[ Deuteronomy Chapter 8 ]
1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do,
that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD
sware unto your fathers.
2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these
forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what
was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna,
which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee
know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty
years.
5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so
the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his
ways, and to fear him.
7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of
water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,
8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates, a
land of oil olive, and honey,
9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack
any thing in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou
mayest dig brass.
10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for
the good land which he hath given thee.
11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this
day:
12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and
dwelt therein,
13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is
multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied,
14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which
brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage,
15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery
serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water, who brought thee
forth water out of the rock of flint,
16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that
he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy
latter end,
17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten
me this wealth.
18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power
to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy
fathers, as it is this day.
19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after
other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day
that ye shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye
perish, because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
[ Deuteronomy Chapter 9 ]
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess
nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and
of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over
before thee, as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them
down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as
the LORD hath said unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out
from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to
possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive
them out from before thee.
5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go
to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God
doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the
LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to
possess it for thy righteousness, for thou art a stiffnecked people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the
wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until
ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with
you to have destroyed you.
9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the
tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount
forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of
God, and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake
with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD
gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence, for thy
people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves,
they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them, they have
made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under
heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and
the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had
made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the
LORD had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them
before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty
nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which
ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was
wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time
also.
20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed
for Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and
stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I
cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD
to wrath.
23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess
the land which I have given you, then ye rebelled against the commandment of the
LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down
at the first, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy
people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness,
which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, look not unto the
stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not
able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated
them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by
thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
[ Deuteronomy Chapter 10 ]
1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the
first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which
thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the
first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the
fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the
ark which I had made, and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of
Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son
ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land
of rivers of waters.
8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to
bless in his name, unto this day.
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren, the LORD is his
inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty
nights, and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not
destroy thee.
11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that
they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give
unto them.
12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the
LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD
thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee
this day for thy good?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy God, the earth
also, with all that therein is.
15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their
seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a
mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the
stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou
cleave, and swear by his name.
21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and
terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons, and now the
LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.