Apr.
29
Deuteronomy
13, 14
Deu
13:1 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,
Deu
13:2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to
you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known,
and let us serve them;
Deu
13:3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that
dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether
you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deu
13:4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep
his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and
cleave to him.
Deu
13:5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death,
because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of
bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God
commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from the
midst of you.
Deu
13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your
own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other
gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
Deu
13:7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or
far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end
of the earth;
Deu
13:8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall
your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal
him:
Deu
13:9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him
to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Deu
13:10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has
sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deu
13:11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more
such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
Deu
13:12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which
Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,
Deu
13:13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and
have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and
serve other gods, which you have not known;
Deu
13:14 then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently;
and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is done in the midst of you,
Deu
13:15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the
edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and
its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
Deu
13:16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street,
and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to
Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be
built again.
Deu
13:17 There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand;
that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you
mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn
to your fathers;
Deu
13:18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep
all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which
is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
Deu
14:1 You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Deu
14:2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has
chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples
who are on the face of the earth.
Deu
14:3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
Deu
14:4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and
the goat,
Deu
14:5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat,
and the ibex, and the antelope, and the chamois.
Deu
14:6 Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in
two, and
chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.
Deu
14:7 Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud,
or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and
the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they
are unclean to you.
Deu
14:8 The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn't chew the cud,
is unclean to you: of their flesh you shall not eat, and their
carcasses you shall not touch.
Deu
14:9 These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has
fins and scales may you eat;
Deu
14:10 and whatever doesn't have fins and scales you shall not eat;
it is unclean to you.
Deu
14:11 Of all clean birds you may eat.
Deu
14:12 But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and
the vulture, and the osprey,
Deu
14:13 and the red kite, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,
Deu
14:14 and every raven after its kind,
Deu
14:15 and the ostrich, and the owl, and the seagull, and the hawk
after its kind,
Deu
14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
Deu
14:17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
Deu
14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe,
and the bat.
Deu
14:19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not
be eaten.
Deu
14:20 Of all clean birds you may eat.
Deu
14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may
give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates,
that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a
holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its
mother's milk.
Deu
14:22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that
which comes forth from the field year by year.
Deu
14:23 You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your
grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your
herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God
always.
Deu
14:24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to
carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your
God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall
bless you;
Deu
14:25 then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in
your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose:
Deu
14:26 and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires,
for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for
whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh
your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
Deu
14:27 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake
him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deu
14:28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the
tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within
your gates:
Deu
14:29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with
you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the
widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your
hand which you do.