Category Archives: Deuteronomy

The Previous Command to Enter Canaan 1 Thesearethe words which Moses spoke to all Israelon this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 Itiseleven days’journeyfrom Horeb by way of Mount Seirto Kadesh Barnea. 3 Now it came to passin the fortieth year, […]

The Desert Years 1 “Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea,as theLordspoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days. 2 “And theLordspoke to me, saying: 3 ‘You have skirted this mountainlong enough; turn northward. 4 And command the people, saying,“Youareabouttopass through the territory ofyour […]

King Og Defeated 1 “Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan; andOg king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battleat Edrei. 2 And theLordsaid to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; you […]

Moses Commands Obedience 1 “Now, O Israel, listen tothe statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which theLordGod of your fathers is giving you. 2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that […]

The Ten Commandments Reviewed 1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them. 2 TheLordour God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 TheLorddid not make this covenant […]

The Greatest Commandment 1 “Now thisisthe commandment,andthesearethe statutes and judgments which theLordyour God has commanded to teach you, that you may observethemin the land which you are crossing over to possess, 2 that you may fear theLordyour God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and […]

A Chosen People 1 “When theLordyour God brings you into the land which you go topossess, and has cast out manynations before you,the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and when theLordyour God deliversthem […]

Remember the Lord Your God 1 “Every commandment which I command you todayyou must be careful to observe, that you may live andmultiply, and go in and possess the land of which theLordswore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember that theLordyour Godled you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to […]

Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed 1 “Hear, O Israel: Youareto cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, thedescendants of the Anakim, whom you know, andofwhomyou hearditsaid,‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’ 3 Therefore […]

The Second Pair of Tablets 1 “At that time theLordsaid to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself anark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; […]