Monthly Archives: July 2017

1-5 Keep and live out the entire commandment that I’m commanding you today so that you’ll live and prosper and enter and own the land thatGodpromised to your ancestors. Remember every road thatGodled you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what […]

1-2 Attention, Israel! This very day you are crossing the Jordan to enter the land and dispossess nations that are much bigger and stronger than you are. You’re going to find huge cities with sky-high fortress-walls and gigantic people, descendants of the Anakites—you’ve heard all about them; you’ve heard the saying, “No one can stand […]

1-2 Godresponded. He said, “Shape two slabs of stone similar to the first ones. Climb the mountain and meet me. Also make yourself a wooden chest. I will engrave the stone slabs with the words that were on the first ones, the ones you smashed. Then you will put them in the Chest.” 3-5 So […]

1 So loveGod, your God; guard well his rules and regulations; obey his commandments for the rest of time. 2-7 Today it’s very clear that it isn’t your children who are front and center here: They weren’t in on whatGoddid, didn’t see the acts, didn’t experience the discipline, didn’t marvel at his greatness, the way […]

1 These are the rules and regulations that you must diligently observe for as long as you live in this country thatGod, the God-of-Your-Fathers, has given you to possess. 2-3 Ruthlessly demolish all the sacred shrines where the nations that you’re driving out worship their gods—wherever you find them, on hills and mountains or in […]

1-4 When a prophet or visionary gets up in your community and gives out a miracle-sign or wonder, and the miracle-sign or wonder that he gave out happens and he says, “Let’s follow other gods” (these are gods you know nothing about), “let’s worship them,” don’t pay any attention to what that prophet or visionary […]

1-2 You are children ofGod, your God, so don’t mutilate your bodies or shave your heads in funeral rites for the dead. You only are a people holy toGod, your God;Godchose you out of all the people on Earth as his cherished personal treasure. 3-8 Don’t eat anything abominable. These are the animals you may […]

1-3 At the end of every seventh year, cancel all debts. This is the procedure: Everyone who has lent money to a neighbor writes it off. You must not press your neighbor or his brother for payment: All-Debts-Are-Canceled—Godsays so. You may collect payment from foreigners, but whatever you have lent to your fellow Israelite you […]

1-4 Observe the month of Abib by celebrating the Passover toGod, your God. It was in the month of Abib thatGod, your God, delivered you by night from Egypt. Offer the Passover-Sacrifice toGod, your God, at the placeGodchooses to be worshiped by establishing his name there. Don’t eat yeast bread with it; for seven days […]

1 And don’t sacrifice toGod, your God, an ox or sheep that is defective or has anything at all wrong with it. That’s an abomination, an insult toGod, your God. 2-5 If you find anyone within the towns thatGod, your God, is giving you doing what is wrong inGod’s eyes, breaking his covenant by going […]