 CHAPTER 1 These are the words which Moses hath spoken unto all Israel, beyond the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain over against Suf, between Paran and Tovel, and Laban and Hazoroth and Dizahab, eleven days from Horeb, the way of Mount Seir, unto Kadesh Barnea, and it cometh to pass in the fortieth year in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, hath Moses spoken unto the sons of Israel, according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him concerning them, after his smiting Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshban, and Og, king of Bashan, who is dwelling in Ashtaroth, in Entriai, beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, hath Moses begun to explain this law, saying, Jehovah, our God, hath spoken unto us in Horeb, saying, Enough to you of dwelling in this mount, turn ye and journey for you, and enter the mount of the Amorite, and unto all its neighboring places, in the plain, in the hill country, and in the low country, and in the south, and in the haven of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and of Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Freight. See, I have set before you the land, go in and possess the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them, and to their seed after them. And I speak unto you at that time, saying, I am not able by myself to bear you. Jehovah, your God hath multiplied you and lo, ye are today as the stars of the heavens for multitude. Jehovah, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye are, a thousand times, and hath blessed you as he hath spoken to you. How do I bear by myself your pressure and your burden and your strife? Give for yourselves men wise and intelligent and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads, and ye answer me and say, Good is the thing which thou hast spoken to do. And I take the heads of your tribes, men, wise and known, and I appoint them heads over you, princes of thousands and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties and princes of tens, and authorities for your tribes. And I command your judges at that time, saying, Harkening between your brethren, then ye have judged righteousness between a man and his brother and his sojourner. Ye do not discern faces in judgment as the little, so the great, ye do hear. Ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it. And I command you at that time, all the things which ye do. And we journey from Horeb and go through all that great and fearful wilderness which ye have seen, the way of the hill country of the Amorite, as Jehovah our God hath commanded us, and we come in unto Kadesh, Parneya. And I say unto you, ye have come in unto the hill country of the Amorite, which Jehovah our God is giving to us. See, Jehovah thy God hath set before thee the land. Go up, possess, as Jehovah God of thy fathers hath spoken to thee. Fear not, nor be affrighted. And ye come near unto me, all of you, and say, Let us send men before us, and they search for us the land, and they bring us back word concerning the way in which we go up into it, and the cities unto which we come in. And the thing is good in mine eyes, and I take of you twelve men, one man for a tribe. And they turn and go up to the hill country, and come in unto the valley of Eshkal, and spy it. And they take with their hand of the fruit of the land, and bring down unto us, and bring us back word, and say, Good is the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us. And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, and murmur in your tents and say, In Jehovah's hating us, he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt to give us into thy hand of the emmerite to destroy us. Whither are we going up? Our brethren have melted our hearts, saying, Eight people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim we have seen there. And I say unto you, Be not terrified, nor be afraid of them. Jehovah your God who is going before you, he doth fight for you, according to all that he hath done with you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God hath borne thee as a man bareth his son, in all the way which ye have gone till you're coming in unto this place. And in this thing ye are not steadfast in Jehovah your God, who is going before you in the way to search out to you a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shoe you in the way in which ye go, and in a cloud by day. And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and his wrath, and sweareth, saying, Not one of these men of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers. Save Caleb, son of Japhune, he doth see it, and to him I give the land on which he hath trodden, and to his sons, because that he hath been fully after Jehovah. Also with me hath Jehovah been angry for your sake, saying, Also thou dost not go in thither. Joshua, son of Nun, who is standing before thee, he goeth in thither. Him strengthen thou, for he doth cause Israel to inherit. And your infants of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known today good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it. And ye turn for yourselves, and journey toward the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea. And ye answer, and say unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we, we go up, and we have fought according to all that which Jehovah our God hath commanded us. And ye gird on each his weapons of war, and ye are ready to go up into the hill country. And Jehovah sayeth unto me, Say to them, Ye do not go up, nor fight, for I am not in your midst, and ye are not smitted before your enemies. And I speak unto you, and ye have not hearkened, and provoke the mouth of Jehovah, and act proudly, and go up into the hill country. And the Amorite who is dwelling in that hill country cometh out to meet you, and they pursue you as the bees do, and smite you in seer unto Hormah. And ye turn back and weep before Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not hearkened to your voice, nor hath he given ear unto you, and ye dwell in Kadesh many days according to the days which ye had dwelt. Chapter 2 And we turn, and journey into the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea, as Jehovah hath spoken unto me, and we go round the mount of seer many days. And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, Enough to you is the going round of this mount, turn for yourselves northward. And the people command thou, saying, Ye are passing over into the border of your brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in seer, and they are afraid of you, and ye have been very watchful, ye do not strive with them, for I do not give to you of their land even the treading of the soul of a foot. For a possession to Esau I have given mount seer. Food ye buy from them with money, and have eaten, and also water ye buy from them with money, and have drunk. For Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hands. He hath known thy walking in this great wilderness these forty years. Jehovah thy God is with thee, thou hast not lacked anything. And we pass by from our brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in seer by the way of the plain, by Elath, and by Ezeon Gaber. And we turn and pass over the way of the wilderness of Moab. And Jehovah sayeth unto me, Do not distress Moab, nor stir thyself up against them in battle, for I do not give to thee of their land for a possession, for to the sons of Lot I have given are for a possession. The Emem formerly have dwelt in it, a people great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. Revayim they are reckoned, they also as the Anakim, and the Moabites call them Emem. And in seer have the Horim dwelt formerly, and the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead, as Israel hath done to the land of his possession, which Jehovah hath given to them. Now rise ye and pass over for yourselves the brook Zered, and we pass over the brook Zered. And the days which we have walked from Kadesh Barnea until that we have passed over the brook Zered, are thirty and eight years till the consumption of all the generation of the men of battle from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah hath sworn to them, and also the hand of Jehovah hath been against them to destroy them from the midst of the camp till they are consumed. And it cometh to pass when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people, that Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, Thou art passing over today the border of Moab, even are, and Thou hast come near over against the sons of Ammon. Thou dost not distress them, nor stir up thyself against them, for I do not give any of the land of the sons of Ammon to thee for a possession, for to the sons of Lot I have given it for a possession. A land of Refayim it is reckoned, even it. Refayim dwelt in it formerly, and the Ammonites call them Zamzumim. A people great and numerous and tall as the Anakim, and Jehovah destroyeth them before them, and they dispossess them and dwell in their stead, as he hath done for the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seer, when he destroyed the Horeim from before them, and they dispossess them and dwell in their stead unto this day. As to the Avim who are dwelling in Hazarim unto Azah, the Kaftarim, who are coming out from Kaftar, have destroyed them and dwell in their stead. Rise ye, journey and pass over the brook Arnan. See, I have given into thy hand Sihon, King of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land. Begin to possess and stir up thyself against him in battle. This day I begin to put thy dread and thy fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear thy fame, and have trembled and been pained because of thee. And I send messengers from the wilderness of Kedimoth unto Sihon, King of Heshbon, words of peace, saying, Let me pass over through thy land. In the several ways I go, I turn not aside, right or left. Food for money thou dost sell me, and I have eaten. And water for money thou dost give to me, and I have drunk. Only let me pass over on my feet. As the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seer, and the Moabites who are dwelling in Ar have done to me, till that I pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us. And Sihon, King of Heshbon, hath not been willing to let us pass over by him. For Jehovah thy God hath hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, so as to give him into thy hand as at this day. And Jehovah saith unto me, See, I have begun to give before thee Sihon and his land, begin to possess, to possess his land. And Sihon cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle to Jehaz. And Jehovah our God giveth him before us, and we smite him and his sons and all his people, and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men and the women and the infants, we have not left a remnant, only the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured, from Arowair which is by the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which is by the brook, even unto Gilead there hath not been a city which is too high for us, the whole hath Jehovah our God given before us. Only unto the land of the sons of Amon thou hast not drawn near, any part of the brook Jabok, and cities of the hill country, and anything which Jehovah our God hath not commanded. Chapter 3 And we turn and go up the way to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, come out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle to Edriai. And Jehovah saith unto me, Fear him not, for into thy hand I have given him, and all his people, and his land, and thou hast done to him as thou hast done to Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshban. And Jehovah our God giveth into our hands also, Og, king of Bashan, and all his people, and we smite him till there hath not been left to him a remnant. And we capture all his cities at that time, there hath not been a city which we have not taken from them, 60 cities, all the region of Argab, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these are cities fenced with high walls, two levate doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many. And we devote them, as we have done to Sihon king of Heshban, devoting every city, men, the women, and the infants, and all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities we have spoiled for ourselves. And we take at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorite, which is beyond the Jordan, from the brook Arnon unto Mount Hermon, Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Sinir. All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salka, and Edriai, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. For only Og, king of Bashan, had been left of the remnant of the Refayim. Lo, his bedstead is a bedstead of iron, is it not in Rabath of the Sons of Ammon? Nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, by the cubit of a man. And this land we have possessed at that time, from Arowair, which is by the brook Arnon, and the half of Mount Gilead, and its cities I have given to the Rubenite, and to the Gadite, and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I have given to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argab, to all that Bashan called the land of Refayim. Jair, son of Manasseh, hath taken all the region of Argab, unto the border of Gesurai, and Meachathai, and calleth them by his own name, Bashan Havoth Jair, unto this day. And to Makir I have given Gilead, and to the Rubenite, and to the Gadite, I have given from Gilead, even unto the brook Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border, even unto Jabak, the brook, the border of the sons of Ammon, and the plain, and the Jordan, and the border, from Chinareth, even unto the sea of the plain, the salt sea, under the springs of Pisca, at the sun rising. And I command you at that time, saying, Jehovah, your God hath given to you this land to possess it, armed ye pass over before your brethren the sons of Israel, all the sons of might. Only your wives, and your infants, and your cattle, I have known that ye have much cattle, do dwell in your cities which I have given to you, till that Jehovah give rest to your brethren like yourselves, and they also have possessed the land which Jehovah your God is giving to them beyond the Jordan, then ye have turned back each to his possession which I have given to you. And Jehoshua I have commanded that that time, saying, Thine eyes are seeing all that which Jehovah your God hath done to these two kings, so doth Jehovah to all the kingdoms wither thou are passing over. Fear them not, for Jehovah your God, he is fighting for you. And I entreat for grace unto Jehovah at that time, saying, Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to shoe thy servant thy greatness and thy strong hand, for who is a God in the heavens or in earth who doth according to thy works, and according to thy might. Let me pass over, I pray thee, and see the good land which is beyond the Jordan, this good hill country in Lebanon, and Jehovah shoeeth himself wroth with me for your sake, and hath not harkened unto me, and Jehovah sayeth unto me, enough for thee, add not to speak unto me any more about this thing. Go up to the top of Pischa, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with thine eyes, for thou dost not pass over this Jordan, and charge Jehovah, and strengthen him, and hearted him, for he doth pass over before this people, and he doth cause them to inherit the land which thou seest, and we dwell in a valley over against Beth Peore. Chapter 4 And now, Israel, harken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah, God of your fathers, is giving to you. Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you. Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal Peore, for every man who hath gone after Baal Peore, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst, and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God are alive, all of you today. See, I have taught you statutes and judgments as Jehovah my God hath commanded me to do so in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it, and ye have kept and done them, for it is your wisdom, and your understanding, before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, only a people wise and understanding is this great nation, for which is the great nation that hath God near unto it as Jehovah our God in all we have called unto him, and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you today. Only take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, unless they turn aside from thy heart all days of thy life, and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons. The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horab, in Jehovah's saying unto me, Assemble to me the people, and I cause them to hear my words, so that they learn to fear me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach, and ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens. Darkness, cloud, yea, thick darkness, and Jehovah speaketh unto you out of the midst of the fire, a voice of words ye are hearing, and a similitude ye are not seeing, only a voice. And he declareeth to you his covenant, which he hath commanded you to do, the ten matters, and he righteth them upon two tables of stone. And me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for you're doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it. And ye have been very watchful of your souls, for ye have not seen any similitude in the day of Jehovah's speaking unto you in Horab out of the midst of the fire, lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female, a form of any beast which is in the earth, a form of any winged bird which flyeth in the heavens, a form of any creeping thing on the earth, a form of any fish which is in the waters under the earth. And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens. And ye hath Jehovah taken, and he is bringing ye out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to him for a people, and inheritance as at this day. And Jehovah hath chewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land, which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and inheritance. For I am dying in this land. I am not passing over the Jordan, and ye are passing over, and have possessed this good land. Take he to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah, your God, which he hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image, a similitude of anything concerning which Jehovah thy God hath charged thee. For Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming a zealous God, when thou begettest sons and sons sons, and ye have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image, a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah to provoke him to anger. I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land, whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it. Ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed, and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations whither Jehovah leadeth you, and ye have served their gods, work of man's hands, wood and stone which see not, nor hear nor eat nor smell, and ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found when thou seekest him with all thy heart and with all thy soul, in distress being to thee, and all these things have found thee in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hast hearkened to his voice, for a merciful God is Jehovah thy God. He doth not fail thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he hath sworn to them, for ask I pray thee at the former days which hath been before thee, from the day that God prepared man on the earth, and from the one end of the heavens, even unto the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been as this great thing, or hath been heard like it, hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou and doth live, or hath God tried to go in to take to himself and nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you in Egypt before your eyes, thou, thou hast been shunet to know that Jehovah he is God, there is none else besides him, from the heavens he hath caused thee to hear his voice, to instruct thee, and on earth he hath shuned thee his great fire, and his words thou hast heard out of the midst of the fire, and because that he hath loved thy fathers, he doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out in his presence by his great power from Egypt, to dispossess nations greater and stronger than thou, from thy presence, to bring thee in to give to thee their land and inheritance as at this day, and thou hast known today, and hast turned it back unto thy heart, that Jehovah he is God, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath, there is none else, and thou hast kept his statutes and his commands which I am commanding thee today, so that it is well to thee and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is given to thee all the days. Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan, towards the sun rising, for the fleeing thither of the manslayer who slayeth his neighbor unknowingly, and he is not hating him here too for, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath lived, Bezair in the wilderness, in the land of the plain of the Rubinite, and Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadite, and Golan in Bashan of the Manassehite. And this is the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel. These are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses hath spoken unto the sons of Israel in their coming out of Egypt, beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Embrite, who is dwelling in Heshban, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have smitten in their coming out of Egypt, and they possess his land in the land of Agh king of Bashan, two kings of the Embrite who are beyond the Jordan towards the sun rising, from Arowair which is by the edge of the brook Arnan, even unto Mount Sion, which is Hermon, and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisca. CHAPTER V And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and sayeth unto them, Here Israel the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears today, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them. Jehovah our God made with us a covenant in Horeb, not with our fathers hath Jehovah made this covenant, but with us, we, these here today, all of us alive. Face to face hath Jehovah spoken with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire. I am standing between Jehovah and you at that time, to declare to you the word of Jehovah, for ye have been afraid from the presence of the fire, and ye have not gone up into the mount, saying, I Jehovah am thy God, who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants. Thou hast no other gods in my presence. Thou dost not make to thee a graven image, any similitude which is in the heavens above, and which is in the earth beneath, and which is in the waters under the earth. Thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third generation, and on a fourth, to those hating me, and doing kindness to thousands, to those loving me, and to those keeping my commands. Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up his name for a vain thing. Observe the day of the Sabbath, to sanctify it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou dost labor, and hast done all thy work, and the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God. Thou dost not do any work, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, so that thy manservant and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself. And thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God is bringing thee out-thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched out arm. Therefore hath Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the Sabbath. Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee. Thou dost not murder, thou dost not commit adultery, thou dost not steal, thou dost not answer against thy neighbor a false testimony, thou dost not desire thy neighbor's wife, nor dost thou covet thy neighbor's house, his field, and his manservant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which is thy neighbor's. These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, a great voice, and he hath not added, and he righteth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me. And it cometh to pass as ye hear the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and of the mountain burning with fire, that ye come near unto me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders, and say, Lo, Jehovah our God hath shooed us his honor, and his greatness, and his voice we have heard out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen that God doth speak with man, and he hath lived. And now, why do we die? For consume us doth this great fire, if we add to hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, then we have died. For who of all flesh is he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us, and doth live? Draw near thou, and hear all that which Jehovah our God sayeth, and thou dost speak unto us all that which Jehovah our God speaketh unto thee, and we have harkened and done it. And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and your speaking unto me, and Jehovah sayeth unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee. They have done well in all that they have spoken. Oh, that their heart had been thus to them to fear me, and to keep my commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons to the age. Go, say to them, turn back for yourselves to your tents, and thou here stand thou with me, and let me speak unto thee all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou dost teach them. And they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it. And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God have commanded you, ye turn not aside, right or left, in all the way which Jehovah your God have commanded you, ye walk, so that ye live, and it is well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, recording by Mark Penfold. The Book of Deuteronomy from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible, translated by Robert Young. Chapter 6 And this is the command, the statutes, and the judgments which Jehovah your God have commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commands, which I am commanding thee, thou and thy Son, and thy Son's Son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged. And thou hast heard, O Israel, and observed to do, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest multiply exceedingly, as Jehovah God of thy fathers hath spoken to thee in the land flowing with milk and honey. Here, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah, and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and these words which I am commanding thee today have been on thine heart, and thou hast repeated them to thy Son's, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes, and thou hast written them on doorposts of thy house and on thy gates. And it hath been when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land which he hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob to give to thee cities great and good, which thou hast not built, and houses full of all good things, which thou hast not filled, and wells digged which thou hast not digged, vineyards and olive yards which thou hast not planted, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied. Take he to thyself, lest thou forget Jehovah who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants. Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, and him thou dost serve, and by his name thou dost swear, ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you. For a zealous God is Jehovah thy God in thy midst, lest the anger of Jehovah thy God burn against thee, and he hath destroyed thee from off the face of the ground. Ye do not try Jehovah your God, as ye tried in Massa. Ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes which he hath commanded thee, and thou hast done that which is right and good in the eyes of Jehovah, so that it is well with thee, and thou hast gone in and possessed the good land which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence as Jehovah hath spoken. When thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah our God hath commanded you? Then thou hast said to thy son, Servants we have been to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Jehovah bringeth us out of Egypt by a high hand, and Jehovah giveth signs and wonders great and sad on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and in all his house before our eyes, and us he hath brought out vents in order to bring us in, to give to us the land which he hath sworn to our fathers, and Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God for good to ourselves all the days, to keep us alive as at this day, and righteousness it is for us, when we observe to do all this command before Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us. When Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, and he hath cast out many nations from thy presence, the Hittite, and the Gurgoshite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Parazite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than thou, and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them, thou dost utterly devote them, thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favor them, and thou dost not join in marriage with them, thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son, for he doth turn aside thy son from after me, and they have served other gods, and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and hath destroyed thee hastily, but thus thou dost to them. Their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire. For a holy people art thou to Jehovah thy God. On thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed to be to him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground. Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you and fixeth on you, for ye are the least of all the peoples, but because of Jehovah's loving you, and because of his keeping the oath which he hath sworn to your fathers hath Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and doth ransom you from the house of servants from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and thou hast known that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant and the kindness to those loving him, and to those keeping his commands, to a thousand generations, and repaying to those hating him unto their face to destroy them. He delayeth not to him who is hating him unto his face he repayeth to him, and thou hast kept the command in the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding thee today to do them. And it hath been because ye hear these judgments and hath kept and done them that Jehovah thy God hath kept to thee the covenant and the kindness which he hath sworn to thy fathers, and hath loved thee and blessed thee and multiplied thee, and hath blessed the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn in thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thine oxen and the wealth of thy flock, on the ground which he hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee. Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman, nor among your cattle. And Jehovah hath turned aside from thee every sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou hast known, doth he put on thee, and he hath put them on all hating thee. And thou hast consumed all the peoples whom Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thine eye hath no pity on them, and thou dost not serve their gods for a snare it is to thee. When thou sayest in thine heart, these nations are more numerous than I. How am I able to dispossess them? Thou art not afraid of them. Thou dost surely remember that which Jehovah thy God hath done to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, the great trials which thine eyes have seen, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched out arm with which Jehovah thy God hath brought thee out. So doth Jehovah thy God to all the peoples of whose presence thou art afraid, and also the locust doth Jehovah thy God send among them till the destruction of those who are left and of those who are hidden from thy presence. Thou art not terrified by their presence, for Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a God great and fearful, and Jehovah thy God hath cast out these nations from thy presence little by little. Thou art not able to consume them hastily, lest the beast of the field multiply against thee. And Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee and destroyed them, a great destruction till their destruction, and he hath given their kings into thy hand, and thou hast destroyed their name from under the heavens. No man doth station himself in thy presence till thou hast destroyed them. The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire, thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken it to thyself, lest thou be snared by it for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it is. And thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house, or thou hast been devoted like it, thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it, for it is devoted. All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to-do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers, and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know that which is in thy heart, whether thou dost keep his commands or not. And he doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger, and doth cause thee to eat the manna which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known, in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live. Thy raiment hath not worn out from off thee, and thy foot hath not swelled these forty years, and thou hast known with thy heart that as a man chastiseth his son, Jehovah thy God is chastising thee, and thou hast kept the commands of Jehovah thy God to walk in his ways and to fear him. For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains and of depths, coming out in valley and in mountain, a land of wheat and barley and vine and fig and pomegranate, a land of oil, olive and honey, a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass, and thou hast eaten and been satisfied, and hast blessed Jehovah thy God on the good land which he hath given to thee. Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget Jehovah thy God so as not to keep his commands and his judgments and his statutes which I am commanding thee today. Lest thou eat and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build and hast inhabited, and thy herd and thy flock be multiplied, and silver and gold be multiplied to thee, and all that is thine be multiplied, and thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God, who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants, who is causing thee to go in the great and terrible wilderness, burning serpent and scorpion and thirst, where there is no water, who is bringing out to thee waters from the flinty rock, who is causing thee to eat manna in the wilderness which thy fathers have not known in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee, to do the good in thy latter end, and thou hast said in thy heart, my power and the might of my hand hath made for me this wealth, and thou hast remembered Jehovah thy God, for he it is who is giving to the power to make wealth in order to establish his covenant which he hath sworn to thy fathers as at this day, and it hath been if thou really forget Jehovah thy God, and hast gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed thyself to them, I have testified against you today that ye do utterly perish, as the nations whom Jehovah is destroying from your presence, so ye perish, because ye harken not to the voice of Jehovah your God. Chapter 9 Here, Israel, thou art passing over today the Jordan to go into possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced in the heavens, a people great and tall, sons of Anakim, whom thou, thou hast known, and thou, thou hast heard, who doth station himself before sons of Anak, and thou hast known today that Jehovah thy God is he who is passing over before thee, a fire consuming. He doth destroy them, and he doth humble them before thee, and thou hast dispossessed them, and destroyed them hastily, as Jehovah hath spoken to thee. Thou dost not speak in thy heart, in Jehovah thy gods driving them away from before thee, saying, For my righteousness hath Jehovah brought me in to possess this land, seeing for the wickedness of these nations is Jehovah dispossessing them from thy presence. Not for thy righteousness, and for the uprightness of thy heart, art thou going in to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from before thee, and in order to establish the word which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and thou hast known that not for thy righteousness is Jehovah thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck, thou art. Remember, do not forget, that with which thou hast made Jehovah thy God wroth in the wilderness, even from the day that thou hast come out of the land of Egypt till you're coming in unto this place, rebels ye have been with Jehovah. Even in Horeb ye have made Jehovah wroth, and Jehovah shooeth himself angry against you, to destroy you, in my going up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, tables of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you, and I abide in the mount forty days and forty nights, bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, and Jehovah giveth unto me the two tables of stone, written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which Jehovah hath spoken with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, and it cometh to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, Jehovah hath given unto me the two tables of stone, tables of the covenant, and Jehovah sayeth unto me, rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt, they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them, they have made to themselves a molten thing, and Jehovah speaketh unto me saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it is, desist from me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty enumerous than it, and I turn and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands, and I see, and lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah your God, ye have made to yourselves a molten calf, ye have turned aside hastily out of the way which Jehovah hath commanded you, and I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes, and I throw myself before Jehovah, as at first forty days and forty nights, bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, because of all your sins which ye have sinned by doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah to make him angry, for I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which Jehovah hath been wroth against you to destroy you, and Jehovah doth hearken unto me also at this time, and with Aaron hath Jehovah shoot himself very angry to destroy him, and I pray also for Aaron at that time, and your sin which ye have made, the calf I have taken, and I burn it with fire and beat it, grinding well till that it is small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount, and in Tabara, and in Massa, and in Kebrov hath to Avah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth, and in Jehovah sending you from Kadesh Barnea saying, go up and possess the land which I have given to you, then ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, and have not given credence to him, nor hearkened to his voice, rebels ye have been with Jehovah from the day of mine knowing you, and I throw myself before Jehovah the forty days and the forty nights as I had thrown myself for Jehovah hath said to destroy you, and I pray unto Jehovah and say, Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance whom thou hast ransomed in thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a strong hand, be mindful of thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, turn not unto the stiffness of this people and unto its wickedness and unto its sin, lest the land say from which thou hast brought us out, because of Jehovah's want of ability to bring them in unto the land of which he hath spoken to them, and because of his hating them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness, and they are thy people and thine inheritance whom thou hast brought out by thy great power and by thy stretched out arm. Chapter 10 At that time hath Jehovah said unto me, grave for the two tables of stone like the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and thou hast made for thee an ark of wood, and I write on the tables the words which were on the first tables, which thou hast broken, and thou hast placed them in the ark, and I make an ark of shit and wood, and grave two tables of stone like the first, and go up to the mount, and the two tables in my hand, and he writeeth on the tables according to the first writing, the ten matters which Jehovah hath spoken unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, and Jehovah giveth them unto me, and I turn and come down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and they are there as Jehovah commanded me. And the sons of Israel have journeyed from Be'eroth of the sons of Jeachon to Moserah. There Aaron died, and he is buried there, and Eliasar his son doth act as priest in his stead. Thence they journeyed to Godgoda, and from Godgoda to Jotbatha, a land of brooks of water. At that time hath Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah, to serve him, and to bless in his name unto this day. Therefore there hath not been to Levi a portion and inheritance with his brethren. Jehovah himself is his inheritance, as Jehovah thy God hath spoken to him. And I I have stood in the mount as the former days, forty days and forty nights, and Jehovah harkeneth unto me also at that time. Jehovah hath not willed to destroy thee, and Jehovah saith unto me, rise, go to journey before the people, and they go in and possess the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them. And now Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, to keep the commands of Jehovah and his statutes, which I am commanding thee today, for good to thee. Lo, to Jehovah thy God are the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth, and all that is in it. Only in thy fathers hath Jehovah delighted to love them, and he doth fix on their seed after them, on you, out of all the peoples as at this day, and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more. For Jehovah your God, he is God of the gods, and Lord of the lords, God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, who accept if not persons, nor taketh a bribe. He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner to give to him bread and raiment, and ye have loved the sojourner, for sojourners ye were in the land of Egypt. Jehovah thy God, thou dost fear, him thou dost serve, and to him thou dost cleave, and by his name thou dost swear. He is thy praise, and he is thy God, who hath done with thee these great and fearful things which thine eyes have seen. With seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude. The end of chapters six through ten of the Book of Deuteronomy. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters eleven through fifteen of the Book of Deuteronomy. This liprivox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Mark Penfold. The Book of Deuteronomy from the Young's literal translation of the Bible, translated by Robert Young. Chapter eleven And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his commands all the days. And ye have known today, for it is not your sons who have not known and who have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah, your God, his greatness, his strong hand, and his stretched out arm, and his signs, and his doings, which he hath done in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to all his land, and that which he hath done to the force of Egypt, to its horses, and to its chariot, when he hath caused the waters of the Red Sea to flow against their faces in their pursuing after them, and Jehovah destroyed them unto this day, and that which he hath done to you in the wilderness, till you're coming in unto this place, and that which he hath done to Dathan, and to Abiram, sons of Eliab, sons of Reuben, when the earth hath opened her mouth, and swallow with them, and their houses, and their tents, and all that liveth, which is at their feet, in the midst of all Israel, but it is your eyes which are seeing all the great work of Jehovah which he hath done, and ye have kept all the command which I am commanding thee today, so that ye are strong, and have gone in, and possessed the land whither ye are passing over to possess it, and so that ye prolong days on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey, for the land whither thou art going into possess it is not as the land of Egypt whence ye have come out, where thou sowest thy seed and hast watered with thy foot as a garden of the green herb, but the land whither ye are passing over to possess it is a land of hills and valleys, of the rain of the heavens it drinketh water, a land which Jehovah thy God is searching, continually are the eyes of Jehovah thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the latter end of the year, and it hath been, if thou harken diligently unto my commands, which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I have given the rain of your land in its season, sprinkling and gathered, and thou hast gathered thy corn and thy new wine and thine oil, and I have given herbs in thy field for thy cattle, and thou hast eaten and been satisfied. Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and ye have turned aside and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and he hath restrained the heavens, and there is no rain, and the ground doth not give her increase, and ye have perished hastily from off the good land which Jehovah is giving to you, and ye have placed these my words on your heart and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes, and ye have taught them to your sons by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, and hast written them on the sideposts of thy house and on thy gates so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them as the days of the heavens on the earth, for if ye diligently keep all this command which I am commanding you to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways and to cleave to him, then hath Jehovah dispossessed all these nations from before you, and ye have possessed nations greater and mightier than you, every place on which the soul of your foot treadeth is yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river freight, even unto the farther sea is your border. No man doth station himself in your presence, your dread and your fear doth Jehovah your God put on the face of all the land on which ye tread as he hath spoken to you. See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a reviling, the blessing when ye harken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today, and the reviling if ye do not harken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you today to go after other gods which ye have not known. And it hath been when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going into possess it, that thou hast given the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the reviling on Mount Ebal. Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going in of the sun in the land of the Canaanite, who is dwelling in the plain over against Gilgal, near the oaks of Moray? For ye are passing over the Jordan to go into possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, and ye have possessed it and dwelt in it and observed to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today. CHAPTER XII These are the statutes and the judgments which ye observe to do in the land which Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath given to thee to possess it all the days that ye are living on the ground. Ye do utterly destroy all the places where the nations which ye are dispossessing served their gods on the high mountains and on the heights and under every green tree. And ye have broken down their altars and shivered their standing pillars and their shrines ye burn with fire and graven images of their gods ye cut down and have destroyed their name out of that place. Ye do not do so to Jehovah your God but unto the place which Jehovah your God doth choose out of all your tribes to put his name there to his tabernacle ye seek and thou hast entered thither and hast brought in thither your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and the heave offering of your hand and your vows and your free will offerings and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock. And ye have eaten there before Jehovah your God and have rejoiced in every putting forth of your hand ye and your households with which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee. Ye do not do according to all that we are doing here today. Each anything that is right in his own eyes. For ye have not come in hitherto unto the rest and unto the inheritance which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee. And ye have passed over the Jordan and have dwelt in the land which Jehovah your God is causing you to inherit. And ye have given rest to you from all your enemies round about and ye have dwelt confidently. And it hath been the place on which Jehovah your God doth fix to cause his name to tabernacle there thither ye bring in all that which I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all the choice of your vows which ye vow to Jehovah. And ye have rejoiced before Jehovah your God, ye and your sons and your daughters and your men-servants and your handmaids and the Levite who is within your gates. For he hath no part and inheritance with you. Take heed to thee, lest thou cause thy burnt offerings to ascend in any place which thou seest, except in the place which Jehovah doth choose in one of thy tribes, there thou dost cause thy burnt offerings to ascend, and there thou dost do all that which I am commanding thee. Only with all the desire of thy soul thou dost sacrifice and hast eaten flesh according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which ye have given to thee in all thy gates. The unclean and the clean do eat it as of the row and as of the heart. Only the blood ye do not eat on the earth thou dost pour it as water. Thou art not able to eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn and of thy new wine and thine oil and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock and any of thy vows which thou vallest and thy free will offerings and heave offering of thy hand. But before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God doth fix on thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manservant and thy handmaid and the Levite who is within thy gates and thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God in every putting forth of thy hand. Take heed to the lest thou forsake the Levite all thy days on thy ground. When Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border as he hath spoken to thee and thou hast said let me eat flesh for thy soul desireth to eat flesh. Of all the desire of thy soul thou dost eat flesh. When the place is far from the which Jehovah thy God doth choose to put his name there then thou hast sacrificed of thy herd and of thy flock which Jehovah hath given to thee as I have commanded thee and hast eaten within thy gates of all the desire of thy soul. Only as the row and the heart is eaten so dost thou eat it. The unclean and the clean doth alike eat it only be sure not to eat the blood for the blood is the life and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh. Thou dost not eat it. On the earth thou dost pour it as water. Thou dost not eat it in order that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee when thou dost that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah. Only thy holy things which thou hast and thy vows thou dost take up and hast gone in unto the place which Jehovah doth choose and thou hast made thy burnt offerings the flesh and the blood on the altar of Jehovah thy God and the blood of thy sacrifices is poured out by the altar of Jehovah thy God and the flesh thou dost eat. Observe and thou hast obeyed all these words which I am commanding thee in order that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee to the age when thou dost that which is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God. When Jehovah thy God doth cut off the nations whither thou art going in to possess them from thy presence and thou hast possessed them and hast dwelt in their land take heed to thee lest thou be snared after them after they're being destroyed out of thy presence and lest thou inquire about their gods saying how do these nations serve their gods and I do so even I thou dost not do so to Jehovah thy God for every abomination of Jehovah which he is hating they have done to their gods for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire to their gods the whole thing which I am commanding you it ye observe to do thou dost not add unto it nor diminish from it. Chapter 13 When there arises in your midst a prophet or a dreamer of a dream and he hath given unto thee a sign or wonder and the sign and the wonder hath come which he hath spoken of unto thee saying let us go after other gods which thou hast not known and serve them thou dost not harken unto the words of that prophet or unto that dreamer of the dream for Jehovah your God is trying you to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul after Jehovah your God ye walk and him ye fear and his commands ye keep and to his voice ye harken and him ye serve and to him ye cleave and that prophet or that dreamer of the dream is put to death for he hath spoken apostasy against Jehovah your God who is bringing you out of the land of Egypt and hath ransomed you out of a house of servants to drive you out of the way in which Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee to walk and thou hast put away the evil thing from thy midst when thy brother son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend who is as thine own soul doth move thee in secret saying let us go and serve other gods which thou hast not known thou and thy fathers of the gods of the peoples who are round about you who are near unto thee or who are far off from thee from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth thou dost not consent to him nor harken unto him nor doth thine eye have pity on him nor dost thou spare nor dost thou cover him over but thou dost surely kill him thy hand is on him in the first place to put him to death and the hand of all the people last and thou hast stoned him with stones and he hath died for he hath sought to drive thee away from Jehovah thy God who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt out of a house of servants and all Israel do here and fear and add not to do like this evil thing and thy midst when thou hearest in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to dwell there one saying men sons of worthlessness have gone out of thy midst and they force away the inhabitants of their city saying let us go and serve other gods which ye have not known and thou hast inquired and searched and asked diligently and lo truth the thing is established this abomination hath been done in thy midst thou dost surely smite the inhabitants of that city by the mouth of the sword devoting it and all that is in it even its cattle by the mouth of the sword and all it spoil thou dost gather unto the midst of its broad place and hast burned with fire the city and all it spoil completely before Jehovah thy God and it hath been a heap age-during it is not built any more and there doth not cleave to thy hand any of the devoted thing so that Jehovah doth turn back from the fierceness of his anger and hath given to the mercies and loved thee and multiplied thee as he hath sworn to thy fathers when thou dost harken to the voice of Jehovah thy God to keep all his commands which I am commanding thee today to do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God Chapter 14 Sons ye are to Jehovah your God ye do not cut yourselves nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead for a holy people art thou to Jehovah thy God and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to him for a people a peculiar treasure out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground thou dost not eat any abominable thing this is the beast which ye do eat ox lamb of the sheep or kid of the goats heart and row and fallow deer and wild goat and pygarg and wild ox and chammy and every beast dividing the hoof and cleaving the cleft into two hoofs bringing up the cud among the beasts it ye do eat only this ye do not eat of those bringing up the cud and of those dividing the cloven hoof the camel and the hare and the rabbit for they are bringing up the cud but the hoof have not divided unclean they are to you and the sow for it is dividing the hoof and not bringing up the cud unclean it is to you of their flesh ye do not eat and against their carcass ye do not come this ye do eat of all that are in the waters all that hath fins and scales ye do eat and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat unclean it is to you any clean bird ye do eat and these are they of which ye do not eat the eagle and the ossephrage and the osprey and the gleed and the kite and the vulture after its kind and every raven after its kind and the owl and the nighthawk and the cuckoo and the hawk after its kind the little owl and the great owl and the swan and the pelican and the gyre eagle and the cormorant and the stork and the heron after its kind and the lapwing and the bat And every teeming thing which is flying, Unclean it is to you, they are not eaten. Any clean fowl ye do eat, Ye do not eat of any carcass, To the sojourner who is within thy gates Thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it, Or sell it to a stranger, For a holy people thou art to Jehovah thy God, Thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Thou dost certainly tithe all the increase Of thy seed, which the field is bringing forth year by year, And thou hast eaten before Jehovah thy God In the place where he doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle, The tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, And of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd, and of thy flock, So that thou dost learn to fear Jehovah thy God all the days. And when the way is too much for thee, That thou art not able to carry it, When the place is too far off from thee, Which Jehovah thy God doth choose to put His name there, When Jehovah thy God doth bless thee, Then thou hast given it in money, And hast bound up the money in thy hand, And gone unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix, And thou hast given the money For anything which thy soul desireeth, For oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, And for strong drink, And for anything which thy soul asketh, And thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, And thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house. As to the Levite who is within thy gates, Thou dost not forsake him, For he hath no portion and inheritance with thee. At the end of three years, thou dost bring out all the tithe of thine increase in that year, And hast placed it within thy gates, And come in hath the Levite, For he hath no part in inheritance with thee. And the sojourner, and the fatherless, And the widow who are within thy gates, And they have eaten, and been satisfied, So that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee In all the work of thy hand, which thou dost. Chapter 15 At the end of seven years, thou dost make a release, And this is the matter of the release. Every owner of a loan is to release his hand, Which he doth lift up against his neighbor. He doth not exact of his neighbor and of his brother, But hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah. Of the stranger thou mayest exact, And that which is thine with thy brother, Doth thy hand release. Only when there is no needy one with thee, For Jehovah doth greatly bless thee in the land Which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, And inheritance to possess it. Only if thou dost diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, To observe to do all this command, which I am commanding thee today, For Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee as he hath spoken to thee, And thou hast lent to many nations, And thou hast not borrowed, And thou hast ruled over many nations, And over thee they do not rule. When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, In one of thy cities, in thy land, Which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, Thou dost not harden thy heart, Nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother, For thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, And dost certainly lend him sufficient For his lack which he lacketh. Take heed to thee, lest there be a word in thy heart, Worthless saying, Near is the seventh year, The year of release, and thine eye is evil against thine needy brother, And thou dost not give to him, And he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, And it hath been in thee sin. Thou dost certainly give to him, And thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him. For because of this thing, Doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, And in every putting forth of thy hand, Because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, Therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, To thy poor, and to thy needy one in thy land. When thy brother is sold to thee, A Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years, Then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee, And when thou dost send him away free from thee, Thou dost not send him away empty, Thou dost certainly encircle him Out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing floor, And out of thy wine vat, of that which Jehovah thy God hath Blessed thee, thou dost give to him. And thou hast remembered That a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, And Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee, Therefore I am commanding thee this thing today. And it hath been when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee, Because he hath loved thee and thy house, Because it is good for him with thee. Then thou hast taken thee all, And hast put it through his ear, And through the door, And he hath been to thee a servant aged during, And also to thy hand made thou dost do so. It is not hard in thine eyes, In thy sending him away free from thee, For the double of the higher Of an hireling he hath served thee six years, And Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost. Every firstling that is born in thy herd and in thy flock, The male thou dost sanctify to Jehovah thy God, Thou dost not work with the firstling of thine ox, Nor share the firstling of thy flock. Before Jehovah thy God, Thou dost eat it year by year, In the place which Jehovah doth Choose thou and thy house. And when there is in it a blemish, Lame or blind, any evil blemish, Thou dost not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God. Within thy gates thou dost eat it, The unclean and the clean alike as the row and as the heart. Only its blood thou dost not eat. On the earth thou dost pour it as water. CHAPTER XVI Observe the month of Abib, And thou hast made a Passover to Jehovah thy God, For in the month of Abib hath Jehovah thy God Brought thee out of Egypt by night, And thou hast sacrificed a Passover to Jehovah thy God, Of the flock and of the herd, In the place which Jehovah doth choose to cause his name to Tabernacle there. Thou dost not eat with it any fermented thing, Seven days thou dost eat with it unleavened things, Bread of affliction, For in haste thou hast come out of the Land of Egypt, So that thou dost remember the day of Thy coming out of the Land of Egypt all days of thy life. And there is not seen with the leaven and all thy borders, Seven days, and there doth not remain of the flesh which Thou dost sacrifice at evening on the first day till morning. Thou art not able to sacrifice the Passover within any of Thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, Except at the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to Cause his name to Tabernacle there. Thou dost sacrifice the Passover in the evening at the going in of the sun, The season of thy coming out of Egypt, And thou hast cooked and eaten in the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix, And hast turned in the morning and gone to thy tents. Six days thou dost eat unleavened things, And on the seventh day is a restraint to Jehovah thy God, Thou dost do no work. Seven weeks thou dost number to thee From the beginning of the sickle among the standing corn, Thou dost begin to number seven weeks, And thou hast made the feast of weeks to Jehovah thy God A tribute of a free will offering of thy hand, Which thou dost give as Jehovah thy God doth bless thee. And thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God, Thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy man servant And thy handmaid and the Levite who is within thy gates, And the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow Who are in thy midst, In the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose To cause his name to tabernacle there. And thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, And hast observed and done these statutes. The feast of booths thou dost make for these seven days, In thine ingathering of thy threshing floor, And of thy wine vat, And thou hast rejoiced in thy feast, Thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy man servant And thy handmaid and the Levite and the sojourner And the fatherless and the widow who are within thy gates. Seven days thou dost feast before Jehovah thy God, In the place which Jehovah doth choose, For Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all thine increase, And in every work of thy hands, And thou hast been only rejoicing. Three times in a year doth every one of thy males Appear before Jehovah thy God, In the place which he doth choose, In the feast of unleavened things, And in the feast of weeks, And in the feast of booths, And they do not appear before Jehovah empty, Each according to the gift of his hand, According to the blessing of Jehovah thy God, Which he hath given to thee. Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee Within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God Is giving to thee for thy tribes, And they have judged the people a righteous judgment. Thou dost not turn aside judgment, Thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, For the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, And perverteth the words of the righteous. Righteousness, righteousness thou dost pursue, So that thou livest and hast possessed the land Which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee. Thou dost not plant for thee a shrine Of any trees near the altar of Jehovah thy God, Which thou makest for thyself, And thou dost not raise up to thee any standing image Which Jehovah thy God is hating. Chapter 17 Thou dost not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God, Ox or sheep in which there is a blemish, Any evil thing, for it is the abomination Of Jehovah thy God. When there is found in thy midst in one of thy cities Which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, A man or a woman who doth the evil thing In the eyes of Jehovah thy God, By transgressing his covenant, And he doth go and serve other gods, And doth bow himself to them, And to the sun or to the moon, Or to any of the host of the heavens, Which I have not commanded, And it hath been declared to thee, And thou hast heard, and hast searched diligently, And lo, truth, the thing is established, This abomination hath been done in Israel. Then thou hast brought out that man or that woman Who hath done this evil thing unto thy gates, The man or the woman, And thou hast stoned them with stones, And they have died. By the mouth of two witnesses, Or of three witnesses, Is he who is dead put to death. He is not put to death by the mouth of one witness. The hand of the witnesses is on him In the first place to put him to death, And the hand of all the people last, And thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst. When anything is too hard for thee for judgment Between blood and blood, Between plea and plea, And between stroke and stroke, Matters of strife within thy gates, Then thou hast risen and gone up Unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix, And hast come in unto the priests, The Levites, And unto the judge who is in those days, And hast inquired, And they have declared to thee the word of judgment, And thou hast done according to the tenor of the word, Which they declare to thee, They of that place which Jehovah doth choose, And thou hast observed to do according to all That they direct thee, According to the tenor of the law which they direct thee, And according to the judgment which they say to thee, Thou dost do, Thou dost not turn aside from the word Which they declare to thee, Right or left, And the man who acted with presumption, So as not to hearken unto the priest, Who is standing to serve their Jehovah thy God, Or unto the judge, Even that man hath died, And thou hast put away the evil thing from Israel, And all the people do hear and fear, And do not presume any more. When thou comest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God Is giving to thee, And hast possessed it, And dwelt in it, And thou hast said, Let me set over me a king like all the nations Which are round about me. Thou dost certainly set over thee a king On whom Jehovah doth fix. From the midst of thy brethren Thou dost set over thee a king, Thou art not able to set over thee a stranger Who is not thy brother. Only he doth not multiply to himself horses, Nor cause the people to turn back to Egypt, So as to multiply horses, Seeing Jehovah hath said to you, Ye do not add to turn back in this way any more. And he doth not multiply to himself wives, And his heart doth not turn aside, And silver and gold he doth not multiply to himself exceedingly. And it hath been when he sitteth on the throne of his kingdom That he hath written for himself the copy of this law On a book from that before the priests, the Levites, And it hath been with him, And he hath read in it all days of his life So that he doth learn to fear Jehovah his God, To keep all the words of this law And these statutes to do them, So that his heart is not high above his brethren, And so as not to turn aside from the command right or left, So that he prelongeth days over his kingdom, He and his sons in the midst of Israel. There is not to the priests the Levites, All the tribe of Levi, A portion and inheritance with Israel, Fire offerings of Jehovah, Even his inheritance they eat, And he hath no inheritance in the midst of his brethren. Jehovah himself is his inheritance, As he hath spoken to him. And this is the priests' right from the people, From those sacrificing a sacrifice, Whether ox or sheep, He hath even given to the priest The leg and the two cheeks and the stomach, The first of thy corn, of thy new wine, And of thine oil, and the first of the fleece Of thy flock thou dost give to him. For on him hath Jehovah thy God fixed Out of all thy tribes, To stand to serve in the name of Jehovah, He and his sons continually. And when the Levite cometh from one of thy cities Out of all Israel, where he hath sojourned, And hath come with all the desire of his soul Unto the place which Jehovah doth choose, Then he hath ministered in the name of Jehovah his God, Like all his brethren, the Levites, Who are standing there before Jehovah, Portion as portion they do eat, Apart from his sold things with the fathers. When thou art coming in unto the land Which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, Thou dost not learn to do according To the abominations of those nations. There is not found in thee one causing his son And his daughter to pass over into fire, A user of divinations, an observer of clouds, And an enchanter, and a sorcerer, And a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, And a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead. For the abomination of Jehovah is everyone doing these, And because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God Dispossessing them from thy presence. Perfect thou art with Jehovah thy God, For these nations whom thou art possessing, Unto observers of clouds and unto diviners do hearken, And thou not so hath Jehovah thy God suffered thee. A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, Like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee, Unto him ye hearken. According to all that thou didst ask from Jehovah thy God In Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not add to hear the voice of Jehovah my God, And this great fire let me not see any more, And I die not. And Jehovah saith unto me, They have done well that they have spoken. A prophet I raise up to them, Out of the midst of their brethren like to thee, And I have given my words in his mouth, And he hath spoken unto them all that which I command him, And it hath been, the man who doth not hearken, Unto my words which he doth speak in my name, I require it of him. Only the prophet who presumeth to speak a word in my name, That which I have not commanded him to speak, And who speaketh in the name of other gods, Even that prophet hath died. And when thou sayest in thy heart, How do we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken? That which the prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah, And the thing is not, and cometh not, It is the word which Jehovah hath not spoken, In presumption hath the prophet spoken it, Thou art not afraid of him. CHAPTER 19 When Jehovah thy God doth cut off the nations Whose land Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, And thou hast succeeded them and dwelt in their cities And in their houses, Three cities thou dost separate for thee In the midst of thy land, Which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it. Thou dost prepare for thee the way, And hast divided into three parts the border of thy land, Which Jehovah thy God doth cause thee to inherit, And it hath been for the fleeing thither Of every manslayer. And this is the matter of the manslayer Who flee a thither and hath lived. He who smiteeth his neighbor unknowingly And is not hating him here too for, Even he who cometh in with his neighbor Into a forest to hew wood, And his hand hath driven with an axe to cut the tree, And the iron hath slipped from the wood, And hath met his neighbor, and he hath died. He doth flee unto one of these cities, And hath lived lest the redeemer of blood pursue After the manslayer when his heart is hot, And hath overtaken him, because the way is great, And hath smitten him, the life, And he hath no sentence of death, For he is not hating him here too for. Therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee, And if Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, As he hath sworn to thy fathers, And hath given to thee all the land Which he hath spoken to give to thy fathers, When thou keepest all this command to do it, Which I am commanding thee today, To love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in his ways all the days, Then thou hast added to thee yet three cities to these three, And innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land, Which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, And inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood. And when a man is hating his neighbor, And hath lain and wait for him, And risen against him, and smitten him, The life, and he hath died, and he hath fled Unto one of these cities, then the elders of his city Have sent and taken him from thence, And given him into the hand of the Redeemer of blood, And he hath died. Thine eye hath no pity on him, And thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, And it is well with thee. Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbor, Which they of former times have made in thine inheritance, Which thou dost inherit in the land, Which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it. One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, And for any sin in any sin which he sinneth, By the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, Is a thing established. When a violent witness doth rise against a man, To testify against him apostasy, Then hath both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, Before the priests and the judges who are in those days, And the judges have searched diligently and lo, The witness is a false witness, A falsehood he hath testified against his brother, Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, And thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst, And those who are left do hear and fear, And add not to do any more according to this evil thing, And thine eye doth not pity, Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. When thou goest out to battle against thine enemy, And hast seen horse and chariot, A people more numerous than thou, Thou art not afraid of them, For Jehovah thy God is with thee, Who is bringing thee up out of the land of Egypt, And it hath been in your drawing near unto the battle, That the priests hath come nigh and spoken unto the people, And said unto them, Here Israel ye are drawing near today to battle against your enemies, Let not your hearts be tender, fear not, nor make haste, Nor be terrified at their presence. For Jehovah your God is he who is going with you, To fight for you with your enemies to save you. And the authorities have spoken unto the people saying, Who is the man that hath built a new house, And hath not dedicated it? Let him go and turn back to his house lest he die in battle, And another man dedicated. And who is the man that hath planted a vineyard, And hath not made it common? Let him go and turn back to his house lest he die in battle, And another man make it common. And who is the man that hath betrothed a woman, And hath not taken her? Let him go and turn back to his house lest he die in battle, And another man take her. And the authorities have added to speak unto the people, and said, Who is the man that is afraid and tender of heart? Let him go and turn back to his house, and the heart of his brethren doth not melt like his heart. And it hath come to pass as the authorities finish to speak unto the people, that they have appointed princes of the hosts at the head of the people. When thou drawest near unto a city to fight against it, then thou hast called unto it for peace. And it hath been if peace it answer thee, and hath opened to thee. Then it hath come to pass, all the people who are found in it are to thee for tributaries and have served thee. And if it doth not make peace with thee, and hath made with thee war, then thou hast laid siege against it, and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword. The women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all it spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee. So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. Only of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee for an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing. For thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Parasite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God. And thou laest siege unto a city many days to fight against it, to capture it. Thou dost not destroy its trees to force an axe against them. For of them thou dost eat, and them thou dost not cut down. For man's is the tree of the field, to go in at thy presence in the siege. Only the tree which thou knowest that it is not a fruit tree, it thou dost destroy, it hast cut down, and hast built a bulwark against the city which is making with thee war, till thou hast subdued it. The end of chapters 16 through 20 of the Book of Deuteronomy. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapters 21 through 25 of the Book of Deuteronomy. This Librivox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Mark Penfold. The Book of Deuteronomy from the Young's Literal translation of the Bible. Translated by Robert Young. Chapter 21 When one is found slain on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it, fallen in a field, it is not known who hath smitten him. Then have thine elders and thy judges gone out and measured unto the cities which are round about the slain one. And it hath been the city which is near unto the slain one. Even the elders of that city have taken a heifer of the herd which hath not been wrought with, which hath not drawn in the yoke. And the elders of that city have brought down the heifer unto a hard valley which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded there the heifer in the valley. And the priests, sons of Levi, have come nigh. For on them hath Jehovah thy God fixed to serve him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah, and by their mouth is every strife and every stroke. And all the elders of that city who are near unto the slain one do wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley. And they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen. Receive atonement for thy people Israel, whom thou hast ransomed, O Jehovah, and suffer not innocent blood in the midst of thy people Israel, and the blood hath been pardoned to them, and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah. When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity, and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife, then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails, and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her, and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife, and it hath been, if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money, thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her. When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons, the loved one and the hated one, and the first born son hath been to the hated one, then it hath been in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare firstborn the son of the loved one in the face of the son of the hated one, the firstborn. But the firstborn, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he is the beginning of his strength, to him is the right of the firstborn. When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious, he is not harkening to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not harken unto them. When late hold on him hath his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place, and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son, this one, is apostatizing and rebellious, he is not harkening to our voice, a glutton and drunkard, and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear. And when there is in a man a sin, a cause of death, and he hath been put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a tree, his corpse doth not remain on the tree, for thou dost certainly bury him in that day, for a thing lightly esteemed of God is the hanged one, and thou dost not defile thy ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and inheritance. CHAPTER XXII Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother, or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother, and if thy brother is not near unto thee, and thou hast not known him, then thou hast removed it unto the midst of thy house, and it hath been with thee till thy brother seek it, and thou hast given it back to him. And so thou dost to his ass, and so thou dost to his garment, and so thou dost to any lost things of thy brothers which is lost by him, and thou hast found it. Thou art not able to hide thyself. Thou dost not see the ass of thy brother, or his ox falling in the way, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly raise them up with him. The habiliments of a man are not on a woman, nor doth a man put on the garment of a woman, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God is any one doing these. When a bird's nest cometh before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, brood or eggs, and the mother sitting on the brood or on the eggs, thou dost not take the mother with the young ones, thou dost certainly send away the mother, and the young ones dost take to thyself, so that it is well with thee, and thou hast prolonged days. When thou buildest a new house, then thou hast made a parapet to thy roof, and thou dost not put blood on thy house when one falleth from it. Thou dost not sow thy vineyard with diverse things, lest the fullness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard be separated. Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together. Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool, and linen together. Fringes thou dost make to thee on the four skirts of thy covering, with which thou dost cover thyself. When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her, and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity. Then hath the father of the damsel and her mother taken and brought out the tokens of virginity of the damsel unto the elders of the city in the gate, and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her, and lo, he hath laid actions of words, saying I have not found to thy daughter tokens of virginity, and these are the tokens of the virginity of my daughter, and they have spread out the garment before the elders of the city, and the elders of that city have taken the man and chastise him, and find him a hundred silverlings, and given to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel, and she is to him for a wife. He is not able to send her away all his days. And if this thing hath been truth, tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel, then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel to go a whoring in her father's house, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst. When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died, even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel. When there is a damsel, a virgin betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city and lain with her, then he hath brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died, the damsel because that she hath not cried, being in a city, and the man because that he hath humbled his neighbor's wife, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst. And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone, and to the damsel thou dost not do anything, the damsel hath no deadly sin. For as a man riseth against his neighbor, and hath murdered him, the life, so is this thing. For in a field he found her, she hath cried, the damsel who is betrothed, and she hath no savior. When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her and lain with her, and they have been found, then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel, fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife, because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days. A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt. CHAPTER XXIII One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah. A bastard doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah, even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah. An ammonite and a moabite doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah, even a tenth generation of them doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah to the age, because that they have not come before you with bread and with water in the way in your coming out from Egypt, and because he hath hired against the Balaam, son of Bior, of Pethor, of Aram, Naharaim, to revile thee. And Jehovah thy God hath not been willing to hearken unto Balaam, and Jehovah thy God doth turn for thee the reviling to a blessing, because Jehovah thy God hath loved thee. Thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days to the age. Thou dost not abominate an etymite, for thy brother he is. Thou dost not abominate an Egyptian, for a sojourner thou hast been in his land. Sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them doth enter into the assembly of Jehovah. When a camp goeth out against thine enemies, then thou hast kept from every evil thing. When there is in thee a man who is not clean from an accident at night, then he hath gone out unto the outside of the camp, he doth not come in unto the midst of the camp, and it hath been at the turning of the evening, he doth bathe with water, and at the going in of the sun, he doth come in unto the midst of the camp. And a station thou hast at the outside of the camp, and thou hast gone out thither without. And a nail thou hast on thy staff, and it hath been in thy sitting without, that thou hast digged with it, and turned back and covered thy filth. For Jehovah thy God is walking up and down in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee, and to give thine enemies before thee, and thy camp hath been holy. And he doth not see in thee the nakedness of anything, and hath turned back from after thee. Thou dost not shut up a servant unto his Lord, who is delivered unto thee from his Lord. With thee, he doth dwell in thine midst, in the place which he chooseth within one of thy gates, where it is pleasing to him. Thou dost not oppress him. There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whore monger among the sons of Israel. Thou dost not bring a gift of a whore, or a price of a dog into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God are even both of them. Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother, usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury. To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land wither thou goest in to possess it. When thou thouest a vow to Jehovah thy God, thou dost not delay to complete it, for Jehovah thy God doth certainly require it from thee, and it hath been in thee sin. And when thou forbearest to vow, it is not in thee a sin. The produce of thy lips thou dost keep, and hast done it, as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God, a free will offering which thou hast spoken with thy mouth. When thou comest in unto the vineyard of thy neighbor, then thou hast eaten grapes, according to thy desire, thy sufficiency. But into thy vessel thou dost not put any. When thou comest in among the standing corn of thy neighbor, then thou hast plucked the ears with thy hand. But a sickle thou dost not wave over the standing corn of thy neighbor. 24 When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been if she doth not find grace in his eyes, for he hath found in her nakedness of anything, and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given it into her hand, and sent her out of his house, and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given it into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dyeth who hath taken her to himself for a wife. Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled. For an abomination it is before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and inheritance. When a man takeeth a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and one doth not pass over unto him for anything. Free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken. None doth taken pledge millstones, and writer, for life it is he is taking in pledge. When a man is found stealing a person of his brethren of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst. Take heed in the plague of leprosy to watch greatly, and to do according to all that the priests, the Levites, teach you, as I have commanded them, ye observe to do. Remember that which Jehovah thy God hath done to Miriam in the way in your coming out of Egypt. When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge. At the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting it up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside. And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge. Thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee, and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God. Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates. In his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he is poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin. Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers, each for his own sin they are put to death. Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow. And thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee from thence. Therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing. When thou repest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow it is, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands. When thou beatest thine olive, thou dost not examine the branch behind thee, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow it is. When thou cutest thy vineyard, thou dost not glean behind thee, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow it is. And thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing. Chapter 25 When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong doer, then it has come to pass if the wrong doer is to be smitten, that the judge have caused him to fall down, and one hath smitten him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrongdoing, by number. Forty times he doth smite him, he is not adding, lest he is adding to smite him above these many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes. Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing. When brethren dwelled together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man. Her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother. And it hath been the firstborn which she barath doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel, and if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate unto the elders, and said, my husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother. And the elders of his city have called for him and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her. Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother, and his name hath been called in Israel, the house of him whose shoe is drawn off. When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets, then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare. Thou hast not put in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small. Thou hast not in thy house an ifa and an ifa, a great and a small. Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ifa complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee. For the abomination of Jehovah thy God is any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity. Remember that which Amalek hath done to thee in the way in your going out from Egypt, that he hath met thee in the way, and smitheth in all those feeble behind thee, and thou wearied and fatigued, and is not fearing God, and it hath been in Jehovah thy God's giving rest to thee, from all thine enemies round about in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and inheritance to possess it. Thou dost blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens. Thou dost not forget. The end of chapters 21 through 25 of the book of Deuteronomy, recording by Mark Penfold.