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1 When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty. 2 If the guilty person deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes […]

Firstfruits and Tithes 1 When you have entered the land theLordyour God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, 2 take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land theLordyour God is giving you and put them in a […]

The Altar on Mount Ebal 1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all these commands that I give you today. 2 When you have crossed the Jordan into the land theLordyour God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster. 3 Write on them all the […]

Blessings for Obedience 1 If you fully obey theLordyour God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, theLordyour God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey theLordyour God: 3 You will be blessed in the […]

Renewal of the Covenant # 1 These are the terms of the covenant theLordcommanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. 2 Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that theLorddid in Egypt to Pharaoh, […]

Prosperity After Turning to the Lord 1 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever theLordyour God disperses you among the nations, 2 and when you and your children return to theLordyour God and obey him with all your heart and with […]

Joshua to Succeed Moses 1 Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel: 2 “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. TheLordhas said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’ 3 TheLordyour God himself will cross over ahead of you. […]

1 Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth. 2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. 3 I will proclaim the name of theLord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God! […]

Moses Blesses the Tribes 1 This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death. 2 He said: “TheLordcame from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. # He came withmyriads of holy ones # from the south, from his mountain slopes. […]

The Death of Moses 1 Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There theLordshowed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, 2 all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, 3 the […]