that is therein, are the LORD
thy God’s.

Nor did he delight in thy fathers only, to love them, and to multiply their seed after them, even after you, above all nations, as it is this day.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be not stiffnecked henceforth.

For the LORD your God is a God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty and terrible, esteeming no man, and taking no gift

And rendereth justice unto the fatherless and to the widow, and loveth the stranger, that he may give them meat and raiment.

Wherefore love ye also the strangers: for ye were strangers also in the land of Egypt.

The LORD thy God shalt thou fear, and him shalt thou serve, and him shalt thou cleave unto, and by his name shalt thou swear.

He is thy glory, and thy God, which hath done with thee such great and terrible things as thine eyes have seen.

Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls: but now the LORD thy God hath
multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.
Chapter 11
Causes why to love God and keep His commandments.

Thou shalt therefore love the LORD thy God, and keep his law, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, all the days of thy life.

And know ye this day, which your children know not, neither have seen; the chastening of the LORD your God, his glory, and his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm.

And his signs and his works, which he did among the Egyptians, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;

And what he did in the power of the Egyptians, in their horses, and in their chariots, when he brought upon them the waters of the Red sea, when they pursued after you, and the LORD
destroyed them, unto this day;

And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; 6. As he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their household, and their tents, and all their substance that they had gotten in the midst of all Israel.

For your eyes have seen the great works of the LORD, which he hath done.

Therefore ye shall keep all the commandments which I command thee this day, that ye may be strengthened to come in and possess the land whither ye go to possess it; 9. And that thou mayest live long in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

For the land whither thou goest to possess it is not like the land of Egypt, from whence ye went forth, when thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst thyself like a cabbage garden, 11. But it hath mountains and meadows, which the rain from heaven must water, 12. The land of which the LORD thy God is mindful, and the eyes of the LORD thy God are ever upon it from the beginning of the year even unto the end.

Will ye therefore hear my commandments which I command you this day, that ye love the LORD your God, and serve him with all your heart and with all your soul?

Then will I give rain unto your land in his season, the early rain, and the latter rain; and thou shalt gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil;

And I will give thy cattle grass in thy field, and ye shall eat and be filled.

But beware lest your hearts be persuaded, and ye depart, and serve other gods, and worship them,

And then the wrath of the LORD be kindled against you, and shut up the heavens, that there come no rain, neither let the earth yield her increase, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD hath given you.

Take therefore these words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be a memorial before your eyes.

And teach them unto your children, that ye speak of them when thou sittest in thine house, or when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And write them upon the posts of thy house, and upon thy gates, 21. That thou and thy children mayest live long in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give them, as long as the days of heaven shall endure upon the earth.

For if ye will keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him, 23. Then shall the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, that ye may possess greater and stronger nations than ye are.

All the places whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and from mount Lebanon, and from the river Phrath unto the uttermost part of the sea, shall be your border.

No man shall be able to withstand you. The fear and dread of you shall the LORD bring upon all the earth wherein ye travel, as he hath spoken unto you.

Behold, I set before you this day the blessing and the curse: 27. The blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day;

But the curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, and turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to walk after other gods, which ye know not.

When the LORD thy God bringeth thee into the land which thou goest in to possess it, then thou shalt pronounce a blessing upon mount Grisim, and a curse upon mount Ebal, 30. Which are beyond Jordan by the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the plain over against Gilgal, by the grove of More.

For thou shalt pass over Jordan, to possess the land which the LORD thy God hath given thee, to possess it, and to dwell therein.

Take heed therefore to do according to all the commandments and statutes which I set before you this day.
(Deuteronomy)
Chapter 12
Place and manner of true worship.

These are the commandments and the statutes which ye shall keep, to do them in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers hath given thee to possess all the days that ye shall live upon the earth.

Cast out all the places where the heathen which ye shall take have served their gods, whether on high mountains, or on hills, or under green trees;

And destroy their altars, and break down their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and take away the idols of their gods, and destroy their name out of the same place.

Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God,

But in the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, ye shall search, and come thither.

And your burnt offerings, and your other sacrifices, and your tithes, and the offerings of your hands, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your oxen and of your sheep, bring ye thither.

And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and be glad in all that ye bring, and in all that your house bring, wherein the LORD your God hath blessed you.

Ye shall do none of those things which we do here this day, every man whatsoever he thinketh good.

For ye are not yet come to the rest, nor to the inheritance which the LORD thy God shall give thee.

And ye shall pass over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God shall give you for an inheritance, and shall give you rest from all your enemies round about you, and shall dwell safely.

And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God shall choose a place for his name to dwell there, that ye shall bring there all that I command you, your burnt offerings, and your other sacrifices, and your tithes, and the offering of your hands, and all your free vows, which ye shall vow unto the LORD.

And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levites that are within your gates: for they have no part nor inheritance with you.

Beware lest thou offer thy burnt offerings in all the places which thou seest, 14. But in the place which the LORD shall name in any of thy tribes, there shalt thou offer thy burnt offering, and do all that I command thee.

But thou mayest slay, and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to all the pleasure of thy soul, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God, which he hath given thee: both the clean and the unclean may eat it, as the deer, or as the hart.

Without the blood thou shalt not eat, but shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

But thou shalt not eat within thy gates of the tenth of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil,
or of the firstborn of thy oxen, or of thy sheep, or of any of thy vows which thou hast vowed, or of thy freewill offerings, or of the heave of thine hand;

But thou shalt eat these things before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen, thou,