Category Archives: Deuteronomy

Love and Obedience Rewarded 1 “Therefore you shall love theLordyour God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always. 2 Know today thatIdonotspeakwith your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of theLordyour God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm— 3 His […]

A Prescribed Place of Worship 1 “Thesearethe statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which theLordGod of your fathers is giving you to possess,all the days that you live on the earth. 2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their […]

Punishment of Apostates 1 “If there arises among you a prophet or adreamer of dreams,and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 andthe sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you […]

Improper Mourning 1 “Youarethe children of theLordyour God;you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead. 2 For youarea holy people to theLordyour God, and theLordhas chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples whoareon the face of the earth. Clean and […]

Debts Canceled Every Seven Years 1 “At the end ofeveryseven years you shall grant a releaseofdebts. 2 And thisisthe form of the release: Every creditor who has lentanythingto his neighbor shall releaseit;he shall not requireitof his neighbor or his brother, because it is called theLord’s release. 3 Of a foreigner you may requireit;but you shall […]

The Passover Reviewed 1 “Observe themonth of Abib, and keep the Passover to theLordyour God, forin the month of Abib theLordyour God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to theLordyour God, from the flock andthe herd, in theplace where theLordchooses to put His name. 3 You shall […]

1 “Youshall not sacrifice to theLordyour God a bull or sheep which has any blemishordefect, for thatisan abomination to theLordyour God. 2 “If there is found among you, within any of your gates which theLordyour God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of theLordyour God,in transgressing His […]

The Portion of the Priests and Levites 1 “The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no part norinheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of theLordmade by fire, and His portion. 2 Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; theLordis their inheritance, as He said to them. 3 “And this […]

Three Cities of Refuge 1 “When theLordyour Godhas cut off the nations whose land theLordyour God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, 2 you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which theLordyour God is giving you to possess. 3 […]

Principles Governing Warfare 1 “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and seehorses and chariotsandpeople more numerous than you, do not beafraid of them; for theLordyour Godiswith you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. 2 So it shall be, when you are on the verge of battle, that the priest […]