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Deuteronomy: Greatest Verses Of The Bible.

--Sermon by Dr. Bob Benchoff October 20, 2003

Numbers followed by Deuteronomy (For edification within modern context, the following are Bible verses or portions of verses; from various Bible sources, especially RSV and KJV).

Numbers

The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,. Numbers 1.1.

"Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by families, by fathers; houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head". Numbers 1.2.

From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war, you and Aaron shall number them, company by company. Numbers 1.3.

And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. Numbers 1.4.

And these are the names of the men who shall attend you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur. Numbers 1.5.

From Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. Numbers 1.6.

From Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab. Numbers 1.7.

From Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar. Numbers 1.8.

From Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon. Numbers 1.9.

From the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. Numbers 1.10.

From Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni. Numbers 1.11.

From Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. Numbers 1.12.

From Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran. Numbers 1.13.

From Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel. Numbers 1.14.

From Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan. Numbers 1.15.

These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel. Numbers 1.16.

Their whole number was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. Numbers 1.46.

But the Levites were not numbered by their ancestral tribe along with them. Numbers 1.47.

For the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 1.48.

"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel". Numbers 1.49 (Note: Priests are not numbered in Numbers 1.3 "war". Also note accordingly ICCDBB members are not numbered: see ICCDBB Main Site).

But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it; they are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall tend it, and shall encamp around the tabernacle. Numbers 1.50.

When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death. Numbers 1.51.

The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, every man by his own camp and every man by his own standard. Numbers 1.52.

But the Levites shall encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, that there may be no wrath upon the congregation of the people of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony. Numbers 1.53.

Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 1.54.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron. Numbers 2.1.

"The people of Israel shall encamp each by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses; they shall encamp facing the tent of meeting on every side.". Numbers 2.2 (Note: encampment becomes set in clock style; also see Numbers 7.12).

Those to encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah. Numbers 2.3.

Those to encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar. Numbers 2.5.

Then the tribe of Zebulun. Numbers 2.7.

On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies. Numbers 2.10.

And those to encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. Numbers 2.12.

Then the tribe of Gad. Numbers 2.14.

Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they encamp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard. Numbers 2.17.

On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim. Numbers 2.18.

And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. Numbers 2.20.

Then the tribe of Bengamin. Numbers 2.22.

On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan. Numbers 2.25.

And those to encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher. Numbers 2.27.

Then the tribe of Naphtali. Numbers 2.29.

These are the people of Israel as numbered by their fathers' houses; all in the camps who were numbered by their companies were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. Numbers 2.32.

But the Levites were not numbered among the people of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 2.33.

Thus did the people of Israel. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out their standards, and so they set out, every one in his family, according to his fathers' house. Numbers 2.34.

These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. Numbers 3.1.

And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood; but if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death. Numbers 3.10.

Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord. Numbers 3.45.

And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first born of the people of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites. Numbers 3.46.

You shall take five shekels apiece; reckoning by the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs, you shall take them. Numbers 3.47.

And give the money by which the excess number of them is redeemed to Aaron and his sons. Numbers 3.48.

Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families and their fathers' houses. Numbers 4.2.

From thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can enter the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. Numbers 4.3.

This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: the most holy things. Numbers 4.4.

When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it. Numbers 4.5.

Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin, and spread over that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. Numbers 4.6.

And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put upon it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the flagons for the drink offering; the continual bread also shall be on it. Numbers 4.7.

And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry. Numbers 4.15.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron. Numbers 4.17.

Let not the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites. Numbers 4.18.

But deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden. Numbers 4.19.

But they shall not go in to look upon the holy things even for a moment, lest they die. Numbers 4.20.

And you shall assign by name the objects which they are required to carry. Numbers 4.32 (Note: Equipment traceability is established along with work responsibilities, personally among people, for objects symbolic of the holiness of God).

He shall confess his sin which he has committed; and he shall make full restitution for his wrong, to whom he did the wrong. Numbers 5.7.

But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the Lord. Numbers 5.8.

If a spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself. Numbers 5.14.

Then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a cereal offering of jealousy, a ceareal offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance. Numbers 5.15.

And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord. Numbers 5.16.

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. Numbers 5.17.

And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and unbind the hair of the woman's head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of rembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse. Numbers 5.18.

May 'this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your boedy swell and your thigh fall away.' And the woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen. Numbers 5.22.

"Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and wash them off into the water of bitterness. Numbers 5.23.

And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her anc cause bitter pain. Numbers 5.24.

And the priest shall take the cereal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the cereal offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar. Numbers 5.25.

And the priest shall take a handful of the cereal offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. Numbers 5.26.

When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has acted unfaithfully against her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become an excration among her people. Numbers 5.27.

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children. Numbers 5.28.

This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself. Numbers 5.29.

Or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man and he is jealous of his wife; then shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. Numbers 5.30.

The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity. Numbers 5.31.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 6.1.

"Say to the people of Israel, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord". Numbers 6.2 (Note: Compare Acts 21.23 through Acts 22.10).

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. Numbers 6.3.

All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. Numbers 6.4.

All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long. Numbers 6.5.

All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord. Numbers 6.8.

And after that the Nazirite may drink wine. Numbers 6.20.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 6.22.

Say to Aaron and his sons, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say th them,. Numbers 6.23.

The Lord bless you and keep you:. Numbers 6.24.

The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:. Numbers 6.25.

The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. Numbers 6.26.

So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them. Numbers 6.27.

On the daqy when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings, and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils. Numbers 7.1.

The leaders of Israel, heads of their fathers; houses, the leaders of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered. Numbers 7.2.

Offered and brought their offerings before the Lord, six covered wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the leaders, and for each one an ox; they offered them before the tabernacle. Numbers 7.3.

Then the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 7.4.

"Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.". Numbers 7.5.

So Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites. Numbers 7.6.

Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service. Numbers 7.7.

And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. Numbers 7.8.

But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the care of the holy things which had to be carried on the shoulder. Numbers 7.9.

And the leaders offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the leaders offered their offering before the altar. Numbers 7.10.

And the Lord said to Moses, "They shall offer their offerings, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar.". Numbers 7.11.

He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah. Numbers 7.12 (Note: see Numbers 2.3).

And his offering was one silver plate whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering. Numbers 7.13.

One golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense. Numbers 7.14.

One young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering. Numbers 7.15.

One male goat for a sin offering. Numbers 7.16.

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Aminadab. Numbers 7.17.

On the twelfth day ahira the son of Enan, the leader of the men of Naphtali:. Numbers 7.78.

His offering was one silver plate, whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering. Numbers 7.79.

One golden dish of ten shekels, full of incense. Numbers 7.80.

One young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering. Numbers 7.81.

One male goat for a sin offering. Numbers 7.82.

And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. Numbers 7.83.

This was the dedication offering for the altar, on the day when it was anointed, from the leaders of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes. Numbers 7.84.

Each silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and each basin seventy, all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary. Numbers 7.85.

The twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being a hundred and twenty shekels. Numbers 7.86.

All the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their cereal offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering. Numbers 7.87.

And all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This wat the dedication offering for the altar, after it was anointed. Numbers 7.88.

And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him. Numbers 7.89.

Now the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 8.1.

"Say to Aaron, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.". Numbers 8.2.

And Aaron did so; he set up its lamps to give light in front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 8.3.

And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand. Numbers 8.4.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 8.5.

"Take the Levites from among the people of Israel, and cleanse them.". Numbers 8.6.

And thus you shall do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves. Numbers 8.7.

Then let them take a young bull and its cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another young bull for a sin offering. Numbers 8.8.

And you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting, and assemble the whole congregation of the people of Israel. Numbers 8.9.

When you present the Levites before the Lord, the people of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites. Numbers 8.10.

And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of the Lord. Numbers 8.11.

Then the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls; and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites. Numbers 8.12.

And you shall cause the Levites to attend Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the Lord. Numbers 8.13.

Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine. Numbers 8.14.

And after that the Levites shall go in to do service at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering. Numbers 8.15.

For they are wholly given to me from among the people of Israel; instead of all that open the womb, the first-born of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself. Numbers 8.16.

For all the first-born among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast; on the day that I slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself. Numbers 8.17.

And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the people of Israel. Numbers 8.18.

And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel in case the people of Israel should come near the sanctuary. Numbers 8.19.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 8.23.

"This is what pertains to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the work in the service of the tent of meeting". Numbers 8.24.

And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the work of the service and serve no more. Numbers 8.25.

But minister to their brethern in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties. Numbers 8.26.

And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt. Numbers 9.1.

"Let the people of Israel keep the passover at its appointed time.". Numbers 9.2.

On the fourteenth day of this month, in the evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its ordinances you shall keep it. Numbers 9.3.

And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did. Numbers 9.5.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 9.9.

"Say to the people of Israel, If any man of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is afar off on a journey, he shall still keep the passover to the Lord.". Numbers 9.10.

In the second month on the fourteenth day in the evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Numbers 9.11.

They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute for the passover they shall keep it. Numbers 9.12.

But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, yet refrains from keeping the passover, that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not offer the Lord's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin. Numbers 9.13.

And if a stranger sojourns among you, and will keep the passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the passover and according to its ordinance, so shall he do; you shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native. Numbers 9.14.

On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning. Numbers 9.15.

So it was continually; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. Numbers 9.16.

And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tent, aafter that the people of Israel set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel encamped. Numbers 9.17.

At the command of the Lord the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the Lord they encamped; as long sa the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp. Numbers 9.18.

They kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord by Moses. Numbers 9.23 (Note: Although united with the Lord, they did not keep "the Lord", but kept the Lord's "charge".).

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 10.1.

Make two silver trumpets; of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation, and for breaking camp. Numbers 10.2.

And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Numbers 10.3.

But if they blow only one, then the leaders, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. Numbers 10.4.

When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out. Numbers 10.5.

And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. Numbers 10.5.

And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out. Numbers 10.6.

But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. Numbers 10.7.

And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations. Numbers 10.8.

And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. Numbers 10.9.

On the day or your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; they shall serve you for remembrance before your God; I am the Lord your God. Numbers 10.10.

In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. Numbers 10.11.

And the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran. Numbers 10.12.

They set out for the first time at the command of the Lord by Moses. Numbers 10.13.

The standard of the camp of the men of Judah set out first by their companies; and over their host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. Numbers 10.14.

And over the host of the tribe of the men of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar. Numbers 10.15.

And over the host of the tribe of the men of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. Numbers 10.16.

And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out. Numbers 10.17.

And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies; and over their host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. Numbers 10.18.

And over the host of the trive of the men of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. Numbers 10.19.

And over the host of the tribe of the men of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. Numbers 10.20.

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival. Numbers 10.21.

This was the order of march of the people of Israel according to their hosts, when they set out. Numbers 10.28.

And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, 'I will give it to you'; come with us, and we will do you good; for the Lord has promised good to Israel.". Numbers 10.29.

"Do not leave us, I pray you, for you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us. Numbers 10.31.

And if you go with us, whatever good the Lord will do to us, the same will we do to you. Numbers 10.32.

So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them. Numbers 10.33.

And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, whenever they set out from the camp. Numbers 10.34.

And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, "Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.". Numbers 10.35.

And when it rested, he said, "Return O Lord to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.". Numbers 10.28.

And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their mosfortunes; and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. Numbers 11.1.

Then the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire abated. Numbers 11.2.

Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving; and the people of Israel also wept again, and said, "O that we had meat to eat!". Numbers 11.4.

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. Numbers 11.5.

But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at. Numbers 11.6.

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. Numbers 11.7.

The people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. Numbers 11.8.

When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it. Numbers 11.9.

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of the Lord blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased. Numbers 11.10.

Moses said to the Lord, "Why hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou dost lay the burden of all this people upon me?". Numbers 11.11.

Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that thou shouldst say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child, to the land which thou didst swear to give their fathers?'. Numbers 11.12.

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give us meat, that we may eat. Numbers 11.13.

I am not able to carry all this people alone, the burden is too heavy for me. Numbers 11.14.

If thou wilt deal thus with me, kill me at once, if I find favor in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness. Numbers 11.15.

And the Lord said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you. Numbers 11.16.

And I will come down and talk with you there; and I will take some of the spirit which is upon you and put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone. Numbers 11.17.

And say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat.'. Numbers 11.18.

You shall not eat one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days. Numbers 11.19.

But a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come forth out of Egypt?". Numbers 11.20.

But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot; and thou hast said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!'". Numbers 11.21.

The Lord said to Moses, "Is the Lord's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.". Numbers 11.23 (Note: The proper answer for "shortened?" is "Yes.", that we might not say no to God. From relative human perspective, time delimits; from absolute godly perspective, God is unlimited.).

So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and placed them round about the tent. Numbers 11.24.

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did so no more. Numbers 11.25.

Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested upon them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. Numbers 11.26.

And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.". Numbers 11.27.

And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, said "My lord Moses, forbid them.". Numbers 11.28.

But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!". Numbers 11.29.

And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp. Numbers 11.30.

And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and it brought quails from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth. Numbers 11.31.

And the people rose all that day, and gathered the quails; he who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. Numbers 11.32.

While the meat was yet be3tween their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. Numbers 11.33.

Therefore the name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving. Numbers 11.34 (Note: Kibrothhattaavah = graves of craving).

From Kibrothhattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth; and they remained at Hazeroth. Numbers 11.35.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. Numbers 12.1.

And they said, "Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the Lord heard it. Numbers 12.2.

Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all men that were on the face of the earth. Numbers 12.3.

Suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting." And the three of them came out. Numbers 12.4.

The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward. Numbers 12.5.

And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream. Numbers 12.6.

Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house.". Numbers 12.7.

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? Numbers 12.8.

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed. Numbers 12.9.

And when the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron turned towards Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. Numbers 12.10.

And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned.". Numbers 12.11.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. Numbers 12.12.

And Moses cried to the Lord, "Heal her, O God, I beseech thee.". Numbers 12.13.

But the Lord said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.". Numbers 12.14.

So Miriam was shut up outside the camp seven days; and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again. Numbers 12.15.

After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran. Numbers 12.16.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 13.1.

"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them.". Numbers 13.2.

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel. Numbers 13.3.

Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb yonder, and go up into the hill country". Numbers 13.17.

And see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many. Numbers 13.18.

And whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds. Numbers 13.19.

And whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there is wood in it or not. Be of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. Numbers 13.20.

So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath. Numbers 13.21.

And cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they brought also some pomegranates and figs. Numbers 13.23.

At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. Numbers 13.25.

And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. Numbers 13.26.

And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Numbers 13.27.

Yet the people who dwell in the land are strong and the cities are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. Numbers 13.28.

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan. Numbers 13.29.

Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once, and occupy it; for we are well able to overcome it.". Numbers 13.30.

So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report. Numbers 13.32 (Note: Some feared the strongholds they seen, so started exaggerating.).

Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that night. Numbers 14.1.

And all the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!". Numbers 14.2.

Why does the Lord bring us into this lnad, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?. Numbers 14.3.

And they said to one another, "Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt.". Numbers 14.4.

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel. Numbers 14.5.

And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, rent their clothes. Numbers 14.6.

And said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. Numbers 14.7.

If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.". Numbers 14.8.

Only, do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them. Numbers 14.9.

But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel. Numbers 14.10.

And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them?". Numbers 14.11.

I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. Numbers 14.12.

But Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for thou didst bring up this people in thy might from among them. Numbers 14.13.

And they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou, O Lord, art in the midst of this people; and thy cloud stands over them and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. Numbers 14.14.

Now if thou dost kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard thy fame will say. Numbers 14.15.

'Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.'. Numbers 14.16.

And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great as thou hast promised, saying. Numbers 14.17.

'The Lord is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.'. Numbers 14.18.

Pardon the iniquity of this peoplek, I pray thee, according to the greatness of thy steadfast love, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. Numbers 14.19.

Then the Lord said, "I have pardoned, according to your word. Numbers 14.20.

But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Numbers 14.21.

None of the men who have seen my glory and my signs which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the proof these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice. Numbers 14.22.

Shall see the land which I swore to give to their fathers; and none of those who despised me shall see it. Numbers 14.23.

But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. Numbers 14.24.

Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. Numbers 14.25.

And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron. Numbers 14.25.

"How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against me.". Numbers 14.27.

Say to them, 'As I live,' says the Lord, 'what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:'. Numbers 14.28.

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and of all your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. Numbers 14.29.

Not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. Numbers 14.30.

But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. Numbers 14.31.

But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. Numbers 14.32.

And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. Numbers 14.33 (Note: Wow!).

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure. Numbers 14.34.

I, the Lord, have spoken; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die. Numbers 14.35.

And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land. Numbers 14.36.

The men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by plague before the Lord. Numbers 14.37 (Note: the Lord of creation showing greatness far beyond human thinking among the traitors).

But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of those men who went to spy out the land. Numbers 14.38.

And Moses told these words to alll the people of Israel, and the people mourned greatly. Numbers 14.39.

And they rose early in the morning, and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying "See, we are here, we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised; for we have sinned.". Numbers 14.40.

But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the Lord, for that will not succeed?". Numbers 14.41.

Do not go up lest you be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you. Numbers 14.42.

For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are before you, and you shall fall by the sword; because you have turned back from following the Lord, the Lord will not be with you. Numbers 14.43.

But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, althouth neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord, nor Moses, departed out of the camp. Numbers 14.44.

Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwell in that hill country came down, and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah. Numbers 14.45.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 15.1.

"Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I give you". Numbers 15.2.

And you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock an offering by fire or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing odor to the Lord. Numbers 15.3.

Then he who brings his offering shall offer to the Lord a cereal offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a fourth of a hin of oil. Numbers 15.4.

And wine for the drink offering, a fourth of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. Numbers 15.5.

Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a cereal offering two tenthws of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. Numbers 15.6.

And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing odor to the Lord. Numbers 15.7.

And when you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow, or for peace offerings to the Lord. Numbers 15.8.

Then one shall offer with the bull a cereal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil. Numbers 15.9.

And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord. Numbers 15.10.

Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each of the male lambs or the kids. Numbers 15.11.

According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do with every one according to their number. Numbers 15.12.

All who are native shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord. Numbers 15.13.

And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or any one is among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to offer an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord, he shall do as you do. Numbers 15.14.

For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before the Lord. Numbers 15.15.

One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you. Numbers 15.16.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 15.17.

"Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land to which I bring you". Numbers 15.18.

And when you eat of the food of the land, you shall present an offering to the Lord. Numbers 15.19.

Of the first of your coarse meal you shall present a cake as an offering; as an offering from the threshing floor, so shall you present it. Numbers 15.20.

Of the first of your coarse meal you shall give to the Lord an offering throughout your generations. Numbers 15.21.

But if you err, and do not observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses. Numbers 15.22.

All that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations. Numbers 15.23.

Then if it was done unwittingly without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the Lord, with its cereal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering. Numbers 15.24.

And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; because it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error. Numbers 15.25.

And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the error. Numbers 15.26.

If one person sins unwittingly, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. Numbers 15.27.

And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who commits an error, when he sins unwittingly, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. Numbers 15.28.

You shall have one Law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native among the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them. Numbers 15.29.

But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. Numbers 15.30.

Because he has despised the word of the Lord, and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. Numbers 15.31.

While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day. Numbers 15.32 (Note: Preparation for the sabbath day may have sprouted the tradition of both getting paid and going shopping on Fridays.).

And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. Numbers 15.33.

They put him in custody, because it had not been made plain what should be done to him. Numbers 15.34.

And the Lord said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.". Numbers 15.35.

And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 15.36.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 15.37.

"Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put upon the tassel of each corner a cord of blue". Numbers 15.38.

And it shall be to you a tassel to look upon and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to go after wantonly. Numbers 15.39.

So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. Numbers 15.40.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God. Numbers 15.41.

Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben. Numbers 16.1.

Took men; and they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men. Numbers 16.2.

And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?". Numbers 16.3.

When Moses heard it, he fell on his face. Numbers 16.4.

And he said to Horah and all his company, "In the morning the Lord will show who is his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him; him whom he will choose he will cause to come near to him. Numbers 16.5.

Do this: take censers, Korah and all his company. Numbers 16.6.

Put fire in them and put incense upon them before the Lord tomorrow, and the man whom the Lord chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!. Numbers 16.7.

And Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi:". Numbers 16.8.

Is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them. Numbers 16.9.

And that he has brought you near him, and all your brethern the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?. Numbers 16.10.

Therefore it is against the Lord that you and all your company have gathered together; what is Aaron that you murmur against him?. Numbers 16.11.

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab; and they said, "We will not come up.". Numbers 16.12.

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?. Numbers 16.13.

Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up. Numbers 16.14.

And Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one ass from them, and I have not harmed one of them.". Numbers 16.15.

And Moses said to Korah, "Be present, you and all your company, before the Lord, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.". Numbers 16.16.

And let every one of you take his censer, and put incense upon it, and every one of you bring before the Lord his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer. Numbers 16.17.

So every man took his censer, and they put fire in them and laid incense upon them, and they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. Numbers 16.18.

Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation. Numbers 16.19.

And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron. Numbers 16.20.

"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.". Numbers 16.21.

And they fell on their faces, and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry with all the congregation?". Numbers 16.22.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 16.23.

"Say to the congregation, Get away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.". Numbers 16.24.

Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. Numbers 16.25.

And he said to the congregation, "Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.". Numbers 16.26.

So they got away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones. Numbers 16.27.

And Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord. Numbers 16.28.

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited by the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. Numbers 16.29.

But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord. Numbers 16.30.

And as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split asunder. Numbers 16.31.

And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods. Numbers 16.32.

So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. Numbers 16.33.

And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!". Numbers 16.34.

And fire came forth from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men offering the incense. Numbers 16.35.

Then the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 16.36.

"Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze; then scatter the fire far and wide. For they are holy". Numbers 16.37.

The censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives; so let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord; therefore they are holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel. Numbers 16.38.

So eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered; and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar. Numbers 16.39.

To be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no one who is not a priest, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become as Korah and as his company-as the Lord said to Eleazar through Moses. Numbers 16.40.

But on the morrow all the congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the Lord.". Numbers 16.41.

And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting; and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. Numbers 16.42.

And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting. Numbers 16.43.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 16.44.

"Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." And they fell on their faces. Numbers 16.45.

And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun.". Numbers 16.46.

So Aaron took it as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague had already begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. Numbers 16.47.

And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stopped. Numbers 16.48.

Now those who died by the plague were forteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the affair of Korah. Numbers 16.49.

And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped. Numbers 16.50.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 17.1.

"Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them rods, one for each fathers' house, from all their leaders according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods. Write each man's name upon his rod". Numbers 17.2.

And write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of each fathers' house. Numbers 17.3.

Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting with you. Numbers 17.4.

And the rod of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against you. Numbers 17.5.

Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and all their leaders gave him rods, one for each leader, according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. Numbers 17.6.

And Moses deposited the rods before the Lord in the tent of the testimony. Numbers 17.7.

And on the morrow Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and it bore ribe almonds. Numbers 17.8.

Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the people of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod. Numbers 17.9.

And the Lord said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, lest they die.". Numbers 17.10.

Thus did Moses; as the Lord commanded him, so he did. Numbers 17.11.

And the people of Israel said to Moses, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.". Numbers 17.12.

Every one who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the Lord, shall die. Are we all to perish?. Numbers 17.13.

So the Lord said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear iniquity in connection with the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity in connection with your priesthood. Numbers 18.1.

And with you bring your brethern also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you, and minister to you while you and your sons with you are fefore the tent of the testimony. Numbers 18.2.

They shall attend you and attend to all duties of the tent; but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar, lest they, and you, die. Numbers 18.3.

They shall join you, and attend to the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and no one else shall come near you. Numbers 18.4.

And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, that there be wrath no more upon the people of Israel. Numbers 18.5.

And behold, I have taken your brethern the Levites from among the people of Israel; they are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting. Numbers 18.6.

And you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any one else who comes near shall be put to death. Numbers 18.7.

Then the Lord said to Aaron, "And behold, I have given you whatever is kept of the offerings made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel; I have given them to you as a portion, and to your sons as a perpetual due.". Numbers 18.8.

This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire; every offering of theirs, every cereal offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons. Numbers 18.9.

In a most holy place shall you eat of it; every male may eat of it; it is holy to you. Numbers 18.10.

This also is yours, the offering of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due; every one who is clean in your house may eat of it. Numbers 18.11.

All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the first fruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you. Numbers 18.12.

The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the ALord, shall be yours; every one who is clean in your house may eat of it. Numbers 18.13.

Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours. Numbers 18.14.

Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours; nevertheless the first-born of man you shall redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts you shall redeem. Numbers 18.15.

And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. Numbers 18.16.

But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord. Numbers 18.17.

But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh is yours. Numbers 18.18.

All the holy offerings which the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due; it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you. Numbers 18.19.

And the Lord said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel. Numbers 18.20.

"To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, their service in the tent of meeting. Numbers 18.21.

And henceforth the people of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die. Numbers 18.22.

But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; and among the people of Israel, they shall have no inheritance. Numbers 18.23.

For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as an offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel. Numbers 18.24.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 18.25.

"Moreover you shall say to the Levites, 'When you shall say to the people of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inhericance, then you shall present an offering from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe.'". Numbers 18.26.

And your offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fulness of the wine press. Numbers 18.27.

So shall you also present an offering to the Lord from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel; and from it you shall give the Lord's offering to Aaron the priest. Numbers 18.28.

Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every offering due to the Lord, from all the best of them, giving the hallowed part from them. Numbers 18.29.

Therefore you shall say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be reckoned to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the wine press. Numbers 18.30.

And you may eat it in any place, you and your households; for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting. Numbers 18.31.

And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have offered the best of it. And you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die. Numbers 18.32.

Now the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron. Numbers 19.1.

"This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and upon which a yoke has never come.". Numbers 19.2.

And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him. Numbers 19.3.

And Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. Numbers 19.4.

And the heifer shall burned in his sight; her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned. Numbers 19.5.

And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer. Numbers 19.6.

Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until evening. Numbers 19.7.

He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening. Numbers 19.8.

And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the people of Israel for the water for impurity, for the removal of sin. Numbers 19.9.

And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. And this shall be to the people of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them, a perpetual statute. Numbers 19.10.

He who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days. Numbers 19.11.

He shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean; but if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean. Numbers 19.12.

Whoever touches a dead person, the body of any man who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him. Numbers 19.13.

This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one who come into the tent, and every one who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. Numbers 19.14.

And every open vessel, which has no cover fastened upon it, is unclean. Numbers 19.15.

Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. Numbers 19.16.

For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and running water shall be added in a vessel. Numbers 19.17.

Then a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the furnishings, and upon the persons who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. Numbers 19.18.

And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the seventh day; thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean. Numbers 19.19.

But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord; because the water for impurity has not been thrown upon him, he is unclean. Numbers 19.20.

And it shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening. Numbers 19.21.

And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and any one who touches it shall be unclean until evening. Numbers 19.22.

Now there was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. Numbers 20.2.

Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tent of meeting, and fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them. Numbers 20.6.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 20.7.

"Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water; so you shall bring water out of the rock fro them; so you shall give drink to the congregation and their cattle.". Numbers 20.8.

And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him. Numbers 20.9.

And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock?". Numbers 20.10.

And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle. Numbers 20.11.

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.". Numbers 20.12.

These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel contended with the Lord, and he showed himself holy among them. Numbers 20.13.

Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him. Numbers 20.21.

And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor. Numbers 20.22.

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom. Numbers 20.23.

"Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.". Numbers 20.24.

Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor. Numbers 20.25.

And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there. Numbers 20.26.

And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. Numbers 20.28.

And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days. Numbers 20.29.

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. Numbers 21.1.

And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, "If thou wilt indeed give this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.". Numbers 21.2.

And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and gave over the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; so the name of the place was called Hormah. Numbers 21.3 ("Hormah" is destruction in Hebrew).

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way. Numbers 21.4.

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.". Numbers 21.5.

Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. Numbers 21.6.

Then the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.". Numbers 21.7.

And the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.". Numbers 21.9.

And the people of Israel set out. Numbers 21.10.

And encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that extends from the boundary of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. Numbers 21.13.

Wherefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, "Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon". Numbers 21.14.

And the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab. Numbers 21.15.

And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water.". Numbers 21.16.

Then Israel sang this song" "Spring up, O well!-Sing to it!-". Numbers 21.17.

The well which the princes dug, which the nobels of the people delved, with teh scepter and with their staves. And from the wilderness they went. Numbers 21.18.

But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his men together, and went out against Israel to the wilderness, and came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. Numbers 21.23.

And Israel slew him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to Jabbok, as far st to the Ammonites; for Jazer was the boundary of the Ammonites. Numbers 21.24.

And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its vilages. Numbers 21.25.

For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon. Numbers 21.26.

Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its vilages, and dispossessed the Amorites that were there. Numbers 21.32.

Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. Numbers 21.33.

But the Lord said to Moses, "Do not fear him; for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.". Numbers 21.34.

So they slew him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was not one survivor left to him; and they possessed his land. Numbers 21.35.

Then the people of Israel set out, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. Numbers 22.1.

And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. Numbers 22.2.

And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many; Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel. Numbers 22.3.

And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "This horde will now lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,. Numbers 22.4.

Sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River, in the land of Amaw to call him, saying, "Behold, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling opposite me.". Numbers 22.5.

Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too mighty for me; perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed. Numbers 22.6.

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and gave him Balak's message. Numbers 22.7.

And he said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring back word to you, as the Lord speaks to me"; so the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. Numbers 22.8.

And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?". Numbers 22.9.

And Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying. Numbers 22.10.

'Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth; now come, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.'. Numbers 22.11.

God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.". Numbers 22.12.

So Balaam rose in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your own land; for the Lord has refused to let me go with you.". Numbers 22.13.

So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us. Numbers 22.14.

Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than they. Numbers 22.15.

And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: 'Let nothing hinder you from coming to me'. Numbers 22.16.

For I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do; come, curse this people for me. Numbers 22.17.

But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God, to do less or more.". Numbers 22.18.

Pray, now, tarry here this night also, that I may know what more the Lord will say to me. Numbers 22.19.

And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only what I bid you, that shall you do.". Numbers 22.20.

So Balaam rose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. Numbers 22.21.

But God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the way as his adversary. Now he was riding on the ass, and his two servants were with him. Numbers 22.22.

And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the road, and went into the field; and Balaam struck the ass, to turn her into the road. Numbers 22.23.

Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side. Numbers 22.24.

And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she pushed against the wall, and pressed Balaam's foot against the wall; so he struck her again. Numbers 22.25.

Then the angel of the Lord went ahead, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left. Numbers 22.26.

When the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the ass with his staff. Numbers 22.27.

Then the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?". Numbers 22.28.

And Balaam said to the ass, "Because you have made sport of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.". Numbers 22.29.

And the ass said to Balaam, "Am I not your ass, upon which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you?" And he said, "No.". Numbers 22.30.

Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. Numbers 22.31.

And the angel of the Lord said to him, "Why have you struck your ass these three times? Behold, I have come forth to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me;. Numbers 22.32.

And the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have slain you and let her live.". Numbers 22.33.

Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, "I have sinned, for I did not know that thou didst stand in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in thy sight, I will go back again.". Numbers 22.34.

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word which I bid you, that shall you speak." So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak. Numbers 22.35.

When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the boundary formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the boundary. Numbers 22.36.

And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?". Numbers 22.37.

Balaam said to Balak, "Lo, I have come to you! Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.". Numbers 22.38.

Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriathhuzoth. Numbers 22.39.

And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and to the princes who were with him. Numbers 22.40.

And on the morrow Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamothbaal; and from there he saw the nearest of the people. Numbers 22.41.

And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and provide for me here seven bulls and seven rams.". Numbers 23.1.

Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram. Numbers 23.2.

And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare height. Numbers 23.3.

And God met Balaam; and Balaam said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered upon each altar a bull and a ram.". Numbers 23.4.

And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.". Numbers 23.5.

And he returned to him, and lo, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering. Numbers 23.6.

And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!'". Numbers 23.7.

How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?. Numbers 23.8.

For from the top of the mountains I see him, from the hills I behold him; lo, a people dwelling alone, and not reckoning itself among the nations!. Numbers 23.9.

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!. Numbers 23.10.

And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them.". Numbers 23.11.

And he answered, "Must I not take heed to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?". Numbers 23.12.

And Balak said to him, "Come with me to another place, from which you may see them; you shall see only the nearest of them, and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there.". Numbers 23.13.

And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Numbers 23.14.

Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.". Numbers 23.15.

And the Lord met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.". Numbers 23.16.

And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the Lord spoken?". Numbers 23.17.

And Balaam took up his discourse, and said, "Rise, Balak, and hear; hearken to me, O son of Zippor:". Numbers 23.18.

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfil it?. Numbers 23.19 (Note: "not"..."son of man", hence repentance is of sinners; hence for everyone including for God's people although they have sinned, God became the Christ man Jesus, the truthful good example non-sinful "son of man" and suffered).

Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it. Numbers 23.20.

He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob; nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them. Numbers 23.21.

God brings them out of Egypt; they have as it were the forns of the wild ox. Numbers 23.22.

For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, 'What has God wrought!'. Numbers 23.23.

Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down till it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain. Numbers 23.24.

And Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.". Numbers 23.25.

But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that the Lord says, that I must do'?". Numbers 23.26.

And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.". Numbers 23.27.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the desert. Numbers 23.28.

And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and provide for me here seven bulls and seven rams.". Numbers 23.29.

And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Numbers 23.30.

When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness. Numbers 24.1.

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and saw Israel encamping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him. Numbers 24.2.

And he took up his discourse, and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,". Numbers 24.3.

The oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:. Numbers 24.4.

How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel!. Numbers 24.5.

Like valleys that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the Lord has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters. Numbers 24.6.

Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. Numbers 24.7.

God brings him out of Egypt; he has as it were the horns of the wild ox, he shall eat up the nations his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them through with his arrows. Numbers 24.8.

He couched, he lay down like a lion, and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed be every one who blesses you, and cursed be every one who curses you.. Numbers 24.9.

And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them these three times.". Numbers 24.10.

Therefore now flee to your place; I said, 'I will certainly honor you,' but the Lord has held you back from honor. Numbers 24.11.

And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me". Numbers 24.12.

If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the Lord speaks, that will I speak?. Numbers 24.13.

And now, behold, I am going to my people; come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days. Numbers 24.14.

And he took up his discourse, and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened". Numbers 24.15.

The oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:. Numbers 24.16.

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; a star shall come forth out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall cruch the forehead of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth. Numbers 24.17.

Edom shall be dispossessed, Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed, while Israel does valiantly. Numbers 24.18.

By Jacob shall dominion be exercised, and the survivors of cities be destroyed!. Numbers 24.19.

Then he looked on Amalek, and took up his discourse, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, but in the end he shall come to destruction.". Numbers 24.20.

And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse, and said, "Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock". Numbers 24.21.

Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted. How long shall Asshure take you away captive?. Numbers 24.22.

And he took up his discourse, and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?". Numbers 24.23.

But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also shall come to destruction. Numbers 24.24.

Then Balaam rose, and went back to his place; and Balak also went his way. Numbers 24.25.

While Israel dwelt in Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. Numbers 25.1.

These invited the people to the sacrivices of their gods, and the people ate, and bowed down tho their gods. Numbers 25.2.

So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. Numbers 25.3.

And the Lord said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.". Numbers 25.4.

And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Every one of you slay his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.". Numbers 25.5.

And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. Numbers 25.6.

When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation, and took a spear in his hand. Numbers 25.7.

And went after the man of Israel into the inner room, and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through her body. Thus the plague was stayed from the people of Israel. Numbers 25.8.

Nevertheless those that died by tyhe plague were twenty-four thousand. Numbers 25.9.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 25.10.

"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.". Numbers 25.11.

Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace. Numbers 25.12.

And it shall be to him, and to his descendants after him, the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the people of Israel. Numbers 25.13.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 25.16.

"Harass the Midianites, and smite them;". Numbers 25.17.

For they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague on account of Peor. Numbers 25.18.

After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest. Numbers 26.1.

"Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war.". Numbers 26.2.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 26.52.

"To these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names.". Numbers 26.53.

To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance according to its numbers. Numbers 26.54.

But according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. Numbers 26.55.

Their inheritance shall be divided according to lot between the larger and the smaller. Numbers 26.56.

The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister. Numbers 26.59.

But among these there was not a man of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had numbered the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. Numbers 26.64.

For the Lord had said of them, "They shall die in the wilderness." There was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. Numbers 26.65.

Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. Numbers 27.1.

And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying. Numbers 27.2.

Why should the name of our father be taken away from his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brethern. Numbers 27.4.

Moses brought their case before the Lord. Numbers 27.5.

And the Lord said to Moses. Numbers 27.6.

"The daughters of Zelophehad are right; you shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brethern and cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.". Numbers 27.7.

And you shall say to the people of Israel, 'If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.'. Numbers 27.8.

And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. Numbers 27.9.

And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers. Numbers 27.10.

And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possessit. And it shall be to the people of Israel a statute and ordinance, as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 27.11.

The Lord said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the people of Israel.". Numbers 27.12.

And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was gathered. Numbers 27.13.

Because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin during the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. Numbers 27.14.

Moses said to the Lord. Numbers 27.15.

"Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation. Numbers 27.16.

Who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.". Numbers 27.17 (Note: So we find earthly thinking matching accord with God's thinking, as we find human Moses'cause for holiness via requesting a "shepherd" for this situation. Building on these ideas, God in word and deed later appears in the flesh as Jesus Christ over all situations and all).

And the Lord said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him. Numbers 27.18.

Cause him to stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight. Numbers 27.19.

You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey. Numbers 27.20.

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord; at his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation. Numbers 27.21.

And Moses did as the Lord commanded him. Numbers 27.22.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 28.1.

"Command the people of Israel, and say to them, 'My offering, my offd for my offerings by fire, my pleasing odor, you shall take heed to offer to me in its due season.'". Numbers 28.2.

And you shall say to them, This is the offering by fire which you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a continual offering. Numbers 28.3.

The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening. Numbers 28.4.

Also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil. Numbers 28.5.

It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord. Numbers 28.6.

Its drink offering shall be a fourth of a hin for each lamb; in the holy place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the Lord. Numbers 28.7.

The other lamb you shall offer in the evening; like the cereal offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord. Numbers 28.8.

On the sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:. Numbers 28.9.

This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. Numbers 28.10.

At the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish. Numbers 28.11.

Also three tehths of an ephah of fine flour for a cereal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram. Numbers 28.12.

And a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a cereal offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering of pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord. Numbers 28.13.

Their drink offering shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year. Numbers 28.14.

Also one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. Numbers 28.15.

On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord's passover. Numbers 28.16.

And on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. Numbers 28.17.

On the first day there shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no laborious work. Numbers 28.18.

But offer an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish. Numbers 28.19.

Also their cereal offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram. Numbers 28.20.

A tenth shall you offer for each of the seven lambs. Numbers 28.21.

Also one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. Numbers 28.22.

You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. Numbers 28.23.

In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. Numbers 28.24.

And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. Numbers 28.25.

On the day of the first fruits, when you offer a cereal offering of new grain to the Lord at your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. Numbers 28.26.

But offer a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old. Numbers 28.27.

Also their cereal offering of the flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram. Numbers 28.28.

A tenth for each of the seven lambs. Numbers 28.29.

With one male goat, to make atonement for you. Numbers 28.30.

Besides the continual burnt offering and its cereal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering. See that they are without blemish. Numbers 28.31.

On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborous work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets. Numbers 29.1.

And you shall offer a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish. Numbers 29.2.

According to the ordinance for them, a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord. Numbers 29.6.

On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and afflict yourselves; you shall do no work. Numbers 29.7.

But you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing odor:. Numbers 29.8.

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days. Numbers 29.12.

And you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord. Numbers 29.13.

On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no laborious work. Numbers 29.35.

"These you shall offer to the Lord at your appointed feasts, in addition to your votive offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and your cereal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.". Numbers 29.39.

And Moses told the people of Israel everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses. Numbers 29.40.

Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, "This is what the Lord has commanded. Numbers 30.1.

When a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. Numbers 30.2.

Or when a woman vows a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house, in her youth. Numbers 30.3.

And her father hears of her vow and her pledge by which she has bound herself, and says nothing to her; then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. Numbers 30.4.

But if her father expresses disapproval to her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself, shall stand; and the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her. Numbers 30.5.

And if she is married to a husband, while under her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself. Numbers 30.6.

And her husband hears of it, and says nothing to her on the day that he hears; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. Numbers 30.7.

But if on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he expresses disapproval, then he shall make void her vow which was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips, by which she bound herself; and the Lord willl forgive her. Numbers 30.8.

But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her. Numbers 30.9 (Note: see Matthew 19, verses 7, 8, & 9).

And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound herself by a pledge with an oath. Numbers 30.10.

And her hunband heard of it, and said nothing to her, and did not oppose her; then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand. Numbers 30.11.

But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning her pledge of herself, shall not stand: her husband has made them void, and the Lord will forgive her. Numbers 30.12.

Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void. Numbers 30.13.

But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her pledges, that are upon her; he has established them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard of them. Numbers 30.14.

But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity. Numbers 30.15.

These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, as between a father and his daughter, while in her youth, within her father's house. Numbers 30.16.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 31.1.

"Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people.". Numbers 31.2.

And Moses said to the people, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian. Numbers 31.3.

You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war. Numbers 31.4.

So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. Numbers 31.5.

And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. Numbers 31.6.

They warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and slew every male. Numbers 31.7.

They slew the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and they also slew Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. Numbers 31.8.

And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and they took as booty all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods. Numbers 31.9.

All their cities in the places where they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burned with fire. Numbers 31.10.

And took all the spoil and all the booty, both of man and of beast. Numbers 31.11.

Then they brought the captives and the booty and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the people of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. Numbers 31.12.

Moses, and Eeleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp. Numbers 31.13.

And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. Numbers 31.14.

Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?". Numbers 31.15.

Behold, these caused the people of Israel, by the counsel of Balaam, to act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the Lord. Numbers 31.16.

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. Numbers 31.17.

But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Numbers 31.18.

Encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever of you has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain,k purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day. Numbers 31.19.

You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood. Numbers 31.20.

And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle: "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:. Numbers 31.21.

Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead. Numbers 31.22.

Everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water of impurity; and whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water. Numbers 31.23.

You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp. Numbers 31.24.

The Lord said to Moses. Numbers 31.25.

"Take the count of the booty that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation". Numbers 31.26.

And divide the booty into two parts, between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation. Numbers 31.27.

And levy for the Lord a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the persons and of the oxen and of the asses and of the flocks. Numbers 31.28.

Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord. Numbers 31.29.

And from the people of Israel's half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who have charge of the tabernacle of the Lord. Numbers 31.30.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 31.31.

Now the booty remaining of the spoil that the men of war took was: six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep. Numbers 31.32.

Seventy-two thousand cattle. Numbers 31.33.

Sixty-one thousand asses. Numbers 31.34.

And thirty-two thousand persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him. Numbers 31.35.

And the half, the portion of those who had gone out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep. Numbers 31.36.

And the Lord's tribute of sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. Numbers 31.37.

The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's tribute was seventy-two. Numbers 31.38.

The asses were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the Lord's tribute was sixty-one. Numbers 31.39.

The persons were sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's tribute was thirty-two persons. Numbers 31.40.

And Moses gave the tribute, which was the offering for the Lord, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 31.41.

From the people of Israel's half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had gone to war-. Numbers 31.42.

Now the congregation's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep. Numbers 31.43.

Thirty-six thousand cattle. Numbers 31.44.

And thirty thousand five hundred asses. Numbers 31.45.

And sixteen thousand persons-. Numbers 31.46.

From the people of Israel's half Moses took one of every fifty, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had charge of the tabernacle of the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 31.47.

Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses. Numbers 31.48.

And said to Moses, "Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.". Numbers 31.49.

And we have brought the Lord's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord. Numbers 31.50.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold,k all wrought articles. Numbers 31.51.

And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the Lord, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. Numbers 31.52.

(The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.). Numbers 31.53.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the people of Israel before the Lord. Numbers 31.54.

Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle; and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for cattle. Numbers 32.1.

So the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation. Numbers 32.2.

"Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebor, and Beon". Numbers 32.3.

The land which the Lord smote before the congregations of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle. Numbers 32.4.

And they said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not take us across the Jordan.". Numbers 32.5.

But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, "Shall your brethern go to the war while you sit here?". Numbers 32.6.

Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?. Numbers 32.7.

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land. Numbers 32.8.

For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from gtoing into the land which the Lord had given them. Numbers 32.9.

And the Lord's anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying. Numbers 32.10.

'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me'. Numbers 32.11.

None except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they ahve wholly followed the Lord. Numbers 32.12.

And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was consumed. Numbers 32.13.

And behold, you have risen in your fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel!. Numbers 32.14.

For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people. Numbers 32.15.

Then they came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and cities for our little ones. Numbers 32.16.

But we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. Numbers 32.17.

We will not return to our homes until the people of Israel have inherited each his inheritance. Numbers 32.18.

For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond; because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east. Numbers 32.19.

So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the Lord for the war. Numbers 32.20.

And every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the Lord, until he has driven out his enemies from before him. Numbers 32.21.

And the land is subdued before the Lord; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the Lord and to Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the Lord. Numbers 32.22.

But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32.23.

Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do what you have promised. Numbers 32.24.

And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben said to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.". Numbers 32.25.

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall remain there in the cities of Gilead. Numbers 32.26.

But your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord orders. Numbers 32.27.

So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. Numbers 32.28.

And Gad and the sons of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the Lord, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession. Numbers 32.29.

But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. Numbers 32.30.

And the sons of Bad and the sons of Reuben answered "As the Lord has said to your servants, so we will do.". Numbers 32.31.

We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan. Numbers 32.32.

And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manaseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. Numbers 32.33.

But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the bounds of his city of refuge to which he fled. Numbers 35.26.

And the avenger of blood finds him outside the bounds of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slays the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood. Numbers 35.27.

For the man must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession. Numbers 35.28.

And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Numbers 35.29.

If any one kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses; but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. Numbers 35.30.

Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death; but he shall be put to death. Numbers 35.31.

And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. Numbers 35.32.

You shall not thus pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him who shed it. Numbers 35.33.

You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel. Numbers 35.34.

The heads of the fathers' houses of the families of the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the fathers' houses of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel. Numbers 36.1.

They said, "The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.". Numbers 36.2.

But if they are married to any of the sons of the other trives of the people of Israel then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. Numbers 36.3.

And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. Numbers 36.4.

Married to the sons of their father's brothers. Numbers 36.11.

Their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. Numbers 36.12.

These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. Numbers 36.13.

Deuteronomy

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. Deuteronomy 1.1.

"The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain'". Deuteronomy 1.6.

Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland, and in the Negeb, and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. Deuteronomy 1.7.

Behold, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendanats after them. Deuteronomy 1.8.

At that time I said to you, 'I am not able alone to bear you'. Deuteronomy 1.9 (see Numbers 11.14).

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. Deuteronomy 1.10.

May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!. Deuteronomy 1.11.

Choose wise, understanding, and experienced men, according to your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads. Deuteronomy 1.13.

And you answered me, 'The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.'. Deuteronomy 1.14.

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes. Deuteronomy 1.15.

And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brethern, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien that is with him'. Deuteronomy 1.16.

You shall not be partial in jungement; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgement is God's; and the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. Deuteronomy 1.17.

And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do. Deuteronomy 1.18.

And I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God gives us.'. Deuteronomy 1.20.

Behold the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you; do not fear or be dismayed. Deuteronomy 1.21.

Then all of you came near me, and said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.'. Deuteronomy 1.22.

And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again,k and said, 'It is a good land which the Lord our God gives us.'. Deuteronomy 1.25.

"Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 1.26.

And you murmured in your tents, and said, 'Because the Lord hated us he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. Deuteronomy 1.27.

The Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said, 'You also shall not go in there'. Deuteronomy 1.37.

Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter; encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. Deuteronomy 1.38.

Moreover your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. Deuteronomy 1.39.

But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea. Deuteronomy 1.40.

Then the Lord said to me. Deuteronomy 2.2.

'You have been going about this mountain country long enough; turn northward.'. Deuteronomy 2.3.

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands; he knows your going through this great wilderness these forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing. Deuteronomy 2.7.

"So when all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,". Deuteronomy 2.16.

The Lord said to me. Deuteronomy 2.17.

'This day you are to pass over the boundary of Moab at Ar. Deuteronomy 2.18.

As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their stead. Deuteronomy 2.23.

This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you. Deuteronomy 2.25.

The king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as at this day. Deuteronomy 2.30.

And the Lord said to me, 'Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you; begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land. Deuteronomy 2.31.

Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. Deuteronomy 2.32.

And the Lord our God gave him over to us; and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. Deuteronomy 2.33.

Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God forbade us. Deuteronomy 2.37.

"Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.". Deuteronomy 3.1.

But the Lord said to me, 'Do not fear him; for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'. Deuteronomy 3.2.

So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until no survivor was left to him. Deuteronomy 3.3.

And we took all his cities at that time - there was not a city which we did not take from them - sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. Deuteronomy 3.4.

All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages. Deuteronomy 3.5.

The Lord your God has given you this land to possess; all your men of valor shall pass over armed before your brethern of valor shall pass over armed before your brethern the people of Israel. Deuteronomy 3.18.

You shall not fear them; for it is the Lord your God who fights for you. Deuteronomy 3.22.

"And now, O Israel, give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which I teach you, and do them; that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you. Deuteronomy 4.1.

You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it; that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. Deuteronomy 4.2 (Note: see Revelation 22 verses 18 & 19, adding & subtracting).

You who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive this day. Deuteronomy 4.4.

Behold, I ahve taught you statutes and ordinances, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land which you are entering to take possession of it. Deuteronomy 4.5.

Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'. Deuteronomy 4.6.

Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children. Deuteronomy 4.9.

How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'. Deuteronomy 4.10.

And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. Deuteronomy 4.11.

Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. Deuteronomy 4.12.

And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. Deuteronomy 4.13.

And the Lord commanded me at that time that you might do them in the land which you are going over to possess. Deuteronomy 4.14.

Therefore take good heed to yourselves. Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire. Deuteronomy 4.15.

Beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female. Deuteronomy 4.16.

The likeness of any beast that is on teh earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air. Deuteronomy 4.17.

The likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. Deuteronomy 4.18.

And beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. Deuteronomy 4.19.

But the Lord has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to a people of his own possession, as at this day. Deuteronomy 4.20.

Furthermore the Lord was angry with me on your account, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance. Deuteronomy 4.21.

For I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over and take possession of that good land. Deuteronomy 4.22.

Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a graven image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you. Deuteronomy 4.23.

For the Lord your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. Deuteronomy 4.24.

When you beget children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger. Deuteronomy 4.25.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. Deuteronomy 4.26.

And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. Deuteronomy 4.27.

And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. Deuteronomy 4.28.

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 4.29.

When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. Deuteronomy 4.30.

For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them. Deuteronomy 4.31.

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. Deuteronomy 4.32.

Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?. Deuteronomy 4.33.

Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?. Deuteronomy 4.34.

To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him. Deuteronomy 4.35.

Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you; and on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. Deuteronomy 4.36.

And because he loved your fathers and chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power. Deuteronomy 4.37.

Driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day. Deuteronomy 4.38.

Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. Deuteronomy 4.39.

Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God gives you for ever. Deuteronomy 4.40.

Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan. Deuteronomy 4.41.

That the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might save his life:. Deuteronomy 4.42.

This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. Deuteronomy 4.44.

These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spole to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. Deuteronomy 4.45.

And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your hearing on this day, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them". Deuteronomy 5.1.

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Deuteronomy 5.2.

Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive this day. Deuteronomy 5.3.

The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire. Deuteronomy 5.4.

While I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:. Deuteronomy 5.5.

"'I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage'". Deuteronomy 5.6.

You shall have no other gods before me. Deuteronomy 5.7.

You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is on earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Deuteronomy 5.8.

You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me. Deuteronomy 5.9.

But showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Deuteronomy 5.10.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Deuteronomy 5.11.

Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Deuteronomy 5.12.

Six days you shall labor, and do all your work. Deuteronomy 5.13.

But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant, or your ox, or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you. Deuteronomy 5.14.

You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out thence with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day. Deuteronomy 5.15.

Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the Lord your God gives you. Deuteronomy 5.16.

You shall not kill. Deuteronomy 5.17.

Neither shall you commit adultery. Deuteronomy 5.18.

Neither shall you steal. Deuteronomy 5.19.

Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor. Deuteronomy 5.20.

Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's. Deuteronomy 5.21.

These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them to me. Deuteronomy 5.22.

And when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you come near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. Deuteronomy 5.23.

And you said, 'Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire; we have this day seen God speak with mand and man still live'. Deuteronomy 5.24.

Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die. Deuteronomy 5.25 (Note: The Lord our God is great and terrible and awesome and scary; so when we pray we should be respectful and careful and pious and reverent: so we should consider what God has already given us before we consider asking for any words, marvels, signs, and wonders. God gives to us, and to ignore those gifts would be to slight, as it were. For instance, God has perfectly shown us his power; so if we ask God to show us his power, shall he place us in front of a locomotive or on a volcano? Perfectly, God gives us personal circumstances.).

For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire, as we have, and has still lived?. Deuteronomy 5.26.

Go near, and hear all that the Lord our God will say; and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you; and we will hear and do it. Deuteronomy 5.27.

And the Lord heard your words, when you spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you; they have rightly said all that they have spoken. Deuteronomy 5.28.

O that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that is might go well with them and with their children for ever!. Deuteronomy 5.29.

Go and say to them, "Return to your tents.". Deuteronomy 5.30.

But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess. Deuteronomy 5.31 (Note: "commandment" is singular, not plural: all one in unity).

You shall be careful to do therefore as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. Deuteronomy 5.32.

You shall walk in all the way which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land which you shall possess. Deuteronomy 5.33.

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it. Deuteronomy 6.1.

That you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. Deuteronomy 6.2.

Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them; that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. Deuteronomy 6.3.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. Deuteronomy 6.4.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6.5.

And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart. Deuteronomy 6.6 (Note: see Leviticus 17.14).

And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Deuteronomy 6.7.

And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. Deuteronomy 6.8.

And you shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6.9.

And when the Lord your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly cities, which you did not build. Deuteronomy 6.10.

And houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full. Deuteronomy 6.11.

Then take heed lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Deuteronomy 6.12.

You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve him, and swear by his name. Deuteronomy 6.13 (Note: see Matthew Chapter 5 verses 34 through 37 for further analysis: "swear by his name" refers to perfectly and exactly specified design and works; just as you would not typically use a hammer to thread a needle: also see Deuteronomy 5.25 note above).

You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you. Deuteronomy 6.14.

For the Lord your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 6.15.

You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. Deuteronomy 6.16 (Note: If you know God, do not test God; but if you do not know God, test everything that you may find steadfastness of the works of God and that you might find God: see 1 Thessalonians 5.21).

You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. Deuteronomy 6.17.

And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers. Deuteronomy 6.18.

By thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has promised. Deuteronomy 6.19.

When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the ststutes and the ordinances which the Lord our God has commanded you?'. Deuteronomy 6.20.

Then you shall say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Deuteronomy 6.21.

And the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. Deuteronomy 6.22.

And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land which he swore to give to our fathers. Deuteronomy 6.23.

And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. Deuteronomy 6.24.

And it will be righteousnesss for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us. Deuteronomy 6.25.

When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than yourselves. Deuteronomy 7.1.

And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them. Deuteronomy 7.2.

You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons. Deuteronomy 7.3.

For they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. Deuteronomy 7.4.

But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. Deuteronomy 7.5.

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 7.6.

It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples. Deuteronomy 7.7.

But it is because the Lord loves you, and is keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemeed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Deuteronomy 7.8.

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. Deuteronomy 7.9.

And requites to their face those who hate him by destroying them; he will not be slack with him who hates him, he will requite him to his face. Deuteronomy 7.10.

You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day. Deuteronomy 7.11.

And because you hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love which he swore to your fathers to keep. Deuteronomy 7.12.

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. Deuteronomy 7.13.

You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. Deuteronomy 7.14.

And the Lord will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict upon you, but he will lay them upon all who hate you. Deuteronomy 7.15.

And you shall destroy all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you, your eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you. Deuteronomy 7.16.

If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'. Deuteronomy 7.17.

You shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. Deuteronomy 7.18.

The great trials whicy your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out; so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Deuteronomy 7.19.

Moreover the Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed. Deuteronomy 7.20.

You shall not be in dread of them; for the Lord your God is in the midst of you, a great and terrible God. Deuteronomy 7.21.

The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you may not make an end of them quickly, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. Deuteronomy 7.22.

But the Lord your God will give them over to you, and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. Deuteronomy 7.23.

And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven; not a man shall be able to stand against you, until you have destroyed them. Deuteronomy 7.24.

The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 7.25.

And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house, and become accursed like it; you shall utterly detest and abhor it; for it is an accursed thing. Deuteronomy 7.26.

All the commandment which I command you this day you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers. Deuteronomy 8.1.

And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. Deuteronomy 8.2.

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. Deuteronomy 8.3.

Your clothing did not wear out upon you, and your foot did not swell, these forty years. Deuteronomy 8.4.

Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. Deuteronomy 8.5.

So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, by walking in his ways and by fearing him. Deuteronomy 8.6.

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills. Deuteronomy 8.7.

A land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey. Deuteronomy 8.8.

A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. Deuteronomy 8.9.

And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Deuteronomy 8.10.

Take heed lest you forget the Lord your God, by not keeping his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes, which I command you this day:. Deuteronomy 8.11.

Lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them. Deuteronomy 8.12.

And when your herds and flocks multiply, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied. Deuteronomy 8.13.

Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Deuteronomy 8.14.

Who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock. Deuteronomy 8.15.

Who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. Deuteronomy 8.16.

Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.'. Deuteronomy 8.17.

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. Deuteronomy 8.18.

And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you this day that you shall surely perish. Deuteronomy 8.19.

Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 8.20.

Hear, O Israel; you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven. Deuteronomy 9.1.

A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'. Deuteronomy 9.2.

Know therefore this day that he who goes over before you as a devouring fire is the Lord your God; he will destroy them and subdue them before you; so you shall drive them out, and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you. Deuteronomy 9.3.

Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land'; whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you. Deuteronomy 9.4.

Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abbraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Deuteronomy 9.5.

Know therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people. Deuteronomy 9.6.

Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. Deuteronomy 9.7.

Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. Deuteronomy 9.8.

When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water. Deuteronomy 9.9.

And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. Deuteronomy 9.10.

And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant. Deuteronomy 9.11.

Then the Lord said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly; they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.'. Deuteronomy 9.12.

Furthermore the Lord said to me, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people'. Deuteronomy 9.13.

Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater then they. Deuteronomy 9.14.

So I turned and came down from the mountain and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. Deuteronomy 9.15.

And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. Deuteronomy 9.16.

So I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. Deuteronomy 9.17.

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin which you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. Deuteronomy 9.18.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure which the Lord bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened to me that time also. Deuteronomy 9.19.

And the Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. Deuteronomy 9.20.

Then I took the sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw the dust of it into the brook that descended out of the mountain. Deuteronomy 9.21.

At Taberah also, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath. Deuteronomy 9.22.

And when the Lord sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, 'Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him or obey his voice. Deuteronomy 9.23.

You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. Deuteronomy 9.24.

So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you. Deuteronomy 9.25.

And I prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thy heritage, whom thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Deuteronomy 9.26.

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness, or their sin. Deuteronomy 9.27.

Lest the land be from which thou didst bring us say, "Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.". Deuteronomy 9.28 (Note: For Moses sake and for the people of Israel's sake, God provided this way of proving that Moses and the people of Israel were capable of steadfast higher caring, loving, and protective reasoning to prove they were ready for their promised land and worthy of same.).

For they are thy people and thy heritage, whom thou didst bring out by thy great power and by thy out stretched arm. Deuteronomy 9.29.

At that time the Lord said to me, 'Hew two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.'. Deuteronomy 10.1.

And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark. Deuteronomy 10.2.

So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tables in my hand. Deuteronomy 10.3.

And he wrote on the tables, as at the first writing, the ten commandments which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. Deuteronomy 10.4.

Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me. Deuteronomy 10.5.

(The people of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Benejaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his stead. Deuteronomy 10.6.

From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Hudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water. Deuteronomy 10.7.

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day. Deuteronomy 10.8.

Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers; the Lord ishis inheritance, as the Lord your God said to him.). Deuteronomy 10.9.

I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the Lord hearkened to me that time also; the Lord was unwilling to destroy you. Deuteronomy 10.10.

And the Lord said to me, 'Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.'. Deuteronomy 10.11.

And now,k Israel, what does the Lord our God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 10.12.

And to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I command you this day for your good?. Deuteronomy 10.13 (Note: All we do should be for the good glory of God.).

Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. Deuteronomy 10.14 (Note: So there is a heaven, and there are realms of heaven with God at the highest realm, and as we both individually personally and together united steadfastly accept God within us, we find heaven is on earth.).

Yet the Lord set his heart in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day. Deuteronomy 10.15.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. Deuteronomy 10.16.

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty,k and the terrible God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. Deuteronomy 10.17.

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Deuteronomy 10.18.

Love the sojourner therefore; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. Deuteronomy 10.19.

You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve him and cleave to him, and by his name you shall swear. Deuteronomy 10.20.

He is your praise; he is your God, who has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen. Deuteronomy 10.21.

Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude. Deuteronomy 10.22.

You shall therefore love the Lord your God, and keep his charge, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments always. Deuteronomy 11.1.

And consider this day (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the instruction of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm. Deuteronomy 11.2.

His signs and his deeds which he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land. Deuteronomy 11.3.

And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day. Deuteronomy 11.4.

And what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place. Deuteronomy 11.5.

And what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel. Deuteronomy 11.6.

For your eyes have seen all the great work of the Lord which he did. Deuteronomy 11.7.

You shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are going over to possess. Deuteronomy 11.8.

And that you may live long in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. Deuteronomy 11.9.

For the land which you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, lake a garden of vegetables. Deuteronomy 11.10.

But the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven. Deuteronomy 11.11.

A land which the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Deuteronomy 11.12.

And if you will obey my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 11.13.

God will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. Deuteronomy 11.14 (Note: The word "God" has been inserted for logical clarity and peaceful resolution for the greater glory of God by Dr. Bob Benchoff; otherwise the word is "he" in the Revised Standard Version Bible and as "I" in the King James Version and in the Samaritan Greek Version of the Bible. This note applies to the next verse also.).

And God will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full. Deuteronomy 11.15.

Take heed lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them. Deuteronomy 11.16.

And the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there be no rain, and the land yield no fruit, and you perish quickly off the good land which the Lord gives you. Deuteronomy 11.17.

You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. Deuteronomy 11.18.

And you shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Deuteronomy 11.19.

And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates. Deuteronomy 11.20.

That your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land which the Lord swore in your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. Deuteronomy 11.21.

For if you will be careful to do all this commandment which I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and cleaving to him. Deuteronomy 11.22.

Then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. Deuteronomy 11.23.

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall be from the wilderness and Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. Deuteronomy 11.24.

No man shall be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you. Deuteronomy 11.25.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:. Deuteronomy 11.26.

The blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day. Deuteronomy 11.27.

And the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which you have not known. Deuteronomy 11.28.

And when the Lord your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. Deuteronomy 11.29.

Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?. Deuteronomy 11.30.

For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land which the Lord your God gives you; and when you possess it and live in it. Deuteronomy 11.31.

You shall be careful to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day. Deuteronomy 11.32.

These are the statutes and ordinances which you shall be careful to do in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live upon the earth. Deuteronomy 12.1.

You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree. Deuteronomy 12.2.

You shall tear down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place. Deuteronomy 12.3.

You shall not do so to the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 12.4 (Note: You shall not remove the name of the Lord your God, and you shall not forget that God is the authority and power to crush and compact to build something better and more perfect for God [and you] if you follow the Word of God).

But you shall seek the place which the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there; thither you shall go. Deuteronomy 12.5.

And thither you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock. Deuteronomy 12.6.

And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you. Deuteronomy 12.7.

You shall not do according to all that we are doing here this day, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyee. Deuteronomy 12.8.

For you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God gives you. Deuteronomy 12.9.

But when you go over the Jordan, and live in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you live in safety. Deuteronomy 12.10.

Then to the place which the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, thither you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, and all your votive offerings which you vow to the Lord. Deuteronomy 12.11.

And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. Deuteronomy 12.12.

Take heed that you do not offer your burnt offerings at every plact that you see. Deuteronomy 12.13.

But at the place which the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you. Deuteronomy 12.14.

However, you may slaughter and eat flesh within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the hart. Deuteronomy 12.15.

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water. Deuteronomy 12.16.

You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd or of your flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the offering that you present. Deuteronomy 12.17.

But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, and the Levite who is within your towns; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake. Deuteronomy 12.18.

Take heed that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. Deuteronomy 12.19.

When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat flesh,' because you crave flesh, you may eat as much flesh as you desire. Deuteronomy 12.20.

If the place which the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your towns as much as you desire. Deuteronomy 12.21.

Just as the gazelle or the hart is eaten, so you may eat of it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. Deuteronomy 12.22.

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. Deuteronomy 12.23.

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water. Deuteronomy 12.24.

You shall not eat it; that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord. Deuteronomy 12.25.

But the holy things which are due from you, and your votive offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place which the Lord will choose. Deuteronomy 12.26.

And offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat. Deuteronomy 12.27.

Be careful to heed all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you for ever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 12.28.

When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you didpossess them and dwell in their land. Deuteronomy 12.29.

Take heed that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods. Deuteronomy 12.30.

You shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him;. Deuteronomy 13.8.

But you shall kill him; your hand shall be first him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. Deuteronomy 13.9 (Note: To make it easy for you to find verses, the individual verse format is used here, as seen in many Bible versions. Yet verses 13.8 and 13.9 evidently should be read as one. In logical progression of firsts: first if crime, then first do not yield yourself (so you would continue via law working to do your missionary work to pray and preach and convert if time provided via God is good for same), then if they are not converted: first guilty criminal death via sentencing you initiate. Furthermore, not per guilt by association, nonetheless since others may be linked with the guilty and also guilty themselves, seek expertise help in that field, that the entire guilty group might be dispossessed. Furthermore, seek evangelism and pastoring to prevent further such crime thither the borders and beyond Israel that all life God created might thank God.).

And all Israel shall hear, and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you. Deuteronomy 13.11 (Note: Children fear older stronger people and test them to see [what they can get away with] their limits. Adult Christians fear God. Help those in authority; yet more so help, love, and fear God.).

You shalll surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, destroying it utterly, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. Deuteronomy 13.15.

You shall bather all its spoil into the midst of its open square, and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; it shall be a heap for ever, it shall not be built again. Deuteronomy 13.16.

None of the devoted things shall cleave to your hand; that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,. Deuteronomy 13.17.

If you obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments which I command you this day, and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 13.18.

You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. Deuteronomy 14.1 (Note: ...nor to resemble a non-Christian.).

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 14.2.

You shall not eat any abominable thing. Deuteronomy 14.3.

These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat. Deuteronomy 14.4.

The hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain-sheep. Deuteronomy 14.5.

Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Deuteronomy 14.6.

Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. Deuteronomy 14.7.

And the swine, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. Deuteronomy 14.8.

Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. Deuteronomy 14.9.

And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. Deuteronomy 14.10.

You may eat all clean birds. Deuteronomy 14.11.

But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey. Deuteronomy 14.12.

The buzzard, the kite, after their kinds. Deuteronomy 14.13.

Every raven after its kind. Deuteronomy 14.14.

The ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk, after their kinds. Deuteronomy 14.15.

The little owl and the great owl, the water hen. Deuteronomy 14.16.

And the pelican, the carrion vulture and the cormorant. Deuteronomy 14.17.

The stork, the heron, after their kinds; the hoopoe and the bat. Deuteronomy 14.18.

And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. Deuteronomy 14.19.

All clean winged things you may eat. Deuteronomy 14.20.

You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Deuteronomy 14.21 (Note: While we are to abide by all of the laws of God, we see legal priority toward faith, such as: ["no other gods" law] is more important than the ["not kill" law], "your towns" is more important than "foreigner", and the unified essence of a mother and it's kid is more important than perversion of same. So depending on the situation, as Moses had authorities defer to higher authority, one law may have a supercedeas in the sense of an inferior court).

You shall tithe all the yield of your seed, which comes forth from the field year by year. Deuteronomy 14.22.

And before the Lord your God, in the place which he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and flock; that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. Deuteronomy 14.23.

And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to bring the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there. Deuteronomy 14.24.

Then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses. Deuteronomy 14.25.

And spend the money for whatever you desire, oxen, or sheep, or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves; and you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household. Deuteronomy 14.26.

And you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you. Deuteronomy 14.27.

At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and lay it up within your towns. Deuteronomy 14.28.

And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do. Deuteronomy 14.29.

At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. Deuteronomy 15.1.

And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed. Deuteronomy 15.2.

Of a foreigner you may exact it; but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release. Deuteronomy 15.3.

But there will be no poor among you (for the Lord will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance to possess). Deuteronomy 15.4.

If only you will obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all this commandment which I command you this day. Deuteronomy 15.5.

For the Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. Deuteronomy 15.6.

If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethern, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother. Deuteronomy 15.7.

But you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Deuteronomy 15.8.

Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near," and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you. Deuteronomy 15.9.

You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him; because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. Deuteronomy 15.10.

For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land. Deuteronomy 15.11 (Note: In Deuteronomy 15.4 God offers no poor if we obey God; in 15.5 the poor are offered us to open our hand and mind. So aside from our sin offering, God offers the merit of a proportional response: so while God might not immediately kill us for certain sins, God shows us how others (innocent inclusive) are hurt by sin.).

If your brother, a Hebrew mand, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. Deuteronomy 15.12.

And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. Deuteronomy 15.13.

You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press; as the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. Deuteronomy 15.14.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. Deuteronomy 15.15.

But if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you. Deuteronomy 15.16.

Then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your bondman for ever. And to your bondwoman you shall do likewise. Deuteronomy 15.17 (Note: So the earring or other ring symbolizes bonding, such as a married woman bonding with her husband, and nuns bonding with God.).

It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do. Deuteronomy 15.18.

All the firstling males that are born of your herd and flock you shall consecrate to the Lord your God; you shall do no work with the firstling of your herd, nor shear the firstling of your flock. Deuteronomy 15.19.

You shall eate it, you and your household, before the Lord your God year by year at the place which the Lord will choose. Deuteronomy 15.20.

But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind, or has nay serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it ot the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 15.21.

You shall eat it within your towns; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a hart. Deuteronomy 15.22.

Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water. Deuteronomy 15.23.

Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the Lord your God; for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. Deuteronomy 16.1.

And you shall offer the passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place which the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there. Deuteronomy 16.2.

You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction-for you came out of the land of Egypt in hurried flight-that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. Deuteronomy 16.3.

No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days; nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. Deuteronomy 16.4.

You may not offer the passover sacrifice within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you. Deuteronomy 16.5.

But the place which the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the passover sacrifice, in the evening at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt. Deuteronomy 16.6.

And you shall boil it and eat it at the place which the Lord your God will choose; and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. Deuteronomy 16.7.

For six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your god; you shall do no work on it. Deuteronomy 16.8.

You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain. Deuteronomy 16.9.

Then you shall keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you. Deuteronomy 16.10.

And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place which the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. Deuteronomy 16.11.

You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes. Deuteronomy 16.12.

You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, when you make your ingathering from your threshing floor and your wine press. Deuteronomy 16.13.

You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. Deuteronomy 16.14.

For seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place which the Lord will choose; because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful. Deuteronomy 16.15.

Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place which he will choose: at the feast of unleavened bread, at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. Deuteronomy 16.16.

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you. Deuteronomy 16.17.

You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. Deuteronomy 16.18.

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. Deuteronomy 16.19.

Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you. Deuteronomy 16.20.

You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God which you shall make. Deuteronomy 16.21.

And you shall not set up a pillar, which the Lord your God hates. Deuteronomy 16.22 (Note: A "pillar" is carved or graven. As with the Asherah above, historically such lend to confusion, such as tree worship. This is very different from holy words of God on a post at a church family entrance, for instance, thwarting confusion, being just and honorable before God).

You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever; for that is an abomination to the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 17.1.

If there is found among you, within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant. Deuteronomy 17.2.

And has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden. Deuteronomy 17.3.

And it is told you and you hear of it; then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done in Israel. Deuteronomy 17.4.

Then you shall bring forth to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. Deuteronomy 17.5.

On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses he that is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. Deuteronomy 17.6.

The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you. Deuteronomy 17.7.

If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns which is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God will choose. Deuteronomy 17.8.

And coming to the Levitical priests, and to the judge who is in office in those days, you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision. Deuteronomy 17.9.

Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place which the Lord will choose; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you. Deuteronomy 17.10.

According to the instructions which they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the verdict which they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. Deuteronomy 17.11.

The man who acts presumptuously, by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel. Deuteronomy 17.12.

And all the people shall hear, and fear, and not act presumptuously again. Deuteronomy 17.13.

When you come to the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me'. Deuteronomy 17.14.

You may indeed set as king over you him whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brethern you shall set as king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. Deuteronomy 17.15.

Only he must not multiply horses for himself, or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.'. Deuteronomy 17.16.

And he shall not multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply for himself silver and gold. Deuteronomy 17.17.

And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, from that which is in charge of the Levitical priests. Deuteronomy 17.18.

And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them. Deuteronomy 17.19.

That his heart may not be lifted up above his brethern, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel. Deuteronomy 17.20.

The Levitical priests, that is, all the trive of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings by fire to the Lord, and his rightful dues. Deuteronomy 18.1.

They shall have no inheritance among their brethern; the Lord is their inheritance as he promised them. Deuteronomy 18.2.

And this shall be the priests; due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. Deuteronomy 18.3.

The first fruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. Deuteronomy 18.4.

For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever. Deuteronomy 18.5.

And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives-and he may come when he desires-to the place which the Lord will choose. Deuteronomy 18.6.

Then he may minister in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow-Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord. Deuteronomy 18.7.

They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony. Deuteronomy 18.8.

When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. Deuteronomy 18.9.

There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, and one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer. Deuteronomy 18.10 (Note: "burns" or pass through fire [/ Hebrew / Masoretic]).

Or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Deuteronomy 18.11.

For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord; and because of these abominable practices the Lord your God is driving them out before you. Deuteronomy 18.12.

You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 18.13.

For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, give heed to soothsayers and to diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you so to do. Deuteronomy 18.14.

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethern-him you shall heed-. Deuteronomy 18.15.

Just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assemble, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, or see this great fire any more, lest I die.'. Deuteronomy 18.16.

And the Lord said to me, 'They have rightly said all that they have spoken. Deuteronomy 18.17 (Note: Hence Jesus Christ spoke in parables so that those of little faith would not be overcome, and that only the more pure-hearted grace-driven chosen people would know him.).

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethern; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. Deuteronomy 18.18 (Note: John the Baptist).

And whoever will not give heed to my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. Deuteronomy 18.19 (Note: see 3 Nephi 14:24-15:10).

But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. Deuteronomy 18.20.

And if you say in your heart, 'How may we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?'-. Deuteronomy 18.21.

When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word that is a word which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you need not be afraid of him. Deuteronomy 18.22 (Note: Humans spread the word of God, and even though great help from God is received by the spreader and the hearer, ideas out of context may be found, so seek the highest priority meaning.).

When the Lord your God cuts off the nations whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses. Deuteronomy 19.1.

You shall set apart three cities for you in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess. Deuteronomy 19.2.

You shall prepare the roads, and divide into three parts the area of the land which the Lord your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them. Deuteronomy 19.3.

This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If any one kills his neighbor unintentionally without having been at enmity with him in time past-. Deuteronomy 19.4.

As when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies-he may flee to one of these cities and save his life. Deuteronomy 19.5.

Lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and wound him mortally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he was not at enmity with his neighbor in time past. Deuteronomy 19.6 (Note: About anger among humans: righteous anger on behalf of other(s) is good, such as to yell at a child to get out of the way of an approaching car. But guard against selfish anger, it works to corrupt your decision-making, hence rather thank God for your test of faith).

Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities. Deuteronomy 19.7.

And if the Lord your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers-. Deuteronomy 19.8.

Provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you this day, by loving the Lord your God and by walking ever in his ways-then you shall add three other cities to these three. Deuteronomy 19.9.

Lest innocent blood be shed in your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you. Deuteronomy 19.10.

But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and attacks him, and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the man flees into one of these cities. Deuteronomy 19.11.

Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die. Deuteronomy 19.12.

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you. Deuteronomy 19.13.

In the inheritance which you will hold in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess, you shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set. Deuteronomy 19.14.

A single witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed; only on the evidence of two witnesses, shall a charge be sustained. Deuteronomy 19.15.

If a malicious witness rises against any man to accuse him of wrongdoing. Deuteronomy 19.16.

Then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. Deuteronomy 19.17.

The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely. Deuteronomy 19.18.

Then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you. Deuteronomy 19.19.

And the rest shall hear, and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you. Deuteronomy 19.20.

Your eye shall not pity; it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Deuteronomy 19.21.

When you go forth to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Deuteronomy 20.1.

And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people. Deuteronomy 20.2.

And shall say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; do not fear, or tremble, or be in dread of them'. Deuteronomy 20.3.

For the Lord your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory. Deuteronomy 20.4.

Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, 'What man is there that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it. Deuteronomy 20.5.

And what man is there that has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit. Deuteronomy 20.6.

And what man is there that has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her. Deuteronomy 20.7.

And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, 'What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go back to his house, lest the heart of his fellows melt as his heart.'. Deuteronomy 20.8.

And when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people. Deuteronomy 20.9.

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. Deuteronomy 20.10.

And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. Deuteronomy 20.11.

But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. Deuteronomy 20.12.

And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its males to the sword. Deuteronomy 20.13.

But the women and the little ones, the cattle, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourselves; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. Deuteronomy 20.14.

Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. Deuteronomy 20.15.

But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes. Deuteronomy 20.16.

But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded. Deuteronomy 20.17.

That they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices which they have done in the service of their gods, and so to sin against the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 20.18.

When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field men that they should be besieged by you?. Deuteronomy 20.19 (Note: Yes. For the glory of God. In those days it was different; now we know how to rearrange the DNA of trees to conqueor them when so good and properly indicated via the Word of God, such as to remove tree sicknesses and create trees of life.).

Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down that you may build siegworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls. Deuteronomy 20.20.

If in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, any one is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him. Deuteronomy 21.1.

Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure the distance to the cities which are around him that is slain. Deuteronomy 21.2.

And the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has never been worked and which has not pulled in the yoke. Deuteronomy 21.3.

And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. Deuteronomy 21.4.

And the priests the sons of Levi shall come forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to him and to their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled. Deuteronomy 21.5.

And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. Deuteronomy 21.6.

And they shall testify, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, neither did our eyes see it shed.'. Deuteronomy 21.7.

Forgive, O Lord, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and set not the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of thy people Israel; but let the guilt of blood be forgiven them. Deuteronomy 21.8.

So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord. Deuteronomy 21.9.

When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hands, and you take them captive. Deuteronomy 21.10.

And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire for her and would take her for yourself as wife. Deuteronomy 21.11.

Then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and pare her nails. Deuteronomy 21.12 (Note: Archaeologists have used logic to state that evolving into people involved standing erect to see farther, and to pass through water; and female long hair evolved so while a mother was swimming, a baby could cling to their mother's hair; so shaving the head logically symbolizes separation from former family ties).

And she shall put off her captive's garb, and shall remain in your house and bewail her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. Deuteronomy 21.13.

Then, if you have no delight in her, you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her for money, you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her. Deuteronomy 21.14.

If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other disliked, and they have boren him children, both the loved and the disliked, and if the first-born son is hers that is disliked. Deuteronomy 21.15.

Then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the first-born in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the first-born. Deuteronomy 21.16.

But he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the disliked, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first issue of his strength; the right of the first-born is his. Deuteronomy 21.17.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chastise him, will not give heed to them. Deuteronomy 21.18.

Then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives. Deuteronomy 21.19.

And they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'. Deuteronomy 21.20.

Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. Deuteronomy 21.21.

And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree. Deuteronomy 21.22.

His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God; you shall not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance. Deuteronomy 21.23.

You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and withhold your help from them; you shall take them back to your brother. Deuteronomy 22.1.

And if he is not near you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him. Deuteronomy 22.2.

And so you shall do with his ass; so you shall do with his garment; so you shall do with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not withhold your help. Deuteronomy 22.3.

You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and withhold your help from them; you shall help him to lift them up again. Deuteronomy 22.4.

A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 22.5.

If you chance to come upon a bird's nest, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. Deuteronomy 22.6.

You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may go well with you, and that you may live long. Deuteronomy 22.7.

When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if any one fall from it. Deuteronomy 22.8.

You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited to the sanctuary, the crop which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. Deuteronomy 22.9.

You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together. Deuteronomy 22.10.

You shall not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together. Deuteronomy 22.11.

You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself. Deuteronomy 22.12.

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and then spurns her. Deuteronomy 22.13.

And charges her with shameful conduct, and brings an evil name upon her, saying, 'I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity'. Deuteronomy 22.14.

Then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. Deuteronomy 22.15.

And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he spurns her'. Deuteronomy 22.16.

And lo, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, "I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity." And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. Deuteronomy 22.17.

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him. Deuteronomy 22.18.

And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. Deuteronomy 22.19.

But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman. Deuteronomy 22.20.

Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you. Deuteronomy 22.21.

If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall purge the evil from Israel. Deuteronomy 22.22.

If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her. Deuteronomy 22.23.

Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you. Deuteronomy 22.24.

But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. Deuteronomy 22.25.

But to the young to the young woman you shall do nothing; in the young woman there is no offense punishable by death, for this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor. Deuteronomy 22.26.

Because he came upon her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her. Deuteronomy 22.27.

If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her and they are found. Deuteronomy 22.28.

Then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days. Deuteronomy 22.29.

A man shall not take his father's wife, nor shall he uncover her who is his father's. Deuteronomy 22.30.

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. Deuteronomy 23.1.

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord. Deuteronomy 23.2.

An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord. Deuteronomy 23.3.

Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. Deuteronomy 23.4.

Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee. Deuteronomy 23.5.

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. Deuteronomy 23.6.

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land. Deuteronomy 23.7.

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation. Deuteronomy 23.8.

When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. Deuteronomy 23.9.

If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:. Deuteronomy 23.10.

But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. Deuteronomy 23.11.

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:. Deuteronomy 23.12.

And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:. Deuteronomy 23.13.

For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. Deuteronomy 23.14.

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:. Deuteronomy 23.15 (Note: So via the above several verses, by making yourself holy you make yourself a place of sanctuary to those who would be clean and holy.).

He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him. Deuteronomy 23.16.

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Deuteronomy 23.17.

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God. Deuteronomy 23.18.

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:. Deuteronomy 23.19.

Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. Deuteronomy 23.20.

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. Deuteronomy 23.21.

But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. Deuteronomy 23.22.

That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou shat vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. Deuteronomy 23.23.

When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. Deuteronomy 23.24 (Note: You have a vow with your neighbor according to just mutual understanding and respect, hence being always invited is not to be presumed: an invitation may be required or keep out may be required. For instance, your neighbor might be in a rare moment of prayer, and if you disturb it just to get food for yourself, you might anger God [for the sake of your neighbor] during your neighbor's glorification of God; particularly if your neighbor is praying for you to be less greedy.).

When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. Deuteronomy 23.25.

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. Deuteronomy 24.1 (Note: So we find that sin or uncleanness causes clear and easy to understand laws to become complex and confusing among all, see Genesis 2.24. Therefore, how hardly can we expect God to dwell with us, as we react to sin instead of reacting just according to goodness: except through the grace of God: so not per our will, but the will of God be done.).

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. Deuteronomy 24.2.

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife. Deuteronomy 24.3.

Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. Deuteronomy 24.4.

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. Deuteronomy 24.5.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. Deuteronomy 24.6.

If a man be found stealing any of his brethern of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. Deuteronomy 24.7.

Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. Deuteronomy 24.8.

Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. Deuteronomy 24.9.

When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. Deuteronomy 24.10.

Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. Deuteronomy 24.11.

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge. Deuteronomy 24.12.

In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God. Deuteronomy 24.13.

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethern, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates. Deuteronomy 24.14.

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it; lest he cry against thee unto the Lord: and it be sin unto thee. Deuteronomy 24.15.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. Deuteronomy 24.16.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:. Deuteronomy 24.17.

But thou shalt remember that thou was a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command theee to do this thing. Deuteronomy 24.18.

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. Deuteronomy 24.19.

When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. Deuteronomy 24.20.

When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. Deuteronomy 24.21.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing. Deuteronomy 24.22.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. Deuteronomy 25.1.

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Deuteronomy 25.2.

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. Deuteronomy 25.3.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deuteronomy 25.4.

If brethern dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. Deuteronomy 25.5.

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. Deuteronomy 25.6.

And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wive go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. Deuteronomy 25.7.

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her. Deuteronomy 25.8.

Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. Deuteronomy 25.9 (Note: Reference tradition of tying a shoe per brother to the back of the car of such remarried newly-wed).

And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. Deuteronomy 25.10.

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:. Deuteronomy 25.11.

Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. Deuteronomy 25.12.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Deuteronomy 25.13 (Note: Have one set of weights for all people, not unjust favoritism.).

Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. Deuteronomy 25.14.

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Deuteronomy 25.15.

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. Deuteronomy 25.16.

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt. Deuteronomy 25.17.

How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. Deuteronomy 25.18.

Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. Deuteronomy 25.19.

And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein. Deuteronomy 26.1.

That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there. Deuteronomy 26.2.

And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us. Deuteronomy 26.3.

And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God. Deuteronomy 26.4.

And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:. Deuteronomy 26.5.

And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:. Deuteronomy 26.6.

And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:. Deuteronomy 26.7.

And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:. Deuteronomy 26.8.

And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. Deuteronomy 26.9.

And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before the Lord thy God:. Deuteronomy 26.10.

And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you. Deuteronomy 26.11.

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled. Deuteronomy 26.12.

Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to alll thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:. Deuteronomy 26.13.

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. Deuteronomy 26.14.

Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel and the ground which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. Deuteronomy 26.15 (Note: This verse is a great reminder that people often ask for something that God already gives.).

This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances; you shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 26.16.

You have declared this day concerning the Lord that he is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinances, and will obey his voice. Deuteronomy 26.17.

And the Lord has declared this day concerning you that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments. Deuteronomy 26.18.

That he will set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor, and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he has spoken. Deuteronomy 26.19.

Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.". Deuteronomy 27.1.

And on the day you pass over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall set up large stones and plaster them with plaster. Deuteronomy 27.2.

And you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you pass over to enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you. Deuteronomy 27.3.

And when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster. Deuteronomy 27.4.

And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall lift up no iron tool upon them. Deuteronomy 27.5.

You shall build an altar to the Lord your God of unhewn stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 27.6.

And you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 27.7.

And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. Deuteronomy 27.8.

And Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the Lord your God.". Deuteronomy 27.9.

You shall therefore obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day. Deuteronomy 27.10.

And Moses charged the people the same day, saying. Deuteronomy 27.11.

"When you have passed over the Jordan, these shall stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.". Deuteronomy 27.12.

And these shall stand upon Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. Deuteronomy 27.13.

And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:. Deuteronomy 27.14.

"Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.15.

"Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.16.

"Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.17.

"Cursed be he who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.18.

"Cursed be he who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.19.

"Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered her who is his father's.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.20.

"Cursed be he who lies with any kind of beast.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.21.

"Cursed be he who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.22.

"Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.23.

"Cursed be he who slays his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.24.

"Cursed be he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.25.

"Cursed be he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'". Deuteronomy 27.26.

And if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. Deuteronomy 28.1.

And all these blessings shall come upon you and the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 28.2.

Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Deuteronomy 28.3.

Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, young of your flock. Deuteronomy 28.4.

Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. Deuteronomy 28.5.

Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. Deuteronomy 28.6.

The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways. Deuteronomy 28.7.

The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. Deuteronomy 28.8.

The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways. Deuteronomy 28.9.

And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of you. Deuteronomy 28.10.

And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, within the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. Deuteronomy 28.11.

The Lord will open to you his good treasury the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. Deuteronomy 28.12.

And the Lord will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall tend upward only, and not downward; if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day, being careful to do them. Deuteronomy 28.13.

And if you do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. Deuteronomy 28.14.

But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. Deuteronomy 28.15.

Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. Deuteronomy 28.16.

Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. Deuteronomy 28.17.

Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. Deuteronomy 28.18.

Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. Deuteronomy 28.19.

The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration, in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your doings, because you have forsaken me. Deuteronomy 28.20.

The Lord will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to take possession of it. Deuteronomy 28.21.

The Lord will smite you with consumption, and with fever, inflammation, and fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish. Deuteronomy 28.22.

And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron. Deuteronomy 28.23.

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed. Deuteronomy 28.24.

The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. Deuteronomy 28.25.

And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to frighten them away. Deuteronomy 28.26.

The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt, and with the ulcers and the scurvy and the itch, of which you cannot be healed. Deuteronomy 28.27.

The Lord will smite you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind;. Deuteronomy 28.28.

And you shall grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. Deuteronomy 28.29.

You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and you shall not use the fruit of it. Deuteronomy 28.30.

Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away before your face, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be no one to help you. Deuteronomy 28.31.

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all the day; and it shall not be in the power of your hand to prevent it. Deuteronomy 28.32.

A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. Deuteronomy 28.33.

So that you shall be driven mad by the sight which your eyes shall see. Deuteronomy 28.34.

The Lord will smite you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. Deuteronomy 28.35.

The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone. Deuteronomy 28.36.

And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. Deuteronomy 28.37.

You shall carry much seed into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it. Deuteronomy 28.38.

You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them. Deuteronomy 28.39.

You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. Deuteronomy 28.40.

You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. Deuteronomy 28.41.

All your trees and the fruit of your ground the locust shall possess. Deuteronomy 28.42.

The sojourner who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower. Deuteronomy 28.43.

He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. Deuteronomy 28.44.

All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you. Deuteronomy 28.45.

They shall be upon you as a sign and a wonder, and upon your descendants for ever. Deuteronomy 28.46.

Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things. Deuteronomy 28.47.

Therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you. Deuteronomy 28.48.

The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you do not understand. Deuteronomy 28.49.

A nation of stern countenance, who shall not regard the person of the old or show favor to the young. Deuteronomy 28.50.

And shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; who also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. Deuteronomy 28.51.

They shall sesiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. Deuteronomy 28.52.

And you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. Deuteronomy 28.53.

The man who is the most tender and delicately bred among you will grudge food to his brother, to the wife of his bosom, and to the last of the children who remain to him. Deuteronomy 28.54.

So that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. Deuteronomy 28.55.

The most tender and delicately bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will grudge to the husband of her bosom, to her son and to her daughter. Deuteronomy 28.56.

Her afterbirth that come out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because she will eat them secretly, for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns. Deuteronomy 28.57.

If you are not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awful name, the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 28.58.

Then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. Deuteronomy 28.59.

And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you. Deuteronomy 28.60.

Every sickness also, and every affliction which is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. Deuteronomy 28.61.

Whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude, you shall be left few in number; because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 28.62.

And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bring ruin upon you and destroying you; and you shall be plucked off the land which you are entering to take possession of it. Deuteronomy 28.63.

And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. Deuteronomy 28.64.

And among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a languishing soul. Deuteronomy 28.65.

Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life. Deuteronomy 28.66.

In the morning you shall say, 'Would it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'Would it were morning!' because of the dread which your heart shall fear, and the sights which your eyes shall see. Deuteronomy 28.67.

And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey which I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no man will buy you. Deuteronomy 28.68.

These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besided the covenant which he had made with them at Horeb. Deuteronomy 29.1.

And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land". Deuteronomy 29.2.

The great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. Deuteronomy 29.3.

But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear. Deuteronomy 29.4 (Note: So great human logic can be delimited, yet good grace [or elections] of faith surpass understanding and logic: have mercy, meekly share, and give highminded thoughts to others worthy for the greater glory of God: see Romans Chapter 11. It is a separate matter if those in rightful authority over you direct you to keep certain matters secret for higher purposes.).

I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet. Deuteronomy 29.5.

You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 29.6 (Note: Here is revealed the great significance of bread and wine: the logic God created for the purpose God created: uniting the Word with the Holy Spirit).

And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them. Deuteronomy 29.7.

We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites. Deuteronomy 29.8.

Therefore be careful to do the words of this covenant, that you may deal wisely in all that you do. Deuteronomy 29.9 (Note: "deal wisely" or "prosper").

You stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel. Deuteronomy 29.10.

Your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, both he who hews your wood and he who draws your water. Deuteronomy 29.11.

That you may enter into the sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God makes with you this day. Deuteronomy 29.12.

That he may establish you this day as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Deuteronomy 29.13.

Nor is it with you only that I make this sworn covenant. Deuteronomy 29.14.

But with him who is not here with us this day as well as with him who stands here with us this day before the Lord our God. Deuteronomy 29.15 (Note: see also John 10.16 & 3 Nephi 15.21).

You know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed. Deuteronomy 29.16.

And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them. Deuteronomy 29.17.

Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit. Deuteronomy 29.18.

One who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This would lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike. Deuteronomy 29.19.

The Lord would not pardon him, but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy would smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book would settle upon him, and the Lord would blot out his name from under heaven. Deuteronomy 29.20.

And the Lord would single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. Deuteronomy 29.21.

And the generation to come, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick-. Deuteronomy 29.22.

The whole land brimstone and salt, and a burntout waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath-. Deuteronomy 29.23.

Yea, all the nations would say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What means the heat of this great anger?'. Deuteronomy 29.24.

Then men would say, 'It is because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.'. Deuteronomy 29.25.

And went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not given unto them:. Deuteronomy 29.26 (Note: "given unto" reads "allotted to" in the Revised Standard Version).

Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this bood. Deuteronomy 29.27.

And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as at this day. Deuteronomy 29.28.

The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29.29 (Note: Therefore human perception of relativity is smaller and contained within the absolutivity of God.).

And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, the nations where the Lord your God has driven you. Deuteronomy 30.1.

And return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you this day, with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 30.2.

Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes, and have compassion upon you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. Deuteronomy 30.3.

If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will fetch you. Deuteronomy 30.4.

And the Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, that you may possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. Deuteronomy 30.5.

And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. Deuteronomy 30.6.

And the Lord your God will put all these curses upon your foes and enemies who persecuted you. Deuteronomy 30.7.

And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord, and keep all his commandments which I command you this day. Deuteronomy 30.8.

The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground; for the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers. Deuteronomy 30.9.

If you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 30.10.

For this commandment which I command you this day is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. Deuteronomy 30.11 (Note: More than text alone, the Holy Word resides within you personally according to your mental and physical acceptance of the greater good: the greatest good being God.).

It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'. Deuteronomy 30.12.

Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'. Deuteronomy 30.13.

But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. Deuteronomy 30.14.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil. Deuteronomy 30.15.

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it. Deuteronomy 30.16.

But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them. Deuteronomy 30.17.

I declare to you this day, that you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. Deuteronomy 30.18.

I call heaven and earth to witness before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live. Deuteronomy 30.19.

Loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. Deuteronomy 30.20.

So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel. Deuteronomy 31.1.

And he said to them, "I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I am no longer able to go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.'. Deuteronomy 31.2 (Note: see Genesis 6.3 & Deuteronomy 4.21).

The Lord your God himself will go over before you; he will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them; and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken. Deuteronomy 31.3.

And the Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. Deuteronomy 31.4.

And the Lord will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you. Deuteronomy 31.5.

Be strong and of good courage, do not fear or be in dread of them: for it is the Lord your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you. Deuteronomy 31.6.

Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall put them in possession of it. Deuteronomy 31.7.

It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you or forsake you; do not fear or be dismayed. Deuteronomy 31.8.

And Moses wrote this law, and gave it to the priests the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. Deuteronomy 31.9.

And Moses commanded them, "At the end of every seven years, at the feast of booths. Deuteronomy 31.10.

When all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Deuteronomy 31.11.

Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 31.12.

And that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess. Deuteronomy 31.13 (Note: always fear the Lord your God: Deuteronomy 28.58).

And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him." And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. Deuteronomy 31.14.

And the Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood by the door of the tent. Deuteronomy 31.15.

And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to sleep with your fathers; then this people will rise and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.". Deuteronomy 31.16.

Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured; and many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?'. Deuteronomy 31.17.

And I will surely hide my face in that day on account of all the evil which they have done, because they have turned to other gods. Deuteronomy 31.18.

Now therefore write this song, and teach it to the people of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel. Deuteronomy 31.19.

For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant. Deuteronomy 31.20.

And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their descendants); for I know the purposes which they are already forming, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give. Deuteronomy 31.21.

So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the people of Israel. Deuteronomy 31.22.

And the Lord commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to give them: I will be with you.". Deuteronomy 31.23.

When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, to the very end. Deuteronomy 31.24.

Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Deuteronomy 31.25.

Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against you. Deuteronomy 31.26.

For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are; behold, while I am yet alive with you, today you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more after my death!. Deuteronomy 31.27.

Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them. Deuteronomy 31.28.

For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands. Deuteronomy 31.29.

Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:. Deuteronomy 31.30.

"Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.". Deuteronomy 32.1.

For I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Ascribe greatness to our God!. Deuteronomy 32.2.

The Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he. Deuteronomy 32.4.

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. Deuteronomy 32.8.

For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage. Deuteronomy 32.9.

He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Deuteronomy 32.10.

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions. Deuteronomy 32.11.

The Lord alone did lead him, and there was no foreign god with him. Deuteronomy 32.12.

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; and he made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock. Deuteronomy 32.13.

Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, herds of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat--and of the blood of the grape you drank wine. Deuteronomy 32.14.

The Rock of his salvation. Deuteronomy 32.15.

You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth. Deuteronomy 32.18.

The Lord saw it. Deuteronomy 32.19.

They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people: I will provoke them with a foolish nation. Deuteronomy 32.21.

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. Deuteronomy 32.31.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense. Deuteronomy 32.35.

For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free. Deuteronomy 32.36.

'See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand'. Deuteronomy 32.39.

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and swear, As I live for ever. Deuteronomy 32.40.

If I whet the lightening of my sword. Deuteronomy 32.41.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh--with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy. Deuteronomy 32.42 (Note: Here is an indication that Jesus of Nazareth may have had short hair; perhaps after coming of spiritual age as per vow, see Numbers 6.5.).

Praise his people, O you nations; for he avenges the blood of his servants, and takes vengeance on his adversaries, and makes expiation for the land of his people. Deuteronomy 32.43.

Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. Deuteronomy 32.44 (Note: "Joshua" or Greek Syriac Vulgate Hebrew's "Hoshea"; along with "Hosea", "hosanna", and similar words have root meanings of: pray God save. Since this writing includes "Greatest Verses Of The Bible", there has been editing: therefore further separate Bible study is recommended.).

And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel. Deuteronomy 32.45.

He said to them, "Lay to heart all the words which I enjoin upon you this day, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.". Deuteronomy 32.46.

For it is no trifle for you, but it is your life, and thereby you shall live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess. Deuteronomy 32.47.

And the Lord said to Moses that very day. Deuteronomy 32.48.

"Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho; and view the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel for a possession. Deuteronomy 32.49.

And die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. Deuteronomy 32.50.

Because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribathkadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not revere me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel. Deuteronomy 32.51.

For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there, into the land which I give to the people of Israel. Deuteronomy 32.52.

This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. Deuteronomy 33.1.

He said, "The Lord came". Deuteronomy 33.2.

Yea, he loved his peoples. Deuteronomy 33.3.

When Moses commanded us a law as a possession for the assembly of Jacob. Deuteronomy 33.4.

Thus the Lord became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together. Deuteronomy 33.5.

They shall teach Jacob thy ordinances, and Israel thy law; they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt offering upon thy altar. Deuteronomy 33.10.

Bless, O Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, of those that hate him, that they rise not again. Deuteronomy 33.11.

Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you; and you shall tread upon their high places. Deuteronomy 33.29 (Note: Achieve greater excellence in the Lord: turn your happiness into joy, not that your enemies are subdued, but that your names are written in heaven; help others see the light through converting them rather than conflicting, as God seeks and continues to do.).

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan. Deuteronomy 34.1.

All Naphtali, the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea. Deuteronomy 34.2.

The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. Deuteronomy 34.3.

And the Lord said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.". Deuteronomy 34.4.

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. Deuteronomy 34.5.

And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Bethpeor; but no man knows the place of his burial to this day. Deuteronomy 34.6.

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deuteronomy 34.7.

And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. Deuteronomy 34.8.

And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him; so the people of Israel obeyed him, and did al the Lord had commanded Moses. Deuteronomy 34.9.

And there has not arisin a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. Deuteronomy 34.10.

None like him for all the signs and the wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land. Deuteronomy 34.11.

And for all the mighty power and all the great and terrible deeds which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel. Deuteronomy 34.12.

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