Apr.
28
Deuteronomy
11, 12
Deu
11:1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his
instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his
commandments, always.
Deu
11:2 Know this day: for I don't speak with your children who have
not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God,
his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
Deu
11:3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of
Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
Deu
11:4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to
their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them
as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this
day;
Deu
11:5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to
this place;
Deu
11:6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the
son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up,
and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that
followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
Deu
11:7 but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he
did.
Deu
11:8 Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command
you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land,
where you go over to possess it;
Deu
11:9 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh
swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land
flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
11:10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land
of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and
watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
Deu
11:11 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of
hills and valleys, and
drinks water of the rain of the sky,
Deu
11:12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh
your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the
end of the year.
Deu
11:13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my
commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deu
11:14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the
former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain,
and your new wine, and your oil.
Deu
11:15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you
shall eat and be full.
Deu
11:16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you
turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Deu
11:17 and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up
the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield
its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh
gives you.
Deu
11:18 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in
your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they
shall be for symbols between your eyes.
Deu
11:19 You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you
sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie
down, and when you rise up.
Deu
11:20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on
your gates;
Deu
11:21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give
them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
Deu
11:22 For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I
command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to cleave to him;
Deu
11:23 then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you,
and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than
yourselves.
Deu
11:24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be
yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river
Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.
Deu
11:25 No man shall be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God
shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that
you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.
Deu
11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
Deu
11:27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of
Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;
Deu
11:28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of
Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you
this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
Deu
11:29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the
land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on
Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Deu
11:30 Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going
down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the
Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
Deu
11:31 For you are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the
land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall possess it, and
dwell therein.
Deu
11:32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances
which I set before you this day.
Deu
12:1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall
observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has
given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
Deu
12:2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations
that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains,
and on the hills, and under every green tree:
Deu
12:3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their
pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the
engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out
of that place.
Deu
12:4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
Deu
12:5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all
your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall
seek, and there you shall come;
Deu
12:6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and
your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your
herd and of your flock:
Deu
12:7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall
rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in
which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
Deu
12:8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,
every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
Deu
12:9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
12:10 But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which
Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all
your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;
Deu
12:11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring
all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice
vows which you vow to Yahweh.
Deu
12:12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons,
and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants,
and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion
nor inheritance with you.
Deu
12:13 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt
offerings in every place that you see;
Deu
12:14 but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your
tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you
shall do all that I command you.
Deu
12:15 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your
gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing
of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean
may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
Deu
12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the
earth as water.
Deu
12:17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or
of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of
your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill
offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
Deu
12:18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place
which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your
daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the
Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh
your God in all that you put your hand to.
Deu
12:19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as
long as you live in your land.
Deu
12:20 When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has
promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul
desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your
soul.
Deu
12:21 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his
name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and
of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you;
and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
Deu
12:22 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat
of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
Deu
12:23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is
the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Deu
12:24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as
water.
Deu
12:25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with
your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the
eyes of Yahweh.
Deu
12:26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall
take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:
Deu
12:27 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the
blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your
sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and
you shall eat the flesh.
Deu
12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it
may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when
you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
Deu
12:29 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before
you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and
dwell in their land;
Deu
12:30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them,
after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not
inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their
gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deu
12:31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination
to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even
their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their
gods.
Deu
12:32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do:
you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.