Most Popular Bible Verses in Deuteronomy
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There shall not be found among you anyone
“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments
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He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you
You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him and
“See,
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“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to
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“When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens
Righteous and upright is He.
“A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.
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I will raise up a prophet from among their
In the
So keep and do them,
But you shall remember the Lord your God, for
“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which
“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will
a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it,
but because the Lord loved you and kept the
But the prophet who speaks a word
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For you are
after he had
Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you,
See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord
“I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘
“The Lord our God
and you will
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, proceed on your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’
The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone
Turn and set your journey, and go to
For
“Then it shall come about when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you,
a land for which the Lord your God cares;
See, the Lord your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you.
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We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of
‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,
The Lord your God has
then you shall investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you,
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and
Or what great nation is there that has
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“Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your
“Then we set out from
Every man
‘
It came about
I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the Lord our God is about to give us.
Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought us back a report and said, ‘It is a good land which the Lord our God is about to give us.’
You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,
but in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds,
Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words
and to keep the Lord’s commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?
then watch yourself, that
and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and
then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them
“If a man has committed a sin
Behold,
It shall come about
but
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for the Lord your God in the midst of you is a
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otherwise,
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes
Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw
but
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So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is,
Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.
then your heart will become
but
All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many
You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain,
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He led you through
In the wilderness He fed you manna
then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand.
He executes justice for
that
and in the wilderness where you saw how
and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies,
and
The Lord your God who goes before you will
And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars,
It shall be with him and he shall read it
Otherwise,
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Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so
so that you and your son and your grandson might
It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them,
Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—only a voice.
But
do not
He will
Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the Lord may turn from
You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.
For
So watch yourselves,
“Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess
Moreover, the Lord showed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household;
We
I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes.
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then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant.
You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that
For
The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
Thus
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female
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For
that his heart may not be lifted up above his
Or
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of
Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to
The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it.
the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,
For the Lord your God is a
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For the Lord your God has blessed you in all
“When the Lord your God extends your border
Moreover,
The
Only be sure
so that
beware that you are not ensnared
For if you are
all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and
So the Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes,
“These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess
If the place which the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates
You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you;
“So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the
But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.
(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the
(The
Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you,
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O Israel, you should listen and
“At that time the Lord said to me, ‘
so that you do not
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“You shall therefore
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“Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of
“When
Furthermore,
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the
“These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more.
He is
you shall not be afraid of them; you shall well
You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I
Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.
For
“You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;
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“When you
then the Lord will
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the
You shall not eat it, so that
Moreover, the Lord your God will send
and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you
“It shall come about, when the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it,
For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your
There also you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and
Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as
You shall not dread
“So we took possession of this land at that time. From
and the
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of
And
And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.
I
When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and
Are they not across the Jordan, west of the way toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite
When you
and
And you shall
There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices,
The graven images of their gods you are to
(Now the sons of Israel set out from
When He sees that their
And there is none remaining, bond or free.
But
Know this day
To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the
“So it came about when
Now the
The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob (concerning all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim.
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You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the
You said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives.
the Arabah also, with the Jordan
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‘Now arise and cross over the
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The Lord will
He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing,
“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today,
Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, that
that the Lord spoke to me, saying,
“But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die.
But thus you shall do to them:
and
This day I will begin to put
(It is also regarded as the land of the
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired
and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots,
I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so the Lord shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross.
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And the
The Lord spoke to you
while
‘Arise, set out, and pass through the
Then I turned and
“The Lord heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me,
just as He did for the sons of Esau, who
“When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man.
for you have not as yet come to
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a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but the Lord destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place,
When you come opposite the
‘O Lord
For
“Then I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘
So
“Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and
So the Lord our God delivered Og also, king of Bashan, with all his people into our hand, and we smote
But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’
Go up to the top of
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Know therefore that the Lord your God,
But
Let me, I pray, cross over and see the
“If there is
“It shall not seem hard to you when you set him
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And the impending things are hastening upon them.’
just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in
“You
You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink,
‘Let me pass through your land, I will
But as for you,
Go, say to them, “Return to your tents.”
driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and
These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel
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When He separated the sons of
He set the boundaries of the peoples
“Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it,
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“Observe
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“When you go out to battle against your enemies, and
When the Lord sent you from
Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness;
But
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You may eat any clean bird.
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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and
It is
“Only
When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights;
“Again at
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You shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God,
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“Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll
“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you
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“Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are
Know therefore today that
a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘
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“You are
“If a man has two wives, the one loved and
Yet they are Your people, even
Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.
You may spend the money for whatever your
The man who acts
Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, “
“For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it
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You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, ‘
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Even
“Indeed,
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And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
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“So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you,
“It shall come about,
He said,
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And He came from
then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.
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“You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your
When he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
And scorned
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Then you returned and wept before the Lord; but the
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Since that time
“
For the Lord your God is a
You shall eat it within your gates;
For you are
Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:“Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them be your hiding place!
You shall be driven mad by the sight of
“
So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead
“When you go out to battle against your enemies and see
“If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lord your God gives you to
“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall
That hovers over its young,
He carried them on His pinions.
“
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be
All these blessings will come upon you and
And in the howling waste of a wilderness;
He encircled him, He cared for him,
He guarded him as
“
They have provoked Me to anger with their
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
When
So Moses
‘
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Now this is the blessing with which Moses
“
“All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you
“When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down.
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“So
To you it was shown that you might know that the Lord, He is God;
The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and
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“If two men, a man and his
“Moreover
or one who casts a spell,
“
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Only
“If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to
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The Levite,
“
“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs,
My speech distill as the dew,
And as the showers on the herb.
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You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a
some worthless men have gone out from among you and have seduced the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘
No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
And his horns are the horns of
With them he will
All
And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”
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Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that
So Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi
Now Joshua the son of Nun was
“If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that
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Although Moses was
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Consider the years of all generations.
Your elders, and they will tell you.
and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.
“
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Moreover, the Lord will
The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.
It is not in heaven,
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‘Cursed is the man who makes
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Of Levi he said,
“Let Your
With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah;
And burns to the lowest part of
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her
‘All its land is
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and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘
Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I command you today.
Yet to this day
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They are not His children, because of their defect;
And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab,
Beware that there is no base
of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),
The Lord said to Moses, “Behold,
you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one
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Whom your fathers did not dread.
therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you,
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is
However, there will be no poor among you, since
then the Lord your God will
So we captured all his cities at that time and
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“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.
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And through the skies in His majesty.
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
If the
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So you shall observe to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you;
Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their
And the Lord had given them up?
“
So you shall stone him
But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it.
And My hand takes hold on justice,
And I will repay those who hate Me.
For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and
You shall give him the
Of Benjamin he said,
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then you shall
You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because
They shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’
Then you shall
and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of
Their clusters, bitter.
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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold,
Nevertheless, the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God
Of Joseph he said,
“
With the choice things of heaven, with the dew,
And from the deep lying beneath,
It came about, when Moses finished writing the words of this law in a book until they were complete,
But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the
and you shall
“You shall not detest an Edomite, for
Also you shall not neglect
With fat of lambs,
And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,
And of the
Therefore it shall come about when the Lord your God has given you
“Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and
and has gone and
that you shall take some of
The officers also shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man that has built a new house and has not
And he ate the produce of the field;
And
You shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to establish His name.
Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and
Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he, with
But you shall
For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who
then it shall be if the wicked man
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But
“This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them
“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may
“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be
For it is not an idle word for you; indeed
The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in
“When you cross the Jordan, these shall stand on
You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and
and you
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‘
“Now therefore,
he said to them, “
“More blessed than sons is Asher;
May he be favored by his brothers,
Then Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the time of
This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the Lord’s remission has been proclaimed.
“No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;
then her
‘
When the Lord your God gives it into your hand,
So you shall come to
for the Lord your God
“Now if a Levite comes from any of your
It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will
Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were complete:
For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and
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“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you
but
“
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“When you go out as
You shall do according to the
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“These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat,
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Only the trees which you know
I have led you forty years in the wilderness;
It shall come about that as the Lord
Since
“You stand today, all of you, before the Lord your God: your chiefs, your tribes, your elders and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
“
So all the peoples of the earth will see that
“The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be
Only the women and the children and
He shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted.
Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “
and you shall
You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your
And he said to them, “I am
The Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land
If your outcasts are at the ends of the
Then
The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.
And you shall again
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.
Then the officers shall speak further to the people and say, ‘
This is
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then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates, that is, the man or the woman, and
The Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up
and
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you
but
then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and
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moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols of
When you are approaching the battle, the priest shall come near and speak to the people.