Category Archives: Deuteronomy

The Command to Leave Horeb 1 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab. 2 (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.) 3 In the […]

Wanderings in the Wilderness 1 Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea,as theLordhad directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir. 2 Then theLordsaid to me, 3 “You have made your way around this hill country long […]

Defeat of Og King of Bashan 1 Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei. 2 TheLordsaid to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along […]

Obedience Commanded 1 Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land theLord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract […]

The Ten Commandments 1 Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. 2 TheLordour God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3 It was not with our ancestorsthat theLordmade this covenant, but with us, with all […]

Love the Lord Your God 1 These are the commands, decrees and laws theLordyour God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear theLordyour God as long as you live by keeping […]

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 […]