mountain they call, there they sacrifice righteous sacrifices, for the abundance of the seas they suck, and hidden things hidden in the sand. And of Gad, he said, Blessed of the enlarger is Gad, as a lioness he doth tabernacle, and hath torn the arm, also the crown, and he provideeth the first part for himself, for there the portion of the lawgiver is covered, and he cometh with the heads of the people, the righteousness of Jehovah he hath done, and his judgments with Israel. And of Dan, he said, Dan is a lion's welp, he doth leap from Bashan. And of Naftali, he said, O Naftali, satisfied with pleasure, and full of the blessing of Jehovah, west and south possess thou. And of Asher, he said, Blessed with sons is Asher, let him be accepted by his brethren, and dipping in oil his foot. Iron and brass are thy shoes, and as thy days thy strength. There is none like the God of Jesharun, riding the heavens in thy help, and in his excellency the skies. A habitation is the eternal God, and beneath our arms age during, and he casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and sayeth, destroy! And Israel doth tabernacle in confidence alone. The eye of Jacob is unto a land of corn and wine, also his heavens drop down due. O thy happiness, O Israel, who is like thee, a people saved by Jehovah, the shield of thy help, and he who is the sword of thine excellency, and thine enemies are subdued for thee, and thou on their high places dost tread. And Moses goeth up from the plains of Moab unto Mount Nebo, the top of Pisca, which is on the front of Jericho. And Jehovah shoeeth him all the land, Gilead unto Dan, and all Naftali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah unto the further sea, and the south, and the circuit of the valley of Jericho, the city of Palms, unto Zohar. And Jehovah sayeth unto him, This is the land which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To thy seed I give it, I have caused thee to see with thine eyes, and thither thou dost not pass over. And Moses, servant of the Lord, dyeth there in the land of Moab, according to the command of Jehovah, and he buryeth him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth Pior, and no man have known his burying place unto this day. And Moses is a son of a hundred and twenty years when he dyeth, his eye hath not become dim, nor hath his moisture fled, and the sons of Israel bewail Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, and the days of weeping and mourning for Moses are completed. And Joshua, son of noon, is full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him, and the sons of Israel hearken unto him, and do as Jehovah commanded Moses. And there hath not arisen a prophet any more in Israel like Moses, whom Jehovah hath known face unto face, in reference to all the signs and the wonders which Jehovah sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land. And in reference to all the strong hand, and to all the great fear which Moses did, before the eyes of all Israel.