Category Archives: DEUTERONOMY

Expiation of a Crime 1 “If someone is found slain, lying in the field, in the land which the Lordyour God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has killed him, 2 then your elders and judges shall go out and measurethe distanceto the cities which are around the dead person. 3 […]

Various Laws 1 “You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying awayorbeing stolen, andignore [your duty to help] them; you shall certainly take them back to him. 2 If your countryman is not nearby or you do not know him, you shall bring the animal to your house, and it shall stay […]

Persons Excluded from the Assembly 1 “He who has been castrated byhaving his testiclescrushed or his male organ cut off shall not enter the congregation of the Lord. 2 A person ofillegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; none of hisdescendants,even to the tenth generation. 3 An Ammonite orMoabite shall not enter […]

Law of Divorce 1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that sheloses his favor because he has found something indecentorunacceptable about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, 2 and after she leaves his house, […]

Various Laws 1 “If there is a controversy between men, and they go to court, and the judges decide [the issue] between them, and they judge in favor of the innocent and condemn the guilty, 2 then it shall be that if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie […]

Offering First Fruits 1 “Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the Lordyour God gives you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and live in it, 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you harvest from the land that […]

The Altar at Mount Ebal 1 Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep (remember, obey) all the commandments which I am commanding you today. 2 So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to [enter] the land which the Lordyour God gives you, that you shall […]

Blessings at Gerizim 1 “Now it shall be, if you diligently listen toandobey the voice of the Lordyour God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the Lordyour God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 All these blessings will come upon you […]

The Covenant in Moab 1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lordcommanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He made with them at Horeb (Sinai). 2 Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen all that […]

Restoration Promised 1 “So it shall be when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and youcall them to mind in all the nations where the Lordyour God has driven you, 2 and you have returned to the Lordyour God and have listened toandobeyed […]