Summary Verses 11:1 Divers kings, cities and countries are overcome by Joshua. 11:15 Joshua had done all that Moses had commanded him. 11:20 God hardened the enemies hearts that they may be destroyed. 12:1 Listing of Kings Joshua and Israelites destroyed on both sides of the Jordan. 12:24 The total number of cities was thirty-one. 13:3 God shows Joshua the borders and coast of the land of Canaan. 13:8 The possession of the Reubenites, Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh. 13:14 The Lord is the inheritance of the Levites. 13:22 Evil Balaam was slain.
Joshua Chapter 11 11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph, 11:2 and to the kings who were from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west, 11:3 to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah. 11:4 So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots. 11:5 And when all these kings had met together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel. 11:6 But the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.” 11:7 So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them. 11:8 And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to Greater Sidon, to the Brook Misrephoth, and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining. 11:9 So Joshua did to them as the Lord had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire. 11:10 Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor was formerly the head of all those kingdoms. 11:11 And they struck all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was none left breathing. Then he burned Hazor with fire. 11:12 So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. 11:13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned. 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Israel took as booty for themselves; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they left none breathing. 11:15 As the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses. 11:16 Thus Joshua took all this land: the mountain country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan plain-the mountains of Israel and its lowlands, 11:17 from Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings, and struck them down and killed them. 11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. 11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle. 11:20 For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that He might utterly destroy them, and that they might receive no mercy, but that He might destroy them, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 11:21 And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. 11:22 None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod. 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
Joshua Chapter 12 12:1 These are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the eastern Jordan plain: 12:2 One king was Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, from the middle of that river, even as far as the River Jabbok, which is the border of the Ammonites, 12:3 and the eastern Jordan plain from the Sea of Chinneroth as far as the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), the road to Beth Jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah. 12:4 The other king was Og king of Bashan and his territory, who was of the remnant of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 12:5 and reigned over Mount Hermon, over Salcah, over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and over half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. 12:6 These Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel had conquered; and Moses the servant of the Lord had given it as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh. 12:7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel conquered on this side of the Jordan, on the west, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions, 12:8 in the mountain country, in the lowlands, in the Jordan plain, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the South-the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: 12:9 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; 12:10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; 12:11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; 12:12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; 12:13 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; 12:14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; 12:15 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; 12:16 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; 12:17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; 12:18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; 12:19 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; 12:20 the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; 12:21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; 12:22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; 12:23 the king of Dor in the heights of Dor, one; the king of the people of Gilgal, one; 12:24 the king of Tirzah, one-all the kings, thirty-one.
Joshua Chapter 13 13:1 Now Joshua was old, advanced in years. And the Lord said to him: “You are old, advanced in years, and there remains very much land yet to be possessed. 13:2 “This is the land that yet remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all that of the Geshurites, 13:3 “from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines-the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites; 13:4 “from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; 13:5 “the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath; 13:6 “all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as the Brook Misrephoth, and all the Sidonians-them I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only divide it by lot to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded you. 13:7 “Now therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.” 13:8 With the other half tribe the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses had given them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord had given them: 13:9 from Aroer which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and the town that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plain of Medeba as far as Dibon; 13:10 all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the children of Ammon; 13:11 Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salcah; 13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants; for Moses had defeated and cast out these. 13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day. 13:14 Only to the tribe of Levi he had given no inheritance; the sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as He said to them. 13:15 And Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inheritance according to their families. 13:16 Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plain by Medeba; 13:17 Heshbon and all its cities that are in the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, 13:18 Jahaza, Kedemoth, Mephaath, 13:19 Kirjathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the mountain of the valley, 13:20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth 13:21 all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses had struck with the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were princes of Sihon dwelling in the country. 13:22 The children of Israel also killed with the sword Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, among those who were killed by them. 13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages. 13:24 Moses also had given an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad according to their families. 13:25 Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, which is before Rabbah, 13:26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir, 13:27 and in the valley Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as its border, as far as the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth, on the other side of the Jordan eastward. 13:28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages. 13:29 Moses also had given an inheritance to half the tribe of Manasseh; it was for half the tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families: 13:30 Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities; 13:31 half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir according to their families. 13:32 These are the areas which Moses had distributed as an inheritance in the plains of Moab on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward. 13:33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as He had said to them.
Summary Verses 9:1 Diverse kings assemble themselves against Joshua. 9:3 The Gibeonites trick the Israelites into a treaty. 9:15 Because the Gibeonites tricked the Israelites they are forced to server the Israelites. 10:1 Joshua and the Israelites defend Gibeon against five kings. 10:11 The Lord rained hailstones down on the enemies of the Gibeonites. 10:12 Joshua prays and the sun stands still in the sky. 10:26 The five kings are defeated and they are hanged. 10:29 Many more enemy kings and cities are destroyed by the Israelites.
Joshua Chapter 9 9:1 And it came to pass when all the kings who were on this side of the Jordan, in the hills and in the lowland and in all the coasts of the Great Sea toward Lebanon-the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite-heard about it, 9:2 that they gathered together to fight with Joshua and Israel with one accord. 9:3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, 9:4 they worked craftily, and went and pretended to be ambassadors. And they took old sacks on their donkeys, old wineskins torn and mended, 9:5 old and patched sandals on their feet, and old garments on themselves; and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy. 9:6 And they went to Joshua, to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country; now therefore, make a covenant with us.” 9:7 Then the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell among us; so how can we make a covenant with you?” 9:8 But they said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” And Joshua said to them, “Who are you, and where do you come from?” 9:9 So they said to him: “From a very far country your servants have come, because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt, 9:10 “and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan-to Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. 9:11 “Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, “We are your servants; now therefore, make a covenant with us.” ‘ 9:12 “This bread of ours we took hot for our provision from our houses on the day we departed to come to you. But now look, it is dry and moldy. 9:13 “And these wineskins which we filled were new, and see, they are torn; and these our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.” 9:14 Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions; but they did not ask counsel of the Lord. 9:15 So Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live; and the rulers of the congregation swore to them. 9:16 And it happened at the end of three days, after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors who dwelt near them. 9:17 Then the children of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kirjath Jearim. 9:18 But the children of Israel did not attack them, because the rulers of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel. And all the congregation complained against the rulers. 9:19 Then all the rulers said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel; now therefore, we may not touch them. 9:20 “This we will do to them: We will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.” 9:21 And the rulers said to them, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, as the rulers had promised them.” 9:22 Then Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell near us? 9:23 “Now therefore, you are cursed, and none of you shall be freed from being slaves-woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.” 9:24 So they answered Joshua and said, “Because your servants were clearly told that the Lord your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were very much afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing. 9:25 “And now, here we are, in your hands; do with us as it seems good and right to do to us.” 9:26 So he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they did not kill them. 9:27 And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, in the place which He would choose, even to this day.
Joshua Chapter 10 10:1 Now it came to pass when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it-as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king-and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them, 10:2 that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. 10:3 Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying, 10:4 “Come up to me and help me, that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.” 10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they and all their armies, and camped before Gibeon and made war against it. 10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not forsake your servants; come up to us quickly, save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have gathered together against us.” 10:7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor. 10:8 And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand; not a man of them shall stand before you.” 10:9 Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal. 10:10 So the Lord routed them before Israel, killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them along the road that goes to Beth Horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah. 10:11 And it happened, as they fled before Israel and were on the descent of Beth Horon, that the Lord cast down large hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword. 10:12 Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.” 10:13 So the sun stood still, And the moon stopped, Till the people had revenge Upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. 10:14 And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the Lord heeded the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel. 10:15 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. 10:16 But these five kings had fled and hidden themselves in a cave at Makkedah. 10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, “The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah.” 10:18 So Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them. 10:19 “And do not stay there yourselves, but pursue your enemies, and attack their rear guard. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the Lord your God has delivered them into your hand.” 10:20 Then it happened, while Joshua and the children of Israel made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they had finished, that those who escaped entered fortified cities. 10:21 And all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua at Makkedah, in peace. No one moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. 10:22 Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings to me from the cave.” 10:23 And they did so, and brought out those five kings to him from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. 10:24 So it was, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” And they drew near and put their feet on their necks. 10:25 Then Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage, for thus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.” 10:26 And afterward Joshua struck them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they were hanging on the trees until evening. 10:27 So it was at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, cast them into the cave where they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day. 10:28 On that day Joshua took Makkedah, and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them-all the people who were in it. He let none remain. He also did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. 10:29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah; and they fought against Libnah. 10:30 And the Lord also delivered it and its king into the hand of Israel; he struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword. He let none remain in it, but did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho. 10:31 Then Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish; and they encamped against it and fought against it. 10:32 And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day, and struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that he had done to Libnah. 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he left him none remaining. 10:34 From Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it and fought against it. 10:35 They took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword; all the people who were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish. 10:36 So Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it. 10:37 And they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword-its king, all its cities, and all the people who were in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but utterly destroyed it and all the people who were in it. 10:38 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and they fought against it. 10:39 And he took it and its king and all its cities; they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the people who were in it. He left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had done also to Libnah and its king. 10:40 So Joshua conquered all the land: the mountain country and the South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded. 10:41 And Joshua conquered them from Kadesh Barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even as far as Gibeon. 10:42 All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. 10:43 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
Summary Verses 7:1 Achan sins against the Lord. 7:4 Because of Achan the city of Ai defeats Israel. 7:6 Joshua prays to the Lord. 7:16 Achan, his family and his possessions are stoned by all of Israel. 8:3 The siege of Ai by Israel. 8:19 Israel defeats Ai. 8:29 The king of Ai is hanged. 8:30 Joshua builds an altar to the Lord. 8:32 The Ten Commandments are written on the stones of the altar. 8:35 The Law is read once again to the people.
Joshua Chapter 7 7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed things, for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed things; so the anger of the Lord burned against the children of Israel. 7:2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the country.” So the men went up and spied out Ai. 7:3 And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not weary all the people there, for the people of Ai are few.” 7:4 So about three thousand men went up there from the people, but they fled before the men of Ai. 7:5 And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men, for they chased them from before the gate as far as Shebarim, and struck them down on the descent; therefore the hearts of the people melted and became like water. 7:6 Then Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. 7:7 And Joshua said, “Alas, Lord God, why have You brought this people over the Jordan at all-to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan 7:8 “O Lord, what shall I say when Israel turns its back before its enemies? 7:9 “For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?” 7:10 So the Lord said to Joshua: “Get up Why do you lie thus on your face? 7:11 “Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both stolen and deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff. 7:12 “Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they have become doomed to destruction. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you. 7:13 “Get up, sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the Lord God of Israel: “There is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you.” 7:14 ‘In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which the Lord takes shall come according to families; and the family which the Lord takes shall come by households; and the household which the Lord takes shall come man by man. 7:15 ‘Then it shall be that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.'” 7:16 So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken. 7:17 He brought the clan of Judah, and he took the family of the Zarhites; and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man, and Zabdi was taken. 7:18 Then he brought his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. 7:19 Now Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I beg you, give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession to Him, and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.” 7:20 And Achan answered Joshua and said, “Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I have done: 7:21 “When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. And there they are, hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it.” 7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. 7:23 And they took them from the midst of the tent, brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the Lord. 7:24 Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the Valley of Achor. 7:25 And Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones. 7:26 Then they raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.
Joshua Chapter 8 8:1 Now the Lord said to Joshua: “Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. 8:2 “And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.” 8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night. 8:4 And he commanded them, saying: “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. 8:5 “Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city; and it will come about, when they come out against us as at the first, that we shall flee before them. 8:6 “For they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ Therefore we will flee before them. 8:7 “Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand. 8:8 “And it will be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire. According to the commandment of the Lord you shall do. See, I have commanded you.” 8:9 Joshua therefore sent them out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people. 8:10 Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 8:11 And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley lay between them and Ai. 8:12 So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. 8:13 And when they had set the people, all the army that was on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. 8:14 Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 8:16 So all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue them. And they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 8:17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel. 8:18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the spear that was in his hand toward the city. 8:19 So those in ambush arose quickly out of their place; they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered the city and took it, and hurried to set the city on fire. 8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven. So they had no power to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. 8:21 Now when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 8:22 Then the others came out of the city against them; so they were caught in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down, so that they let none of them remain or escape. 8:23 But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 8:24 And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 8:25 So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand-all the people of Ai. 8:26 For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 8:27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He had commanded Joshua. 8:28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day. 8:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day. 8:30 Now Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal, 8:31 as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. 8:32 And there, in the presence of the children of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 8:33 Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. 8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were living among them.
Summary Verses 4:2 God commands Joshua to set up twelve memorial stones in the Jordan River. 4:18 The waters of the Jordan return to their course after the Israelites cross. 4:20 Twelve more stones are set up in Gilgal. 4:21 The stones are a reminder of the miracle of God the parents must pass down. 5:1 The Canaanites are afraid of the Israelites. 5:2 Circumcision is commanded again by God for those who are not circumcised. 5:10 The Israelites keep the Passover. 5:13 An Angel the Captain of the Lord’s Host (Jesus Christ) appears to Joshua. 6:2 God instructs Joshua on the conquest of Jericho. 6:6 Joshua instructs the Priest and men for battle what to do in the conquest of Jericho. 6:20 The walls of Jericho fall. 6:22 Rahab and her family are saved. 6:24 Everything in the city except god and metal is burnt. 6:26 And Joshua swears a curse against anyone who tries to rebuild the city of Jericho.
Joshua Chapter 4 4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed over the Jordan, that the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying: 4:2 “Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from every tribe, 4:3 “and command them, saying, ‘Take for yourselves twelve stones from here, out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet stood firm. You shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place where you lodge tonight.'” 4:4 Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from every tribe; 4:5 and Joshua said to them: “Cross over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, 4:6 “that this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ 4:7 “Then you shall answer them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.” 4:8 And the children of Israel did so, just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 4:9 Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day. 4:10 So the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the Lord had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and crossed over. 4:11 Then it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed over, that the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed over in the presence of the people. 4:12 And the men of Reuben, the men of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken to them. 4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war crossed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains of Jericho. 4:14 On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life. 4:15 Then the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, 4:16 “Command the priests who bear the ark of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan.” 4:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.” 4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks as before. 4:19 Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. 4:20 And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. 4:21 Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ 4:22 “then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry land’; 4:23 “for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over, 4:24 “that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”
Joshua Chapter 5 5:1 So it was, when all the kings of the Amorites who were on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, that their heart melted; and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the children of Israel. 5:2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives for yourself, and circumcise the sons of Israel again the second time.” 5:3 So Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. 5:4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt. 5:5 For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised. 5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord-to whom the Lord swore that He would not show them the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, “a land flowing with milk and honey.” 5:7 Then Joshua circumcised their sons whom He raised up in their place; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way. 5:8 So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp till they were healed. 5:9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day. 5:10 Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho. 5:11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day. 5:12 Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. 5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?” 5:14 So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?” 5:15 Then the Commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.
Joshua Chapter 6 6:1 Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. 6:2 And the Lord said to Joshua: “See I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor. 6:3 “You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. 6:4 “And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. 6:5 “It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.” 6:6 Then Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.” 6:7 And he said to the people, “Proceed, and march around the city, and let him who is armed advance before the ark of the Lord.” 6:8 So it was, when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them. 6:9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets. 6:10 Now Joshua had commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout or make any noise with your voice, nor shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, ‘Shout’ Then you shall shout.” 6:11 So he had the ark of the Lord circle the city, going around it once. Then they came into the camp and lodged in the camp. 6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 6:13 Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets. 6:14 And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days. 6:15 But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times. 6:16 And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city 6:17 “Now the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 6:18 “And you, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. 6:19 “But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.” 6:20 So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword. 6:22 But Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the country, “Go into the harlot’s house, and from there bring out the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her.” 6:23 And the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. So they brought out all her relatives and left them outside the camp of Israel. 6:24 But they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. 6:25 And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she had. So she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 6:26 Then Joshua charged them at that time, saying, “Cursed be the man before the Lord who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates.” 6:27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout all the country.
Summary Verses 34:1 God shows Moses the land of Canaan. 34:5 Moses dies and God buried Moses in the land of Moab. 34:8 Israel mourns over the death of Moses. 34:9 Joshua becomes the leader of the Israelites. 34:10 The praise of Moses. 1:2 The Lord encourages Joshua. 1:4 God gives the borders and limits of the land of the Israelites. 1:5 The Lord promises to be with Joshua as long as he obeys and follows the Lord. 1:11 Joshua commands the people to prepare themselves to cross over the Jordan river. 1:12 Joshua exhorts the Reubenites to execute their promise to the people. 2:1 Joshua sends two spies to spy our Jericho, whom Rehab hides. 2:11 Rahab confesses faith in the God of Israel. 2:12 Rahab requires a sign from the spies of their promise to deliever her and her family. 2:21 The spies return to Joshua with the good news. 3:3 Joshua commands the people that when they see the Ark move they are to follow it. 3:7 The Lord promises to exalt Joshua before the people of Israel. 3:9 Joshua exhorts the people to follow after the Lord only. 3:16 The waters of the Jordan river part so that the people may cross over.
Deuteronomy Chapter 34 34:1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, 34:2 all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, 34:3 the South, and the plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. 34:4 Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.” 34:5 So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. 34:6 And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor; but no one knows his grave to this day. 34:7 Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished. 34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended. 34:9 Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. 34:10 But since then there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, 34:11 in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, before Pharaoh, before all his servants, and in all his land, 34:12 and by all that mighty power and all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.
Joshua Chapter 1 1:1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: 1:2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them-the children of Israel. 1:3 “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. 1:4 “From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. 1:5 “No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. 1:6 “Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 1:7 “Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. 1:8 “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” 1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, 1:11 “Pass through the camp and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare provisions for yourselves, for within three days you will cross over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.'” 1:12 And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh Joshua spoke, saying, 1:13 “Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, ‘The Lord your God is giving you rest and is giving you this land.’ 1:14 “Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But you shall pass before your brethren armed, all your mighty men of valor, and help them, 1:15 “until the Lord has given your brethren rest, as He gave you, and they also have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrise.” 1:16 So they answered Joshua, saying, “All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. 1:17 “Just as we heeded Moses in all things, so we will heed you. Only the Lord your God be with you, as He was with Moses. 1:18 “Whoever rebels against your command and does not heed your words, in all that you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage.”
Joshua Chapter 2 2:1 Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there. 2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men have come here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country.” 2:3 So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country.” 2:4 Then the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. 2:5 “And it happened as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.” 2:6 (But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.) 2:7 Then the men pursued them by the road to the Jordan, to the fords. And as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate. 2:8 Now before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof, 2:9 and said to the men: “I know that the Lord has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you. 2:10 “For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 2:11 “And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted; neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you, for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. 2:12 “Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a true token, 2:13 “and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.” 2:14 So the men answered her, “Our lives for yours, if none of you tell this business of ours. And it shall be, when the Lord has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.” 2:15 Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall; she dwelt on the wall. 2:16 And she said to them, “Get to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward you may go your way.” 2:17 So the men said to her: “We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have made us swear, 2:18 “unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home. 2:19 “So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him. 2:20 “And if you tell this business of ours, then we will be free from your oath which you made us swear.” 2:21 Then she said, “According to your words, so be it.” And she sent them away, and they departed. And she bound the scarlet cord in the window. 2:22 They departed and went to the mountain, and stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but did not find them. 2:23 So the two men returned, descended from the mountain, and crossed over; and they came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them. 2:24 And they said to Joshua, “Truly the Lord has delivered all the land into our hands, for indeed all the inhabitants of the country are fainthearted because of us.”
Joshua Chapter 3 3:1 Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from Acacia Grove and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they crossed over. 3:2 So it was, after three days, that the officers went through the camp; 3:3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it. 3:4 “Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.” 3:5 And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” 3:6 Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people. 3:7 And the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. 3:8 “You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you have come to the edge of the water of the Jordan, you shall stand in the Jordan.'” 3:9 So Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God.” 3:10 And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites: 3:11 “Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing over before you into the Jordan. 3:12 “Now therefore, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from every tribe. 3:13 “And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they shall stand as a heap.” 3:14 So it was, when the people set out from their camp to cross over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people, 3:15 and as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest), 3:16 that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho. 3:17 Then the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the people had crossed completely over the Jordan.
Summary Verses 32:1 The song of Moses. 32:7 God’s benefit toward His people. 32:15 The peoples ingratitude toward God. 32:21 God speaks of the vocation of the gentiles. 32:46 Moses commands the people to teach God’s Law to their children. 33:1 Moses before his death blesses all the tribes of Israel. 33:26 There is no god like the God of Israel. 33:29 There are no people like God’s people.
Deuteronomy Chapter 32 32:1 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 32:2 Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass. 32:3 For I proclaim the name of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God. 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. 32:5 “They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation. 32:6 Do you thus deal with the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you? 32:7 “Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you: 32:8 When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel. 32:9 For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance. 32:10 “He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. 32:11 As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings, 32:12 So the Lord alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him. 32:13 “He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock; 32:14 Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes. 32:15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 32:16 They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger. 32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear. 32:18 Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you. 32:19 “And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters. 32:20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith. 32:21 They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation. 32:22 For a fire is kindled by my anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 32:23 ‘I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them. 32:24 They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust. 32:25 The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs. 32:26 I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,” 32:27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, “Our hand is high; And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ‘ 32:28 “For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor is there any understanding in them. 32:29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end 32:30 How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the Lord had surrendered them? 32:31 For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges. 32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter. 32:33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras. 32:34 ‘Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures? 32:35 Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.’ 32:36 “For the Lord will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free. 32:37 He will say: ‘Where are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge? 32:38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge. 32:39 ‘Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. 32:40 For I raise My hand to heaven, And say, “As I live forever, 32:41 If I whet My glittering sword, And My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, And repay those who hate Me. 32:42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.” ‘ 32:43 “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.” 32:44 So Moses came with Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. 32:45 Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 32:46 and He said to them: “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe-all the words of this law. 32:47 “For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.” 32:48 Then the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying: 32:49 “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession; 32:50 “and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people; 32:51 “because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin, because you did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel. 32:52 “Yet you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.”
Deuteronomy Chapter 33 33:1 Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 33:2 And he said: “The Lord came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came with ten thousands of saints; From His right hand Came a fiery law for them. 33:3 Yes, He loves the people; All His saints are in Your hand; They sit down at Your feet; Everyone receives Your words. 33:4 Moses commanded a law for us, A heritage of the congregation of Jacob. 33:5 And He was King in Jeshurun, When the leaders of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together. 33:6 “Let Reuben live, and not die, Nor let his men be few.” 33:7 And this he said of Judah: “Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, And bring him to his people; Let his hands be sufficient for him, And may You be a help against his enemies.” 33:8 And of Levi he said: “Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with Your holy one, Whom You tested at Massah, And with whom You contended at the waters of Meribah, 33:9 Who says of his father and mother, ‘I have not seen them’; Nor did he acknowledge his brothers, Or know his own children; For they have observed Your word And kept Your covenant. 33:10 They shall teach Jacob Your judgments, And Israel Your law. They shall put incense before You, And a whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar. 33:11 Bless his substance, Lord, And accept the work of his hands; Strike the loins of those who rise against him, And of those who hate him, that they rise not again.” 33:12 Of Benjamin he said: “The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by Him, Who shelters him all the day long; And he shall dwell between His shoulders.” 33:13 And of Joseph he said: “Blessed of the Lord is his land, With the precious things of heaven, with the dew, And the deep lying beneath, 33:14 With the precious fruits of the sun, With the precious produce of the months, 33:15 With the best things of the ancient mountains, With the precious things of the everlasting hills, 33:16 With the precious things of the earth and its fullness, And the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come ‘on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.’ 33:17 His glory is like a firstborn bull, And his horns like the horns of the wild ox; Together with them He shall push the peoples To the ends of the earth; They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.” 33:18 And of Zebulun he said: “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, And Issachar in your tents 33:19 They shall call the peoples to the mountain; There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness; For they shall partake of the abundance of the seas And of treasures hidden in the sand.” 33:20 And of Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges Gad; He dwells as a lion, And tears the arm and the crown of his head. 33:21 He provided the first part for himself, Because a lawgiver’s portion was reserved there. He came with the heads of the people; He administered the justice of the Lord, And His judgments with Israel.” 33:22 And of Dan he said: “Dan is a lion’s whelp; He shall leap from Bashan.” 33:23 And of Naphtali he said: “O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the blessing of the Lord, Possess the west and the south.” 33:24 And of Asher he said: “Asher is most blessed of sons; Let him be favored by his brothers, And let him dip his foot in oil. 33:25 Your sandals shall be iron and bronze; As your days, so shall your strength be. 33:26 “There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to help you, And in His excellency on the clouds. 33:27 The eternal God is your refuge, And underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, And will say, ‘Destroy’ 33:28 Then Israel shall dwell in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; His heavens shall also drop dew. 33:29 Happy are you, O Israel Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, The shield of your help And the sword of your majesty Your enemies shall submit to you, And you shall tread down their high places.”
Summary Verses 29:2 The people are exhorted to observe the commandments of God. 29:10 All of the people of Israel are under God’s covenant. 29:19 Following God’s commandments are a matter of the heart. 29:24 Forsaking God’s commandments will bring His wrath on the nation of Israel. 30:1 God promises to show mercy when the people repent and turn back toward Him. 30:6 It’s the Lord Who circumcises the heart of the people. 30:11 God takes away all excuses of ignorance. 30:19 God sets the choice of life and death before the people, to follow or reject Him. 30:20 The Lord is the life to those who obey Him. 31:1 Moses prepares to appoint Joshua as the new leader of the people. 31:9 Moses gives the written Laws to the Levites and instructs them to read it to the people. 31:19 God gives the people a song as a witness between He and they. 31:23 God confirms Joshua as the new leader of the Israelites. 31:29 Moses prophesies the people will rebell after his death.
Deuteronomy Chapter 29 29:1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. 29:2 Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land 29:3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. 29:4 “Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day. 29:5 “And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet. 29:6 “You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. 29:7 “And when you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we conquered them. 29:8 “We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh. 29:9 “Therefore keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. 29:10 “All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, 29:11 “your little ones and your wives-also the stranger who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water 29:12 that you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath, which the Lord your God makes with you today, 29:13 “that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, just as He has spoken to you, and just as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 29:14 “I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone, 29:15 “but with him who stands here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today 29:16 (for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by, 29:17 and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them-wood and stone and silver and gold); 29:18 “so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood; 29:19 “and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart’-as though the drunkard could be included with the sober. 29:20 “The Lord would not spare him; for then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord would blot out his name from under heaven. 29:21 “And the Lord would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law, 29:22 “so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it: 29:23 ‘The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ 29:24 “All nations would say, ‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ 29:25 “Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; 29:26 ‘for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. 29:27 ‘Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. 29:28 ‘And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’ 29:29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy Chapter 30 30:1 “Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 30:2 “and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 30:3 “that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. 30:4 “If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 30:5 “Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 30:6 “And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. 30:7 “Also the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 30:8 “And you will again obey the voice of the Lord and do all His commandments which I command you today. 30:9 “The Lord your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the Lord will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, 30:10 “if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 30:11 “For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 30:12 “It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 30:13 “Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 30:14 “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. 30:15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, 30:16 “in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 30:17 “But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, 30:18 “I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. 30:19 “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 30:20 “that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
Deuteronomy Chapter 31 31:1 Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 31:2 And he said to them: “I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I can no longer go out and come in. Also the Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross over this Jordan.’ 31:3 “The Lord your God Himself crosses over before you; He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua himself crosses over before you, just as the Lord has said. 31:4 “And the Lord will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them. 31:5 “The Lord will give them over to you, that you may do to them according to every commandment which I have commanded you. 31:6 “Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.” 31:7 Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it. 31:8 “And the Lord, He is the one who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.” 31:9 So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. 31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, 31:11 “when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 31:12 “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, 31:13 “and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.” 31:14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the days approach when you must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of meeting, that I may inaugurate him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of meeting. 31:15 Now the Lord appeared at the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood above the door of the tabernacle. 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. 31:17 “Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’ 31:18 “And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods. 31:19 “Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel. 31:20 “When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant. 31:21 “Then it shall be, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify against them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten in the mouths of their descendants, for I know the inclination of their behavior today, even before I have brought them to the land of which I swore to give them.” 31:22 Therefore Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel. 31:23 Then He inaugurated Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land of which I swore to them, and I will be with you.” 31:24 So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished, 31:25 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying: 31:26 “Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there as a witness against you; 31:27 “for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord, then how much more after my death? 31:28 “Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 31:29 “For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.” 31:30 Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were ended:
Summary Verses 28:1 The promises of God to those who obey His commandments. 28:15 The cursings for those who refuse to obey God’s commandments.
Deuteronomy Chapter 28 28:1 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 28:2 “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God: 28:3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. 28:4 “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 28:5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 28:6 “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. 28:7 “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 28:8 “The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 28:9 “The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. 28:10 “Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. 28:11 “And the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 28:12 “The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 28:13 “And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. 28:14 “So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 28:15 “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 28:16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. 28:17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 28:18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 28:19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. 28:20 “The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. 28:21 “The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. 28:22 “The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. 28:23 “And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. 28:24 “The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. 28:25 “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. 28:26 “Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. 28:27 “The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28:28 “The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart. 28:29 “And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you. 28:30 “You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. 28:31 “Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them. 28:32 “Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no strength in your hand. 28:33 “A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. 28:34 “So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. 28:35 “The Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. 28:36 “The Lord will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods-wood and stone. 28:37 “And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you. 28:38 “You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. 28:39 “You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 28:40 “You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. 28:41 “You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. 28:42 “Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land. 28:43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 28:44 “He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 28:45 “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 28:46 “And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever. 28:47 “Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 28:48 “therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 28:49 “The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 28:50 “a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. 28:51 “And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you. 28:52 “They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. 28:53 “You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. 28:54 “The sensitive and very refined man among you will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, 28:55 “so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. 28:56 “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 sensitivity, will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, 28:57 “her placenta which comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. 28:58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 28:59 “then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues-great and prolonged plagues-and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 28:60 “Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 28:61 “Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. 28:62 “You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 28:63 “And it shall be, that just as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess. 28:64 “Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known-wood and stone. 28:65 “And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul. 28:66 “Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. 28:67 “In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see. 28:68 “And the Lord will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
Summary Verses 25:3 Rules regarding corporal punishment. 25:5 The duty of a kinsmen redeemer. 25:11 The crime that can cause a women’s hand to be cut off. 25:13 God’s warning to use just weights and measures. 25:19 God orders the people to destroy the Amalekites. 26:3 The offering of the Firstfuits. 26:5 Commandment regarding what to say when making the offering of Firstfruits. 26:12 The tither of the first year. 26:19 God acknowledges those who call Him their Lord. 27:2 God commands the people to write the law ipon stones for rememberence. 27:5 God commands the people to build an altar. 27:13 The cursings are given on mount Ebal.
Deuteronomy Chapter 25 25:1 “If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, 25:2 “then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows. 25:3 “Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight. 25:4 “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. 25:5 “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 25:6 “And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 25:7 “But if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’ 25:8 “Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to take her,’ 25:9 “then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house.’ 25:10 “And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’ 25:11 “If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals, 25:12 “then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her. 25:13 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 25:14 “You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 25:15 “You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 25:16 “For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your God. 25:17 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, 25:18 “how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God. 25:19 “Therefore it shall be, when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.
Deuteronomy Chapter 26 26:1 “And it shall be, when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, 26:2 “that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. 26:3 “And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’ 26:4 “Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. 26:5 “And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 26:6 ‘But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. 26:7 ‘Then we cried out to the Lord God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression. 26:8 ‘So the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. 26:9 ‘He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, “a land flowing with milk and honey”; 26:10 ‘and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O Lord, have given me.’ Then you shall set it before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God. 26:11 “So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you. 26:12 “When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year-the year of tithing-and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled, 26:13 “then you shall say before the Lord your God: ‘I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them. 26:14 ‘I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me. 26:15 ‘Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, “a land flowing with milk and honey.” ‘ 26:16 “This day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. 26:17 “Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice. 26:18 “Also today the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, 26:19 “and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”
Deuteronomy Chapter 27 27:1 Now Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying: “Keep all the commandments which I command you today. 27:2 “And it shall be, on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime. 27:3 “You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over, that you may enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ just as the Lord God of your fathers promised you. 27:4 “Therefore it shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that on Mount Ebal you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, and you shall whitewash them with lime. 27:5 “And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them. 27:6 “You shall build with whole stones the altar of the Lord your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. 27:7 “You shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God. 27:8 “And you shall write very plainly on the stones all the words of this law.” 27:9 Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, “Take heed and listen, O Israel: This day you have become the people of the Lord your God. 27:10 “Therefore you shall obey the voice of the Lord your God, and observe His commandments and His statutes which I command you today.” 27:11 And Moses commanded the people on the same day, saying, 27:12 “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin; 27:13 “and these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 27:14 “And the Levites shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Israel: 27:15 ‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen’ 27:16 ‘Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:17 ‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:18 ‘Cursed is the one who makes the blind to wander off the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:19 ‘Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:20 ‘Cursed is the one who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s bed.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:21 ‘Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:22 ‘Cursed is the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:23 ‘Cursed is the one who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:24 ‘Cursed is the one who attacks his neighbor secretly.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:25 ‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’ 27:26 ‘Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’
Summary Verses 22:2 God gives commandments to the people to watch for the good of their neighbors. 22:5 God warns the people women are not to dress as men and men are not to dress as women. 22:6 God gives instruction on how to treat birds with young. 22:8 God gives instruction on making homes safe. 22:9 People are not mix different types of seeds together. 22:13 Instruction for wives who are not vigins. 22:23 The punishment for adultery. 23:1 Men who are not permitted to hold public office. 23:9 Code of conduct when going to war. 23:15 Instruction on the fugitive servant. 23:17 Warning to flee all types of sexual immorality or prostitution. 23:19 Laws concerning uury. 23:21 laws concerning vows. 23:24 Code of conduct when visiting neighbors vinyard or corn. 24:1 Divorce is permitted. 24:5 The newly married man is exempt from war the first year. 24:6 People are forbidden from taking a millstone as a pledge. 24:14 Employers must not withold wages from employees. 24:16 The good must not be punished for the bad. 24:17 Care of the stranger, fatherless and widow.
Deuteronomy Chapter 22 22:1 “You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray, and hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother. 22:2 “And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him. 22:3 “You shall do the same with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment; with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do likewise; you must not hide yourself. 22:4 “You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift them up again. 22:5 “A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God. 22:6 “If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; 22:7 “you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days. 22:8 “When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it. 22:9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled. 22:10 “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. 22:11 “You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together. 22:12 “You shall make tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself. 22:13 “If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and detests her, 22:14 “and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and says, ‘I took this woman, and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin,’ 22:15 “then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. 22:16 “And the young woman’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he detests her. 22:17 ‘Now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, “I found your daughter was not a virgin,” and yet these are the evidences of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 22:18 “Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him; 22:19 “and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days. 22:20 “But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, 22:21 “then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. So you shall put away the evil from among you. 22:22 “If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die-the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away the evil from Israel. 22:23 “If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, 22:24 “then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor’s wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you. 22:25 “But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 22:26 “But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. 22:27 “For he found her in the countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her. 22:28 “If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out, 22:29 “then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days. 22:30 “A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s bed.
Deuteronomy Chapter 23 23:1 “He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the Lord. 23:2 “One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord. 23:3 “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever, 23:4 “because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 23:5 “Nevertheless the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. 23:6 “You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. 23:7 “You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land. 23:8 “The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord. 23:9 “When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing. 23:10 “If there is any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp. 23:11 “But it shall be, when evening comes, that he shall wash with water; and when the sun sets, he may come into the camp. 23:12 “Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out; 23:13 “and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse. 23:14 “For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you. 23:15 “You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you. 23:16 “He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it seems best to him; you shall not oppress him. 23:17 “There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel. 23:18 “You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the Lord your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God. 23:19 “You shall not charge interest to your brother-interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest. 23:20 “To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess. 23:21 “When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you. 23:22 “But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you. 23:23 “That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth. 23:24 “When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container. 23:25 “When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
Deuteronomy Chapter 24 24:1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, 24:2 “when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man’s wife, 24:3 “if the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife, 24:4 “then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. 24:5 “When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken. 24:6 “No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes one’s living in pledge. 24:7 “If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and mistreats him or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die; and you shall put away the evil from among you. 24:8 “Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy, that you carefully observe and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; just as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do. 24:9 “Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt. 24:10 “When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. 24:11 “You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you. 24:12 “And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight. 24:13 “You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and bless you; and it shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God. 24:14 “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates. 24:15 “Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you. 24:16 “Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin. 24:17 “You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge. 24:18 “But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this thing. 24:19 “When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 24:20 “When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. 24:21 “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. 24:22 “And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.
