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²⁰ And Moses saith unto them, `If ye do this thing: if ye are armed before Jehovah for battle,

²¹ and every armed one of you hath passed over the Jordan before Jehovah, till his dispossessing His enemies from before Him,

²² and the land hath been subdued before Jehovah -- then afterwards ye do turn back, and have been acquitted by Jehovah, and by Israel; and this land hath been to you for a possession before Jehovah.

²³ `And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you;

²⁴ build for yourselves cities for your infants, and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth do ye.'

²⁵ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben speak unto Moses, saying, `Thy servants do as my lord is commanding;

²⁶ our infants, our wives, our cattle, and all our beasts, are there in cities of Gilead,

²⁷ and thy servants pass over, every armed one of the host, before Jehovah, to battle, as my lord is saying.'

²⁸ And Moses commandeth concerning them Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel;

²⁹ and Moses saith unto them, `If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben pass over with you the Jordan, every one armed for battle, before Jehovah, and the land hath been subdued before you, then ye have given to them the land of Gilead for a possession;

³⁰ and if they do not pass over armed with you, then they have possessions in your midst in the land of Canaan.'

³¹ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answer, saying, `That which Jehovah hath spoken unto thy servants -- so we do;

³² we -- we pass over armed before Jehovah [to] the land of Canaan, and with us [is] the possession of our inheritance beyond the Jordan.'

³³ And Moses giveth to them, to the sons of Gad, and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land by its cities, in the borders, the cities of the land round about.

³⁴ And the sons of Gad build Dihon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

³⁵ and Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,

³⁶ and Beth-Nimrah, and Beth-Haran, cities of defence, and sheepfolds.

³⁷ And the sons of Reuben have build Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

³⁸ and Nebo, and Baal-Meon (changed in name), and Shibmah, and they call by [these] names the names of the cities which they have built.

³⁹ And sons of Machir son of Manasseh go to Gilead, and capture it, and dispossess the Amorite, who [is] in it;

⁴⁰ and Moses giveth Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he dwelleth in it.

⁴¹ And Jair son of Manasseh hath gone and captureth their towns, and calleth them `Towns of Jair;'

⁴² and Nobah hath gone and captureth Kenath, and its villages, and calleth it Nobah, by his own name.

33 These [are] journeys of the sons of Israel who have come out of the land of Egypt, by their hosts, by the hand of Moses and Aaron;

² and Moses writeth their outgoings, by their journeys, by the command of Jehovah; and these [are] their journeys, by their outgoings:

³ And they journey from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow of the passover have the sons of Israel gone out with a high hand, before the eyes of all the Egyptians --

⁴ and the Egyptians are burying those whom Jehovah hath smitten among them, every first-born, and on their gods hath Jehovah done judgments --

⁵ and the sons of Israel journey from Rameses, and encamp in Succoth.

⁶ And they journey from Succoth, and encamp in Etham, which [is] in the extremity of the wilderness;

⁷ and they journey from Etham, and turn back on Pi-Hahiroth, which [is] on the front of Baal-Zephon, and they encamp before Migdol.

⁸ And they journey from Pi-Hahiroth, and pass over through the midst of the sea, into the wilderness, and go a journey of three days in the wilderness of Etham, and encamp in Marah.

⁹ And they journey from Marah, and come in to Elim, and in Elim [are] twelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees, and they encamp there;

¹⁰ and they journey from Elim, and encamp by the Red Sea.

¹¹ And they journey from the Red Sea, and encamp in the wilderness of Sin;

¹² and they journey from the wilderness of Sin, and encamp in Dophkah.

¹³ And they journey from Dophkah, and encamp in Alush;

¹⁴ and they journey from Alush, and encamp in Rephidim; and there was there no water for the people to drink.

¹⁵ And they journey from Rephidim, and encamp in the wilderness of Sinai;

¹⁶ and they journey from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamp in Kibroth-Hattaavah.

¹⁷ And they journey from Kibroth-Hattaavah, and encamp in Hazeroth;

¹⁸ and they journey from Hazeroth, and encamp in Rithmah.

¹⁹ And they journey from Rithmah, and encamp in Rimmon-Parez;

²⁰ and they journey from Rimmon-Parez, and encamp in Libnah.

²¹ And they journey from Libnah, and encamp in Rissah;

²² and they journey from Rissah, and encamp in Kehelathah.

²³ And they journey from Kehelathah, and encamp in mount Shapher;

²⁴ and they journey from mount Shapher, and encamp in Haradah.

²⁵ And they journey from Haradah, and encamp in Makheloth;

²⁶ and they journey from Makheloth, and encamp in Tahath.

²⁷ And they journey from Tahath, and encamp in Tarah;

²⁸ and they journey from Tarah, and encamp in Mithcah.

²⁹ And they journey from Mithcah, and encamp in Hashmonah;

³⁰ and they journey from Hashmonah, and encamp in Moseroth.

³¹ And they journey from Moseroth, and encamp in Bene-Jaakan;

³² and they journey from Bene-Jaakan, and encamp at Hor-Hagidgad.

³³ And they journey from Hor-Hagidgad, and encamp in Jotbathah;

³⁴ and they journey from Jotbathah, and encamp in Ebronah.

³⁵ And they journey from Ebronah, and encamp in Ezion-Gaber;

³⁶ and they journey from Ezion-Gaber, and encamp in the wilderness of Zin, which [is] Kadesh.

³⁷ And they journey from Kadesh, and encamp in mount Hor, in the extremity of the land of Edom.

³⁸ And Aaron the priest goeth up unto mount Hor, by the command of Jehovah, and dieth there, in the fortieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first of the month;

³⁹ and Aaron [is] a son of a hundred and twenty and three years in his dying in mount Hor.

⁴⁰ And the Canaanite -- king Arad -- who is dwelling in the south, in the land of Canaan, heareth of the coming of the sons of Israel.

⁴¹ And they journey from mount Hor, and encamp in Zalmonah;

⁴² and they journey from Zalmonah, and encamp in Punon.

⁴³ And they journey from Punon, and encamp in Oboth;

⁴⁴ and they journey from Oboth, and encamp in Ije-Abarim, in the border of Moab.

⁴⁵ And they journey from Iim, and encamp in Dibon-Gad;

⁴⁶ and they journey from Dibon-Gad, and encamp in Almon-Diblathaim.

⁴⁷ And they journey from Almon-Diblathaim, and encamp in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo;

⁴⁸ and they journey from the mountains of Abarim, and encamp in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, [near] Jericho.

⁴⁹ And they encamp by the Jordan from Beth-Jeshimoth, unto Abel-Shittim, in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, [near] Jericho, saying,

⁵¹ `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan unto the land of Canaan,

⁵² then ye have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, yea, all their molten images ye destroy, and all their high places ye lay waste,

⁵³ and ye have possessed the land, and dwelt in it, for to you I have given the land -- to possess it.

⁵⁴ `And ye have inherited the land by lot, by your families; to the many ye increase their inheritance, and to the few ye diminish their inheritance; whither the lot goeth out to him, it is his; by the tribes of your fathers ye inherit.

⁵⁵ `And if ye do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it hath been, those whom ye let remain of them, [are] for pricks in your eyes, and for thorns in your sides, and they have distressed you on the land in which ye are dwelling,

⁵⁶ and it hath come to pass, as I thought to do to them -- I do to you.'

34 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

² `Command the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are coming in unto the land of Canaan -- this [is] the land which falleth to you by inheritance, the land of Canaan, by its borders --

³ then hath the south quarter been to you from the wilderness of Zin, by the sides of Edom, yea, the south border hath been to you from the extremity of the Salt Sea, eastward;

⁴ and the border hath turned round to you from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and hath passed on to Zin, and its outgoings have been from the south to Kadesh-Barnea, and it hath gone out at Hazar-Addar, and hath passed on to Azmon;

⁵ and the border hath turned round from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its outgoings have been at the sea.

⁶ `As to the west border, even the great sea hath been to you a border; this is to you the west border.

⁷ `And this is to you the north border: from the great sea ye mark out for yourselves mount Hor;

⁸ from mount Hor ye mark out to go in to Hamath, and the outgoings of the border have been to Zedad;

⁹ and the border hath gone out to Ziphron, and its outgoings have been at Hazar-Enan; this is to you the north border.

¹⁰ `And ye have marked out for yourselves for the border eastward, from Hazar-Enan to Shepham;

¹¹ and the border hath gone down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east of Ain, and the border hath gone down, and hath smitten against the shoulder of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

¹² and the border hath gone down to the Jordan, and its outgoings have been at the Salt Sea; this is for you the land by its borders round about.'

¹³ And Moses commandeth the sons of Israel, saying, `This [is] the land which ye inherit by lot, which Jehovah hath commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half of the tribe;

¹⁴ for the tribe of the sons of Reuben have received, by the house of their fathers; and the tribe of the children of Gad, by the house of their fathers; and the half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance;

¹⁵ the two tribes and the half of the tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan, [near] Jericho, eastward, at the [sun]-rising.'

¹⁶ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹⁷ `These [are] the names of the men who give to you the inheritance of the land: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun,

¹⁸ and one prince -- one prince -- for a tribe ye do take to give the land by inheritance.

¹⁹ `And these [are] the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

²⁰ and of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel son of Aminihud;

²¹ of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon;

²² and of the tribe of the sons of Dan, the prince Bukki son of Jogli;

²³ of the sons of Joseph, of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, the prince Hanniel son of Ephod;

²⁴ and of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the prince Kemuel son of Shiphtan;

²⁵ and of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, the prince Elizaphan son of Parnach;

²⁶ and of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince Paltiel son of Azzan;

²⁷ and of the tribe of the sons of Asher, the prince Ahihud son of Shelomi;

²⁸ and of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, the prince Pedahel son of Ammihud.'

²⁹ These [are] those whom Jehovah hath commanded to give the sons of Israel inheritance in the land of Canaan.

35 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, [near] Jericho, saying,

² `Command the sons of Israel, and they have given to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to inhabit; also a suburb for the cities round about them ye do give to the Levites.

³ And the cities have been to them to inhabit, and their suburbs are for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

⁴ `And the suburbs of the cities which ye give to the Levites [are], from the wall of the city and without, a thousand cubits round about.

⁵ And ye have measured from the outside of the city, the east quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the south quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the west quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the north quarter, two thousand by the cubit; and the city [is] in the midst; this is to them the suburbs of the cities.

⁶ `And the cities which ye give to the Levites [are] the six cities of refuge, which ye give for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, and besides them ye give forty and two cities;

⁷ all the cities which ye give to the Levites [are] forty and eight cities, them and their suburbs.

⁸ And the cities which ye give [are] of the possession of the sons of Israel, from the many ye multiply, and from the few ye diminish; each, according to his inheritance which they inherit, doth give of his cities to the Levites.'

⁹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹⁰ `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan to the land of Canaan,

¹¹ and have prepared to yourselves cities -- cities of refuge they are to you -- then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,

¹² and the cities have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer, and the man-slayer doth not die till his standing before the company for judgment.

¹³ `As to the cities which ye give -- six [are] cities of refuge to you;

¹⁴ the three of the cities ye give beyond the Jordan, and the three of the cities ye give in the land of Canaan; cities of refuge they are.

¹⁵ To sons of Israel, and to a sojourner, and to a settler in their midst, are these six cities for a refuge, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting a person unawares.

¹⁶ `And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he [is] a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

¹⁷ `And if with a stone [in] the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he [is] a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

¹⁸ `Or with a wooden instrument [in] the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he [is] a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

¹⁹ `The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

²⁰ `And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast [anything] at him by lying in wait, and he dieth;

²¹ or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he [is] a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.

²² `And if, in an instant, without enmity, he hath thrust him through, or hath cast at him any instrument, without lying in wait;

²³ or with any stone wherewith he dieth, without seeing, and causeth [it] to fall upon him, and he dieth, and he [is] not his enemy, nor seeking his evil;

²⁴ then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments.

²⁵ `And the company have delivered the man-slayer out of the hand of the redeemer of blood, and the company have caused him to turn back unto the city of his refuge, whither he hath fled, and he hath dwelt in it till the death of the chief priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil.

²⁶ `And if the man-slayer at all go out [from] the border of the city of his refuge whither he fleeth,

²⁷ and the redeemer of blood hath found him at the outside of the border of the city of his refuge, and the redeemer of blood hath slain the man-slayer, blood is not for him;

²⁸ for in the city of his refuge he doth dwell till the death of the chief priest; and after the death of the chief priest doth the man-slayer turn back unto the city of his possession.

²⁹ `And these things have been to you for a statute of judgment to your generations, in all your dwellings:

³⁰ whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth [one] slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person -- to die.

³¹ `And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who [is] condemned -- to die, for he is certainly put to death;

³² and ye take no atonement for him to flee unto the city of his refuge, to turn back to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

³³ `And ye profane not the land which ye [are] in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;

³⁴ and ye defile not the land in which ye are dwelling, in the midst of which I do tabernacle, for I Jehovah do tabernacle in the midst of the sons of Israel.'

36 And the heads of the fathers of the families of the sons of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, come near, and speak before Moses, and before the princes, heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel,

² and say, Jehovah commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord hath been commanded by Jehovah to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

³ `And -- they have been to one of the sons of the [other] tribes of the sons of Israel for wives, and their inheritance hath been withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers, and hath been added to the inheritance of the tribe which is theirs, and from the lot of our inheritance it is withdrawn,

⁴ and if it is the jubilee of the sons of Israel, then hath their inheritance been added to the inheritance of the tribe which is theirs, and from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers is their inheritance withdrawn.'

⁵ And Moses commandeth the sons of Israel, by the command of Jehovah, saying, `Rightly are the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaking;

⁶ this [is] the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To those good in their eyes let them be for wives; only, to a family of the tribe of their fathers let them be for wives;

⁷ and the inheritance of the sons of Israel doth not turn round from tribe unto tribe; for each to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers, do the sons of Israel cleave.

⁸ `And every daughter possessing an inheritance, of the tribes of the sons of Israel, is to one of the family of the tribe of her father for a wife, so that the sons of Israel possess each the inheritance of his fathers,

⁹ and the inheritance doth not turn round from [one] tribe to another tribe; for each to his inheritance do they cleave, the tribes of the sons of Israel.'

¹⁰ As Jehovah hath commanded Moses, so have the daughters of Zelophehad done,

¹¹ and Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, daughters of Zelophehad, are to the sons of their fathers' brethren for wives;

¹² [to men] of the families of the sons of Manasseh, son of Joseph, they have been for wives, and their inheritance is with the tribe of the family of their father.

¹³ These [are] the commands and the judgments which Jehovah hath commanded, by the hand of Moses, concerning the sons of Israel, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, [near] Jericho.

1 These [are] the words which Moses hath spoken unto all Israel, beyond the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain over-against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-Zahab;

² eleven days' from Horeb, the way of mount Seir, unto Kadesh-Barnea.

³ And it cometh to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month hath Moses spoken unto the sons of Israel according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him concerning them;

⁴ after his smiting Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan who is dwelling in Ashtaroth in Edrei,

⁵ beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, hath Moses begun to explain this law, saying:

⁶ `Jehovah our God hath spoken unto us in Horeb, saying, Enough to you -- of dwelling in this mount;

⁷ turn ye and journey for you, and enter the mount of the Amorite, and unto all its neighbouring places, in the plain, in the hill-country, and in the low country, and in the south, and in the haven of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and of Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Phrat;

⁸ see, I have set before you the land; go in and possess the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them, and to their seed after them.

⁹ `And I speak unto you at that time, saying, I am not able by myself to bear you;

¹⁰ Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye [are] to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;

¹¹ Jehovah, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye [are], a thousand times, and doth bless you as He hath spoken to you.

¹² `How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?

¹³ Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;

¹⁴ and ye answer me and say, Good [is] the thing which thou hast spoken -- to do.

¹⁵ `And I take the heads of your tribes, men, wise and known, and I appoint them heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities, for your tribes.

¹⁶ And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren -- then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;

¹⁷ ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;

¹⁸ and I command you, at that time, all the things which ye do.

¹⁹ `And we journey from Horeb, and go [through] all that great and fearful wilderness which ye have seen -- the way of the hill-country of the Amorite, as Jehovah our God hath commanded us, and we come in unto Kadesh-Barnea.

²⁰ `And I say unto you, Ye have come in unto the hill-country of the Amorite, which Jehovah our God is giving to us;

²¹ see, Jehovah thy God hath set before thee the land; go up, possess, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee; fear not, nor be affrighted.

²² `And ye come near unto me, all of you, and say, Let us send men before us, and they search for us the land, and they bring us back word [concerning] the way in which we go up into it, and the cities unto which we come in;

²³ and the thing is good in mine eyes, and I take of you twelve men, one man for a tribe.

²⁴ `And they turn and go up to the hill-country, and come in unto the valley of Eshcol, and spy it,

²⁵ and they take with their hand of the fruit of the land, and bring down unto us, and bring us back word, and say, Good is the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us.

²⁶ `And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God,

²⁷ and murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah's hating us He hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite -- to destroy us;

²⁸ whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim -- we have seen there.

²⁹ `And I say unto you, Be not terrified, nor be afraid of them;

³⁰ Jehovah your God, who is going before you -- He doth fight for you, according to all that He hath done with you in Egypt before your eyes,

³¹ and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God hath borne thee as a man beareth his son, in all the way which ye have gone, till your coming in unto this place.

³² `And in this thing ye are not stedfast in Jehovah your God,

³³ who is going before you in the way to search out to you a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shew you in the way in which ye go, and in a cloud by day.

³⁴ `And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and is wroth, and sweareth, saying,

³⁵ Not one of these men of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,

³⁶ save Caleb son of Jephunneh -- he doth see it, and to him I give the land on which he hath trodden, and to his sons, because that he hath been fully after Jehovah.

³⁷ `Also with me hath Jehovah been angry for your sake, saying, Also, thou dost not go in thither;

³⁸ Joshua son of Nun, who is standing before thee, he goeth in thither; him strengthen thou; for he doth cause Israel to inherit.

³⁹ `And your infants, of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known to-day good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it;

⁴⁰ and ye, turn for yourselves, and journey toward the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea.

⁴¹ `And ye answer and say unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah; we -- we go up, and we have fought, according to all that which Jehovah our God hath commanded us; and ye gird on each his weapons of war, and ye are ready to go up into the hill-country;

⁴² and Jehovah saith unto me, Say to them, Ye do not go up, nor fight, for I am not in your midst, and ye are not smitten before your enemies.

⁴³ `And I speak unto you, and ye have not hearkened, and provoke the mouth of Jehovah, and act proudly, and go up into the hill-country;

⁴⁴ and the Amorite who is dwelling in that hill-country cometh out to meet you, and they pursue you as the bees do, and smite you in Seir -- unto Hormah.

⁴⁵ `And ye turn back and weep before Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not hearkened to your voice, nor hath he given ear unto you;

⁴⁶ and ye dwell in Kadesh many days, according to the days which ye had dwelt.

2 `And we turn, and journey into the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea, as Jehovah hath spoken unto me, and we go round the mount of Seir many days.

² `And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying,

³ Enough to you -- is the going round of this mount; turn for yourselves northward.

⁴ `And the people command thou, saying, Ye are passing over into the border of your brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, and they are afraid of you; and ye have been very watchful,

⁵ ye do not strive with them, for I do not give to you of their land even the treading of the sole of a foot; for a possession to Esau I have given mount Seir.

⁶ `Food ye buy from them with money, and have eaten; and also water ye buy from them with money, and have drunk,

⁷ for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hands; He hath known thy walking in this great wilderness these forty years; Jehovah thy God [is] with thee; thou hast not lacked anything.

⁸ `And we pass by from our brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, by the way of the plain, by Elath, and by Ezion-Gaber; and we turn, and pass over the way of the wilderness of Moab;

⁹ and Jehovah saith unto me, Do not distress Moab, nor stir thyself up against them [in] battle, for I do not give to thee of their land [for] a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given Ar [for] a possession.'

¹⁰ `The Emim formerly have dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim;

¹¹ Rephaim they are reckoned, they also, as the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.

¹² And in Seir have the Horim dwelt formerly; and the sons of Esau dispossess them, and destroy them from before them, and dwell in their stead, as Israel hath done to the land of his possession, which Jehovah hath given to them;

¹³ now, rise ye, and pass over for yourselves the brook Zered; and we pass over the brook Zered.

¹⁴ `And the days which we have walked from Kadesh-Barnea until that we have passed over the brook Zered, [are] thirty and eight years, till the consumption of all the generation of the men of battle from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah hath sworn to them;

¹⁵ and also the hand of Jehovah hath been against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, till they are consumed.

¹⁶ `And it cometh to pass, when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people,

¹⁷ that Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying,

¹⁸ Thou art passing over to-day the border of Moab, even Ar,

¹⁹ and thou hast come near over-against the sons of Ammon, thou dost not distress them, nor stir up thyself against them, for I do not give [any] of the land of the sons of Ammon to thee [for] a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given it [for] a possession.

²⁰ `A land of Rephaim it is reckoned, even it; Rephaim dwelt in it formerly, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;

²¹ a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim, and Jehovah destroyeth them before them, and they dispossess them, and dwell in their stead,

²² as He hath done for the sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, when He destroyed the Horim from before them, and they dispossess them, and dwell in their stead, unto this day.

²³ `As to the Avim who are dwelling in Hazerim unto Azzah, the Caphtorim -- who are coming out from Caphtor -- have destroyed them, and dwell in their stead.

²⁴ `Rise ye, journey and pass over the brook Arnon; see, I have given into thy hand Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land; begin to possess, and stir up thyself against him [in] battle.

²⁵ This day I begin to put thy dread and thy fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear thy fame, and have trembled and been pained because of thee.

²⁶ `And I send messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth, unto Sihon king of Heshbon, -- words of peace -- saying,

²⁷ Let me pass over through thy land; in the several ways I go; I turn not aside -- right or left --

²⁸ food for money thou dost sell me, and I have eaten; and water for money thou dost give to me, and I have drunk; only, let me pass over on my feet, --

²⁹ as the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seir, and the Moabites who are dwelling in Ar, have done to me -- till that I pass over the Jordan, unto the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us.

³⁰ `And Sihon king of Heshbon hath not been willing to let us pass over by him, for Jehovah thy God hath hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, so as to give him into thy hand as at this day.

³¹ `And Jehovah saith unto me, See, I have begun to give before thee Sihon and his land; begin to possess -- to possess his land.

³² `And Sihon cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle to Jahaz;

³³ and Jehovah our God giveth him before us, and we smite him, and his sons, and all his people;

³⁴ and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants -- we have not left a remnant;

³⁵ only, the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured.

³⁶ `From Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which [is] by the brook, even unto Gilead there hath not been a city which [is] too high for us; the whole hath Jehovah our God given before us.

³⁷ `Only, unto the land of the sons of Ammon thou hast not drawn near, any part of the brook Jabbok, and cities of the hill-country, and anything which Jehovah our God hath [not] commanded.

3 `And we turn, and go up the way to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle, [to] Edrei.

² `And Jehovah saith unto me, Fear him not, for into thy hand I have given him, and all his people, and his land, and thou hast done to him as thou hast done to Sihon king of the Amorite who is dwelling in Heshbon.

³ `And Jehovah our God giveth into our hands also Og king of Bashan, and all his people, and we smite him till there hath not been left to him a remnant;

⁴ and we capture all his cities at that time, there hath not been a city which we have not taken from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

⁵ All these [are] cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many;

⁶ and we devote them, as we have done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting every city, men, the women, and the infants;

⁷ and all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we have spoiled for ourselves.

⁸ `And we take, at that time, the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorite, which is beyond the Jordan, from the brook Arnon unto mount Hermon;

⁹ (Sidonians call Hermon, Sirion; and the Amorites call it Senir,)

¹⁰ all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan,

¹¹ for only Og king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; lo, his bedstead [is] a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, by the cubit of a man.

¹² `And this land we have possessed, at that time; from Aroer, which [is] by the brook Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I have given to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite;

¹³ and the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I have given to the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, to all that Bashan, called the land of Rephaim.

¹⁴ `Jair son of Manasseh hath taken all the region of Argob, unto the border of Geshuri, and Maachathi, and calleth them by his own name, Bashan-Havoth-Jair, unto this day.

¹⁵ And to Machir I have given Gilead.

¹⁶ `And to the Reubenite and to the Gadite I have given from Gilead even unto the brook Arnon, the middle of the valley and the border, even unto Jabbok the brook, the border of the sons of Ammon,

¹⁷ and the plain, and the Jordan, and the border, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, the salt sea, under the springs of Pisgah, at the [sun]-rising.

¹⁸ `And I command you, at that time, saying, Jehovah your God hath given to you this land to possess it; armed ye pass over before your brethren the sons of Israel, all the sons of might.

¹⁹ Only, your wives, and your infants, and your cattle -- I have known that ye have much cattle -- do dwell in your cities which I have given to you,

²⁰ till that Jehovah give rest to your brethren like yourselves, and they also have possessed the land which Jehovah your God is giving to them beyond the Jordan, then ye have turned back each to his possession, which I have given to you.

²¹ `And Jehoshua I have commanded at that time, saying, Thine eyes are seeing all that which Jehovah your God hath done to these two kings -- so doth Jehovah to all the kingdoms whither thou are passing over;

²² fear them not, for Jehovah your God, He is fighting for you.

²³ `And I entreat for grace unto Jehovah, at that time, saying,

²⁴ Lord Jehovah, Thou -- Thou hast begun to shew Thy servant Thy greatness, and Thy strong hand; for who [is] a God in the heavens or in earth who doth according to Thy works, and according to Thy might?

²⁵ Let me pass over, I pray Thee, and see the good land which [is] beyond the Jordan, this good hill-country, and Lebanon.

²⁶ `And Jehovah sheweth himself wroth with me, for your sake, and hath not hearkened unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, Enough for thee; add not to speak unto Me any more about this thing:

²⁷ go up [to] the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with thine eyes -- for thou dost not pass over this Jordan;

²⁸ and charge Jehoshua, and strengthen him, and harden him, for he doth pass over before this people, and he doth cause them to inherit the land which thou seest.

²⁹ `And we dwell in a valley over-against Beth-Peor.

4 `And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you.

² Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.

³ `Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;

⁴ and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God, [are] alive, all of you, to-day.

⁵ `See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me -- to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;

⁶ and ye have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation.

⁷ `For which [is] the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him?

⁸ and which [is] the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

⁹ `Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

¹⁰ `The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horeb -- in Jehovah's saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach; --

¹¹ and ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens -- darkness, cloud, yea, thick darkness:

¹² `And Jehovah speaketh unto you out of the midst of the fire; a voice of words ye are hearing and a similitude ye are not seeing, only a voice;

¹³ and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.

¹⁴ `And me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it;

¹⁵ and ye have been very watchful of your souls, for ye have not seen any similitude in the day of Jehovah's speaking unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

¹⁶ lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female --

¹⁷ a form of any beast which [is] in the earth -- a form of any winged bird which flieth in the heavens --

¹⁸ a form of any creeping thing on the ground -- a form of any fish which [is] in the waters under the earth;

¹⁹ `And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.

²⁰ `And you hath Jehovah taken, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people -- an inheritance, as [at] this day.

²¹ `And Jehovah hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance;

²² for I am dying in this land; I am not passing over the Jordan, and ye are passing over, and have possessed this good land.

²³ `Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image, a similitude of anything [concerning] which Jehovah thy God hath charged thee:

²⁴ for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming -- a zealous God.

²⁵ `When thou begettest sons and sons' sons, and ye have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image, a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger: --

²⁶ I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed;

²⁷ and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,

²⁸ and ye have served there gods, work of man's hands, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

²⁹ `And -- ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

³⁰ in distress [being] to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hast hearkened to His voice;

³¹ for a merciful God [is] Jehovah thy God; He doth not fail thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which He hath sworn to them.

³² `For, ask, I pray thee, at the former days which have been before thee, from the day that God prepared man on the earth, and from the [one] end of the heavens even unto the [other] end of the heavens, whether there hath been as this great thing -- or hath been heard like it?

³³ Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou -- and doth live?

³⁴ Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors -- according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?

³⁵ Thou, thou hast been shewn [it], to know that Jehovah He [is] God; there is none else besides Him.

³⁶ `From the heavens He hath caused thee to hear His voice, to instruct thee, and on earth He hath shewed thee His great fire, and His words thou hast heard out of the midst of the fire.

³⁷ `And because that He hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt:

³⁸ to dispossess nations greater and stronger than thou, from thy presence, to bring thee in to give to thee their land -- an inheritance, as [at] this day.

³⁹ `And thou hast known to-day, and hast turned [it] back unto thy heart, that Jehovah He [is] God, in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath -- there is none else;

⁴⁰ and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- all the days.'

⁴¹ Then Moses separateth three cities beyond the Jordan, towards the sun-rising,

⁴² for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath lived:

⁴³ Bezer, in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, of the Reubenite; and Ramoth, in Gilead, of the Gadite; and Golan, in Bashan, of the Manassahite.

⁴⁴ And this [is] the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel;

⁴⁵ these [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses hath spoken unto the sons of Israel, in their coming out of Egypt,

⁴⁶ beyond the Jordan, in the valley over-against Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel have smitten, in their coming out of Egypt,

⁴⁷ and they possess his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan, [towards] the sun-rising;

⁴⁸ from Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the brook Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon --

⁴⁹ and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

5 And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them.

² Jehovah our God made with us a covenant in Horeb;

³ not with our fathers hath Jehovah made this covenant, but with us; we -- these -- here to-day -- all of us alive.

⁴ Face to face hath Jehovah spoken with you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;

⁵ I am standing between Jehovah and you, at that time, to declare to you the word of Jehovah, for ye have been afraid from the presence of the fire, and ye have not gone up into the mount; saying:

⁶ `I Jehovah [am] thy God, who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants.

⁷ `Thou hast no other gods in My presence.

⁸ `Thou dost not make to thee a graven image, any similitude which [is] in the heavens above, and which [is] in the earth beneath, and which [is] in the waters under the earth;

⁹ thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third [generation], and on a fourth, to those hating Me;

¹⁰ and doing kindness to thousands, to those loving Me, and to those keeping My commands.

¹¹ `Thou dost not take up the Name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.

¹² `Observe the day of the sabbath -- to sanctify it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

¹³ six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

¹⁴ and the seventh day [is] a sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who [is] within thy gates; so that thy man-servant, and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;

¹⁵ and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.

¹⁶ `Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

¹⁷ `Thou dost not murder.

¹⁸ `Thou dost not commit adultery.

¹⁹ `Thou dost not steal.

²⁰ `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour -- a false testimony.

²¹ `Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which [is] thy neighbour's.

²² `These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness -- a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.

²³ `And it cometh to pass as ye hear the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and of the mountain burning with fire, that ye come near unto me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders,

²⁴ and say, Lo, Jehovah our God hath shewed us His honour, and His greatness; and His voice we have heard out of the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God doth speak with man -- and he hath lived.

²⁵ `And, now, why do we die? for consume us doth this great fire -- if we add to hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more -- then we have died.

²⁶ For who of all flesh [is] he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us -- and doth live?

²⁷ Draw near thou, and hear all that which Jehovah our God saith, and thou, thou dost speak unto us all that which Jehovah our God speaketh unto thee, and we have hearkened, and done it.

²⁸ `And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, in your speaking unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; they have done well [in] all that they have spoken.

²⁹ O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons -- to the age!

³⁰ `Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents;

³¹ and thou here stand thou with Me, and let Me speak unto thee all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou dost teach them, and they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it.

³² `And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside -- right or left;

³³ in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and [it is] well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.

6 `And this [is] the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it,

² so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.

³ `And thou hast heard, O Israel, and observed to do, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest multiply exceedingly, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee, [in] the land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴ `Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God [is] one Jehovah;

⁵ and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

⁶ and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,

⁷ and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

⁸ and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,

⁹ and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

¹⁰ `And it hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land which He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to thee -- cities great and good, which thou hast not built,

¹¹ and houses full of all good things which thou hast not filled, and wells digged which thou hast not digged, vineyards and olive-yards which thou hast not planted, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied;

¹² `Take heed to thyself lest thou forget Jehovah who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

¹³ Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, and Him thou dost serve, and by His name thou dost swear;

¹⁴ ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about you;

¹⁵ for a zealous God [is] Jehovah thy God in thy midst -- lest the anger of Jehovah thy God burn against thee, and He hath destroyed thee from off the face of the ground.

¹⁶ `Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

¹⁷ ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,

¹⁸ and thou hast done that which is right and good in the eyes of Jehovah, so that it is well with thee, and thou hast gone in and possessed the good land which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers,

¹⁹ to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as Jehovah hath spoken.

²⁰ `When thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What [are] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

²¹ then thou hast said to thy son, Servants we have been to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Jehovah bringeth us out of Egypt by a high hand;

²² and Jehovah giveth signs and wonders, great and sad, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

²³ and us He hath brought out thence, in order to bring us in, to give to us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.

²⁴ And Jehovah commandeth us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for good to ourselves all the days, to keep us alive, as [at] this day;

²⁵ and righteousness it is for us, when we observe to do all this command before Jehovah our God, as He hath commanded us.

7 `When Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, and He hath cast out many nations from thy presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than thou,

² and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them -- thou dost utterly devote them -- thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.

³ `And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,

⁴ for he doth turn aside thy son from after Me, and they have served other gods, and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and hath destroyed thee hastily.

⁵ `But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire;

⁶ for a holy people [art] thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

⁷ `Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye [are] the least of all the peoples,

⁸ but because of Jehovah's loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He hath sworn to your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and doth ransom you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

⁹ `And thou hast known that Jehovah thy God He [is] God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands -- to a thousand generations,

¹⁰ and repaying to those hating Him, unto their face, to destroy them; He delayeth not to him who is hating Him -- unto his face, He repayeth to him --

¹¹ and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.

¹² `And it hath been, because ye hear these judgments, and have kept, and done them, that Jehovah thy God hath kept to thee the covenant and the kindness which He hath sworn to thy fathers,

¹³ and hath loved thee, and blessed thee, and multiplied thee, and hath blessed the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil, the increase of thine oxen, and the wealth of thy flock, on the ground which He hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.

¹⁴ `Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman -- nor among your cattle;

¹⁵ and Jehovah hath turned aside from thee every sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which thou hast known) doth He put on thee, and He hath put them on all hating thee.

¹⁶ `And thou hast consumed all the peoples whom Jehovah thy God is giving to thee; thine eye hath no pity on them, and thou dost not serve their gods, for a snare it [is] to thee.

¹⁷ `When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --

¹⁸ thou art not afraid of them; thou dost surely remember that which Jehovah thy God hath done to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt,

¹⁹ the great trials which thine eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched-out arm, with which Jehovah thy God hath brought thee out; so doth Jehovah thy God to all the peoples of whose presence thou art afraid.

²⁰ `And also the locust doth Jehovah thy God send among them, till the destruction of those who are left, and of those who are hidden from thy presence;

²¹ thou art not terrified by their presence, for Jehovah thy God [is] in thy midst, a God great and fearful.

²² `And Jehovah thy God hath cast out these nations from thy presence little [by] little, (thou art not able to consume them hastily, lest the beast of the field multiply against thee),

²³ and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and destroyed them -- a great destruction -- till their destruction;

²⁴ and He hath given their kings into thy hand, and thou hast destroyed their name from under the heavens; no man doth station himself in thy presence till thou hast destroyed them.

²⁵ `The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken [it] to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it [is];

²⁶ and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house -- or thou hast been devoted like it; -- thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it [is] devoted.