Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of...
Deuteronomy 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.The LORD spoke to me, saying,“You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your...
Deuteronomy 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan. Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.The LORD said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him...
Deuteronomy 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it,...
Deuteronomy 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.The LORD didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even...
Deuteronomy 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;that you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you–you, your son, and...
Deuteronomy 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you–the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite–seven nations greater and mightier than you;and when the LORD your God delivers them up before you, and you...
Deuteronomy 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might...
Deuteronomy 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, “Who can stand before the sons of...
Deuteronomy 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026At that time the LORD said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”So I made...
Deuteronomy 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.Know this day–for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,his signs, and his...
Deuteronomy 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods:...
Deuteronomy 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let’s go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let’s serve them,”you shall not listen to the words...
Deuteronomy 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the...
Deuteronomy 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.Of a foreigner you may require it; but...
Deuteronomy 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God; for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to...
Deuteronomy 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does...
Deuteronomy 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The priests and the Levites–all the tribe of Levi–shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire and his portion.They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. The LORD is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.This shall be the priests’ due from the...
Deuteronomy 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.You shall prepare the...
Deuteronomy 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that...
Deuteronomy 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026If someone is found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.It shall be that the...
Deuteronomy 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your...
Deuteronomy 23
Last Updated: October 10, 2026He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly.A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into the LORD’s assembly.An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly; even...
Deuteronomy 24
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.When she has departed out...
Deuteronomy 25
Last Updated: October 10, 2026If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according...
Deuteronomy 26
Last Updated: October 10, 2026It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives...
Deuteronomy 27
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.You shall...
Deuteronomy 28
Last Updated: October 10, 2026It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to...
Deuteronomy 29
Last Updated: October 10, 2026These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in the...
Deuteronomy 30
Last Updated: October 10, 2026It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,and return to the LORD your God and obey his voice according to all that...
Deuteronomy 31
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these...
Deuteronomy 32
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.For I will proclaim the LORD’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!The...
Deuteronomy 33
Last Updated: October 11, 2026This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.He said, “The LORD came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.Yes,...
Deuteronomy 34
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. The LORD showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan,and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,and the south, and the Plain...