Monthly Archives: July 2017

Driving Out the Nations 1 When theLordyour God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when theLordyour God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated […]

Do Not Forget the Lord 1 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land theLordpromised on oath to your ancestors. 2 Remember how theLordyour God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble […]

Not Because of Israel’s Righteousness 1 Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky. 2 The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can […]

Tablets Like the First Ones 1 At that time theLordsaid to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark. 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are […]

Love and Obey the Lord 1 Love theLordyour God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. 2 Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of theLordyour God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; 3 the signs he performed and the […]

The One Place of Worship 1 These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that theLord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land. 2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under […]

Worshiping Other Gods # 1 If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, 2 and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” […]

Clean and Unclean Food 1 You are the children of theLordyour God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2 for you are a people holy to theLordyour God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, theLordhas chosen you to be his treasured possession. […]

The Year for Canceling Debts 1 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because theLord’s time for canceling […]

The Passover 1 Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of theLordyour God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Sacrifice as the Passover to theLordyour God an animal from your flock or herd at the place theLordwill choose as a dwelling for his Name. […]