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Look! The LORD your God has given the land that lies before you. Go and possess it, just as the LORD God of your ancestors commanded you. Don't be afraid or discouraged.'

Verse ConceptsCourage, In Facing EnemiesdiscouragementAssurance in the life of faithFear, Overcome ByConquestResisting Discouragement

except Jephunneh's son Caleb. He will see it and I will give to him and to his descendants the land on which he has walked because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD.'

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfFollowing God

For what great nation has a god so near like the LORD our God whenever we call on him?

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesClosenessUnique Israel

And what great nation has all the decrees and righteous ordinances like all this teaching that I'm giving you today?

Verse ConceptsBodyGod, Righteousness OfMind, Of GodUnique IsraelExcellent LawGod's Word Is RighteousDecision Makinglawstatues

Heaven and earth will testify against what has occurred today: you'll surely and swiftly be destroyed from the land that you are about to possess by crossing the Jordan River. You won't live long in it, because you'll certainly be exterminated.

Verse ConceptsHeaven And EarthAnnihilationThings As Witnesses

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of a fire just as you did, and survived it?

Verse ConceptsGod Appearing In FireHearing God's VoiceLiving Despite God's Presence

Or has any god ever taken for himself one nation out from another nation with testings, signs, wonders, wars, awesome power, and magnificent, terrifying deeds as the LORD your God did in Egypt before your eyes?

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Nature OfStrength, DivineArm Of God

You are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, but the LORD your God brought you out from there with great power and a show of force. Therefore, the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As RedeemerHand Of GodHolidayRememberingCaptivity, Of IsraelAbusive ParentsArm Of GodGod's HandGroups Of SlavesKeeping The SabbathGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

"The LORD our God truly has displayed his glory and power, for we heard him from out of the fire today. We have witnessed how God spoke to human beings, yet they lived.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfGlory Of GodGod Appearing In FireLiving Despite God's Presencegreatness

For what mortal man has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire like we did, and lived?

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingeternal life, nature ofGod Appearing In FireLiving Despite God's Presence

Don't bring any detestable thing to your house, because you yourself will be utterly destroyed along with these detestable things. You must absolutely abhor and detest all of it, because it has been devoted to destruction."

Verse ConceptsAbominationsIdolatryUnder The Bancurses

After the LORD has expelled them before you, you are not to say to yourselves, "The LORD caused me to enter and possess this land because of my righteousness.'

Verse ConceptsRetributionSelf Righteousness, Nature OfWhy It Happened

Your ancestors went down to Egypt with 70 people, but the LORD your God has now made you as numerous as the stars in the sky."

Verse ConceptsStarsSeventies

"These are the statutes and ordinances that you must carefully observe in the land that the LORD God of your ancestors has given you to possess every day that you live on the earth.

"If the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish his name is distant from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and your flock what the LORD has provided for you, as he instructed you. You may consume them in your cities as much as you please.

Verse ConceptsFar From HereA Place For God's Name

Provide for them liberally from your flock, threshing floor, and wine vat. As the LORD your God has blessed you, so give to them.

Verse ConceptsThreshing FloorAccording To Things

If it has a blemish lameness, blindness, or any kind of defect you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsCripplesAnimals, religious role ofBlemishImperfection, And God's PurposesLamenessBlemished Creatures

You are not to sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep that has a defect or any flaw in it, because that is detestable to the LORD your God."

Verse ConceptsDoubt, Dealing WithCelebrationsMonthMonth 1During One NightRegulations For PassoverGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptMonthsCelebrationspringtimecelebrating

but each one must appear with his own gift, proportional to the blessing that the LORD your God has given you."

Verse ConceptsAbility, To GiveGiving, Of PossessionsAccording To ThingsBlessing Others

"You may discover that a man or woman living in one of your cities that the LORD your God is about to give you has done evil in the eyes of the LORD your God by transgressing his covenant.

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Judgments OfBreaking The Covenant

When it is reported to you or you hear of it, then investigate it thoroughly. When the truth has been established that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

For the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants from among your tribes to stand and serve in the name of the LORD all their lives."

Verse ConceptsLeaders, Spiritual

Now you may ask yourselves, "How will we be able to discern that the LORD has not spoken?'

Verse ConceptsDiscerning God's Things

Whenever a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the oracle does not come about or the word is not fulfilled, then the LORD has not spoken it. The prophet will have spoken presumptuously, so you need not fear him."

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtProphecy, Inspiration Of OtUnfulfilled WordDo Not Fear MenThe scripturesProphecyProphecies concerningDivinity

"Furthermore, let the officials ask the army, "Is there a man here who has built a new house but has not yet dedicated it? Let him go back home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAgriculture, RestrictionsPossibility Of DeathDedicationMoving To A New Place

And is there a man here who has planted a vineyard and not yet benefited from it? Let him go home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man use it.

Verse ConceptsBattlesEnjoyment, Material ThingsHappinessVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationPossibility Of Death

And is there a man here who is engaged to a woman and has not yet married her? Let him go back home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man marry her.'

Verse ConceptsBattlesBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningSinglenessEngagementPossibility Of DeathMarriage Between Man And Woman

Then the elders of the city nearest the body are to take a heifer that hasn't been put to work or hasn't pulled a yoke

Verse ConceptsTownYokesHeifersUnused

and are to lead the heifer to a flowing stream in a valley that has never been tilled or planted. They are to break the heifer's neck there.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterDislocatingUnused

Make atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, LORD, and don't charge the blood of an innocent man against them.' Then the blood that has been shed will be atoned for.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAcceptance, From GodAcceptance, divineExpiationGod Will Forgive

"If a man has two wives where one is loved but the other is unloved, and both of them bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife,

Verse ConceptsMonogamyHateWifeLoving Children

his body must not remain overnight on the tree. You must bury him that same day, because cursed of God is the one who has been hanged on a tree. Don't defile your land that the LORD is about to give you as your inheritance."

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedGallowsHangingHumiliationKillingPollutionsOvernightThe Curse Of The LawPeople Hung To DeathBurying places

Now look, he has invented charges against her by saying, "I haven't found your daughter to be a virgin." But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity.' Then they are to spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

Verse ConceptsDistinctive Clothingaccusationsvirginity

"If a man meets a young virgin lady in the city who is engaged to be married and has sexual relations with her,

Verse ConceptsLaws Of Sexual UnionDeath Penalty For Sexual SinSex Before MarriageSexual Purityvirginity

"No man whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may participate in the assembly of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsCrushingeunuchsMutilationMale Genitalsmanhoodcrushescutting

"Don't charge interest to your relatives, whether for money, food, or for anything that has been loaned at interest.

Verse ConceptsBanksInterestLendingFamily Conflictlent

"If a man chooses to enter into marriage with a woman, but she finds herself displeasing to him because he has found something objectionable about her, he must draw up divorce papers, hand them to her, and then send her out of his house.

Verse ConceptsAdultery and Divorcedivorce, in OTdivorce, amongst believersWritingDomestic ViolenceBills Of DivorceDivorce PermittedTroubling IndividualsSecond MarriageMarriage Between Man And WomanInfidelity

Therefore, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies who surround you in the land that he is about to give you to possess as an inheritance, you must completely erase the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven. Don't forget!"

Verse ConceptsBlottingBlotted OutTime Of Peace

Then set it in the presence of the LORD your God and worship him. Rejoice with the descendants of Levi and the foreigner among you at all the good things that the LORD your God has given you and your family."

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfJoy, Of IsraelLoving ForeignersEating Drinking And Rejoicing

so he may elevate you far above all the nations that he has made. Then you will live to the praise, fame, and glory of God, and so be a nation that is holy to the LORD your God, as he has promised."

Verse ConceptsSaintsNames And Titles For The ChristianA Holy NationShowing Forth His Praisehonour

Then build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones that hasn't been worked with iron tools.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Made OfIronToolsAltars To The Lord

"Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his father's wife, because he has disgraced his father.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'

Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfAmen

""Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with any animal.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'

Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfBestialitySexual PerversionAmen

""Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or mother.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'

Verse ConceptsSistersAmenSiblings

""Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'

Verse ConceptsMothers, Responsibilities OfAmen

Yet to this day, the LORD hasn't given you a heart that understands, eyes that perceive, and ears that discern.

Verse ConceptsEarsHearingSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfRefusing To HearGod BlindingThose Who Were Ignorant

For the LORD will vindicate his people and bring comfort to his servants, because he will observe that their power has waned, when neither prisoner nor free person remain.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGod, Repentance OfPeople Of God, In OtGod VindicatesGod Will Show Mercyvindication