Deuteronomy 6:1-Deuteronomy 11:32 - Detailed Stipulations

¹ And these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which Jehovah our God commanded to teach you so that you might do them in the land where you go, to possess it, ² that you might fear Jehovah your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life, and so that your days may be prolonged. ³ Then hear, O, Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may be well with you, and that you may greatly multiply, as Jehovah, the God of our fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey.

⁴ Hear, O, Israel. Jehovah our God is one Jehovah. ⁵ And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶ And these words which I command you this day shall be in your heart. ⁷ And you shall carefully teach them to your sons, 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 up. ⁸ And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ And you shall write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates.

¹⁰ And it shall be when Jehovah your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and good cities which you did not build, ¹¹ and houses full of every good thing which you did not fill, and wells which are dug, but which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be full, ¹² you shall be on guard lest you forget Jehovah who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. ¹³ You shall fear Jehovah your God and serve Him, and shall swear by His name. ¹⁴ You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people all around you, ¹⁵ for Jehovah your God is a jealous God among you, lest the anger of Jehovah your God be kindled against you and destroy you from off the face of the earth. ¹⁶ You shall not tempt Jehovah your God as you tempted in Massah. ¹⁷ You shall carefully keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you. ¹⁸ And you shall do the right and good in the sight of Jehovah, so that it may be well with you, and so that you may go in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, ¹⁹ to cast out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken.

²⁰ When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What are the testimonies, and the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah our God has commanded you? ²¹ Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²² And Jehovah gave signs and wonders, great and evil signs, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his household, before our eyes. ²³ And He brought us out from there so that He might bring us in to give us the land which He swore to our fathers. ²⁴ And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good always, so that He might preserve us alive, as it is today. ²⁵ And if we are careful to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as He has commanded us, it shall be our righteousness.

¹ When Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, ² and Jehovah your God shall deliver them before you, you shall crush them, completely destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. ³ Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter to your son. ⁴ For they will turn away your son from following Me, so that they may serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly. ⁵ But you shall deal with them in this way: you shall destroy their altars and break down their images, and cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire. ⁶ For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

⁷ Jehovah did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people. ⁸ But because Jehovah loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹ Therefore, know that Jehovah your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations. ¹⁰ And He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face. ¹¹ And you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I command you today, to do them.

¹² And it shall be, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, Jehovah your God shall keep to you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. ¹³ And He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you. ¹⁴ You shall be blessed above all people. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle. ¹⁵ And Jehovah will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt which you know upon you. But He will lay them upon all who hate you. ¹⁶ And you shall destroy all the people which Jehovah your God shall deliver you. Your eye shall have no pity upon them, neither shall you serve their gods, for they will be a snare to you.

¹⁷ If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I throw them out? ¹⁸ You shall not be afraid of them, but shall well remember what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. ¹⁹ Remember the great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall Jehovah your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid. ²⁰ And Jehovah your God will send the hornet among them, until the ones who are left, and who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. ²¹ You shall not be afraid of them, for Jehovah your God is among you, a mighty and terrible God. ²² And Jehovah your God will put out those nations before you by little and little. You may not destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you. ²³ And Jehovah your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty ruin until they are destroyed. ²⁴ And He shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under the heavens. No man shall be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. ²⁵ You shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You shall not desire the silver or gold on them, nor take it for yourself, so that you may not be snared in it. For it is an abomination to Jehovah your God. ²⁶ And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it. You shall utterly hate it, and you shall utterly despise it. For it is a cursed thing.

¹ All the commandments which I command you this day shall you be careful to do, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers. ² And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³ And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know it, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of Jehovah man shall live. ⁴ Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell, these forty years. ⁵ And you have known with your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Jehovah your God chastens you. ⁶ And you shall keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. ⁷ For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, ⁸ a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey, ⁹ a land in which you shall eat bread without want. You shall not lack any thing in it. It is a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. ¹⁰ And you shall eat and be satisfied, then you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which He has given you.

¹¹ Beware that you do not forget Jehovah your God, in not keeping His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I command you today, ¹² lest when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and lived in them, ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, ¹⁴ then your heart might be lifted up, and you might forget Jehovah your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. ¹⁵ He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground, where there was no water, who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint, ¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you and so that He might prove you, to do you good in your latter end, ¹⁷ and so that you might not say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. ¹⁸ But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, so that He may confirm His covenant which He has sworn to your fathers, as it is today. ¹⁹ And it shall be if you do at all forget Jehovah your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. ²⁰ As the nations whom Jehovah destroys before your face, so you shall perish because you would not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.

¹ Hear, O, Israel! You are to pass over Jordan today, to go in to expel nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fenced up to heaven, ² a people great and tall, the sons of the giants, whom you know and have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak! ³ Therefore, understand today that Jehovah your God is He who goes over before you. Like a consuming fire, He shall destroy them, and He shall bring them down before your face. So you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as Jehovah has said to you. ⁴ Do not speak in your heart, after Jehovah your God has cast them out from before you, saying: For my righteousness, Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land. But for the wickedness of these nations, Jehovah your God drives them out from before you. ⁵ Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land. But for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you, so that He may perform the Word which Jehovah swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ⁶ Therefore, understand that Jehovah your God does not give you this good land, to possess it, for your righteousness. For you are a stiff-necked people.

⁷ Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked Jehovah your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Jehovah. ⁸ Also in Horeb you provoked Jehovah to wrath, so that Jehovah was angry with you to have destroyed you. ⁹ When I had gone up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. ¹⁰ And Jehovah delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which Jehovah spoke with you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. ¹¹ And it happened, at the end of forty days and forty nights Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

¹² And Jehovah said to me, Arise! Get down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them. They have made them a molten image. ¹³ And Jehovah spoke to me saying: I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people. ¹⁴ Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

¹⁵ So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire. And the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. ¹⁶ And I looked, and behold! You had sinned against Jehovah your God, and had made you a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you. ¹⁷ And I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands and broke them before your eyes. ¹⁸ And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which you sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger. ¹⁹ For I was afraid of the anger and fury with which Jehovah was angry against you to destroy you. But Jehovah listened to me at that time also. ²⁰ And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. ²¹ And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as small as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the torrent that descended out of the mountain.

²² And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked Jehovah to anger. ²³ And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying: Go up and possess the land which I have given you, then you rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and you did not believe Him, nor listened to His voice. ²⁴ You have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.

²⁵ And I fell down before Jehovah forty days and forty nights, that I had thrown myself down, for Jehovah had said to destroy you. ²⁶ I prayed therefore to Jehovah and said, O, Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²⁷ Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin, ²⁸ lest the land from where You bring us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness. ²⁹ Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance which You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm.

¹ At that time Jehovah said to me: Cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me into the mountain, and make an ark of wood.