Category Archives: Deuteronomy

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. […]

1 Do not sacrifice to theLordyour God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him. 2 If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns theLordgives you is found doing evil in the eyes of theLordyour God in violation […]

Offerings for Priests and Levites 1 The Levitical priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the food offerings presented to theLord, for that is their inheritance. 2 They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; theLordis their inheritance, as he promised them. 3 […]

Cities of Refuge 1 When theLordyour God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses, 2 then set aside for yourselves three cities in the land theLordyour God is giving you to possess. 3 Determine the distances involved and […]

Going to War 1 When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because theLordyour God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you. 2 When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall […]