\NormalFont\ShortTitle{DEUTERONOMY}
{\MTB This book contains the account of Moses’ final speeches to the Israeli people. We call this book
\par }{\MT Deuteronomy

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\SH Introduction to Moses’ first speech
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
this
book
is
written
what
Moses/I
said
to
the Israeli
people.
He/I
told
them
these
things
when
they/we
were
in
the
desert,
on
the
east
side
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}.
They/We
had
set
up
our
tents
near
{\ADD{
a
place
named}}
Suph,
between
Paran
{\ADD{
town
on
the
one
side
of
the
river}}
and
Tophel,
Laban,
Hazeroth,
and
Dizahab
{\ADD{
towns
on
the
other
side
of
the
river}}.
\VS{2}To
walk
from
Sinai
{\ADD{
Mountain}}
to
the
Kadesh-Barnea
{\ADD{oasis}},
people
usually
travel
for
only
eleven
days,
going
by
way
of
the hilly
area
named
Edom.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Forty
years
after ◄the Israelis/we►
left
Egypt,
in
the
middle
of January,
Moses/I
told
the Israeli
people
everything
that
Yahweh
had
commanded
him/me
to
tell
them.
\VS{4}This
was
after
they/we
had
defeated
Sihon,
the
king
of
the Amor people-group,
who
lived
in
Heshbon
{\ADD{
city}},
and
Og,
the
king
of
the
Bashan
{\ADD{
region}}
who
lived
in
Ashtaroth
and
Edrei
{\ADD{
towns}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Moses/I
told
them
these
things
while
the
people
were
in
the
Moab
region,
on
the
east
side
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}.
He/I ◄explained
to
them/enabled
them
to
understand►
God’s
laws.
This
is
what
he/I
said
to
them:
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“Yahweh
our
God
said
to
us
when
we
were
at
Sinai
{\ADD{
Mountain}}, ‘You
have
stayed
for
a
very
long
time
at
{\ADD{
the
bottom
of}}
this
mountain.
\VS{7}So
now
continue
traveling.
Go
to
the hilly
area
where
the Amor people-group
lives
and
to
the
nearby
areas—to
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
Valley,
to
the hilly
region,
to
the
western ◄foothills/hills
at
the
bottom
of
the
mountains►,
to
the
desert
area
to
the
south,
to
the
{\ADD{Mediterranean}}
Seacoast,
to
all
of
Canaan
land,
to
the
Lebanon
{\ADD{
Mountains}},
and
{\ADD{northeast}}
to
the
great
Euphrates
River.
\VS{8}Note
that
I
will
give
that
land
to
you.
I,
Yahweh,
promised
to
your
ancestors
Abraham
and
Isaac
and
Jacob
that
I
would
give
it
to
them
and
to
their
descendants.
So
now
go
and
occupy
it.’ ”
\par }{\SH Moses reminded
them
that
he
had
appointed
leaders
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Moses/I
also
said
to
the
people, “When
{\ADD{
we
were
still
at
Sinai
Mountain}},
I
told
your
ancestors ‘It
is
a
very
big
burden/responsibility
for
me
to
govern
all
of
you.
So
I
cannot
do
it
by
myself.
\VS{10}Yahweh
our
God
has
caused
us Israelis
to
now
become
as
numerous
as
the
stars
in
the
sky.
\VS{11}And
I
hope/desire
that
Yahweh,
the
God
whom
our
ancestors
{\ADD{
worshiped}},
will
cause
us
to
become 1,000
times
as
numerous
as
we
are
now
and
that
he
will
bless
us
just
like
he
promised
to
do.
\VS{12}But
I
certainly
cannot [RHQ] ◄solve/deal
with►
all
of
your
complaints/problems.
\VS{13}So
choose
some
men
from
your
tribes
who
are
wise
and
who
have
good
sense
and
who
are
respected.
Then
I
will
appoint
them
to
be
your
leaders.’
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Your
ancestors
replied, ‘What
you
have
suggested
is
good
for
us
to
do.’
\par }{\PP \VS{15}So
I
took
the
wise
and
respected
men
{\ADD{
that
your
ancestors
chose}}
from
your
tribes,
and
I
appointed
them
to
be
your
leaders.
I
appointed
some
to ◄rule/have
authority►
over 1,000
people,
some
to
have
authority
over 100
people,
some
to
have
authority
over 50
people,
and
some
to
have
authority
over
ten
people.
I
also
appointed
other
officers
from
throughout
your
tribes.
\VS{16}I
instructed/told
your
leaders, ‘Listen
to
the
disputes
that
occur
among
your
people.
Judge
each
dispute,
including
disputes
between
close
relatives
and
quarrels
between
your
people
and
people
from
other
countries
who
live
among
you.
\VS{17}You
must ◄be impartial/not
favor
one
person
more
than
another►;
you
must
treat
poor
people
and
important
people equally.
You
must
not
worry
about
what
anyone
will
think
{\ADD{
about
how
you
decide
matters}},
because
you
will
decide
matters
as
God
{\ADD{
wants
you
to}}.
If
any
quarrel/dispute
is
very
difficult
and
you
are
unable
to
decide
it,
bring
it
to
me,
and
I
will
decide.’
\VS{18}At
that
time
I
also
told
you
other
things
that
you
should
do.”
\par }{\SH Moses reminded
them
about
sending
the
spies
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“Then,
just
like
Yahweh
our
God
commanded
us,
we
left
Sinai
{\ADD{
Mountain}}
and
went
through
that
huge
desert
that
was
very ◄dangerous/difficult
to
travel
through►,
on
the
road
to
the hilly
area
where
the Amor people-group
live.
We
arrived
at
Kadesh-Barnea.
\VS{20}I
said
to
your
ancestors, ‘We
have
now
come
to
the hilly
area
where
the Amor people-group
live.
This
is
part
of
the
area
that
Yahweh
our
God,
the
one
whom
our
ancestors
{\ADD{
worshiped}},
is
giving
to
us.
\VS{21}Note
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
this
land
to
us.
So
go
and
occupy
it
as
he
commanded.
Do
not
be ◄at
all/even
a
little
bit►
afraid.’
\par }{\PP \VS{22}But
all
of
your
ancestors
came
to
me
and
said, ‘Before
we
go,
we
should
{\ADD{
first}}
send
some
men
there
to
explore
the
land,
in
order
that
they
can
return
and
tell
us
which
will
be
the
best
road
to
go
there
and
what
kind
of
towns
are
there.’
\par }{\PP \VS{23}I
thought
that
it
would
be
good
to
do
that,
so
I
chose
twelve
men,
one
man
from
each
tribe.
\VS{24}They
went
up
into
the hilly
area
as
far
as
Eshcol
Valley,
and
they
explored
all
that
area.
\VS{25}They
picked
some
of
the
fruit
that
they
found
there
and
brought
it
to
us.
They
reported
that
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
was
giving
to
us
is
very
good/fertile.”
\par }{\SH Moses reminded
them
how
God
punished
them
when
they
refused
to
go
\par }{\PP \VS{26}“But
your
ancestors
refused
to
go
{\ADD{
and
conquer
that
land}}.
They
rebelled
against
what
Yahweh
our
God
had
commanded
them
to
do,
and
they
would
not
go
into
that
land.
\VS{27}Your
ancestors
{\ADD{
stayed}}
in
their
tents
and
complained
saying ‘Yahweh
hates
us.
So
he
has
brought
us
here
from
Egypt
just
to
allow
the Amor people-group
to
destroy
us.
\VS{28}◄Why
should
we
go
there?/We
do
not
want
to
go
there.► [RHQ]
The
men
whom
we
sent
there
have
caused
us
to
become
very
discouraged/afraid.
They
have
told
us
that
the
people
there
are
much
stronger
and
taller
than
we
are
and
that
there
are
extremely
high [HYP]
walls
around
their
towns.
Also
they
reported
that
they
saw
{\ADD{
giants
there
that
are}}
descendants
of
Anak.’
\par }{\PP \VS{29}Then
I
said
to
your
ancestors, ‘Do
not
be
afraid ◄at
all/even
a
little
bit► [DOU]
of
those
people!
\VS{30}Yahweh
our
God
will
go
ahead
of
you,
and
he
will
fight
for
you,
just
like
you
saw
him
do
for
you
in
Egypt
\VS{31}and
in
the
desert.
You
saw
how
he
brought
you
safely
here,
like
a
man
would
carry
his
son. [SIM]’
\par }{\PP \VS{32-33}{\ADD{
I reminded
them
that}}
he
always
went
ahead
of
them
while
they
traveled
{\ADD{
in
the
desert}}.
He
directed
them
by
{\ADD{
a
pillar
of}}
fire
during
the
night
and
a
{\ADD{
pillar
of}}
cloud
during
the
day.
He
showed
them
places
to
set
up
their
tents.
But
in
spite
of
what
I
said,
your
ancestors
would
not
trust
Yahweh
our
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{34}Yahweh
heard
what
they
said,
and
he
became
angry.
He
solemnly
declared,
\VS{35-36}‘Caleb,
the
son
of
Jephunneh,
will
enter
the
land.
He
has
obeyed
me
completely.
So
I
will
give
to
him
and
to
his
descendants
{\ADD{
some
of}}
the
land
that
he
explored.
He
is
the
only
one
of
all
you
people
who
will
enter
that
land.
None
of
these
evil
people
will
ever
see
that
good
land
which
I
solemnly
promised
to
give
to
your
ancestors.’
\par }{\PP \VS{37}But
because
of
{\ADD{
what}}
your
ancestors
{\ADD{
did}},
Yahweh
was
also
angry
with
me.
He
said
to
me, ‘You
also
will
not
enter
that
land.
\VS{38}Joshua,
the
son
of
Nun,
who
is
your
helper,
will
enter
it.
Encourage
him,
because
he
is
the
one
who
will
enable
you Israeli
people
to
occupy
that
land.’
\par }{\PP \VS{39}Then
Yahweh
said
to
all
of
us, ‘You
said
that
your
children
would
be
captured
by
your
enemies.
Because
they
are
very
young,
they
do
not
yet
know
what
is
good
and
what
is
evil.
But
they
are
the
ones
to
whom
I
will
give
that
land,
and
they
will
enter
it
and
occupy
it.
\VS{40}But
as
for
you,
turn
around
and
go
back
into
the
desert,
toward
the ◄Red
Sea/Gulf
of Aqaba►.’
\par }{\PP \VS{41}Then
your
ancestors
replied, ‘We
have
sinned;
we
have
disobeyed
Yahweh.
So
we
will
go
and
attack
{\ADD{
the
people
who
live
in}}
that
land,
just
like
Yahweh
our
God
commanded
us
to
do.’
And
each
of
their
men
put
on
his
weapons,
and
they
thought
that
it
would
be
easy
to
invade
the hilly
region.
\par }{\PP \VS{42}But
Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘Tell
them, “Do
not
go
up
there
and
attack
those
people,
because
I
will
not
go
with
you.
If
you
go,
your
enemies
will
defeat
you.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{43}So
I
told
that
to
your
ancestors,
but
they
would
not
heed
what
I
said.
They
{\ADD{
again}}
rebelled
against
what
Yahweh
commanded
them
to
do.
Their
soldiers
proudly/arrogantly
marched
up
into
that hilly
region.
\VS{44}Then
the
men
of
the Amor people-group
who
lived
in
that
region
came
out
{\ADD{
of
their
towns}}
and
attacked
those
soldiers.
They
pursued
your ancestors’
soldiers
like
{\ADD{
a
swarm
of}}
bees
pursues
people,
and
they
pursued
them
{\ADD{
south}}
from
the
Edom
area
and
defeated
them
at
Hormah
{\ADD{
city}}.
\VS{45}So
your
ancestors
went
back
{\ADD{
to
Kadesh-Barnea}}
and
cried
out
to
request
Yahweh
{\ADD{
to
help
them}},
but
he
did
not
heed
them.
He
did
not
pay
any
attention
to
them [DOU].
\VS{46}So
we
stayed
there
at
Kadesh-Barnea
for
a
long
time.”

\par }\Chap{2}{\SH Moses reminded them of their wandering in the desert
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Then
we
turned
around
and
went
through
the
desert
toward
the ◄Red
Sea/Gulf
of Aqaba►,
as
Yahweh
told
us
to
do,
and
we
wandered
in
the
Edom
area
for
many
years.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Then
Yahweh
said
to
me,
\VS{3}‘You
have
been
wandering
around
this hilly
area
for
a
long
enough
time.
Now
turn
{\ADD{
and
travel}}
toward
the
north.
\VS{4}And
tell
the
people
that
they
are
about
to
travel
near
the
land
that
belongs
to
the
descendants
of
Esau,
who
are
also
descendants
of
Isaac.
They
live
in
the
{\ADD{hilly}}
Edom
region.
They
will
be
afraid
of
you,
\VS{5}but
do
not
start
to
fight
against
them,
because
I
am
not
going
to
give
you
even
a tiny
bit [HYP]
of
their
land.
I
have
given
that
land
to
the
descendants
of
Esau.
\VS{6}{\ADD{
When
you
travel
near
their
land}},
buy
food
and
water
from
them.’
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Do
not
forget
that
Yahweh
our
God
has
blessed
you
in
everything
that
you [SYN]
have
done.
He
knows
{\ADD{
what
has
happened
to
you
while}}
you
have
wandered
in
this
huge
desert.
But
he
has
been
with
you
during
those 40
years,
and
as
a
result
you
have
had
everything
that
you
needed [LIT].
\par }{\PP \VS{8}So
we
continued
to
travel.
We
avoided
going
through
the hilly
area
where
the
descendants
of
Esau
live.
We
stayed
away
from
the
road
through
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
Valley
past
Ezion-Geber
and
Elath
{\ADD{
towns}},
and
we
turned
and
traveled northeast
toward
the
desert
area
where
the
Moab people-group
lives.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘Do
not
bother/harass
the
people
of
Moab,
and
do
not
start
to
fight
against
them,
because
I
am
not
going
to
give
you
any
of
their
land.
{\ADD{
Do
not
forget
that}}
they
are
descendants
of
{\ADD{
Abraham’s
nephew}}
Lot,
and
I
have
given
to
them
Ar
{\ADD{
city,
their
capital,
and
the
other
areas
in
that
country}}.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}A
large
group
of
giants
called
Emim
formerly
lived
there.
They
were
strong
and
numerous,
and
as
tall
as
the
giants
who
were
descendants
of
Anak.
\VS{11}They
and
the
descendants
of
Anak
are
also
called
the Repha
giants,
but
the
people
of
Moab
call
them
Emim.
\VS{12}The
Hor people-group
also
formerly
lived
in
the
Edom
area,
but
the
descendants
of
Esau
chased
them
out.
They
defeated
and
killed
them
and ◄settled
in/occupied►
their
land,
just
as
the Israeli
people
later
expelled
their
enemies
from
the
land
that
Yahweh
gave
to
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}{\ADD{
I
also
said
to
the Israeli
people}}, “Then
we
crossed
the
Zered Gorge,
as
Yahweh
told
us
to
do.
\VS{14}It
had
been
thirty-eight
years
from
the
time
we
first
left
Kadesh-Barnea
until
we
crossed
the
Zered Gorge.
During
those
years,
all
the Israeli ◄fighting
men/soldiers►
of
that
generation
had
died,
as
Yahweh
had
vowed
would
happen.
\VS{15}They
died
because
Yahweh
opposed
them,
until
he
had
gotten
rid
of
all
of
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}After
all
the
men
who
had
been
old
enough
to
fight
in
wars
had
died [DOU],
\VS{17}Yahweh
said
to
me,
\VS{18}‘Today
you
all
must
cross
the
border
into
the
Moab
region,
near
Ar,
{\ADD{
their
capital
city}}.
\VS{19}When
you
come
near
the
border
of
the
land
where
the
Ammon people-group
live,
do
not
bother/harass
them
or
start
to
fight
against
them.
They
are
also
descendants
of
Lot,
so
I
am
not
going
to
give
you
any
of
the
land
that
I
have
given
to
them.’ ”
\par }{\SH Other
groups
that
lived
near
Canaan
\par }{\PP \VS{20}That
region
is
also
called
the
land
of
the Repha
giants,
who
formerly
lived
there.
The
Ammon people-group
call
them
the Zamzum
group.
\VS{21}They
were
a
large
and
powerful
group,
who
were
as
tall
as
the
descendants
of
Anak.
But
Yahweh
got
rid
of
them,
and
the
Ammon people-group
expelled
them
and
took
their
land
away
from
them
and
started
to
live
there.
\VS{22}Yahweh
had
done
the
same
thing
for
the
descendants
of
Esau
who
live
in
the hilly
area
of
Edom.
He
got
rid
of
the
Hor people-group,
with
the
result
that
the
Edom people-group
took
their
land
from
them
and
started
to
live
there.
They
still
live
there.
\VS{23}People
who
came
from
Crete
{\ADD{
Island}}
got
rid
of
the Av
group
{\ADD{
who
previously
lived
in
the
land
close
to
the Mediterranean
Sea}},
as
far
south
as
Gaza.
They
took
their
land
from
them
and
started
to
live
there.
\par }{\SH Moses reminded
them
of
crossing
the
Arnon
River
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“{\ADD{
After
we
had
gone
through
the
Moab
region}},
Yahweh
said
to
us, ‘Now
cross
the
Arnon
{\ADD{
River}}.
I
will
help
you
to
defeat [IDM]
{\ADD{
the
army
of}}
Sihon,
the
king
of
the Amor people-group,
who
lives
in
Heshbon
{\ADD{
city}}.
So
attack
their
army
and
start
to
take
their
land
from
them.
\VS{25}Today
I
will
begin
to
cause
everyone,
everywhere,
to
be
afraid
of
you.
Everyone
who
hears
about
you
will
tremble
and
be
terrified.’
\par }{\PP \VS{26}Then
I
sent
messengers
to
go
from
the
desert
to
King
Sihon
at
Heshbon.
I
told
them
to
give
this
peaceful
message
to
the
king:
\VS{27}‘Please
allow
us
to
travel
through
your
land.
We
{\ADD{
promise
that
we}}
will
stay
on
the
road;
we
will
not
turn
off
to
the
right
or
to
the
left.
\VS{28}We
will
pay
for
any
food
or
water
that
you
allow
us
to
buy.
We
want
only
to
walk
through
your
country,
\VS{29}until
we
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
into
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
us.
Do
for
us
just
as
the
descendants
of
Esau
who
live
in
the
Edom
area
and
the
Moab people-group
did
for
us
when
they
allowed
us
to
go
through
their
areas.’
\VS{30}But
King
Sihon
would
not
allow
us
to
go
through
his
country.
That
was
because
Yahweh
our
God
caused
him
to
be
stubborn [IDM].
The
result
was
that
Yahweh
enabled
us
to
defeat
his
army
and
take
his
land [IDM],
which
we
still
live
in.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘Listen!
I
am
about
to
allow
you
to
defeat Sihon’s
{\ADD{
army}}
and
to
take
the
people’s
land
from
them.
So
start
to
occupy
it!’
\par }{\PP \VS{32}Then
Sihon
came
out
{\ADD{
of
the
city}}
with
all
his
army
to
fight
against
us
at
Jahaz
{\ADD{
town}}.
\VS{33}But
God
enabled
us
to
defeat [DOU]
them,
and
we
killed
Sihon
and
his
sons
and
all
his
soldiers.
\VS{34}We
captured
all
their
cities
and
destroyed
them
all.
We
killed
all
the
men
and
women
and
children;
we
did
not
allow
any
of
them
to
remain
alive.
\VS{35}We
took
the
valuable
things
that
were
in
the
cities
that
we
captured
and
also
their
cattle.
\VS{36}Yahweh
our
God
enabled
us
to
capture [IDM]
all
their
towns
from
Aroer
{\ADD{
in
the
south}},
which
is
at
the
edge
of
the
Arnon
River
{\ADD{
Valley}},
to
the
Gilead
{\ADD{
region
in
the
north}}.
Some
of
their
cities
had
{\ADD{
walls
around
them}},
but
we
were
able
to
{\ADD{
climb
over
them}}.
\VS{37}But
we
did
not
go
near
the
area
where
the
Ammon people-group
live,
or
the
banks
of
the
Jabbok riverbed,
or
the
towns
in
the hilly
area,
or
any
other
place
where
Yahweh
our
God
told
us
not
to
go.”

\par }\Chap{3}{\SH Moses reminded them of the defeat of King Og
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Then
we
turned
{\ADD{
north}}
and
went
toward
the
Bashan
region.
Og,
the
king
{\ADD{
of
that
area}},
and
all
his
soldiers
marched
{\ADD{
south}}
to
fight
against
us
at
Edrei
{\ADD{
town}}.
\VS{2}Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘Do
not
be
afraid
of
him,
because
I
will
enable
your
{\ADD{
army}}
to
defeat [MTY]
him
and
all
his
army
and
to
capture
all
their
land.
Do
to
him
what
you
did
to
Sihon,
the
king
of
the Amor people-group,
who
ruled
in
Heshbon
{\ADD{
city}}.’
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“o
Yahweh
enabled
us
to
defeat [IDM]
King
Og
and
all
his
army.
We
killed
them
all;
we
did
not
allow
any
of
them
to
remain
alive.
\VS{4}There
were 60
cities
in
that
region
near
Argob,
in
King Og’s
kingdom
of
Bashan.
But
we
captured
all
of
them
\VS{5}All
those
cities
had
high
walls
{\ADD{
around
them}}
with
gates
and
bars.
We
also
captured
many
villages
that
did
not
have
walls
{\ADD{
around
them}}.
\VS{6}We
completely
destroyed
everything,
just
as
we
had
done
{\ADD{
in
the
area
that}}
King
Sihon
ruled.
We
killed
all
the
men,
women,
and
children.
\VS{7}But
from
those
cities
we
took
for
ourselves
all
the
livestock
and
other
valuable
things.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“o
at
that
time
we
took
from
those
two
kings
of
the Amor people-group
all
the
land
east
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}},
from
the
Arnon
{\ADD{
River}} gorge
{\ADD{
in
the
south}}
to
Hermon
Mountain
{\ADD{
in
the
north}}.”
\VS{9}(That
mountain
is
called
Sirion
by
the
people
of
Sidon
{\ADD{
city}}
and
is
called
Senir
by
the Amor people-group.)
\VS{10}“We
captured
all
the
towns
on
the ◄plateau/high
level
land►,
and
all
the
Gilead
{\ADD{
region}},
and
all
the
Bashan
{\ADD{
region}}
as
far
east
as
Edrei
and
Salecah
towns,
which
also
belonged
to Og’s
kingdom.”
\VS{11}(Og
was
the
last
king
who
was
a
descendant
of
the Repha
giants.
His
bed
was
made
of
iron.
It
was
almost ◄14
feet/4 meters►
long
and ◄6
feet/2 meters►
wide.
It
is
still [RHQ]
in
Rabbah
{\ADD{
city}}
in
the
Ammon
area.)
\par }{\SH Moses reminded
them
of
dividing
the
land
east
of
the
Jordan
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“From
the
land
that
we
captured
at
that
time,
I
allotted
to
the
tribes
of
Reuben
and
Gad
the
land
{\ADD{
north}}
of
Aroer
{\ADD{
town}}
near
the
Arnon
{\ADD{
River}},
and
some
of
the hilly
area
of
the
Gilead
{\ADD{
region}},
along
with
the
nearby
towns.
\VS{13}The
other
part
of
the
Gilead
{\ADD{
region}}
and
all
of
the
Bashan
{\ADD{
region}},
which
was
the
Argob
{\ADD{
region}}
that
King
Og
had
ruled,
I
allotted
to
half
of
the
tribe
of
Manasseh.” (The
entire
Bashan
{\ADD{
region}}
is
called
the
land
of
the Repha
giants.)
\VS{14}“Jair,
from
the
tribe
of
Manasseh,
conquered
all
the
Bashan
area
as
far
{\ADD{
north}}
as
the
border
of
the
Geshur
and
Maacah
territories.
He
gave
his
own
name
to
the
villages
there,
and
they
are
still
called
the
villages
of
Jair.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}The
{\ADD{
northern
part
of
the}}
Gilead
{\ADD{
region}}
I
allotted
to
the
Machir
{\ADD{
clan,
who
are
descendants
of
the
tribe
of
Manasseh}}.
\VS{16}I
allotted
to
the
tribes
of
Reuben
and
Gad
the
southern
part
of
the
Gilead
{\ADD{
region,
extending
south}}
to
the
Arnon
{\ADD{
River}}.
The
middle
of
the
river
is
the
{\ADD{
southern}}
boundary.
The
{\ADD{
northern}}
boundary
is
the
Jabbok
River,
which
is
part
of
the
border
of
the
Ammon
area.
\VS{17}{\ADD{
To
the
west
their
territory
extended}}
to
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River
}}
Valley,
from
Galilee Lake
{\ADD{
in
the
north}}
to
the
Dead
Sea
{\ADD{
in
the
south}}
and
to
the
slopes
of
Pisgah
{\ADD{
Mountain}}
to
the
east.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}At
that
time,
I
told
you
three
tribes, ‘Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
you
this
land
{\ADD{
east
of
the
Jordan
River}},
for
you
to
occupy/capture.
So
now,
give
your
soldiers
weapons,
and
send
them
{\ADD{
across
the
Jordan
River}}
ahead
of
the
men
from
the
other Israeli
tribes
{\ADD{
to
help
them
to
conquer/capture
the
land
that
has
been
allotted
to
them}}.
\VS{19}But
your
wives
and
children
and
your
very
numerous
cattle
must
stay
in
the
towns
that
I
have
allotted
to
you.
\VS{20}{\ADD{
Your
men
must
help
your
fellow Israelis}}
until
Yahweh enables
them
to
live
there
peacefully
after
they
capture
all
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
them
on
the
west
side
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}},
just
like
he
did
for
you
{\ADD{
here
on
the
east
side
of
the
river}}.
After
that,
you
all
may
return
to
this
land
that
I
have
allotted
to
you.’
\par }{\PP \VS{21}And
I
told
Joshua, ‘You [SYN]
have
seen
everything
that
Yahweh
our
God
did
to
those
two
kings,
{\ADD{
Sihon
and
Og}}.
He
will
do
the
same
thing
to
the
people
{\ADD{
who
are
now}}
in
the
land
that
you
will
be
entering.
\VS{22}Do
not
be
afraid
of
those
people,
because
Yahweh
our
God
is
the
one
who
will
fight
for
you
all.’ ”
\par }{\SH Moses reminded
them
that
he
was
not
allowed
to
enter
Canaan
\par }{\PP \VS{23}“At
that
time,
I
earnestly
prayed,
saying
\VS{24}‘Yahweh
our
Lord,
you
have
merely
begun
to
show
me
that
you
are
very
great
and
to
show
me
the
powerful
things
that
you
can
do [MTY].
There
is
certainly
no [RHQ]
god
in
heaven
or
on
earth
who
can
do
the
powerful
things/deeds
that
you
{\ADD{
have
done}}.
\VS{25}So
please
allow
me
to
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
and
to
see
the
good/fertile
land
on
the
west
side,
the
beautiful hilly
area
and
{\ADD{
the
mountains
in}}
Lebanon.’
\par }{\PP \VS{26}But
Yahweh
was
angry
with
me
because
of
{\ADD{
what}}
your
ancestors
{\ADD{
had
made
me
do}},
so
he
would
not
pay
attention
to
me.
Instead,
he
said, ‘That
is
enough
{\ADD{
talk
from
you}}!
Do
not
talk
to
me
about
that
again!
\VS{27}Climb
up
to
the
top
of
Pisgah
{\ADD{
Mountain}}
and
look
toward
the
west
and
to
the
east,
toward
the
north
and
to
the
south.
Look
at [MTY]
it
all
carefully,
because
you
will
not
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River
to
see
the
land
from
there}}.
\VS{28}But
tell
Joshua
what
he
must
do
and
encourage
him
to
be
strong,
because
he
is
the
one
who
will
lead
the
people
{\ADD{
across
the
river
in
order
that
they
can}}
occupy/capture
the
land
that
you
will
see
{\ADD{
from
the
top
of
the
mountain}}.’
\par }{\PP \VS{29}So
we
remained
in
the
{\ADD{
Jordan
River}}
Valley
close
to
Beth-Peor
{\ADD{
town}}.”

\par }\Chap{4}{\SH Moses urged the people to obey God’s laws
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Now,
you Israeli
people,
obey
all
the
rules
and
regulations [DOU]
that
I
will
teach
you.
If
you
do
that,
you
will
remain
alive
and
you
will
enter
and
occupy/capture
the
land
that
Yahweh,
the
God
whom
your
ancestors
{\ADD{
worshiped}},
is
giving
to
you.
\VS{2}Do
not
add
anything
to
what
I
command
you,
and
do
not
take
anything
away
from
what
I
tell
you.
Obey
all
the
commands
of
Yahweh
our
God
that
I
am
giving
to
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“ou
have
seen
what
Yahweh
did
at
Baal-Peor
{\ADD{
Mountain}}.
He
got
rid
of
all
the
people
who
worshiped
{\ADD{
the
god}}
Baal
there,
\VS{4}but
you
who
faithfully
{\ADD{
continued
to
worship}}
Yahweh
our
God
are
still
alive
today.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“ote
that
I
have
taught
you
all
the
rules
and
regulations,
just
like
Yahweh
our
God
told
me
to
do.
He
wants
you
to
obey
them
{\ADD{
when
you
are
living}}
in
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter
and
occupy.
\VS{6}Obey
them
faithfully
because,
{\ADD{
if
you
do
that}},
you
will
show
the
people
of
other
nations
that
you
are
very
wise.
When
they
hear
about
all
these
laws,
they
will
say, ‘The
people
of
this
great
nation
{\ADD{
of
Israel}}
are
certainly
very
wise [DOU]!’
\VS{7}Even
if
other
nations
are
great,
there
is
none [RHQ]
of
them
that
has
a
god
who
is
as
near
to
them
as
Yahweh
our
God
is
to
us!
Whenever
we
call
out
to
him
{\ADD{
to
help
us,
he
answers/helps
us}}
\VS{8}And
there
is
no [RHQ]
other
nation,
even
if
it
is
a
great
nation,
that
has
laws
that
are
as
just/fair
as
the
laws
that
I
am
telling
to
you
today.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“ut
be
very
careful! [DOU, IDM]
Do
not
forget
what
you [SYN]
have
seen
{\ADD{
God
do}}.
Remember
those
things
as
long
as
you
are
alive.
Tell
them
to
your
children
and
your
grandchildren.
\VS{10}Tell
them
about
the
day
that
your
ancestors
stood
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh
our
God
at
Sinai
{\ADD{
Mountain}},
when
he
said
to
me, ‘Gather
the
people
together,
in
order
that
they
can
hear
what
I
say.
I
want
them
to
learn
to
have
an
awesome
respect
for
me
as
long
as
they
are
alive,
and
I
want
them
to
teach
their
children
to
do
that
also.’
\VS{11}{\ADD{
Tell
them
that}}
your
ancestors
came
near
the
bottom
of
the
mountain,
while
the
mountain
burned
with
a
fire
that
went
up
to
the
sky,
and
the
mountain
was
covered
with
dark
clouds
and
black
{\ADD{
smoke}}.
\VS{12}Then
Yahweh
spoke
to
your
ancestors
out
of
the
middle
of
the
fire.
Your
ancestors
heard
him
speak,
but
they
did
not
see
him.
They
only
heard
his
voice.
\VS{13}And
he
declared
to
them
his
agreement.
That
agreement
contained
the
Ten
Commandments
that
he
wants
you
to
obey.
He
wrote
those
on
two
stone
tablets.
\VS{14}Yahweh
commanded
me
to
teach
all
the
rules
and
regulations
to
you,
in
order
that
you
would
obey
them
in
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter
and
occupy.”
\par }{\SH Moses
warned
them
about
worshiping
idols
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“On
the
day
that
Yahweh
spoke
to
your
ancestors
at
Sinai
{\ADD{
Mountain}},
he
was invisible.
So,
be
careful
\VS{16}that
you
do
not
sin
by
making
for
yourselves
any
idol
{\ADD{
of
something
that
can
be
seen!
}}Do
not
make
an
idol
that resembles
any
person,
either
a
man
or
a
woman,
\VS{17}or
that resembles
any
animal
or
any
bird
\VS{18}or
any ◄reptile/creature
that scurries
across
the
ground►
or
any
fish
in
the
deep
ocean.
\VS{19}And
be
careful
to
not
look
up
toward
the
sky
and
be
tempted
to
worship
anything
that
you
see
there—the
sun
or
the
moon
or
the
stars.
Yahweh
our
God
has
given
those
to
{\ADD{
be
a
blessing
to}}
all
people
everywhere,
{\ADD{
but
you
must
not
worship
them}}.
\VS{20}Yahweh
has
brought
your
ancestors
out
of
Egypt,
where
{\ADD{
they
were
suffering
as
though}}
they
were
in
a
blazing
furnace,
in
order
that
they
would
be
people
who
belong
to
him,
which
is
what
you
are
today.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“ut
Yahweh
was
angry
with
me
because
of
{\ADD{
what}}
your
ancestors
{\ADD{
made
me
do}}.
He
vowed
that
I
would
not
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
to
enter
the
good/fertile
land
that
he
is
giving
to
you.
\VS{22}He
said
that
I
must
die
here
in
this
land
and
never
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}.
But
you
will
go
across
it,
and
you
will
occupy
that
land.
\VS{23}Be
sure
that
you
do
not
forget
the
agreement
that
Yahweh
our
God
made
with
you.
He
commanded
you
to
not
make
any
kind
of
idol,
because
he
has
forbidden
that.
\VS{24}{\ADD{
You
must
not
do
that}}
because
Yahweh
your
God
will
destroy
{\ADD{
anyone
who
worships
idols,}}
like [MET]
a
fire
completely
destroys
things.
He
{\ADD{
wants
people
to
worship
only
him,
he}} ◄cannot
accept/will
punish►
people
who
worship
anyone
or
anything
else.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“hen
you
have
been
in
the
land
{\ADD{
of
Canaan}}
for
a
long
time
and
you
have
children
and
grandchildren,
do
not
sin
by
making
an
idol
that represents
anything
at
all,
because
Yahweh
says
that
is
evil,
and
if
you
do
that,
you
will
cause
him
to
become
angry
with
you
{\ADD{
and
punish
you}}.
\VS{26}Today
I
am requesting
everyone
who
is
in
heaven
and
everyone
who
is
on
the
earth [MTY]
to
watch
what
you
are
doing.
{\ADD{
If
you
disobey
what
I
am
telling
you}},
you
will
soon
all
die
in
the
land
that
you
will
be
crossing
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
to
occupy.
You
will
not
live
very
long
there;
Yahweh
will
completely
get
rid
of
many [HYP]
of
you.
\VS{27}And
{\ADD{
the
rest
of
you}},
Yahweh
will
force
you
to
go
and
live
among
the
people
of
many
other
nations.
Only
a
few
of
you
will ◄survive/remain
alive►
there.
\VS{28}When
you
are
in
those
nations,
you
will
worship
gods
that
are
made
of
wood
and
stone,
gods
made
by humans,
gods
that
cannot
see
anything
or
hear
anything
or
eat
anything
or
smell
anything.
\VS{29}But
while
you
are
there,
if
you
will
try
to
know
Yahweh
your
God,
and
if
you
try
with
your
entire
inner
being
to
know
him,
he
will ◄answer/reveal
himself
to►
you.
\VS{30}In
the
future,
after
you
have
been
mistreated
there
and
all
those
bad
things
happen
to
you,
you
will
again
worship
only
Yahweh
and
obey
him.
\VS{31}Yahweh
is
a
God
who
acts mercifully.
{\ADD{
If
you
continue
to
obey
him}},
he
will
not
abandon
you
or
destroy
you
or
forget
the
agreement
that
he
solemnly
made
with
your
ancestors.”
\par }{\SH Only
Yahweh
is
God
\par }{\PP \VS{32}“Now
think
about
the
past,
about
the
time
before
you
were
born,
about
all
the
time
since
God
first
created
people
here
on
the
earth.
You
could
search
everywhere,
in
heaven
and
on
the
earth. ◄Has
anything
like
this
ever
happened
that
is
as
great
as
{\ADD{
what
Yahweh
did
for
the Israeli
people}}?/Certainly
nothing
has
ever
happened
that
is
as
great
{\ADD{
as
what
Yahweh
did
for
the Israeli
people}}.► [RHQ] ◄Has
anyone
ever
heard
of
anything
like
this?/Certainly
no
one
has
ever
heard
of
anything
like
this.► [RHQ]
\VS{33}◄Has
any
group
ever
remained
alive
after
they
heard
a
god
speak
to
them
from
the
middle
of
a
fire,
like
we
did?/Certainly
no
group
has
ever
remained
alive
after
they
heard
a
god
speak
to
them
from
the
middle
of
a
fire,
like
we
did.► [RHQ]
\VS{34}Certainly
no
other
god
has
ever
tried
to
take
a
{\ADD{
huge}}
group
of
people
from
one
nation
{\ADD{
to
another
location}},
like
he
did
for
us
when
he
brought
us
out
of
Egypt.
We
saw
Yahweh
our
God
use
great
power [MTY, DOU]
when
he
performed
many
kinds
of [DOU]
miracles,
and
sent
plagues,
and
did
many
other
very
terrifying
things
in
Egypt
for
us,
{\ADD{
and
rescued
us
when
the
army
of
Egypt
tried
to
fight
against
us}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{35}“ahweh
showed
all
these
things
to
you,
in
order
that
you
would
know
that
only
he
is
truly
God,
and
that
there
is
no
other
God.
\VS{36}He
allowed
your
ancestors
to
hear
him
speak
from
heaven
in
order
that
he
could
discipline
them.
Here
on
the
earth
he
allowed
them
to
see
his
great
fire
{\ADD{
on
Sinai
Mountain}},
and
he
spoke
to
them
from
the
middle
of
the
fire.
\VS{37}Because
he
loved
our
ancestors,
he
chose
you Israelis
who
are
their
descendants,
and
by
his
great
power
he
brought
your
ancestors
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{38}{\ADD{
As
they
advanced}},
he
expelled
the
people
of
nations
that
were
greater
and
more
powerful
than
they
were,
in
order
that
he
could
allow
them
to
capture
their
land
and
cause
it
to
become
yours,
which
is
{\ADD{
what
is happening}}
now.
\par }{\PP \VS{39}“o
today
you
should ◄meditate
on/think
about►
the
fact
that
Yahweh
is
God,
that
he
is/rules
in
heaven
and
also
on
the
earth,
and
that
there
is
no
other
god.
\VS{40}Obey
all
the
rules
and
regulations
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today,
in
order
that
things
will
go
well
for
you
and
for
your
descendants,
and
that
you
will
live
a
long
time
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you,
{\ADD{
to
belong
to
you}}
forever.”
\par }{\SH The
cities
of
refuge
\par }{\PP \VS{41}Then
Moses/I
set
apart
three
cities
that
are
on
the
east
side
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}.
\VS{42}If
someone
accidentally
killed
another
person,
a
person
who
had
not
been
his
enemy
previously,
he
could
escape
to
one
of
those
cities.
He
would
be
safe/protected
in
one
of
those
cities
{\ADD{
because
the
people
there
would
protect
him}}.
\VS{43}For
the
tribe
of
Reuben,
Moses/I
set
apart
Bezer
{\ADD{
city}}
in
the ◄plateau/high
level►
area.
For
the
tribe
of
Gad,
Moses/I
set
apart
Ramoth
{\ADD{
city}}
in
the
Gilead
{\ADD{
area}}.
For
the
tribe
of
Manasseh,
Moses/I
set
apart
Golan
{\ADD{
city}}
in
the
Bashan
{\ADD{
region}}.
\par }{\SH Where
Moses
gave
them
God’s
laws
\par }{\PP \VS{44}Moses/I
gave
{\ADD{
God’s}}
laws
to
the Israeli
people.
\VS{45}They
included
all
the
rules
and
instructions
and
commands
that
Moses/I
gave
to
them,
after
they/we
had
come
out
of
Egypt,
\VS{46}when
they/we
were
in
the
valley
east
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}.
They/We
were
across
from
Beth-Peor
{\ADD{
town}},
in
the
land
that
{\ADD{
previously}}
was
ruled
by
Sihon,
the
king
of
the Amor people-group,
who
lived
in
Heshbon
{\ADD{
city}}.
Moses/I
and
the
other Israelis
had
defeated
his
{\ADD{
army}}
when
they/we
came
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{47}They/We
captured Sihon’s
land
and
the
land
that
Og,
the
king
of
the
Bashan
{\ADD{
region}},
ruled.
They
were
the
two
kings
who
ruled
the Amor people-group
{\ADD{
in
the
area}}
east
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}.
\VS{48}Their
land
extended
from
Aroer
{\ADD{
town
in
the
south}}
along
the
Arnon
{\ADD{
River}},
as
far
{\ADD{
north}}
as
Sirion
Mountain,
which
{\ADD{
most
people}}
call
Hermon
Mountain.
\VS{49}It
also
included
all
the
area
east
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River
}}
Valley,
all
the
way
south
to
the
Dead
Sea
and
east
to
the
slopes
of
Pisgah
{\ADD{
Mountain}}.

\par }\Chap{5}{\SH Moses repeated for them the Ten Commandments
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}Moses/I
summoned
all
the
people
of
Israel
and
said
to
them,
\par }{\PP “You Israeli
people,
listen
to
all
the
rules
and
regulations
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today.
Learn
them
and
be
sure
to
obey
them.
\VS{2}When
we
were
at
Sinai
{\ADD{
Mountain}},
Yahweh
our
God
made
an
agreement
with
us.
\VS{3}But
this
agreement
was
not
only
for
our
ancestors.
He
made
it
also
for
us
who
are
alive
now.
\VS{4}Yahweh
spoke
with
us face-to-face
on
that
mountain,
from
the
middle
of
the
fire.
\VS{5}On
that
day,
I
stood
between
your
ancestors
and
Yahweh
to
tell
them
what
he
said,
because
they
were
afraid
of
the
fire,
and
they
did
not
climb
up
the
mountain.
This
is
what
Yahweh
said:
\par }{\MI \VS{6}‘I
am
Yahweh
your
God,
the
one
you
{\ADD{
worship}}.
I
am
the
one
who
brought
you
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt.
I
am
the
one
who
freed
you
from
being
slaves
{\ADD{
there}}.
\par }{\LI \VS{7}{\ADD{
You
must
worship
only}}
me;
you
must
not
worship
any
other
god.
\par }{\LI \VS{8}You
must
not
carve/make
for
yourselves
any
idol
that represents
anything
in
the
sky
or
anything
that
is
on
the
ground
or
anything
that swims
in
the
water.
\par }{\LI \VS{9}You
must
not
bow
down
to
any
idol
and
worship
it,
because
I
am
Yahweh
God,
and
I ◄am
very
jealous/want
you
to
worship
me
only►.
I
punish
those
who
sin
and
hate
me.
I
punish
not
only
them,
but
I
will
punish ◄their
descendants,
down
to
the
third
and
fourth
generation/their
children
and
grandchildren
and great-grandchildren►.
\VS{10}But
I
will steadfastly
love ◄thousands
of
generations/all
the
descendants►
of
those
who
love
me
and
obey
my
commandments (OR,
I
will
love
for
thousands
of
generations).
\par }{\LI \VS{11}Do
not
use/speak
my
name
carelessly (OR,
for
wrong/evil
purposes),
because
I
am
Yahweh
God,
the
one
whom
you
{\ADD{
should
worship}},
and
I
will
certainly
punish
those
who
use/speak
my
name
for
wrong/evil
purposes [LIT].
\par }{\LI \VS{12}Do
not
forget
that
the
seventh
day
{\ADD{
of
every
week}}
is
mine.
Dedicate
those
days
to
me
just
like
I,
Yahweh
your
God,
am
commanding
you.
\par }{\LI \VS{13}There
are
six
days
each
week
for
you
to
do
all
your
work,
\VS{14}but
the
seventh
day
is
a
rest
day,
a
day
dedicated
to
me,
Yahweh
your
God.
On
that
day
you
must
not
do
any
work.
You
and
your
sons
and
daughters
and
your
male
and
female
slaves
must
not
work.
You
must
not
even
force
your
livestock
to
work,
and
you
must
not
tell
foreigners
to
work,
those
who
are
living
in
your
country.
You
must
allow
your
slaves
to
rest
on
that
day
just
like
you
do.
\VS{15}Do
not
forget
that
you
were
slaves
in
Egypt,
and
that
I,
Yahweh
your
God,
brought
you
out
from
there
by
my
very
great
power. [DOU, MTY]
That
is
the
reason
that
I
am
commanding
that
{\ADD{
all
of}}
you
must
rest
on
the
seventh/Sabbath
day
{\ADD{
each
week}}.
\par }{\LI \VS{16}Honor/Respect
your
fathers
and
your
mothers,
just
like
I,
Yahweh
your
God,
am
commanding
you,
in
order
that
you
may
live
a
long
time
in
the
land
that
I,
Yahweh
your
God,
will
give
you,
and
in
order
that
things
will
go
well
for
you
there.
\par }{\LI \VS{17}Do
not
murder
anyone.
\par }{\LI \VS{18}Do
not ◄commit
adultery/have
sex
with
anyone
other
than
your
spouse►.
\par }{\LI \VS{19}Do
not
steal
anything.
\par }{\LI \VS{20}Do
not
tell
lies
about
anyone
{\ADD{
when
you
are
speaking
in
a
court}}.
\par }{\LI \VS{21}Do
not ◄covet/desire
to
have►
someone
else’s
wife,
someone
else’s
house,
someone
else’s
fields,
someone
else’s
male
slave
or
female
slave,
someone
else’s
livestock,
someone
else’s
donkeys,
or
anything
else
that
another
person
owns.’
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Those
are
the
commandments
that
Yahweh
spoke
to
your
ancestors.
When
they
were
gathered
there
at
{\ADD{
the
bottom
of}}
the
mountain,
he
spoke
with
a
very
loud
voice
from
the
middle
of
the
fire,
and
there
were
dark
clouds
surrounding
the
mountain.
He
spoke
only
those
{\ADD{
ten}}
commandments,
no
more.
Then
he
wrote
them
on
two
stone
tablets
and
gave
them
to
me.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}After
your
ancestors
heard
{\ADD{
Yahweh’s}}
voice
when
he
spoke
to
them
out
of
the
darkness,
while
there
was
a
big
fire
burning
on
the
mountain,
their
leaders
and
elders
came
to
me,
\VS{24}and
{\ADD{
one
of}}
them
said, ‘Listen
to
us!
Yahweh
our
God
showed
us
that
he
is
very
great
and
glorious
when
we
heard
him
speak [MTY]
from
the
fire.
Today
we
have
realized
that
it
is possible
for
us humans
to
continue
to
live
even
though
God
has
spoken
to
us.
\VS{25}But
we
are
afraid
that
we
will
die [RHQ]
if
we
hear
Yahweh
our
God
speak [MTY]
to
us
again;
his
terrible
fire
will
destroy/kill
us.
\VS{26}◄Who
has/Certainly
no
human
has►
remained
alive
after
hearing
the all-powerful
God
speak [MTY]
to
them
from
a
fire.
\VS{27}{\ADD{
So
Moses}},
you
go
{\ADD{
up
the
mountain}}
and
listen
to
everything
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
say.
Then
{\ADD{
come
back
and}}
tell
us
everything
that
he
has
said,
and
we
will
listen
to
what
he
has
said
and
obey
it.’
\par }{\PP \VS{28}Yahweh
heard
your
leaders
say
that,
so
{\ADD{
when
I
went
back
up
the
mountain}},
Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘I
have
heard
what
your
leaders
have
said,
and
what
they
have
said
is
right/correct.
\VS{29}I
surely
wish
that
they
would
always
think
like
that
and
revere
me
and
obey
all
my
commandments,
in
order
that
things
may
go
well
for
them
and
for
their
descendants
forever.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}So
go
{\ADD{
down}}
and
tell
them
to
return
to
their
tents.
\VS{31}But
{\ADD{
then}}
you
{\ADD{
come
back
up
here
and}}
stand
near
me,
and
I
will
give
to
you
all
the
rules
and
regulations
that
I
{\ADD{
want
them
to
obey}}.
Then
you
can
teach
them
to
the
people,
in
order
that
they
will
obey
them
when
they
are
in
the
land
that
I
am
giving
to
them.’
\par }{\PP \VS{32}{\ADD{
So
I
went
back
down
to
the
people,
and
I
said
to
them}}, ‘Be
sure
that
you
do
everything
that
Yahweh
our
God
has
commanded
us
to
do.
Do
not
disobey
any
of
his
laws.
\VS{33}Conduct
your
lives
as
Yahweh
our
God
has
commanded
us
to
do,
in
order
that
you
may
live
a
long
time,
and
in
order
that
things
will
go
well
for
you
{\ADD{
when
you
are
living}}
in
the
land
that
you
will
occupy.’ ”

\par }\Chap{6}{\SH The commandment to love God
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“These
are
the
commandments
and
rules
and
regulations
that
Yahweh
our
God
commanded
me
to
teach
to
you.
He
wants
you
to
obey
them
in
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter
and
occupy.
\VS{2}He
wants
you
to
revere
him,
and
he
wants
you
and
your
descendants
to
always
obey
all
these
rules
and
regulations
that
I
am
giving
to
you,
in
order
that
you
may
live
for
a
long
time.
\VS{3}So,
you Israeli
people,
listen
to
them
carefully
and
obey
them.
If
you
do
that,
things
will
go
well
with
you,
and
you
will
become
a
nation
wit
a
very
large
population
when
you
are
living
in
that
very
fertile [IDM]
land.
That
is
what
Yahweh,
the
God
whom
our
ancestors
{\ADD{
worshiped}},
promised
{\ADD{
would
happen}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“ou Israeli
people,
listen!
Only
Yahweh
is
our
God.
\VS{5}You
must
love
him
with
all
your
inner
being
and
with
all
that
you
feel
and
with
all
that
you
do.
\VS{6}Never
forget [IDM]
these
commands
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today.
\VS{7}Teach
them
to
your
children
again
and
again.
Talk
about
them
{\ADD{
all
the
time}}:
When
you
are
in
your
houses
and
when
you
are
walking
outside;
talk
about
them
when
you
are
lying
down
and
when
you
are
doing
things.
\VS{8}{\ADD{
Write
them
on tiny scrolls
and}}
fasten
them
to
your
arms/wrists,
and
write
them
on
bands
that
you
fasten
to
your
foreheads
{\ADD{
to
help
you
to
remember
them}}.
\VS{9}Write
them
on
the
doorposts
and
on
the
gates
of
your
houses.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“ahweh
our
God
vowed
to
your
ancestors
Abraham
and
Isaac
and
Jacob
that
he
will
give
you
a
land
that
already
has
in
it
large
and
prosperous
cities
that
you
did
not
build.
\VS{11}He
said
that
the
houses
in
those
cities
will
already
be
full
of
many
good
things
that
{\ADD{
others
put
there}};
you
did
not
put
them
there.
There
will
be
wells
that oters
have
dug.
There
will
be
vineyards
and
olive
trees
that
others
planted.
So
when
Yahweh
brings
you
into
that
land,
and
you
have
all
that
you
want
to
eat,
\VS{12}be
sure
that
you
do
not
forget
Yahweh
who
rescued
you
from
being
slaves
{\ADD{
in
Egypt
and
gave
all
these
things
to
you}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“ou
must
revere
Yahweh
our
God,
and
you
must
serve
only
him
and
say
that
he
should [MTY]
punish
you
if
you
do
not
do
what
you
have
promised.
\VS{14}You
must
not
worship
any
other
gods,
the
gods
that
the people-groups
who
will
live
near
you
worship.
\VS{15}Yahweh
our
God,
who
lives
among
you, ◄will
not
accept/will
punish►
people
who
worship
anyone
or
anything
else.
So
if
you
worship
any
other
god,
Yahweh
will
be
very
angry
with
you,
and
he
will
get
rid
of
you
completely.
\VS{16}Do
not
do
sinful
things
to
find
out
if
you
can
do
them
without
Yahweh
our
God
punishing
you,
like
your
ancestors
did
at
Massah.
\VS{17}Be
sure
that
you
always
obey
all
the
laws,
the
commandments,
the
rules,
and
the
regulations
that
he
has
given
to
you.
\VS{18}Do
what
Yahweh
says
is
right
and
good.
If
you
do
that,
things
will
go
well
with
you.
You
will
be
able
to
enter
and
occupy
the
good/fertile
land
that
Yahweh
vowed
to
give
to
our
ancestors.
\VS{19}He
will
do
that
by expelling
your
enemies
from
that
land,
just
like
he
promised
to
do.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“n
the
future,
when
your
children
ask
you, ‘Why
did
Yahweh
our
God
command
us
to
obey
all
these
rules
and
regulations?’
\VS{21}tell
them, ‘Our
ancestors
were
slaves
of
the
king
in
Egypt,
but
Yahweh
brought
them
out
of
Egypt
by
his
great
power [MTY].
\VS{22}They
saw
him
do
many
kinds
of
miracles [DOU]
and
do
terrifying
things
to
the
people
of
Egypt
and
to
the
king
and
his
officials.
\VS{23}He
rescued
our
ancestors
from
Egypt
and
brought
them
here
to
give
them
this
land,
just
like
he
vowed
that
he
would
do.
\VS{24}And
he
commanded
us
to
obey
all
these
laws
and
to
revere
him,
for
our
own
good
and
in
order
that
he
would
protect
our
nation
and
enable
us
to
prosper,
as
he
is
doing
now.
\VS{25}Yahweh
our
God
will ◄approve
of
us/consider
us
to
be
righteous►
if
we
carefully
obey
everything
that
he
has
commanded
us
to
do.’ ”

\par }\Chap{7}{\SH The blessings of worshiping God only
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Yahweh
our
God
will
bring
you
to
the
land
that
you
will
soon
enter
and
occupy.
As
you
advance,
he
will
expel
from
that
land
seven people-groups
that
are
more
powerful
and
more
numerous
than
you
are.
He
will
expel
the
Heth people-group,
the Girgash people-group,
the Amor people-group,
the
Canaan people-group,
the Periz people-group,
the Hiv people-group,
and
the
Jebus people-group.
\VS{2}When
Yahweh
our
God enables
you
to
defeat [DOU]
them,
you
must
kill
all
of
them.
You
must
not
make ◄an
alliance/a
peace
treaty►
with
any
of
them.
You
must
not
act mercifully
toward
them.
\VS{3}You
must
not
marry
any
of
them.
You
must
not
allow
your
daughters
to
marry
any
of
their
sons
or
allow
your
sons
to
marry
any
of
their
daughters.
\VS{4}Because,
if
you
did
that,
those
people
would
cause
your
children
to
stop
worshiping
Yahweh
and
to
worship
other
gods.
If
that
happens,
Yahweh
will
be
very
angry
with
you
and
he
will
get
rid
of
you
immediately.
\VS{5}This
is
what
you
must
do
to
those
people:
Tear
down
their ◄altars/places
for
sacrificing
animals►,
break
apart
the
stone
pillars
{\ADD{
that
are
dedicated
to
their
male
god
Baal}},
cut
down
the
{\ADD{
poles
that
they
use
when
they
worship
the
goddess}}
Asherah,
and
burn
their
{\ADD{
wooden}}
idols.
\VS{6}You
must
do
that
because
you
are
a
group
of
people
who
belong
to
Yahweh
our
God.
He
has
chosen
you
from
among
all
the people-groups
in
the
world
to
be
his
own
special
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“t
was
not
because
you
were
more
numerous
than
any
other people-group
that
Yahweh
preferred
you;
you
are
one
of
the
smallest people-groups
on
the
earth.
\VS{8}Instead,
it
is
because
Yahweh
loved
you
and
because
he
wanted
to
do
what
he
vowed
to
your
ancestors.
That
is
the
reason
that
he
rescued
you
by
his
great
power [MTY],
and
freed
you
from
being
slaves [MTY]
of
the
king
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}So
do
not
forget
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
the
only/true
God.
He
will
do
what
he
agreed
to
do
for
you,
and
he
will
faithfully
love ◄for 1,000
generations/forever►
all
those
who
love
him
and
who
obey
his
commandments.
\VS{10}But
for
those
who
hate
him,
he
will ◄pay
them
back/do
to
them
what
they
deserve►;
he
will
punish
them
and
quickly
get
rid
of
them.
\par }{\MM \VS{11}“o
you
must
be
sure
to
obey
all
the
commandments
and
rules
and
regulations
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today.
\VS{12}If
you
heed
these
commands
and
obey
them
faithfully,
Yahweh
our
God
will
do
what
he
has
agreed
to
do
for
you,
and
he
will
faithfully
love
you,
which
is
what
he
vowed
to
your
ancestors
that
he
would
do.
\VS{13}He
will
love
you
and
bless
you.
He
will
enable
you
to
have
many
children [DOU].
He
will
bless
your
fields,
with
the
result
that
you
will
have
plenty
of
grain
and
{\ADD{
grapes
to
make}}
wine
and
plenty
of
{\ADD{
olive}}
oil.
You
will
have
many
cattle
and
sheep.
He
will
do
all
these
things
for
you
in
the
land
that
he
promised
to
your
ancestors
that
he
would
give
to
you.
\VS{14}He
will
bless
you
more
than
he
will
bless
any
other people-group.
All
of
you
will
be
able
to
have/produce
children [LIT].
All
of
your
livestock
will
be
able
to
produce
offspring.
\VS{15}And
Yahweh
will
protect
you
from
all
illnesses.
You
will
not
be
afflicted
with
any
of
the
dreadful
diseases
that
{\ADD{
our
ancestors
knew
about}}
in
Egypt,
but
all
your
enemies
will
be
inflicted
with
those
diseases.
\VS{16}You
must
get
rid
of
all
the people-groups
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
enable
you
to
conquer.
Do
not [SYN]
act mercifully
toward
any
of
them.
And
do
not
worship
their
gods,
because
if
you
do
that,
it
would
be
like
falling
into
a
trap
{\ADD{
from
which
you
will
never
be
able
to
escape}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“o
not
think
to
yourselves, ‘These people-groups
are
more
numerous/powerful
than
we
are,
so
we
certainly
cannot [RHQ]
expel
them.’
\VS{18}Do
not
be
afraid
of
them.
Instead,
think
about
what
Yahweh
our
God
did
to
the
king
of
Egypt
and
to
all
the
people
whom
he
{\ADD{
ruled}}.
\VS{19}Do
not
forget
the
terrible
plagues
that
your
ancestors
saw
{\ADD{
Yahweh
inflict
on
the
people
of
Egypt}},
and
the
many [DOU]
miracles
{\ADD{
that
he
performed}},
and
the
very
powerful [DOU, MTY]
way
by
which
he
brought
your
ancestors
out
{\ADD{
of
Egypt}}.
Yahweh
our
God
will
do
the
same
kind
of
things
to
the people-groups
that
you
are
afraid
of
now.
\VS{20}Furthermore,
he
will
cause
them
to
become
terrified,
and
he
will
destroy
those
who
remain
alive
and
run
away
to
hide
from
you.
\VS{21}Do
not
be
afraid
of
those
people,
because
Yahweh
our
God
will
be
with/among
you.
He
is
a
great
God;
he
is
the
one
you
should
be
afraid
of.
\VS{22}He
will
expel
those people-groups gradually.
You
should
not
{\ADD{
try
to}}
expel
all
of
them
at
one
time,
because
if
you
did
that,
the
number
of
wild
animals
would
quickly
increase,
{\ADD{
and
you
would
not
be
able
to
get
rid
of
them}}.
\VS{23}Instead,
Yahweh
will
enable
you
to
defeat
your
enemies
{\ADD{
one people-group
at
a
time}}.
He
will
cause
them
to
panic
until
they
are
destroyed.
\VS{24}He
will
enable
you
to
defeat [IDM]
their
kings.
After
you
kill
them,
their
names
will
be
forgotten $\{$people
will
forget
about
them$\}$.
No people-group
will
be
able
to
stop
you;
you
will
destroy
all
of
them.
\VS{25}You
must
burn
the
wooden
idols
{\ADD{
that
represent}}
their
gods.
Do
not
desire
to
take
the
silver
or
gold
{\ADD{decorations}}
that
are
on
those
idols,
because
if
you
take
them
for
yourselves,
they
will
be
like
a
trap
{\ADD{
to
cause
you
to
want
to
worship
those
idols}}.
Yahweh
hates
{\ADD{
the
worship
of
those
idols}}.
\VS{26}You
must
not
bring
any
of
those
disgusting
idols
into
your
houses,
because
if
you
do
that,
God
will
curse
you
like
he
curses
them.
You
must
hate
and
despise [DOU]
those
idols,
because
they
are
things
that
{\ADD{
Yahweh}}
has
cursed.”

\par }\Chap{8}{\SH Moses urged them to remember and obey
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“You
must
faithfully
obey
all
the
commandments
that
I
am
giving
you
today.
If
you
do
that,
you
will
live
{\ADD{
a
long
time}},
you
will
become
very
numerous,
and
you
will
occupy
the
land
that
Yahweh
solemnly
promised
your
ancestors
that
he
would
give
{\ADD{
to
you}}.
\VS{2}And
do
not
forget
how
Yahweh
our
God
led
us
as
we
traveled
through
the
desert
during
these
past 40
years.
He
{\ADD{
caused
you
to
have
many
problems/difficulties}},
because
he
wanted
to
cause
you
to
realize
that
you
needed
to
trust
him
and
not
yourselves.
And
he
wanted
to
test
you,
to
find
out
what
you
intended
to
do [IDM],
whether
you
would
obey
his
commandments
or
not.
\VS{3}So
he
caused
you
to
have/experience difficulties.
He
allowed
you
to
become
hungry.
Then
he
gave
you
manna
{\ADD{
food
from
heaven}},
food
that
you
and
your
ancestors
had
never
eaten
before.
He
did
that
to
teach
you
that
people
need
food
{\ADD{
for
their
bodies}};
but
{\ADD{
they
also
need
food
for
their
spirits,
which
comes
from
paying
attention
to}}
everything
that
Yahweh
says [MTY].
\VS{4}During
those 40
years
{\ADD{
of
walking
through
the
desert}},
our
clothes
did
not
wear
out
and
our
feet
did
not
swell
{\ADD{
from
walking
a
very
long
way
through
the
desert}}.
\VS{5}Do
not
forget
that
Yahweh
our
God
disciplines
us,
like
parents
discipline
their
children.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“o
obey
the
commandments
of
Yahweh
our
God,
and
conduct
your
lives
as
he
wants
you
to
do,
and
revere
him.
\VS{7}He
is
about
to
bring
you
into
a
good/fertile
land,
which
has
streams
which
flow
down
from
the
hills
and
pour/flow
out
of
springs
in
the
valleys.
\VS{8}It
is
a
land
on
which
wheat
and
barley
grow,
a
land
where
there
are
fig
trees
and
pomegranates,
and
a
land
where
there
are
olive
trees
and
honey.
\VS{9}It
is
a
land
where
there
will
be
plenty
of
food
for
you,
where
you
will ◄not
lack
anything/have
everything
that
you
need► [LIT],
a
land
which
has
iron
{\ADD{ore}}
in
its
rocks
and
from
which
you
can
dig
copper
{\ADD{ore}}
from
its
hills.
\VS{10}{\ADD{
Every
day}}
you
will
eat
until
your
stomachs
are
full,
and
you
will
thank
Yahweh
our
God
for
the
fertile/good
land
that
he
has
given
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}But,
{\ADD{
when
that
happens}},
be
sure
not
to
forget
Yahweh
our
God
by disobeying
his
commandments
and
rules
and
regulations
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today.
\VS{12}When
your
stomachs
are
full
{\ADD{
every
day}},
and
when
you
have
built
good
houses
and
are
living
in
them,
\VS{13}and
when
the
number
of
your
cattle
and
sheep
has
greatly
increased,
and
when
you
have
accumulated
a
large
amount
of
silver
and
gold,
and
the
amount
of
all
your
other
possessions
has
greatly
increased,
\VS{14}be
sure
that
you
do
not
become
proud [IDM]
and
forget
Yahweh
our
God,
who
rescued
your
ancestors
from
being
slaves
in
Egypt
and
brought
them
out
from
there.
\VS{15}Do
not
forget
that
he
led
them
{\ADD{
while
they
traveled}}
through
that
huge
and
terrible
desert,
where
there
were
poisonous
snakes
and
scorpions.
And
do
not
forget
that
where
the
ground
was
very
dry
and
there
was
no
water,
he
caused
water
to
flow
for
them
out
of ◄solid/very
hard►
rock.
\VS{16}Do
not
forget
that
in
that
desert
he
gave
your
ancestors
manna
to
eat,
food
that
they
had
never
eaten
before.
He
{\ADD{
caused
them
to
have/experience
many
problems/difficulties}},
because
he
wanted
them
to
realize
that
they
needed
to
trust
him
and
not
themselves.
And
he
wanted
to
test
them,
to
find
out
whether
they
intended
to
obey
him,
in
order
that
when
{\ADD{
those difficulties}}
ended,
he
would
do
many
good
things
for
them.
\VS{17}Be
sure
that
you
do
not
think
to
yourselves, ‘I
have
acquired
all
these
things
by
my
own
power [MTY]
and
ability.’
\VS{18}Do
not
forget
that
it
is
Yahweh
our
God
who
has
enabled
you
to
become
rich.
He
does
this
because
he
faithfully
does
what
he
solemnly
promised
our
ancestors
that
he
would
do.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“
solemnly
warn
you
that
if
you
forget
Yahweh
our
God
and
turn
to
other
gods
and
start
to
serve
them
and
worship
them,
you
will
certainly
be
destroyed.
\VS{20}If
you
do
not
obey
Yahweh
our
God,
he
will
certainly
destroy
you
just
like
he
will
destroy
the people-groups
that
you
will
fight
against.”

\par }\Chap{9}{\SH The reason that God will enable them to be victorious
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“You
people
of
Israel,
listen
to
me!
You
will
soon [HYP]
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}.
In
the
land
that
you
will
enter,
there
are
large
cities
that
have
very
high
walls
{\ADD{
around
them}}
that
{\ADD{
seem
to}} [HYP]
extend
up
to
the
sky.
There
are people-groups
in
that
land
that
are
more
numerous
and
more
powerful
than
you
are.
\VS{2}Those
people
are
very
tall
and
strong.
{\ADD{
Some
of
them}}
are
giants
who
are
descendants
of
Anak.
You
know
about
them,
and
you
have
heard
people
say
that
no
one [RHQ]
can
defeat
the
descendants
of
Anak.
\VS{3}But
I
want
you
to
know
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
go
ahead
of
you.
He
will
be
like
a
raging/roaring
fire.
While
you
advance,
he
will
defeat
and
destroy
them.
As
a
result,
you
will
quickly
be
able
to
expel
some
of
them
and
kill
the
others,
which
is
what
Yahweh
promised
that
you
would
do.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“fter
Yahweh
our
God
has
expelled
them
for
you,
do
not
say
to
yourselves, ‘It
is
because
we
are
righteous
that
Yahweh
has
enabled
us
to
capture
this
land.’
The
truth
is
that
it
is
because
the
people
in
that
land
are
wicked
that
Yahweh
will
expel
them
as
you
advance.
\VS{5}{\ADD{
I
say
again
that}}
it
is
not
because
you
are
righteous
or
because
you
do
things
that
are
righteous
that
you
will
enter
and
capture
that
land.
It
is
because
those people-groups
are
very
wicked
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
expel
them
as
you
advance,
and
because
he
intends
to
do
what
he
vowed
to
your
ancestors
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob
that
he
would
do.
\VS{6}I
want
you
to
know
that
it
is
not
because
you
are
righteous
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
you
this
good/fertile
land.
I
say
that
because
{\ADD{
you
are
not
righteous}};
you
are
a
very
stubborn [IDM]
people.”
\par }{\SH Moses reminded
them
of
the
golden
calf
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“Never
forget
what
your
ancestors
did
in
the
desert
that
caused
Yahweh
our
God
to
become
angry.
From
the
day
that
we
left
Egypt
until
the
day
that
we
arrived
here,
you
and
your
ancestors
have
continually
rebelled
against
him.
\VS{8}Even
at
Sinai
{\ADD{
Mountain}}
your
ancestors
caused
Yahweh
to
become
angry.
Because
he
was
very
angry,
he
was
ready
to
get
rid
of
{\ADD{
all
of}}
them.
\VS{9}When
I
climbed
the
mountain
to
receive
from
him
the
stone
tablets
on
which
he
had
written
the
Ten
Commandments
that
he
was
giving
to
them,
I
stayed
there 40
days
and
nights,
and
{\ADD{
during
that
time}}
I
did
not
eat
or
drink
anything.
\VS{10}Yahweh
gave
me
the
two
stone
tablets
on
which
he
had
written
{\ADD{
the
commandments}}
with
his
own
fingers.
They
were
the
words/commandments
that
he
had
spoken
to
your
ancestors
from
the
fire
on
that
mountain,
when
they
were
gathered
together
{\ADD{
at
the
bottom
of
the
mountain}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“t
the
end
of
those 40
days
and
nights,
Yahweh
gave
me
those
two
stone
tablets
on
which
he
had
written
those
commandments.
\VS{12}But
then
he
said
to
me, ‘Go
down
the
mountain
immediately,
because
{\ADD{
the
people
whom
you
are
leading}},
the
people
whom
you
led
out
of
Egypt,
have
committed
a
terrible
sin!
They
have
very
quickly
done
what
I
commanded
them
not
to
do.
They
have
made
for
themselves
a
metal
statue
{\ADD{
of
a
calf
to
worship}}.’
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Then
Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘I
have
been
watching
these
people,
and
I
see
that
they
are
very
stubborn.
\VS{14}So
do
not
try
to
stop
me.
I
am
going
to
destroy
all
of
them,
with
the
result
that
no
one
anywhere
will
remember ◄their
names [MTY]/that
they
ever
existed►.
Then
I
will
enable
you
to
become
{\ADD{
the ancestor
of}}
a
nation
that
will
be
more
numerous
and
more
powerful
than
they
are.’
\par }{\PP \VS{15}So
I
turned
and
went
down
the
mountain,
carrying
in
my
hands
the
two
stone
tablets
on
which
the
Ten
Commandments
were
{\ADD{
written}}.
Fire
was
burning
all
over
the
mountain.
\VS{16}I
looked,
and
I
was
shocked
to
see
that
your
ancestors
had
committed
a
{\ADD{
great}}
sin
against
Yahweh.
They
very
quickly
had
begun
to
do
what
Yahweh
our
God
had
commanded
them
not
to
do.
They
had
{\ADD{
requested
Aaron
to}}
make
for
them
{\ADD{
a
metal
image
of}}
a
calf
{\ADD{
to
worship}}.
\VS{17}So
while
they
were
watching,
I
lifted
up
those
two
stone
tablets
and
threw
them
{\ADD{
on
the
ground}},
and
they
broke
into
pieces.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Then
I ◄prostrated
myself/lay►
on
the
ground
in
Yahweh’s
presence
as
I
had
done
before,
and
I
did
not
eat
or
drink
anything
for 40
days
and
nights.
I
did
that
because
your
ancestors
had
sinned
against
Yahweh
and
caused
him
to
become
very
angry.
\VS{19}I
was
afraid/worried
that
because
Yahweh
was
very
angry
with
them,
he
would
get
rid
of
all
of
them.
{\ADD{
But
again
I
prayed
that
he
would
not
do
that}},
and
again
he
listened
to
me
{\ADD{
and
answered
my
prayer}}.
\VS{20}Yahweh
was
also
very
angry
with
Aaron
{\ADD{
for
making
that
golden
calf}}
and
was
ready
to
kill
Aaron.
But
at
the
same
time
I
prayed
for
Aaron
also,
{\ADD{
and
Yahweh
answered
my
prayer}}.
\VS{21}Your
ancestors
had
sinned
by
{\ADD{requesting
Aaron
to}}
make
{\ADD{
a
metal
statue
of}}
a
calf.
So
I
took
that
statue
and
{\ADD{
I
melted
it}}
in
a
fire
and
crushed
it
and
ground
it
into
very tiny
pieces [HYP].
Then
I
threw
those tiny
pieces
into
the
stream
that
flowed
down
the
mountain.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Your
ancestors
also
caused
Yahweh
to
become
very
angry
{\ADD{
by
what
they
did}}
at
{\ADD{
places
which
they
named}}
Taberah,
Massah,
and
Kibroth-Hattaavah.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}And
when
we
were
at
Kadesh-Barnea,
Yahweh
said
to
your
ancestors, ‘Go
up
and
capture
the
land
that
I
am
about
to
give
to
you!’
But
they
rebelled
against
him.
They
did
not
trust
him,
and
they
did
not
obey
what
he
told [MTY]
them
to
do.
\VS{24}Your
ancestors
rebelled
against
Yahweh
from
the
first
day
that
I
knew
them,
{\ADD{
in
Egypt}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}So,
{\ADD{
as
I
said}},
I
lay
on
the
ground
in
Yahweh’s
presence
for 40
days
and
nights,
because
Yahweh
had
said
that
he
would
get
rid
of
your
ancestors.
\VS{26}And
I
prayed
to
Yahweh,
saying, ‘Lord
God,
these
people
belong
to
you;
do
not
destroy
them.
They
are
people
whom
you
rescued
and
brought
out
of
Egypt
by
your
very
great
power. [DOU, MTY]
\VS{27}Do
not
forget
{\ADD{
what
you
promised
to}}
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob.
Please
ignore
these
stubborn
and
wicked
people
and
the
sin
that
they
have
committed.
\VS{28}If
you
do
not
do
that,
{\ADD{
and
if
you
get
rid
of
them}},
the
people
of
Egypt
will
{\ADD{
hear
about
it
and}}
say
that
you
were
not
able
to
bring
them
into
the
land
that
you
promised
to
give
to
them.
They
will
say
that
you
took
them
into
the
desert
only
to
kill
them
there
because
you
hated
them.
\VS{29}{\ADD{
Do
not
forget
that}}
they
are
your
people.
{\ADD{
You
chose
them
to}}
belong
to
you.
You
brought
them
out
{\ADD{
from
Egypt}}
by
your
very
great
power [DOU, MTY].’ ”

\par }\Chap{10}{\SH A new copy of the Ten Commandments
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Then
Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘Cut
two
stone
tablets
like
the
first
ones.
And
make
a
wooden
chest
to
put
them
in.
Then
{\ADD{
bring
the
tablets}}
up
to
me
on
this
mountain.
\VS{2}I
will
write
on
those
tablets
the
same
words
that
I
wrote
on
the
first
tablets,
the
ones
that
you
broke.
Then
you
can
put
them
in
the
chest.’
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“o
I
made
a
chest.
I
used
wood
from
an
acacia
tree
to
make
it.
Then
I
cut
two
tablets
of
stone
like
the
first
ones,
and
I
went
up
the
mountain
carrying
the
tablets.
\VS{4}There
Yahweh
wrote
on
the
tablets
the
{\ADD{
same}}
Ten
Commandments
{\ADD{
that
he
had
written
on
the
first
tablet}}.
They
are
the
commandments
that
he
told
to
your
ancestors
from
the
middle
of
the
fire
on
the
mountain,
when
they
were
gathered
{\ADD{
at
the
bottom
of
the
mountain}}.
Then
Yahweh
gave
the
tablets
to
me,
\VS{5}and
I
turned
and
went
down
the
mountain.
Then,
just
as
he
had
commanded,
I
put
them
in
the
chest
that
I
had
made.
And
they
are
still
there.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}(Then,
from
the
wells
that
belonged
to
the
people
of
Jaakan,
the Israeli
people
traveled
to
Moserah.
There
Aaron
died
and
was
buried,
and
his
son
Eleazar
took
his
place
and
became
the Supreme
Priest.
\VS{7}From
there,
the Israelis
traveled
to
Gudgodah,
and
from
there
to
Jotbathah,
which
was
a
place
that
had
many
streams.
\VS{8}At
that
time,
Yahweh ◄set
apart/appointed►
the
tribe
of
Levi
to
carry
the
chest
that
contained
{\ADD{
the
tablets
on
which
were
written}}
the
Ten
Commandments,
and
to
stand
in
Yahweh’s
presence
{\ADD{
in
the
sacred
tent}},
to
offer
sacrifices,
and
to
pray
for
Yahweh
to
bless
{\ADD{
the
people.
They
are
still
doing
those
things}}
at
the
present
time.
\VS{9}That
is
the
reason
that
the
tribe
of
Levi
did
not
receive
any
land
like
the
other
tribes
did.
What
they
received
was
the
work/privilege
of
being
Yahweh’s
{\ADD{
priests}},
which
is
what
he
said
that
they
should
do.)
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“I
stayed
on
the
mountain 40
days
and
nights,
just
like
I
did
the
first
time.
{\ADD{
I
prayed
to}}
Yahweh,
and
he ◄answered
my
prayers/did
what
I
requested►
again
and
said
that
he
would
not
destroy
your
ancestors.
\VS{11}Then
Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘Continue
your
journey,
going
in
front
of
the
people,
to
occupy
the
land
that
I
vowed
your
ancestors
that
I
would
give
to
you.’ ”
\par }{\SH What
Yahweh
required
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“Now,
you Israeli
people,
{\ADD{
I
will
tell
you}} [RHQ]
what
Yahweh
our
God
requires/demands
that
you
do.
He
requires
you
to
revere
him,
to
conduct
your
lives
as
he
wants
you
to,
to
love
him,
and
to
serve
him
wholeheartedly [DOU],
\VS{13}and
to
obey
all
of
his
commandments [DOU]
which
I
am
giving
to
you
today
for
your
benefit.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“o
not
forget
that
Yahweh
our
God
owns
even
the
sky
and
everything
that
is
in
it.
He
also
owns
the
earth
and
everything
that
is
on
it.
\VS{15}But
{\ADD{
in
spite
of
owning
all
those
things}},
Yahweh
loved
your
ancestors,
and
from
all
the people-groups
{\ADD{
on
the
earth}}
he
chose
us,
their
descendants,
and
we
are
still
his
people.
\VS{16}So
you
must
stop
sinning [MET]
and
stop
being
stubborn [IDM]!
\VS{17}Yahweh
our
God
is
greater
than
all
gods,
and
he
is
greater
than
all
rulers.
He
is
very
powerful [DOU]
and
awesome.
He ◄is impartial/does
not
do
things
that
favor
one ◄group/person►
more
than
others►,
and
he
does
not
accept
bribes.
\VS{18}He
makes
sure
that
orphans
and
widows
are
treated
fairly.
He
loves
even ◄foreigners/people
from
other
countries►
who
live
among
us Israeli
people,
and
he
gives
them
food
and
clothes.
\VS{19}So
you
must
love
those
foreigners
too,
because
you
were
once
foreigners
when
you
were
living
in
Egypt.
\VS{20}Revere
Yahweh
our
God
and
worship
only
him. ◄Be
faithful
to/Have
a
close relationship
with►
him,
and
say
that
he
should
punish
you
if
you
do
not
do
what
you
promise.
\VS{21}He
is
the
one
whom
you
must
praise.
He
is
our
God,
and
we
have
seen
the
great
and
amazing
things
that
he
has
done
for
us.
\VS{22}When
our
ancestors,
{\ADD{
Jacob
and
his
family}},
went
down
to
Egypt,
there
were
only
seventy
of
them.
But
now
Yahweh
our
God
has
caused
us
to
be
as
numerous
as
the
stars
in
the
sky.”

\par }\Chap{11}{\SH Moses reminded them of the great things that God did
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“{\ADD{
Because
of
all
that}}
Yahweh
your
God
{\ADD{
has
done
for
you}},
you
must
love
him
and
continually
obey
all
his
rules
and
regulations
and
commandments.
\VS{2}It
was
you
and
your
ancestors,
not
your
children,
whom
he
disciplined
{\ADD{
by
causing
all
of
you
to
have/experience difficulties}}.
So,
starting
today,
continue
to
think
about
how
very
great
and
very
powerful
he
is [DOU, MTY].
\VS{3}Think
about
the
various
miracles [DOU]
that
he
performed
in
Egypt.
Think
about
what
he
did
to
the
king
of
Egypt
and
to hiis
country.
\VS{4}Think
about
what
he
did
to
the
army
of
Egypt,
to
their
horses
and
their
chariots.
Think
about
how
he
caused
the
Red
Sea
to
flood/cover
over
them
while
they
were
pursuing
your
ancestors,
and
how
the
army
of
Egypt
was
completely ◄wiped
out/destroyed►.
\VS{5}Think
about
what
Yahweh
did
for
your
ancestors
in
the
desert
before
you
arrived
at
this
place.
\VS{6}Think
about
what
he
did
to
Dathan
and
Abiram,
the
two
sons
of
Eliab
from
the
tribe
of
Reuben.
While
all
of
your
ancestors
were
watching,
the
earth
split
open,
and
they
fell
into
the
opening
{\ADD{
and
disappeared}},
along
with
their
families
and
their
tents,
their
servants,
and
their
animals.
\VS{7}You [SYN]
and
your
ancestors
have
seen
all
these
miracles
that
Yahweh
performed.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}So,
obey
all
the
commandments
that
I
am
giving
you
today,
in
order
that
you
will
be
strong
and
able
to
cross
the
river
and
occupy
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter,
\VS{9}and
in
order
that
you
will
live
for
a
long
time
in
that
land,
the
land
that
Yahweh
solemnly
promised
your
ancestors
that
he
would
give
to
them
and
to
their
descendants,
a
land
that
is
very
fertile [IDM].
\VS{10}The
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter
and
occupy
is
not
like
the
land
of
Egypt,
where
your
ancestors
lived.
In
Egypt,
after
they
planted
seeds,
it
was
necessary
for
them
to
work
hard [MTY]
to
water
{\ADD{
the
plants
that
grew}}.
\VS{11}But
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter
is
a
land
where
there
are
many
hills
and
valleys,
where
there
is
plenty
of
rain.
\VS{12}Yahweh
takes
care
of
that
land.
He [SYN]
watches
over
it
every
day,
from
the
beginning
of
each
year
to
the
end
of
each
year.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Today
I
am
commanding
you
to
love
Yahweh
our
God
and
to
serve
him
with
your
entire
inner
beings.
If
you
do
that,
\VS{14}each
year
he
will
send
rain
on
your
land
at
the ◄right
times/times
when
it
is
needed►, ◄in
the
autumn/at
the
end
of
the
dry
season►
and ◄in
the
spring/before
the
next
dry
season starts►.
As
a
result,
you
will
have
grain
and
{\ADD{
grapes
to
make}}
wine
and
{\ADD{
olives
to
make
olive}}
oil.
\VS{15}And
he
will
cause
grass
to
grow
in
your
fields
for
your
livestock
{\ADD{
to
eat}}.
You
will
have
all
the
food
that
you
want.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ut
I
warn
you,
do
not
turn
away
from
Yahweh
our
God
and
start
to
worship
other
gods,
\VS{17}because
if
you
do
that,
Yahweh
will
become
very
angry
with
you.
He
will
prevent
any
rain
from
falling.
As
a
result,
the
crops
will
not
grow,
and
you
will
soon
die
{\ADD{
from
hunger}}
in
the
good
land
that
Yahweh
is
about
to
give
to
you.
\VS{18}So,
keep
thinking [IDM]
about
these
commands.
Write
them
{\ADD{
on tiny scrolls}}
and
fasten
them
to
your
arms/wrists,
and
write
them
on
bands
that
you
fasten
to
your
foreheads
{\ADD{
to
help
you
to
remember
them}}.
\VS{19}Teach
them
to
your
children
again
and
again.
Talk
about
them
{\ADD{
all
the
time}}:
When
you
are
in
your
houses
and
when
you
are
walking
outside;
talk
about
them
when
you
are
lying
down
at inght
and
when
you
are
getting
up
in
the
morning.
\VS{20}Write
them
on
the
doorposts
and
on
the
gates
of
your
houses.
\VS{21}Do
that
in
order
that
you
and
your
children
will
live
for
a
long
time
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
promised
to
our
ancestors
that
he
would
give
to
them.
That
land
will
belong
to
you
{\ADD{
and
your
descendants}}
as
long
as
there
is
a
sky
above
the
earth.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“aithfully
continue
to
obey
what
I
am
commanding
you
to
do—to
love
Yahweh
our
God,
and
to
conduct
your
lives
as
he
wants
you
to
do,
and
to ◄be
faithful
to/have
a
close relationship
with►
him.
\VS{23}If
you
do
that,
Yahweh
will
expel
all
the people-groups
in
that
land
as
you
advance, people-groups
that
are
more
numerous
and
more
powerful
than
you
are.
\VS{24}All
the
ground
{\ADD{
in
that
land}}
on
which
you
walk
will
be
yours.
Your
territory
will
extend
from
the
desert
{\ADD{
in
the
south}}
to
the
Lebanon
{\ADD{
Mountains
in
the
north}},
and
from
the
Euphrates
River
{\ADD{
in
the
east}}
to
the
{\ADD{Mediterranean}}
Sea
in
the
west.
\VS{25}Yahweh
our
God
will
cause
all
the
people
in
that
land
to
be
afraid
of
you,
which
is
what
he
promised,
with
the
result
that
no people-group
will
be
able
to
stop
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}“isten
carefully:
Today
I
am
telling
you
{\ADD{
that
Yahweh
will
either}}
bless
{\ADD{
you
or
he
will}}
curse
you.
\VS{27}If
you
obey
the
commandments
of
Yahweh
our
God
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today,
he
will
bless
you.
\VS{28}If
you
do
not
obey
them,
and
if
you
turn
away
from
him
to
worship
other
gods
that
you
have
never
known
about
before,
he
will
curse
you.
\VS{29}And
when
Yahweh
brings
you
into
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter
and
occupy,
{\ADD{
some
of
you
must
stand
on
top
of}}
Gerizim
Mountain
and
proclaim
what
will
cause
Yahweh
to
bless
you,
and
{\ADD{
the
others
must
stand
on
top
of}}
Ebal
Mountain
and
proclaim
{\ADD{
what
will
cause
Yahweh
to}}
curse
you.”
\VS{30}(Those
two
mountains
are [RHQ]
west
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}},
west
of
the
Jordan
Valley
near
the
huge
oak
tree
at
Moreh
{\ADD{
village}}
in
the
land
where
the
Canaan people-group
lives.
They
live
close
to
the
sacred
trees
near
Gilgal.)
\VS{31}“You
will
soon
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
to
occupy
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you.
When
you
enter
that
land
and
start
to
live
there,
\VS{32}be
sure
to
obey
all
the
rules
and
regulations
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today.”

\par }\Chap{12}{\SH The one place for worship
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“◄I
will
now
tell
you
again/These,
{\ADD{
again}},
are►
the
rules
and
regulations
that
you
must
faithfully
obey
in
the
land
that
Yahweh,
the
God
whom
our
ancestors
{\ADD{
worshiped}},
is
giving
to
you
to
occupy.
You
must
obey
these
laws
all
the
time
that
you
are
alive.
\VS{2}You
must
destroy
all
the
places
where
the people-groups
that
you
will
expel
worship
their
gods,
on
the
tops
of
mountains
and
hills
and
under
big
green
trees.
\VS{3}You
must
tear
down
their
altars
and
smash
their
sacred
pillars.
Completely
burn
the
statues
of
their
goddess
Asherah
in
fires,
and
chop
down
their
wooden
idols,
in
order
that
no
one
will
ever
worship
them [MTY]
in
those
places
again.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“o
not
worship
Yahweh
like
{\ADD{
the
people
in
Canaan
worship
their
gods}}.
\VS{5}Instead,
you
must
go
to
the
place
that
Yahweh
will
choose.
It
will
be
in
the
area
where
one
of
your
tribes
will
live.
That
is
where
you
must
go
to
worship
Yahweh.
\VS{6}That
is
the
place
where
you
must
bring
your
sacrifices
that
will
be
completely
burned
on
the
altar,
and
your
other
sacrifices, ◄your
tithes/ten percent
of
all
of
your
crops►,
other
offerings
that
you
decide
to
give,
and
the
firstborn
animals
from
your
cattle
and
sheep.
\VS{7}There,
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh
our
God,
who
has
{\ADD{
greatly}}
blessed
you,
you
and
your
families
will
eat
the
good
things
that
you
have
worked
to
produce,
and
you
will
be
happy.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“{\ADD{
When
you
are
in
that
land}},
you
must
not
do
some
of
the
things
that
we
have
been
doing.
Until
now,
you
have
all
been
worshiping
{\ADD{
Yahweh}}
the
way
you
wanted
to,
\VS{9}because
you
have
not
yet
arrived
in
the
land
which
Yahweh
is
giving
to
you,
where
you
will
be
able
to
live
peacefully.
\VS{10}But
when
you
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}},
you
will
start
to
live
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you.
He
will
protect
you
from
all
your
enemies
that
will
surround
you,
and
you
will
live
peacefully/safely.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“ahweh
will
choose
one
place
where
he
wants
you
to
worship
him.
That
is
the
place
to
which
you
must
bring
all
the
offerings
that
I
command
you
to
bring:
The
sacrifices
that
must
be
completely
burned
{\ADD{
on
the
altar}},
your
other
sacrifices,
other
offerings
that
you
yourselves
decide
to
give, ◄your
tithes/ten percent
of
all
your
crops►,
and
all
the
special
offerings
that
you
will
solemnly
promise
to
give
to
Yahweh.
\VS{12}Rejoice
there
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh,
along
with
your
children,
your
male
and
female
servants,
and
the
descendants
of
Levi
who
live
in
your
towns.
Do
not
forget
that
the
descendants
of
Levi
will
not
have
their
own
land,
like
you
will
have.
\VS{13}Be
sure
that
you
do
not
offer
sacrifices
anywhere
you
want
to.
\VS{14}You
must
offer
them
only
in
the
place
that
Yahweh
will
choose
for
you,
in
an
area
that
belongs
to
one
of
your
tribes.
That
is
the
only
place
where
he
wants
you
to
offer
sacrifices
that
will
be
completely
burned
{\ADD{
on
the
altar}},
and
to
do
the
other
things
that
I
am
commanding
you
to
do
{\ADD{
when
you
worship
him}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“owever,
you
will
be
permitted
to
kill
and
eat
the
meat
of
your
animals
in
the
places
where
you
live.
As
often
as
you
want
to,
you
may
eat
the
meat
of
the
animals
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
bless
you
by
giving
them
to
you.
Those
who
have
done
things
that
cause
them
to
become
unacceptable
to
God
and
those
who
have
not
done
things
like
that
may
all
eat
that
meat,
just
like
you
would
eat
the
meat
of
a
deer
or
an
antelope.
\VS{16}But
you
must
not
eat
the
blood
{\ADD{
of
any
animals}};
you
must
let
the
blood
drain
onto
the
ground
{\ADD{
before
you
cook
the
meat}}.
\VS{17}In
the
places
where
you
live,
you
must
not
eat
the
things
that
you
are
offering
{\ADD{
to
Yahweh}}:
You
must
not
eat
the ◄tithes/ten percent►
of
your
grain
or
of
your
wine,
or
of
your
{\ADD{
olive}}
oil,
or
the
firstborn
of
your
cattle
and
sheep,
or
the
offerings
that
you
yourselves
decide
to
give
to
Yahweh,
or
any
other
offerings.
\VS{18}Instead,
you
and
your
children
and
your
male
and
female
servants
and
the
descendants
of
Levi
who
live
in
your
towns
must
go
to
the
place
that
he
has
chosen
and
eat
those
things
there
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh.
And
you
should
rejoice
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh
about
everything
that
you
do.
\VS{19}Be
sure
that
you
take
care
of
the
descendants
of
Levi
all
during
the
time
that
you
live
in
your
land.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“hen
Yahweh
our
God
gives
you
much
more
land
{\ADD{
than
you
will
have
when
you
first
occupy
it}},
which
is
what
he
has
promised
to
do,
and
you
say ‘I
would
like
some
meat
to eat’
because
you
are
craving/wanting
some
meat,
you
will
be
permitted
to
eat
meat
whenever
you
want
to.
\VS{21}If
the
place
that
Yahweh
our
God
chooses
to
be
the
place
for
you
to
worship
him
is
far
{\ADD{
from
where
you
live}},
you
are
permitted
to
kill
some
of
your
cattle
or
sheep
that
Yahweh
has
given
to
you,
and
you
may
eat
that
meat
at
the
places
where
you
live,
just
like
I
have
told
you
to
do.
\VS{22}Those
who
have
done
things
that
cause
them
to
become
unacceptable
to
God,
and
those
who
have
not
done
things
like
that,
are
all
permitted
to
all
eat
that
meat,
just
like
you
would
eat
the
meat
of
a
deer
or
an
antelope.
\VS{23}But
be
sure
that
you
do
not
eat
the
blood
{\ADD{
of
any
animal}},
because
it
is
the
blood
that
sustains
life
in
living
beings,
and
so
you
must
not
eat
the
life
along
with
the
meat.
\VS{24}Do
not
eat
the
blood;
instead,
let
it
drain
onto
the
ground.
\VS{25}If
you
obey
this
command
and
do
what
Yahweh
says
is
right
{\ADD{
for
you
to
do}},
things
will
go
well
for
you
and
for
your
descendants.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}“ut
the
sacred
offerings
that
Yahweh
has
told
you
to
give
and
the
other
offerings
that
you
yourselves
decide
to
give,
you
must
take
to
the
place
that
Yahweh
will
choose.
\VS{27}You
must
offer
there
the
sacrifices
that
will
be
completely
burned
{\ADD{
on
Yahweh’s
altar}}.
You
must
also
offer
there
the
sacrifices
from
which
you
may
eat
some
of
meat
after
you
{\ADD{
kill
the
animals
and}}
drain
out
the
blood
and
some
of
it
is
thrown
on
the
{\ADD{
sides
of
the}}
altar.
\VS{28}Faithfully
obey
all
these
things
that
I
have
commanded
you.
If
you
do
that,
things
will
go
well
forever
for
you
and
your
descendants,
because
you
will
be
doing
what
Yahweh
our
God
says
is
right
{\ADD{
for
you
to
do}}
and
what
pleases
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}“hen
you
enter
the
land
that
you
will
occupy,
as
you
advance,
Yahweh
our
God
will
get
rid
of
the people-groups
that
live
there.
\VS{30}After
he
does
that,
be
sure
that
you
do
not
{\ADD{
worship
the
gods}}
that
they
have
been
worshiping,
because
if
you
do
that,
you
will
be
caught
in
the
same
trap
{\ADD{
that
they
were
caught
in}} [MET].
Do
not
ask
anyone
about
those
gods,
saying, ‘Tell
me
how
they
worshiped
their
gods,
in
order
that
I
can
{\ADD{
worship
them}}
also.’
\VS{31}Do
not
try
to
worship
Yahweh
our
God
like
they
have
worshiped
their
gods,
because
when
they
worship
them,
they
do
disgusting
things,
things
that
Yahweh
hates.
{\ADD{
The
worst
thing
that
they
do
is}}
that
they
sacrifice
their
own
children
and
burn
them
{\ADD{
on
their
altars}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}“e
sure
to
do
everything
that
I
have
commanded
you
to
do.
Do
not
add
anything
to
these
commands,
and
do
not
take
anything
away
from
them.”

\par }\Chap{13}{\SH Moses warned them against idolatry
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Possibly
there
will
be
people
among
you
who
{\ADD{
say
that
they}}
are
prophets.
They
may
say
that
they
are
able
to
interpret
the
meaning
of
dreams
or
perform
various
kinds
of
miracles [DOU].
\VS{2}They
will
say
those
things
in
order
to induce/persuade
you
to
worship
gods
that
you
have
never
known
about
before.
But
even
if
what
they
predict
happens,
\VS{3}do
not
pay
attention
to
what
they
say.
Yahweh
our
God
will
be
testing
you
to
find
out
if
you
love
him
with
all
your
inner
being.
\VS{4}You
must
conduct
your
lives
as
Yahweh
our
God
wants
you
to,
and
you
must
revere
him,
and
do
what
he
tells
you
to
do [MTY],
and
worship
only
him,
and ◄be
faithful
to/have
a
close relationship
with►
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“ut
you
must
execute
anyone
who
{\ADD{
falsely
says
that
he}}
is
a
prophet,
or
someone
who
{\ADD{
falsely}}
says
that
he
can
interpret
dreams,
or
who
tells
you
to
rebel
against
Yahweh
our
God,
who
rescued
your
ancestors
from
being
slaves
in
Egypt.
People
like
that
are
only
wanting
to
cause
you
to
stop conducting
your
lives
as
Yahweh
has
commanded
you
to
do.
Execute
them,
to
get
rid
of
this
evil
among
you.
\VS{6}It
does
not
matter
if
even
your
brother
or
your
daughter
or
your
wife
or
some
close/dear
friend
secretly
urges
you,
saying ‘Let’s
worship
other
gods.
They
are
gods
which
you
or
your
ancestors
have
never
known
about.
\VS{7}Some
of
them
may
encourage
you
to
worship
gods
that people-groups
that
live
near
you
worship,
or
gods
that
groups
who
live
far
away
worship.
\VS{8}Do
not [SYN]
do
what
they suggest.
Do
not
even
listen
to
them.
Do
not
even
be
merciful
to
them,
and
do
not
keep
secret
what
they
have
done.
\VS{9}Execute
them!
You
{\ADD{
who
are
their
relative}}
must
be
the
first
one
to
{\ADD{
throw
stones
at
them
to}}
kill
them,
and
then
let
everyone
else [MTY]
throw
stones
at
them,
too.
\VS{10}Kill
such
people
by
throwing
stones
at
them,
because
they
are
trying
to
cause
you
to
stop
worshiping
Yahweh
our
God,
who
rescued
your
ancestors
from
being
slaves
in
Egypt.
\VS{11}When
they
are
executed,
all
the Israeli
people
will
hear
{\ADD{
what
happened}},
and
they
will
become
afraid,
and
none
of
them
will
do
such
an
evil
thing
again.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“hen
you
are
living
in
one
of
the
towns
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you,
you
may
hear
\VS{13}that
some
worthless
people
there
among
you [IDM]
are
deceiving
the
people
of
their
town,
saying, ‘Let’s
go
and
worship
other
gods,’
but
they
are
gods
that
you
have
never
heard
about
before.
\VS{14}Investigate
it
thoroughly/carefully.
If
{\ADD{
you
find
out
that}}
it
is
true
that
such
a
disgraceful
thing
has
happened,
\VS{15}kill
all
the
people
in
that
town.
And
kill
all
their
livestock,
too.
Destroy
the
town
completely.
\VS{16}Gather
all
the
possessions
that
belonged
to
the
people
who
lived
there
and
pile
them
up
in
the
city
plaza.
Then
burn
the
town
and
everything
in
it,
as
though
it
were
an
offering
to
Yahweh
that
would
be
completely
burned
{\ADD{
on
the
altar}}.
The
ruins/ashes
must
stay
there
forever;
the
town
must
never
be
rebuilt.
\VS{17}None
of
you Israelis
must
take
for
yourselves [IDM]
anything
that
Yahweh
has
said
must
be
destroyed.
But
if
you
do
what
I
say,
Yahweh
will
stop
being
angry
with
you,
and
he
will
act mercifully
toward
you.
And
he
will
cause
you
to
have
many
children/descendants,
which
is
what
he
promised
our
ancestors
that
he
would
do.
\VS{18}Yahweh
our
God
will
do
all
those
things
if
you
do
what
he
is
telling
you
to
do,
and
if
you
obey
all
the
commandments
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today
and
do
what
Yahweh
says
is
right
{\ADD{
for
you
to
do}}.”

\par }\Chap{14}{\SH Creatures that were forbidden to be eaten
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“We
are
people
who
belong
to
Yahweh
our
God.
So,
when
people
die,
do
not
show
that
you
are
grieving
by gashing/cutting
yourselves
or
by
shaving
the
hair
on
your
foreheads
{\ADD{
like
the
other people-groups
do}}.
\VS{2}We
belong
to
Yahweh
alone.
Yahweh
chose
us
from
all
the
other people-groups
on
the
earth
to
be
his
special
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“o
not
eat
anything
that
{\ADD{
Yahweh}}
detests.
\VS{4}The
animals
{\ADD{
whose
meat}}
you
are
permitted
to
eat
are
cattle,
sheep,
goats,
\VS{5}deer,
gazelles,
wild
goats, antelopes,
and
mountain
sheep.
\VS{6}Those
are
animals
that
have
split
hoofs
and
that
also ◄chew
their cuds/regurgitate
their
food
{\ADD{
from
their
stomachs}}
to
chew
it
again►.
\VS{7}But
there
are
other
animals
that
chew
their cuds
that
you
must
not
eat.
Those
are
camels, rabbits,
and
rock badgers.
They
chew
their cuds,
but
their
hooves
are
not
split.
So
they
are
not
acceptable
for
you
to
eat.
\VS{8}Do
not
eat pigs.
They
are
unacceptable
for
you
to
eat;
their
hooves
are
split,
but
they
do
not
chew
cud.
Do
not
eat
the
meat
of
those
animals;
do
not
even
touch
their
dead
bodies.
\VS{9}You
are
permitted
to
eat
any
fish
that
has
scales
and
fins.
\VS{10}But
anything
else
{\ADD{
that
lives
in
the
water}}
that
does
not
have
scales
and
fins,
you
must
not
eat,
because
{\ADD{
if
you
eat
them}},
you
will
become
unacceptable
{\ADD{
to
Yahweh}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“ou
are
permitted
to
eat
the
flesh
of
any
bird
that
is
acceptable
{\ADD{
to
Yahweh}}.
\VS{12}But
eagles,
vultures,
black
vultures,
\VS{13}buzzards,
all
kinds
of kites,
\VS{14}all
kinds
of crows,
\VS{15}ostriches, seagulls,
\VS{16}owls,
hawks, falcons,
\VS{17}pelicans,
vultures
that
eat
dead
animals, cormorants,
\VS{18}storks, herons, hoopoes,
and
bats,
you
must
not
eat.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“ll
insects
with
wings
{\ADD{
and
which
walk
on
the
ground}}
are
unacceptable
{\ADD{
to
Yahweh}};
do
not
eat
them.
\VS{20}But
other
insects
with
wings
{\ADD{
and
which hop
along
the
ground}}
are
acceptable
to
eat.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“o
not
eat
any
animal
that
has
died naturally,
{\ADD{
because
its
blood
has
not
been
drained
out}}.
You
may
allow
foreigners
who
live
among
you
to
eat
those
things
or
you
may
sell
them
to
other
foreigners.
But
you
belong
to
Yahweh
our
God;
{\ADD{
and
those
who
belong
to
him
are
not
permitted
to
eat
the
meat
of
animals
whose
blood
has
not
been
drained
out}}.
\par }{\PP “ou
must
not
cook
a
young
sheep
or
goat
in
its
mother’s
milk.”
\par }{\SH Giving
tithes
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“Once
each
year
you
must
set
apart ◄a
tithe/10 percent►
of
all
the
crops
that
are
produced/harvested
in
your
fields.
\VS{23}Take
those
things
to
the
place
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
choose
{\ADD{
for
you
to
worship
him}}.
There
eat
the
tithes
of
your
grain,
your
wine,
your
{\ADD{
olive}}
oil,
and
the
meat
of
the
firstborn
male
animals
of
your
cattle
and
your
sheep.
Do
this
in
order
that
you
may
learn
to
always
revere
Yahweh,
{\ADD{
the
one
who
has
blessed
you
by
giving
you
these
things}}.
\VS{24}If
the
place
that
Yahweh
has
chosen
{\ADD{
for
you
to
worship
him}}
is
very
far
from
your
home,
with
the
result
that
you
are
not
able
to
take
there
the
tithes
{\ADD{
of
your
crops}}
with
which
Yahweh
has
blessed
you,
do
this:
\VS{25}Sell [IDM]
the
tithes
of
your
crops,
wrap
the
money
carefully
{\ADD{
in
a
cloth}},
and
take
it
with
you
to
the
place
of
worship
that
Yahweh
has
chosen.
\VS{26}There,
{\ADD{
with
that
money}},
you
may
buy
whatever
you
want
to—beef
or
lamb
or
wine
or fermented
drinks.
And
there,
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh,
you
and
your
families
should
eat
{\ADD{
and
drink}}
those
things
and
be
happy.
\VS{27}But
be
sure
to
not
neglect/forget
{\ADD{
to
help}}
the
descendants
of
Levi
who
live
in
your
towns,
because
they
will
not
own
any
land.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“t
the
end
of
every
three
years,
bring
a
tithe
of
all
your
crops
that
have
been
produced/harvested
in
that
year
and
store
it
in
your
towns.
\VS{29}That
food
is
for
the
descendants
of
Levi,
because
they
do
not
have
their
own
land,
and
for
foreigners
{\ADD{
who
live
among
you}},
and
for
orphans
and
widows
who
live
in
your
towns.
They
are
permitted
to
come
{\ADD{
to
where
the
food
is
stored}}
and
take
what
they
need.
Do
that
in
order
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
bless
you
in
everything
that
you
do.”

\par }\Chap{15}{\SH The year for canceling debts
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“At
the
end
of
every
seven
years,
you
must ◄cancel
all
debts/tell
people
who owe
you
money
that
they
do
not
need
to
pay
it
back►.
\VS{2}Do
it
like
this:
Each
of
you
who
has
lent
money
to
a
fellow Israeli
must cancel
that
debt.
You
must
not insist
that
he
pay
it
back.
You
must
do
that
because
Yahweh
has
declared
that
the
debts
must
be
canceled
{\ADD{
every
seven
years}}.
\VS{3}{\ADD{
During
that
year}}
you
may
require
foreigners
{\ADD{
who
live
among
you}}
to
pay
what
they owe
you,
but
you
must
not
try
to
require
that
any
fellow Israeli
pay
you
what
he
owes
you.
\VS{4-5}Yahweh
our
God
will
bless
you
in
the
land
that
he
is
giving
to
you.
If
you
obey
Yahweh
our
God
and
obey
all
the
commandments
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today,
there
will
not
be
any
poor
people
among
you.
\VS{6}Yahweh
our
God
will
bless
you
like
he
has
promised
to
do,
and
you
will
{\ADD{
be
able
to}}
lend
money
to
people
of
other people-groups,
but
you
will
not
{\ADD{
need
to}}
borrow
from
any
of
them.
You
will
control
{\ADD{
the finances
of}}
many people-groups,
but
they
will
not
control
your
{\ADD{finances}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“n
the
towns
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you,
if
there
are
any Israelis
who
are
poor,
do
not
be
selfish [IDM]
and
refuse [IDM]
to
help
them.
\VS{8}Instead,
be
generous [IDM]
and
lend
to
them
the
money
that
they
need.
\VS{9}Be
sure
that
you
do
not
say
to
yourself, ‘The
year
when
debts
will
be
canceled
is
near,
{\ADD{
so
I
do
not
want
to
lend
anyone
any
money
now,
because
he
will
not
need
to
pay
it
back
when
that
year
comes}}.’
It
would
be
evil
to
even
think
that.
If
you
act
in
an unfriendly
way
toward
a
needy
fellow Israeli,
and
give
him
nothing,
he
will
cry
out
to
Yahweh
about
you,
and
{\ADD{
Yahweh
will
say
that}}
you
have
sinned
{\ADD{
by
not
helping
that
person}}.
\VS{10}Give
freely
to
poor
people
and
give
generously [IDM].
\VS{11}If
you
do
that,
Yahweh
will
bless
you
in
everything
that
you
do.
There
will
always
be
some
poor
people
in
your
land,
so
I
command
you
to
give
generously
to
poor [DOU]
people.”
\par }{\SH Freeing
slaves
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“If
any
of
your
fellow Israeli
men
or
women
sell
themselves
to
one
of
you
{\ADD{
to
become
your
slave}},
you
must
free
them
after
they
have
worked
for
you
for
six
years.
When
the
seventh
year
comes,
you
must
free
them.
\VS{13}When
you
free
them,
do
not
allow
them
to
go ◄empty-handed/without
giving
them
anything►.
\VS{14}Give
to
them
generously
from
the
things
with
which
Yahweh
has
blessed
you—sheep,
grain,
and
wine.
\VS{15}Do
not
forget
that
your
ancestors
were
once
slaves
in
Egypt,
and
Yahweh
our
God
freed
them.
That
is
the
reason
that
I
am
now
commanding
you
to
do
this.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ut
one
of
your
slaves
may
say, ‘I
do
not
want
to
leave
you.’
He
loves
you
and
your
family,
because
you
have
treated
him
well.
\VS{17}If
he
says
that,
take
him
to
the
door
of
your
house
and,
{\ADD{
while
he
stands
against
the
doorway}},
pierce
one
of
his
earlobes
with ◄an
awl/a
sharp pointed
tool►.
That
will indicate
that
he
will
be
your
slave
for
the
rest
of
his
life.
Do
the
same
thing
to
any
female
slave
{\ADD{
who
does
not
want
to
leave
you}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“o
not
complain
when
you
are
required
to
free
your
slaves.
{\ADD{
Keep
in
mind
that}}
they
served
you
for
six
years,
and
you
paid
them
only
half
as
much
as
you
pay
the
servants
that
you
hire.
{\ADD{
If
you
free
them,}}
Yahweh
our
God
will
bless
you
in
everything
that
you
do.”
\par }{\SH Rules
about
sacrificing
firstborn
animals
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“◄Set
aside
for/Dedicate
to►
Yahweh
our
God
the
firstborn
male
animals
from
your
cattle
and
sheep.
Do
not
force
them
to
do
any
work
for
you,
and
do
not ◄shear/cut
off►
the
wool
{\ADD{
of
the
firstborn
animals
to
sell
the
wool}}.
\VS{20}You
and
your
family
may
{\ADD{
kill
them
and}}
eat
their
meat
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh
at
the
place
that
Yahweh
chooses
{\ADD{
for
you
to
worship
him}}.
\VS{21}But
if
the
animals
have
any defects,
if
they
are
lame
or
blind,
or
if
they
have
any
other
serious
defect,
you
must
not
sacrifice
them
to
Yahweh
our
God.
\VS{22}You
may
{\ADD{
kill
and}}
eat
{\ADD{
the
meat
of
those
animals}}
at
your
homes.
Those
who
have
done
things
that
cause
them
to
become
unacceptable
to
God
and
those
who
have
not
done
such
things
are
permitted
to
eat
that
meat,
just
like
anyone
is
permitted
to
eat
the
meat
of
a
deer
or
an
antelope.
\VS{23}But
you
must
not
eat
any
of
the
blood;
you
must
drain
all
the
blood
on
the
ground
{\ADD{
when
you
kill
those
animals}}.”

\par }\Chap{16}{\SH The Passover Festival
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“{\ADD{
Each
year}}
honor
Yahweh
our
God
by
celebrating
the
Passover
{\ADD{
Festival}}
in
the
month
of
Abib
{\ADD{
in
early
spring}}.
It
was
on
a
night
in
that
month
that
Yahweh
rescued
your
ancestors
from
Egypt.
\VS{2}{\ADD{
In
order
to
celebrate
that
festival}},
go
to
the
place
that
Yahweh
will
choose
{\ADD{
for
you
to
worship
him}},
and
offer
{\ADD{
there
one
young
animal}}
from
your
cattle
or
your
sheep
to
be
the
Passover
sacrifice,
to
honor
Yahweh [MTY].
\VS{3}{\ADD{
When
you
eat
the
Passover
meal}},
the
bread
that
you
eat
must
not
have
yeast
in
it.
You
must
eat
this
kind
of
bread,
which
will
be
called
the
bread
of
suffering/misery,
for
seven
days.
This
is
to
help
you
to
remember
all
during
the
time
that
you
are
alive
that
when
your
ancestors
left
Egypt,
{\ADD{
where
they
were
suffering
because
they
were
slaves}},
they
left
very
quickly.
{\ADD{
They
did
not
put
in
yeast
and
wait
for
the
dough
to
swell
up}}.
\VS{4}{\ADD{
During
that
festival}},
you
must
not
have
any
yeast
in
any
house
in
your
land
for
seven
days.
Furthermore,
the
meat
{\ADD{
of
the
animals}}
that
you
sacrifice
on
the
evening
of
the
first
day
{\ADD{
of
the
Passover
Festival
must
be
eaten
during
that
night}};
do
not
allow
any
of
it
to
remain
until
the
next
day.
\par }{\PP \VS{5-6}“o
honor
Yahweh
our
God,
you
must
offer
the
Passover
sacrifice
only
at
the
place
that
he
chooses
for
you
{\ADD{
to
worship
him}};
do
not
offer
that
sacrifice
in
any
other
town
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
is
giving
to
you.
Offer
that
sacrifice
when
the
sun
is
setting,
at
the
same
time
of
day
that
your
ancestors
{\ADD{
started
to}}
leave
Egypt.
\VS{7}Boil
{\ADD{
the
meat}}
and
eat
it
at
the
place
{\ADD{
of
worship}}
that
Yahweh
our
God
chooses.
The
next
morning,
you
may
return
to
your
tents.
\VS{8}Each
day
for
six
days
the
bread
that
you
eat
must
have
no
yeast
in
it.
On
the
seventh
day,
you
must
all
gather
to
worship
Yahweh
our
God.
{\ADD{
It
will
be
a
day
of
rest}};
you
must
not
do
any
work
on
that
day.”
\par }{\SH The
festival
for
harvesting
grain
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“{\ADD{
Each
year}},
from
the
day
that
you
start
to
harvest
your
grain,
count
seven
weeks.
\VS{10}Then,
to
honor
Yahweh
our
God,
celebrate
the
Harvest
Festival.
Do
that
by
bringing
to
him
an
offering
{\ADD{
of
grain}}.
Yahweh
has
blessed
you
{\ADD{
by
causing
it
to
grow
in
your
fields
during
that
year}}.
If
you
had
a
big
harvest,
bring
a
big
offering.
If
you
had
a
small
harvest,
bring
a
small
offering.
\VS{11}{\ADD{
Each
married
couple}}
should
be
joyful
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh.
Their
children,
their
servants,
the
descendants
of
Levi
{\ADD{
who
are
in
that
town}},
and
the
foreigners,
orphans,
and
widows
{\ADD{
who
are
living
among
you}},
should
also
be
joyful.
Bring
those
offerings
to
the
place
of
worship
that
Yahweh
will
choose.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}{\ADD{“hen
you
celebrate
these
festivals}}
by
obeying
these
commands,
remember
that
your
ancestors
were
previously
slaves
in
Egypt.”
\par }{\SH The
Festival
of
Living
in
Shelters
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“{\ADD{
Each
year}},
after
you
have
threshed
all
your
grain
and
pressed
{\ADD{
the
juice
from}}
all
your
grapes,
you
must
celebrate
the
Festival
of
{\ADD{
Living
in
Temporary}}
Shelters
for
seven
days.
\VS{14}{\ADD{
Each
married
couple}}
along
with
their
children,
their
servants,
the
descendants
of
Levi
{\ADD{
who
are
in
that
town}},
and
the
foreigners,
orphans,
and
widows
{\ADD{
who
are
living
among
you}},
should
be
joyful
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh.
\VS{15}Honor
Yahweh
our
God
by
celebrating
this
festival
for
seven
days
in
the
place
that
Yahweh
chooses
{\ADD{
for
you
to
worship
him}}.
You
should
all
be
joyful,
because
Yahweh
will
have
blessed
your
harvest
and
all
the
other
work
that
you
have
done.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“o,
each
year
all
of
you Israeli
men
must
gather
{\ADD{
with
your
families}}
to
worship
Yahweh
our
God
at
the
place
that
he
will
choose,
{\ADD{
to
celebrate
three
festivals}}:
The
Passover
Festival,
the
Harvest
Festival,
and
the
Festival
of
Living
in
Temporary
Shelters.
Each
of
you
men
must
bring [LIT]
an
offering
{\ADD{
for
Yahweh
to
these
festivals}}
\VS{17}in
proportion
to
the
blessings
that
Yahweh
has
given
you
{\ADD{
during
that
year}}.”
\par }{\SH Judging
people
fairly
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“Appoint
judges
and
other
officials
throughout
your
tribes,
in
all
the
towns
{\ADD{
in
the
land}}
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you.
They
must
judge
people
fairly/justly.
\VS{19}They
must
not
judge
unjustly.
They
must
not
favor
one
person
more
than
another.
The
judges
must
not
accept
bribes,
because
if
a
judge
accepts
a
bribe,
even
if
he
is
wise
and
honest,
it
will
be
very
difficult
for
him
to
judge
fairly [IDM];
{\ADD{
he
will
do
what
the
person
who
gave
him
the
bribe
wants
him
to
do
and
declare
that}}
the
righteous/innocent
people
{\ADD{
must
be
punished}}.
\VS{20}You
must
be
completely
fair
and
just [DOU],
in
order
that
you
will
enter
and
occupy
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you.”
\par }{\SH Warning
against
worshiping
other
gods
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“When
you
make
an
altar
to
worship
Yahweh
our
God,
do
not
put
next
to
it
any
wooden
statue
{\ADD{
that represents}}
the
goddess
Asherah.
\VS{22}And
do
not
set
up
any
{\ADD{
stone}}
pillar
{\ADD{
to
worship
any
idol,
because}}
Yahweh
hates
them.”

\par }\Chap{17}{\SH Warning against sacrificing defective animals
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Do
not
sacrifice
to
Yahweh
our
God
any
cattle
or
sheep
or
goats
that
have
any defects,
because
Yahweh
hates
that
kind
of
gift.”
\par }{\SH Punishment
for
idolatry
\par }{\PP \VS{2}“When
you
are
living
in
any
of
the
towns
{\ADD{
in
the
land}}
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you,
suppose
you
hear
that
there
is
some
man
or
woman
who
sins
by disobeying
the
agreement
that
Yahweh
has
made
with
you.
\VS{3}Suppose
someone
tells
you
that
that
person
has
worshiped
and
served
other
gods,
or
the
sun,
or
the
moon,
or
the
stars.
\VS{4}If
you
hear
that
some
person
has
been
doing
that,
you
must
investigate
it
thoroughly.
If
{\ADD{
you
find
out
that}}
it
is
true
that
this
detestable
thing
has
happened
in
Israel,
\VS{5}you
must
take
outside
the
town
the
man
or
woman
who
has
done
it.
Then
you
must
kill
that
person
by
throwing
stones
at
him
or
her.
\VS{6}But
you
are
allowed
to
execute
such
people
only
if
at
least
two
witnesses
testify
that
they
saw
them
{\ADD{
doing
that}}.
They
must
not
be
executed
if
there
is
only
one
witness.
\VS{7}The ◄witnesses/ones
who
saw
them
doing
it►
must
be
the
first
ones
to
throw
stones
at
them.
Then
the
other
people [MTY]
{\ADD{
should
throw
stones
at
them}}.
By
doing
that,
you
will
get
rid
of
this
evil
practice
among
you.”
\par }{\SH Judging
difficult
cases
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“Sometimes
it
will
be
very
difficult
for
a
judge
to
decide
what
really
happened.
He
might
be
trying
to
decide
whether,
when
someone
injured
or
killed
another
person,
he
did
it
accidentally
or deliberately.
Or
he
might
be
trying
to
decide
if
some
person
is suing
another
person unfairly.
If
in
some
town
it
is
very
difficult
to
know
what
really
happened,
with
the
result
that
the
judge
cannot
decide
it,
you
should
go
to
the
place
that
Yahweh
our
God
has
chosen
for
you
{\ADD{
to
worship
him}}.
\VS{9}There
you
should
present
the
case
to
the
descendants
of
Levi
who
are
the
priests,
and
to
the
judge
who
is
serving
at
that
time,
and
they
should
decide
what
should
be
done.
\VS{10}After
they
make
their
decision,
you
must
do
what
they
tell
you
to
do.
\VS{11}Accept
what
they
have
decided,
and
do
what
they
say
that
you
should
do.
Do
not
try
to
change
in
any
way
what
they
have
decided [IDM].
\VS{12}You
must
execute
anyone
who
proudly/arrogantly disobeys
the
judge
or
the
priest
who
stands
there
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh
{\ADD{
and
decides
what
should
be
done}}.
By
doing
that,
you
will
get
rid
of
evil
practices
among
you.
\VS{13}Then
{\ADD{
after
that
person
is
executed}},
all
the
people
will
hear
about
it,
and
they
will
be
afraid,
and
none
of
them
will
act
that
way
anymore.”
\par }{\SH Proper
behavior
for
a
king
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“{\ADD{
I
know
that}}
after
you
have
occupied
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you,
and
you
are
living
there,
you
will
say, ‘We
should
have
a
king
to
rule
over
us,
like
the
kings
that
other
nations
around
us
have.’
\VS{15}Yahweh
our
God
will
permit
you
to
have
a
king,
but
be
sure
that
you
appoint
someone
whom
he
has
chosen.
That
man
must
be
an Israeli;
you
must
not
appoint
someone
who
is
a
foreigner
to
be
your
king.
\VS{16}{\ADD{
After
he
becomes
the
king}},
he
should
not
acquire
a
large
number
of
horses
for
himself.
He
should
not
send
people
to
Egypt
to
buy
horses
for
him,
because
Yahweh
said
to
you, ‘Never
return
to
Egypt
{\ADD{
for anything’}}!
\VS{17}And
he
must
not
have
a
lot
of
wives,
because
if
he
did
that,
they
would
turn
him [SYN]
away
from
{\ADD{
worshiping
only}}
Yahweh.
And
he
must
not
acquire
a
lot
of
silver
and
gold.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“hen
he
becomes
your
king,
he
must
{\ADD{
appoint
someone
to}}
copy
these
laws.
He
must
copy
them
from
the
scroll
that
is
kept
by
the
priests
who
are
descended
from
Levi.
\VS{19}He
must
keep
this
new
scroll
near
him
and
read
from
it
every
day
of
his
life,
in
order
that
he
may
learn
to
revere
Yahweh,
and
to
faithfully
obey [DOU]
all
the
rules
and
regulations
{\ADD{
that
are
written}}
in
these
laws.
\VS{20}If
he
does
that,
he [SYN]
will
not
think
that
he
is ◄better/more
important►
than [IDM]
his
fellow Israelis,
and
he
will
completely
obey [LIT]
Yahweh’s
commands.
As
a
result,
he
and
his
descendants
will
rule
as
kings
in
Israel
for
many
years.”

\par }\Chap{18}{\SH What the priests were to receive
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“The
priests,
who
are
all
from
the
tribe
of
Levi,
will
not
receive
any
land
in
Israel.
Instead,
they
will
receive
some
of
the
food
that
other
people
offer
to
be
burned
{\ADD{
on
the
altar
to
be
sacrificed}}
to
Yahweh
and
some
of
the
other
sacrifices
that
will
be
offered
to
Yahweh.
\VS{2}They
will
not
be
allotted
any
land
like
the
other
tribes
will
be.
What
they
will
receive
is
the
work/privilege
of
being
Yahweh’s
{\ADD{
priests}},
which
is
what
he
said
that
they
should
have.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“hen
the
people
bring
an
ox
or
a
sheep
to
be
sacrificed,
they
must
give
to
the
priests
the
shoulder,
the
cheeks/jaws,
and
the
stomach
of
those
animals.
\VS{4}You
must
also
give
to
them
the
first
part
of
the
grain
that
you
{\ADD{
harvest}},
and
the
first
part
of
the
wine
{\ADD{
that
you
make}},
and
the
first
part
of
the
{\ADD{
olive}}
oil
{\ADD{
that
you
make}},
and
the
first
part
of
the
wool
that
you
shear
from
your
sheep.
\VS{5}You
must
do
this
because
Yahweh
our
God
has
chosen
the
tribe
of
Levi
from
all
of
your
tribes,
in
order
that
men
{\ADD{
from
that
tribe}}
would
always
be
the
priests
who
would
serve
him.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“f
any
man
from
the
tribe
of
Levi
{\ADD{
who
has
been
living}}
in
one
of
the
towns
in
Israel
wants
to
come
from
there
to
the
place
of
worship
that
Yahweh
has
chosen,
{\ADD{
and
start
living
there}},
\VS{7}he
is
permitted
to
serve
Yahweh
there
as
a
priest,
just
like
the
other
men
from
the
tribe
of
Levi
who
have
been
serving
there.
\VS{8}He
must
be
given
the
same
amount
of
food
{\ADD{
that
the
other
priests
receive}}.
He
is
permitted
to
keep
the
money
{\ADD{
that
his
relatives
give
him}}
for
selling
some
of
their
possessions.
\par }{\SH A
warning
about
pagan
practices
\par }{\PP \VS{9}When
you
enter
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
you,
you
must
not
imitate
the
disgusting
things
that
the people-groups
who
are
there
now
do.
\VS{10}You
must
not
sacrifice
any
of
your
children
by
burning
them
{\ADD{
on
your
altars}}.
Do
not
practice ◄divination/using
supernatural
power
to
reveal
{\ADD{
what
will
happen
in}}
the
future►.
Do
not
do/practice ◄soothsaying/magic
to
find
out
what
will
happen
in
the
future►.
Do
not ◄interpret
omens/say
that
because
of
something
that
you
have
seen
you
know
what
will
happen►.
Do
not
practice
sorcery/witchcraft.
Do
not
practice ◄putting
spells
on
people/saying
things
to
cause
bad
things
to
happen
to
others►.
\VS{11}Do
not
try
to
talk
with
spirits
of
dead
people.
Do
not
do/practice magic.
\VS{12}Yahweh
hates
people
who
do
any
of
those
disgusting
things.
And
as
you
advance
through
that
land,
he
is
going
to
expel
the people-groups
because
they
do/practice
those
disgusting
things.
\VS{13}But
you
must
always
avoid
doing
any
of
those
things.
\par }{\SH The
promise
to
send
a
prophet
like
Moses
\par }{\PP \VS{14}The people-groups
that
you
are
about
to
expel
{\ADD{
from
the
land
that
you
will
occupy}} ◄consult/seek
advice
from►
soothsayers
and
those
who
practice
divination.
But
as
for
you,
Yahweh
our
God
does
not
allow
you
to
do
that.
\VS{15}{\ADD{
Some
day}}
he
will
send
from
among
you
a
prophet
like
me.
{\ADD{
He
is
the
one
who
will
tell
you
what
will
happen
in
the
future}},
and
he
is
the
one
whom
you
must
heed.
\VS{16}On
the
day
that
your
ancestors
were
gathered
at
the
bottom
of
Sinai
Mountain,
they
pleaded
with
me
saying, ‘We
do
not
want
Yahweh
to
speak [MTY]
to
us
again,
and
we
do
not
want
to
see
this
huge
fire
{\ADD{
that
is
burning
on
the
mountain}}!’
{\ADD{
Your
ancestors
said
that
because
they
were
afraid}}
that
they
would
die
{\ADD{
if
Yahweh
spoke
to
them
again}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Then
Yahweh
said
to
me, ‘What
they
have
said
is
true/wise.
\VS{18}So
I
will
send
from
among
them
a
prophet
who
will
be
like
you.
I
will
tell
him
what
to
say,
and
then
he
will
tell
people
everything
that
I
tell
him
to
say.
\VS{19}He
will
speak
for
me.
And
I
will
punish
anyone
who
does
not
heed
what
he
says.
\VS{20}But
if
any
other
{\ADD{
person
says
that
he
is
a}}
prophet
{\ADD{
and}}
dares
to
speak
a
message
which
he
falsely
says
comes
from
me
but
which
I
did
not
tell
him
to
speak,
or
if
anyone
who
speaks
a
message
that
he
says
other
gods [MTY]
have
revealed
to
him,
he
must
be
executed
{\ADD{
for
doing
that}}.’
\par }{\PP \VS{21}But
if
you
say
to
yourself, ‘How
can
we
know
if
a
message
{\ADD{
that
someone
tells
us}}
does
not
come
from
Yahweh?’
\VS{22}{\ADD{
The
answer
is
that}}
when
someone
speaks
a
message
{\ADD{
about
what
will
happen
in
the
future}},
a
message
that
he
says
was
revealed
by
Yahweh,
if
what
he
says
does
not
happen,
{\ADD{
you
will
know
that}}
the
message
did
not
come
from
Yahweh.
That
person
has wrongly
claimed
that
it
was
revealed
to
him
by
Yahweh.
So
you
do
not
need
to
be
afraid
of
{\ADD{
anything
that}}
he
{\ADD{
says}}.”

\par }\Chap{19}{\SH The cities of refuge
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
Yahweh
our
God
has
gotten
rid
of
the people-groups
from
the
land
that
he
is
giving
to
you,
and
after
you
have
expelled
them
from
their
cities
and
you
start
to
live
in
their
houses,
\VS{2-3}you
must
divide
into
three
parts
the
land
that
he
is
giving
to
you.
Then
choose
a
city
in
each
part.
You
must
make
good
roads
{\ADD{
in
order
that
people
can
get
to
those
cities
easily}}.
Someone
who
kills
another
person
can
escape
to
one
of
those
cities
{\ADD{
to
be
safe/protected}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“his
is
the
rule
about
someone
who
has
killed
another
person.
If
someone ◄accidentally/without
planning
to►
kills
another
person
who
was
not
his
enemy,
he
may
escape
to
one
of
those
cities
and
be
safe/protected
there.
\VS{5}For
example,
if
two
men
go
into
the
forest
to
cut
some
wood,
if
the
axe
head
comes
off
the
handle
while
one
of
them
is
chopping
down
a
tree
and
the
axe
head
strikes
and
kills
the
other
man,
the
man
{\ADD{
who
was
using
the
axe}}
will
be
allowed
to
run
to
one
of
those
cities
and
be
safe
there,
{\ADD{
because
the
people
of
that
city
will
protect
him}}.
\VS{6}Because
he
accidentally
killed
someone,
and
because
the
man
was
not
his
enemy,
he
can
try
to
run
to
one
of
those
cities.
If
there
were
only
one
city,
it
may
be
a
long
distance
to
that
city.
Then
if
the
relative
of
the
man
who
was
killed [MTY],
the
man
who
is supposed/expected
to
get
revenge,
is
very
angry,
he
may
be
able
to
catch
the
other
person
before
he
arrives
at
that
city.
\VS{7}{\ADD{
To
prevent
that
from happening}},
you
must
choose
three
cities,
not
only
one,
{\ADD{
in
order
that
someone
can
get
to
one
of
those
cities
quickly}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{8-9}“f
you
do
everything
that
I
am
today
commanding
you
to
do,
and
if
you
love
Yahweh
our
God,
and
if
you
conduct
your
lives
as
he
wants
you
to
do,
Yahweh
our
God
will
give
you
much
more
land
than
you
will
have
when
you
first
occupy
it,
which
is
what
he
promised
to
do.
He
will
give
you
all
the
land
which
he
promised
your
ancestors
that
he
would
give
to
you.
When
he
gives
you
that
land,
you
must
select
three
more
cities
{\ADD{
to
which
people
may
escape}}.
\VS{10}Do
this
in
order
that
people
who ◄are
innocent/have
killed
someone
else
without
planning
to►
will
not
die,
and
you
will
not
be
guilty
for
{\ADD{allowing}}
them
to
be
executed,
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
is
giving
to
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“ut
suppose
someone
hates
his
enemy
and
hides
and
waits
for
that
person
{\ADD{
to
come
along
the
road}}.
Then
{\ADD{
when
he
passes
by,
suddenly}}
he
attacks
him
and
murders
him.
If
the attacker
flees
to
one
of
those
cities
{\ADD{
to
be
protected
there}},
\VS{12}the
elders
of
the
city
{\ADD{
where
the
murdered
man
lived
must
not
protect
the attacker.
They}}.
must
send
someone
to
the
city
to
which
the
other
man
escaped,
and
bring
him
to [MTY]
the
relative
who
is supposed/expected
to
get
revenge,
so
that
he
may
execute
that
man.
\VS{13}You
must
not
pity
those
who
murder
other
people!
Instead,
you
must
execute
them,
in
order
that
the
people
in
the
land
of
Israel
will
not
murder [MTY]
innocent
people,
and
in
order
that
things
will
go
well
for
you.”
\par }{\SH Warning
against
moving
boundaries
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“{\ADD{
When
you
are
living}}
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you,
do
not
move
the markers
of
your
neighbors’
property
boundaries
which
were
placed
there
long
ago.”
\par }{\SH Warnings
about
witnesses
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“f
someone
is
accused
of
committing
a
crime,
one ◄witness/person
who
says, ‘I
saw
him
do it’►
is
not
enough.
There
must
be
at
least
two ◄witnesses/people
who
say, ‘We
saw
him
do it’►.
{\ADD{
If
there
is
only
one
witness}},
the
judge
must
not
believe
that
what
he
says
is
true.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“f
someone
tries
to
do
wrong
to
another
person
by
falsely
accusing
him,
\VS{17}both
of
them
must
go
to
the
place
where
the
people
worship,
to
{\ADD{
talk
to}}
the
priests
and
judges
who
are
serving
at
that
time.
\VS{18}The
judges
must ◄investigate
the
case
carefully/try
to
find
out
which
one
is
telling
the
truth►.
If
{\ADD{
the
judges
determine
that}}
one
of
them
has
accused
the
other
falsely,
\VS{19}that
person
must
be
punished
in
the
same
way
that
the
other
one
would
have
been
punished
{\ADD{
if
the
judge
decided
that
he ◄was
guilty/had
done
what
is
wrong►}}.
By
punishing
such
people,
you
will
get
rid
of
this
evil
practice
among
you.
\VS{20}And/Because
when
that
person
is
punished,
everyone
will
hear
what
has
happened,
and
they
will
be
afraid,
and
no
one
will
dare
to
act
that
way
anymore.
\VS{21}You
must
not
pity
people
who
are
punished
like
that.
The
rule
should
be
that
a
person
who
has
murdered
someone
else
must
be
executed;
one
of
a
person’s
eyes
must
be
gouged
out
if
he
has
gouged
out
someone
else’s
eye,
one
tooth
of
a
person
who
has knocked
out
the
tooth
of
another
person
must
be knocked
out;
one
hand
of
a
person
who
has
cut
off
the
hand
of
another
person
must
likewise
be
cut
off;
one
foot
of
a
person
who
has
cut
off
the
foot
of
another
person
must
also
be
cut
off.”

\par }\Chap{20}{\SH Rules concerning fighting wars
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“When
your
{\ADD{
soldiers}}
go
to
fight
your
enemies,
and
you
see
that
they
have
many
horses
and
chariots
and
that
their
army
is
much
bigger
than
yours,
do
not
be
afraid
of
them,
because
Yahweh
our
God,
who
brought
your
{\ADD{
ancestors
safely}}
out
of
Egypt,
will
be
with
you.
\VS{2}When
you
are
ready
to
start
the
battle,
the Supreme
Priest
must
stand
in
front
of
the
troops.
\VS{3}He
must
say
to
them, ‘You Israeli
men,
listen
to
me!
Today
you
are
going
to
fight
against
your
enemies.
Do
not
be
timid
or
afraid [DOU]
or
tremble
or
panic [DOU],
\VS{4}because
Yahweh
our
God
will
go
with
you.
He
will
fight
your
enemies
for
you,
and
he
will
enable
you
to
defeat
them.’
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Then
the
army
officers
must
say
to
the
troops, ‘If
anyone
among
you
has
just
built
a
new
house [RHQ]
and
has
not
dedicated
it
{\ADD{
to
God}},
he
should
go
home
{\ADD{
and
dedicate
the
house}}.
If
he
does
not
do
that,
if
he
dies
in
the
battle,
someone
else
will
dedicate
the
house
{\ADD{
and
live
in
it}}.
\VS{6}If
anyone
among
you
has
planted
a
vineyard
and
has
not
yet
harvested
any
grapes
from
it [RHQ],
he
should
go
home.
If
he
{\ADD{
stays
here
and}}
dies
in
the
battle,
someone
else
will
{\ADD{
harvest
the
grapes
and}}
enjoy
{\ADD{
the
wine
made
from
them}}.
\VS{7}If
anyone
among
you
has
become
engaged
to
marry
a
woman
{\ADD{
but
has
not
married
her
yet}} [RHQ],
he
should
go
home.
If
{\ADD{
he
stays
here
and}}
dies
in
the
battle,
someone
else
will
marry
her.’
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“hen
the
officers
must
also
say, ‘If
anyone
among
you
is
afraid
or
timid [RHQ],
he
should
go
home,
in
order
that
he
does
not
cause
his
fellow
soldiers
to
also
stop
being
courageous.’
\VS{9}And
when
the
officers
have
finished
speaking
to
the
troops,
they
must
appoint
commanders
{\ADD{
to
lead
the
groups
of
soldiers}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“hen
you
come
near
a
city
{\ADD{
that
is
far
away}}
to
attack
it,
first
tell
the
people
there
that
if
they
surrender,
you
will
not
attack
them.
\VS{11}If
they
open
the
gates
of
the
city
and
surrender,
they
all
will
become
your
slaves
to
work
for
you.
\VS{12}But
if
they
refuse
to
{\ADD{
surrender}}
peacefully,
and
decide
instead
to
fight
against
you,
your
troops
must
surround
the
city
{\ADD{
and
break
through
the
walls}}.
\VS{13}Then,
when
Yahweh
our
God enables
you
to
capture [IDM]
the
city,
you
must
kill
all
the
men
in
the
city.
\VS{14}But
you
are
allowed
to
take
for
yourselves
the
women,
the
children,
the
livestock,
and
everything
else
{\ADD{
that
you
want
to
take}}
from
the
city.
You
will
be
allowed
to
enjoy
all
the
things
that
belonged
to
your
enemies;
it
is
Yahweh
our
God
who
has
given
those
things
to
you.
\VS{15}You
should
do
that
in
all
the
cities
that
are
far
from
the
land
in
which
you
will
settle.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ut
in
the
cities
that
are
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you,
you
must
kill
all
the
people
and
all
the
animals [LIT].
\VS{17}You
must
get
rid
of
them
completely.
Get
rid
of
the
Heth people-group,
the Amor people-group,
the
Canaan people-group,
the Periz people-group,
the Hiv people-group,
and
the
Jebus people-group;
that
is
what
Yahweh
our
God
commanded
you
to
do.
\VS{18}If
you
do
not
do
that,
they
will
teach
you
to
sin
against
Yahweh
our
God
and
do
the
disgusting
things
that
they
do
when
they
worship
their
gods.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“hen
you
surround
a
city
for
a
long
time,
trying
to
capture
it,
do
not
cut
down
the
fruit
trees
{\ADD{
outside
the
city}}.
You
are
allowed
to
eat
the
fruit
from
the
trees,
but
do
not
get
rid
of
the
trees,
because
they
certainly
are
not [RHQ]
your
enemies.
\VS{20}You
are
permitted
to
cut
down
the
other
trees
and
use
the
wood
to
make ladders
and
towers
to
enable
you
to
{\ADD{
go
over
the
walls
and}}
capture
the
city.”

\par }\Chap{21}{\SH When no one knows who murdered someone
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Suppose
someone
has
been
murdered
in
a
field
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you,
and
you
do
not
know
who
killed
that
person.
\VS{2}{\ADD{
If
that
happens}},
your
elders
and
judges
must
go
out
to
where
that
person’s
corpse
was
found
and
measure
the
distance
from
there
to
each
of
the
nearby
towns.
\VS{3}Then
the
elders
in
the
town
that
is
closest
to
where
the
corpse
was
found
must
select
a
young
cow
that
has
never
been
used
for
doing
work.
\VS{4}They
must
take
it
to
a
place
near
a
stream
where
the
ground
has
never
been
plowed
or
planted.
They
must
break
its
neck
there
in
that
valley.
\VS{5}The
priests
must
go
there
also,
because
Yahweh
our
God
has
chosen
them
from
the
tribe
of
Levi
to
serve
him
and
to
be
his
representatives [MTY]
when
they
bless
people.
And
he
has
also
chosen
them
to
settle
disputes
in
which
someone
has
been
injured.
\VS{6}The
elders
from
the
closest
town
must
wash
their
hands
over
the
young
cow
whose
neck
was
broken,
\VS{7}and
they
must
say, ‘We
did
not
murder
this
person [MTY],
and
we
did
not
see
who
did
it.
\VS{8}Yahweh,
forgive
us,
your Israeli
people
whom
you
rescued
{\ADD{
from
Egypt}}.
Do
not
consider ◄us
to
be
guilty/that
we
should
be
punished
because►
of murdering
someone
who ◄is
innocent/had
not
done
something
that
is
wrong►.
Instead,
forgive
us.’
\VS{9}By
doing
that,
you
will
be
doing
what
Yahweh
considers
to
be
right,
and
you
will
not
be
considered
to
be
guilty
for murdering
that
person.”
\par }{\SH The
rule
about
marrying
women
who
are
captured
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“hen
you
{\ADD{
soldiers}}
go
to
fight
against
your
enemies,
and
Yahweh
our
God enables
you
to
defeat
them [IDM],
and ◄they
become
your
prisoners/you
capture
them►,
\VS{11}one
of
you
may
see
among
them
a
beautiful
woman
that
he likes,
and
he
may
want
to
marry
her.
\VS{12}He
should
take
her
to
his
home,
and
there
she
must
shave
{\ADD{
all
the
hair
off}}
her
head
and
cut
her fingernails
{\ADD{
to signify
that
now
she
does
not
belong
to
her people-group
anymore,
but
instead
she
is
becoming
an Israeli}}.
\VS{13}She
must
take
off
the
clothes
that
she
was
wearing
when
she
was
captured,
{\ADD{
and
put
on Israeli
clothes}}.
She
must
stay
in
that
man’s
house
and
mourn
for
a
month
because
of
{\ADD{
leaving}}
her
parents.
After
that,
he
will
be
allowed
to
marry
her.
\VS{14}Later,
if
he
no
longer
is
pleased
with
her,
he
will
be
permitted
to
allow
her
to
leave
him.
But
because
she
was
forced
to
have
sex
with
him,
he
will
not
be
allowed
to
treat
her
like
a
slave
{\ADD{
and
sell
her
to
someone
else}}.”
\par }{\SH The
oldest
son’s
inheritance
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“uppose
that
a
man
has
two
wives,
but
he likes
one
of
them
and dislikes
the
other
one.
And
suppose
that
they
both
give
birth
to
sons,
and
the
oldest
son
is
the
child
of
the
woman
that
he
does
not
like.
\VS{16}On
the
day
when
that
man
decides
how
he
will
divide
his
possessions
for
his
sons
to
possess
{\ADD{
after
he
dies}},
he
must
not
favor
the
son
of
the
wife
that
he
loves
by
giving
him
{\ADD{
a
bigger
share,}}
the
share
that
the
older
son
should
receive.
\VS{17}He
must
give
to
the
older
son,
the
son
of
the
wife
whom
he
does
not
like,
twice
as
much
of
his
possessions.
That
son
is
his
firstborn
son,
and
he
must
be
given
the
share
that
he
should
receive
because
of
his
being
that
man’s
firstborn
son.”
\par }{\SH A
rebellious
son
\par }{\PP \VS{18}“uppose
there
is
a
boy
who
is
very
stubborn
and
always ◄rebelling
against/disobeying►
{\ADD{
his
parents}},
and
who
will
not
heed
what
they
say
to
him.
And
suppose
that
they
punish
him
but
he
still
does
not
pay
attention
to
what
they
tell
him [MTY].
\VS{19}If
that
happens,
his
parents
must
take
him
to
the ◄gate
of/central
meeting
place
in►
the
city
where
he
lives
and
have
him
stand
in
front
of
the
elders
of
the
city.
\VS{20}Then
the
parents
must
say
to
the
elders
of
that
city, ‘This
son
of
ours
is
stubborn
and
always
rebelling
against
us.
He
will
not
pay
attention
to
what
we
tell
him [MTY].
He
wastes
a
lot
of
money (OR,
eats
too
much
food)
and
gets
drunk.’
\VS{21}Then
all
the
elders
of
that
city
must
execute
him
by
throwing
stones
at
him.
By
doing
that,
you
will
get
rid
of
this
evil
practice
among
you.
And
everyone
in
Israel
will
hear
{\ADD{
about
what
happened}}
and
they
will
be
afraid
{\ADD{
to
do
what
he
did}}.”
\par }{\SH Burying
criminals
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“f
someone
is
executed
for
having
committed
a
crime
for
which
he
deserves
to
die,
and
you
hang
his
corpse
on
a
post,
\VS{23}you
must
not
allow
his
corpse
to
remain
there
all
night.
You
must
bury
it
on
the
day
that
he
died,
because
{\ADD{
God}}
has
cursed
anyone
whose
corpse
is
allowed
to
remain
on
a
post.
{\ADD{
You
must
bury
the
corpse
that
day}},
in
order
that
you
do
not
defile
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you.”

\par }\Chap{22}{\SH Various other laws
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“If
you
see
some Israeli’s
ox
or
sheep
that
has
strayed
away,
do
not
act
as
though
you
did
not
see
it.
Take
it
back
{\ADD{
to
its
owner}}.
\VS{2}But
if
the
owner
does
not
live
near
you,
or
if
you
do
not
know
who
the
owner
is,
take
the
animal
to
your
house.
{\ADD{
It
can
stay
with
you}}
until
the
owner
comes,
searching
for
it.
Then
you
must
give
the
animal
to
him.
\VS{3}You
must
do
the
same
thing
if
you
see
a
donkey,
or
a
piece
of
clothing,
or
anything
else
that
someone
has
lost.
Do
not
refuse
to
do
what
you
should
do.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}“nd
if
you
see
a
fellow Israeli’s
donkey
or
cow
that
has
fallen
down
on
the
road,
do
not
act
as
though
you
did
not
see
it.
Help
the
owner
to
lift
the
animal
up
{\ADD{
so
that
it
can
stand
on
its
feet
again}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“omen
must
not
wear
men’s
clothes,
and
men
must
not
wear
women’s
clothes.
Yahweh
our
God
hates
people
who
do
things
like
that.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“f
you
happen
to
find
a
bird’s
nest
in
a
tree
or
on
the
ground,
and
the
mother
bird
is
sitting
in
the
nest
on
its
eggs
or
with
the
baby
birds,
do
not
take
the
mother
bird
{\ADD{
and
kill
it}}.
\VS{7}You
are
permitted
to
take
the
baby
birds,
but
you
must
allow
the
mother
bird
to
fly
away.
Do
this
in
order
that
things
will
go
well
for
you
and
that
you
will
live
for
a
long
time.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“f
you
build
a
new
house,
you
must
put
a ◄railing/low
wall►
around
the
edge
of
the
roof.
If
you
do
that,
and
if
someone
falls
off
the
roof
{\ADD{
and
dies}}, ◄you
will
not
be
guilty
of
causing
that
person
to
die/his
death [MTY]
will
not
be
your
fault►.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“o
not
plant
any
crop
in
the
area
where
your grapevines
are
growing.
If
you
do,
you
are
not
allowed
to
harvest
the
crops
that
you
have
planted
or
to
harvest
the
grapes
{\ADD{
to
make
wine
from
them}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“o
not
hitch
together
an
ox
and
a
donkey
{\ADD{
for
plowing
your
fields}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“o
not
wear
clothing
that
is
made
by
weaving
together ◄wool
and
linen/two
different
kinds
of
thread►.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“{\ADD{
Twist
threads
together
to}}
make
tassels
and
sew/fasten
them
on
the
four
bottom
corners
of
your
cloak.
\par }{\SH Rules
concerning
sex
\par }{\PP \VS{13}“uppose
a
man
marries
a
young
woman
and
has
sex
with
her
and
later
decides
that
he
does
not
want
her
anymore,
\VS{14}and
he
says
false
things
about
her,
and
claims
that
she
was
not
a
virgin
when
he
married
her.
\VS{15}If
that
happens,
the
young
woman’s
parents
must
take
the sheet
that
was
on
the
bed
when
that
man
and
their
daughter
were
married,
which
still
has
bloodstains
on
it,
and
show
it
to
the
elders
of
the
city
at
the ◄gate
of/central
meeting
place
in►
the
city.
\VS{16}Then
the
father
of
the
young
woman
must
say
to
the
elders, ‘I
gave
my
daughter
to
this
man
to
be
his
wife.
But
now
he
says
that
he
doesn’t
want
her
anymore.
\VS{17}And
he
has
falsely
said
that
she
was
not
a
virgin
when
he
married
her.
But
look!
Here
is
what
proves
that
my
daughter
was
a
virgin!
Look
at
the
bloodstains
on
the sheet
where
they
slept
the
night
that
they
were
married!’
And
he
will
show
the sheet
to
the
elders.
\VS{18}Then
the
elders
of
that
city
must
take
that
man
and
whip
him.
\VS{19}They
shall
require
that
he
pay
a
fine
of 100
pieces
of
silver
and
give
the
money
to
the
father
of
the
young
woman,
because
the
man
caused
an Israeli
young
woman
to
be
disgraced.
Also,
that
woman
must
continue
to
live
with
him;
she
is
his
wife.
He
is
not
allowed
to
divorce
her
during
the
rest
of
his
life.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}“ut
if
what
the
man
said
is
true,
and
there
is
nothing
to
prove
that
she
was
a
virgin
when
he
married
her,
\VS{21}they
must
take
that
young
woman
to
the
door
of
her
father’s
house.
Then
the
men
of
that
city
must
execute
her
by
throwing
stones
at
her.
They
must
do
that
because
she
has
done
something
in
Israel
that
is
very
disgraceful,
by
having
sex
with
some
man
{\ADD{
while
she
was
still
living}}
in
her
father’s
house.
By
executing
her
like
that,
you
will
get
rid
of
this
evil
practice
among
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“f
a
man
is
caught
while
he
is
having
sex
with
another
man’s
wife,
both
of
them
must
be
executed.
By
doing
that,
you
will
get
rid
of
this
evil
practice
in
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}“uppose
in
some
town
a
man
sees
a
young
woman
who
is
engaged/promised
to
be
married
to
another
man,
and
he
is
caught
having
sex
with [EUP]
her.
\VS{24}You
must
take
both
of
them
to
the ◄gate
of/central
meeting
place
in►
that
town.
There
you
must
execute
them
both
by
throwing
stones
at
them.
You
must
execute
the
young
woman
because
she
did
not
shout
for
help
even
though
she
was
in
the
town.
And
the
man
must
be
executed
because
he
had
sex [EUP]
with
someone
who
was
already
engaged/promised
to
be
married.
By
doing
that,
you
will
get
rid
of
this
evil
practice
among
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“ut
suppose
out
in
the
open
countryside
a
man
meets
a
young
woman
who
is
engaged/promised
to
be
married,
and
he rapes
her.
If
that
happens,
only
that
man
must
be
executed.
\VS{26}You
must
not
punish
the
young
woman,
because
she
did
not
do
anything
for
which
she
deserves
to
be
executed.
This
case
is
like
when
one
man
attacks
another
man
{\ADD{
in
the
countryside}}
and
murders
him,
\VS{27}because
the
man
who
raped
her
saw
her
when
she
was
in
the
open
countryside,
and
even
though
she
called
out
for
help,
there
was
no
one
there
who
could
rescue
her.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“f
a
man rapes
a
young
woman
who
is
not
engaged/promised
to
be
married,
if
someone
sees
him
while
he
is
doing
that,
\VS{29}that
man
must
pay 50
pieces
of
silver
to
the
young
woman’s
father,
and
he
must
marry
her,
because
he
forced
her
to
have
sex
with
him.
He
is
not
allowed
to
divorce
her
for
the
rest
of
his
life.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}“
man
must
not
disgrace
his
father
by
having
sex
with
any
of
his
father’s
wives.”

\par }\Chap{23}{\SH Exclusion from Yahweh’s people
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Any
man
whose
testicles
are
crushed
or
whose penis
is
cut
off
shall
not
be ◄included
as
one
of/allowed
to
worship
with►
Yahweh’s
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}“o ◄illegitimate
person/person
whose
mother
and
father
were
not
married►,
or
descendant
of
that
person,
extending
to
the
tenth
generation,
shall
be
included
as
one
of
Yahweh’s
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}“o
one
from
the
Ammon
or
Moab people-groups
shall
be ◄included
as
one
of/allowed
to
worship
with►
Yahweh’s
people,
extending
to
the
tenth
generation.
\VS{4}One
reason
is
that
their
{\ADD{
leaders}}
refused
to
give
your
ancestors
food
and
water
when
they
were
traveling
from
Egypt
{\ADD{
to
Canaan}}.
Another
reason
is
that
they
wanted
to
pay
Balaam,
the
son
of
Beor
from
Pethor
{\ADD{
town}}
in
Mesopotamia,
to
curse
you Israelis.
\VS{5}But
Yahweh
our
God
did
not
pay
attention
to
Balaam;
instead,
he
caused
Balaam
to
bless
your
ancestors,
because
Yahweh
loved
them.
\VS{6}As
long
as
Israel
is
a
nation,
you
must
not
do
anything
to
cause
things
to
go
well
for
those
two people-groups
or
enable
them
to
prosper.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ut
do
not
despise
anyone
from
the
Edom people-group,
because
they
are
{\ADD{
descendants
of
your ancestor
Jacob}},
just
like
you
are.
And
do
not
despise
people
from
Egypt,
because
{\ADD{
they
treated
your
ancestors
well
when}}
they
first
lived
in
Egypt.
\VS{8}The
children
and
grandchildren
of
people
from
Edom
and
Egypt
{\ADD{
who
live
among
you}}
may
be ◄included
among/allowed
to
worship
with►
Yahweh’s
people.”
\par }{\SH Keeping
the
camp
clean
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“hen
your
soldiers
are
living
in
tents
at
a
time
of
fighting
your
enemies,
they
must
avoid
doing
things
that
would
make
them
unacceptable
to
God.
\VS{10}If
any
soldier
becomes
unacceptable
to
God
because semen
comes
out
of
his
body
during
the
night,
{\ADD{
the
next
morning}}
he
must
go
outside
the
camp
and
stay
there
during
that
day.
\VS{11}But
in
the
evening
of
that
day,
he
must
bathe
himself,
and
at
sunset
he
is
allowed
to
come
back
into
the
camp.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“our
soldiers
must
have
a toilet
area
outside
the
camp
where
you
can
go
{\ADD{
when
you
need
to}}.
\VS{13}{\ADD{
When
you
go
to
fight
against
your
enemies}},
carry
a
stick
along
with
your
weapons,
in
order
that
when
you
need
to defecate [EUP],
you
can
dig
a
hole
with
the
stick,
and
then
cover
up
the
hole
{\ADD{
when
you
have
finished defecating}}.
\VS{14}You
must
keep
the
camp
acceptable
to
Yahweh
our
God,
because
he
is
with
you
in
your
camp
to
protect
you
and
to
enable
you
to
defeat
your
enemies.
Do
not
do
anything
disgraceful/indecent
that
would
cause
Yahweh
to
abandon
you.”
\par }{\SH Various
other
laws
\par }{\PP \VS{15}“f
slaves
who
escape
from
their
masters
come
to
you
{\ADD{
and
request
you
to
protect
them}},
do
not
send
them
back
to
their
masters.
\VS{16}Allow
them
to
stay/live
among
you,
in
whatever
town
they
choose,
and
do
not
mistreat
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“o
not
{\ADD{
allow}}
any Israeli
man
or
woman
{\ADD{
to}}
become
a
prostitute
at
the
temple.
\VS{18}Also,
do
not
allow
any
people
who earned
money
from
being
a
prostitute
to
bring
any
of
that
money
into
the
temple
of
Yahweh
our
God,
even
if
they
solemnly
promised
to
pay
that
money
to
Yahweh.
Yahweh
hates
those
who
are
prostitutes.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“hen
you
lend
money
or
food
or
anything
else
to
a
fellow Israeli,
do
not
charge
them
interest.
\VS{20}You
are
allowed
to
charge
interest
when
you
lend
money
to
foreigners
{\ADD{
who
live
in
your
land}},
but
not
when
you
lend
money
to Israelis.
Do
this
in
order
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
bless
you
in
everything
that
you
do
in
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter
and
occupy.
\par }{\PP \VS{21}“hen
you
vow
to
give
something
to
Yahweh
your
God
{\ADD{
or
to
do
something
for
him}},
do
it
as
soon
as
you
can.
Yahweh expects
you
to
do
what
you
promised,
and
if
you
do
not
do
it,
you
will
be
committing
a
sin.
\VS{22}But
if
you [SYN]
do
not
vow
{\ADD{
to
do
something}},
that
is
not
sinful.
\VS{23}But
if
you
voluntarily
promise
to
do
something,
you
must
do
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“hen
you
walk
through
someone
else’s
vineyard,
you
are
allowed
to
{\ADD{
pick
and}}
eat
as
many
grapes
as
you
want,
but
you
must
not
{\ADD{
cut
some
from
a
vine
and
carry
them
away}}
in
a
container.
\VS{25}When
you
walk
{\ADD{
along
a
path}}
in
someone
else’s
field
of
grain,
you
are
allowed
to
pluck/pick
some
of
the
grain
and
eat
it,
but
you
must
not
cut
any
grain
with
a
sickle
{\ADD{
and
take
it
with
you}}.”

\par }\Chap{24}{\SH Laws about divorcing and remarrying
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“Suppose
a
man
marries
a
woman
and
later
decides
that
he
does
not
want
her
because
there
is
something
about
her
that
he
doesn’t
like.
And
suppose
he
writes
on paper
that
he
is divorcing
her,
and
he
gives
the paper
to
her [SYN]
and
sends
her
away
from
his
house.
\VS{2}Then
suppose
that
she
goes
and
marries
another
man,
\VS{3}and
that
man
{\ADD{
later
also}}
decides
that
he
does
not
like
her,
and
he
also
writes
on paper
that
he
is divorcing
her,
and
he
sends
her
away
from
his
house.
Or,
suppose
that
the
second
husband
dies.
\VS{4}If
either
of
those
things
happens,
her
first
husband
must
not
marry
her
again.
He
must
consider
that
she
has
become
unacceptable
to
Yahweh.
Yahweh
would
consider
it
to
be
disgusting
{\ADD{
if
he
married
her
again}}.
You
must
not
sin [MTY]
by
doing
that
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you.”
\par }{\SH Various
laws
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“hen
some
man
has
recently
become
married,
he
must
not
{\ADD{
be
required
to}}
become
a
soldier
in
the
army
or
be
required
to
do
any
other
work
{\ADD{
for
the
government}}
for
one
year
{\ADD{
after
being
married}}.
He
should
stay happily
at
home
with
his
wife
for
that
year.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“nyone
who
lends
money
to
someone
else
{\ADD{
is
allowed
to
require
that
person
to
give
him
something}}
to
guarantee
{\ADD{
that
he
will
pay
back
the
money
that
he
borrowed.
But}}
he
must
not
take
from
him
his ◄millstone/stone
for
grinding
grain►.
That
would
be
taking
{\ADD{
the
millstone
that
his
family
needs
to
grind
the
grain
to
make
the
bread}}
they
need
to
stay
alive.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“f
someone
kidnaps/steals
a
fellow Israeli
to
cause
that
person
to
become
his
slave
or
to
sell
him
{\ADD{
to
become
someone
else’s
slave}},
you
must
execute
the
person
who
did
that.
By
doing
that,
you
will
get
rid
of
this
evil
among
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“f
you
are
suffering
from ◄leprosy/a
dreaded
skin
disease►,
be
sure
to
do
everything
that
the
priests,
who
are
from
the
tribe
of
Levi,
tell
you
to
do.
Obey
carefully
the
instructions
that
I
have
given
to
them.
\VS{9}Do
not
forget
what
Yahweh
our
God
did
to
Miriam,
{\ADD{
when
she
became
a
leper}},
after
your
ancestors
left
Egypt.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“hen
you
lend
something
to
someone,
do
not
go
into
his
house
to
take
the
cloak
that
he
says
that
he
will
give
you
to
guarantee
{\ADD{
that
he
will
return
what
he
has
borrowed}}.
\VS{11}Stand
outside
his
house,
and
the
man
to
whom
you
are
lending
something
will
bring
the
cloak
out
to
you.
\VS{12}But
if
he
is
poor,
do
not
keep
that
cloak
all
night.
\VS{13}When
the
sun
sets,
take
the
cloak
back
to
him,
in
order
that
he
may
wear
it
while
he
sleeps.
If
you
do
that,
he
will
{\ADD{
ask
God
to}}
bless
you,
and
Yahweh
our
God
will
be
pleased
with
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“o
not
mistreat
any
servants
whom
you
have
hired
who
are
poor
and
needy [DOU],
whether
they
are Israelis
or
foreigners
who
are
living
in
your
town.
\VS{15}Every
day,
before
sunset,
you
must
pay/give
them
the
money
that
they
have earned.
They
are
poor
and
they
need
to
get
their
pay.
If
you
do
not
pay
them
right
away,
they
will
cry
out
against
you
to
Yahweh,
and
he
will
punish [MTY]
you
for
having
sinned
like
that.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“arents
must
not
be
executed
for
crimes
that
their
children
have
committed,
and
children
must
not
be
executed
for
crimes
that
their
parents
have
committed.
People
should
be
executed
only
for
the
crimes
that
they
themselves
have
committed.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}“ou
must [LIT]
do
for
foreigners
{\ADD{
who
live}}
among
you
and
for
orphans
what
the
laws
state
must
be
done
for
them.
And
{\ADD{
if
you
lend
something
to}}
a
widow,
do
not
take
her
coat
from
her
as
a
guarantee
{\ADD{
that
she
will
return
it}}.
\VS{18}Do
not
forget
that
{\ADD{
you
had
great hardships/troubles
when}}
you
were
slaves
in
Egypt,
and
Yahweh
our
God
rescued
you
from
there.
That
is
why
I
am
commanding
you
{\ADD{
to
help
others
who
have
troubles}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“hen
you
harvest
your
crops,
if
you
have
forgotten
{\ADD{
that
you
left}}
one
bundle
in
the
field,
do
not
go
back
to
get
it.
{\ADD{
Leave
it
there}}
for
foreigners,
orphans,
and
widows.
If
you
do
that,
Yahweh
will
bless
you
in
everything
that
you
do.
\VS{20}And
when
you
have
harvested/picked
all
your
olives
from
the
trees
once,
do
not
go
back
{\ADD{
to
pick
the
ones
that
are
still}}
on
the
trees.
\VS{21}{\ADD{
Similarly}},
when
you
pick
the
grapes
in
your
vineyard,
do
not
go
back
a
second
time
{\ADD{
to
try
to
find
more}}.
Leave
them
for
the
foreigners,
orphans,
and
widows
{\ADD{
among
you}}.
\VS{22}Do
not
forget
that
{\ADD{
Yahweh
was
kind
to
you
when}}
you
were
slaves
in
Egypt.
That
is
why
I
am
commanding
you
{\ADD{
to
be
kind
to
those
who
are
needy}}.”

\par }\Chap{25}{\SH Whipping criminals
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“If
{\ADD{
two}} Israelis
have
a
dispute
and
they
go
to
a
court,
the
judge
will
{\ADD{probably}}
decide/declare
that
one
of
them ◄is
innocent/did
not
do
any
wrong►
and
the
other
one
is
guilty.
\VS{2}If
the
judge
says
that
the
guilty
person
must
be
punished,
he
shall
command
him
to
lie
{\ADD{
with
his
face}}
on
the
ground
and
be whipped.
The
number
of
times
he
is
struck
with
a
whip
will
depend
on
{\ADD{
what
kind
of}}
crime
he
committed.
\VS{3}It
is
permitted
that
he
be
struck
as
many
as 40
times,
but
no
more
than
that.
If
he
is
struck
more
than 40
times,
he
would
be
humiliated
publicly.
\par }{\SH Don’t
muzzle
your
ox
\par }{\PP \VS{4}When
your
ox
is
treading/walking
on
the
grain
{\ADD{
to
separate
the
chaff
from
the
grain}},
do
not ◄muzzle
it/put
a
covering
on
its
mouth►
{\ADD{
to
prevent
it
from
eating
some
of
the
grain}}.
\par }{\SH Responsibility
to
a
dead
brother
\par }{\PP \VS{5}If
two
brothers
live
on
the
same
property,
and
one
of
them
who
has
no
son
dies,
the
man’s
widow
should
not
marry
someone
who
is
not
a
member
of
his
family.
The
dead
man’s
brother
must
marry
her
and
have
sex [EUP]
with
her.
It
is
his
duty
to
do
that.
\VS{6}If
she
later
gives
birth
to
a
son,
that
son
is
to
be
considered [MTY]
the
son
of
the
man
who
died,
in
order
that
the
dead
man’s
name
will
not
disappear
from
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“ut
if
the
dead
man’s
brother
does
not
want
to
marry
that
woman,
she
must
stand
at
the ◄gate/central
meeting
place►
of
the
town
and
say
to
the
{\ADD{
town}}
elders, ‘My
husband’s
brother
will
not
do ◄his
duty/what
he
is supposed
to
do►.
He
refuses
to
{\ADD{
marry
me
in
order
that
I
may
give
birth
to
a
son
who
will
}}
prevent
my
dead
husband’s
name
from disappearing
in
Israel.’
\VS{8}Then
the
elders
must
summon
that
man
and
talk
to
him.
If
he
still
refuses
to
marry
that
widow,
\VS{9}she
must
go
up
to
him
while
the
elders
are
watching,
and
take
off
one
of
his
sandals
{\ADD{
to symbolize/show
that
he
would
not
receive
any
of
her
property}},
and
spit
in
his
face,
and
say
to
him, ‘This
is
what
happens
to
the
man
who
refuses
to
do
what
is
needed
{\ADD{
to
allow
his
dead
brother
to
have
a
son}}
in
order
that
our
family
name
does
not
disappear.’
\VS{10}After
that
happens,
that
man’s
family
will
be
known
as ‘the
family
of
the
man
whose
sandal
was
pulled off’.
\par }{\SH Two
other
laws
\par }{\PP \VS{11}When
{\ADD{
two}}
men
are
fighting
with
each
other,
and
the
one
man’s
wife
comes
near
to
help
her
husband
by
grabbing
hold
of
the
other
man’s
genitals,
\VS{12}do
not
act mercifully
toward
her;
cut
off
her
hand.
\par }{\PP \VS{13-14}“{\ADD{
When
you
are
buying
or
selling
things}},
do
not
try
to
cheat
people
by
having
two
kinds
of
weights,
{\ADD{
one
which
you
use
when
you
buy
something
and
one
which
you
use
when
you
sell
something}},
and
two
kinds
of
measuring
baskets,
{\ADD{
one
which
you
use
when
you
buy
something
and
one
which
you
use
when
you
sell
something}}.
\VS{15}Always
use
correct
weights
and
correct
measuring
baskets,
in
order
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
allow
you
to
live
a
long
time
in
the
land
that
he
is
giving
to
you.
\VS{16}Yahweh
hates
all
those
who
act
dishonestly,
{\ADD{
and
he
will
punish
them}}.
\par }{\SH Getting
revenge
on
the
Amalek people-group
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Continue
to
remember
what
the
Amalek people-group
did
to
your
ancestors
when
they
were
coming
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{18}They
attacked
your
ancestors
as
your
ancestors
were
traveling,
when
they
were
weak
and
exhausted.
Those
people
were
not
afraid
of
God
at
all,
so
they
attacked
your
ancestors
from
the
rear
and
killed
all
those
who
were
unable
to
walk
as
fast
as
the
others.
\VS{19}Therefore,
when
Yahweh
our
God
has
given
you
the
land
{\ADD{
that
he
promised
to
give
you}},
and
when
he
has
enabled
you
to
rest
from
{\ADD{
fighting}}
all
your
enemies
around
you,
kill
all
the
Amalek people-group,
with
the
result
that
no
one
will
remember
them
anymore.
Do
not
forget
{\ADD{
to
do
this}}!”

\par }\Chap{26}{\SH Offerings at harvest time
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“After
you
occupy
the
land
that
Yahweh
our
God
is
giving
to
you,
and
you ◄have
settled/are
living►
there,
\VS{2}{\ADD{
each
of}}
you
must
take
some
of
the
first
crops
that
you
harvest,
put
them
in
a
basket,
and
take
them
to
the
place
that
Yahweh
will
have
chosen
for
you
to
worship [MTY]
there.
\VS{3}Go
to
the Supreme
Priest
who
is
serving
at
that
time
and
say
to
him, ‘{\ADD{
By
giving
you
this
first
part
of
my
harvest}}
today,
I
am
declaring
to
Yahweh
our
God
that
I
have
{\ADD{
picked
it
in}}
the
land
that
he
vowed
to
our
ancestors
to
give
to
us.’
\VS{4}Then
the
priest
must
take
the
basket
of
food
from
your
hand
and
put
it
on
the
altar
where
sacrifices
are
offered
to
Yahweh
our
God.
\VS{5}Then
in
Yahweh’s
presence
you
must
say
this: ‘My ancestor
{\ADD{
Jacob}}
was
a
man
from
Aram/Syria
who
was
continually
wandering
{\ADD{
from
one
place
to
another}}.
He
took
his
family
to
Egypt.
They
were
a
small
group
{\ADD{
when
they
went
there}},
but
they
lived
there
and
their
descendants
became
a
very
large/populous [DOU]
and
powerful
nation.
\VS{6}Then
the
people
of
Egypt
treated
them
very
harshly [DOU],
and
they
forced
them
to
become
their
slaves
and
to
work
very
hard.
\VS{7}Then
our
ancestors
cried
out
to
you,
Yahweh
our
God,
and
you
heard
them.
You
saw
that
they
were
suffering,
and
that
they
were
forced
to
work
very
hard,
and
were
being
oppressed.
\VS{8}Then
by
your
great
power [MTY]
and
by
performing
many
kinds
of
miracles [DOU],
and
other
terrifying
things,
you
brought
them
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{9}You
brought
us
to
this
land
and
gave
it
to
us,
a
land
that
is
very
fertile [IDM].
\VS{10}So
now,
Yahweh,
I
have
brought
to
you
the
first
part
of
the
harvest
from
the
land
that
I
received.’
Then
you
must
set
the
basket
down
in
Yahweh’s
presence
and
worship
him
there.
\VS{11}And
you
must
celebrate
{\ADD{
by
eating
a
meal
together
to
thank}}
Yahweh
our
God
for
all
the
good
things
that
he
has
given
to
you
and
to
your
family.
And
you
must
invite
the
descendants
of
Levi
and
the
foreigners
who
are
living
among
you
to
also
rejoice
{\ADD{
and
eat}}
with
you.
\par }{\SH The
tithes
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Every
third
year,
you
must
bring
to
the
descendants
of
Levi
and
to
the
foreigners
{\ADD{
who
are
living
among
you}}
and
the
orphans
and
the
widows ◄a
tithe/10 percent►
of
your
crops,
in
order
that
in
every
town
they
will
have
plenty
to
eat.
\VS{13}Then
you
must
say
to
Yahweh, ‘I
have
brought
to
you,
from
my
house,
all
of
the
sacred
tithe
{\ADD{
from
my
harvest
this
year}}.
I
am
giving
it
to
the
descendants
of
Levi,
to
the
foreigners,
the
orphans,
and
the
widows,
as
you
commanded
us
to
do.
I
have
not
disobeyed
any
of
your
commands
{\ADD{
about
the
tithes}},
and
I
have
not
forgotten
any
of
your
commands
{\ADD{
about
tithes}}.
\VS{14}{\ADD{
I
declare
that}}
I
have
not
eaten
any
food
from
the
tithe
while
I
was
mourning
{\ADD{
for
someone
who
died}}.
And
I
have
not
touched
any
of
it
while
I
was
unacceptable
to
you;
I
have
not
offered
any
of
it
to
{\ADD{
spirits
of}}
dead
people.
Yahweh,
I
have
obeyed
you
and
done
everything
that
you
have
commanded
us
{\ADD{
concerning
the
tithe}}.
\VS{15}So
{\ADD{
please}}
look
down
from
your
holy
place
in
heaven,
and
bless
us,
your Israeli
people.
Also
bless
this
very
fertile [IDM]
land
which
you
have
given
to
us,
which
is
what
you
promised
our
ancestors
that
you
would
do.’
\par }{\SH Yahweh’s
own
people
\par }{\PP \VS{16}Today
Yahweh
our
God
is
commanding
you
to
obey
all
these
rules
and
regulations.
So
obey
them
faithfully,
with
your
entire
inner
being [DOU].
\VS{17}Today
you
have
declared
that
Yahweh
is
your
God,
and
that
you
will
conduct
your
lives
as
he
wants
you
to
do,
and
that
you
will
obey
all
his
commands
and
rules
and
regulations,
and
that
you
will
do
all
that
he
tells
you
to
do.
\VS{18}And
today
Yahweh
has
declared
that
you
are
his
people,
which
is
what
he
promised
that
you
would
be,
and
he
commands
you
to
obey
all
his
commands.
\VS{19}If
you
do
that,
he
will
cause
you
to
become
greater
than
any
other
nation
that
he
has
established,
and
he
will
enable
you
to
praise
him
and
honor
him [DOU].
You
will
truly
belong
to
Yahweh
our
God,
which
is
what
he
has
promised.”

\par }\Chap{27}{\SH The stone tablets set up on Ebal Mountain
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}Moses/I,
along
with
the
other Israeli
leaders,
said
this
to
the
people: “Obey
all
the
commandments
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today.
\VS{2-4}{\ADD{
Soon}}
you
will
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
and
enter
the
land
that
Yahweh,
the
God
whom
our
ancestors
{\ADD{
worshiped}},
promised
to
give
to
you.
There,
in
that
very
fertile [IDM]
land
on
the
{\ADD{
west}}
side
of
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}},
set
up
some
large
stones
{\ADD{
on
Ebal
Mountain}},
and
cover
them
with
plaster.
Then
write
on
those
stones
all
these
laws
and
teachings/instructions.
\VS{5}And
build
a
stone
altar
there
to
offer
sacrifices
to
Yahweh,
but
do
not
cut
those
stones
with
iron
tools.
\VS{6}The
altar
that
you
make
to
burn
sacrifices
to
Yahweh
our
God
must
be
made
with
uncut
stones.
\VS{7}And
there
you
must
sacrifice
offerings
to
maintain
fellowship
with
Yahweh,
and
you
must
eat
{\ADD{
your
share
of
those
offerings}}
and
rejoice/celebrate
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh.
\VS{8}And,
when
you
write
these
laws
on
those
stones,
you
must
write
them
very
clearly.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Then
Moses/I,
along
with
the
priests,
said
to
all
the Israeli
people, “You Israeli
people,
be
quiet
and
listen
{\ADD{
to
what
I
am
saying}}.
Today
you
have
become
the
people
who
belong
to
Yahweh,
our
God.
\VS{10}So,
you
must
do
what
he
tells
you,
and
obey
all
the
rules
and
regulations
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today.”
\par }{\SH The
curses
from disobeying
God
\par }{\PP \VS{11}On
that
same
day
Moses/I
said
to
the Israeli
people,
\VS{12}“After
you
have
crossed
over
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}},
the
tribes
of
Simeon,
Levi,
Judah,
Issachar,
Joseph,
and
Benjamin
must
stand
on
Gerizim
Mountain
and
{\ADD{
request
Yahweh
to}}
bless
the
people.
\VS{13}And
the
tribes
of
Reuben,
Gad,
Asher,
Zebulun,
Dan,
and
Naphtali
must
stand
on
Ebal
Mountain
and
listen
to
the
things
that
Yahweh
will
do
when
he
curses
the
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}The
descendants
of
Levi
must
shout
these
words
loudly:
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{15}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
makes
an
idol
of
stone,
or
of
wood,
or
of
metal,
and
secretly
sets
it
up
{\ADD{
and
worships
it}}.
\par }{\QB Yahweh
considers
that
those
things,
made
by humans [SYN],
are
detestable/disgusting.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{16}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
dishonors
his
father
or
his
mother.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{17}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
removes
someone
else’s markers
of
property
boundaries.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{18}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
leads
a
blind
person
to
go ◄in
the
wrong
direction/where
that
person
does
not
want
to
go►.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{19}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
deprives
foreigners
or
orphans
or
widows
of
the
things
that
the
laws
state
must
be
done
for
them.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{20}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who ◄shows
no
respect
for/disgraces
his
father►
\par }{\QB by
having
sex
with [EUP]
any
of
his
father’s
wives.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{21}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
has
sex [EUP]
with
any
animal.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{22}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
has
sex
with
his
sister
or
with
his half-sister.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{23}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
has
sex
with [EUP]
his
mother-in-law.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{24}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
secretly
murders
someone
else.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{25}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who
accepts
a
bribe
to
murder
someone
who ◄is
innocent/has
not
done
something
that
is
wrong.►’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’
\par }{\Q \VS{26}‘Yahweh
will
curse
anyone
who disobeys
these
laws
and
refuses
to
declare
that
these
laws
{\ADD{
are
good}}.’
\par }{\QB And
all
the
people
must
reply, ‘◄Amen/We
want
that
to
happen►.’ ”

\par }\Chap{28}{\SH The blessings from obeying God
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“If
you
do
what
Yahweh
our
God
tells
you
to
do
and
faithfully
obey
everything
that
I
am
today
commanding
you
to
do,
he
will
cause
you
to
become
greater
than
any
other
nation
on
the
earth.
\VS{2}If
you
obey
Yahweh,
this
is
what
he
will
do
to
bless
you:
\par }{\PI \VS{3}He
will
bless
everything
that
you
do
when
you
are
in
the
cities
\par }{\PI and
he
will
bless
everything
that
you
do
when
you
are
{\ADD{
working}}
in
the
fields.
\par }{\PI \VS{4}He
will
bless
you
by
giving
you
many
children [IDM]
and
by
giving
you
abundant
crops,
and
plenty
of
cattle
and
sheep.
\par }{\PI \VS{5}He
will
bless
you
by
causing
you
to
have
good
harvests
with
plenty
of
grain [MTY]
to
make
bread.
\par }{\PI \VS{6}He
will
bless
you
{\ADD{
everywhere}}—when
you
go
out
{\ADD{
of
your
houses}}
and
when
you
come
into
{\ADD{
your
houses}}.
\par }{\PI \VS{7}Yahweh
will
enable
you
to
defeat
{\ADD{
the
armies
of}}
your
enemies;
\par }{\PI they
will
attack
you
from
one
direction,
but
they
will
run
away
from
you
in
seven/many
directions.
\par }{\PI \VS{8}Yahweh
will
bless
you
{\ADD{
by
filling}}
your
barns
{\ADD{
with
grain}},
and
he
will
bless
all
the
work
that
you
do;
\par }{\PI he
will
bless
you
in
the
land
that
he
is
giving
to
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“f
you
obey
all
the
commandments
that
Yahweh
our
God
{\ADD{
has
given
to
you}}
and
if
you
conduct
your
lives
as
he
wants
you
to
do,
you
will
continue
to
be
his
people,
which
is
what
he
promised.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“hen
all
the people-groups
on
the
earth
will
realize
that
you
belong
to [MTY]
Yahweh,
and
they
will
be
afraid
of
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“nd
Yahweh
will
cause
you
to
prosper
very
much.
He
will
give
you
many
children [IDM],
many
cattle,
and
abundant
crops
in
the
land
that
he
vowed
to
our
ancestors
that
he
would
give
to
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“hen
rain
is
needed,
Yahweh
will
send
it
from
where
he
stores
it
in
the
sky,
and
he
will
bless
all
your
work,
with
the
result
that
you
{\ADD{
will
be
able
to}}
lend
money
to
many
other
nations,
but
you
will
not
need
to
borrow
{\ADD{
money
from
them}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}If
you
faithfully
obey
all
of
the
commands
of
Yahweh
our
God
that
I
am
giving
you
today,
Yahweh
will
cause
your
nation
to
be
a
leader
among
the
nations,
not
inferior
to
them;
you
will
always
be
prosperous ander
be
needy/poor [IDM].
\par }{\PP \VS{14}{\ADD{
Yahweh
will
do
all
these
things
for
you}}
if
you
do
not
turn
away
from
{\ADD{
obeying}}
what
I
am
commanding
you
today,
and
if
you
never
worship
or
serve
other
gods.
\par }{\SH The
curses
from disobeying
God
\par }{\PP \VS{15}But
if
you
do
not
do
what
Yahweh
our
God
is
telling
you
to
do,
and
if
you
do
not
faithfully
obey
all
his
rules
and
regulations
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today,
this
is
what
he
will
do
to
curse
you:
\par }{\PI \VS{16}He
will
curse
you
when
you
are
in
the
cities
\par }{\PI and
he
will
curse
you
when
you
are
{\ADD{
working}}
in
the
fields.
\par }{\PI \VS{17}He
will
curse
you
by
not allowing
you
to
have
good harests
with
plenty
of
grain [MTY]
to
make
bread.
\par }{\PI \VS{18}He
will
curse
you
by
giving
you
only
a
few
children [IDM],
by causiing
you
to
have
poor
crops,
and
by
not enabling
you
to
have
many
cattle
and
sheep.
\par }{\PI \VS{19}He
will
curse
you
{\ADD{
everywhere}}—when
you
go
out
{\ADD{
of
your
houses}}
and
when
you
come
into
{\ADD{
your
houses}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}If
you
do
evil
things
and
reject
Yahweh,
\par }{\PI he
will
curse
you
by
causing
you
to ◄be
confused/not
know
what
to
do►,
and
to
be
frustrated
in
everything
that
you
do,
\par }{\PI until
{\ADD{
your
enemies}}
quickly
and
completely
destroy
you $\{$you
will
be
quickly
and
completely
destroyed$\}$.
\par }{\PI \VS{21}Yahweh
will
cause
you
to
experience
terrible
diseases,
\par }{\PI until
not
one
of
you
remains
alive
in
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter
and
occupy.
\par }{\PI \VS{22}Yahweh
will
strike/afflict
you
with
diseases
that
shrivel
your
bodies,
with
fever,
with
inflammation/swelling.
\par }{\PI It
will
be
extremely
hot,
and
it
will
not
rain.
\par }{\PI There
will
be
scorching
winds,
and
{\ADD{
Yahweh
will
cause}}
your
crops
to
rot.
\par }{\PI You
will experiece
all
these
things
will
strike
you
until
you
die.
\par }{\PI \VS{23}There willl
be
no
rain [MET],
{\ADD{
with
the
result
that}}
the
ground
will
be
{\ADD{
as
hard
as}}
iron [MET].
\par }{\PI \VS{24}Instead
of
sending
rain,
Yahweh
will
send
strong
winds
to
blow
sand
and
dust
over
your
land,
until
your
land
is
ruined.
\par }{\PI \VS{25}Yahweh
will
enable
your
enemies
to
defeat
you;
\par }{\PI your
soldiers
will
attack
your
enemies
from
one
direction,
but
they
will
run
away
from
your
enemies
in
seven/many
directions,
\par }{\PI and
when
the
people
of
other
nations
see
what
is happening
to
you,
they
will
say
that
it
is
horrible.
\par }{\PI \VS{26}{\ADD{
You
will
die}},
and
birds
and
wild
animals
will
come
and
eat
your
corpses,
\par }{\PI and
there
will
not
be
anyone
to scare/shoo
them
away.
\par }{\PI \VS{27}Yahweh
will
cause
you
to
have
boils
on
your
skin,
like
he
caused
the
people
of
Egypt
to
have
{\ADD{
many
years
ago}}.
\par }{\PI He
will
cause
you
to
have
tumors,
open
sores,
and
your
skin
will
itch,
and
there
will
be
nothing
that
will
cure
those
diseases.
\par }{\PI \VS{28}Yahweh
will
cause
{\ADD{
some
of}}
you
to
become insane;
he
will
cause
some
of
you
to
become
blind,
and
he
will
cause
{\ADD{
some
of}}
your
minds
to
become
confused.
\par }{\PI \VS{29}{\ADD{
Because
you
will
not
be
able
to
see
where
you
are
going}},
at
midday
you
will ◄grope/feel
your
way►
around
with
your
hands,
like
people
do
in
the
darkness.
\par }{\PI You
will
continually
be
oppressed
and
robbed,
and
no
one
will
help
you.
\par }{\PI \VS{30}Some
of
you
men
will
be
engaged/promised
to
marry
a
young
woman,
but
someone
else
will
rape
her.
\par }{\PI You
will
build
houses,
but
you
will
never
live
in
them.
\par }{\PI You
will
plant grapevines,
but
you
will
not
eat
the
grapes;
{\ADD{
someone
else
will
eat
them}}.
\par }{\PI \VS{31}Your
enemies
will butcher
your
cattle
while
you
watch
them,
and
you
will
not
get
any
of
the
meat
to
eat.
\par }{\PI They
will
drag
away
your
donkeys
while
you
watch
them
do
it,
and
they
will
not
give
them
back
to
you.
\par }{\PI They
will
take
away
your
sheep;
and
no
one
will
help
you
{\ADD{
rescue
them}}.
\par }{\PI \VS{32}While
you
watch,
your
sons
and
daughters
will
be
given
to
foreigners
to
become
their
slaves.
Every
day
you
will
very
sadly
watch
for
your
children
to
return,
but ◄you
will
watch
in
vain/they
will
never
return►.
\par }{\PI \VS{33}People
from
a
foreign
nation
will
take
all
the
crops
that
you
worked
hard
to
produce,
\par }{\PI and
they
will
constantly
treat
you
harshly
and
cruelly [DOU].
\par }{\PI \VS{34}The
result
will
be
that
all
these
terrible
things
that
you
see/experience
will
cause
you
to
become insane.
\par }{\PI \VS{35}Yahweh
will
cause
your
legs
{\ADD{
to
be
covered
with}}
painful
boils
that
cannot
be
healed,
\par }{\PI and
you
will
have
boils
from
the
bottoms
of
your
feet
to
the
tops
of
your
heads.
\par }{\PI \VS{36}Yahweh
will
cause
your
king
and
the
rest
of
you
to
be
taken
to
another
country,
to
a
place
in
which
you
and
your
ancestors
have
never
lived
before,
\par }{\PI and
there
you
will
worship
and
serve
gods
that
are
made
of
wood
or
stone.
\par }{\PI \VS{37}When
the people-groups
in
nearby
countries
see
what
has
happened
to
you,
they
will
be
shocked/horrified;
\par }{\PI they
will
make fun [DOU]
of
you.
\par }{\PI \VS{38}You
will
plant
plenty
of
seeds
in
your
fields,
but
you
will
reap
only
a
small
harvest,
because
locusts
will
eat
the
crops.
\par }{\PI \VS{39}You
will
plant grapevines
and
take
care
of
them,
but
you
will
not
pick
any
grapes
to
make
wine,
because
worms
will
eat
the
vines.
\par }{\PI \VS{40}Olive
trees
will
grow
everywhere
in
your
land,
but
you
will
not
get
any
olive
oil
to rub
on
your
skin
because
the
olives
will
drop
{\ADD{
on
the
ground
before
they
are
ripe}}.
\par }{\PI \VS{41}You
will
have
sons
and
daughters,
but
they
will
not
stay
with
you,
because
they
will
be
captured
and
taken
away.
\par }{\PI \VS{42}Swarms
of
locusts/insects
will
eat
your
crops
and
{\ADD{
the
leaves
of}}
all
your
trees.
\par }{\PI \VS{43}Foreigners
who
live
in
your
land
will
become
more
and
more
{\ADD{
powerful}},
and
you
will
become
less
and
less
{\ADD{
powerful}}.
\par }{\PI \VS{44}They
will
{\ADD{
have
money
to
}}
lend
to
you,
but
you
will
not
{\ADD{
have
any
money
to}}
lend
to
them.
\par }{\PI They
will
be
superior [IDM]
to
you,
and
you
will
be
inferior
to
them [IDM].
\par }{\PP \VS{45}“ou
will
experience
all
these
disasters,
and
you
will
continue
to
experience
them
you
until
you
are
destroyed,
if
you
do
not
do
what
Yahweh
your
God
told
you
to
do,
and
do
not
obey
all
the
rules
and
regulations
that
he
gave
to
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{46}“hese
disasters
will
warn [DOU]
you
and
your
descendants
forever
{\ADD{
about
what
happens
to
groups
who
disobey
Yahweh}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{47}“ecause
Yahweh
blessed
you
abundantly
in
many
ways,
you
should
have
served
him
very
joyfully [DOU],
but
you
did
not
do
that.
\par }{\PP \VS{48}“herefore,
you
will
work
for
the
enemies
whom
Yahweh
will
send
to
attack
you.
You
will
be
hungry
and
thirsty;
you
will
not
have
clothes
to
wear;
and
you
will
lack
everything
else
that
you
need.
And
Yahweh
will
cause
you
to
become
slaves [MET]
and
work
hard
until
he
gets
rid
of
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{49}“ahweh
will
cause
an
army
from
very
far
away [HYP]
to
attack
you,
whose
soldiers
speak
a
language
that
you
do
not
know/understand.
They
will
swoop
down
on
you
{\ADD{
quickly}}
like
an
eagle [SIM]
attacks
its
prey.
\VS{50}They
will
be
fierce
looking.
They
will
not
act mercifully
toward
anyone,
not
even
young
children
and
old
people.
\VS{51}They
will
{\ADD{
kill
and}}
eat
your
livestock,
and
they
will
eat
your
crops,
and
you
will ◄starve/die
because
you
do
not
have
anything
to
eat►.
They
will
not
leave
for
you
any
grain
or
wine
or
{\ADD{
olive}}
oil
or
cattle
or
sheep;
and
you
will
all
die
{\ADD{
from
hunger}}.
\VS{52}Your
enemies
will
surround
your
towns
throughout
the
land
that
Yahweh
your
God
is
about
to
give
to
you,
and
they
will
break
down
the
high
and
strong
walls
{\ADD{
around
your
towns}},
walls
which
you
trusted/thought
would
protect
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{53}“hen
your
enemies
are
surrounding
{\ADD{
your
towns}},
you
will
be
extremely
hungry,
with
the
result
that
you
will
eat
the
flesh
of
your
own
sons
and
daughters
that
Yahweh
your
God
has
given
to
you.
\VS{54-55}When
your
enemies
have
surrounded
your
towns,
even
the
most
gentle
and sensitive
men
among
you
will
want
food
very
desperately,
with
the
result
that
they
will
{\ADD{
kill
their
own
children
and}}
eat
their
flesh,
because
they
will
not
have
anything
else
to
eat.
They
will
not
even
share
any
of
it
with
their
brothers
or
wives
whom
they
love
very
much
or
with
any
of
their
children
who
are
still
alive.
\VS{56-57}Even
the
most
gentle
and sensitive/kind
women
among
you,
who
are
very
refined/rich
with
the
result
that
they
have
never
had
to
walk
anywhere [HYP],
will
do
the
same
thing.
When
your
enemies
have
surrounded
your
towns,
those
women
will
be
extremely
hungry,
with
the
result
that
after
they
give
birth
to
a
baby,
they
will
secretly
{\ADD{
kill
it
and}}
eat
its
flesh
and
also
eat
its
afterbirth.
And
they
will
not
share
any
of
it
with
their
husbands
whom
they
love
very
much
or
with
any
of
their
other
children.
\par }{\PP \VS{58}“f
you
do
not
faithfully
obey
all
of
the
laws
that
I
am
writing,
and
if
you
do
not
revere
Yahweh
our
glorious
God [MTY],
\VS{59}he
will
{\ADD{
punish
you
by}}
causing
you
and
your
descendants
to experinence
great
afflictions
and
plagues
which
will
last
for
many
years.
\VS{60}He
will
cause
you
to
experience
the
plagues
that
he
sent
on
the
people
of
Egypt,
and
you
will
never
be
healed.
\VS{61}He
will
also
cause
you
to
experience
many
other
sicknesses
and
diseases
that
I
have
not
talked
about
in
these
laws,
until
you
all
will
die.
\VS{62}You
became
as
numerous
as
the
stars
in
the
sky,
but
only
a
few
of
you
will
remain
alive,
if
you
do
not
obey
Yahweh
your
God.
\VS{63}Yahweh
was
very
happy
to
do
good
things
for
you
and
to
cause
you
to
become
very
numerous,
but
now
he
will
be
happy
to
ruin
you
and
get
rid
of
you.
{\ADD{
Those
of}}
you
{\ADD{
who
do
not
die
from
these
plagues}}
will
be
snatched
away
from
the
land
that
you
will
soon
be
entering
to
possess.
\par }{\PP \VS{64}“ahweh
will
scatter
you
among
many people-groups,
all
over
the
earth,
and
in
those
areas/places
you
will
serve
other
gods
that
are
made
of
wood
or
stone,
gods
which
you
and
your
ancestors
have
never
known/worshiped.
\VS{65}In
those
places
you
will
be
restless.
Yahweh
will
cause
you
to
be
constantly
worried/anxious,
feel
hopeless,
and
discouraged.
\VS{66}You
will
always
be
afraid
that
your
enemies
will
kill
you.
You
will
be
very
fearful,
all
day
and
all
night.
\VS{67}Because
you
will
be
very
fearful/afraid
because
of
the
{\ADD{
terrible}}
things
that
you
see,
each
morning
you
will
say ‘I
wish
it
were
evening
already!’
and
each
evening
you
will
say ‘I
wish
it
were
morning
already!’
\VS{68}Yahweh
will
send
{\ADD{
some
of}}
you
back
to
Egypt
in
ships,
even
though
he
promised
that
you
would
never
{\ADD{
be
forced
to}}
go
there
again.
There
in
Egypt
you
will
try
to
sell
yourselves
to
become
slaves
of
your
enemies
{\ADD{
in
order
to
have
food
to
eat}},
but
no
one
will
buy
you.
{\ADD{
All
those
things
will
happen
to
you
if
you
do
not
obey
the
laws
that
Yahweh
is
giving
to
you}}.”

\par }\Chap{29}{\SH The agreement made in Moab
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}These
are
the
things
that
the Israelis
were
required
to
do
to
keep
the
agreement
that
Yahweh
was
making
with
them.
Moses/I
commanded
them
to
keep
this
agreement
{\ADD{
when
they/we
were}}
in
the
Moab
region
{\ADD{
on
the
east
side
of
the
Jordan
River}}.
This
was
in
addition
to
the
agreement
that
Yahweh
had
made
with
them/us
at
Sinai
{\ADD{
Mountain}}.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}Moses/I
summoned
all
the Israeli
people
and
said
to
them, “You
saw [SYN]
for
yourselves
what
Yahweh
did
to
the
king
of
Egypt
and
to
his
officials
and
to
his
entire
country.
\VS{3}You [SYN]
saw
all
the
plagues
{\ADD{
that
Yahweh
caused
them
to
experience}},
and
all
the
various
miracles [DOU]
{\ADD{
that
Yahweh
performed}}.
\VS{4}But
until
now,
Yahweh
has
not
enabled
you
to
understand
{\ADD{
the
meaning
of}}
all
that
you
have
seen
and
heard.
\VS{5}For 40
years
Yahweh
has
led
you
while
you
traveled/walked
through
the
desert.
During
that
time,
your
clothes
and
your
sandals
have
not
worn
out.
\VS{6}You
did
not
have
bread
to
eat
or
wine
or
other fermented/strong
drinks
to
drink,
but
Yahweh
{\ADD{
took
care
of
you}},
in
order
that
you
would
know
that
he
is
your
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}“nd
when
we
came
to
this
place,
Sihon,
the
king
who
ruled
in
Heshbon
{\ADD{
city}},
and
Og,
the
king
who
ruled
the
Bashan
{\ADD{
region}},
came
{\ADD{
with
their
armies}}
to
attack
us,
but
we
defeated
them.
\VS{8}We
took/conquered
their
land
and
divided
it
among
the
tribes
of
Reuben
and
Gad,
and
half
of
the
tribe
of
Manasseh.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“o
faithfully
keep
all
of
this
agreement,
in
order
that
you
will
be
successful
in
everything
that
you
do.
\VS{10}Today
all
of
us
are
standing
in
the
presence
of
Yahweh
our
God.
The
leaders
of
all
our
tribes,
our
elders,
our
officials,
all
you Israeli
men,
\VS{11}your
wives,
your
children,
and
the
foreigners
who
live
among
you
and
cut
wood
for
you
and
carry
water
for
you,
are
here.
\VS{12}{\ADD{
We
are
here}}
today
to
promise
to
keep
this
solemn
agreement
with
Yahweh.
\VS{13}{\ADD{
He
is
making
this
agreement
with
you}}
in
order
to
confirm
that
you
are
his
people,
and
that
he
is
your
God.
This
agreement
is
what
he
promised
you,
and
which
is
what
he
vowed
to
give
to
your
ancestors
Abraham,
Isaac
and
Jacob.
\VS{14}This
agreement
is
not
only
with
you.
\VS{15}He
is
making
this
agreement
with
us
{\ADD{
who
are
here
today}}
and
also
with
our
descendants
who
are
not
yet
born.
\par }{\PP \VS{16}“ou
remember
{\ADD{
the
things
that
our
ancestors
suffered}}
in
Egypt,
and
how
they
traveled
through
the
land
that
belonged
to
other
nations
{\ADD{
after
they
came
out
of
Egypt}}.
\VS{17}In
those
countries
they
saw
those
disgusting
idols
made
of
wood
and
stone
and
{\ADD{
decorated
with}}
silver
and
gold.
\VS{18}So
be
sure
that
no
man
or
woman
or
family
or
tribe
that
is
here
{\ADD{
today}}
turns
away
from
Yahweh
our
God,
to
worship/serve
the
gods
of
those
nations.
Doing
that
would
be
like
a
root
{\ADD{
of
a
plant
that
would
grow}}
among
you
and
bear
poisonous
and
bitter
fruit [MET].
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“e
sure
that
no
one
here
today
who
hears
this
agreement
thinks, ‘Everything
will
go
well
with
me,
even
if
I
stubbornly
do
what
I
want
to.’
If
you
are
stubborn likethat,
the
result
will
be
that
Yahweh
will
eventually
get
rid
of
all
of
you,
both
good
people
and
evil
people [MET].
\VS{20}Yahweh
will
not
forgive
anyone
who
is
{\ADD{
stubborn}}
like
that.
Instead,
he
will
be
extremely
angry [DOU]
with
that
person,
and
that
person
will
experience
all
the
curses
that
I
have
told
you
about,
until
Yahweh
gets
rid
of
that
person
and
his
family [IDM].
\VS{21}From
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
Yahweh
will
separate
that
individual.
Yahweh
will
cause
him
to
experience
all
the
disasters
that
I
have
listed
in
the
agreement
that states
the
things
that
Yahweh
will
do
to
curse
{\ADD{
those
who
disobey}}
the
laws
{\ADD{
that
I
have
written}}
in
this
scroll/book.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}“n
the
future,
your
descendants
and
people
from
other
countries
will
see
the
disasters
and
the
illnesses
that
Yahweh
has
caused
to
happen
to
you.
\VS{23}They
will
see
that
all
your
land
has
been
ruined
by
burning
sulfur
and
salt.
Nothing
will
have
been
planted.
Not
even
weeds
will
grow
there.
Your
land
will
resemble
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
{\ADD{
cities}},
and
Admah
and
Zeboiim
{\ADD{
cities}},
which
Yahweh
destroyed
when
he
was
very
angry [DOU]
{\ADD{
with
the
people
who
lived
there}}.
\VS{24}And
the
people
from
those
other
nations
will
ask, ‘Why
did
Yahweh
do
this
to
this
land?
Why
was
he
very
angry
{\ADD{
with
the
people
who
lived
here}}?’
\par }{\PP \VS{25}“hen
other
people
will
reply, ‘It
is
because
they
refused
to
keep
the
agreement
that
Yahweh,
the
God
whom
their
ancestors
{\ADD{
worshiped}},
had
made
with
them
when
he
brought
them
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{26}Instead,
they
served/worshiped
other
gods
that
they
had
never
worshiped
before,
gods
that
Yahweh
had
told
them
not
to
worship.
\VS{27}So,
Yahweh
became
very
angry
with
the Israeli
people
in
this
land,
and
he
caused
them
to
experience
all
the
disasters
that
their
leader
warned
them
about.
\VS{28}Yahweh
became
extremely
angry [DOU]
with
them
and
took/yanked
them [MET]
out
of
their
land
and
banished
them
into
another
land,
and
they
are
still
there.’
\par }{\PP \VS{29}“{\ADD{
There
are
some}}
things
that
Yahweh
our
God
has ◄kept
secret/not
revealed►,
but
he
has
revealed
his
laws
to
us,
and
{\ADD{
he expects}}
us
and
our
descendants
to
obey
them
forever.”

\par }\Chap{30}{\SH Bringing them back to Israel
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}“I
have
now
told
you
about
the
ways
that
Yahweh
our
God
will
bless
you
{\ADD{
if
you
obey
him}}
and
the
ways
that
he
will
curse
you
{\ADD{
if
you
disobey
him}}.
I
am
saying
that
you
must
choose
which
you
want.
But
when
{\ADD{
you
choose
not
to
obey
his
laws}},
some
day
you
will
be
living
in
the
countries
to
which
he
will
scatter
you,
and
you
will
remember
{\ADD{
what
I
told
you}}.
\VS{2}Then,
if
you
return
to
Yahweh
our
God
and
faithfully [IDM]
obey
all
that
I
have
today
commanded
you
to
do,
\VS{3}he
will
be
merciful
to
you.
He
will
bring
you
back
from
the
nations
to
which
he
scattered
you,
and
he
will
cause
you
to
be
prosperous
again.
\VS{4}Even
if
you
have
been
scattered
to
the
most
distant
places
on
the
earth,
Yahweh
our
God
will
gather
you
from
there
and
bring
you
back
{\ADD{
to
your
land}}.
\VS{5}He
will
enable
you
to
possess
again
the
land
where
your
ancestors
lived.
And
he
will
cause
you
to
be
more
prosperous
and
more
numerous
than
you
are
now.
\VS{6}Yahweh
our
God
will
change [MET]
your
inner
beings,
with
the
result
that
you
will
love
him
more
than
you
love
anything
else
and
want
to
do
only
what
he
wants
you
to
do.
And
then
you
will
continue
to
live
in
that
land.
\VS{7}Yahweh
our
God
will
cause
your
enemies
and
those
who
oppressed/persecuted
you
to
experience
all
the
disasters
that
I
have
told
you
about.
\VS{8}You
will
do
what
Yahweh
wants
you
to
do,
as
you
did
before,
and
you
will
obey
all
the
commands
that
I
have
given
to
you
today.
\VS{9}Yahweh
our
God
will
cause
you
to
be
very
successful
in
all
that
you
do.
You
will
have
many
children [IDM],
and
a
lot
of
cattle,
and
you
will
have
abundant
crops.
He
will
again
be
happy
to
enable
you
to
prosper,
just
like
he
was
happy
to
enable
your
ancestors
to
prosper.
\VS{10}{\ADD{
But
he
will
do
those
things
only}}
if
you
do
what
he
has
told
you
to
do,
and
if
you
obey
all
his
rules
and
regulations
that
I
have
written
about
{\ADD{
in
this
scroll}},
and
if
you
will
love
him
more
than
you
love
anything
else
and
want
to
do
only
what
he
wants
you
to
do.
\par }{\SH Choose
life,
not
death
\par }{\PP \VS{11}The
commands
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today
are
not
very
difficult
for
you
{\ADD{
to
obey}},
and
they
are
not
{\ADD{
difficult
to
know}}.
\VS{12}They
are
not
in
heaven,
with
the
result
that
you
need
to
say, ‘◄Who
will
need
to
go
up
to
heaven
for
us
to
bring
them
{\ADD{
down
here
to
us}}
in
order
that
we
can
hear
them
and
obey
them?/Someone
will
need
to
go
up
to
heaven
for
us
to
bring
them
{\ADD{
down
here
to
us}}
in
order
that
we
can
hear
them
and
obey
them.►’ [RHQ]
\VS{13}And
they
are
not
on
the
other
side
of
the
sea,
with
the
result
that
you
need
to
say, ‘◄Who
will
need
to
cross
the
sea
for
us
and
bring
them
back
to
us,
in
order
that
we
can
hear
them
and
obey
them?/Someone
will
need
to
cross
the
sea
for
us
and
bring
them
back
to
us,
in
order
that
we
can
hear
them
and
obey
them.►’ [RHQ]
\VS{14}{\ADD{
You
do
not
need
to
do
that
because}}
his
commands
are
here
with
you.
You
know
them [MTY]
and
you
have ◄memorized
them/put
them
in
your
minds►.
So
you
can
{\ADD{
easily}}
obey
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}So
listen!
Today
I
am allowing
you
to
choose
between
{\ADD{
doing
what
is}}
evil
and
{\ADD{
doing
what
is}}
good,
between
what
will
enable
you
to
live
{\ADD{
for
a
long
time}}
and
{\ADD{
what
will
cause
you}}
to
die
{\ADD{
while
you
are
still
young}}.
\VS{16}{\ADD{
I
say
again}},
if
you
obey
the
commands
of
Yahweh
our
God
that
I
am
giving
to
you
today,
and
if
you
love
him
and
conduct
your
lives
as
he
wants
you
to
do,
and
if
you
obey
all
his
rules
and
regulations,
you
will
prosper
and
become
very
numerous,
and
Yahweh
our
God
will
bless
you
in
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
enter
and
possess.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}But
if
you
turn
away
{\ADD{
from
Yahweh}}
and
refuse
to
heed
what
he
says,
and
if
you
allow
yourselves
to
be
led
away
to
worship
other
gods,
\VS{18}I
am
warning
you
today
that
you
will
{\ADD{
soon}}
die.
You
will
not
live
for
a
long
time
in
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
to
enter
and
possess.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}I
am requesting
that
{\ADD{
everyone
in}} lheaven
and
the
earth
testify
to
you,
that
today
I
am allowing
you
to
choose
whether
you
{\ADD{
want
to}}
live
for
a
long
time
or
to
soon
die,
whether
{\ADD{
you
want
Yahweh
to}}
bless
you
or
to
curse
you.
So
choose
to
live.
\VS{20}{\ADD{
Choose
to}}
love
Yahweh
our
God,
and
to
obey
him [MTY],
and
to ◄be
faithful
to/have
a
close relationship
with►
him.
If
you
do
that,
you
and
your
descendants
will
live
for
a
long
time
in
the
land
that
Yahweh
solemnly
promised
to
your
ancestors
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob,
that
he
would
give
to
them.”

\par }\Chap{31}{\SH Moses appointed Joshua to succeed him
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Moses/I
finished
saying
all
that
to
the Israeli
people,
\VS{2}he/I
said
to
them, “Now
I
am 120
years
old.
I
am
no
longer
able
to
go
everywhere
{\ADD{
that
you
go}} (OR,
to
be
your
leader).
Furthermore,
Yahweh
has
told
me
that
I
will
not
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}.
\VS{3}But
Yahweh
our
God
will
go
ahead
of
you.
He
will
{\ADD{
enable
you
to}}
destroy
the
nations
that
are
living
there,
in
order
that
you
can
occupy
their
land.
Joshua
will
be
your
leader,
which
is
what
Yahweh
already
told
me.
\VS{4}Yahweh
will
do
to
those
nations
what
he
did
to
Sihon
and
Og,
the
two
kings
of
the Amor people-group
when
he
destroyed
their
armies [MTY].
\VS{5}Yahweh
will
enable
you
to
conquer
those
nations,
but
you
must
{\ADD{
kill
all
of
the
people
of
those
nations,
which
is}}
what
I
have
commanded
you
to
do.
\VS{6}Be
brave
and
confident.
Do
not
be
afraid
of
those
people.
{\ADD{
Do
not
forget
that}}
it
is
Yahweh
our
God
who
will
go
with
you.
He
will
always
help [LIT]
you
and
never
abandon
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}Then
Moses/I
summoned
Joshua,
and
while
all
the Israeli
people
were
listening,
he/I
said
to
him, “Be
brave
and
confident.
You
are
the
one
who
will
lead
these
people
into
the
land
that
Yahweh
promised
to
our
ancestors
that
he
would
give
to
them,
and
you
will
enable
them
to
occupy
it.
\VS{8}It
is
Yahweh
who
will
go
ahead
of
you.
He
will
be
with
you.
He
will
always
help [LIT]
you.
He
will
never
abandon
you.
So
do
not
be
afraid
or
dismayed.”
\par }{\SH The
laws
are
to
be
read periodically
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Moses/I
wrote
down
all
these
laws
{\ADD{
on
two scrolls}}
and
gave
{\ADD{
one
scroll}}
to
the
priests,
who
carried
the
chest
containing
the
Ten
Commandments,
and
{\ADD{
gave
the
other
scroll}}
to
the Israeli
elders.
\VS{10}Moses/I
told
them, “At
the
end
of
every
seven
years,
at
the
time
that
all
debts
are
canceled,
{\ADD{
read
this
to
the
people}}
during
the
Festival
of
{\ADD{
Living
in
Temporary}}
Shelters.
\VS{11}Read
it
to
all
the Israeli
people
when
they
gather
at
the
place
that
Yahweh
chooses
for
them
to
worship
him.
\VS{12}Gather
together
everyone—men,
women,
children,
even
the
foreigners
{\ADD{
who
are
living}}
in
your
towns—in
order
that
they
may
hear
{\ADD{
these
laws}}
and
learn
to
revere
Yahweh
our
God,
and
to
faithfully
obey
everything
that
is
written
in
these
laws.
\VS{13}{\ADD{
If
they
do
that}},
your
descendants
who
have
never
known
these
laws
will
hear
them
and
will
also
learn
to
revere
Yahweh
our
God,
during
all
the
years
that
they
live
in
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
to
occupy.”
\par }{\SH Moses
predicted
their disobedience
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Then
Yahweh
said
to
Moses/me, “Listen
carefully.
You
will
soon
die.
Summon
Joshua,
and
you
go
to
the
Sacred
Tent
with
him,
in
order
that
I
may
appoint
him
{\ADD{
to
be
the
new
leader}}.”
So
Joshua
and
Moses/I
went
to
the
Sacred
Tent.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}There
Yahweh
appeared
to
them/us
in
a
pillar
of
cloud,
and
that
cloud
was
close
to
the
door
of
the
tent.
\VS{16}Yahweh
said
to
Moses/me, “You
will
soon
die [EUP].
Then
these
people
will
become
unfaithful [MET]
to
me.
They
will
abandon
me
and ◄break/stop
obeying►
the
agreement
that
I
made
with
them.
They
will
begin
to
worship
the
foreign/pagan
gods
{\ADD{
that
are
worshiped
by
the
people}}
of
the
land
that
they
will
enter.
\VS{17}When
that
happens,
I
will
become
very
angry
with
them.
I
will
abandon
them [DOU]
and
I
will
no
longer
help
them [IDM],
and
I
will
destroy
them $\{$they
will
be
destroyed$\}$.
Many
terrible
things
will
happen
to
them,
with
the
result
that
they
will
say, ‘{\ADD{
We
are
certain
that}} [RHQ]
these
things
are happening
to
us
because
our
God
is
no
longer
with
us.’
\VS{18}And
because
of
all
the
evil
things
that
they
will
have
done,
and
{\ADD{
especially
because}}
they
will
have
started
to
worship
other
gods,
I
will
refuse
to
help [IDM]
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{19}“o,
{\ADD{
I
am
going
to
give
you}}
a
song.
Write
it
{\ADD{
on
a
scroll}}
and
teach
it
to
the Israeli
people
and
cause
them
to memorize
it.
It
will
be
like
a
witness
that
accuses
them.
\VS{20}I
am
about
to
take
them
into
a
very
fertile [IDM]
land,
a
land
that
I
solemnly
promised
their
ancestors
that
I
would
give
to
them.
There
they
will
have
plenty
to
eat,
with
the
result
that
their
{\ADD{
stomachs}}
will
{\ADD{
always}}
be
full
and
they
will
become
fat.
But
then
they
will
turn
to
other
gods
and
start
to
worship
them,
and
they
will
despise
me
and ◄break/stop
obeying►
the
agreement
that
I
made
with
them.
\VS{21}And
they
will
experience
many
terrible
disasters.
After
that
happens,
their
descendants
will
never
forget
this
song,
and
it
will
be
like
a
witness
{\ADD{
that
says, ‘Now
you
know
why
Yahweh
punished
your
ancestors}}.’
I
will
soon
take
them
into
the
land
that
I
vowed
that
I
would
give
to
them;
but
now,
before
I
do
that,
I
know
what
they
are
thinking
{\ADD{
that
they
will
do
when
they
are
living
there}}.”
\VS{22}So
on
the
day
that
{\ADD{
Yahweh
gave
Moses/me
this
song}},
he/I
wrote
it
down,
and
he/I
taught
it
to
the Israeli
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}Then
Yahweh ◄appointed/set
apart►
Joshua
and
said
to
him, “Be
brave
and
confident,
because
you
will
lead
the Israeli
people
into
the
land
that
I
vowed
that
I
would
give
to
them.
And
I
will
be
with
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Then
Moses/I
finished
writing
on
a
scroll
all
the
laws
that
Yahweh
had
told
to
him/me.
\VS{25}Then
Moses/I
told
the
descendants
of
Levi,
who
were
carrying
the
Sacred
Chest
that
contained
the
Ten
Commandments,
\VS{26}“Take
this
scroll
on
which
these
laws
{\ADD{
are
written}},
and
place
it
beside
the
Sacred
Chest
that
contains
the
agreement
that
Yahweh
our
God
made
with
you,
in
order
that
it
may
remain
there
to
testify
{\ADD{
about
what
Yahweh
will
do}}
to
the
people
{\ADD{
if
they
disobey
him}}.
\VS{27}{\ADD{
I
say
this}}
because
I
know
that
these
people
are
very
stubborn [DOU].
They
have
rebelled
against
Yahweh
all
during
the
time
that
I
have
been
{\ADD{
with
them}},
and
they
will
rebel
much
more
after
I
die!
\VS{28}So
gather
all
the
elders
of
the
tribes
and
your
officials,
in
order
that
I
can
tell
them
the
words
{\ADD{
of
this
song}},
and
request
all
those
who
are
in
heaven
and
on
the
earth
to
be
witnesses
to
testify
against
these
people.
\VS{29}I
say
that
because
I
know
that
after
I
die,
the
people
will
become
very
wicked.
They
will
turn
away
from
doing
everything
that
I
have
commanded
them
to
do.
And
in
the
future,
because
of
all
the
evil
things
that
they
will
do,
they
will
cause
Yahweh
to
become
angry
with
them.
And
he
will
cause
them
to
experience
disasters.”
\par }{\SH The
song
that
Moses
sang
to
them
\par }{\PP \VS{30}Then,
while
all
the Israeli
people
listened,
Moses/I
sang/recited
this
entire
song
to
them:

\par }\PoetryChap{32}{\Q \VerseOne{1}“Listen
to
me,
{\ADD{
all
you
who
are
in
the}}
heavens,
\par }{\QB and
{\ADD{
all
you
who
are
on
the}}
earth,
listen
to
what
I
say [MTY].
\par }{\Q \VS{2}I
wish/desire
that
my
teaching
will
fall
on
you
like
rain
drops
\par }{\QB or
be
like
dew
on
the
ground,
\par }{\Q and
be
like
a
gentle
rain
on
the
young
plants,
\par }{\QB like
showers
on
the
grass.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}I
will
praise
Yahweh [MTY].
\par }{\QB And
{\ADD{
all
you
people
should}}
tell
others
that
our
God
is
very
great.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}He
is
like
a
rock [MET]
{\ADD{
under
which
we
are
protected}};
\par }{\QB {\ADD{
everything}}
that
he
does
is
perfect
and
completely
just/fair [DOU].
\par }{\Q He
always
does
what
he
says
that
he
will
do;
\par }{\QB he
never
does
anything
that
is
wrong.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{5}“ut
{\ADD{
you Israeli
people}}
have
been
very
unfaithful
to
him;
\par }{\QB because
of
your
sins,
you
no
longer
{\ADD{
deserve
to}}
be
his
children.
\par }{\QB You
are
extremely
wicked
and
deceitful [DOU].
\par }{\Q \VS{6}You
foolish
and
senseless [DOU]
people,
\par }{\QB ◄is
this
the
way
that
you
should
repay
Yahweh
{\ADD{
for
all
that
he
has
done
for
you}}?/this
is
certainly
not
the
way
that
you
should
repay
Yahweh
{\ADD{
for
all
that
he
has
done
for
you}}.► [RHQ]
\par }{\Q He
is
your
father;
he
created
you [RHQ];
\par }{\QB he
caused
you
to
become
a
nation.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{7}“hink
about
{\ADD{
what
happened}}
long
ago;
\par }{\QB consider
what
happened
to
your
ancestors.
\par }{\Q Ask
your
parents,
and
they
will
inform
you;
\par }{\QB ask
the
older
people,
and
they
will
tell
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{8}When
God,
who
is
greater
than
any
other
god,
long
ago
divided
the
people
into
groups,
\par }{\QB he
assigned
to
the
nations
their
land.
\par }{\Q He
determined
where
each people-group
should
live
\par }{\QB and ◄assigned
to/chose
for►
each people-group
a
god/angel.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}But
Yahweh
decided
that
we
would
be
his
people;
\par }{\QB he
chose
{\ADD{
us,
the
descendants
of}}
Jacob,
to
belong
to
him.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{10}“e
saw
{\ADD{
our
ancestors}}
when
they
were
in
a
desert,
\par }{\QB wandering
in
a
land ◄that
was
desolate/where
no
people
lived►.
\par }{\Q He
protected
them
and
took
care
of
them,
\par }{\QB as
every
person
takes
good
care
of
his
own
eyes. [SIM, IDM]
\par }{\Q \VS{11}{\ADD{
Yahweh
protected
his
people}}
just
like
an
eagle
encourages
its
babies
{\ADD{
to
fly}}
\par }{\QB and flutters
over
them [MET],
\par }{\QB spreading
its
wings
and
catching
them
{\ADD{
if
they
start
to
fall}}.
\par }{\Q \VS{12}Yahweh
was
the
only
one
who
led
them;
\par }{\QB no
other
foreign
god
helped
him.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{13}“{\ADD{
After
they
entered
the
land
that
Yahweh
promised
to
give
to
them}},
\par }{\Q Yahweh
enabled
them
to
rule
the hilly
areas;
\par }{\QB they
ate
the
crops
that
grew
in
the
fields.
\par }{\Q They
found
honey
in
the
rocks,
\par }{\QB and
their
olive
trees [MTY]
grew
{\ADD{
even}}
in
stony
ground.
\par }{\Q \VS{14}The
cows
gave
them
plenty
of
curds/yogurt,
the
goats
gave
them
plenty
of
milk,
\par }{\QB they
had
well-fed
sheep
and
cattle,
\par }{\Q they
had
very
good
wheat,
\par }{\QB and
they
made delicious
wine
from
their
grapes.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{15}“he Israeli
people
became
rich
and
prosperous,
\par }{\QB but
then
they
rebelled
against
God;
\par }{\Q they
abandoned
him,
the
one
who
created
them,
\par }{\QB the
one
who powerfully
saves
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{16}So
he
abandoned
them
because
they
started
to
worship
other/strange
gods.
\par }{\Q Because
of
their
worshiping
disgusting
idols,
\par }{\QB he
became
angry.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}They
offered
sacrifices
to
gods
who
were
{\ADD{
really}}
demons,
\par }{\QB gods
that
their
ancestors
had
never
known;
\par }{\Q they
offered
sacrifices
to
gods
that
they
had
recently
found
out
about,
\par }{\QB gods
whom
your
ancestors
had
never
revered.
\par }{\Q \VS{18}They
forgot
{\ADD{
the
true}}
God,
the
one
who
protects
them [MET],
\par }{\QB the
one
who
created
them
and
caused
them
to
live.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{19}“hen
Yahweh
saw
that
{\ADD{
they
had
abandoned
him}},
he
became
angry,
\par }{\QB so
he
rejected
{\ADD{
the Israeli
people,
who
are
like}}
his
sons
and
daughters.
\par }{\Q \VS{20}He
said, ‘They
are
very
wicked/stubborn
people,
\par }{\QB very
unfaithful;
\par }{\Q so
I
will
no
longer
help
them,
\par }{\QB and
then
I
will
watch
and
see
what
happens
to
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}They
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 32:21 }
Because they
hey}made
me
very
angry
because
of
their
worshiping
idols,
which
are
not
really
gods;
\par }{\QB they
have
caused
me
to
be
{\ADD{
jealous [MET]
because
I
want
them
to
worship
only
me}}.
\par }{\Q So
now,
in
order
to
cause
them
to
become
jealous,
\par }{\QB I
will
send
{\ADD{
to
attack
them
an
army
of}}
a
nation
of
worthless
and
foolish
people.
\par }{\Q \VS{22}I
will
be
very
angry,
and
I
will
destroy
them
\par }{\QB like
a
fire
that
will
burn
on
the
earth
and
all
the
way
down
to
the
place
where
dead
people
are [MET];
\par }{\Q that
fire
will
destroy
the
earth
and
everything
that
grows
on
it,
\par }{\QB and
it
will
even
burn
what
is
down
under
the
mountains.
\par }{\Q \VS{23}I
will
cause
them
to
experience
many
disasters;
\par }{\QB {\ADD{
they
will
feel
as
though}} [MET]
I
am
shooting
all
my
arrows
at
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{24}They
will
die
because
of
being
hungry
and
because
of
having
hot fevers
\par }{\QB and
because
of
terrible
diseases;
\par }{\Q I
will
send
wild
animals
to
attack [MTY]
them,
\par }{\QB and
poisonous
snakes
to
bite [MTY]
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}Outside
{\ADD{
their
houses,
their
enemies}}
will
kill
them [MTY]
with
swords,
\par }{\QB and
in
their
homes,
{\ADD{
their
enemies
will
cause}}
them
to
be
terrified.
\par }{\Q Their
enemies
will
kill
young
men
and
young
women,
\par }{\QB and
they
will
kill
infants
and
old
people
with
gray
hair.
\par }{\Q \VS{26}I
wanted
to
scatter
the Israeli
people
to
distant
countries
\par }{\QB in
order
that
no
one
would
ever
remember
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{27}But
{\ADD{
if
I
did
that}},
their
enemies
would wrongly
boast
\par }{\QB that
they
were
the
ones
who
had
{\ADD{
gotten
rid
of
my
people}};
\par }{\Q they
would
say, “We [SYN]
are
the
ones
who
defeated
them;
\par }{\QB it
was
not
Yahweh
who
has
done
all
these
things.” ’
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{28}You Israelis
are
a
nation
of
people
who
do
not
have
any
sense.
\par }{\QB None
of
you
is
wise.
\par }{\Q \VS{29}If
you
were
wise,
you
would
understand
{\ADD{
why
you
would
be
punished}};
\par }{\QB you
would
have
realized
what
was
going
to
happen
to
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{30}{\ADD{
You
would
have
realized}}
why 1,000
{\ADD{
of
your
soldiers}}
would
be
defeated
by
only
one
{\ADD{
of
the
enemy
soldiers}},
\par }{\QB and
why
two
of
your
enemies
would
chase
away 10,000
{\ADD{Israeli
soldiers}}.
\par }{\Q {\ADD{
You
would
realize
that
this
would
happen}}
only
if
God,
the
one
who
always
defended
you [MET],
had
allowed
your
enemies
to
defeat
you,
\par }{\QB because
he
had
abandoned
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{31}Your
enemies
know
that
their
gods
are
not
powerful
like
Yahweh,
our
God,
\par }{\QB {\ADD{
so
their
gods
could
not
have
defeated
us Israelis}}.
\par }{\Q \VS{32}Your
enemies
are
like [MET] grapevines
planted
near
{\ADD{
the
ruins
of}}
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
{\ADD{
cities}};
\par }{\QB the
grapes
from
those
vines
are
bitter
and
poisonous;
\par }{\Q \VS{33}the
wine
{\ADD{
from
those
grapes}}
is
like
the
poison
of
snakes [DOU].
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{34}{\ADD{“ahweh
says}}, ‘I
know [RHQ]
{\ADD{
what
I
have
planned
to
do
to
the Israeli
people
and
to
their
enemies}},
\par }{\QB and
those
plans
are
so
secure
{\ADD{
that
it
as
though
he
locked
them
up}} [MET].
\par }{\Q \VS{35}I
am
the
one
who
will
get
revenge
and
pay
those
enemies
back
for
what
they
have
done
{\ADD{
to
my
people}},
\par }{\QB at
the
right
time
for
them
to
be
punished [IDM];
\par }{\Q they
will
soon
experience
disasters,
\par }{\QB and
I
will
punish/destroy
them
quickly.’
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{36}“ut
Yahweh
will
see
that
you
who
are
truly
his
people,
who ◄are
innocent/have
not
done
things
that
are
wrong►,
\par }{\QB and
he
will
be
merciful
to
you.
\par }{\Q And
he wil
see
that
you
are
helpless,
\par }{\QB and
that
there
are
very
few
of
you,
slaves
or
free
people,
who
are
still
alive.
\par }{\Q \VS{37}Then
Yahweh
will
ask
his
people, ‘Where
are
the
gods
\par }{\QB that
you
thought
would
protect
you [MET]?
\par }{\Q \VS{38}You
gave
to
those
gods
the
best
parts
of
the
animals
that
you
sacrificed,
\par }{\QB and
you
poured
out
wine
for
them
to
drink.
\par }{\Q So,
they
should
begin
to
help
you;
\par }{\QB they
should
be
the
ones
who
will
protect
you!
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{39}“But
now
you
will
realize
that
I,
only
I,
am
God;
\par }{\QB there
is
no
other
god
who
is
{\ADD{
a real}}
god.
\par }{\Q I
am
the
one
who
can
kill
people
and
who
can
cause
people
to
live;
\par }{\QB I
can
wound
people,
and
I
can
heal
people,
\par }{\QB and
there
is
no
one
who
can
prevent
me
from
doing
those
things.
\par }{\Q \VS{40}I
raise
my
hand
toward
heaven
and
solemnly
declare
\par }{\QB that
just
as
sure
as
I
live
forever,
\par }{\Q \VS{41}that
when
I
sharpen
my
sword,
\par }{\QB as
I [SYN]
prepare
to
punish
people,
\par }{\Q I
will
get
revenge
on
my
enemies;
\par }{\QB I
will
pay
back
those
who
hate
me.
\par }{\Q \VS{42}I
will
kill
all
{\ADD{
of
my
enemies}}
with
a
sword;
\par }{\QB it
will
be
as
though
I
had
arrows
that
will
be
covered
with
their
blood.
\par }{\Q I
will
kill [MTY]
all
those
whom
I
capture
\par }{\QB and
cut
off
their leaders’
heads.’
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{43}“ou
people
of
all
nations,
you
as
well
as
his
people
should
praise
Yahweh,
\par }{\QB because
Yahweh
gets
revenge
on
those
who
kill
the
people
who
serve
him;
\par }{\Q and
he cleanses
his
people’s
land
\par }{\QB which
has
become
defiled
because
of
their
sins.”
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{44}Joshua
and
Moses/I
recited
the
words
of
that
song
while
the Israeli
people
were
listening.
\VS{45}When
they/we
finished
reciting
to
the Israeli
people
the
words
of
this
song,
\VS{46}Moses/I
said, “Never
forget
all
these
commands
that
I
have
been
giving
you
today.
Teach
these
laws
to
your
children,
in
order
that
they
will
faithfully
obey
all
of
them.
\VS{47}These
instructions
are
very
important [LIT].
If
{\ADD{
you
obey}}
them,
you
will
live
a
long
time
in
the
land
that
you
are
about
to
cross
the
Jordan
{\ADD{
River}}
to
occupy.”
\par }{\SH God
told
Moses
that
he
would
see
the
land
from
far
away
\par }{\PP \VS{48}On
that
same
day,
Yahweh
said
to
Moses/me,
\VS{49}“Go
to
the
Abarim
Mountain
range
{\ADD{
here}}
in
the
Moab
region,
across
from
Jericho.
Climb
Nebo
Mountain,
and
look
{\ADD{
toward
the
west}}
to
see
Canaan
land,
the
land
that
I
am
about
to
give
to
the Israeli
people.
\VS{50}You
will
die
on
that
mountain [EUP, DOU],
like
your
{\ADD{
older}}
brother
Aaron
died
on
Hor
Mountain.
\VS{51}You
will
die
because
both
of
you
disobeyed
me
in
the
presence
of
the Israeli
people,
when
you
all
were
at
Meribah
Springs
near
Kadesh
{\ADD{
town}}
in
the
Zin
Desert.
You
did
not
honor
and
respect
me
in
the
presence
of
the Israeli
people
in
the
way
that
I
deserve
because
I
am
God.
\VS{52}{\ADD{
When
you
are
on
that
mountain
where
I
told
you
to
go}},
you
will
see
in
the
distance
in
front
of
you
the
land
that
I
am
about
to
give
to
the Israeli
people,
but
you
will
not
enter
it.”

\par }\Chap{33}{\SH Moses blessed the Israeli tribes
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}Before
God’s
prophet
Moses
died,
he
{\ADD{
asked
God
to}}
bless
the Israeli
people.
\VS{2}This
is
what
he
said:
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q “Yahweh
came
{\ADD{
and
spoke}}
to
us
at
Sinai
{\ADD{
Mountain}};
\par }{\QB he
{\ADD{
came
like}} [MET]
the
sun
rises
in
the
Edom
{\ADD{
region}}
\par }{\QB and
like
his
light
shone
on
us
when
we
were
{\ADD{
in
the
desert}}
near
Paran
Mountain
{\ADD{
after
we
left
Sinai
Mountain}}.
\par }{\Q He
came
with 10,000
angels,
\par }{\QB and
there
was
a
flaming
fire
at
his
right
side.
\par }{\Q \VS{3}Yahweh
truly
loves
his
people,
\par }{\QB and
protects [MTY]
all
those
who
belong
to
him.
\par }{\Q So
they
prostrate
themselves
in
front
of
him,
\par }{\QB and
they
listen
to
his
instructions.
\par }{\Q \VS{4}I
gave
them
laws
to
obey,
\par }{\QB laws
that
would
be
the
most
precious
thing
that
{\ADD{
the
descendants
of}}
Jacob
owned.
\par }{\Q \VS{5}So
Yahweh
became
the
king
of
his Israeli
people
\par }{\QB when
all
the
tribes
and
their
leaders
were
gathered
together.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{6}{\ADD{
I
say
this
about
the
tribe
of}}
Reuben:
\par }{\Q I
desire/hope
that
their
tribe
will
never
disappear,
\par }{\QB but
they
will
never
become
numerous.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{7}“
say
this
about
{\ADD{
the
tribe
of}}
Judah:
\par }{\Q Yahweh,
listen
to
them
when
they
call
out
{\ADD{
for
help}};
\par }{\QB and
unite
them
with
the
other
tribes
again.
\par }{\Q Fight
for
them,
\par }{\QB and
help
them
to
fight
against
their
enemies.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}I
say
this
about
{\ADD{
the
tribe
of}}
Levi:
\par }{\Q Yahweh,
give
to
those
who
are
dedicated
to
you
the
sacred
stones
{\ADD{
that
they
will
use
to
find
out
what
you
want
to
be
done}};
\par }{\Q You
tested
them
at
a
spring
in
the
desert,
a
spring
that
they
named
Massah
and
also
named
Meribah
\par }{\QB {\ADD{
to
find
out
if
they
would ◄remain
loyal
to/continue
to
obey►
you}}.
\par }{\Q \VS{9}The
tribe
of
Levi
did
what
you
told
them
to
do
\par }{\QB and
obeyed
the
agreement
that
you
{\ADD{
made
with
the Israeli
people}};
\par }{\Q those
laws
were
more
important
to
them [HYP]
\par }{\QB than
their siblings
and
parents
and
children.
\par }{\Q \VS{10}The
tribe
of
Levi
will
teach
the Israeli
people [DOU]
your
rules
and
regulations,
\par }{\QB and
they
are
the
ones
who
will
burn
incense
and
who
will
completely
burn
on
the
altar
the
offerings
{\ADD{
that
the
people
bring}}.
\par }{\Q \VS{11}Yahweh,
bless
their
work
\par }{\QB and ◄accept/be
pleased
with►
all
that
they
do.
\par }{\Q Crush/Destroy
all
their
enemies;
\par }{\QB do
not
enable
their
enemies
to
be
able
to
fight
against
them
again.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{12}I
say
this
about
{\ADD{
the
tribe
of}}
Benjamin:
\par }{\Q They
are
the
tribe
that
Yahweh
loves;
\par }{\QB he
keeps
them
safe.
\par }{\Q He
protects
them
continually,
\par }{\QB and
he
lives
among
their
hills [MET].
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{13}“
say
this
about
{\ADD{
the
tribes
of}}
Joseph:
\par }{\Q I
desire/hope
that
Yahweh
will
bless
their
land
\par }{\QB by
giving
them
rain/dew
from
the
sky
\par }{\QB and
water
from
deep
{\ADD{
in
the
ground}},
\par }{\Q \VS{14}by
giving
them
good
fruit
{\ADD{
ripened
}}
by
the
sun
\par }{\QB and
good
crops
at
harvest
time.
\par }{\Q \VS{15}I
desire/hope
that
very
nice
fruit
will
grow
on
trees
in
their
ancient
mountains/hills [DOU],
\par }{\Q \VS{16}and
that
their
land
will
be
have
many
good
crops,
\par }{\QB blessed
by
{\ADD{
Yahweh}},
the
one
who
appeared
to
me
in
a
burning
bush.
\par }{\Q I
desire/hope
that
Yahweh
will
bless
the
tribes
of
Joseph
in
all
those
ways,
\par }{\QB because
he
was
the
leaders
of
his
{\ADD{
older}}
brothers
{\ADD{
when
they
were
in
Egypt}}.
\par }{\Q \VS{17}The
descendants
of
Joseph
will
be
as
strong
as [SIM]
a
bull;
\par }{\QB {\ADD{
with
their
weapons
they
will
wound
their
enemies,
like}} [MET]
a
wild
ox
{\ADD{
gores
other
animals}}
with
its
horns.
\par }{\Q They
will
force
other people-groups,
\par }{\QB all
of
them,
to
be
exiled
to
the
most
distant
places
on
the
earth.
\par }{\Q That
is
what
{\ADD{
the
descendants
of
the
two
sons
of
Joseph}}
will
do,
\par }{\QB the
ten
thousands
{\ADD{
of
the
tribe}}
of
Ephraim
and
the
thousands
{\ADD{
of
the
tribe}}
of
Manasseh.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{18}“
say
this
about
{\ADD{
the
tribes
of}}
Zebulun
{\ADD{
and
Issachar}}:
\par }{\Q I
desire/hope
that
the
people
of
Zebulun
will
prosper
in
their
travels
{\ADD{
across
the
seas}},
\par }{\QB and
that
the
people
of
Issachar
will
prosper
while
they
stay
at
home
{\ADD{
and
take
care
of
their
cattle
and
crops}}.
\par }{\Q \VS{19}They
will
invite
people
{\ADD{
from
the
other Israeli
tribes}}
to
the
mountain
{\ADD{
where
they
worship
Yahweh}},
\par }{\QB and
they
will
offer
the
correct/proper
sacrifices
to
him.
\par }{\Q They
will
become
rich
from
{\ADD{
the
work
that
they
do
on}}
the
seas
\par }{\QB and
from
{\ADD{
the
things
that
they
make
from}} (OR,
{\ADD{
find
in}})
the
sand
{\ADD{
on
the beaches}}.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{20}“
say
this
about
{\ADD{
the
tribe
of}}
Gad:
\par }{\Q Praise
{\ADD{
Yahweh}},
the
one
who
made
their
{\ADD{
territory}}
large.
\par }{\QB The
people
of
their
tribe
{\ADD{
will
attack
their
enemies
fiercely}} [SIM]
like
a
lion
that
crouches,
\par }{\QB waiting
to
tear
off
the
arm
or
the
scalp
{\ADD{
of
some
animal}}.
\par }{\Q \VS{21}They
chose
the
best
part
of
the
land
for
themselves;
\par }{\QB {\ADD{
a
large
share
of
the
land}},
a
share
that
should
be
given
to
a
leader
was
allotted
to
them.
\par }{\Q When
the
leaders
of
the
tribes
of
Israel
{\ADD{
gathered
together}},
\par }{\QB they
decided
that
the
tribe
of
Gad
should
have
a
large
share
of
the
land.
\par }{\QB The
tribe
of
Gad
obeyed
the
commands
of
Yahweh
and
the
things
that
he
decided
that
they
should
do.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{22}“
say
this
about
{\ADD{
the
tribe}}
of
Dan:
\par }{\Q The
people
of
the
tribe
of
Dan
are
like [SIM]
a
young
lion;
\par }{\QB they
leap
from
{\ADD{
their
caves
in
the}}
Bashan
{\ADD{
region
to
attack
their
enemies}}.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{23}“
say
this
about
{\ADD{
the
tribe
of}}
Naphtali:
\par }{\Q {\ADD{
The
people
of
the
tribe
of}}
Naphtali
have
been
blessed
by
Yahweh,
who
has
been
very
kind
to
them;
\par }{\QB their
land
extends
far
south
from Lake
{\ADD{
Galilee}}.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{24}“
say
this
about
{\ADD{
the
tribe
of}}
Asher:
\par }{\Q May
Yahweh
bless
the
descendants
of
Asher
more
than
he
will
bless
the
other
tribes.
\par }{\QB May
he
favor
Asher’s
descendants
most
of
all.
\par }{\QB I
desire/hope
that
their
land
will
{\ADD{
be
filled
with
olive
trees
that
will}}
produce
a
lot
of [IDM]
{\ADD{
olives
to
make
olive}}
oil.
\par }{\Q \VS{25}Their
{\ADD{
towns
will
be
protected
by
high
walls
with
gates
that
have}}
bronze
and
iron
bars;
\par }{\QB I
desire/hope
that
they
will
be
strong
and
secure/protected
all
the
time
that
they
are
alive.
\par }{\BB \par }{\Q \VS{26}“ou
people
of
Israel,
there
is
no
god
like
your
God,
\par }{\QB who
rides majestically
across
the
sky
to
help
you.
\par }{\Q \VS{27}God,
who
lives
forever,
is
the
one
who ◄gives
you
refuge/protects
you►;
\par }{\QB {\ADD{
it
is
as
though}}
he
puts
his
everlasting
arms
under
you
{\ADD{
to
support
you}}.
\par }{\Q He
will
expel
your
enemies
while
you
advance;
\par }{\QB he
has
told
you
to
destroy
all
of
them.
\par }{\Q \VS{28}So,
you Israeli
people
will
live
safely;
\par }{\QB you
descendants
of
Jacob
will
not
be
disturbed
by
others;
\par }{\Q in
the
land
where
{\ADD{
you
will
live}},
there
will
be
plenty
of
grain
and
wine,
\par }{\QB and
there
will
be
plenty
of
rain.
\par }{\Q \VS{29}You
people
of
Israel,
Yahweh ◄has
blessed/is
pleased
with►
you.
\par }{\QB There
is
certainly [RHQ]
no
nation
like
your
nation,
\par }{\QB whom
Yahweh
has
rescued
{\ADD{
from
being
slaves
in
Egypt}}.
\par }{\Q {\ADD{
He
will
be
like}} [MET]
a
shield
to
protect
you
\par }{\QB and
like [MET]
a
sword
to
enable
you
to
defeat
{\ADD{
your
enemies}}.
\par }{\Q Your
enemies
will
come
to
you
begging
for
you
{\ADD{
to
act mercifully
toward
them}},
\par }{\QB but
you
will
trample
on
their
backs/necks.”

\par }\Chap{34}{\SH How Moses died
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Moses
climbed
up
from
the
plains
in
the
Moab
{\ADD{
region}}
to
the
top
of
Pisgah
Peak
on
Nebo
Mountain,
across
{\ADD{
the
Jordan
River}}
from
Jericho.
There
Yahweh
showed
him
all
the
land
{\ADD{
that
the Israelis
would
occupy}}.
He
showed
him
the
Gilead
{\ADD{
region}}
as
far
north
as
Dan
{\ADD{
city}};
\VS{2}all
{\ADD{
the
land
that
the
tribe
of}}
Naphtali
would
occupy;
all
the
land
{\ADD{
that
the
tribes}}
of
Ephraim
and
Manasseh
{\ADD{
had
occupied}};
all
the
land
{\ADD{
that
the
tribe
of}}
Judah
would
occupy
as
far
west
as
the Mediterranean
sea;
\VS{3}the
desert
{\ADD{
area
in
the
south
part
of
Judah}};
and
the
{\ADD{
Jordan}}
Valley
that
extends
from
Jericho
{\ADD{
in
the
north}}
to
Zoar
{\ADD{
city
in
the
south}}.
\VS{4}Then
Yahweh
said
to
him, “You
have
now
seen
this
land
that
I
solemnly
promised
to
Abraham,
Isaac,
and
Jacob,
saying ‘I
will
give
it
to
your
descendants.’
I
have
allowed
you
to
see
it
{\ADD{
from
a
distance}},
but
you
will
not
go
there.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}So
Moses,
who
{\ADD{
always}}
served
Yahweh
{\ADD{
faithfully}},
died
there
{\ADD{
on
that
mountain}}
in
the
Moab
{\ADD{
region}},
which
is
what
Yahweh
said
would
happen.
\VS{6}Yahweh
buried
Moses’
body
in
a
valley
in
the
Moab
{\ADD{
region}},
opposite/near
Beth-Peor
{\ADD{
town}},
but
no
one
to
this
day
knows
where
Yahweh
buried
him.
\VS{7}Moses
was 120
years
old
when
he
died,
but
he
was
still
very
strong,
and
he
could
still
see [MTY]
very
well.
\VS{8}The Israeli
people
mourned
for
him
in
the
plains
of
the
Moab
{\ADD{
region}}
for 30
days.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}God
caused
Joshua
to
be
very
wise,
because
Moses
had
put
his
hands
on
Joshua
{\ADD{
to
appoint
him
to
be
their
new
leader}}.
The Israeli
people
obeyed
Joshua,
and
they
obeyed
all
the
commands
that
Yahweh
had
given
to
Moses
to
tell
to
the Israeli
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Since
the
time
that
Moses
{\ADD{
lived}},
there
has
never
been
a
prophet
in
Israel
like
him.
Yahweh
spoke
to
him face-to-face/directly.
\VS{11}No
other
prophet
has
performed
all
the
kinds
of [DOU]
miracles
that
Yahweh
sent
Moses
to
perform
in
front
of
the
king
of
Egypt,
his
officials,
and
all [HYP]
the
people
of
Egypt.
\VS{12}No
other
prophet
has
been
able
to
do
all
the
great
and
terrifying
things
that
Moses
did
while
all
the Israelis
watched.
\par }