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Deuteronomy 5.
6 “I’m your god, the LORD,
who took you out of Egypt’s land, out of the slaves’ house.
7 “For you, there mustn’t be any other gods in my presence.
8 Don’t manufacture any idol for yourself;
any form from the skies above, from the land below, from the water below the land.
9 Don’t bow down to them. Don’t serve them.
For I’m your LORD God: I’m El-Qanná/‘Possessive God.’
I have children suffer consequences for their parents’ evil
—and the grandchildren, and great-grandchildren—when they hate me.
10 But I show love to a thousand generations
when they love me and observe my commands.
11 “Don’t swear by the name of your LORD God for no good reason.
For the LORD won’t free your obligation when you’ve used his name for no good reason.
12 “Keep separate the day of Sabbath, as your LORD God commanded you.
13 Work six days, and do all your work. 14 The seventh day is Sabbath.
It’s for your LORD God. Don’t start any work on it. That counts for you,
your sons, daughters, slaves, ox, donkey, animals, or visitors at your gates.
Because your male and female slaves will rest like you:
15 Remember, you were a slave in Egypt’s territory.
Your LORD God got you out of there with his strong hand and extended arm.
This is why your LORD God commands you to do the day of Sabbath.
16 “Respect your father and your mother, as your LORD God commanded you.
Thus your days will be long; thus good will come to you in the land your LORD God gives you.
17 “Don’t murder.
18 Don’t adulter.
19 Don’t steal.
20 Don’t testify about your fellow with lies.
21 “Don’t desire your fellow’s woman. Don’t desire your fellow’s house, nor field,
nor slave, nor maid, nor ox, nor donkey—anything of your fellow’s.”
Deuteronomy 6.
4 “Listen, Israel: Our god is the LORD. The LORD is One.
5 Love your LORD God with all your mind, all your life, and all your power.”
13 “Fear your LORD God. Serve him. Swear by his name.”
16 “Don’t test your LORD God like you tested him at Massa.”
21 Tell your child, “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt,
and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
22 The LORD gave prophetic signs and miracles, mighty—and bad—
to Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his house, right before our eyes.
23 He brought us out of there, because he came to us
to give us the land he promised our ancestors.
24 The LORD ordered us to do these duties, to live like today,
to fear our LORD God, who’s good to us every day.
25 It’s only right of us that we keep doing this command
before our LORD God, like he charged us to.”
Deuteronomy 8.
3 “He oppressed you. Made you hungry. Made you eat manna.
Neither you nor your ancestors knew about manna.
This was so you’d learn not only by bread do humans live:
By everything which comes from the LORD’s mouth, do humans live.”
10 “Once you’ve eaten your fill,
be sure to praise your LORD God for the good land he gave you.”
Deuteronomy 12.
20 “Because your LORD God makes your borders lengthy like he told you,
when you say, ‘I’ll eat meat’ because your soul yearns for meat, you can eat the meat you yearn for.”
Deuteronomy 14.
22 “Tithe, tithe all the produce of the seed which went into your field, year by year.
23 Eat it in your LORD God’s presence, at the spot he chooses for his name to live:
The tithe of your grain, new wine, oil, the firstborn of your oxen and sheep.
Through this, you learn to revere your LORD God daily.
24 When the road’s too long for you, so you’re not able to carry it—
because this spot your LORD God chooses for his name to live is far from you—
25 when your LORD God blesses you, you may take silver instead.
Hold the silver in your hand. Walk to the place your LORD God chooses for himself.
26 Take the silver to buy anything your soul craves:
Oxen, sheep, wine, liquor, anything your soul asks for.
Eat it there, in your LORD God’s presence. Rejoice, you and your household.
27 And don’t neglect the Levites who live inside your city gates.
(For no land was given them as a portion or possession with you.)
28 “At the end of the third year, bring out the whole tithe of your yield for the year.
It’ll stay within your gates. 29 The Levites get it.
(For no land was given them as a portion or possession with you.)
Foreigners, orphans, widows within your gates: Come and eat! Don’t be hungry.
Because of this, your LORD God will bless you in all the handiwork you do.”
Deuteronomy 15.
7 “If there’s a needy person among you—one of your brothers, at one of your gates
in your land which your LORD God gives you,
don’t close your mind. Don’t shut your hand to your needy brother.
8 Open, open your hand to him. Promise, promise whatever he needs, whatever he lacks.
9 Watch yourself, lest there’s this useless thought in your mind,
saying, “Sabbath year is near—the year debts are canceled,”
and you eye your needy brother warily, and won’t give to him.
He’ll call to the LORD against you. It’s a sin for you.
10 Give, give to him. Don’t do evil in your mind in giving to him.
For this reason, your LORD God blesses all your work, all your hand creates.
11 There will never stop being needy people in the land. Therefore I command you,
saying: Open, open your hand to your brother, to your poor, to your needy, in your land.”
Deuteronomy 16.
16 “Three times a year all your males must be seen before your LORD God in the place he chooses:
At the feasts of Matzót, Shavuót, and Sukkót.
Don’t be seen before the LORD’s face carrying nothing.”
Deuteronomy 17.
15 “Put, put a king above you, whom your LORD God chooses from you,
from among your brothers, to put as king over you.
You’re not to put a foreign man over you as king,
one who isn’t your brother.
16 He’s not to collect many horses;
he’s not to return to Egypt’s people to acquire many horses.
The LORD tells you: Don’t return that way ever again.”
Deuteronomy 18.
10 Don’t have among you anyone who passes their son or daughter through fire.
Nor augurs practicing augury, nephelomancy, scrying, incanting, 11 enchanting,
asking a psychic or spiritist, nor questioning the dead.
12 For all these acts offend the LORD.
Because of these offenses, your LORD God takes them out of your presence.
17 “The LORD told me, ‘What they say is correct, 18 so I’m raising up prophets for them—
from among their family, like you, and I put my words in their mouth.
They speak to the people everything I command them.
19 When anyone doesn’t listen to my words which my prophet speaks in my name,
I myself demand accountability from that person.
20 However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name what I’ve not commanded them to speak,
or what was spoken in the name of other gods: This prophet dies.
21 When you say in your heart, “How can we identify a word which wasn’t spoken by the LORD?”:
22 When the prophet speaks in the LORD’s name, and it’s not my word—
it’s not something the LORD’s spoken; it won’t come to anything.
The prophet spoke it in pride. Don’t fear them.’ ”
Deuteronomy 19.
15 “Don’t stand up only one witness against a man
for any act of evil, offense, or trespass, which he committed.
From the mouth of two witnesses, or the mouth of three witnesses,
a word may stand.
16 For when you stand up a false witness against a man,
to accuse him of rebelling against the Law,
17 the two men who are in dispute are before the LORD’s face,
before the face of priests and judges who are in office in those days.
Deuteronomy 21.
15 “When a man has two women—one he loves, one he ‘hates’—
and the loved and the ‘hated’ birth sons for him,
and the son with the birthright is born to the ‘hated’:
16 On the day the man grants inheritances to his sons which were born to him,
he’s not allowed to grant the birthright to the son of the loved,
over the head of the son of the ‘hated’ with the birthright,
17 for the birthright is for the son of the ‘hated.’
The man should be willing to give him two portions of all he’s acquired,
for he’s the most valuable thing he created. He deserves the birthright.”
Deuteronomy 22.
20 If the word is true—if virginity isn’t found in the maiden—
21 take the maiden to the door of her father’s house.
Stone her with stones, men of her city. She dies.
She did a nasty thing to Israel,
to have sex in her father’s house. Remove evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 24.
1 When a man takes a woman, to be her husband, and if it happens she finds no favor in his eyes—
he found something he considers offensive—
he writes her a divorce scroll and puts it in her hand;
he sends her out of his house.
14 Don’t tyrannize needy and poor employees,
whether relatives, or foreigners who live in your land or within your gates.
15 Give their wages that day. Don’t let the sun come down on them first.
For they’re poor. They carry their soul in their hands.
Don’t let them call the LORD about you, and let it be sin upon you.
Deuteronomy 28.
1 “If you happen to listen to your LORD God’s voice,
so as to observe and do every command I instructing you about today,
your LORD God will give you power over every country on earth:
2 All these blessings will come to you and overwhelm you,
for you listened to your LORD God’s voice.
3 You’ll be blessed in city, field, 4 the fruit of your belly, the fruit of the ground,
and the fruit of your animals—what your cattle drops, or your flocks produce.
5 You’ll be blessed in breadbasket, in yeast;
6 when you enter, when you leave.
7 The LORD will have your enemies which rise against you be struck down in front of you.
They’ll come at you from one direction, and run away from you in seven.
8 The LORD will teach you about blessing in your storehouses, in everything you undertake.
He’ll bless you in the land your LORD God gives you.
9 The LORD will raise you to himself: A holy people, as he swore you’d become.
So observe your LORD God’s commands. Walk in his ways.
10 All the earth’s peoples will see you call upon the LORD’s name, and fear you.
11 The LORD will give you a good surplus, fruit of your belly, beasts, and your ground,
in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors.
12 The LORD will open his good, heavenly treasury for you:
He’ll give rain to your land in its season. He’ll hand over every deed.
Many nations will owe you, and you’ll never borrow.
13 The LORD makes you the head, not the tail. You’ll go upward, not downward.
So listen to your LORD God’s commands.
Observe and do what I’m instructing you today.
Don’t dismiss any words I command you today.
Don’t go right or left, to follow or serve other gods.
15 “If it happens you don’t listen to your LORD God’s voice,
to observe and do all his commands and orders which I command you today,
these hardships will come upon you, and overtake you.
16 You’ll be screwed in city, field, 17 breadbasket, and yeast,
18 in the fruit of your belly, the fruit of the ground, what your cattle drops, or your flocks produce.
19 You’ll be screwed when you enter, when you leave.
20 The LORD will send you curses, frustration, and opposition in everything you undertake to do.
Till you’re wiped out, till you quickly die,
because of the evil actions you abandoned me to pursue.
21 The LORD will make plague stick to you till it wipes you from the land you’re entering to live in.
22 The LORD will smite you with illness, fever, hot flashes, high temperature, drought,
forest fires, mildew—all of which will chase you to death.
23 The skies over your head will be copper. The land beneath you, iron.
24 The LORD will rain dust and dirt from the sky. He’ll pour it on you till you’re exterminated.”
Deuteronomy 30.
6 “Your LORD God circumcised you and your seed’s heart
to love your LORD God with all your heart and life, so you can live.”