# bible_fts_content

c0book: Num
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
" 'This is the regulation of the Nazirite who has made a vow of his offering to Yahweh according to his separation, {in addition to what he can afford}.Literally "except from that which overtakes his hand" In accordance to the word of his vow that he vowed, he will do, concerning the instruction of his separation.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'You will bless the {Israelites}:Literally "sons/children of Israel" You will say to them: 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And they will put my name on the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and I will bless them." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle and appointed and consecrated it and all its vessels, and the altar and its vessels, and he appointed them and consecrated them,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
the leaders of Israel, the heads of {the families},Literally "the house of their fathers" presented an offering; they were the leaders of the tribes and were the ones in charge of the counting.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They brought their offering before the presence ofOr "before the face of" Yahweh, six covered utility carts and twelve cattle, a utility cart for two of the leaders, and a bull for each; and they presented them {before}Literally "before the face of" the tabernacle.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"{Take them},Literally "Take from them" and they will be used to do the work of the tent of the assembly; and you will give them to the Levites, each {according to his required service}."Literally "according to the mouth of his work"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Two utility carts and four cattle he gave to the descendantsOr "sons" of Gershon {according to their required service};Literally "according to the mouth of their work"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
and four utility carts and eight cattle he gave to the descendantsOr "sons" of Merari {according to their required service},Literally "according to the mouth of their work" {under the authority of}Literally "in the hand of" Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But to the descendantsOr "sons" of Kohath he did not give anything because the work of the sanctuary they carried upon them on their shoulders.Hebrew "the shoulder" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The leaders presented offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day of its anointing, and the leaders presented their offerings {before}Literally "in the presence of" the altar.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Yahweh said to Moses, "{One leader for each day}Literally "One leader for the day one leader for the day" will present their offering for the dedication of the altar." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And it happened, the one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
His offering was one plate of silver--its weight was one hundred and thirty shekels--and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}Literally "the two of them" filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{one young bull},Literally "one bull, a son of a cattle" one ram, one male lamb {in its first year}Literally "the son of its year" as a burnt offering;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
and as a sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {a year old}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He presented as his offering one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty shekels--and one silver bowl for drinking wine weighing seventy shekelsHebrew "shekel" according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}Literally "the two of them" filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
one {young }Literally "a son of cattle" bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}Literally "the son of its year" as a burnt offering;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 25
c3content:
his offering was one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty shekels--and one silver bowl for drinking wine weighing seventy shekelsHebrew "shekel" according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}Literally "the two of them" filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 27
c3content:
one {young}Literally "a son of cattle" bull, one ram, a male lamb {in its first year}Literally "the son of its year" as a burnt offering;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 29
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 31
c3content:
his offering was one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty shekels--and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekelsHebrew "shekel" according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}Literally "the two of them" filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 35
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 41
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 47
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 53
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 55
c3content:
his offering was one silver plate--its weight one hundred and thirty shekels--and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, {both of them}Literally "the two of them" filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 59
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 65
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 71
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 77
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 83
c3content:
and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 84
c3content:
This was the dedication of the altar on the day of anointing it, from the leaders of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls for drinking wine, twelve golden dishes;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 85
c3content:
each plate of silver weighed one hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl for drinking seventy, all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 86
c3content:
the twelve golden dishes filled with incense, each dish weighing ten shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, all the gold of the dishes one hundred and twenty;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 87
c3content:
all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs {in their first year},Literally "sons of a year" and their grain offering; and twelve he-goats as a sin offering;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 88
c3content:
and all the cattle of the sacrifice of the fellowship offering twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty he-goats, sixty male lambs {in their first year}.Literally "sons of a year" These were the dedication of the altar after its anointing. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 89
c3content:
And when Moses came to the tent of assembly to speak with him,That is, Yahweh he would hear the voice speaking to him from the atonement cover,Some modern translations have "mercy seat" (see, for example, the NRSV, NASB) which is on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, and he would speak to him. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Speak to Aaron, and say to him: 'When you are setting up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the face of the lampstand.'"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Aaron did so; he set up the lampstand in front of the face of its lamps, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And this is {how the lampstand was made},Literally "the work of the lampstand" a hammered-work of gold; from its base up to its blossom,Or "flower" it was hammered-work according to the pattern that Yahweh showed Moses; so he made the lampstand. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"Take the Levites from the midst of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and purify them.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So you will do to them, to purify them: sprinkle on them waters of purification, and {they will shave their whole body}Literally "they will send a razor on all their body" and wash their garments.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And they will take a {young bull}Literally "a bull, a son of cattle" and its grain offering of finely milled flour mixed with oil, and you will take a second {young bull}Literally "a bull, a son of cattle" as a sin offering.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
You will bring the Levites {before}Literally "in the presence of" the tent of assembly, and you will summon the entire community of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And you will bring the Levites {before Yahweh},Literally "in the presence of Yahweh" and the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" will lay their hands on the Levites,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
and {Aaron will offer}Literally "Aaron will wave" the Levites as a wave offering {before Yahweh}Literally "in the presence of Yahweh" from the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and they will do the work of Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the one bull and offer it as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And you will present the Levites {before}Literally "in the presence of" Aaron and {before}Literally "in the presence of" his sons, and he {will offer}Literally "Aaron will wave" them as a wave offering to Yahweh. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and the Levites will be for me.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And after this the Levites will come to serve at the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you {will offer}Literally "Aaron will wave" them as a wave offering.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For they are given to me exclusively from the midst of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" I have taken them for myself in place of the firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For every firstborn among the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" is mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And I have given the Levites; they are given to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" to do the work of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" in the tent of the assembly and to make atonement for the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" so a plague will not be among the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" when the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" come near the sanctuary." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" did to the Levites; everything that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" did to them.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their garments, and {Aaron offered them}Literally "Aaron waved them" as a wave offering {before Yahweh};Literally "in the presence of Yahweh" and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
After this the Levites came to do their work in the tent of assembly before Aaron and his sons. Just as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levities, so they did to them. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"This is what is for the Levites: {those twenty-five years old}Literally "from a son of twenty-five years" and above willHebrew "and he will" come to help with the service in the work of the tent of assembly;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 25
c3content:
and {those fifty years old}Literally "from a son of fifty years" willHebrew "he will" return from the service of the work and will serve no longer.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 26
c3content:
TheyHebrew "he" can attendOr "assist" their brothers in the tent of assembly to keep their responsibilities, but theyHebrew "he" will not do work. This is what you will do concerning the Levities and their responsibilities." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the second year after they came out from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Let the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" observe the Passover at its appointed time.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
On the fourteenth day of this month {at twilight}Literally "between the two evenings" you will perform it at its appointed time according to all its decrees; and according to all its stipulations you will observe it."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month {at twilight}Literally "between the two evenings" in the desert of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, thus the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" did. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And it happened, men who were unclean {by a dead person}Literally "by a life of a person" were not able to perform the Passover on that day. And they came {before}Literally "in the presence of" Moses and Aaron on that day.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And those men said to him, "Although we are unclean {by a dead person},Literally "by a life of a person" why are we hindered from presenting the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time in the midst of the {Israelites}?"Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Speak to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" saying, 'Each man that is unclean {by a dead person}Literally "by a life of a person" or is on a far journey, you or your {descendants},Literally "generations" he will observe the Passover of Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
On the second month on the fourteenth day {at twilight}Literally "between the two evenings" they will observe it; they will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter plants.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
They will leave none of it until morning, and they will not break a bone in it; they will observe it according to every decree of the Passover.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But the man who is clean and not on a journey, and he fails to observe the Passover, that person will be cut off from the people because he did not present the offering of Yahweh on its appointed time. That man will bear his guilt.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
If an alien dwells with you he will observe the Passover of Yahweh according to the decree of the Passover and according to its stipulation; thus you will have one decree for you, for the alien and for the native of the land.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And on a day setting up the tabernacle, the cloud covered the tent of the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; in the evening it was on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire until morning.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So it wasHebrew "it will be" continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire by night.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Whenever the cloud lifted up from on the tent, after that the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" would set out, and in the place where the cloud dwelled, there the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" camped.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
On the {command of Yahweh}Literally "mouth of Yahweh" the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" would set out, and on the {command of Yahweh}Literally "mouth of Yahweh" they encamped; all the days that the cloud dwelled on the tabernacle they encamped.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And when the cloud prolonged on the tabernacle many days the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" kept the kept requirement of Yahweh and did not set out.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
When the cloud {remained}Literally "it was there" a number of days on the tabernacle, on the {command of Yahweh}Literally "mouth of Yahweh" they encamped; and on the {command of Yahweh}Literally "mouth of Yahweh" they set out.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
When the cloud {remained}Literally "it was there" from evening until morning, and the cloud lifted up in the morning, they would set out, or if it remained in the daytime and at night, when the cloud lifted up they set out.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 22
c3content:
When it was two days, a month, {or a year}Literally "or days" that the cloud prolonged to dwell on the tabernacle, the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" encamped, and they did not set out; when it lifted up they set out.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 23
c3content:
On the {command of Yahweh}Literally "mouth of Yahweh" they encamped, and on the {command of Yahweh}Literally "mouth of Yahweh" they set out. They kept the requirement of Yahweh, on the {command of Yahweh}Literally "mouth of Yahweh" in the hand of Moses.Or "through Moses" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Make yourself two silver trumpets; make them of hammered-work. {You will use them}Literally "They will be for you" for calling the community and for breaking the camp.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
when you blow a second blast, the camps that are camping on the south will set out; they will blow a blast for their journeys.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow on the trumpets; this will be an eternal decree for your generations.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
If you go to war in your land against the enemy who attacks you, you will signal with a loud noise on the trumpets. You will be remembered {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh your God, and you will be rescued from your enemies. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"And on the day of your joy and in your appointed times, at the beginning of your months, you will blow on the trumpets in addition to your burnt offerings and in addition to the sacrifices of your fellowship offerings. And they will be as a memorial for you {before}Literally "in the presence of" your God; I am Yahweh your God." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And it happened, in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month the cloud was lifted from upon the tabernacle of the testimony.Some modern translations (e.g., the NRSV) have "tabernacle of the covenant"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" set out for their journeyHebrew "journeys" from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud dwelled in the desert of Paran.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
They set out {for the first time}Literally "in the beginning" on the command of Yahweh in the hand of Moses.Or "through Moses"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The standard of the camp of the descendantsOr "sons" of Judah set out for the first time according to their divisions, with Nahshon son of Amminadab over its division.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, the bearers of the tabernacle, set out.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions; Elizur son of Shedeur was over their division.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The Kohathites, the bearers of the sanctuary, set out, and they set up the tabernacle before they arrived.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the stand of the camp of the descendantsOr "sons" of Ephraim set out according to their divisions; Elishama son of Ammihud was over its division.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of the descendantsOr "sons" of Manasseh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then the standard of the camp of the descendantsOr "sons" of Dan, who formed a rear guard for all the camps, set out according to their divisions; Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was over its division.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 28
c3content:
These were the departures of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" according to their divisions; and so they set out. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, "We are setting out to the place that Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you'; go with us, and we will {treat you well}Literally "do good to you" because {Yahweh promised}Literally "Yahweh spoke" good concerning Israel."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 31
c3content:
HeThat is, Moses said, "Please, do not abandon us because you know our encampment in the desert, and {you should be our guide}.Literally "you should be our eyes"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And so they set out from the mountain of Yahweh a journey of three days, with the ark of the covenant of Yahweh setting out ahead of themOr "before them" three days' journey to search out a resting place for them;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened, the people were like those who {complain of hardship}Literally "complain of bad" {in the hearing}Literally "in the ears" of Yahweh, and Yahweh {became angry},Literally "his nose became hot" and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he called the name of that place TaberahThis word is difficult, but some modern translations suggest the word in Hebrew means "burning" (see NRSV, NASB) because the fire of Yahweh burned among them. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The riff-raff that were in their midst {had a strong desire};Literally "desired a desire" and the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" turned back and also wept, and they said, "Who will feed us meat?


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But now {our strength is dried up};Literally "our life is dry" there is nothing whatsoever except {for the manna before us}."Literally "for the manna of our eyes" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The people went about and gathered it, and they ground it with mills or crushed it with mortar. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into bread-cakes; and it tasted like olive oil cakes.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Moses heard the people weeping according to theirHebrew "its" clans, each at the doorway of their tents. Then {Yahweh became very angry},Literally "the nose of Yahweh became very hot" and in the eyes of Moses it was bad.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me?


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them,Hebrew "him/it" that you could say to me, 'Carry themHebrew "him/it" in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?'Or "fathers"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat and let us eat!'


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
If this is how you are going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men from the elders of Israel whom you know are elders of the people and theirHebrew "his/its" officials; take them to the tent of assembly, and they will stand there with you.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
I will come down and speak with you there; I will take away from the spirit that is on you, and I will place it on them; and they will bear the burdens of the people with you; you will not bear it alone.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And you will say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves tomorrow, for you will eat meat because you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will feed us good meat? It was good for us in Egypt." Yahweh will give to you meat, and you will eat.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{but for a whole month},Literally "until a period of one month" until it comes out from your nose and becomes as nausea to you; because you have rejected Yahweh, who is in your midst, and you wept before {his presence},Literally "before his face" saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?" '"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But Moses said, "There are six hundred thousand on foot, among whom I am in the midst, and you yourself said, 'I will give meat to them, and they will eat for a whole month.'


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Should flocks and cattle be slaughtered for them? Should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "{Is Yahweh's power limited}?Literally "Is Yahweh's hand short?" Now you will see if my word will happen or not." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 24
c3content:
So Moses went out, and he spoke the words of Yahweh to the people, and he gathered together seventy men from the elders of the people, and he {made them stand}Literally "caused them to stand" all around the tent.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Yahweh went down in the cloud and spoke to him, and he took away the spirit that was on him, and he {put it}Or "gave it" on the seventy elders. And as soon as the spirit was resting on them they prophesied, but they did not do it again. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But two men were left in the camp; the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the second was Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those who were written down, but they did not go out to the tent, so they prophesied in the camp.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 27
c3content:
So a boyHebrew "the boy" ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from time of his youth, answered, "Moses, my lord, stop them."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 29
c3content:
But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that heThat is, Yahweh give all Yahweh's people prophets, that Yahweh put his spirit on them!"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then a wind set out from Yahweh, and it drove quails from the west, and he spread them out on the camp about a day's journey on one side and about a day's journey on the other, all around the camp, about two cubits on the surface of the land.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And so the people {worked}Literally "arose" all day and all night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail (the least of the ones collecting gathered ten homers).HALOT 330, "a dry measure"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 33
c3content:
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, Yahweh was angry with the people, and Yahweh struck a very great plague among the people.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And he called the name of that place Kibroth HattaavahHebrew "the graves of greediness" because they buried the people that {were greedy}.Literally "craved"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 35
c3content:
From Kibroth HattaavahHebrew "the graves of greediness" the people set out to Hazeroth; and they stayedHebrew "they were" in Hazeroth. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he took (because he took a Cushite wife);


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and they said, "Has Yahweh spoken only through Moses? Has not Yahweh also spoken through us?" And Yahweh heard it.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and Yahweh said suddenly to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "Go out, you three, to the tent of assembly." So the three of them when out.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Yahweh went down in a column of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and he called Aaron and Miriam, and the two of them went,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I will speak to him mouth to mouth, in clearness, not in riddles; and he will look at the form of Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{And Yahweh became very angry}Literally "And the nose of Yahweh became hot" with them, and he went away.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the cloud departed from on the tent, and behold, Miriam was infected with {a skin disease}The precise meaning is uncertain; many modern translations suggest "leprosy" white like snow; when Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was afflicted with a skin disease.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So Aaron said to Moses, "Please, my lord, please do not put on us this sin in which we were foolish and in which we have sinned.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Please do not let her be like the dead, whose flesh is half consumed when coming out from the womb of its mother."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had surely spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be confined for seven days to an outside place of the camp, and afterward she may be gathered."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So Miriam was confined to the outside place of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Send for yourself men, and let them explore the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to the {Israelites};Literally "sons/children of Israel" {from each tribe of his father send one man},Literally "one man one man from the tribe of his father" everyone a leader among them."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So Moses sent them from the desert of Paran on the command of Yahweh; all of the men were {leaders}Literally "heads" of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and he said to them, "Go up like this to the Negev,An arid region south of the Judean hills and go up into the hill country,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and you will see what the land is like and if the people who inhabit it are strong or weak, or whether they are few or many,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 19
c3content:
and whether the land that they are inhabiting is good or bad, and whether the cities they are inhabiting are camps or fortifications,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and whether the land is fertile or lean, and whether there are trees on it or not. You will show yourself courageous, and you will take some of the fruit of the land." It was the time of first ripe grapes. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So they went up and explored the land from the desert of Zin until Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.Or "near Hamath"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
They went up through the NegevAn arid region south of the Judean hills and came to Hebron, whereHebrew "and there" Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai the descendants of the Anakites were. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And they came up to the valleyOr "wadi" of Eshcol, and they cut off a vine branch and one cluster of grapes from there; they carried it on a pole between two men, with pomegranates and figs.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 24
c3content:
That place he called the valleyOr "wadi" of Eshcol on account of the cluster of grapes that the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" cut off from there. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And they cameHebrew "they went and came" to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And they told him,Hebrew "they told him and said" "We came to the land that you sent us, and it is flowing of milk and honey; this is its fruit.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Yet the people who are inhabiting it are strong and the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of the Anakites there.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 29
c3content:
The Amalekites are living in the land of the Negev;An arid region south of the Judean hills the Hittites, Jebusites, and the Amorites are living in the hill country; and the Canaanites are living at the sea and on the banks of the Jordan." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "Surely, let us go up and let us take possession of it because surely we will be able to prevail over it."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And the men who went up with him said, "We are not able to go up to the people because they are stronger than us."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And they presented the report of the land that they explored to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" saying, "The land that we went through to explore is a land that eats its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in its midst are {men of great size}.Literally "men of measurements"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 33
c3content:
There we saw the Nephilim (the descendantsOr "sons" of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their eyes." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then all the community {lifted up their voices},Hebrew "they lifted up and gave their voice" and the people wept during that night.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And all the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and all the community said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert!


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Why did Yahweh bring us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little children will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{They said to each other},Literally "A man said to his brother" "Let us appoint a leader, and we will return to Egypt." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces {before}Literally "in the presence of" the assembly of the community of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they said to all the community of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" "The land that we went through to explore is an {exceptionally good land}.Literally "the land is very very good"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and he will give it to us, a land that is flowing with milk and honey.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Only do not rebel against Yahweh, and you will not fear the people of the land, because they will be our food. {Their protection}Literally "Their shadow" has been turned from them; Yahweh is with us. You should not fear them."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And all the community said to stone them with stones, but the glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of assembly among the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "How long until this people will despise me, and how long until they will not believe in me, and in all the signs that I have done in theirHebrew "his" midst?


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 12
c3content:
I will strike themHebrew "him" with disease, and I will dispossess them;Hebrew "him" I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than them."Hebrew "him" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from theirHebrew "his" midst in your power,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and they will {tell it}Literally "say" to the inhabitants of this land. They heard that you, Yahweh, are in the midst of this people, that you are seen eye to eye, and your cloud is standing over them, and in a column of cloud you go before them by day and in a column of fire at night.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But if you destroy this people {all at once},Literally "as one man" the nations that will have heard your message will say,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 16
c3content:
'Yahweh was unable to bring this people in the land that he swore by an oath, and he slaughtered them in the desert.'


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 18
c3content:
'Yahweh is {slow to anger}Literally "slow of noses" and great of loyal love, {forgiving}Literally "lifting up" sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.'


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Please forgive the sin of this people according to the greatness of your loyal love, just as you {forgave}Literally "lifted up" this people, from Egypt until now." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 23
c3content:
they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors,Or "fathers" and all those who despised me will not see it.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that {he entered},Or "he went to" and his offspring will take possession of it.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out for the desert by way of the {Red Sea}."Literally "sea of reed" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"How long will I bear this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" which {they are making}Literally "they are grumbling" against me.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Say to them, 'Surely as I live,' {declares}Literally "declaration of" Yahweh, 'just as you spoke {in my hearing},Literally "in my ears" so I will do to you;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 29
c3content:
in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from {twenty years old}Literally "a son of twenty years" and above who grumbled against me.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 30
c3content:
You yourselves will not come into the land that {I swore by oath}Literally "I lifted up my hand" to make you to dwell in it, but Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 31
c3content:
But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years,Hebrew "year" and you will bear your unfaithfulness until {all your corpses have fallen}Literally "until to complete your corpses" in the desert.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 34
c3content:
According to the number of the daysHebrew "day" that you explored the land, forty days,Hebrew "day" {a day for each year},Literally "a day for a year a day for a year" you will bear your sins forty years,Hebrew "year" and you will know my opposition.'


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 35
c3content:
I, Yahweh, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 36
c3content:
As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 37
c3content:
the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague {before Yahweh}.Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 38
c3content:
But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh lived from among the men who went to explore the land. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And Moses spoke words to all the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and the people mourned greatly.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 40
c3content:
They rose early in the morning and went to the top of the mount, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that Yahweh said, because we have sinned."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 42
c3content:
You should not go up because Yahweh is not in your midst; do not let yourselves be defeated in the presence of your enemies,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 43
c3content:
because the AmalekitesHebrew "Amalekite" and the CanaanitesHebrew "Canaanite" are there {before you},Literally "in your presence" and you will fall by the sword; because you have turned back from Yahweh, and Yahweh will not be with you."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 44
c3content:
But they dared to go to the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 45
c3content:
So the AmalekitesHebrew "Amalekite" and the CanaanitesHebrew "Canaanite" who were living on the mountain descended, and they beat them down, up to Hormah. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Speak to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and say to them, 'When you come into the land of your dwellings that I am about to give to you,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
you will make an offering by fire for Yahweh from the cattle or from the flock, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a freewill offering or at your feasts, to make a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the one who presents an offeringHebrew "his offering" for Yahweh, he will present a grain offering of finely milled flour; a tenth will be mixed with a fourth of the liquid measure of oil;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and you will add a fourth of wine for the libation upon the burnt offering, or to the sacrifice for each ram-lamb.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Or for the ram you will make a grain offering of two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed into a third of a liquid measure of oil.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
You will present a third of the liquid measure of wine for the libation, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
When you prepare {a bull}Literally "a son of cattle" as a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a fellowship offering for Yahweh,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 9
c3content:
you will present with {the bull}Literally "the son of the cattle" a grain offering of three-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with half a liquid measure of oil,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and you will present half a liquid measure of wine as a libation, as an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 11
c3content:
" 'This is how it should be done for each bull, or for the each ram, or for the small four-footed mammal, or ram-lambs, or goats.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Every native must do these things to present an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 14
c3content:
If an alien dwells among you, or whoever is in your midst throughout your generations,Hebrew "for your generations" and prepares an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, he should do as you do.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For the assembly, there will be one decree for you and for the alien who dwells among you; it is an eternal decree for all your generations. {You as well as the alien}Literally "like you like the alien" will be {before Yahweh}.Literally "in the presence of Yahweh"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Speak to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and say to them, 'When you come into the land to which I am about to bring you,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You must lift up a contribution of the first batch of your ring-shaped dough bread; you must lift it up as a contribution of the threshing floor.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 21
c3content:
You will give to Yahweh a contribution from the first of your dough throughout your generations.Hebrew "for your generations" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 22
c3content:
" 'But if you go astray and you do not followOr "do" all these commandments that Yahweh commanded to Moses,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 23
c3content:
all that Yahweh commanded you by the hand of MosesOr "through Moses" from the day that Yahweh commanded and beyond, throughout your generations,Hebrew "for your generations"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 24
c3content:
and if it was done unintentionally {without the knowledge}Literally "from the eyes" of the community, then the entire community must prepare one {young bull}Literally "a bull a son of cattle" as a burnt offering, as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, and its grain offering and its libation, according to the stipulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The priest will make atonement for all of the community of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and {they will be forgiven}Literally "it will be forgiven to them" because it was unintentional; they will bring their offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, their sin offering {before Yahweh}Literally "in the presence of Yahweh" for their unintentional sin.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 26
c3content:
All of the community of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" will be forgiven, as well as the alien that dwells in their midst, because the whole community was involved in the unintentional wrong. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 27
c3content:
" 'If one person sins unintentionally, that person will present a female goat {in its first year}Literally "a daughter of a year" as a sin offering.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And the priest will make atonement for the person who {sinned unintentionally}Literally "sinned unintentionally when sinning an unintentional wrong" {before Yahweh},Literally "in the presence of Yahweh" to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 29
c3content:
For the native among the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and the alien that dwells in their midst, there will be one law for anyone who commits an unintentional wrong.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 30
c3content:
But the one {who acts presumptuously}Literally "who acts with a high hand" from among the native or alien blasphemes against Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from the midst of the people.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Because he despised the word of Yahweh and broke his command, that person will be surely cut off and bear the guilt.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 32
c3content:
When the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" were in the desert, they found a man who was gathering wood on the day of the Sabbath.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Surely the man must be put to death by stoning him; all the community must stone him with stones from outside the camp."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 36
c3content:
So the entire community brought him out to a place outside the camp, and {they stoned him to death}Literally "they stoned him with stones and he died" just as Yahweh commanded Moses. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 38
c3content:
"Speak to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and tell them to make for themselves tasselsHebrew "tassel" on the hems of their garments throughout their generationsHebrew "for their generations" and to put a blue cord on the tassel of the hem.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 39
c3content:
You will have a tassel {for you to look at}Literally "and you will look at it" and remember all the commands of Yahweh and do them, and not follow {after the unfaithfulness of your own heart and eyes},Literally "after your heart and after your eyes, which you are unfaithful after them"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 41
c3content:
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am Yahweh your God." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, the descendantsOr "sons" of Reuben,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
took two hundred and fifty men from the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" leaders of the community summoned from the assembly, {renowned men},Literally "men of name" and {they confronted}Literally "they rose up before" Moses.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, "{You take too much upon yourselves}!Literally "It is much for you" All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh is in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he said to Korah and to his entire company, saying, "Tomorrow morning Yahweh will make known who is his and who is holy, and he will bring him near to him, whomever he chooses he will bring near to him.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
tomorrow put fire in them and place incense on them {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh; the man whom Yahweh chooses will be the holy one. You take too much upon yourselves, sons of Levi!" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Is it too little for you that the God of Israel set you apart from the community of Israel {to allow you to approach him}Literally "to bring you near to him" to do the work of the tabernacle of Yahweh, to stand {before}Literally "in the presence of" the community to serve them?


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{He has allowed you to approach him},Literally "He has brought you near" you with all your brothers, the descendantsOr "sons" of Levi, but yet you also seek the priesthood.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Therefore you and your company that has banded together against Yahweh. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Moses sent to call for Dathan and Abiram son of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come!Hebrew "We will not come up!"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Is it too little that you have brought us from a land that flows with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, and that you also appoint yourself as a ruler over us?


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Surely, you have not brought us to a land that flows with milk and honey, and you have not given us the inheritance of fields and a vineyard. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!"Hebrew "We will not come up!" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Moses became angry, and he said to Yahweh, "Do not notice their grain offering. I have not offered one donkey from them, and I have not mistreated one of them."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Moses said to Korah, "You and your entire company will be {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh tomorrow, you and they and Aaron.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Each one take his censer, and put incense on itHebrew "on them" and you will present it {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh, and each of you bring his censer, two hundred and fifty censers, you and Aaron, each his censer."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 18
c3content:
So each of them took his censer, and they put fire on them, and they placed incense on them; they stood at the doorway of the tent of the assembly of Moses and Aaron.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Korah summoned them, the entire community, by the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the community. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And they fell on their faces, and they said, "God, God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and you become angry toward the entire community?" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 26
c3content:
He said to the community, saying, "Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything {that belongs to them},Literally "that is to them" or you will be destroyed with all their sins."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And so they moved away from around the dwellingsHebrew "dwelling" of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out standing at the doorway of their tents, with their wives, sons, and little children.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Moses said, "In this you will know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; it is not from my heart.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 29
c3content:
{If they die a natural death}Literally "If they die like the death of every human" or {if a natural fate is visited upon them},Literally "If the fate of every human is visited upon them" Yahweh has not sent me.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 30
c3content:
But if Yahweh creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up and {all that belongs to them},Literally "All that is for them" and they go down alive to Sheol, and you will know that these men have despised Yahweh." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And it happened, as soon as he finished {speaking}Literally "to speak" all these words, the ground that was under them split open.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 32
c3content:
The land opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their houses and every person {that belonged to Korah}Literally "that was to Korah" and all the property.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 33
c3content:
They went down alive to Sheol, they and all that belonged to them, and the land covered over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 34
c3content:
All Israel who were around them fled at their cry, because they said, "Lest the land swallow us up!"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Numbers 16:36-17:13 in the English Bible is 17:1-28 in the Hebrew Bible And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 37
c3content:
"Say to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, '{Take out}Literally "raise up" the censers from among the place of burning because they are sacred, and scatter the fire outside.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 38
c3content:
The censers of these {who have sinned}Literally "sinners" at the cost of their lives, let them be made into gilded leafing plating for the altar; because they presented them {before Yahweh},Literally "in the presence of Yahweh" they are holy; and they will be a sign for the {Israelites}.'"Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 39
c3content:
Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that the ones who were burned presented, and they hammered them out thinly as plating for the altar;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 40
c3content:
it was a memorial for the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" so that {no strange man}NASB translates "no layman" who is not from {the offspring}Literally "the seed" of Aaron should approach the presence of Yahweh to burn a smoke offering;That is, an incense offering he will not be like Korah and his company, just as Yahweh had spoken to him by the hand of Moses.Or "through Moses" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 41
c3content:
The next day all the community of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of Yahweh!"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 42
c3content:
Then, when the community had gathered against Moses and Aaron, they turned to the tent of assembly, and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 45
c3content:
"Get away from the midst of this community, and I will finish them in an instant,"Or "in a moment" but they fell on their faces.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 46
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron said, "Take the censer, and put fire on it from the altar. Place incense on it, and bring it quickly to the community, and make atonement for them, because wrath went out from the presence of Yahweh, and a plague has begun."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 47
c3content:
And so Aaron took it just as Moses had spoken, and he ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people; so he gave the incense and made atonement for the people.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 49
c3content:
Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on account of Korah.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Speak to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and take from among them twelve staffs, {a staff from each family}Literally "a staff from a house of a father" from among all their leaders according to their families' households. Write the name of each man on his staff,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and the name of Aaron on the staff of Levi, because one staff is for the head of each of {their families}.Literally "the house of their fathers"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
You must then put them in the tent of assembly {before}Literally "in the presence of" the testimonyOr "the statute" where I meet with you.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And it will happen, the man whom I will choose, his staff will blossom, and so I will rid from upon myself the grumblings of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" who are grumbling against you."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Moses spoke to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and all their leaders gave him a staff for each leader, one from {each of their families},Literally "each from the house of their fathers" twelve staffs, and the staff of Aaron was in the midst of their tribes.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed and put forth a flower and produced blossoms, and it produced almonds.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Moses brought out to all the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" all the staffs before the presence of Yahweh, and they saw, and each man took his staff.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Bring back the staff of Aaron before the testimonyOr "the statute" as a guard and sign for the children of rebellion, and let them finish their grumblings before me and not die."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" said to Moses, saying, "Look! We will die! We will be destroyed! All of us will perish!


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Anyone who approaches the tabernacle of Yahweh will die. {Will we all die}?"Literally "Will we all die to perish?" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Yahweh said to Aaron, "You, your sons, and your family with you will bear the guilt of the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will bear the guilt of your priesthood.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Moreover, bring your brothers with you, the tribe of Levi the tribe of your father, that they may be joined to you and minister to you, you and your sons with you before the tent of testimony.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They will keep your responsibility and the responsibility of all the tent, only they may not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, so both you and they will not die.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They will be joined to you, and they will keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly for the entire service of the tent; a stranger may not come near you.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary and the responsibility of the altar, and there will no longer be wrath on the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Look, I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from the midst of the children. They are a gift to you given from Yahweh to perform the work of the tent of assembly.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But you with your sons will keep your priesthood to perform your priestly duties for everything at the altarOr "for all the things of the altar" and for {the area behind the curtain}.Literally "the house of the curtain" I give you the priesthood as a gift, but the stranger who approaches will be put to death." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I myself have given to you the responsibility of my contributions for all the holy objects of the {Israelites};Literally "sons/children of Israel" I have given them as a portion to you and your sons as an eternal decree.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 9
c3content:
This will be for you from the sanctuary of the holy things from the fire; all of their offerings, from every grain offering, from every sin offering, and from every guilt offering which they will bring to me is {a most holy thing}Literally "a holy object of holiness" for you and your sons.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You will eat it in the most holy place;Alternatively "as a holy object of holiness" every male will eat it. It will be a holy object to you.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
This is also for you: the contribution of their gift of the wave offerings of the children Israel. I have given them to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; whoever is clean in your house may eat it.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
All the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and their best grain that they have given to Yahweh, I have given them to you.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The firstfruits of all that is in their land that they present to Yahweh will be for you; whoever is clean in your house may eat it.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
All the first offspring of a womb of any creature that they offer to Yahweh, whether human or animal, will be yours; you will surely redeem the firstborn of the human and the unclean firstborn of the animal.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 16
c3content:
As to their price of redemption, from {a one-month-old}Literally "a son of a month" you will redeem them according to your proper value, five shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerah.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Only the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat you will not redeem; they are holy. Their blood you will sprinkle over the altar, and their fat you will turn into smoke as an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But their flesh will be for you like the breast section of the wave offering, and it will be for you like the right upper thigh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
All the contributions of holiness that the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" offer to Yahweh I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; it is an eternal covenant of salt {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh to you and your offspring with you."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "You will not receive an inheritance in their land, and there will not be a plot of ground for you in the midst of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"Behold, I have given to the descendantsOr "sons" of Levi every tithe in Israel as an inheritance in return for their service, which they are doing, the work of the tent of assembly.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" will not come near again to the tent of assembly, or {they will bear sin}The NRSV translates "they will incur guilt" and die.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The LevitesHebrew "Levite" will perform the service of the tent of assembly, and they will bear their guilt, an eternal decree for all your generations. But they will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 24
c3content:
because the tithesHebrew "tithe" of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" that are {offered}Hebrew "raised up" to Yahweh as a contribution, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I said to them, 'They will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the {Israelites}.'"Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"You will speak to the Levites and say to them, 'When you receive the tithe from the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" that I have given to you from them for your inheritance, {you will present}Literally "you will raise up" a contribution from it to Yahweh, a tithe from a tithe.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Your contribution will be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor and like the produce from the press.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 28
c3content:
So {you will present}Literally "you will raise up" your own contribution to Yahweh from all your tithes that you receive from the {Israelites};Literally "sons/children of Israel" from it you will give the contribution of Yahweh to Aaron the priest.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 29
c3content:
From all your gifts {you will present}Literally "you will raise up" every contribution of Yahweh, from all its fat, the part that is sacred.'


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 30
c3content:
You will say to them, 'When {you are presenting}Literally "you are raising up" its fat, the rest will be credited to the Levites like a yield of the threshing floor and like a yield from the press.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 31
c3content:
You may eat it anywhere, you and your household, because it is a wage in return for your service in the tent of assembly.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 32
c3content:
You will not bear any sin because {you have presented}Literally "you have raised up" its fat; you will not defile the holy objects of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" or you will die.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"This is the decree of the law that Yahweh has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and let them take to you a red heifer without a physical defect, on which a yoke {has not been placed}.Literally "has not gone up"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be broughtOr "he will bring it out" out to a place outside the camp, and it will be slaughteredOr "he will slaughter it" in his presence.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood on his finger and spatter it toward the mouth of the tent of assembly seven times.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The heifer will be burnedHebrew "The heifer will burn" in his sight; its skin, its meat, and its blood, in addition to its offal, will burn.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The priest will take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread, and he will throw them in the midst of {the burning heifer}.Literally "the burning of the heifer"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The priest will wash his garments and his body in the water, and afterward he will come to the camp; the priest will be unclean until the evening.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The one who burns it will wash his garments and his body in water; he will be unclean until the evening.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
A clean man will gather the ashes of the heifer, and he will put them in a clean {place outside the camp};Literally "an outside place of the camp" it will be for the community of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" as a requirement for waters of impurity; it is a purification offering.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his garments; he will be unclean until evening. It will be an eternal decree for the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and for one who dwells as an alien in their midst. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
" 'The one who touches a corpse of {any person}Literally "any human person" will be unclean for seven days.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
He will purify himself on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean. If he does not purify himself on the third day, he will not be clean on the seventh day.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Anyone who touches a corpse, the person of a human being who died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh, and that person will be cut off from Israel because the waters of impurity were not sprinkled on him. He will still be unclean, and uncleanness is on him. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
" 'This is the law of a person who dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be unclean seven days.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Every container that is opened that does not have a lid cordThat is, "that does not have a lid tied shut" on it is unclean.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Anyone {in the open field}Literally "upon the face of a field" who touches {one who has been slain},Literally "the dead of sword" or a corpse, or a bone of a person, or a burial site, he will be unclean for seven days.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For the unclean person they will takeHebrew "he will take" from the powder of the {burnt purification offering},Or "burning of the sin offering" and they will putHebrew "he will put" running water into a container.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 18
c3content:
A clean person will take hyssop and dip it into the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the objects and persons who were there, and on one who touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead, or the burial site.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The clean person will spatter the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he will purify him, and he will wash his garments; he will bathe in the waters, and in the evening he will be clean.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the midst of the assembly because he defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh; the water of impurity was not sprinkled on him; he is unclean. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 21
c3content:
" 'It will be an eternal decree for them. The one who spatters the waters of impurity will wash his garments, and the one who touches the waters of impurity will be unclean until the evening.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Anything that the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until the evening.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then the entire community of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" came to the desert of Zin on the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; Miriam died and was buried there. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the people quarreled with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we died when our brothers were dying {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh!


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Why have you brought us from Egypt to bring us to this bad place? It is not a place of seed or figsHebrew "fig" or vinesHebrew "vine" or pomegranate trees,Hebrew "tree" and there is not water to drink."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of assembly. They fell on their faces, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"Take the staff and summon the community, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will give water. Bring out for them water from the rock, and let the community and their livestock drink." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly to the presence of the rock, and he said to them, "Please listen, you rebels; can we bring out water for you from this rock?"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice. And abundant water went out, and the community and their livestock drank.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have not trusted in me, to regard me as holy {in the sight of}Or "before the eyes of" the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given to them."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Those were the waters of Meribah, where the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" quarreled with Yahweh, and he showed himself holy among them. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
From Kadesh Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom: "Thus your brother Israel has said, 'You know all the hardship that has found us;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
our ancestorsOr "fathers" went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt {a long time},Literally "many days" and the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then we cried to Yahweh, and he heard our voice; he sent an angel and brought us out from Egypt. And look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Please let us go through your land. We will not go through a field or vineyard, and we will not drink water from a well. We will go along the road of the king; we will not turn aside right or left until we have gone through your territory.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Edom said to him, "You will not pass through usHebrew "me" lest {we will go out}Hebrew "I will go out" to meet you with the sword."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" said to him, "We will go up on the main road, and if weHebrew "I" and our livestockHebrew "my livestock" drink your water, we will pay for it.Hebrew "I will give their worth" It is only a small matter; let us pass through on our feet."Hebrew "I will go through on my feet"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But he said, "You will not go through." And Edom went out to meet {them}Hebrew "him" with a large army and a strong hand.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And they set out from Kadesh. The {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" the whole community, came to Mount Hor.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"Let Aaron be gathered to his people; he will not come into the land that I have given to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" because you rebelled against {my word}Literally "my mouth" at the waters of Meribah.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Strip off Aaron's garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; Aaron will be gathered to his people, and he will die there."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 27
c3content:
So Moses did just as Yahweh commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the community.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Moses stripped off Aaron's garments and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain; and Moses and Eleazar went down from the mountain.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 29
c3content:
All the community saw that Aaron died; so all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.Hebrew "day" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The Canaanite king of Arad, who was dwelling in the Negev,An arid region south of the Judean hills heard that Israel came along the way of Atharim; he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Israel made a vow to Yahweh, and they said, "If you will surely give this people into ourHebrew "my" hand, then weHebrew "I" {will destroy}Literally "devote to God" their cities."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Yahweh heard the voice of Israel; he gave to them the Canaanites, and {they destroyed them}Literally "they devoted to God" and their cities. They called the name of the place Hormah. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They set out from Mount Hor by the way of the {Red Sea}Literally "sea of reed" to go around the land of Edom; but {the people became impatient}Literally "the life of the people became short" along the way.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest this miserable food." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Yahweh sent among the people poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many people from Israel died.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakesHebrew "snake" from among us." So Moses prayed for the people.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Make for yourself a snake and place it on a pole. WhenHebrew "And it will happen" anyone is bitten and looks at it, that person will live."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So Moses made a snake of bronze, and he placed it on the pole; wheneverHebrew "And it will happen" a snake bit someone, and that person looked at the snake of bronze, he lived. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
They set out from Oboth and encamped at Iye Abarim in the desert, which was in front of Moab {toward the sunrise}.Literally "from the east of the sun"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
From there they set out and encamped beyond Arnon, which is in the desert that goes out from the boundary of the Amorites,Hebrew "Amorite" because Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.Hebrew "Amorite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and the slope of the wadis that spreads out to the dwelling of Ar and lies at the boundary of Moab."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
From there they went to Beer, which is the water well where Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Gather the people, that I may give them water."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Well water that the princes dug, that the leaders of the people dug, with a staff and with their rods." And from the desert they continued to Mattanah,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the territory of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the surface of the wasteland. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"Let us go through your land; we will not turn aside into a field or vineyard; we will not drink well water along the way of the king until we have gone through your territory."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But Sihon did not allow Israel to go through his territory. Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel; he came to the desert, to Jahaz, and he fought against Israel.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and they took possession of his land from Arnon to Jabbok, until the {Ammonites},Literally "sons of Ammon" because the boundary of the {Ammonites}Literally "sons of Ammon" was strong.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites,Hebrew "Amorite" in Heshbon, and in all its environs.Hebrew "her daughters;" other modern versions translate "its villages"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Because Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites,Hebrew "Amorite" who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land from his hand until Arnon.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Because fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of theOr "the dominant" high places of Arnon.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh. He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to the king of the Amorites,Hebrew "Amorite" Sihon.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 30
c3content:
We destroyed them; Heshbon has perished up to Dibon; we laid waste up to Nophah, which {reaches}Literally "is up to" Medeba."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Moses sent to explore Jaazer; they captured {its environs}Hebrew "her daughters;" other modern versions translate "its villages" and dispossessed the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" who were there. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Then they turned and went up by the way of the Bashan, and Og king of the Bashan and all his people went out to meet them for battle at Edrei.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Do not fear him because I will give him and all his people and all his land into your hand. You will do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites,Hebrew "Amorite" who was living in Heshbon."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And so they destroyed him and his sons, and all his people until they had not spared a survivor; and they took possession of his land. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" set out, and they encamped on the desert-plateau of Moab, across from Jericho beyond the Jordan.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and Moab was very terrified in the presence of the people because {they}Hebrew "he" or "it" were numerous; and Moab dreaded the presence of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now the crowd will lick up all around us, like a bull devours the grass of the field." And Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the river,That is, the Euphrates in the land of the children of his people, to summon him, saying, "Look! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover {the surface of the land};Literally "the eye of the land" they are about to dwell opposite me.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now, please go, curse this people for me because theyHebrew "he" are stronger than me; perhaps I will be able to strike themHebrew "he" and drive themHebrew "he" out from the land because I know whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you cursed is cursed." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went with a fee for divination in their hand; they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
He said to them, "Spend the night here, and I will return, and I will return word to you, just as Yahweh speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
'Look! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover {the surface of the land}.Literally "the eye of the land" Now, go, curse themHebrew "him" for me. Perhaps I will be able to attack themHebrew "him" and drive themHebrew "him" out."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
God said to Balaam, "You will not go with them; you will not curse the people, because theyHebrew "he" are blessed."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Balaam got up in the morning, and he said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land, because Yahweh refused to allow me to go with you."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
They came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak son of Zippor, 'Please, let nothing keep you from coming to me


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 17
c3content:
because I will surely honor you greatly, and all that you say to me I will do. Please, come; curse this people for me.'"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Even though Balak gives to me his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond {the command of Yahweh}Literally "the mouth of Yahweh" my God to do a little or a lot.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And now please, {you also stay here}Literally "please stay in this" the night, and {let me find out}Literally "let me know" again what Yahweh will say with me."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And God came to Balaam at night, and he said to him, "If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but only the word that I will speak to you, you will do."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But {God became angry}Literally "God's nose became hot" because he was going, and the angel of Yahweh stood in the road as an adversary to him; he was riding on his donkey, and two servants were with him.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back to the road.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 24
c3content:
The angel of Yahweh stood in the narrow path of the vineyards, with {a wall on either side}.Literally "a wall from this and a wall from this"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 25
c3content:
When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she pressed herself into the wall, and she pressed the foot of Balaam into the wall, so he struck her again.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then the angel of Yahweh went further ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was not a way to turn aside to the right or left.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 27
c3content:
When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she lay down under Balaam, so {Balaam became angry},Literally "Balaam's nose became hot" and he struck the donkey with his staff.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What did I do to you that you struck me these three times?"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you made a mockery of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 30
c3content:
The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life until this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?" He said, "No." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then Yahweh exposed the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and he bowed down and worshiped to his face.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 32
c3content:
The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck this donkey three times? Look, I have come out as an adversary because your conduct is perverse before me.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 33
c3content:
The donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times. If she had not turned aside from my face, then I would have killed you and kept her alive."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned because I did not know that you were standing to meet me in the road. Now, {if it is displeasing to you},Literally "if it is evil in your eyes" I will turn back."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 35
c3content:
The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I will speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 36
c3content:
When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him by the city of Moab, which was on the boundary of Aaron at the end of the territory.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not urgently send to meet with you? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to honor you?"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Balaam said to Balak, "Look, I came to you now. Am I really able to speak anything at all? I speak the word that God puts in my mouth."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he sent them to Balaam and to the princes who were with him.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And it happened, in the morning Balak took Balaam and took him up to Bamoth-Baal, and he saw from there the end of the nation. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me this: seven altars. And prepare for me this: seven bulls and seven rams."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself at your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell to you." So he went to a barren height. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And God met with Balaam, and he said to him, "I have arranged seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on the altar."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Because from the top of the rocks I see him, from hilltops I watch him. Behold, a people who dwell alone, they do not consider themselves among the nations.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or as a number the fourth part of Israel? Let my life die the death of an upright person, and let my end be like his!"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 12
c3content:
He answered and said, "{Should I not speak}Literally "Should I not observe to speak" what Yahweh puts in my mouth?" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Balak said, "Please walk with me to another place where you will see them, but you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 15
c3content:
BalaamHebrew "He" said to Balak, "Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with Yahweh there."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Yahweh met with Balaam, and he put a word in his mouth, and he said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
He came to him, and behold, he was standing at his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 21
c3content:
He has no regard for evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God is with him, and a shoutOr "a blast" of a king is among them.Hebrew "him"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 22
c3content:
God, who brings them out from Egypt, is like the strengthOr "like the horns" of a wild ox for them.Hebrew "him"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Because there is no sorcery against Jacob, and there is no divination against Israel. NowOr "At the right time" it will be said to Jacob and Israel, what God has done!


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Look! the people will rise like the lion; he raises himself and will not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse themHebrew "him" at all, nor bless themHebrew "him" at all!"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Did I not speak to you, saying, 'Whatever Yahweh speaks I will do'?" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please, come, I will take you to another place; perhaps {it will be acceptable to}Literally "it will be right in the eyes of" God, and you will curse for me from there."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 28
c3content:
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks down on the face of the Jeshimon.Or "the wasteland"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me these seven altars, and prepare for me these seven bulls and seven rams."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Balaam saw that {it pleased}Literally "it was good in the eyes of Yahweh" Yahweh to bless Israel, and he did not go {as other times}Literally "as time on time" {to seek out}Literally "to meet" sorcery; instead, he set his face toward the desert.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Balaam lift up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to its tribes, and the spirit of God was upon it.That is, Israel


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 4
c3content:
the declaration of the hearer of God's words,Or "God's sayings" who sees the revelation of Shaddai,Often translated "the Almighty" falling down but whose eyes are uncovered.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
They are spread out like valleys, like gardens on a river, like aloes planted by Yahweh, like cedars at the waters.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He will pour water from his buckets, and his offspring will be like many waters; his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
God, who brings him out from Egypt, is like the strengthOr "the horns" of a wild ox for him. He will devour the nations who are his enemies; he will break their bones; he will pierce them with his arrows.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness, who will rouse him? They who bless you will be blessed, and they who curse you will be cursed."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then {Balak became angry with}Literally "the nose of Balak became hot against" Balaam, and he clapped his hands and said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, but look, you have surely blessed them these three times.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{Flee}Literally "Flee for yourself" to your place now. I said I would richly honor you, but look, Yahweh has withheld honor from you."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
'If Balak gave to me the fullness of his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond {the command of Yahweh}Literally "the mouth of Yahweh" to do good or evil, from my heart; what Yahweh speaks, I will speak'?Hebrew "I will speak it"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And now, look, I am about to go to my people; I will advise you what this people will do to your people {in the following days}."Literally "in the last of the days" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
the declaration of the hearer of God's words,Or "God's sayings" and the knower of the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of Shaddai,Often translated "the Almighty" who is falling, and his eyes are revealed.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near; a star will go out from Jacob, and a scepter will rise from Israel; it will crush the foreheads of Moab and destroy all the children of Seth.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Edom will be a captive; Seir, its enemies, will be a captive, and Israel will be acting {courageously}.Literally "with physical strength"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And he looked at Amalek, {uttered}Literally "lifted up" his oracle, and said, "Amalek is firstOr "among" of the nations, but his future will be forever ruin."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 24
c3content:
The ships will come from the hand of the Kittim, and they will afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber; also he will be forever ruin."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When Israel dwelled in Shittim, the people began to prostituteOr "have sexual relations" themselves with the daughters of Moab.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and worshiped their gods.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So Israel was joined together to Baal Peor, and {Yahweh became angry}Literally "the nose of Yahweh became hot" with Israel.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all {the leaders}Literally "the heads" of the people and kill them before the sun, so the fierce anger of Yahweh will turn from Israel."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill his men who are joined together with Baal Peor." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And behold, a man from the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of all of the community of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of assembly.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest saw, he got up from the midst of the community and took a spear in his hand.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
He went after the man of Israel into the woman's section of the tent, and he drove the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, into her belly. And the plague among the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" stopped.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned away my anger from among the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" when he was jealous with my jealousy in their midst, and I did not destroy the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" with my jealousy.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and it will be for him and his {offspring}Literally "seed" after him a covenant of an eternal priesthood because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the {Israelites}.'"Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The name of the man of Israel who was struck with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of {the family}Or "the father's house" or "the ancestor's house" of the Simeonites.Hebrew "Simeonite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The name of the Midianite woman who was struck was Cozbi daughter of Zur, {a leader}Literally "a head" of a tribe of {the family}Or "the father's house" or "the ancestor's house" in Midian. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 18
c3content:
because they were attacking you with their deception, with which they have deceived you on the matter of Peor and on the matter of Cozbi the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was struck on the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Numbers 26:1a in the English Bible is 25:19b in the Hebrew Bible And it happened after the plague, In the Hebrew Bible, Numbers 26:1 begins hereYahweh said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"{Take a census}Literally "Lift up the heads" of the community of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from {those twenty years old}Literally "a son of twenty years" and above, according to {their families},Literally "the house of their fathers" all who are able to go out to war in Israel."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Take a census of the community from {those twenty years old}Literally "a son of twenty years" and above, just as Yahweh commanded Moses." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the descendantsOr "sons" of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;Hebrew "Palluite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 6
c3content:
of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites;Hebrew "Hezronite" of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites.Hebrew "Carmite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
These are the clans of the Reubenites,Hebrew "Reubenite" and the ones counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The children of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who were appointed of the community, who rebelled against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they rebelled against Yahweh,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and the land opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when that company died, when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they were a sign.That is, a warning sign


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Simeon, according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites;Hebrew "Nemuelite" of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites;Hebrew "Jaminite" of Jakin, the clan of the Jakinites;Hebrew "Jakinite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites;Hebrew "Zerahite" of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites.Hebrew "Shaulite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Gad according to their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites;Hebrew "Zephonite" of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites;Hebrew "Haggite" of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites;Hebrew "Shunite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 17
c3content:
of Arod, the clan of the Arodites;Hebrew "Arodite" of Areli, the clan of the Arelites;Hebrew "Arelite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 18
c3content:
These were the clans of the descendantsOr "sons" of Gad according to the ones counted of them, forty thousand five hundred. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites;Hebrew "Shelanite" of Perez, the clan of the Perezites;Hebrew "Perezite" of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.Hebrew "Zerahite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The children of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites;Hebrew "Hezronite" of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites.Hebrew "Hamulite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 22
c3content:
These were the clans of Judah according to the ones counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Issachar according to their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites;Hebrew "Tolaite" of Puvah, the clan of the Punites;Hebrew "Punite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 24
c3content:
of Jashub, the clans of the Jashubites;Hebrew "Jashubite" of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites.Hebrew "Shimronite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 25
c3content:
These were the clans of Issachar according to the ones counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 26
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Zebulun according to their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites;Hebrew "Seredite" of Elon, the clan of the Elonites;Hebrew "Elonite" of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites.Hebrew "Jahleelite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 27
c3content:
These were the clans of the ZebulunitesHebrew "Zebulunite" according to the ones counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 29
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Manasseh: of Makir, the clan of the Makirites.Hebrew "Makirite" And Makir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites.Hebrew "Gileadite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 30
c3content:
These were the descendantsOr "sons" of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites;Hebrew "Iezerite" of Helek, the clan of the Helekites;Hebrew "Helekite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 31
c3content:
and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites;Hebrew "Asrielite" and of Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites;Hebrew "Shechemite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 32
c3content:
and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites;Hebrew "Shemidaite" and of Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites.Hebrew "Hepherite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Zelophehad son of Hepher did not have sons, but only daughters; and the namesHebrew "name" of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 34
c3content:
These were the clans of Manasseh, and the ones counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 35
c3content:
These were the descendantsOr "sons" of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites;Hebrew "Shuthelahite" of Beker, the clan of the Bekerites;Hebrew "Bekerite" of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.Hebrew "Tahanite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And these were the descendantsOr "sons" of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.Hebrew "Eranite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 37
c3content:
These were the clans of the descendantsOr "sons" of Ephraim according to the ones counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These were the descendantsOr "sons" of Joseph according to their clans. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 38
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites;Hebrew "Belaite" of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites;Hebrew "Ashbelite" of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites;Hebrew "Ahiramite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 39
c3content:
of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites;Hebrew "Shuphamite" of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites.Hebrew "Huphamite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 40
c3content:
The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites;Hebrew "Ardite" of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.Hebrew "Naamite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 41
c3content:
These were the descendantsOr "sons" of Benjamin according to their clans. And the ones counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 42
c3content:
These were the descendantsOr "sons" of Dan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites.Hebrew "Shuhamite" These were the clans of Dan according to their clans.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 43
c3content:
All the clans of the Shuhamites,Hebrew "Shumhamite" according to the ones counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 44
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Asher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnahites;Hebrew "Imnahite" of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites;Hebrew "Ishvite" of Beriah, the clan of the Beriahites.Hebrew "Beriahite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 45
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites;Hebrew "Heberite" of Malkiel, the clan of the Malkielites.Hebrew "Malkielite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 47
c3content:
These were the clans of the descendantsOr "sons" of Asher according to the ones counted of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 48
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Naphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites;Hebrew "Jahzeelite" of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;Hebrew "Gunite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 49
c3content:
of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites;Hebrew "Jezerite" of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites.Hebrew "Shillemite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 50
c3content:
These were the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, the ones counted of them, forty-five thousand four hundred. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 51
c3content:
These were the ones counted of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 54
c3content:
For the larger group you must increase their inheritance, and for the smaller group you must make smaller their inheritance; each must be given {their}Hebrew "his" inheritance according to the number of the ones counted of them.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 55
c3content:
Surely the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 56
c3content:
{Their}Hebrew "His" inheritance must be divided according to the lot between the larger and smaller groups." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 57
c3content:
These are the ones counted of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites;Hebrew "Gershonite" of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites;Hebrew "Kohathite" of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.Hebrew "Merarite"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 58
c3content:
These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites,Hebrew "Libnite" the clan of the Hebronites,Hebrew "Hebronite" the clan of the Mahlites,Hebrew "Mahlite" the clan of the Mushites,Hebrew "Mushite" the clan of the Korahites.Hebrew "Korahite" Kohath fathered Amram.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 59
c3content:
The name of the wife of Amram was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whose mother bore her for Levi in Egypt; she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 61
c3content:
But Nadab and Abihu died when they presented strange fire {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 62
c3content:
The ones counted were twenty-three thousand, every male from {a month old}Literally "a son of one month" and above, because they were not counted in the midst of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" since no inheritance was given to them in the midst of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 63
c3content:
These were the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" on the desert-plateau of Moab on the Jordan across Jericho.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 64
c3content:
And among these there was not a man of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" in the desert of Sinai.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 65
c3content:
For Yahweh said to them, "They will surely die in the desert." And not a man was left over from them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clan of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, and Tirzah.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 2
c3content:
They stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders of the entire community at the doorway of the tent of assembly,Or "meeting" saying,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"Our father died in the desert; he was not in the midst of the company of those who banded together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Why should the name of our father disappear from the midst of his clan because he does not have a son? Give us property in the midst of the brothers of our father."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"{The statements of the daughters of Zelophehad are right}.Literally "Such as the daughters of Zelophehad are speaking" You must surely give them the property of an inheritance in the midst of their father's brothers, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And you must speak to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 11
c3content:
If his father has no brothers, then you must give his inheritance to his nearest relative from his own clan, and he will take possession of it. It will be as a decree of stipulation for the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" just as Yahweh commanded Moses.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land that I have given to the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 14
c3content:
because you rebelled against my word in the desert of Zin when the community quarreled regarding my holiness at the waters." (These are the waters of Meribah-Kadesh in the desert of Zin.) 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 17
c3content:
who will go out before them and will come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so the community of Yahweh will not be like a flock that does not have a shepherd."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and place your hand on him.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and before the entire community, and {commission him}Literally "command him" {in their sight}.Literally "before their eyes"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You will give to him from your authority so that the entire community of Israel will {obey him}.Literally "hear him"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 21
c3content:
He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask for him by the decisionOr "judgment" of the Urim before Yahweh. On {his command}Literally "his word" they will go out, and at {his command}Literally "his word" they will come in, both he and all of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" with him, the entire community."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Moses did just as Yahweh commanded him, and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before the entire community.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And he placed his hands on him and {commissioned him}Literally "commanded him" just as Yahweh spoke by the hand of Moses.Or "through Moses" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Command the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and say to them, '{You will be careful to present}Literally "you will observe to present" my offering, my food of my offerings made by fire, of a fragrance of appeasement to me, at its appointed time.'


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You will say to them, 'This is the offering made by fire that you will offer to Yahweh: two male lambs without defect {in their first year}Literally "sons of a year" as a continual burnt offering each day.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
You will offer one male lamb in the morning, and the second male lamb you will offer {at twilight},Literally "between the two evenings"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and a tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour as a grain offering, mixed with a fourth of a measure of beaten oil.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 6
c3content:
It is a continual burnt offering that was {ordained}Literally "done" on Mount Sinai as a fragrance of appeasement, an offering made by fire for Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The libation with it will be a fourth of a liquid measure for each male lamb; in the sanctuary you will pour out the libation of fermented drink for Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the second male lamb you will offer {at twilight};Literally "between the two evenings" as the grain offering of the morning and as its libation you will offer it, an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 9
c3content:
" 'On the day of the Sabbath, two male lambs without defect {in their first year},Literally "sons of a year" and two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and its libation.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 10
c3content:
This is the burnt offering every Sabbath in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 11
c3content:
" 'And at the beginning of each of your months, you will present a burnt offering for Yahweh: two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs without defect {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and three-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, for each bull; and two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for the one ram;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each male lamb, for a burnt offering of a fragrance of appeasement, an offering of fire for Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Their libations will be half a liquid measure of wine for the bull and a third of a liquid measure of wine for the ram and a fourth of a liquid measure of wine for the male lamb; this is the burnt offering for every month for the months of the year.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And one male goat as a sin offering for Yahweh; it will be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 17
c3content:
On the fifteenth day of this month is a religious feast, unleavened bread must be eaten for seven days.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 18
c3content:
On the first day there will be a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.Literally "you will not do work of labor"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 19
c3content:
You will present an offering by fire, a burnt offering for Yahweh: two bulls and one ram and seven male lambs {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year" they will be for you without defect.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For their grain offering, you will offer finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull and two-tenths for the ram.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 23
c3content:
You will offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for the continual burnt offering.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Like this you will offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh; it will be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 25
c3content:
On the seventh day you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.Literally "you will not do work of labor" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 26
c3content:
" 'And on the day of firstfruits, when you are presenting a new offering for Yahweh during your Festival of Weeks, you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.Literally "you will not do work of labor"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 27
c3content:
You will present a burnt offering for a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: two bulls, one ram, seven male lambs {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 28
c3content:
and their grain offering will be finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for each bull, two-tenths for one ram,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 31
c3content:
In addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, you will offer them without defect with their libation. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 1
c3content:
" 'On the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work}.Literally "you will not do work of labor" It will be a day for you of blowing trumpets.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
You will offer a burnt offering as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year" they will be without defect.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Their grain offering will be finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the ram;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 6
c3content:
in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations, according to their stipulations, as a fragrance of appeasement by fire for Yahweh. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 7
c3content:
" 'And on the tenth of this seventh month you will have a holy convocation, and {you will afflict yourselves};Literally "you will afflict your lives" or "you will afflict your souls" you will not do any work.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 8
c3content:
You will present a burnt offering for Yahweh, a fragrance of appeasement: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year" they will be without defect.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And their grain offering will be of finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 11
c3content:
one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 12
c3content:
" 'Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation; {you will not do any regular work},Literally "you will not do work of labor" and you will hold a religious feast for Yahweh for seven days.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 13
c3content:
You will present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: thirteen bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year" they will be without defect.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 17
c3content:
" 'On the second day: twelve bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year" they will be without defect;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs, by their number according to the stipulation;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 19
c3content:
and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 20
c3content:
" 'On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 23
c3content:
" 'On the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 24
c3content:
and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 26
c3content:
" 'On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 29
c3content:
" 'On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year" and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 32
c3content:
" 'On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 35
c3content:
" 'On the eighth day you will have an assembly; {you will not do any regular work}.Literally "you will not do work of labor"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 36
c3content:
You will present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs without defect {in their first year};Literally "sons of a year"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 39
c3content:
" 'You will present these to Yahweh at your appointed time, in addition to your vows and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for you grain offerings and for your libations and for your fellowship offerings.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 40
c3content:
Numbers 29:40-30:16 in the English Bible is 30:1-17 in the English Bible So Moses said to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" in accordance with all that Yahweh commanded Moses. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Moses spoke to {the leaders}Literally "the heads" of the tribes concerning the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" saying, "This is the word that Yahweh commanded:


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 2
c3content:
if a man makes a vow for Yahweh or swears an oath with a binding pledge on himself, he must not render his word invalid; he must do all that went out from his mouth. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
"If a woman makes a vow to Yahweh, and she binds a pledge on herself in her father's house in your childhood,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 4
c3content:
but if her father hears her vow or her pledge that she bound on herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge that she binds on her life will stand.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 5
c3content:
If her father forbids her on the day he hears of it, all her vows or her pledges that she bound on herself will not stand, and Yahweh will forgive her because her father has forgiven her. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"If {she has a husband}Literally "she is to a man" while bound by her vows or a rash promise of her lips,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 7
c3content:
and her husband hears of it and is silent on the day he hears it, her vows will stand, and her pledge that she bound upon herself will stand.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But if on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he will nullify her vow that she is under, and the rash promise of her lips that she bound on herself; and Yahweh will forgive her. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"But the vow of a widow or a woman who is divorced, all that she binds on herself will stand on her.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 11
c3content:
and her husband heard it but was silent to her, and he did not forbid her, all her vows will stand and every pledge that she bound on herself will stand.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But if her husband nullified them on the day he hears them, all her vows going out of her lips concerning her vows or the pledge on herself will not stand; her husband has nullified them, and Yahweh will forgive her. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Any vow and any sworn oath of a pledge to inflict on herself, her husband can confirm it or her husband can nullify it.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But if her husband is completely silent from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all her pledges that are on her; he confirms them because he was silent to her on the day he heard them.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 16
c3content:
These are the decrees that Yahweh commanded Moses, as between a husband and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, while her childhood is in her father's house. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Seek vengeance for the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm yourself from among your men for the battle, so that they will {go}Literally "be" against Midian to mete out the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So theywere assigned from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand equipped for battle.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the battle, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the battle with them, and the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets of the blast were in his hand.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They killed the kings of Midian in addition to the ones they had slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam son of Beor by the sword.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" took captive the women of Midian and their children, and they plundered all their domestic animals and all their livestock and all their wealth.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 11
c3content:
They took all the plunder and all the war-booty with the humansHebrew "human" and domestic animals.Hebrew "animal"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 12
c3content:
They brought the captives, the war-booty, and the plunder to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the community of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" to the camp to the desert-plateau of Moab, which was on the Jordan across Jericho. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But Moses was angry toward the leaders of the troops, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, who came from the battle of the war.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Behold, these women {caused}Literally "were to" the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" by the word of Balaam, to be in apostasy against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the plague was among the community of Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Now kill every male among the little children, and kill every woman who has {had sexual intercourse with a man}.Literally "who has known the bed of a male"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But all the females who have not {had sexual intercourse with a man},Literally "who has known the bed of a male" keep alive for yourselves.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And you, camp outside the camp seven days; all who killed a person and all who touched the slain purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You will purify yourselves and every garment and every object of hide and all the work of goats' hair, and every object of wood." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of the battle who came from the war, "This is the decree of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 23
c3content:
everything that will go through the fire--you will pass through the fire, and it will be clean, and only in waters of impurity will it be purified. Whatever does not go into the fire you will pass through the waters.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And you will wash your garments on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you will come into the camp." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"You and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the {families}Literally "fathers" of the community, {take count}Literally "lift up the head" of the war-booty that was captured, both humansHebrew "human" and the domestic animals;Hebrew "animal"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 27
c3content:
divide the war-booty between those who engaged in the war, who went out to the battle, and all the community.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Exact a tribute for Yahweh from the men of the war, those who went out to the battle, one from five hundred persons, and from the cattle and from the male donkeys and from the flock;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 30
c3content:
From half of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" take one share drawn by lot from the fifty from the humans,Hebrew "human" from the cattle, from the male donkeys, from the flock, from all the domestic animals,Hebrew "animal" and give them to the Levities who keep the responsibilities of the tabernacle of Yahweh."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Thus the war-booty that remained of the plunder that the people of the battle plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand flocks of sheep,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 35
c3content:
and the life of humankind, from the women who did not {have sexual intercourse with a man},Literally "who has known the bed of a male" all the personsHebrew "person" were thirty-two thousand. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 36
c3content:
The half of the share that was going out to the battle: the number of the flock of sheep was thee hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 39
c3content:
Of the male donkeys there were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute to Yahweh was sixty-one;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And Moses gave away the tribute of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 42
c3content:
From the half of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" which Moses divided from the men who were fighting,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 43
c3content:
the half that belonged to the community was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred from the flock,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 47
c3content:
From the half that belonged to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humansHebrew "human" and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 48
c3content:
Then the leaders of the thousands of the army, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, approached Moses,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 49
c3content:
and they said to Moses, "Your servants have {taken count}Literally "lifted up the head" of the men of war who were {in our charge},Literally "in our hand" and no man is missing from us.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 50
c3content:
So we brought the offering of Yahweh, what each man found, objects of gold, bangles,Hebrew "bangle" bracelets,Hebrew "bracelet" rings,Hebrew "ring" earrings,Hebrew "earring" and female ornaments,Hebrew "ornament" to make atonement for ourselves {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 52
c3content:
All the gold of the contribution that they raised up to Yahweh, from the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 54
c3content:
So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of the thousands and hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of the assembly as a memorial for the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" before Yahweh. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Reuben and the descendantsOr "sons" of Gad had a very large number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold it was a place for livestock.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Gad and the descendantsOr "sons" of Reuben came, and they said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, saying,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 4
c3content:
the land that Yahweh struck before the community of Israel, is a land of livestock, and your servants have livestock."


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They said, "If we have found favor in {your sight},Literally "your eyes" let this land be given to your servants as property; do not lead us across the Jordan." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But Moses said to the descendantsOr "sons" of Gad and to the descendantsOr "sons" of Reuben, "Will your brothers go to war while you yourselves live here?


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Why are you discouraging the hearts of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from crossing into the land that Yahweh gave to them?


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 9
c3content:
When they went up to the valleyOr "the wadi" of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So {Yahweh's anger burned}Literally "Yahweh's nose became hot" on that day, and he swore an oath, saying,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 11
c3content:
'The men who went up from Egypt, from {those twenty years old}Literally "a son of twenty years" and above, will not see the land that I swore with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because they have not wholly followed me,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 12
c3content:
except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, because they followed Yahweh wholly.'


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And {Yahweh became angry},Literally "Yahweh's nose became hot" and he made them wander in the desert forty years until the entire generation who did evil in the {sight of Yahweh}Literally "eyes of Yahweh" {had died}.Literally "had completed"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Behold, you stand in the place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more {Yahweh's fierce anger}Literally "the fierce anger of Yahweh's nose" against Israel.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 15
c3content:
If you turn from following him, he will again abandon themHebrew "him" in the wilderness, and you would have destroyed all these people." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 16
c3content:
They came near to him and said, "We will build sheep pens here for the flock of our livestock and cities for our little children;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 17
c3content:
but we ourselves will become armed and ready before the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" until we have brought them to their place, and our little children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 18
c3content:
We will not return to our houses until the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" each obtain theirHebrew "his" inheritance for themselves.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For we will not take possession with them from across the Jordan and beyond because our inheritance has come to us from across the Jordan to the east." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So Moses said to them, "If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh for the war,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 21
c3content:
and everyone of you armed cross the Jordan {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 22
c3content:
and the land is subdued {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh, then afterward you will return and be free of obligation from Yahweh and from Israel, and this land will be your property {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh, and know that your sin will find you.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 25
c3content:
So the descendantsOr "sons" of Gad and the descendantsOr "sons" of Reuben said to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do just as my lord commands.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Our little children, our wives, our livestock, and all of our animalsHebrew "animal" {will remain}Literally "will be there" in the cities of Gilead,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 27
c3content:
but your servants, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross over {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh to the war, just as my lord says." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 28
c3content:
So Moses commanded them, Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of the tribes of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Moses said to them, "If the descendantsOr "sons" of Gad and the descendantsOr "sons" of Reuben, everyone who is armed for the war, cross over the Jordan {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, you will give them the land of Gilead as property.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 31
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Gad and the descendants of Reuben answered and said, "What Yahweh has commanded your servants, we will do.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 32
c3content:
We ourselves will cross over armed {before}Literally "in the presence of" Yahweh to the land of Canaan, and the property of our inheritance will remain with us beyond the Jordan." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 33
c3content:
So Moses gave to them, to the descendantsOr "sons" of Gad and the descendantsOr "sons" of Reuben, and to half of the tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon the king of Amorites and the kingdom of Og the king of the Bashan, the land with its cities and their territories, the cities of the surrounding land.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 38
c3content:
and Nebo, Baal Meon (their namesHebrew "name" were changed), and Sibmah, and {they renamed}Literally "they called to names the names" the cities that they rebuilt.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 39
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and they captured it and drove out the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" who were in it.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their unwalled villages, and he called them Havvoth Jair.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 1
c3content:
These were the journeys of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" who went out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Moses wrote down their movements according to their journeys on the command of Yahweh, and these are their journeys according to their movements.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They set out from Rameses on the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" went out {boldly}Literally "with a hand that was raised" {in the sight}Literally "for the eyes" of all the Egyptians


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 4
c3content:
while the Egyptians were burying all the firstborn among them whom Yahweh struck. Yahweh also executed punishments among their gods. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" set out from Rameses, and they camped in Succoth.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then they set out from Etham and returned to Pi-Hahiroth, which faces Baal Zephon, and they camped before Migdol.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They set out from Pi-Hahiroth and went through the midst of the sea into the desert; and they went a journey of three days into the desert of Etham and camped at Marah.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 9
c3content:
They set out from Marah and came to Elim, and in Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 14
c3content:
They set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim; and it was there that the people had no water to drink.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the {command}Literally "mouth" of Yahweh, and he died there in the fortieth year after the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" had gone out from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month on the first day of the month.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 40
c3content:
Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who was living in the NegevAn arid region south of the Judean hills in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 48
c3content:
They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 51
c3content:
"Speak to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and say to them, 'When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 52
c3content:
you will drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, and you will destroy all their idols and all the images of their molten idols, and you will demolish all their high places;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 54
c3content:
You will distribute the land by lot according to your clans; to the larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller group you will give less inheritance. However the lot falls for him, there the lot will be. You will distribute it according to the tribes of your ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 55
c3content:
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, then it will happen that whomever you let remain of them will be like irritants in your eyes and like thorns in your sides; they will be your enemies in the land in which you live.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Command the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and say to them, 'When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that was allotted to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its boundaries.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Your southern edge will be from the desert of Zin toward the side of Edom, and your southern border will be from the end of the Salt SeaThat is, the Dead Sea to the east;


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 4
c3content:
your boundary will turn from the south to the ascent of AkrabbimOr "Scorpions" and will pass over to Zin, and its limits will be from the south of Kadesh Barnea; it will continue to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 6
c3content:
" 'Your western boundary will be the Great Sea;That is, the Mediterranean this will be your western boundary.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Your northern border will be from the Great Sea;That is, the Mediterranean you will make a boundary from the Great SeaThat is, the Mediterranean to Mount Hor.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 8
c3content:
From Mount Hor you will make a boundary to reach Hamath; the limits of the territory will be at Zedad.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The boundary will go out to Ziphron, and its limits will be at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary to the north. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 11
c3content:
the boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah from the east side of Ain, and the boundary will go down and border on the eastern side of the Sea of Kinnereth.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The boundary will go down to the Jordan, and its limits will be at the Salt Sea.That is, the Dead Sea This will be your land according to its boundaries all around.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So Moses commanded the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" saying, "This is the land that you will obtain as an inheritance for yourself by lot, which Yahweh commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For the tribe of the children of the Reubenites,Hebrew "Reubenite" the children of the Gadites,Hebrew "Gadite" and the half-tribe of Manasseh took their inheritance according to the house of their families.Or "their fathers"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The two and a half tribes have taken their inheritance from beyond the Jordan across Jericho, east toward the sunrise." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"These are the names of the men who divide up the land for your inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 23
c3content:
of the descendantsOr "sons" of Joseph, the tribe of the descendantsOr "sons" of Manasseh, the leader Hanniel son of Ephod.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 29
c3content:
These are those whom Yahweh commanded to allot to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" the land of Canaan. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Command the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their property cities to live in; and you will give to the Levites pastureland all around the cities.Hebrew "them"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The cities will be theirs to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their domestic animals, for their possessions, and their animals.Hebrew "animal" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"The pasturelands of the cities that you will give to the Levites will extend from the wall of the city to a distance of a thousand cubits all around.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You will measure outside the city the eastern edge two thousand cubits, for the southern edge two thousand cubits, for the western edge two thousand cubits, and for the northern edge two thousand cubits, with the city in the middle; this will be for them the pasturelands of the cities. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"All the cities that you will give the Levites will be six cities of refuge, to which the killer can flee; in addition to them you will give forty-two cities.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All the cities that you will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, them with their pasturelands.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the cities that you will give from the property of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" you will take more from the larger group and less from the smaller group; each of them will give according to the portion of their inheritance according to the portion that he inherits." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 11
c3content:
you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The cities will be to you a refuge from a redeemer, so that the killer will not die until he stands before the community for judgment.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 14
c3content:
You will give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they will be cities of refuge.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 15
c3content:
To the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" to the alien, and to the temporary resident in their midst there will be these six cities as a refuge to which anyone who unintentionally kills a person may flee. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 16
c3content:
" 'But if he hit him with an object of iron, so that he dies, the killer must surely be put to death.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And if he hit him with a stone in the hand, by which he will die, and he does die, he is a killer; the killer must surely be put to death.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Or if he hit him with a wooden object, by which he will die, and he does die, he is a killer; the killer must surely be put to death.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 21
c3content:
or if he hits him in hostility with his hand, and he dies, the one that struck him will put to death the killer when meeting him. 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 22
c3content:
" 'Or if in an instant he shoved him, not in hostility, or threw something at him without intention,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 23
c3content:
or with any stone, without seeing it dropped on him so that he dies, while he was not seeking his injury,


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 24
c3content:
then the community will judge between the striker and between the blood avenger according to these ordinances.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 25
c3content:
The community will deliver the killer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the community will restore him to the city of his refuge to which he fled; and he will live there in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 27
c3content:
and the blood avenger finds him outside the territory of the city of his refuge, and the blood avenger kills the killer, {he will not be guilty of blood}Literally "there will not be blood for him"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 28
c3content:
because he must live in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the killer will return to the land of his property.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 30
c3content:
" 'If anyone kills a person, the killer will be put to death {according to the testimony}Literally "according to the mouth" of witnesses, but someone cannot die on testimony of one person.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Also, you will not take a ransom payment for the life of a killer who is guilty of death; indeed, he must surely be put to death.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 32
c3content:
You will not take a ransom payment for the one that flees to the city of his refuge, so that he may return to live in the land before the death of the priest.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 33
c3content:
So you will not pollute the land in which you are; because blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is poured out on it except with the blood of the one who poured it out.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 34
c3content:
You will not defile the land on which you are living because I am living in the midst of it; I am Yahweh; I am living in the midst of the {Israelites}.'"Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{The leaders}Literally "The heads" of the familiesOr "fathers" of the clans of descendantsOr "sons" of Gilead the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clans of the descendantsOr "sons" of Joseph came near and spoke {before}Literally "before the face of" Moses and {before}Literally "before the face of" {the leaders}Literally "the heads" of the familiesHebrew "of the fathers" of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And they said, "Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But if they become wives to one of the sons from another tribe of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors,Or "fathers" and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 4
c3content:
When the Jubilee of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" {comes},Literally "will be" it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and their inheritance will disappear from the tribe of our father." 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Moses commanded the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" by the command of Yahweh, saying, "The tribe of the descendantsOr "sons" of Joseph is right regarding what they are speaking.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 6
c3content:
This is the word that Yahweh commanded the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, '{Let them marry}Literally "Let them be as wives" {whomever they like};Literally "they will be as the good in their eyes" only {they must marry}Literally "they must be as wives" from within the clan of the tribe of their father.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Thus an inheritance of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" will not go around from tribe to tribe. Rather, the inheritance of each tribe of his father will remain with the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" will {marry}Literally "be a wife to" one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" will possess the inheritance of his ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Therefore an inheritance will not go around from one tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" will each hold to their own inheritance.'" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, {married}Literally "were as wives to" the sons of their uncles.


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{They married}Literally "They were as wives to" those from the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance {remained}Literally "was" among the tribe of the clan of their ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: Num
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 13
c3content:
These were the commands and the stipulations that Yahweh commanded by the hand of MosesOr "through Moses" to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" on the desert-plateaus of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
These are the words that Moses spoke to all of Israel {on the other side of}Literally "in the beyond of" the Jordan in the desert,Or "the wilderness" in the desert plateauOr "desert plain"; others render this as a named location, "Arabah" opposite Suph, between Paran and between Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
It is a journey of {eleven days}Literally "one and ten days" from Herob {by the way of Mount Seir}Literally "by the mountain of Seir" up to Kadesh Barnea. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{And it was}Literally "and it happened" or "and then" in the fortieth year, on the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" according to all that Yahweh had instructed him to speak to them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
This happened {after defeating}Literally "after he had struck down" Sihon king of the Amorites, who was reigningOr "dwelling," and in this context "reigning" in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who was reigningOr "dwelling," and in this context "reigning" in Ashtaroth in Edrei.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
On the other side of Literally "in the beyond of" the Jordan in the land of Moab Moses began to explain this law,Hebrew torah {saying}:Literally "to say" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"Yahweh our God spoke to us at Horeb, {saying},Literally "to say" 'You have stayed {long enough}Literally "much time" at this mountain.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Turn now and {move on},Literally "journey on with respect to yourselves" or "move yourselves out" and go into the hill of the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" and to all of the neighboring regionsOr "peoples" in the Jordan {Valley}Literally "Arabah," arid stretches of land. in the hill country and in the Negev and in the coastal area along the sea, into the land of the CanaanitesHebrew "Canaanite" and into the Lebanon, as far as the great river Euphrates.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Look, I have set the land {before you};Literally "before your face" go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,Or "fathers" to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them and to their offspring after them.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you are today as the stars of the heaven {in number}.Literally "with respect to multitude/abundance"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" may he add to you as you are now a thousand times, and may he bless you just as he {promised you}.Literally "spoke to you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Choose for yourselves {wise and discerning and knowledgeable men}Literally "men wise and discerning and knowledgeable" for each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And so I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and then I appointed them as leaders over you as commanders of groups of thousands and commanders of groups of hundreds and commanders of groups of fifties and commanders of groups of tens as officials for your tribes.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And at that time I instructed your judges, saying, '{hear out your fellow men},Literally "hear between your brothers," with the idea of listening carefully in this context and then judge fairlyOr "righteously" between a man and between his brother and between {his opponent who is a resident alien}.Literally "between his resident alien/non-Israelite who dwells temporarily among Israel"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
You must not {be partial}Literally "recognize faces" {in your judgment}; Literally "in the process of rendering a judgment" hear out the small person as also the great person; {do not be intimidated by any person},Literally "do not fear before the faces of any man" because the judgment is God's; and the case that is too difficultOr "hard" for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it out.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"Then we set out from Horeb, and we went through the whole of that great and terrible desert that you saw on the way to the hill country of the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" as Yahweh our God had commanded us, and so we came up to Kadesh Barnea.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
I said to you, '{You have reached}Literally "You have come up to" the hill country of the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" that Yahweh our God is giving to us.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
See, Yahweh your God has set before you the land; go up and possess it as Yahweh the God of your ancestorsOr "fathers" said to you; do not fear and do not be dismayed.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"Then all of you approached me, and you said, 'Let us send men {before us},Literally "before our faces" or "ahead of us" and let them explore the land for us, and let them bring back {a report}Literally "a word" to us concerning the way that {we should take}Literally "we should go up by it" and concerning the cities that we shall come to.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The plan was good {in my opinion},Literally "in my eyes" and so I took from among you twelve men, {one from each tribe}.Literally "man one from the tribe"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And they {set out}Literally "turned" and {went up into the hill country},Literally "went up toward the hill country mountain" and they went up to the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Eschol, and they spied out the land.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 25
c3content:
They took in their handsHebrew "hand" {some of the fruit}Literally "from the fruit" of the land, and they brought it down to us, and they brought to us back {a report},Literally "a word" and they said, 'The land that Yahweh our God is giving to us is good.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the {command}Literally "mouth" of Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And you grumbled in your tents, and you said, 'Because of the hatred of Yahweh toward us he has brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" to destroy us.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Where can we go up? Our brothers have {made our hearts melt},Literally "caused to melt our hearts" {saying},Literally "to say" "The people are greaterOr "bigger" and taller than we are,Hebrew "than us" and there are great fortified cities reaching up to heaven, and we saw the sons of the Anakites living there." ' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Yahweh your God, who is going {before you},Literally "to your faces" will himselfThe Hebrew pronoun indicates emphasis fight for you, {just as}Literally "like all that" he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 31
c3content:
and just as he did in the wildernessOr "desert" whenOr "where" you saw thatOr "how" Yahweh your God carried you, just as someoneOr "a man" carries his son, all along the way that you traveled until {you reached}Literally "you came" this place.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 33
c3content:
{who goes}Literally "is the one going" {before you}Literally "before your faces" on yourHebrew "the" way, seeking a place for your encampment, in fire at night and in a cloud by day, to show you the way that {you should go}.Literally "you should go in it" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 34
c3content:
"Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and he was angry, and he swore, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 35
c3content:
'No one of these menThe beginning of an oath in Hebrew; the text emphatically denies anyone of that evil generation the privilege of seeing the promised land of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors,Or "fathers"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 36
c3content:
except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh; he himselfEmphatic use of the pronoun shall see it, and to him I will give the land upon which he has trodden and to his sonsOr "descendants" because {he followed Yahweh unreservedly}.'Literally "he filled his hands after Yahweh"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Joshua, the son of Nun, {your assistant},Literally "the one standing before you" will go there; encourage him because he will cause Israel to inherit it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And your little children, who you thought shall become plunder, and your sons, who do not today know good or bad, shall themselvesThe Hebrew pronoun is used for emphasis go there, and I will give it to them, and they shall take possession of it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 40
c3content:
But you turn and set out in the direction of the wilderness by way of the {Red Sea}.'Literally "sea of reeds" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 41
c3content:
"You replied and said to me, 'We have sinned against Yahweh, and now we will go up and fight according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us'; and so each man fastened on {his battle gear},Literally "his vessels of battle" and you regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 42
c3content:
So Yahweh said to me, 'Say to them, "You shall not go up, and you shall not fight because I am not in your midst; you will be defeated {before}Literally "in the faces of your enemies" your enemies." '


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 43
c3content:
So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; you rebelled against the {command of Yahweh};Literally "mouth of Yahweh" you behaved presumptuously, and you went up into the hill country.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 44
c3content:
The Amorites living in the hill country went out {to oppose you}Literally "to meet you" and chased you as a swarm of wild honey bees do; and so they {beat}Literally "cut" you down in Seir as far as Hormah.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 45
c3content:
So you returned and wept {before Yahweh};Literally "before the faces of Yahweh" but Yahweh did not listen to your voice and did not pay any attention to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Then we turned and set out toward the wildernessOr "desert" in the direction of the {Red Sea},Literally "sea of reeds" as Yahweh told me, and we went around Mount Seir for many days.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and instructOr "command" the people, {saying},Literally "to say" "You are about to cross through the territory of your brothers, the descendantsOr "sons" of Esau, who are living in Seir; they will be afraid of you, and so be very careful.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Do not get involved in battleOr "provoke" with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even {a foot's breadth}Literally "a sole's foot of space" of it; since I have given Mount Seir as a possession for Esau.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You shall buy food from them so that you may eat; and also you shall purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The fact of the matter is, Yahweh your God has blessed you in {all the work you have done};Literally "the work of your hand" he knows {your travels}Literally "your journeying" with respect to this great wilderness; forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing." '


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And so we passed by our brothers, the descendantsOr "sons" of Esau, who live in Seir, past the road of the Arabah,Or "Jordan Valley" since the Arabah is an extension of it from Elath and Ezion Geber, and we turned and traveled along the route of the desertOr "wilderness" of Moab. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, 'You shall not attack Moab, and you shall not engage in warOr "battle" with them, for I will not give you any of his land as a possession; I have given Ar to the descendantsOr "sons" of Lot as a possession.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
(The Emim previously lived in it, a people large,Or "great" in the sense of influential numerous, and tall, like the Anakites.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The Horites previously lived in Seir, but the descendantsOr "sons" of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them {from among themselves},Literally "from their presence" as Israel did with respect to the land of theirLiterally "its/his" possession that Yahweh gave to them.)


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
So now arise and cross over the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Zered yourselves; and so we crossed the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Zered.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Now the {length of time}Literally "days" that we had traveled from Kadesh Barnea until the time when we crossed the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Zered was thirty-eight years, until the perishing of all of that generation; that is, the men of war from the midst of the camp as Yahweh had sworn to them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The hand of Yahweh was against them to root them out from the midst of the camp until they perished completely. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"{And then}Literally "And it happened" when all the men of warOr "battle" {had died}Literally "had finished/completed to die" from among the people,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
When you approach {the border of}Literally "opposite" the {Ammonites},Literally "the sons/children of Ammon" you shall not harass them, and you shall not get involved in battle with them, for I have not given the land of {the Ammonites}Literally "the sons/children of Ammon" to you as a possession; because I have given it to the descendantsOr "sons" of Lot as a possession.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
(It is also considered the land of Rephaim; Rephaim lived in it {previously},Literally "before" and the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakites; Yahweh destroyed them from before them,That is, the Ammonites and they dispossessed them and settled in place of them,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
just as he did for the descendantsOr "sons" of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from {before them}Literally "from the face/presence of them" and dispossessed them, and then they settled in theirHebrew "them" place up to this day.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And also the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and the Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor, destroyed them and then settled in their place.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Arise,Or "Get up" set out and cross over the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, the king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession of it, and engage with him in battle.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 25
c3content:
This day I will begin to place {the dread of you}Literally "your dread" and the fear of you {before}Literally "upon the faces of" the peoples under all the heavens. They will hear {the report about you},Literally "your report" and so they will shake and tremble {because of you}.' Literally "from before you" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"So I sent messengers from the wildernessOr "desert" of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon; I sent terms of peace, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 27
c3content:
'Let me cross through your land and {only along the road}Literally "in the road, in the road" I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Food for money you shall sell me, so that I may eat, and water for money you will give to me, so that I may drink; just let me cross on foot.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Just as the descendantsOr "the children/sons of" of Esau did for me, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, until I cross the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 30
c3content:
But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us cross through his territory because Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and {made him obstinate}Literally "made firm his heart" {in order to give him}Literally "to give him," indicating purpose into your hand, {just as he has now done}.Literally "as it is this day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Yahweh said to me, 'Look! I have begun to give {over to you}Literally "to the face of you" Sihon and his land; begin {to take possession of his land}.'Literally, "take possession in order to possess his land"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And so Yahweh our God gave him over {to us},Literally "before us" and we struck him down, and his sonsOr "descendants" and all of his people.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 34
c3content:
So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town of males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 35
c3content:
We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves,Hebrew "us" and also the booty of the cities that we had captured.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 36
c3content:
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Arnon and the city that was in the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season on up to Gilead, there was not a city that was inaccessible to us; Yahweh our God gave {everything}Literally "the whole" {to us}.Literally "before us"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Only the land of {the Ammonites}Literally "children/sons of Ammon" you did not approach, all along the whole upper region of the Jabbok {River}Literally "wadi," which here refers to a flowing river and the towns of the hill country, according to all that Yahweh our God had instructed. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Then we turned, and we went up the road to Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all of his army for the battle at Edrei.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, 'You should not fear him, for I have given him and all of his armyOr "people" and his land into your hand. And so you will do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites,Hebrew "Amorite" who was reigning in Heshbon.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And so Yahweh our God also gave Og the king of Bashan, and all of his armyOr "people" into our hand, and we struck him down until not a survivor remained toOr "for" him.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And we captured all of his townsOr "villages/cities small" at that time; there was not a city that we did not take from them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
All of these were fortified towns with high walls, gates, and bars,Hebrew "bar" {apart from}Literally "alone from" very many of the villages of the open country.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And so we destroyed them just as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon; we destroyed utterly each town of males, the women, and the little children.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"And so we took at that time the land from {the control of}Literally "the hand of" the two kings of the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" who were {on the other side of the Jordan},Literally "in the beyond of the Jordan" from the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Arnon up to {Mount Hermon}.Literally "the mountain of Hermon"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
All of the towns of the plateau and the whole of Gilead and all of Bashan up to Salecah and Edrei, the towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
(For only Og, king of Bashan, was left from the remnant of the Rephaim. Indeed, his bedstead--it was a bedstead of iron. It is in Rabbah of the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons/children of Ammon" Nine cubits is its length, and four cubits is its width according to the cubit of a man.) 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And so we took possession of this land at that time, from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Arnon, and also half of the hill country of Gilead and its towns I gave to the ReubenitesHebrew "Reubenite" and to the Gadites.Hebrew "Gadite"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the remainder of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the whole region of Argo. All of that area of Bashan was called the land of the Rephaim.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Jair the descendantOr "son" of Manasseh acquired the whole region of Argob, up to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he called it,Hebrew "them" that is Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, {as it still is today}.Literally "up to this day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And to the ReubenitesHebrew "Reubenite" and to the GaditesHebrew "Gadite" I gave, from Gilead up to the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Arnon, the middle of the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season as a boundary and up to the Jabbok {River},Literally "wadi," which here refers to a flowing river the boundary of the {Ammonites}.Literally "sons/children of Ammon"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the {Jordan Valley}Literally "Arabah" with the Jordan River as its boundary, from KinnerethOr "Chinnereth," the Sea of Galilee up to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea,Or the Dead Sea with the slopes of Pisgah toward the east. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"And I charged you all at that time when I said, "Yahweh has given you--to all of you--this land to possess. All the {warriors}Literally "men of valor" shall cross over, ready to fight, before your brothers, the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Only your wives and your little children and your livestock (I know that {you have much livestock})Literally "livestock much there is to you" must stay in your towns that I have given you,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
until Yahweh shall give rest to your brothers as he did to you, and also they take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to them beyond the Jordan; then they may return, each one to his possession that I have given to them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, 'Your eyes see all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh will do to all of the kingdoms where you are about to cross over to.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
'Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand, for whatHebrew "who" god is there in the heaven or on the earth who can do according to your works and according to your mighty deeds?


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Let me cross over, please, and let me see the good land {that is beyond the Jordan},Literally "in the beyond of the Jordan" this good hill country and Lebanon.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But Yahweh was very angry with me because of you, and he would not listen to me, and Yahweh said, '{Enough of that from you}!Literally "Much to you" You shall not speak to me any longer about this matter!


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Go up to the top of Pisgah and {look around you}Literally "lift up your eyes" toward the west, toward the north, and toward the east, and {view}Literally "look" the land with your eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Now instruct Joshua and support him and encourage him because he himselfEmphatic use of the pronoun will cross over before this people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Now, Israel, listen to the rules and to the regulations that I am teaching you to do, in order that you may live and you may go in and you may take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" is giving to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
You must not add to the word that I am commanding you, and you shall not take away from it in order to keepOr "observe" the commands of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you to observe.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Your eyes have seenLiterally "your eyes the seeing what" what Yahweh did withOr "in" the case of Baal Peor, for {each}Literally "every one of" man that followed after Baal Peor Yahweh your God destroyed from your midst.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
See, I now teachOr "I have taught" (compare NASB, NEB) you rules and regulations just as Yahweh my God has commanded me, to observe them just so in the midst of the land where you are going, to take possession of it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And {you must observe them diligently},Literally "you must observe and you must do" for that is your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all of these rules, and they will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For what great nation has for it a god near to it as Yahweh our God, wheneverLiterally "in every matter/every time we call " we call upon him?


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And what other great nation has for itLiterally "which/that is for him it" just rules and regulations just likeLiterally "as" {this whole}Literally "all of" law that I am setting {before}Literally "to the face of" you {today}?Literally "the day" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"However, {take care}Literally "watch" for yourself and watch your inner selfOr "soul" closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to {your grandchildren}.Literally "the children of your children"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Remember the day that you stood {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh your God at Horeb {when Yahweh said to me},Literally "when to say Yahweh" 'Summon for me the people so that I can tell them my words, that they may learn to fear me all of the days they are alive on the earth and so that they may teach their children.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And so you came near, and you stood under the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire up to the heart of the heaven, {dark with a very thick cloud}.Literally "darkness, cloud, and very thick darkness"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; {you heard}Literally "you were hearing" a sound of words, but {you did not see}Literally "you were not seeing" a form--only a voice.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he declared to you his covenant, {the Ten Commandments},Literally "the ten words" which he charged you {to observe},Literally "to do" and he wrote them on the two tablets of stone.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Yahweh charged me at that time to teach you rules and regulations {for your observation of them}Literally "for your doing them" in the land that you are {about to cross into}Literally "about to cross into there" to take possession of it. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"So {you must be very careful for yourselves},Literally "watch yourselves diligently with respect to your souls" because you did not seeOr "have not seen" any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
so that you do not {ruin yourselves}Literally "corrupt yourselves" and make for yourselves a divine image in a form of any image, a replica of male or female,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
a replica of any creeping thing on the ground, a replica of any fish that is in the water {below}Literally "under" the earth.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{And do this so that you do not lift}Literally "And lest you lift up" your eyes toward heaven and {observe}Literally "see" the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of the heaven, and be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that Yahweh your God has allotted to all of the peoples under all of the heaven.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance toOr "for"; a people of inheritance = a people who is his very own possession him, {as it is this day}.Literally "as the day the this" = as you are now 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"And Yahweh was angry with me {because of you},Literally "because of your matter" and he swore {that I would not cross the Jordan}Literally "not I to cross the Jordan" and {that I would not go to the good land}Literally "not I going to the land" that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For I am going to die in this land; I am not going to cross the Jordan, but you are going to cross, and you are going to take possession of this good land.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Watch out for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had {made}Literally "cut" with you and make for yourselves a divine image of the form of anything that Yahweh your God {has forbidden},Literally "has commanded you about"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"When you have had children and {grandchildren}Literally "children of children" and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image of the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, thus provoking him to anger,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 26
c3content:
I callOr "I shall call to witness" to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you are crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; {you will not live long on it},Literally "you will not extend days" but you will be completely destroyed.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left {few in number}Literally "people of number," as opposed to people without number among the nations {to where Yahweh will lead you}.Literally "he will lead Yahweh you there"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And you will there serve gods {made by human hands},Literally "the work of the hands of human" of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 29
c3content:
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.Or "inner self"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 30
c3content:
{In your distress}Literally "In the distress for you" whenHebrew "and" all these things have found you in the {latter days},Literally "in the last of the days" thenHebrew "and" you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 31
c3content:
For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he {will not abandon you},Literally "will not leave you alone" and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestorsOr "fathers" that he swore to them. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 32
c3content:
"Yes, ask, please, about former days that {preceded you}Literally "that they were to the face of you" from the day that God created humankind on the earth; ask even from one end of the heaven up to the other end of heaven {whether anything ever happened}Literally "was it ever" like this great thing or {whether anything like it was ever heard}.Literally "was it ever heard as it"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard it, and lived?


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Or has a god ever attempted to go to take for himselfHebrew "for him" a nation from the midst of a nation, using trials and signs and wonders and war, with an outstretched arm and with great and awesome deeds, like all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 35
c3content:
You yourselvesEmphatic use of pronoun; plural meaning implied were shown this wonder in order for you to acknowledge that Yahweh is the God;The definite article indicates that Israel's God is alone the true God and the one who revealed himself to them there is no other God {besides him}.Literally "except him" or "to him alone"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 36
c3content:
From heaven he made you hear his voice to teach you, and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And because he loved your ancestorsOr "fathers" he chose their {descendants}Literally "seed" after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt {with his own presence},Literally "with his faces" by his great strength,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 38
c3content:
to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you {from before you},Literally "from your face" to bring you and to give to you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 39
c3content:
So you shall acknowledge {today},Literally "the day" and {you must call to mind}Literally "you shall bring back to your heart" that Yahweh is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And you shall keep his rules and his commandments that I am commanding you {today},Literally "the day" so that {it may go well}Literally "he/it is good" for you and for your childrenOr "descendants" after you, and so that {you may remain a long time}Literally "you may make long/prolong days" on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you during all of those days." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Then Moses set apart three cities {on the other side of the Jordan},Literally "in the beyond of the Jordan" {toward the east},Literally "toward rising of the sun"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 42
c3content:
in order for {a manslayer}Literally "a killer of a man" to flee there who has killed his neighbor {without intent}Literally "without previous knowledge" and was not hating him {previously},Literally "the day before yesterday" and so he could flee to one of these cities {and be safe}.Literally "and live"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 43
c3content:
He set apart Bezer in the wildernessOr "desert" in the land of the plateau of the Reubenites;Hebrew "Reubenite" Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites,Hebrew "Gadite" and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites.Hebrew "Manassite" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 44
c3content:
Now this is the lawHebrew "the torah" = teaching, instruction, law that Moses set {before}Literally "before the faces of" the {Israelites};Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 45
c3content:
these are the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Moses spoke to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" {when they left Egypt},Literally "at their going out from Egypt"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 46
c3content:
beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth Peor in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites,Hebrew "Amorite" who was reigning in Heshbon and whom Moses and the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" defeated {when they came out of Egypt}.Literally "at their going out from Egypt"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 47
c3content:
And so they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" who were beyond the Jordan, {eastward},Literally "toward the rising of the sun"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 48
c3content:
from Aroer, which is on the bank of the wadiA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season of Arnon and as far as Mount Sirion; that is, Hermon,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 49
c3content:
and all of the ArabahOr "valley" in this instance beyond the Jordan, eastward, and as far as the Sea of the ArabahCommonly known today as the Dead Sea under the slopes of Pisgah. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And then Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them, "Hear, Israel, the rules and the regulations that I am speaking in your ears {today},Literally "the day" and you shall learn them, and {you must observe them diligently}.Literally "you shall observe them carefully to do them"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
It was not with our ancestorsOr "fathers" that Yahweh made this covenant, but with these of us who are here alive today.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{Face to face}Literally "Faces to faces" Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I was standing {between Yahweh and you}Literally "between Yahweh and between you" at that time to reportOr "declare" to you the word of Yahweh, for you were afraid because of {the presence of}Literally "the faces of" the fire, and so you did not go up the mountain. {He said},Literally "To say" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
'You shall not make for yourself a divine image of any type of form that is in the heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
'You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, punishing the guilt of fathers upon their children and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those hating me,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
'You shall not take up the name of Yahweh your God for a worthless purpose, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who uses his name for a worthless purpose. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
'Observe the {Sabbath day}Literally "the day of the Sabbath" to make it holy,Or "to sanctify it" just as Yahweh your God has commanded you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto Yahweh your God; you shall not do any work, or your son, or your daughter, or your slave, or your slave woman, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your domestic animals, or your resident alien who is in your {towns},Literally "gates" so that your slave and your slave woman may rest as you rest.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore, Yahweh your God commanded you to keep {the Sabbath}.Literally "the day of the Sabbath" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
'Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, so that it will be good for youOr "it may go well for you" {in the land}Literally "on the ground" that Yahweh your God is giving to you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 21
c3content:
'And you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not crave the house of your neighbor, his field or his slave or his slave woman or his ox and his donkey or anything {that belongs to your neighbor}.'Literally "that is for your neighbor" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"These words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire and the very thick cloud with a loud voice, and {he did not add anything},Literally "and not he added" and then he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 23
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it happened" {when you heard}Literally "and as/when you heard" or "at the moment of your hearing" the voice from the midst of the darkness, and as the mountain was burning with fire, and and all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 24
c3content:
you said, 'Look, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire; this day we have seenOr "saw" that God can speak with a human being, {yet he remains alive}.Literally "and he lives"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And so then why shall we die, for this great fire will consume us if {we continue}Literally "we do again to hear"; or "we are doing again to hear" to hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, and so we shall die?


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 26
c3content:
For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire as we have heard it {and remained alive}?Literally "and lives"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 27
c3content:
You go near and hear {everything}Literally "all of that which" that Yahweh our God will say; and then you tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you, and we will listen, and we will do it.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 28
c3content:
"And Yahweh heard the sound of your words {when you spoke to me},Literally "in/at you to speak to me" and Yahweh said to me, 'I have heard the sound of the words of this people that they have spoken to you; they are right with respect to all that they have spoken.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 29
c3content:
{If only}Literally "Who gives/will give" {they had such a mind}';Literally "it would be their heart this to them" that is, to fear me and to keep all my commandments {at all times},Literally "all the days" so that {it will go well}Literally "he/it is good" for them and for their children {forever}.Literally "to eternity"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 31
c3content:
But you stand here with me, and let me tell you all of the commandments and the rules and the regulations that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving to them to take possession of it.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 32
c3content:
"So you must be careful to do just as Yahweh your God commanded you; you shall not turn to the right or to the left.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 33
c3content:
{In exactly the path}Literally "In all the way/path" that Yahweh your God has commanded, you must go, so that you may live and {it will go well}Literally "and good it is" for you and {you may live long}Literally "you may make long" in the land that you will take possession of." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Now this is the commandment, the rules and the regulations, that Yahweh your God charged to teach to you for you {to observe}Literally "to do" in the land that you are about to cross over intoOr "there" to take possession of it,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
so that you may revere Yahweh your God by keeping all his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you, you and your children and {grandchildren},Literally "the children of your children" all the days of your life and so you may live longLiterally "they may be long your days" lives.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you shall hear, Israel, and be careful to observe these instructions, so that {it may go well for you}Literally "it/he may be good" and that you may multiply greatly, just as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" {promised}Literally "spoke" you, in a land with milk and honey. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heartOr "mind" and with all of your soulOr "inner self" and with all of your might.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And these words that I am commanding you {today}Literally "the day" shall be onOr "in" your heart.Or "mind"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at the time of your living in your house and at the time of your going on the road and at the time of your lying down and at the time of your rising up.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"And then it will happen that when Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that he swore to your ancestors,Or "fathers" to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you large and fine cities that you did not build,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
and houses full of all sorts of good thingsHebrew "thing" that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and {you have eaten your fill},Literally "you have eaten and you are satisfied"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
then take care for yourself, so that you do not forget Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt from the house of slavery. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
for Yahweh your God is a jealous god in your midst, {so that the anger of Yahweh your God would be kindled},Literally "so that not/lest the nose of Yahweh your God would become hot" and he would destroy you from the face of the earth.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and his legal provisions and his rules that he has commanded you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And you shall do what is right and good in the eyes of Yahweh, so that {it shall go well}Literally "he/it shall be good" for you and so that you may go and you may take possession of the good land that Yahweh swore for your ancestors,Or "your fathers"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
by driving out all of your enemies {before you},Literally "the face of you" just as Yahweh {has promised}.Literally "had spoken" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"When your childOr "son" asks you in the future, {saying},Literally "to say" 'What is the meaning of the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Yahweh our God commanded for you?'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then you shall say to your child,Or "son" 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Yahweh gave great and awesome signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and against his entire household {in our presence}.Literally "before our eyes"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But he brought us out from there in order to bring us here to give us the land that he swore to our ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And so Yahweh commanded us to observe all of these rules and to revere Yahweh our God {for our benefit}Literally "for good for us" {all the days that we live},Literally "all the days for our living" {as it is today}.Literally "as the day the this"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe and do all of this commandment {before}Literally "in the faces of" Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter {into it}Literally "there" to take possession of it, and he drivesOr "he will drive out" out many nations {before you},Literally "from your faces" the HittitesHebrew "Hittite" and the GirgashitesHebrew "Girgashite" and the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" and the CanaanitesHebrew "Canaanite" and the HivitesHebrew "Hivite" and the Jebusites,Hebrew "Jebusite" seven nations mightier and more numerous than you,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and Yahweh your God will give them {over to you}Literally "to your faces" or "before you" and you defeat them, you must {utterly destroy them};Literally "set them aside for destruction" you shall not make a covenant with them, and you shall not show mercy to them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son.Grammatically singular pronominal suffixes here can also be rendered "their"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For theirOr "his" sons and daughters will cause your sonOr "sons" to turn away {from following me},Literally from "behind/after me" and so they will serve other gods, and {the anger of Yahweh would be kindled}Literally "and it would become hot the nose of Yahweh" against you, and he would quickly destroy you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from among all the peoples that are on the faceOr "surface" of the earth. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"Yahweh loved you and chose you not {because of your great number}Literally "from your multitude/abundance" exceeding all other peoples, for you are fewer than all of the peoples,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
butOr "for" {because of}Literally "from" the love of Yahweh for you and because of his keeping of the sworn oath that he swore to your ancestors,Or "fathers" Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So know that Yahweh your God, he is God, the trustworthy God, maintaining hisHebrew "the" covenant and hisHebrew "the" loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments to a thousand generations,Hebrew "generation"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
but repaying thoseHebrew "the one" who hate him {in their own person}Literally "to their faces" to destroy them;Hebrew "him"; "them" in sense he is not slow with those who hate him {in their own person};Literally "to their faces" he repays them.Hebrew "him"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And so you shall keep the commandment and the rules and the regulations that I am commanding you {today}Literally "the day" to observe them. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"{And then}Literally "And it will happen" because you listen to these regulations and you diligently keep and you do them, then Yahweh your God will maintain hisHebrew "the" covenant and hisOr "fathers" loyal love that he swore to your ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he will love you, and he will bless you, and he will multiply you, and he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your soil, your grain, your wine, and your olive oil, and newborn calves of your cattle, and the newborn lambsOr "increase of" of your flocks in the land that he swore to your ancestorsOr "fathers" to give you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
You shall be blessed more than all of the peoples; among you there shall not be sterility and bareness, evenHebrew "and" among domestic animals.Hebrew "animal"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Yahweh will turn away from you all the illness and all the harmful diseases of Egypt that you experienced; he will not lay them on you, but he will lay them on all of those who hate you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And you shall devour all of the peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you; {you shall not pity them},Literally "your eye shall not take pity on them" and you shall not serve their gods, which will be a snare for you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"If you think in your heart, 'These nations are more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
then remember you must not be afraid of them; you must well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt:


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
the great trials that your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the workings of the strong hand and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out; so Yahweh your God will do to all of the peoples {because of whom}Literally "from them" you are in fear {before them}.Literally "from their presence"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And, moreover, Yahweh your God will send the hornetsHebrew "hornet" among them until both the survivors and the fugitives {are destroyed}Literally "the destroying of" {before you}.Literally "from your faces"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
You must not be in dread from the presence of them, because Yahweh your God, who is in your midst, is a great and awesome God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Yahweh your God will clear away these nations {from before you}Literally "from your faces" little by little; you will not be able to finish them off quickly, {lest}Literally "so that not" the {wild animals}Literally "animals of the field" {multiply}Literally "will become numerous" {against you}.Literally "on you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But Yahweh your God will {give them to you},Literally "give them to your face" and he will throw them into great panic {until they are destroyed}.Literally "until their destroying"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall blot out their namesHebrew "name" from under the heaven; anyone will not be able to stand {against you}Literally "in your faces" {until you destroy them}.Literally "until your destroying them"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 25
c3content:
You shall burn the images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, and so you take it for yourself, so that you are not ensnared by it, for it is a detestable thing to Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And you must not bring a detestable thing into your house, or you will become a thing devoted to destruction like it; you must utterly detest it, and you must utterly abhor it, for it is an object devoted to destruction. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"All of the commandmentsOr "every commandment" that I am commanding you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and multiply, and you may go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors.Or "your fathers"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And you shall remember all of the way that Yahweh your God led you during these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what is in your heart, whether you would diligently keep his commandments or not.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he humbled you and let you go hungry, and then he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestorsOr "fathers" know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all that goes outOr "by all of the going out of" of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall live.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Your clothing did not wear out {on you},Literally "from on you" and your feet did not swell during these forty years.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God is disciplining you.Or "has disciplined you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For Yahweh your God is bringing you to a good land with streams of water, springs and underground water, welling up in the valleysHebrew "valley" and in the hills,Hebrew "hill"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
to a land of wheat and barley and vinesHebrew "vine" and fig treesHebrew "fig tree" and pomegranate trees,Hebrew "pomegranate tree" a land of olive trees,Hebrew "olive tree" olive oil and honey;


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
to a land where you may eat food in it {without scarcity};Literally "not in scarcity" you will not find anything lacking in it, a land where its stones are iron and from its mountains you can mine copper.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And you will eat, and {you will be satisfied},Literally "you will eat your fill" and you will bless Yahweh your God because of the good land that he has given to you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"Take care for yourself so that you not forget Yahweh your God by not keeping his commandments and his regulations and his statutes that I am commanding you {today},Literally "the day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and your herds and your flocks have multiplied, and {you have accumulated silver and gold},Literally "and silver and gold has multiplied for you" and all that {you have}Literally "is for you" has multiplied,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
then your heart {becomes proud}Literally "raises up" and you forget Yahweh your God, {the one who brought you out}Literally "the one bringing you out" from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
the one leading you in the great and terrible desert infested with {dangerous}Literally "burning" snakesHebrew "snake" and scorpionsHebrew "scorpion" and parched ground, where there isOr "was" no water, and the one bringing out water for you from flint rock,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
the one {feeding you}Literally "causing you to eat" manna in the desert, food that your ancestorsOr "fathers" did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you so that he could do good to you {in the future}.Literally "in the end/later"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And you may thinkOr "say" in your heart, 'My strength and the might of my hand {acquired this wealth for}Literally "gave this wealth to" me.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But you must remember Yahweh your God, for he is the one giving you strength to acquire wealth in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestorsOr "fathers" {as it is today}.Literally "as the day the this"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And it will happen that if you indeed forget Yahweh your God and you go after other gods and you serve them and you bow down before them, I warn you today that you will surely perish.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
As with the nations that Yahweh is destroying {before you},Literally "from your faces" so you shall perish because you would not obey the voice of Yahweh your God. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Hear, Israel, you are about to cross the Jordan today to go to dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you, great cities fortified {with high walls},Literally "in heaven/the sky"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
a great and tall people, the sons of the Anakites, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who could stand before the sons of Anak?'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You should know {today}Literally "the day" that Yahweh your God is the one crossing {ahead of you}Literally "to your faces" as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so you will dispossess them, and you will destroy them quickly, {just as}Literally "as that" Yahweh {promised}Literally "spoke" you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"You shall not say {to yourself}Literally "in your heart" {when Yahweh your God is driving them out}Literally "at the driving out of Yahweh, your God, them" {before you},Literally "from before your faces" {saying},Literally "to say" 'Because of my righteousness Yahweh brought me to take possession of this land'; but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh is driving them out {before you}.Literally "from your faces"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart that you are coming to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God is driving them {before you},Literally "from your faces" and in order to confirm the {promise}Literally "word" that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,Or "fathers" to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"So you should understand that it is not because of your righteousness that Yahweh your God is giving you this good land to take possession of it, because {you are a stubborn people}. Literally "a people stiff of neck you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Remember, {do not forget},Literally "not you shall forget" that you provoked Yahweh your God in the desert, and from the day that you went out from the land of Egypt until {you came to this place}Literally "your coming up to this place the this" = until arrived at this location you were rebelling against Yahweh. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{When I went up the mountain}Literally "In/At my going up the mountain" to receive {the stone tablets},Literally "the tablets of stones" the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh {made}Literally "cut" with you, and remained on the mountain forty daysHebrew "day" and forty nights,Hebrew "night" I did not eat food and I did not drink water.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them was writing according to all the words that Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain, from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it happened" at the end of forty daysHebrew "day" and forty nights,Hebrew "night" Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, 'Come now, go down quickly from this mountain because your people behave corruptly whom you brought out from Egypt, for they turned quickly from the way that I commanded them to follow; they have made for themselves a cast image.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Yahweh spoke to me, {saying},Literally "to say" 'I have seen this people, and look! {They are a stubborn people}.Literally "It is a people stiff of neck"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Leave me alone, and let me destroy them, and let me blot out their name from under heaven, and let me make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they!' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"And I turned, and I went down the mountain, as the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I looked,Or "saw" and indeed you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made for yourselves an image of a calf of cast metal; Or "molten calf" you had turned quickly from the way that Yahweh had commanded for you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And I took hold of the two tablets, and I threw them out {of}Literally "from" my two hands and smashed them before your eyes.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And then I lay prostrate {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh, as earlier, forty daysHebrew "day" and forty nights;Hebrew "night" I did not eat food and I did not drink water because of all your sins that you committed, by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh and so provoking him.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For {I was in dread}Literally "I dreaded" from being in the presence of the anger and the wrath with which Yahweh was angry with you so as to destroy you, but Yahweh listened to me also {at that time}.Literally "the occurrence the that"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And with Aaron Yahweh was {angry enough}Literally "very angry" to destroy him, and I prayed also for Aaron at that time.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And your sinful thing that you had made, the molten calf, I took and I burned it with fire, and I crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was crushed to dust, and I threw its dust into {the stream that flowed down the mountain}.Literally "the stream the one going down from the mountain" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And when Yahweh sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' you rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe him, and you did not listen to his voice.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
You have been rebellious toward Yahweh {from the day I have known you}.Literally "from the day of my knowing you" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"And I lay prostrate before Yahweh through forty days,Hebrew "day" and through forty nightsHebrew "night" I prostrated myself, because Yahweh intended to kill you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And I prayed to Yahweh, and I said, 'Lord Yahweh, you must not destroy your people and your inheritance whom you redeemed in your greatness,Or "your great act" whom you brought out from Egypt with a strong hand.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; you must not {pay attention to}Literally "turn toward" the stubbornness of this people, to their wickedness and to their sin,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 28
c3content:
lest the people of the land from which you brought us out from there say, "Because Yahweh was not able to bring them to the land that he {promised}Literally "spoken" to them and because of his hatred toward them, he has brought them out to kill them in the desert."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 29
c3content:
For they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought with your great power and with your outstretched arm.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"At that time Yahweh said to me, 'Carve for yourself two tablets of stone just as the former ones, and come up the mountain to me, and you shall make for yourself an ark of wood.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you smashed, and you must put them in the ark.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And so I made an ark {of acacia wood},Literally "of wood of acacia trees" and I carved two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he wrote upon the tablets {according to the first writing},Literally "as the writing the first" the ten words that Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly, and Yahweh gave them to me.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I turned, and I came down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark that I had made, and they are there, just as Yahweh commanded me. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" journeyed from the wells of Bene-Yaqan to Moserah; there Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar, his son, served as a priest in place of him.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land flowing with streams of water.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to stand {before}Literally "the faces of" Yahweh, to serve him and to bless the people in his name until this day.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Therefore {there was not}Literally "it/he was not" for Levi an allotment or an inheritance along with his brothers; rather Yahweh is his inheritance just as Yahweh your God {promised}Literally "spoke" to him. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And I stayed on the mountain just as during the former forty daysHebrew "day" and forty nights,Hebrew "night" and Yahweh listened to me also on that occasion;Or "occurrence" or "that time" Yahweh was not willing to destroy you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Yahweh said to me, '{Come, continue}Literally "Arise, go" your journey {before the people}, Literally "in the faces of the people" so that you may go and take possession of the land that I swore to their ancestorsOr "fathers" to give to them.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And now, Israel, what is Yahweh your God askingOr "requiring" from you, exceptOr "but only" to revere Yahweh your God, to goOr "to walk" in all his ways and to love him and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,Or "inner self"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
to keep the commandments of Yahweh and his statutes that I am commanding you today {for your own good}.Literally "for good to you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Look! For to Yahweh your God {belong}Literally "is" heaven and the {highest heavens},Literally "heavens of the heavens" the earth and all that is in it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{Yet}Literally "Only" to your ancestorsOr "fathers" Yahweh was very attached, so as to love them, and so he chose their offspring after them, namely you, from all the peoples, as it is {today}.Literally "the day the this"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and {do not be stubborn}.Literally "your neck you shall not make stiff any longer"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For Yahweh your God, he is God of the gods and Lord of the lords, the great and mighty God, the awesome one who {is not partial},Literally "does not lift up faces" and he does not take bribes.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he executes justice for the orphan and widow, and he is one who loves the alien, to give to them food and clothing.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yahweh your God, you shall revere him, you shall serve him, and to him you shall cling, and by his name you shall swear.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done with you these great and awesome things that your eyes have seen.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 22
c3content:
With only seventy persons your ancestorsOr "fathers" went down to Egypt, but now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the heaven {with respect to multitude}.Literally "as far as number" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"And you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments {always}.Literally "all of the days"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And you shall realize {today}Literally "the day" that it is not with your children who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God--his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all of his land,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and what he did to the army of Egypt and to their horses and to their chariots, and how he made the water of the {Red Sea}Literally "sea of reed" flow over them, {when they pursued after them},Literally "in/at their pursuing after them" and so Yahweh has destroyed them, {as is the case today},Literally "until the day the this"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and what he did to Dathan and to Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth wide and swallowed them, their households and their tents, and all of the living creaturesHebrew "creature" that were in their possession and that were {following along with them}Literally "in their feet" = "living things traveling along with them" in the midst of all of Israel.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The fact of the matter is, {your own eyes have seen}Literally "your eyes that are seeing" all of the great deedsHebrew "deed" of Yahweh that he did. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"And you must keep all of the commandmentsHebrew "commandment" that I am commanding you {today},Literally "the day" so that you may have strength and you may go and you may take possession of that land {to which you are crossing}Literally "you are crossing there" to take possession of it,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
so that {you may live long}Literally "you may make long days" on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,Or "fathers" to give it to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For the fact is that the land {that you are about to go into}Literally "you are about to go there" to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have {come out of},Literally "come out from there" where you sow your seed and you give water by your foot, {as in a vegetable garden}.Literally "as the garden of the vegetables"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But the land that you are about to cross into to take possession of it is a land of hills and valleys, and by the rain of the heaven it drinks water,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
a land that Yahweh your God is caring for it; continually the eyes of Yahweh your God are on it, from the beginning of the year up to the end of the year. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"And it will happen that if you listen carefully to my commandments that I am commanding you {today},Literally "the day" to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all of your heart and with all of your soul,Or "inner self"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
then 'I will send the rain for your land in its season, early rain and later rain, and you will gather your grain and your wine and your olive oil.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And I will give vegetation in your field for your livestock, and {you will eat your fill}.'Literally "you will eat and you will be satisfied"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{Take care}Literally "Watch for yourself" so that your heart is not easily deceived, and you turn away, and you serve other gods, and you bow down to them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And then {the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you},Literally "the nose of Yahweh become hot against you" and he will shut up the heavens,Or "sky" and there shall not be rain, and so the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh is giving to you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"And you shall put these, my words, on your heart and on your inner self,Or "soul" and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be as an emblem between your eyes.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And you shall teach them to your childrenOr "sons" by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
so that they may multiply your days and the days of your children on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestorsOr "fathers" to give it to them {as long as heaven endures over the earth}.Literally "like the days of heaven above the earth"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Yes, if you diligently keep allOr "every one of" this commandment that I am commanding you {to observe it}, Literally "to do it" by loving Yahweh your God {by walking in}Literally "to walk in" all his ways and by holding fast to him,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
then Yahweh will drive out all of these nations {before you},Literally "to the face of you" and you will dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, it shall be yours; your boundary shall be from the desert and Lebanon from the river, the river Euphrates, on up to the western sea.That is, the Mediterranean Sea


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 25
c3content:
No one can take a stand {against you};Literally "to your faces" your dread and your fear Yahweh your God will put on the {surface}Literally "faces" of all the land {where you tread},Literally "which you tread in it" just as he {promised}Literally "spoke" to you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"See, I am setting {before you}Literally "to the face of you" {today}Literally "the day" a blessing and a curse:


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 27
c3content:
the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you {today},Literally "the day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 28
c3content:
and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but rather you turn from the way that I am commanding you {today}Literally "the day" to go after other gods that you have not known. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"And it will happen that when Yahweh your God has brought you to {the land that you are going to},Literally "the land that you are going there" to take possession of it, thenHebrew "and" you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 30
c3content:
(Are they not beyond the Jordan, {toward the west},Literally "after the way of the descent of the sun" in the land of the Canaanites living in the Jordan Valley,Hebrew "in the Arabah" opposite Gilgal beside the terebinthOr "oaks" of Moreh?)


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 31
c3content:
For you are now about to cross the Jordan to go to take possession of the land that Yahweh, your God, is giving to you, and you will take possession of it and live in it,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 32
c3content:
and you must diligently {observe}Literally "observe to do" all the rules and the regulations that I am setting {before you}Literally "before your face" {today}."Literally "the day" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"These are the rules and the regulations {that you must diligently observe}Literally "that you must observe to do" in the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" has given to you to take possession of it, during all the days that you are living on the land. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
You must completely demolish all of the places there where they served their gods, that is, the nations whom you are about to dispossess, on the high mountains, and on the hills and under each leafy green tree.Or "spreading tree"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you shall break down their altars, and you shall smash their stone pillars, and their Asherah poles you must burn with fire, and the images of their gods you shall hew down, and you shall blot out their names from that place.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{But only}Literally "But if" to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all of your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And you shall bring there your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and {your donations}Literally "the contributions of your hand" and your votive gifts and your freewill offerings and the firstling of your herd and your flock.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And you shall eat there {before}Literally "before the faces of" Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice {in all your endeavors},Literally "in all of the sending of your hand" you and your family in which Yahweh your God has blessed you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"You must not do just as we are doing here {today},Literally "the day" {each according to all that is right in his eyes}.Literally "each man all of the right in his eyes"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For you have not come up to now to the resting place and to the inheritance that Yahweh your God is giving to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But you will cross the Jordan, and you will settle in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give rest to you from all your enemies from all around, and you will live securely,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{and then}Literally "and it will happen" at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there, there you shall bring all the things I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and {your donations},Literally "the contribution of your hand" and all of the choice things, your votive gifts that you vow to Yahweh.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And you shall rejoice {before}Literally "the face of" Yahweh your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your slaves and your slave women and the Levite who is in your {towns},Literally "gates" because there is not for him a plot of ground and an inheritance with you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Take care for yourself so that you do not offer your burnt offerings at just any place that you happen to see,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{but only}Literally "but only if" at the place that Yahweh will choose among one of your tribes; there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all the things that I am commanding you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"But {whenever you desire}Literally "in all the wanting of your soul/inner self" you may slaughter, and you may eat meat according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you in all of your {towns};Literally "gates" the unclean and the clean may eat it just as they would the gazelle and as the deer.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 17
c3content:
You are not allowed to eat in your {towns}Literally "gates" the tithe of your grain and your wine and your olive oil and the firstborn of your herd and your flock and all of your votive gifts that you vowed and your freewill offering and {your donations}.Literally "the contribution of your hand"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But only {before}Literally "before the face of" Yahweh your God you shall eat it, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose,Hebrew "choose it" you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite who is in your {towns},Literally "gate" and you must rejoice {before}Literally "before the face of" your God {in all your undertakings}.Literally "in all of the sending of your hand"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{Take care}Literally "Watch for yourself" so that you do not neglect the Levite all of your days on your land. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he has {promised}Literally "spoken" to you, and you say 'I want to eat some meat,' {because you want it},Literally "because your soul/inner self desires it" {whenever you desire}Literally "at/in all the wanting of your soul/inner self" you may eat meat.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 21
c3content:
If the place thatOr "where" Yahweh your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, and you slaughter any of your herd and any of your flock that Yahweh has given to you just as I have commanded you, then you may eat whenever you desire in your {towns}.Literally "gates"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Surely just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so both the unclean and the clean together may eat it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 25
c3content:
You shall not eat it, so that {it will go well}Literally "it/he is good" for you and your children after you, because then you will be doing what isHebrew "the" right in the eyes of Yahweh.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Only your holy objects {that are yours}Literally "that are for you" and your votive gifts you must carry and you must bring to the place that Yahweh will choose.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood on the altar of Yahweh your God, and the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out on the altar of Yahweh your God, but the meat you may eat.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 28
c3content:
{Be careful to obey}Literally "Watch carefully and listen" all these things that I am commanding you, so that {it will go well}Literally "he/it is good" for you and for your children after you {forever},Literally "until ever" because then you will be doing what isHebrew "the" good and rightHebrew "the right" in the eyes of Yahweh your God. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are {about to go to},Literally "about to go to there" to dispossess them {before you},Literally "from the face of you" and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 30
c3content:
{take care}Literally "Watch for yourself" so that you are not ensnared {into imitating them}Literally "after them" after their being destroyed from {before you},Literally "from the face of you" and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, {saying},Literally "to say" 'How did these nations serve their gods, and thus {I myself}Emphatic use of the pronoun want to do also.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 31
c3content:
You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Deuteronomy 12:32-13:18 in the English Bible is 13:1-19 in the Hebrew Bible All of the thingsHebrew "thing" that I am commanding you, {you must diligently observe};Literally "you must observe to do it" you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"If a prophet stands up in your midst or a dreamer of dreamsHebrew "dream" and he gives to you a sign or wonder,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and the sign orHebrew "and" the wonder comes about that he spokeOr "promised/declared" to you, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Let us go after other gods (those whom you have not known), and let us serve them,'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer, for Yahweh your God {is testing you to know whether you love}Literally "a testing of Yahweh your God concerning you in order to know whether there is you loving" Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your inner self.Or "soul"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
You shall go after Yahweh your God, and him you shall revere, and his commandment you shall keep, and to his voice you shall listen, and him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But that prophet or the dreamer of that dream shall be executed, for he spoke falsely about Yahweh your God, the one bringing you out from the land of Egypt and the one redeeming you from the house of slavery, in order to seduce you from the way that Yahweh your God commanded you to go in it; so in this way you shall purge the evil from your midst. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"If your brother, the son of your mother or your son or your daughter {or your wife whom you embrace}Literally "or the wife of your embrace" or {your intimate friend}Literally "your friend who is like your soul/inner self" in secrecy {says},Literally "to say" 'Let us go and let us serve other gods!' gods that you and your ancestorsOr "fathers" have not known,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
from among the gods of the people who are around you, {those near you or those far from you},Literally "the near ones to you or the distant ones from you" from one end of the earth and up to the other end of the earth,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
you must not give in to him, and you shall not listen to him, and your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall not have compassion, and you shall not cover upOr "conceal" him for him.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But you shall certainly kill him; your hand shall be first against him to kill him and next the hand of all of the people.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And you shall stone him with stones and let him die, for he tried to seduce you from Yahweh your God, the one bringing you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And all of Israel shall hear, and they shall fear, and {they shall not continue to act}Literally "they shall not add to do" according to this evil thing in your midst. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"If you hear in one of your towns which Yahweh your God is giving to you to live in, someone {saying that}Literally "to say"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{worthless men}Literally "sons of Belial" have gone out from your midst and have seduced the inhabitants of their town, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Let us go and serve other gods!' whom you have not known,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
then you shall inquire and examine and interrogate thoroughly, and, look! It is true; the thing has actually been done, this detestable thing in your midst,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 15
c3content:
then you shall certainly strike down the inhabitants of that town with the {edge}Literally "mouth" of the sword; you shall destroy it and everything in it, its domestic animals with the {edge}Literally "mouth" of the sword.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And then you shall gather all of its booty into the middle of its public square, and you shall burn the town and all of its war-booty totally for Yahweh your God, and it shall be {a pile of rubble forever};Literally "a tell/ruin forever" it shall not be built again.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And let not something cling to your hand from the things devoted to destruction, so that Yahweh may turn back {from his burning anger},Literally "from the burning of his nose" and he may show compassion to you and he may continue to show compassion and so multiply you {just as he swore}Literally "as that he swore" to your ancestors,Or "fathers"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all of his commandments that I am commanding to you {today}Literally "the day" so as to do the right thing in the eyes of Yahweh your God." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"You are childrenOr "sons" of Yahweh your God; therefore you must not gashOr "cut" yourself, and {you must not make your forehead bald}Literally "you shall not make/place baldness between your eyes" for the dead.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For you are a people holy to Yahweh your God, and you Yahweh has chosen to be a treasured possession from among all of the peoples that are on the surfaceOr "face" of the earth. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
These are the animals you may eat: ox, {sheep, goats},Literally "small livestock of the sheep and a small livestock of the goats"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And any animal having a split hoofOr "divides the hoof" and so {a dividing of the hoof into two parts}Literally "a dividing cleft creating two hoofs" {and that chews the cud}Literally "and that brings up the cud" among the animalsHebrew "animal"--that animal you may eat.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Only these you may not eat from {those chewing the cud}Literally "bringing up the cud" and from {those having a division of the hoof}:Literally "those having a division of the hoof divided" the camel and the hare and the coney, because {they chew the cud},Literally "they bringing up of the cud" but they do not divide the hoof; they are therefore unclean for you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And also the pig {because it has a division of the hoof}Literally "because a division of the hoof" {but does not chew the cud};Literally "but not a chewing cud" it is unclean for you; from their meat you shall not eat, and you shall not touch their {carcasses}.Literally "dead body" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"This is what you shall eat from all that is in the water: {everything}Literally "all of that" {that has fins and scales}Literally "for it is fins and scales," showing possession of these features you may eat.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But {anything that does not have}Literally "all of that there is not for it," showing lack of possession of these features fins and scales, you may not eat, for it is unclean for you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now these are the ones you shall not eat {any of them}:Literally "from them" the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle,This list of birds is difficult to translate since the terms are not definitely known: e.g., some translations render the last bird as a "buzzard" (NASV); other translations give different names for all three: griffon vulture, black vulture, bearded vulture (NEB)


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and the red kiteVarious options are available: large bird, kite, red kite, glede, buzzard and the black kite or {any kind of falcon},Literally "or the falcon according to its kind"; other options for falcon: bird, falcon, kite (others as carrion-bird), vulture, crow or raven, buzzard


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and the {ostrich}Literally "daughter of the ostrich"; others "desert owl" and the short-eared owl and the seagullOr "long-eared owl" and the hawk according to its kind,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 17
c3content:
and the desert owlOr "large bird" or "horned-owl" and the carrion vultureOr "large bird" and the cormorant,Or "large bird," or "fisher-owl"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And also all of {the winged insects};Literally "the swarmers of the flyers" or "all the swarms of things that fly" they are unclean for you; you shall not eat them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"You shall not eat any carcass;Or "corpse" you may give it to the alien who is in your {towns},Literally "gates" and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother's milk. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"Certainly you must give a tithe of all the yield of your seed, {which comes forth from your field year after year}.Literally "the going forth of the field year by year"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And you shall eat {before}Literally "before the faces of" Yahweh your God in the place that he will choose to make to dwell his name there the tithe of your grain, your wine and your olive oil and the firstling of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to revere Yahweh your God {always}.Literally "all of the days"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But if {the distance is too great for you},Literally "it is great from you the journey that" so that you are not able to transportOr "carry" it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is too far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 25
c3content:
then in that case {you may exchange for money},Literally "you may give it in for the money/silver" and you shall takeOr "bind" the money to your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 26
c3content:
You may spend the money for anything {that you desire},Literally "that your soul/inner self desires" for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything {that you desire},Literally "that your soul/inner self desires" and you shall eat it there {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And as to the Levite who is in your {towns},Literally "gates" you shall not neglect him, because there is not a plot of ground for him and an inheritance along with you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 28
c3content:
"At the end of three years you shall bring out all of the tithe of your yield for that year, and you shall store it in your {towns}.Literally "gates"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And so the Levite may come, because there is no plot of ground for him or an inheritance with you, and the alien also may come and the orphan and the widow that are in your {towns},Literally "gates" and {they may eat their fill},Literally "they may eat and they may be satisfied" so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all of the work of your hand that you undertake." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And this is the manner of the remission of debt: every {creditor}Literally "owner of the loan of his hand" shall remit his claim that he holds against his neighbor, and he shall not exact payment from his brother because thereHebrew "it" a remission of debt has been proclaimed untoHebrew "for" Yahweh.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
With respect to the foreigner you may exact payment, but {you must remit}Literally "your hand shall remit" what shall be owed to you with respect to your brother.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Nevertheless, thereHebrew "it" shall not be among you a poor person, because Yahweh will certainly bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, to take possession of it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
If only you listen well to the voice of Yahweh your God {by observing diligently}Literally "to observe so as to do" all of these commandmentsHebrew "commandment" that I am commanding you {today}.Literally "the day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 6
c3content:
When Yahweh your God has blessed you, just as he {promised}Literally "spoke" to you, then you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow from them, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
If there is a poor person among you from among one of your brothers in one of your {towns}Literally "gates" that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, and you shall not shut your hand toward {your brother who is poor}.Literally "from among your brothers, the poor one"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But you shall certainly open your hand for him, and {you shall willingly lend}Literally "lending you shall lend" to him enough to meet his need, {whatever it is}.Literally "whatever is lacking for him"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{Take care}Literally "Watch for yourself" so that thereHebrew "it" will not be {a thought of wickedness}Literally "a thing in your heart wickedness" in your heart, {saying},Literally "to say" 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility},Literally "is bad your eye against your brother who is needy" and so you do not give to him, and he might cry out against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.Literally "it will be against you a sin"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 10
c3content:
By all means you must give to him, and {you must not be discontented}Literally "and not shall be bad/evil your heart at/when" at your giving to him, because on account of this very thing, Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and {in all that you undertake}.Literally "in all of the sending/putting forth of your hand"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For the poorOr "the needy person" will not cease to be {among you}Literally "from the midst of " in the land; therefore I am commanding you, {saying},Literally "to say" 'You shall willingly open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor that are in your land.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 12
c3content:
If your relativeOr "brother" who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and he or she has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person out {free}.Literally "free from with you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 14
c3content:
You shall generously supply him from among your flocks and from your threshing floor and from your press; according to that with which Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you thus {today}.Literally "the day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And then if it will happen that he says to you, '{I do not want to go out}Literally "I will not go out" from you,' because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him to be with you;


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 17
c3content:
then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust it through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you {a slave forever};Literally "a slave of eternity" and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
It shall not be hard in your eyes {when you send him forth free},Literally "in/at you to send him forth free from being with you" because for six years he has served you worth twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you {in whatever you will do}.Literally "in all of that you will do" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"Every firstling male that is born of your herd and of your flock you shall consecrate to Yahweh your God; you shall not do work with the firstling of your ox, and you shall not shear the firstling of your flock.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Rather {before Yahweh}Literally "in the face of Yahweh" your God you shall eat it year by year at the place Yahweh will choose, you and your household.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But if there is a physical defect in it, such as lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 22
c3content:
In your {towns}Literally "gates" you shall eat it, the unclean and the clean together may eat it, just as they eat the gazelle and as they eat the deer.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Observe the month of Abib, and you shall keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt by night.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to Yahweh your God from among your flock and herd at the place that Yahweh will choose, to let his name dwell there.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You shall not eat {with it}Literally "in addition to" or "upon it" anything leavened; seven days you shall eat {with it}Literally "in addition to" or "upon it" unleavened bread of affliction, because in haste you went out from the land of Egypt, so that you will remember the day of your going out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And leaven shall not be seen withOr "for" you in any of your territoryOr "all of" your territory for seven days, and none of the meat that you will slaughter on the evening on the first day shall remain overnight until morning.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You are not allowed to offer the Passover sacrifice in one of your {towns}Literally "gates" that Yahweh your God is giving to you,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
but only at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there; you shall offer the Passover sacrifice {in the evening at sunset},Literally "in the evening as the sun goes/sets" at the designated timeThe Hebrew word here indicates the specific time that God had chosen to bring Israel out of Egypt of your going out from Egypt.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And you shall cook, and you shall eat it at the place that Yahweh your God will choose; and you may turn in the morning and go to your tents.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be an assembly for Yahweh your God; you shall not do work. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"You shall count off seven weeks for you; {from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain}Literally "from the beginning of the sickle against the standing grain" you shall begin to count seven weeks.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you shall give just as Yahweh your God has blessed you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite that is in your {towns}Literally "gates" and the alien and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst in the place that Yahweh your God will choose to let his name dwell there.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so {you shall diligently observe}Literally "you shall observe and do" these rules. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for yourselvesHebrew "for you" seven days {at the gathering in of the produce}Literally "at your gathering of the produce" from your threshing floor and from your press;


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and you shall rejoice at your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite and the orphan and the widow that are in your {towns}.Literally "gates"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Seven days you shall celebrate your feast to Yahweh your God at the place Yahweh will choose, for Yahweh your God shall bless you in all of your produceOr "increase" and in all of the work of your hand, and you shall surely be rejoicing.Or "joyful"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Three times in the year all of your males shall appear {before }Literally "with the face of" Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear {before Yahweh}Literally "with the face of Yahweh" empty-handed.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Each person {shall give as he is able},Literally "according to the gift of his hand" that is, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"You shall appoint judges and officials for you in all your {towns}Literally "gates" that Yahweh your God is giving to you throughout your tribes, and you shall render for the people {righteous judgments}.Literally "a judgment based on righteousness"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 19
c3content:
You shall not subvertOr "distort/pervert" justice; you shall not {show partiality};Literally "recognize faces" and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind the eyes of the wise and misrepresents the words of the righteous.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{Justice, only justice}Literally "justice justice" you shall pursue, so that you may live, and you shall take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 21
c3content:
You shall not plant for yourselvesHebrew "for/to you" but with collective meaning {an Asherah pole}Literally "an Asherah of any wood/tree" beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourselves.Hebrew "for/to you" but with collective meaning


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or sheep {that has a physical defect}Literally "that is on it a physical defect" {of anything seriously wrong},Literally "of any thing bad/evil" for that is a detestable thing to Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
If there is found in one of your {towns}Literally "gates" that Yahweh your God is giving to you a man or a woman that does evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God to transgress his covenant


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and by going and serving other gods and so he bows down to them and to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of heaven {which I have forbidden},Literally "which not I have commanded"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and it is reported to you or you hear about it and you enquire about it thoroughly and, indeed,Or "look!" the trustworthiness of the deedHebrew "the thing" has been established, it {has occurred},Literally "has been done" this detestable thing, in Israel,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
then you shall bring out that man or that woman who hasHebrew "have" done this evil thing to your gates; that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them with stones {to death}.Literally "and so they die"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
{On the evidence of}Literally "By the mouth of" two or three witnesses {the person shall be put to death}.Literally "he/she shall be put to death, the dead person" The personHebrew "he/she" shall not be put to death by the mouth of one witness.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The hand of the witnesses shall be first against the personHebrew "him" to kill the person,Hebrew "him" and afterward the handsHebrew "hand" of all the people, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"{If a matter is too difficult for you},Literally "If is difficult/wonderful from you a thing for judgment" for example disputes between blood and blood,Or "between one homicide and another" between legal claim and legal claimOr "one kind of lawsuit and another" and between assault and assaultOr "one kind of abuse and another" and between matters of discernment in your {towns},Literally "gates" then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
then you shall go to the priests and the Levites and to the judge who will be in office in those days, and you shall enquire, and they shall announce to you {the verdict}.Literally "the word of the decision" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"And {you shall carry out exactly the decision}Literally "and you shall do according to the mouth of the word" that they announced to you from that place that Yahweh will choose, and {you shall diligently observe}Literally "and you shall observe and do" according to all that they instruct you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And so according to {the instruction of the law}Literally "mouth of the law" that they teach you and according to the decisions that they say to you, you shall do; you shall not turn from the word that they tell you to the right or to the left.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the man who treats with contemptOr "acts presumptuously" so as not to listen to the priest who is standing to minister on behalf of Yahweh your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"When you have come to that land that Yahweh your God is giving to you and you have taken possession of it and you have settled in it, and you say, 'I will set over me a king like all the nations that are around me,'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
indeed, you may set a king over you whom Yahweh your God will choose, from the midst of your countrymenOr "brothers" you must set a king over you; you are not allowed to appoint over you a man, a foreigner, who is not your countryman.Or "brother"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Except, he may {not make numerous}Literally "not multiply" for himself horses, and he may not allow the people to to go to Egypt {in order to increase horses},Literally "in order to make numerous horse" for Yahweh has said to you that {you may never return}.Literally "not you may do again to return"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he must not {acquire many}Or "make numerous" wives for himself, so that his heart would turn aside; and {he must not accumulate silver and gold for himself excessively}.Literally "gold and silver not he must make numerous for him very" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"{And then}Literally "And it shall happen" {when he is sitting}Literally "as/when his sitting" on the throne of his kingdom, then he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll {before}Literally "to the face of" the Levitical priests.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And it shall be with him, and he shall read itHebrew "in it" all the days of his life, so that he may learn to revere Yahweh your God by {diligently observing}Literally "by keeping ... to do them" all the word of this law and these rules,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 20
c3content:
so as not to exalt his heart above his countrymenOr "brothers" and not to turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left, so that {he may reign long over his kingdom},Literally "he may make long his days over his kingdom" he and his children in the midst of Israel." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"And there shall not be for the Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, a plot of ground and an inheritance with Israel, rather they may eat an offering made by fire as their inheritance,The meaning of the Hebrew text here is uncertain; possibly it reads: "rather an offering by fire then they will eat as their inheritance/patrimony" for Yahweh.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And there shall not be for themHebrew "him" an inheritance of land in the midst of his brothers; rather Yahweh is his inheritance, just as he {promised}Literally "spoke" to them.Hebrew "him" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Now this shall be the share of the priest from the people, from {those who sacrifice the sacrifice},Literally "the sacrificers of the sacrifice" whether it is an ox, sheep, or goat, and they shall give the priest the shoulder and the jawbones and the stomach.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The firstfruitsHebrew "firstfruit" of your grain, your wine, and your olive oil and the firstfruitsHebrew "firstfruit" of the fleece of your sheep you shall give to him.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For Yahweh your God has chosen him from among all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, he and his sons {forever}.Literally "all of the days" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And if aHebrew "the" Levite comes from one of your {towns}Literally "gates" from {anywhere in Israel}Literally "all of Israel" where he is residing, {he may come whenever he desires},Literally "he may come in all the desire of his soul/inner self" to the place that Yahweh will choose,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
and he may minister in the name of Yahweh his God, just like all his brothers, {the Levites who stand there}Literally "the Levites the ones standing there" {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They shall eat {equal portions},Literally "a portion like a portion" apart from what he may receive from the sale of his patrimony.Hebrew meaning of these phrases/words is not certain; also could translate as "except what they receive from the sale of their fathers' estates" (NASB); or "what he may inherit from his father's family" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"When you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or {one who practices divination},Literally "a diviner of divination" or an interpreter of signs,Or "soothsayer" or an augur,Or "an interpreter of omens" or sorcerer,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
or one who casts magic spells, or one who consults a spirit of the dead,Or "medium" or spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead.Or "necromancer"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For everyone doing these things is detestable to Yahweh, and because of these detestable things Yahweh your God is driving them out from {before you}.Literally "the face of you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For these nations that you are about to dispossess listen to interpreters of signsOr "practice witchcraft" and to diviners, but Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do the same. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your countrymen,Or "your brothers" and to him you shall listen.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 16
c3content:
This is {according to all that you asked}Literally "just as all of that you asked" from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, {saying},Literally "to say" '{I do not want again to hear}Literally "not I want to do again to hear" the voice of Yahweh my God, and I do not want to see again this great fire, so that I may not die!'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 18
c3content:
I will raise up a prophet for them {from among their countrymen}Literally "from the midst of their brothers" like you, and I will placeOr "give" my words into his mouth, and he shall speak to them {everything that I command him}.Literally "all of what I command him"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" the man that will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I will hold accountable.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
However, the prophet that behaves presumptuously by speaking a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, and who speaks in the name of other gods, then that prophet shall die.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And if you say {to yourself},Literally "in your heart" 'How can we know the word that Yahweh has not spoken to him?'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Whenever what the prophet spoke in the name of Yahweh, the thing does not take place and does not come about, that is the thing that Yahweh has not spoken to him.Or "that Yahweh has not spoken it" Presumptuously the prophet spoke it; you shall not fear thatHebrew "the" prophet." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"When Yahweh your God has {exterminated}Literally "cut off" the nations concerning whom Yahweh your God is giving to you their land, and you have dispossessed them, and you have settled in their towns and in their houses,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You shall prepare the roadsHebrew "road" for yourselves, and you shall divide the regions of your land into thirds that Yahweh your God gives you as a possession, so that {it will be available for any manslayer to flee there}.Literally "it shall be to flee there all/anyone killing" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live there who has killed his neighbor {unintentionally},Literally "with no knowledge" and he did not hate him {previously}.Literally "from yesterday and the day before"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{For example},Literally "And as" when somebody goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and the iron head slips from the handle of the tool and strikes his neighbor and he dies, then he may flee to one of these cities, and so he may live.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He does this lest the avenger of blood might pursue after the killer, because {he is hot with anger}Literally "is hot his heart" and he overtakes him, because it is a long distance to the city of refuge, and so {he kills him},Literally "he strikes him down as to his life/soul" but {he did not deserve a death sentence},Literally "for him there was not a judgment of death" because he was not hating him {before}.Literally "from yesterday and the day before"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then if Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he swore to your ancestorsOr "fathers" and givesHebrew "will give" to you all the land that he {promised}Literally "spoke" to give to your ancestors,Or "fathers"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
then {if you diligently observe this entire commandment}Literally "if you observe all of the commandment the this to do it" that I am commanding you {today}Literally "the day" by loving Yahweh your God and by goingOr "walking" in his ways {at all times},Literally "all of the days" then you shall add three more cities for yourselves to these three.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Do this so that innocent blood will not be shedHebrew "is not shed" in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance and thereby bloodguilt would be on you.Hebrew "shall be on you," but conditional sense of imperfect is clear 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But if someone hatesHebrew "is hating" his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises upOr "gets up" against him {and murders him},Literally "and strikes him mortally with regard to his life and he dies" and the murderer flees to one of these cities,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and they shall give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall be put to death.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, {so that good will be directed toward you}.Literally "and good shall be for you" or "it shall be good for you" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"You shall not move the boundary marker of your neighbor that {former generations}Literally "the first settlers/ancestors" set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{The testimony of a single witness may not be used to convict}Literally "Not shall get up only a single witness against a man" with respect to any crime and for any wrongdoing in any offense that a personHebrew "he" committed; on the {evidence}Literally "mouth" of two witnesses or on the {evidence}Literally "mouth" of three witnesses {a charge shall be sustained}.Literally "shall be established a case/charge"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
If {a malicious witness}Literally "a witness of violence" gets up {to accuse}Literally "against" anyone to testify against him falsely,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 17
c3content:
then the two men {to whom the legal dispute pertains}Literally "who for them are the legal dispute" shall stand {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh, {before}Literally "to the face of" the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then judges shall make a thorough inquiry, and if it turns outOr "in fact" that the witness is a false witness and he testified falsely against his brother,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 19
c3content:
then you shall do to him as he meantOr "planned" to do to his brother, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{And the rest}Literally "and those remaining" shall hear and shall fear, and {they shall not continue to do such a thing again}Literally "and they shall not do again to do again" as this evil thing in your midst.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{You must show no pity}:Literally "And not take pity your eye" life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"If you go out to war against your enemies and you see a horse and a chariot, {an army}Literally "a people" larger that you, you shall not be afraid because of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, the one who brought you from the land of Egypt.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" when you approach the battle, then the priest shall come near and speak to the troops.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he shall say to them, 'Hear, Israel, you are near {today}Literally "the day" to the battle against your enemies; {do not lose heart};Literally "do not be faint/tender-hearted" you shall not be afraid, and you shall not panic, and you shall not be terrified {because of them},Literally "from their faces"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the officials shall speak to the troops, {saying},Literally "to say" 'Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to this house, so that he does not die in battle and {another man}Literally "a man other" dedicates it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And who is the man that has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed it? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and {another man}Literally "a man other" enjoys it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And who is the man who got engaged to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and {another man}Literally "a man other" marries her.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the officials shall continue to speak to the troops, and they shall say, '{What man}Literally "Who is the man" is afraid {and disheartened}?Literally "and soft/weak of the heart" Let him go, and let him return to his house, and let him not cause the heart of his brothers to meltThe verb has a causal meaning here like his.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And {when the officials have finished speaking}Literally "it will happen as to finish the officials to speak" to the army troops, then they shall appoint commanders of divisions at the head of the troops. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"When you approach a city to fight against it, {you must offer it peace}.Literally "you should call it for peace"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" if {they accept your terms of peace}Literally "if peace they reply to you" and {they surrender to you},Literally "they open to you" {and then}Literally "and it will happen" all the people {inhabiting it}Literally "being found in it" shall be forced labor for you, and they shall serve you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But if they {do not accept your terms of peace}Literally "not they make peace with you" and they want to make war with you, then you shall lay siege against it.That is, the city


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall kill all its males with the {edge}Literally "mouth" of the sword.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Only the women and the little children and the domestic animalsHebrew "animal" and all that shall be in the city, all of its spoil you may loot for yourselves, and you may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that Yahweh you God has given to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Thus you shall do to all the farOr "distant" cities from you, which are not from the cities of these nations located {nearby}.Literally "here" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But from the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, you shall not let anything live that breathes.Or "is alive"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Rather, you shall utterly destroy them, the HittitesHebrew "Hittite" and the Amorites,Hebrew "Amorite" the CanaanitesHebrew "Canaanite" and the Perizzites,Hebrew "Perizzite" the Hivites,Hebrew "Hivite" and the Jebusites,Hebrew "Jebusite" just as Yahweh your God has commanded you,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and thereby you sin against Yahweh your God. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"IfOr "when" you besiege a town for many days to make war against it in order to seize it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them,Hebrew "it" for you may eat from them,Hebrew "it" and so you must not cut themHebrew "it" down. Are the trees of the field humans that they should come in siege {against you}?Literally "from your face"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 20
c3content:
OnlyOr "But" the treesHebrew "tree" that you know {are not fruit trees}Literally "not a tree of food" you may destroy and you may cut down, and you may build siege works against that city that is making war with you {until it falls}."Literally "it to fall" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"If someone slain is found in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it and is lying in the field, and it is not known who {killed him},Literally "struck/smote him"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
then your elders and your judges shall go out and shall measure the distance to the cities that are around the slain one.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" the nearest city to the slain one, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked with in the field, that has not pulled a yoke,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a {wadi that flows with water all year}Literally "an ever-flowing wadi" and that has not been plowed and has not been sown; then {there they shall break the neck of the heifer in the wadi}.Literally "they shall break there the neck with respect to the heifer in the ever-flowing wadi"; the Hebrew verb carries the meaning "to break the neck of"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then the priests, the descendantsOr "sons" of Levi, shall come near, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to bless in the name of Yahweh, and every legal dispute and every case of assault will be {subject to their ruling}.Literally "on their mouth"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And all of the elders of that city nearest to the slain person shall wash their hands over the heifer with the broken neck in the wadi.A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they shall declare, and they shall say, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see what was done.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Forgive your people, Israel, whom you redeemed, Yahweh, and do not {allow}Literally "place/put" the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, and let them be forgiven with regard to blood.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And so you shall purge the innocent blood from your midst, because you must do the right thing in the eyes of Yahweh. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"When you go out for battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God gives them into your hand, and you lead the captivesHebrew "his captive" but singular pronoun refers to the many captives taken with plural sense away,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
and you see among the captivesHebrew "captive" a woman beautiful in appearance, and you become attached to her and you want to take her as a wife,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
then you shall bring her into your household, and she shall shave her head, and she shall trim her nails.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And she shall remove the clothing of her captivity from her, and she shall remain in your house, and she shall mourn her father and her mother {a full month},Literally "a month of days" and after this {you may have sex with her},Literally "you may go into her" and you may marry her, and she may {become your wife}.Literally "become for you as wife"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And then if you do not take delight in her, then you shall let her go {to do whatever she wants},Literally "according to her desire/soul" but you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonoredOr "humbled" her. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"If a man has two wives, and the one is loved and the other one is disliked and the one loved and the one that is disliked have borne for him sons, if it happens that the firstborn son {belongs to the one that is disliked},Literally "is to the wife who is hated"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
nevertheless {it will be the case that}Literally "it will happen" on the day of bestowing his inheritance upon his sons, he will not be allowed to treat as the firstborn son the son of the beloved wife {in preference to}Literally "over the faces of" the son of the disliked wife, who is the firstborn son.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But he shall acknowledge the firstborn son of the disliked wife {by giving}Literally "to give" him a double portion of {all that he has},Literally "all that is found for him" for he is the firstfruit of his vigor;Or "the beginning of his strength" to him is the legal claim of the birthright.Or "the just claim of the firstborn" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"{If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son}Literally "If shall be for a man, a son stubborn and rebellious" who {does not listen to}Literally "and there is no listening/obedience" the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obeyOr "listen to" them,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 19
c3content:
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his {town},Literally "place"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 20
c3content:
and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious; {he does not obey us},Literally "there is no listening to our voice" and he is a glutton and a drunkard.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones and let him die; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all of Israel will hear, and they will fear. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"And {if a man commits a sin punishable by death},Literally "when shall be against a man a sin of judgment of death" and so he is put to death and you hang him on a tree,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 23
c3content:
his dead body shall not hang on the tree, but certainly you shall bury him on that day, for cursed by God is one that is being hung; so you shall not defile your landOr "ground" that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"You shall not watch the ox of your neighbor or his sheep or goat straying and ignore them; certainly you shall return them to your neighbor.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And if your countrymanOr "brother" is not near you or you do not know {who he is},Literally "him" then you shall bring it {to your household},Literally "to the midst of your house" and it shall beOr "remain" with you {until your countryman seeks after it},Literally "the seeking of your countryman after it" and you shall return it to him.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And thus also you shall do regardingOr "to" his donkey, and thus you shall do concerningOr "to" his garment, and so you shall do with respect toOr "to" all of the lost property of your countrymanOr "brother" that is lost from him and you find it; you are not allowed to withhold help. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"You shall not see the donkey of your neighbor or his ox fallen on the road and you ignore them; certainly you must help them get up along with him. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"The apparel of a man shall not be put onLiterally "on" a woman, and a man shall not wear the clothing of a woman, because everyone who does these things is detestable to Yahweh your God. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"If a bird's nest is found {before you}Literally "before your face" on the road in any tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs, and the mother is lying down on the chicks or the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young;


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
you shall certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourselves;Hebrew "for you" do this {so that it may go well}Literally "he/it is good" for you and {you may live long in the land}.Literally "and you may make long/extend days" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"When you build a new house thenHebrew "and" you shall make a parapet wallOr "fence/rail" for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house {if anyone should fall from it}.Literally "if should fall the falling from it" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"You shall not sow your vineyard with differing kinds of seed, so that you shall not forfeit {the whole harvest},Literally "the entire fullness" both the seed that you sowed and the yield of the vineyard. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"You shall make tassels for yourselvesHebrew "for you" on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover yourself. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"If a man takes a woman and {he has sex with her},Literally "and he goes unto her" but he then {dislikes her},Literally "hates her"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and {he accuses her falsely},Literally "he puts to her deeds of words" and {he defames her},Literally "he brings forth against her a bad name" and he says 'This woman I took and I lay with her and {I discovered that she was not a virgin},'Literally "I found not with her virginity"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 15
c3content:
then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city {at the city gate}.Literally "toward the city gate"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now {dislikes}Literally "hates" her,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 17
c3content:
and now look {he has accused her falsely},Literally "he put deeds of words" saying, "I did not find {your daughter a virgin},"Literally "to your daughter virginity" but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter'; and they shall spread the cloth out {before}Literally "to the face of" the elders of the city.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for {he defamed an Israelite young woman},Literally "for he brought out a bad name against the virgin of Israel" and {she shall become his wife};Literally "and for him she shall become as wife" he will not be allowed {to divorce her}Literally "to send her out" all his days. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"But if {this charge}Literally "the thing" was true, {and the signs of virginity were not found}Literally "and they were not found evidence of virginity" for the young woman,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 21
c3content:
and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel {by playing the harlot}Literally "to play the harlot/to prostitute herself" in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"If a man is found lying {with a married woman},Literally "with a woman, a young woman of a husband" then they shall both die; {both of them},Literally "also/even the two of them" the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"If it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 24
c3content:
then you shall bring out {both of them}Literally "the two of them" to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man becauseLiterally "because of the fact that" he violated his neighbor's wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"But if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and {he has sex with her},Literally "he lies down with her" then the man onlyOr "alone" must die who layOr "slept" with her.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 26
c3content:
But you shall not do anythingHebrew "a thing" to the young woman, for there is not reckoned againstHebrew "to" the young woman {a sin deserving death};Literally "a sin of death" {it is similar to when}Literally "for as that" a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, {a fellow human being},Literally "a soul/individual person" just so is this {case},Literally "thing/matter"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 27
c3content:
for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was noHebrew "there was not" rescuer {to help her}.Literally "for her" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 28
c3content:
"If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and {he has sex with her}Literally "he lies with her" and they are caught,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 29
c3content:
then {the man who lay with her}Literally "the man the one lying with her" shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become {his wife}Literally "for/as a wife" {because}Literally "in place of" he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her {during his lifetime}.Literally "all of his days"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Deuteronomy 22:30-23:25 in the English Bible is 23:1-26 in the Hebrew Bible A man may not take the wife of his father, and so {he may not dishonor his father}.Literally "not he may reveal the skirt of the garment of his father" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"No man {with crushed testicles}Literally "bruised of crushing" or whose {male organ is cut off}Literally "cut off of male organ" may come into the assembly of Yahweh. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 2
c3content:
An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none {of his descendants}Literally "to him" may come into the assembly of Yahweh. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
An Ammonite or a Moabite may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none {of his descendants}Literally "to him" may come into the assembly of Yahweh {forever},Literally "until eternity"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{because}Literally "because of the event when" they did not come to meet you with food and with water {when you came out of Egypt},Literally "at your going out of Egypt" and also {because}Literally "because of the event when" theyHebrew "he," but with plural meaning hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor, in Aram NaharaimOr "Mesopotamia" = "between the rivers" to act against you to curse you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days {forever}.Literally "until eternity" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were an alien in his land.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The childrenOr "sons" that are born to them in the third generation may come {representing them}Literally "for them" or possibly "become members of" in the assembly of Yahweh. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"IfOr "when" you go out to encamp against your enemies, then you shall guard against doing anything evil. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"If there is among you a man that is not clean because of a seminal emission {during the night},Literally "of the night" he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen/come about that" toward the {coming}Literally "turning" of the evening, he shall bathe withHebrew "in" but this is instrumental use of this preposition water, and at the going downThe verb can mean "coming/going" and here it means "going" of the sun, he may come to the midst of the camp. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"And there shall be for you a designated place outside the camp; {and you shall go there to relieve yourself},Literally "and you shall go out there, outside to relieve yourself"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and a digging toolOr "spade" shall be included in addition to your other utensilsHebrew "utensil" for yourself; {and then}Literally "and it will happen" {when you relieve yourself}Literally "at your sitting" outside the camp you shall dig with it, and then you shall turn, and you shall cover your excrement.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For Yahweh your God is walking about in the midst of your camp to deliver you and {to hand your enemies over to you before you},Literally "to give your enemies to the face of you" and so let your camp be holy, so that he shall not see in it {anything indecent},Literally "nakedness of a thing" and he shall turn away {from going with you}.Literally "from behind/after you" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He shall reside with you in your midst in the place that he chooses in one of {your towns wherever he pleases};Literally "in your gates good for him" you shall not oppress him. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"No woman {of Israel}Literally "from the daughters of Israel" shall be a temple prostitute, and no man {of Israel}Literally "from the sons of Israel" shall be a male shrine prostitute.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 18
c3content:
You may not bring the {hire}Literally "gift" of a prostitute or {the earnings of a male prostitute}Literally "the earnings of a dog" into the house of Yahweh your God, for any vow offerings, because {both}Literally "both, the two of them" are a detestable thing to Yahweh your God. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"{You shall not charge your brother interest on money},Literally "You shall not lend on interest to your brother, interest of money" interest onHebrew "of" food, or interest onHebrew "of" anything that one could lendOr "can lend" on interest.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You may lend on interest to the foreigner, but to your countrymanOr "brother" you may not lend on interest, so that Yahweh your God may bless you {in all your undertakings}Literally "in all the sendings out of your hand" in {the land where you are going},Literally "the land that you are going there" {in order to take possession of it}.Literally "to take possession" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"{When you make a vow}Literally "When/if you vow a vow" to Yahweh your God, you shall not postpone {fulfillment of it},Literally "to fulfill it" for certainly Yahweh your God shall require it from you and if postponed {you will incur guilt}.Literally "it shall become against you as sin"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And {if you refrain from vowing},Literally "if you refrain to make a vow" {you shall not incur guilt}.Literally "it shall not become against you as sin"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The utterance of your lips {you must perform diligently}Literally "you must observe and you shall do" just as you have vowed freely to Yahweh your God whatever it was that you promisedOr "spoke" with your mouth. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"WhenOr "If" you come into the vineyard of your neighbor, then you may eat grapes {as you please}Literally "according to your desire" and {until you are full},Literally "to your satiation" but you shall not put any into your container. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"WhenOr "If" you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck ears with your hand, but you may not {swing}Literally "wave" a sickle among the standing grain of your neighbor." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"WhenOr "If" a man takes a wife and he marries her {and then}Literally "and it will happen" {she does not please him},Literally "if not she finds favor in his eyes" because he found {something objectionable}Literally "shameful/repulsive thing" and writes her a letter of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and she goes from his house, and she goes out and becomes a wife {for another man},Literally "for a man other"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and then the second man dislikes her and he writes her a letter of divorce and places it into her hand and sends her from his house, or if the second man dies who took her {to himself}Literally "to for him" as a wife,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 4
c3content:
her first husband who sent her away is not allowed {to take her again}Literally "to return to take her" to become a wife to him after she has {been defiled},Literally "become unclean" for that is a detestable thing {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh, and so you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"WhenOr "If" a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and {he shall not be obligated with anything};Literally "he shall not come across come over upon him to anything" he shall be free from obligation, {to stay at home}Literally "for his house" for one year, and he shall bring joy to his wife that he took. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"A personHebrew "he" shall not takeOr "require" a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for {he is taking necessities of life as a pledge}.Literally "for a life he is taking as a pledge" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"If a man is {caught}Literally "found" kidnapping somebody from among his countrymen,Or "brothers" the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and so you shall purge the evil {from among you}.Literally "from your midst" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Be watchfulOr "Be careful" {with respect to}Literally "against" an outbreak of any infectious skin disease, by being very careful and by actingOr "doing" according to all that the priests and the Levites have instructed you, just as I have commanded them, {so you shall diligently observe}.Literally "so you shall observe to do"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the journey {when you went out from Egypt}.Literally "in you to go out from Egypt" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"When you make a loan to your neighbor, a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house {to take his pledge}.Literally "to pledge with respect to his pledge"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
You shall wait outside, and the man to whom you are lending, he shall bring the pledge outside to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And if he is a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge."His pledge" refers to "a garment given as pledge"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
You shall certainly return the pledge to him {as the sun sets},Literally "as/at the moment of the going out of the sun" so that he may sleep in his cloak and may bless you, and it shall be considered righteousness {on your behalf}Literally "to you" {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh your God. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"You shall not exploit a hired worker, who is needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from among your aliensHebrew "alien" who are in your land and in your {towns}.Literally "gates"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 15
c3content:
On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go {down},Literally "over him" because he is poor and {his life depends on it};Literally "and to him it is a lifting up with respect to his life/soul" do this so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, {and you incur guilt}.Literally "and it becomes against you as sin 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, and children shall not be put to death because of their fathers; each one shall be put to death for his own sin.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
You shall not subvert the rights of an alien or an orphan, and you shall not take as pledge the garment of a widow.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that Yahweh your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this commandment. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"WhenOr "If" you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to get it, for it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
When you beat off the fruit of your olive trees you shall not search through the branches afterward, for itThat is, what is left shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 21
c3content:
When you harvest grapes, you shall not glean your vineyards {again};Literally "behind/after you" itThat is, what is left shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, therefore I am commanding you to do this thing." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"When a legal dispute {takes place}Literally "shall be" between men and they come near to the court, and the judges judge with respect to them, then they shall declare the righteous to be in the right and they shall condemn the wicked,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 2
c3content:
then it will happen if the guilty one {deserves beating},Literally "is a son of beating" then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him {before him},Literally "to the face of him" {according to}Literally "as" {the prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense}.Literally "as is sufficient/necessary, with respect to number, for his wickedness/wicked behavior"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He may beat him with forty lashes, and he shall not do more than these, so that he will not beat more in addition to these many blows,Hebrew "blow" and your countrymanOr "brother" would beHebrew "is" degraded before your eyes. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a {man of another family};Others: "strange man," "man outside the family" (NEB) her brother-in-law {shall have sex with her},Literally "shall go to her" and he shall take her {to himself}Literally "to/for him" as a wife, and he shall perform his duty as a brother-in-law with respect to her.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And then the firstborn that she bears {shall represent his dead brother},Literally "he shall stand upon the name of his brother the deceased" so that his name is not blotted out from Israel.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and she shall say, 'My brother-in-law refused {to perpetuate his brother's name}Literally "to cause a name to stand for his brother" in Israel, for he is not willing {to marry me}.'Literally "to consummate the marriage with the widow of a his brother"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him, and if he persists and says, '{I do not desire to}Literally "I do not delight in" marry her'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 9
c3content:
then his sister-in-law shall go near him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall pull off his sandal from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall {declare}Literally "respond/answer" and she shall say, 'This is how it is done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And his {family}Literally "name" shall be called in Israel, 'The house where the sandal was pulled off.'Or "the house of the man whose sandal was pulled off" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"If a man and his brother fight each other and the wife of the one man comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker and she stretches out her hand and she seizes his genitals,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"There shall not be {for your use}Literally "to you" in your bag {two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one}.Literally "stone and stone large and small"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 14
c3content:
There shall not be in your house {for your use}Literally "for you" {two kinds of measures}.Literally "ephah and ephah large and small"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Rather a full and honest weight shall be {for your use};Literally "for you" there shall be for you a full and honest {measure},Literally "an ephah" so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you may be long.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For detestable toOr "for" Yahweh your God is everyone who is doing such things,Or "are all whoare doing" everyone who is actingOr "all whoare acting" dishonestly. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 18
c3content:
that he met you on the journey and attacked you, all those lagging behind you and when you were weary and worn out, and he did not fear God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{And when}Literally "And it will happen when" Yahweh your God gives rest to you from all your enemies from around about you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance to take possession of it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget!" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"{And then}Literally "And it shall happen" when you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and you settle in it,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
then you shall take from the firstfruit of all the fruit of the ground that you harvest from your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose to make his name to dwell there.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days, and you shall say, 'I declare {today}Literally "the day" to Yahweh your God that I have come into the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestorsOr "fathers" to give to us.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the priest takes the basket from your hand and places it {before}Literally "to the face of" the altar of Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And {you shall declare}Literally "answer" and you shall say {before}Literally "to the face of" your God, 'My ancestorOr "father" was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, and there he dwelt as an alien {few in number},Literally "in people only a few" and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And we cried to Yahweh, the God of our ancestors,Or "fathers" and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And now, look, I am bringingHebrew "I bring" the firstfruit of the fruit of the ground that you gave to me, Yahweh,' and you shall place it {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh your God, and you shall bow down {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And you shall celebrate with all of the bounty that Yahweh your God gave to you and to your family, you and the Levite and the alien who is in your midst. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"When you are finished {giving a tithe},Literally "to give a tenth" all of the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, then you shall give to the Levite, to the alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and they may be satisfied.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And you shall say {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from theOr "my" house since the definite article can show possession here house and, moreover, I have given it to the Levite and to the alien and to the orphan and to the widow according to all your commandment that you commanded me; I have not transgressed any of your commandments, and I have not forgotten any of them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I have not eaten during my time of mourning, and I have not removed anything from it while being unclean, and I have not offered {any of it}Literally "from it" to someone who has died. I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done all that you commanded me to do.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Look down from the dwelling place of your holiness, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land that you have given to us, as you swore to our ancestors,Or "our fathers" a land flowing with milk and honey.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"This day Yahweh your God is commanding you to do these rules and regulations, {and you must observe them diligently}Literally "and you shall observe and you shall do them" with all your heart and with all your soul.Or "inner self"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Yahweh you have declared {today}Literally "the day" to be for you as your God, and to goOr "to walk" in his ways and to observe his rules and his commandments and his regulations and to listen to his voice.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Yahweh has declared you {today}Literally "the day" to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he {promised}Literally "spoke" to you, and that you are to observe all his commandments,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{and that he then will set you}Literally "and to set you" high above all the nations that he has made for his praise and {for fame}Literally "for a name" and for honor and {for you to be a holy people}Literally "for you to be/your being a people holy" to Yahweh your God, as he {promised}."Literally "spoke" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, {saying},Literally "to say" "Keep all of the commandment that I am commanding you {today}.Literally "the day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And then on the day that you cross the Jordan to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, then you shall set up {for yourselves}Literally "for you" large stones, and you shall paintOr "coat/cover them" them with lime,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and you shall write on them all the words of this law at your crossing, so that you may come into the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" {promised}Literally "spoke" to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And {when you cross the Jordan},Literally "at/in your crossing the Jordan" you shall set up these stones that I am commanding you about {today}Literally "the day" on Mount Ebal, and you shall paintOr "coat/cover" them with lime.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And you shall build an altar there for Yahweh your God, an altar of stone, butOr "and" {you shall not use an iron tool to shape the stones}.Literally "and you shall not wave to and fro over them an iron tool"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You must build the altar of your God with unhewn stones, and you shall sacrifice on it burnt offerings to Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And you shall sacrifice fellowship offerings, and you shall eat them there, and you shall rejoice {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying,Literally "to say" "Be silent and hear, Israel, for this day you have become {a people}Literally "for a people" for Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and observe his commandments and his rules that I am commanding you {today}."Literally "the day" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"These tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people {when you cross}Literally "at/in crossing your" the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for delivering the curse: Reuben, Gad and Asher and Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And {the Levites shall declare},Literally "they shall answer the Levites" and they shall say to each man of Israel with a loud voice,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 15
c3content:
'Cursed be the man that makes a divine image or a cast image, which is a detestable thing for Yahweh, the work of the hand of a skilled craftsman, and then sets it in a hiding place.'Or "a secret place" And {all the people shall respond},Literally "and they shall answer all of the people" 'Amen.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 16
c3content:
'Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, 'Amen.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 17
c3content:
'Cursed be the one who moves the boundary marker of his neighbor.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 19
c3content:
'Cursed be the one who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 20
c3content:
'Cursed be the one who lies with the wife of his father, because {he has dishonored his father's bed}.'Literally "because he uncovered the hem of his father" And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 22
c3content:
'Cursed be the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 25
c3content:
'Cursed be the one who takes a bribe {to murder an innocent person}.'Literally "to strike down an individual person in blood" And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 26
c3content:
'Cursed be the one {who does not keep}Literally "who not keeps" the words of this law, to observe them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"And it will happen that if you indeed listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, {to diligently observe}Literally "to observe to do" all his commandments that I am commanding you {today},Literally "the day" then Yahweh your God will set you above all the nations of the earth.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And all of these blessings shall come upon you, and {they shall have an effect on you}Literally "they shall overtake you" if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God: 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Blessed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock, {the calf of your cattle and the lambs of your flock}.Literally "what is dropped of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"Blessed will you be {when you come in and blessed will you be when you go out}.Literally "in/at your coming and you will be blessed in/at your going out" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"Yahweh will cause your enemies {who rise up against you to be defeated before you};Literally "the ones rising against you being defeated to the face of you" on one roadOr "way" they shall come out against you, but on seven roadsOr "ways" they shall flee {before you}.Literally "to the face of you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh will command {concerning you}Literally "with you" the blessing to be in your barns and {in all your endeavors};Literally "in all of the sending forth of your hand" and he will bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Yahweh will establish you for {himself}Literally "to/for him" as a holy people as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and you walk in his ways.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And all of the peoples of the earth shall see that {by the name of Yahweh you are called},Literally "that the name of Yahweh is called/assigned upon you" and {they shall fear you}.Literally "they shall be afraid/fearful from you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And {Yahweh will make you successful and prosperous},Literally "Yahweh will cause for you goodness" in the fruit of your womb and on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestorsOr "fathers" to give to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Yahweh shall open for you his {rich}Literally "good" storehouse, even the heavens, to give the rain forHebrew "of" your land in its time and to bless all of the work of your hand, and you will lend to many nations; you will not borrow from them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Yahweh shall make youLiterally "place/set you up" as head and not the tail, and you shall be only at the top of the nations, and you shall not be at the bottom, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you {today}Literally "the day" {and diligently observe them}.Literally "to observe them and to do them"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And you shall not turn aside from {any of}Literally "all of" the words that I am commanding you {today}Literally "the day" to the right or left by going after other gods to serve them. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"{And then}Literally "and it will happen" if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God {by diligently observing}Literally "to observe and to do" all of his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you {today},Literally "the day" then all of these curses shall come upon you, and they shall overtake you: 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"You shallAll of these curses have a future orientation that points to Israel in the land of Canaan be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"The fruit of your womb shall be cursed and the fruit of you ground, the calves of your cattle and the lambs of your flock. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"You shall be cursed {when you come in},Literally "at/in your coming" and you shall be cursed {when you go out}.Literally "at/in your going out" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"Yahweh will send upon youOthers translate as a wish: "may Yahweh send upon you ..." the curse,These words are translated variously, e.g., "starvation," "thirst," "rebuke/dysentery" (NEB) or "curses," "confusion," "frustration" (NLT) the panic,Or "confusion" and the threatOr "rebuke" {in everything that you undertake},Literally "in all the sending out of your hand that you do" {until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly}Literally "until your to be destroyed and until your to perish quickly" {because of}Literally "from the face of the evil of your deeds" the evil of your deeds in thatLiterally "which" you have forsaken me.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Yahweh will cause the plague to cling to you {until it consumes you}Literally "it to consume to" from the land that you are going to,Hebrew "to there" to take possession of it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Yahweh will afflict you with the wasting diseases and with the fever and with the inflammation and with the scorching heat and with the swordOthers translate "drought" (NLT, NEB) and with the blight and with the mildew, and they shall pursue you {until you perish}.Literally "until your/you to perish"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And your heavens that are over your heads shall be like bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be like iron.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Yahweh will change the rain of your land to fine dust and to sand; from the heaven it shall come down upon you {until you are destroyed}.Literally "until your being destroyed" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"Yahweh shall cause you to be defeated {before}Literally "to the face of" your enemies; on one road you shall go {against}Literally "to/toward" them,Hebrew "him" but you will flee on seven roads {before}Literally "to the face of" them,Hebrew "him" and you shall become a thing of horror to all of the kingdoms of the earth.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And your dead bodies shall be as food for all of the birds of the heaven and to the animals of the earth, and there shall not be {anyone to frighten them away}.Literally "one causing fright to them" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"Yahweh shall afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scurvy and with {the skin rash that cannot be healed}.Literally "the skin rash that not it is able it to be healed"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And you shall be groping at noon just as the blind person gropes in the dark, and you shall not succeed in finding your way, and you shall only be abused and robbed {all the time},Literally "all the days" and there will not be {anyone who will rescue you}. Literally "one who delivers/rescues you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 30
c3content:
You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall sleepOr "ravish/violate" with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not live in it; a vineyard you shall plant, but you shall not enjoy it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, and you shall not eat it; your donkey shall be stolen right {before you},Literally "to the face of you" and it shall not be returned to you; your sheep and your goats shall be given to your enemies, and {there shall not be anyone who rescues you}.Literally "there shall not be for you one who rescues"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to other people, and {you will be looking on}Literally "your eyes will see/look" {longingly}Literally "wearing out" forHebrew "to" them all day, {but you will be powerless to do anything}.Literally "but there will not be for power of your hand"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 33
c3content:
A people that you do not know shall consume the harvest of your land and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed {for the rest of your lives}.Literally "all of the days"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 34
c3content:
You shall become mad {because of what your eyes shall see}.Literally "from/by the sight of your eyes"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Yahweh shall strike you with grievous boils on the knees and on the upper thighs from which {you will not be able to be healed},Literally "which not you are able to heal" from the sole of your foot and up to your crown.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Yahweh will bring you and your king whom you set up over you to a nation that you or your ancestorsOr "fathers" have not known, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 38
c3content:
"You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little produce, for the locust shall devour it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 39
c3content:
You shall plant vineyards and you shall dressOr "cultivate" them, but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it.That is, the produce


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 40
c3content:
There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself, for your olivesHebrew "olive" shall drop off.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 41
c3content:
You shall bear sons and daughters, but they shall not be {yours},Literally "for you" for they shall go into captivity.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 43
c3content:
The alien that is in your midst shall ascend over you, higher and higher, but you shall go down lower and lower.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 44
c3content:
He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, but you shall be the tail. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 45
c3content:
"And all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you {until you are destroyed},Literally "until you to be destroyed" because {you did not listen}Literally "not you listened" to the voice of Yahweh your God, {by observing}Literally "to observe" his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 46
c3content:
And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring {forever}.Literally "until eternity," but not in a timeless, philosophic sense 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 47
c3content:
"{Because}Literally "Under" of the fact that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 48
c3content:
then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you under conditions of famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in a lack of everything; and he shall placeLiterally "give" a yoke of iron on your neck {until he has destroyed you}.Literally "until his destroying of you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 49
c3content:
Yahweh will raise up against you a nation from far off, from the end of the earth, attacking as the eagle swoops down, {a nation whose language you will not understand},Literally "a nation who not you will understand its language"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 50
c3content:
{a grim-faced nation}Literally "a nation fierce/determined of face" {who does not show respect}Literally "who not lifts up faces" to the old and the young and does not show pity.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 51
c3content:
And itThat is, the invading nation shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground {until you are destroyed},Literally "until your destroying" and who will not leave for you any grain, wine, and olive oil, {calves of your herds},Literally "what is dropped of your herds" and {lambs of}Literally "the offspring of small animals" your flock {until it has destroyed you}.Literally "until his to destroy you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 52
c3content:
And it shall besiege you in all your towns {until your high and fortified walls fall},Literally "until the coming down of your walls, high and fortified" which you are trusting inHebrew "in them," which is redundant {throughout your land};Literally "in all of your land" and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 53
c3content:
And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave to you, {during the siege and during the distress}Literally "in siege and in distress" your enemy inflicts upon you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 54
c3content:
The most refined and the very sensitiveOr "kindly disposed" man among you {shall be mean with his brother}Literally "shall be bad/evil his eye against his brother" and {against his beloved wife}Literally "against the wife of his lap" and against the restOr "remainder" of his children that he has left over,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 55
c3content:
{by refraining from giving}Literally "from giving" to even one of them any of the meat of his children that he eats, because there is not anything that is left over for him {during the siege and distress}Literally "in the siege and distress" that your enemy inflicts upon you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 56
c3content:
The most refined and the most delicate woman among you, who shallOr "would" not venture to put the sole of her foot on the ground from being so delicate and from such gentleness, {shall be mean to her beloved husband}Literally "shall be bad her eye against the husband of her lap" and against her son and against her daughter,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 57
c3content:
and even concerning her afterbirth {that goes out}Literally "the going out" from between her feet and also concerning her children that she bears, because she eats them for lack of anything in secret {during the siege and during the distress}Literally "in the siege and in the distress" that your enemy inflicts upon her in your {towns}.Literally "gates" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 58
c3content:
"If {you do not diligently observe}Literally "you observe to do" all the words of this law written in this scroll by revering this glorious and awesome name, Yahweh your God,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 59
c3content:
then Yahweh shall overwhelm you with your plagues and the plagues of your offspring, severe plagues and lasting illnesses, grievous and enduring.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 60
c3content:
And he shall bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt concerning which {you were in dread}Literally "you dreaded" {because of them}.Literally "from their presence"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 61
c3content:
Also any illness and any plagueOr "each illness and each plague" that is not written in the scroll of this law, he shall bring them, Yahweh, upon you until you are destroyed.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 62
c3content:
And you shall remain {only a few people}Literally "with people of few" in place of the fact you were formerly as the stars of heaven as far as number is concerned, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 63
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it will happen" as Yahweh delighted over you {to make you prosperous}Literally "to do good with you" to make you numerous, so Yahweh shall delight over you to exterminate youOr "to cause you to perish" and to destroy you, and so you shall be plucked from the land that you are going there to take possession of it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 64
c3content:
And Yahweh shall scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth up to the other end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods that you have not known norHebrew "and" your ancestors,Or "your fathers" gods of wood and stone.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 65
c3content:
And among these nations you shall not find rest, and there shall not be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh shall give you there an anxious heart and a weakening of eyesOr "a failure of eyes" and a languishing of your inner self.Or "soul"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 66
c3content:
And {your life shall hang in doubt before you},Literally "they shall be your life hanging for you in front" and you shall be startledOr "in fear" night and day, and you shall not be confident of your life.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 67
c3content:
In the morning you shall say, '{If only it was evening}!'Literally "Who shall give evening?" and in the evening you shall say '{If only it was morning}!'Literally "Who shall give morning?" because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 68
c3content:
And Yahweh shall bring you back to Egypt in ships by the route that I {promised}Literally "spoke" to you that '{You shall not see it again}!'Literally "you shall not do again further to see it/her" And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Deuteronomy 29:1-29 in the English Bible is 28.69-29:28 in the Hebrew Bible These are the words of the covenant that Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" in the land of Moab {besides}Literally "from to alone" the covenant that he made with them at Horeb. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them, "You saw all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt and to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land;


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But Yahweh has not given to you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, even {to this day}.Literally "until the day the this"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I have led you forty yearsHebrew "year" in the desert; your clothes have not worn out {on you},Literally "from on you" and your sandal has not worn out {on your foot}.Literally "from on your foot"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And when you came to this place then Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out to meet you for battle, and we defeated them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the ReubenitesHebrew "Reubenite" and to the GaditesHebrew "Gadite" and to the half-tribe of Manasseh.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And {you must diligently observe the words of this covenant},Literally "you must keep the words of the covenant the this and you must do them" so that you may succeed in all that you do. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"You are standing {today},Literally "the day" all of you, {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh your God, your leaders, your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 11
c3content:
your little children, your women and your aliensHebrew "alien" who are in the midst of your camp, from the choppersHebrew "chopper" of your wood to the drawersHebrew "drawer" of your water,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{in order for you to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God},Literally "for you to go over into the covenant of Yahweh your God" and intoOr "with" his oath that Yahweh your God is {making with you}Literally "cutting with you" {today},Literally "the day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 13
c3content:
in order to establish you {today}Literally "the day" {to himself}Literally "for him" as a people and so that he may be for you as God, just as he {promised}Literally "spoke" to you and {just as}Literally "according to that which" he swore to your ancestors,Or "your fathers" to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"Now I am not {making this covenant}Literally "cutting this covenant" and this oath {with you alone}.Literally "with you to alone you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But with {whoever is standing here}Literally "with who he is here with us standing" with us {today}Literally "the day" {before}Literally "to the face of" Yahweh our God, and with {whoever is not standing here}Literally "with who he is not standing here with us" with us {today}.Literally "the day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the midst of the nations that you traveledOr "journeyed" through.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that were among them,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 18
c3content:
so that {there is not}Literally "lest there be/develop" among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe {whose heart}Literally "his heart" turns {today}Literally "the day" from being with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And then when he hears the words of this oath, thenOr "and" {he will assure himself}Literally "he will bless himself"; HALOT 160 suggests "to consider oneself fortunate" in his heart, {saying},Literally "to say" '{Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart},'Literally "Peace shall happen/be for me, although/even if in the stubbornness of my heart I go" thereby destroying the well-watered land along with the parched.Some translators prefer to include the last clause as a part of the words of the wicked man (NASV vs. NEB)


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for by then the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Yahweh will single him out for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the scroll of this law. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"And the next generation, that is, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, whenHebrew "and" they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 23
c3content:
'All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, {none of its land will be sown},Literally "all of its land will not be sown" and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And all the nations will say, '{Why}Literally "On what basis" has Yahweh done {such a thing}Literally "so" to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And they will say,Or "answer/respond" 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,Or "fathers" which he {made}Literally "cut" with them {when he brought them out}Literally "at/in his to bring them out from the land of Egypt" from the land of Egypt.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and heThat is, Yahweh had not allotted to them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 27
c3content:
So {the anger of Yahweh was kindled}Literally "became hot the nose of Yahweh" against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 28
c3content:
and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and he cast them into another land, {just as it is today}.'Literally "as the day the this" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"The hidden things {belong to Yahweh}Literally "are for Yahweh" our God, but the revealed things {belong to us}Literally "are for us" to know and to our children {forever},Literally "until eternity" in order to do all the words of this law." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"And then when all of these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse that I have set {before you}Literally "to the face of you" {and you call them to mind}Literally "and you bring them back to your heart" among the nations there where Yahweh your God has scattered you,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and you return to Yahweh and you listen to his voice according to all that I am commanding you {today},Literally "the day" both you and your children,Or "sons" with all your heart and with all your inner self,Or "soul"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and Yahweh your God will restore your fortunes, and he will have compassion upon you, and {he will again gather you together}Literally "he will do again and he will gather you together" from all the peoples where Yahweh your God scattered you there. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Even if {you are outcasts}Literally "he/it shall be outcasting your" at the end of the heavens, even from there Yahweh your God shall gather you, and from there {he shall bring you back}.Literally "he shall take/fetch you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that your ancestorsOr "fathers" had taken possession of,Hebrew "of it" and he will make you successful, and he will make you more numerous than your ancestors.Or "fathers" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"And Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner selfOr "soul" {so that you may live}.Literally "for the sake of your life"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and {on those who hate you},Literally "the haters of you" on {those who harassed you}.Literally "who pursued after/persecuted you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And {you will again listen}Literally "you will return and you will listen" to the voice of Yahweh, and you will do all his commandments that I am commanding you {today}.Literally "the day"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Yahweh your God will make you prosperous {in all your undertakings},Literally "in all of the work of your hand" and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground {abundantly},Literally "to/for good" for Yahweh {will again rejoice}Literally "he will return ... to rejoice" over you, just as he rejoiced over your ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He will do this if you listen toOr "if you obey/hearken to" the voice of Yahweh your God by keeping his commandment and his statutes written in the scroll of this law and if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self.Or "soul" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"For this commandment that I am commanding you {today}Literally "the day" is {not too wonderful for you},Literally "not is wonderful it from you" and it is not too far from you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 12
c3content:
It is not in the heavens {so that you might say},Literally "to say" 'Who will go up for us to the heavens and get it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it is {not beyond the sea},Literally "is not from beyond the sea" {so that you might say},Literally "to say" 'Who will cross for us to the other side of the sea and take it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But the word is very near you, even in your mouth and in your heart, {so that you may do it}.Literally "to do it" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"See, I am setting {before you}Literally "to the face of you" {today}Literally "the day" life and prosperity and death and disaster;


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 16
c3content:
what I am commanding you {today}Literally "the day" is to love Yahweh your God by goingOr "walking" in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the {land where you are going}.Literally "the land where you are going there"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 17
c3content:
However, if your heart turns aside and you do not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 18
c3content:
I declare to you {today}Literally "the day" that you will certainly perish; {you will not extend your time}Literally "you will not make long days" on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 19
c3content:
I invoke as a witness against you {today}Literally "the day" the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you},Literally "to the face of you" blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,Or "seed"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 20
c3content:
by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he is your life and the length of your days in order for you to live on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors,Or "fathers" to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he said to them, "I am a hundred and twenty years old {today};Literally "the day" I am not able to go out and to come in any longer, and Yahweh said to me, 'You may not cross this Jordan.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Yahweh your God is about to cross {before you};Literally "to the face of you" he will destroy these nations {before you},Literally "to the face of you" and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will be crossing {before you},Literally "to the face of you" just as Yahweh {promised}.Literally "spoke"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Yahweh will do to them just as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed with them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Yahweh {will deliver them to you before you},Literally "will give them Yahweh to the face of you" and you shall do to them according to every commandment that I have commanded you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Be strong and be courageous; you should not be afraid, and you {should not be in dread from their presence},Literally "not you should dread from their face" for Yahweh your God is the one going with you; he will not leave you alone and he will not forsake you." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him {in the presence of all Israel},Literally "before the eyes of all Israel" "Be strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestorsOr "their fathers" to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh is the one going {before you};Literally "to the face of you" he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So Moses wrote this law, and he gave it to the priests, the descendantsOr "sons" of Levi, the ones carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Moses commanded them, {saying},Literally "to say" "At the end of seven years, in the time of the year for canceling debts during the Feast of Booths,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{when all Israel comes to appear before}Literally "at/in the coming of all of Israel to see" Yahweh their God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel {in their hearing}.Literally "in their ears"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little children and your aliens that are in your {towns},Literally "gates" so that they may hear and so that they may learn and they may revere Yahweh your God, and {they shall diligently observe}Literally "they shall keep to do" all the words of this law.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And then their children,Hebrew "child" who have not known, they too may hear, and they may learn to revere Yahweh their God all the days {that you live}Literally "that you are alive" on the land that you are crossing the Jordan {to get there}Literally "there" to take possession of it." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, {you are about to die};Literally "are near your days to die" call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of assembly,Or "meeting" so that I may instruct him." So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves inOr "at" the tent of assembly.Or "meeting"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Yahweh appeared in the tent in a column of cloud, and the column of the cloud stood at the entrance of the tent.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, you are about to lie down with your ancestors,Or "fathers" and this people will arise and theyHebrew "he" will play the prostitute after {the foreign gods}Literally "the gods of the foreigner/foreign person of the land" of the land {to which they are going}.Literally "which he is going to"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And {my anger shall flare up against them}Literally "shall become my nose against it/him" on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and theyHebrew "he" shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall findOr "encounter" them,Hebrew "him" and theyHebrew "he" shall say on that day, 'Is it not because ourHebrew "my" but represents all the people God is not in ourHebrew "my" midst that these disasters have foundOr "encountered" us?'Hebrew "me"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But I will certainly hide my face on that day, because of all of the evil that theyHebrew "he" did because theyHebrew "he" turned to other gods. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"And so then write this song for yourselves and teach it to the {Israelites};Literally "sons/children of Israel" put it in their mouth, so that this song may be for me as a witness against the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For when I bring themHebrew "him," referring to the people into the land that I swore to theirHebrew "his" ancestors,Or "fathers" a land flowing with milk and honey, {they will eat their fill},Literally "he will eat and he will be satisfied" and theyHebrew "he" will become fat, and then theyHebrew "he" will turn to other gods, and they will serve them, and they will spurn me, and theyHebrew "he" will break my covenant.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it shall happen" many disasters and troubles will come upon them,Hebrew "him" and this song will give evidence before themHebrew "him" as a witness, because it will not be forgotten from out of the mouth of their descendants,Hebrew "his offspring/descendant" for I know theirHebrew "his" inclination that theyHebrew "he" are having {today}Literally "the day" before I have brought themHebrew "him" into the land that I swore."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then heThat is, Yahweh told Joshua the son of Nun, and said to him, "Be strong and be courageous, for you shall bring the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" into the land that I swore to them, and I will be with you." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 24
c3content:
{And then when Moses finished writing}Literally "And it happened as/when to finish Moses to write" the words of this law on the scroll {until they were complete},Literally "until their to be complete/"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 25
c3content:
then Moses commanded the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, {saying},Literally "to say"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"Take the scroll of this law and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and it will be there as a witness against you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck even now while I am still alive with you {today},Literally "the day" rebelling against Yahweh, and {how much more}Literally "and also for/indeed" after my death.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may speak in their ears these words, and that I may call as witness against them heaven and earth.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 29
c3content:
For I know that after my death you will certainly act corruptly, and you will turn aside from the way that I have commanded you, and the disaster in the future days will befall you, because you will do evilHebrew "the evil"; the definite article indicates the general concept of evil in the eyes of Yahweh, {provoking him with the work of your hands}."Literally "to provoke him with/by the work of your hands"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 30
c3content:
So Moses spoke into the ears of the assembly of Israel the words of this song {until they were complete}.Literally "until their to be complete" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 2
c3content:
May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just; he is a faithful God, and {without injustice};Literally "there is not injustice" righteous and upright is he.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They have behaved corruptly towardOr "with" him; they are not his children; this is their flaw, a generation crooked and perverse.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Like this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise}Literally "not wise" people? Has he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Remember the old days, {the years long past};Literally "the years of from generation to generation" ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders and they will tell you.Hebrew "to you"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{When the Most High apportioned}Literally "In/at the apportioning of the Most High" the nations, at his dividing up of the sons of humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the children of Israel.LXX reads "the number of the angels of God"; Dead Sea Scrolls reads "the number of the sons of God"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he {encircled him},Literally "moved around him" he cared for him, he protected him like the {apple}Literally "pupil" of his eye.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 11
c3content:
As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads out its wings, takes them,Hebrew "it" but used poetically and with plural sense in context carries themHebrew "it" but used poetically and with plural sense in context on its pinions,Hebrew "pinion"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 12
c3content:
so Yahweh alone guided him,That is, Jacob, standing for Israel and {there was no foreign god accompanying him}.Literally "and there was not with him a god foreign/strange"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he set him on the high places of the land, and he fed him the cropsHebrew "crop" of the field, and he nursed him with honey from crags,Hebrew "crag" and with oil from flinty rock,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 14
c3content:
With curdsHebrew "curd" from the herd, and with milk from the flock, with the fat of young rams, and rams, the offspring of Bashan, and with goats along with the finest kernels of wheat, and from the blood of grapesHebrew "grape" you drank fermented wine.Or "partially fermented wine"; others translate simply as wine (NASB, NEB); HALOT 330, "still fermenting wine"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked; you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate; and he abandoned God, his maker, and he scoffed at the rock of his salvation.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They sacrificed to the demons, not God, to gods whomHebrew "them" they had not known, new gods whoHebrew "they," understood in the verb form came from recent times; {their ancestors had not known them}.Literally "their fathers not knew them"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The rock whoHebrew "he," understood in verb form bore you, you neglected, and you forgot God, the one giving you birth.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what will be their end, for they are a generation of perversity, {children in whom there is no faithfulness}.Literally "sons not faithfulness is in them"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 21
c3content:
They annoyed me with what is not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For a fire was kindledOr "ignited" by my anger, and it burned {up to the depths of Sheol},Literally "up to Sheol depths" and it devoured the earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of the mountains.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 24
c3content:
They will become weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with the poison of the creeping things in the dust;


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 25
c3content:
From outside her boundaries the sword will make her childless, and from inside, terror; both for the young man and also the young woman, the infant along with the gray-headed man.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 26
c3content:
I thought, "I will wipe them out; {I will make people forget they ever existed}."Literally "I will blot out from among human being their remembrance"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 27
c3content:
If I had not feared a provocation of the enemy, lest their foes might misunderstand, Or "so that they not make a false construal" of what has happened lest they should say, Or "so that they might not" "Our hand is {triumphant},Literally "raised/held high" and Yahweh did not do all this." '


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 28
c3content:
For {they are a nation void of sense},Literally "they a nation perishing of counsel" and there is not any understanding in them.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 29
c3content:
If only they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern {for themselves their end}.Literally "they would discern for end their"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 30
c3content:
How could one chase a thousand and two could cause a myriad to flee, if their Rock had not sold them, and Yahweh had not given them up?


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 31
c3content:
For the fact of the matter is, their rock is not like our Rock, and our enemies recognizeThe meaning of this expression is uncertain, but "discerns" or "judges" seem good choices; see HALOT 932, which allows for "judges" or "in the estimation of our enemies" this.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 32
c3content:
For their vine is from the vine of Sodom, and from the terraces of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; {their clusters are bitter}.Literally "clusters of bitter are for them"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 35
c3content:
{Vengeance belongs to me}Literally "To me is vengeance" and also recompense, {for at the time their foot slips},Literally "at the time when it shall slip foot their" because the day of their disaster is near, {and fate comes quickly for them}.'Literally "and comes quickly/hurries events to come to them"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 36
c3content:
For Yahweh will judge on behalf of his people, and concerning his servants; he will change his mind when he sees that their power has disappeared, and there is no one left, confinedOr "bond/bound" or free.Or "freed"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up, and let them help you; {Let them be to you a refuge}.Literally "let there be/him/them unto you as a shelter"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 39
c3content:
See, now, that I, even I am he, and there is not a god besides me; I put to death and I give life; I wound and I heal; there is not one who delivers from my hand!


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 40
c3content:
For indeed I lift up my hand to heaven, And I promise {as I live forever},Literally "live I to eternity"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 41
c3content:
When I sharpenOr "have sharpened" {my flashing sword},Literally "the flashing of my sword" and my hand takes holdOr "seizes" of it in judgment, {I will take reprisals against my foes},Literally "I will let return vengeance to foes my" and my haters I will repay.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 42
c3content:
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain, and captivesHebrew "captive" from the headsHebrew "head" of the leaders of the enemy.'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Call for songs of joy, O nations, concerning his people,Dead Sea Scrolls reads: "Rejoice, O heavenly ones, with him! Bow down, all you gods, before him!" for the blood of his servants he will avenge, {and he will take reprisals against his foes},Literally "vengeance he will let return to his foes" and he will make atonement for his land, his people."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 44
c3content:
And Moses came, and he spokeOr "recited" all the words of this song in the ears of the people; that is, he and Joshua the son of Nun.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 45
c3content:
{And when Moses finished speaking}Literally "And he finished Moses to speak" all these words to all Israel,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 46
c3content:
then he said to them, "{Take to heart all the words}Literally "Put heart your to all the words" that I am admonishing against you {today}Literally "the day" concerning which you should instruct them with respect to your childrenOr "sons" {so that they will observe diligently}Literally "to keep to do" all the words of this law,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 47
c3content:
for it is not a trifling matter among you, but it is your life, and through this word {you will live long in the land}Literally "you will make long days on the land" that you are about to cross the Jordan to get there to take possession of it." 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 49
c3content:
"Go up to this mountain of the Abarim range, Mount Nebo, which is {opposite Jericho},Literally "on the face of Jericho" and see the land of Canaan that I am giving to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" as a possession.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 50
c3content:
You shall die on that mountain that you are about to go up there, and you will be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on {Mount Hor}Literally "on Hor the mountain" and he was gathered to his people,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 51
c3content:
because of the fact that you broke faith with me in the midst of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the desert of Zin, because {you did not treat me as holy}Literally "that not you treated me as holy" in the midst of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 52
c3content:
Yes, from afar you may view the land, but there you shall not enter there, that is, into the land that I am giving to the {Israelites}."Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 1
c3content:
NowOr "And" this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" {before}Literally "to the face of" his death. 


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Moreover,Or "Indeed" {he loves his people},Literally "a lover of peoples" all the holy ones were in your hand, and they bowed down toOr "at" your feet, {each one accepted directions from you}.Literally "he takes up from your words"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And then a king arose in Jeshurun, at the gathering of the leaders of the people, {united were the tribes of Israel}.Literally "together the tribes of Israel"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"May Reuben live, and may he not die, {and let his number not be few}."Literally "let he be his people of number"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{And he said this of Judah},Literally "and this concerning/to Judah, and he said" "Hear, O Yahweh, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people; his own hands striveOr "is/are great" on his behalf for him, and may you be a help {against}Literally "from" his foes."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And of Levi he said, "Your Thummim and your Urim are for {your faithful one},Literally "man, your faithful one" {whom you tested at Massah};Literally "whom you tested him at Massah" you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The one saying of his father and of his mother, 'I have not regarded them,' and his brothers he did not acknowledge, and his childrenOr "sons" he did not know, but rather they observed your word, and your covenant they kept.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They taughtOr "teach/will teach" your regulations to Jacob, and your law to Israel; they placed incense smoke {before you},Literally "in your nose" and whole burnt offerings on your altar.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Bless, O Yahweh, his substance, and with the work of his hands you must be pleased; smite the loins of those who attack him, and those hating him, {so that they cannot arise}."Literally "so that not they stand up"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of Yahweh dwells {securely},Literally "in confidence" the Most HighThis is the most likely reading in context (Most High God). Literally the Hebrew text reads "upon him," so the NASV translates the first line as: dwell in security "by him" shields all around him, all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by Yahweh is his land, withHebrew "from" the choice things of heaven, withHebrew "from" dew, and withHebrew "from" the deep lying down beneath,


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and withHebrew "from" the choice things of the fruitsOr "produce of" of the the sun, and with the choice things of the yield of the {seasons},Literally "months"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and withHebrew "from" the finest things of the ancient mountains, and withHebrew "from" the choice things of the {eternal hills},Literally "the hills of eternity never ending ages"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and withHebrew "from" the choice things of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of the one {who dwelt}Literally "dwells" but context puts the event into the past; literally "dweller of the bush" in the bush.Some scholars suggest that this expression must be read as: on Sinai Let them come to the head of Joseph, and to the crown of the prince among his brothers.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 17
c3content:
As the firstborn of his ox, majesty {belongs to him},Literally "is for him" and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he drives people together,Or "all at once" (NASB) and they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 19
c3content:
They summon people to the mountains;Hebrew "mountain" there they sacrifice the sacrifices of righteousness, because the affluence of the seas they suck out, and {the most hidden treasures of the sand}."Literally "the covered of the hidden of the sand"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And of Gad he said, "Blessed be {the one who enlarges Gad};Literally "the enlarger of Gad" like a lion he dwells, and he tears an arm as well as a scalp.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And he selectedOr "provided" the best part for himself, Hebrew "for him" for there the portion of a ruler is included, and he came with the heads of the people;Or possibly, "the heads of the people came/assembled" (compare NEB) he didOr "worked" the righteousness of Yahweh, and his regulations for Israel."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And of Dan he said, "Dan is a cub of a lion; he leaps from Bashan."Hebrew "the Bashan," referring to a well-known geographical and agricultural area


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And of Naphtali, he said, "Oh, Naphtali, sated of favor, and full of the blessing of Yahweh; take possession of the lake, and the land to the south."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And of Asher he said, "Blessed {more than sons}Literally "blessed from/of sons is" features the comparative use the Hebrew preposition min, "than" is Asher; {may he be the favorite}Literally "may he be favored" of his brothers, {dipping his feet in the oil}.Literally "and dipping in the oil his feet"


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Your bars areOr "will be" iron and bronze, and as your days, so isOr "so will be/may be" your strength."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"There is no one like God, O, Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, and with his majesty through the skies.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The God of {ancient time}Literally "before/earlier times" is a hiding place, and underneath are the arms of eternity,Or "everlasting ages" or "everlasting arms" and he drove out {from before}Literally "from your face" you your enemy, and he said, 'Destroy them!'


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 28
c3content:
So Israel dwells alone and carefree, the spring of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; his heavens even drip dew.


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Blessed are you, O Israel. Who is like you, a people who is saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your triumph, and your enemies, they shall fawn before you,Hebrew "to you" and you shall tread on their backs."


c0book: Deut
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Moses went up from the desert plateauOr "plains/lowlands" of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, {which is opposite}Literally "which is on the face of" Jericho, and Yahweh showed him all of the land, Gilead all the way up to Dan,


