Category Archives: Deuteronomy

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 […]

1-2 The Levitical priests—that’s the entire tribe of Levi—don’t get any land-inheritance with the rest of Israel. They get the Fire-Gift-Offerings ofGod—they will live on that inheritance. But they don’t get land-inheritance like the rest of their kinsmen.Godis their inheritance. 3-5 This is what the priests get from the people from any offering of an […]

1-3 WhenGod, your God, throws the nations out of the country thatGod, your God, is giving you and you settle down in their cities and houses, you are to set aside three easily accessible cities in the land thatGod, your God, is giving you as your very own. Divide your land into thirds, this land […]

1-4 When you go to war against your enemy and see horses and chariots and soldiers far outnumbering you, do not recoil in fear of them;God, your God, who brought you up out of Egypt is with you. When the battle is about to begin, let the priest come forward and speak to the troops. […]