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Deuteronomy 24-27
Chapter 24
1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it
come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it
in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2And when she is departed
out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. 3And
if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and
giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter
husband die, which took her to be his wife; 4Her former
husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that
she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt
not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance.
5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to
war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free
at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. 6No
man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a
man’s life to pledge. 7If a man be found stealing any of his
brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth
him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. 8Take
heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to
all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so
ye shall observe to do. 9Remember what the LORD thy God did unto
Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. 10When
thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch
his pledge. 11Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost
lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. 12And if the man be
poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13In any case thou shalt
deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his
own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the
LORD thy God.
14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is
poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are
in thy land within thy gates: 15At his day thou shalt give him
his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and
setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin
unto thee. 16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be
put to death for his own sin. 17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment
of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to
pledge: 18But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt,
and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this
thing. 19When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast
forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be
for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God
may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20When thou beatest
thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the
stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21When thou
gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward:
it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 22And
thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I
command thee to do this thing.
Chapter 25
1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto
judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the
righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2And it shall be, if the wicked
man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down,
and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3Forty
stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should
exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem
vile unto thee. 4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the
corn.
5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have
no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her
husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and
perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her. 6And it shall
be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his
brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7And
if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife
go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to
raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my
husband’s brother. 8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and
speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take
her; 9Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence
of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and
shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up
his brother’s house. 10And his name shall be called in Israel, The
house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 11When men strive together
one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her
husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and
taketh him by the secrets: 12Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine
eye shall not pity her.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great
and a small. 14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a
great and a small. 15But thou shalt have a perfect and just
weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be
lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16For all
that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an
abomination unto the LORD thy God. 17Remember what Amalek did unto
thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; 18How he met
thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were
feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not
God. 19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee
rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot
out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Chapter 26
1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and
possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2That thou shalt take of the
first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the
LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto
the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3And
thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I
profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which
the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. 4And the priest shall
take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD
thy God. 5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A
Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and
sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and
populous: 6And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and
laid upon us hard bondage: 7And when we cried unto the LORD God of
our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our
labour, and our oppression: 8And the LORD brought us forth out of
Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great
terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 9And he hath brought
us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth
with milk and honey. 10And now, behold, I have brought the
firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set
it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: 11And
thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given
unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is
among you.
12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of
thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast
given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow,
that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13Then thou shalt
say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine
house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast
commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten
them: 14I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have
I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought
thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my
God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15Look
down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the
land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that
floweth with milk and honey.
16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do
these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul. 17Thou hast avouched the LORD
this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and
his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18And
the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath
promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19And
to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name,
and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as
he hath spoken.
Chapter 27
1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people,
saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. 2And
it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister
them with plaister: 3And thou shalt write upon them all the words of
this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the
LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. 4Therefore it shall be
when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I
command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
5And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar
of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. 6Thou
shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer
burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God: 7And thou shalt offer
peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God. 8And
thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. 9And
Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and
hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. 10Thou
shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and
his statutes, which I command thee this day.
11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, 12These
shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over
Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13And
these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun,
Dan, and Naphtali. 14And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all
the men of Israel with a loud voice, 15Cursed be the man that
maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work
of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place.
And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. 16Cursed be he
that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say,
Amen. 17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark.
And all the people shall say, Amen. 18Cursed be he that maketh
the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. 19Cursed
be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and
widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. 20Cursed be he that
lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And
all the people shall say, Amen. 21Cursed be he that lieth with
any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. 22Cursed be
he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of
his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. 23Cursed be he
that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen. 24Cursed
be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say,
Amen. 25Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent
person. And all the people shall say, Amen. 26Cursed be he
that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
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