Deuteronomy

Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for YHWH your God hardened his spirit and made obstinate his heart, that He might deliver him into your hand in this day.

You⁺ shall not add to the word that I command you⁺, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of YHWH your⁺ God that I command you⁺.

And what [is] the great nation that has righteous statutes and ordinances according to all this law that I set before you⁺ this day?

Only take heed to yourself and keep yourself diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; and teach them to your sons and to the sons of your sons.

And He declared to you⁺ His covenant, which He commanded you⁺ to perform—the Ten Words. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

And guard greatly your⁺ souls, for you⁺ did not see any form when YHWH spoke to you⁺ at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

lest you⁺ act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female—

the likeness of any animal that [is] on the earth, or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, or the likeness of any fish that [is] in the water beneath the earth.

And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens and you see the sun and the moon and the stars—all the host of the heavens—and you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which YHWH your God has given as a heritage to all the peoples under the whole heavens.

And YHWH has taken you⁺ and brought you⁺ out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him for a people, as an inheritance this day.

And Moses called unto all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances that I speak in your⁺ hearing today, that you⁺ may learn them and be careful to observe them.

YHWH our God made with us a covenant in Horeb.

Not with our fathers did YHWH make this covenant, but with us—we, these here today, all of us who [are] alive.

“I [am] YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness that [is] in the heavens above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water beneath the earth.

You shall not bow down to them and you shall not serve them, for I, YHWH your God, [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and on the third and fourth of those hating Me,

and showing loving devotion to thousands, to those loving Me and keeping My commandments.

You shall not lift up the name of YHWH your God in vain, for YHWH will not hold guiltless him who lifts up His name in vain.

Observe the day of the Sabbath, to keep it holy, as YHWH your God has commanded you.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

and the seventh day [is] the Sabbath to YHWH your God; you shall not do any work—you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and your ox, and your donkey, and any of your cattle, and your sojourner who [is] within your gates—that your manservant and your maidservant may rest like you.

And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and YHWH your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Upon thus YHWH your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Honor your father and your mother, as YHWH your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, that it may be well with you in the land that YHWH your God is giving to you.

You shall not murder.

And you shall not commit adultery.

And you shall not steal.

And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

And you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not covet the house of your neighbor, his field, and his manservant, and his maidservant, his ox, and his donkey, and anything that [is] unto your neighbor.”

O that their heart had been given thus, to fear Me and to keep all My commandments all the days, so that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!

And you, stand here by Me and I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances that you shall teach them, and they will do [them] in the land that I am giving to them to possess.”

And you⁺ shall take heed to do as YHWH your⁺ God has commanded you⁺; you⁺ shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

In all the ways that YHWH your⁺ God has commanded you⁺, you⁺ shall walk, so that you⁺ may live, and [that it may be] well with you⁺, and [that] you⁺ may prolong [your] days in the land that you⁺ shall possess.

Hear, O Israel: YHWH our God, YHWH [is] One.

And you shall love YHWH your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

And these words that I am commanding you today shall be upon your heart.

And you shall teach them diligently to your children and talk of them in your sitting in your house and in your walking by the way and in your lying down and in your getting up.

And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates.

YHWH your God you shall fear, and Him you shall serve, and by His name you shall swear.

You⁺ shall not test YHWH your⁺ God, as you⁺ tested [Him] in Massah.

When your son asks you hereafter, saying, “What [are] the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances that YHWH our God has commanded you⁺?”

Then you shall say to your son, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and YHWH brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

And YHWH showed signs and wonders, great and severe, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes.

And He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in to give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.

And YHWH commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear YHWH our God, for good to us all the time, to keep us alive as this day.

And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all this command before the face of YHWH our God, as He has commanded us.”

And you shall not join in marriage with them; your daughter you shall not give to their son, and their daughter you shall not take for your son.

For they will turn away your sons from following Me, and they will serve other gods; and the anger of YHWH will be kindled against you⁺, and He will destroy you swiftly.

But rather thus you⁺ shall deal with them: Their altars you⁺ shall break down, and their pillars you⁺ shall smash, and their Asherah poles you⁺ shall cut down, and their carved images you⁺ shall burn with the fire.

And you shall know that YHWH your God, He [is] God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant of loving devotion for those loving Him and keeping His commandments for a thousand generations.

And He repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them. He delays not to him who hates Him—to his face He will repay him.

And you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances that I command you today to do.

And you shall remember the whole way that YHWH your God led you this forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you to know what [was] in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, so that He might make you know that the man shall not live by bread alone; but by every [word] that proceeds from the mouth of YHWH the man shall live.

And you shall know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, YHWH your God disciplines you.

And you will eat and be satisfied; and you will bless YHWH your God for the good land that He has given you.

and you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.”

And you shall remember YHWH your God, for He gives you power to gain wealth, that He may establish His covenant that He swore to your fathers, as [it is] this day.

Not in your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations YHWH your God is driving them out from before you, so that He may fulfill the word that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the Ten Words that YHWH had spoken to you⁺ in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And YHWH gave them to me.

And now, O Israel, what does YHWH your God require of you except but to fear YHWH your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve YHWH your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

[and] to keep the commandments of YHWH, and His statutes that I command you today for good to you?

Behold, unto YHWH your God [are] the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that [is] in it.

Yet in your fathers YHWH delighted to love them, and He chose their seed after them, you⁺, above all peoples, as [it is] this day.

And you⁺ shall circumcise the foreskin of your⁺ heart, and be not stiff-necked anymore.

YHWH your God you shall fear; Him you shall serve, and to Him you shall hold fast, and by His name you shall swear.

For rather, unto the place where YHWH your⁺ God chooses out of all your⁺ tribes to establish His Name as His dwelling, you⁺ shall seek and you shall go there.

And you⁺ shall bring there your⁺ burnt offerings, and your⁺ sacrifices, and your⁺ tithes, and the contributions of your⁺ hands, and your⁺ vowed offerings, and your⁺ freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your⁺ herds and your⁺ flocks.

And you⁺ shall eat there before the face of YHWH your⁺ God, and you⁺ shall rejoice in all the sending out of your⁺ hands—you⁺ and your⁺ households—with which YHWH your God has blessed you.

You⁺ shall not do at all as we are doing here today—every man, whatever [is] right in his own eyes.

For you⁺ have not come as yet to the rest and the inheritance that YHWH your God is giving to you.

And you⁺ will pass over the Jordan and dwell in the land that YHWH your⁺ God is giving you⁺ to inherit, and He will give rest to you⁺ from all your⁺ enemies round about, so that you⁺ dwell in safety,

and there will be the place where YHWH your⁺ God chooses for His Name to dwell in it there; there you⁺ shall bring all that I command you⁺—your⁺ burnt offerings, and your⁺ sacrifices, your⁺ tithes, and the contributions of your⁺ hands, and all your choice offerings that you⁺ vow to YHWH.

And you⁺ shall rejoice before the face of YHWH your⁺ God—you⁺, and your⁺ sons, and your⁺ daughters, and your⁺ menservants, and your⁺ maidservants, and the Levite who [is] within your⁺ gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you⁺.

take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, “How did these nations serve their gods, and I also will do likewise?”

You shall not do thus to YHWH your God, for every abomination to YHWH, which He hates, they have done to their gods. For even their sons and daughters they burn in the fire to their gods.

The whole thing, whatever I command you⁺, be careful to observe it. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known—you and your fathers—

of the gods of the peoples who [are] all around you⁺, near to you or far off from you, from the end of the earth and to the end of the earth),

you shall not consent to him nor listen to him. Nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor conceal him,

And you shall do according to the mouth of the word that they pronounce upon you, in that place that YHWH chooses, and you shall be careful to do according to all that they instruct you.

And he shall not multiply for himself wives, and his heart shall not turn away, and silver and gold he shall not multiply for himself greatly.

And it shall come to pass, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book from the one before the faces of the priests, the Levites.

And it shall come to pass with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear YHWH his God by carefully observing all the words of this law and doing these statutes,

that his heart may not be lifted above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment [to] the right or [to] the left, that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom—he and his children—in the midst of Israel.

When you come into the land that YHWH your God is giving to you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of these nations.

There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, a user of divinations, a soothsayer, or a diviner, or a sorcerer,

or one who conjures spells or consults a medium, or a spiritist, or a seeker of the dead.

For an abomination to YHWH [is] everyone doing these things, and because of these abominations YHWH your God is driving them out from before you.

You shall be blameless before YHWH your God.

For these nations that you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners, and as for you, YHWH your God has not given for you [to do] so.

YHWH your God will raise up for you a prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me; you⁺ must listen to him

I will raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers, like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

and he who goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut timber, and his hand swings with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live,

You shall not move a border of your neighbor, which the men of old have set in your inheritance that you will inherit in the land that YHWH your God is giving you to possess.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and they have disciplined him and he will not listen to them,

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his city,

and they shall say to the elders of his city, “Our son, this one, is stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.”

And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones to death; and you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall listen and fear.

his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the day—for cursed of God [is] he who is hanged [on a tree]—so that you do not defile the land that YHWH your God is giving to you [as] an inheritance.

You shall not see the ox of your brother or his sheep going astray, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely turn them back to your brother.

And if your brother [is] not near to you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it to the middle of your own house, and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it—and you shall restore it to him.

And so shall you do with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment, and so shall you do with any lost thing of your brother that is lost by him and you have found it. You must not hide yourself.

You shall not see the donkey of your brother or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely raise [them] up with him.

When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring blood on your house if anyone falls down from it.

If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall die, even the two of them, the man that lay with the woman and the woman. And you shall put away the evil from Israel.

If there is a young woman, a virgin, betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

then you⁺ shall bring out the two of them to the gate of that city, and you⁺ shall stone them with stones to death—the young woman on account of the matter, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man upon this thing, because he humbled the wife of his neighbor. And you shall put away the evil from among you.

If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her and they are found out,

then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty [shekels] of silver, and to him she shall be wife upon that he has humbled her. He shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days.

There shall not be a prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a shrine prostitute from the sons of Israel.

You shall not bring the wage of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of YHWH your God for any vowed offering; for both of them [are] indeed an abomination to YHWH your God.

When you make a vow to YHWH your God, you shall not delay to pay it. For YHWH your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin in you.

But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin in you.

That which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform, as you vowed to YHWH your God voluntarily what you have spoken with your mouth.

When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found in her some uncleanness, and he writes to her a certificate of divorce and puts [it] into her hand and sends her out of his house,

and she has departed from his house and goes and becomes to another man,

and the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, and puts [it] in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife,

[then] her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be wife to him after that she has been defiled; for that [is] an abomination before the face of YHWH, and you shall not bring sin upon the land that YHWH your God is giving to you [as] an inheritance.

When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. To the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow it shall be, that YHWH your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again. To the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow it shall be.

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean after yourself; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow it shall be.

If there is a dispute between men, and they come to the court, they are to be judged, and the righteous shall be declared righteous, and the wicked condemned.

Forty [times] he shall strike him—no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him above these with many blows, and your brother be humiliated in your eyes.

You shall not have in your bag a stone and a stone, a large and a small.

You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah, a large and a small.

And you shall have a complete and just stone, [and] you shall have a complete and just ephah, so that your days may be prolonged in the land that YHWH your God is giving to you.

For an abomination to YHWH your God [is] anyone doing these [things]—anyone doing iniquity.

And we cried out to YHWH, God of our fathers, and YHWH heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our toil and our oppression.

‘Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing it.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

And it shall come to pass, if you do not listen to the voice of YHWH your God, to observe carefully to do all His commandments and His statutes that I am commanding you today, [that] all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

Cursed [are] you in the city, and cursed [are] you in the field.

Cursed is your basket and your kneading bowl.

Cursed is the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

Cursed [are] you in your coming in, and cursed [are] you in your going out.

YHWH will send on you the cursing, the confusion, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of your hand that you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

YHWH will make cling to you the plague, until He has consumed you from the land that you are going in to possess.

YHWH will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with severe burning fever, and with the sword, and with scorching, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

And your heavens that [are] over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that [is] under you iron.

YHWH will give the rain of your land [to be] dust and powder; from the heavens it shall come down on you, until you are destroyed.

YHWH will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; one way you shall go out against him, and seven ways you shall flee before his face, and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.

And your carcass shall be food for all the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten [them] away.

YHWH will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scab, and with the itch, from which you are not able to be healed.

YHWH will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind,

and you shall grope at noonday as a blind man gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and plundered all of the days, and no one shall save [you].

You shall betroth a wife and another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house and you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard and you shall not gather its grapes.

Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be seized from before your face and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue [them].

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes are looking and wasting away toward them all the day, and there is no power in your hand.

A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and of all your toil, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed all the days.

And you shall be driven mad because of the sight of your eyes that you see.

YHWH will strike you with severe boils in the knees and on the legs, which are not able to be healed, from the sole of your foot and to the top of your head.

YHWH shall bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the nations to which YHWH will drive you.

Much Seed you shall carry out into the field, and little gather in, for the locust shall consume it.

You shall plant vineyards and tend [them], and [of] the wine you shall not drink and not gather, for the worms shall consume it.

Olive trees shall be unto you throughout all your territory, and with the oil you shall not anoint, for your olives shall drop off.

You shall bear sons and daughters, and they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.

The locust shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

The foreigner who [is] among you shall rise above you higher and higher, and you shall descend lower and lower.

He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

And all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of YHWH your God to keep His commandments and His statutes that He commanded you.

And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your seed, even to forever.

Because that you did not serve YHWH your God with joy and gladness of heart from the abundance of all things,

therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom YHWH will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in lack of all things, and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.

YHWH will bring against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue you have not heard,

a nation fierce of face, which does not respect the face of the aged, and does not show favor to the young.

And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed—which will leave to you no grain, or new wine, or oil, or offspring of your cattle, [or] increase of your flock, until they have destroyed you.

And they shall lay siege to you in all your gates until your walls, high and fortified, in which you trust, come down in all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates in all your land that YHWH your God has given to you.

And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom YHWH your God has given you, in the siege and dire straits that your enemy will inflict on you.

The tender man among you and very refined—his eye shall do evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaves behind,

so that he will not give to one of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because there remains nothing at all for him in the siege and dire straits that your enemy will inflict on you at all your gates.

The tender and delicate woman among you who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness—her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,

and against her afterbirth that comes from between her feet, and against her children whom she bears. For she will eat them in secret for lack of anything in the siege and dire straits that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

If you are not careful to do all the words of this law written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—YHWH your God—

then YHWH will bring extraordinary plagues and the plagues of your seed, great and prolonged plagues, and evil and prolonged sicknesses.

And He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, the presence of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.

Also every sickness and every plague that [is] not written in the Book of this Law, YHWH will bring upon you until you are destroyed.

And you⁺ shall be left few men, instead of which you⁺ were as stars of the heavens in multitude, because you would not listen to the voice of YHWH your God.

And it shall come to pass [that] as YHWH rejoiced over you⁺ to do good to you⁺ and multiply you⁺, so YHWH will rejoice over you⁺ to destroy you⁺ and bring you⁺ to nothing, and you⁺ shall be plucked from off the land that you are going there to possess.

And YHWH will scatter you among all the peoples, from the end of the earth and to the end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods—which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone.

And among those nations you shall not find rest, nor shall you have a resting place for the sole of your foot. And there YHWH will give to you a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and anguish of soul.

And your life shall be hanging in doubt before you, and you shall dread night and day, and have no assurance of life.

In the morning you shall say, ‘Would that evening be granted!’ And at the evening you shall say, ‘Would that morning be granted!’ Because of the dread of your heart that you dread, and because of the sight of your eyes that you see.

And YHWH will take you back to Egypt in ships by the way of which I said to you, never will you add again to see it, and you⁺ will sell yourselves there to your enemies for menservants and for maidservants, and no one will buy [you].”

And YHWH has not given to you⁺ a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this day.

and it will come to pass in his hearing the words of this oath, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ so that the wet are swept away with the dry.

The things hidden are of YHWH our God, and the things revealed [are] to us and to our sons even to forever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.

And YHWH your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love YHWH your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

if you listen to the voice of YHWH your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes written in the Book of this Law, [and] if you turn to YHWH your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

For this commandment that I command you today is not too wonderful for you, and it is not far off.

It [is] not in the heavens, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend for us into the heavens and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’

Nor [is] it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go for us to beyond the sea and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’

But the word [is] very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

But if your heart turns away, so that you do not listen, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them,

I declare to you⁺ today that you⁺ will surely perish; you⁺ will not prolong [your] days in the land that you are passing over the Jordan to go in there to possess it.

I call as witnesses against you⁺ today the heavens and the earth [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that you may live—you and your seed,

[and] that you may love YHWH your God, to listen to His voice, and to cleave to Him. For He [is] your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.”

And Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of YHWH, and to all the elders of Israel.

when all Israel comes to appear before the face of YHWH your God in the place that He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their ears.

Gather together the people, the men, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourner who [is] within your gates, that they may hear, and so that they may learn and fear YHWH your⁺ God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,

and [that] their children who have not known it may hear and learn to fear YHWH your⁺ God all the days that you⁺ are living in the land that you⁺ are passing over the Jordan to possess.”

The Rock—perfect His work [is], for all His ways [are] just; a God of truth and without injustice, righteous and upright [is] He.

Is it [even] to YHWH [that] you⁺ would act this way, O people foolish and unwise? Is not He your Father [who] created you, He [who] made you and established you?

And Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—you grew fat, you grew thick, you gorged—and he forsook God [who] made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign [gods]; with abominations they provoked Him to anger.

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known. New ones—from the vicinity they came—that your⁺ fathers did not fear.

The Rock [who] brought you forth you neglected, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

And YHWH saw [it], and He spurned [them], from the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

And He said, “I will hide My face from them, I shall see what [is] their end; for a perverse generation are they, sons in whom [is] no faithfulness.

and He said to them, “Set your⁺ hearts on all the words that I testify among you⁺ today, which you⁺ shall command your⁺ sons to be careful to do—all the words of this law.

For it [is] not a futile thing for you⁺, because it [is] your⁺ life, and by this word you⁺ shall prolong days in the land that there you⁺ are passing over the Jordan to possess it.”

Yes, He loves the people; all the holy ones [are] in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words.

A habitation [is] the eternal God and underneath [are] the arms everlasting. And He will thrust out from before you the enemy and will say, ‘Destroy.’