Deuteronomy 24:1-22 If a man has a problem with his wife, he may write a letter stating that he has divorced her, give her the letter, and send her away. If she then remarries and the second husband also divorces her or dies, the former husband may not marry her again, for she has been defiled; this would bring guilt upon the land God is giving.
A newly wed man is not to be drafted into the governing army nor given any other special responsibilities; for a year he shall be free to be at home, happy with his wife. It is illegal to take a millstone as a pledge, for it is a tool by which its owner gains his livelihood. If anyone kidnaps a brother Israelite and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die, in order to purge what is evil.
Carefully follow the instructions of the priest in cases of leprosy, for God has given him rules and guidelines Israel must obey to the letter: Remember what the Lord did to Miriam. In lending anything to another man, they must not enter his house to get his security, but stay outside! The owner will bring it out. If the man is poor and gives his coat as security, never sleep in it. Take it back to him at sundown so that he can use it through the night and send a blessing; and God will count it righteousness. Never oppress a poor hired man, whether a fellow Israelite or a foreigner living in town. Pay him his wage each day before sunset, for since he is poor he needs it right away; otherwise he may cry out to the Lord and it would be counted a sin.
Fathers shall not be put to death for the sins of their sons nor the sons for the sins of their fathers; every man worthy of death shall be executed for his own crime. Justice must be given to migrants and orphans, and an Israelite must never accept a widow’s garment in pledge of her debt. Always remember that the Hebrews were slaves in Egypt and that by God they were freed. This is the reason for this command. When reaping a harvest, and a sheaf is forgotten in the field, don’t go back after it. When beating the olives from olive trees, don’t go over the boughs twice. It is the same for the grapes in the vineyard; don’t glean the vines after they are picked. Leave what’s left for those in need --- migrants and orphans, and widows. They are to remember their slavery roots in the land of Egypt. This is the reason for these commands.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 `When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given [it] into her hand, and sent her out of his house,
2 and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,
3 and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given [it] into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife:
4 `Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled; for an abomination it [is] before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.
5 `When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and [one] doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.
6 `None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it [is] he is taking in pledge.
7 `When a man is found stealing a person, of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him, and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
8 `Take heed, in the plague of leprosy, to watch greatly, and to do according to all that the priests, the Levites, teach you; as I have commanded them ye observe to do;
9 remember that which Jehovah thy God hath done to Miriam in the way, in your coming out of Egypt.
10 `When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge;
11 at the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting [it] up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside.
12 `And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;
13 thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.
14 `Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;
15 in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he [is] poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee -- sin.
16 `Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers -- each for his own sin, they are put to death.
17 `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;
18 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee from thence; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.
19 `When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands.
20 `When thou beatest thine olive, thou dost not examine the branch behind thee; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is.
21 `When thou cuttest thy vineyard, thou dost not glean behind thee; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is;
22 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.
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Deuteronomy 25:1-19 When guilty of a crime and the penalty is a beating, the judge shall command the convicted to lie down and be beaten in his presence with up to forty stripes in proportion to the seriousness of the crime; but no more than forty stripes may be given lest the punishment seem too severe, and a fellow citizen be degraded.
Don’t not prevent the ox from eating, as it works to separate out the grain.
If a man’s brother dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family; instead, her husband’s brother must marry her and sleep with her. The first son she bears to him shall be counted as the son of the dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten. But if the dead man’s brother refuses to do his duty in this matter, refusing to marry the widow, then she shall go to the city elders and say to them, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to let his brother’s name continue—he refuses to marry me.’ The elders of the city will then summon him and talk it over with him, and if he still refuses, the widow shall walk over to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She shall then say, ‘This is what happens to a man who refuses to build his brother’s house.’ And ever afterwards his house shall be referred to as the home of a man who only concern was himself!
If two men are fighting and the wife of one intervenes to help her husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man, her hand shall be cut off without pity.
“In all your transactions you must use accurate scales and honest measurements, so that such will have a long, good life in the land the Lord God is providing. All who cheat with unjust weights and measurements are detestable to the Lord.
Israel must never forget what the people of Amalek did to Israel came from Egypt. Remember that they fought and struck down those who were faint and weary and lagging behind, with no respect or fear of God. When the Lord has given Israel rest from all her enemies in the Promised Land, utterly destroy the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 `When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,
2 then it hath come to pass, if the wrong-doer is to be smitten, that the judge hath caused him to fall down, and [one] hath smitten him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrong-doing, by number;
3 forty [times] he doth smite him -- he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these -- many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.
4 `Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
5 `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;
6 and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.
7 `And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother;
8 and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;
9 `Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;
10 and his name hath been called in Israel -- The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
11 `When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,
12 then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.
13 `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
14 Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
15 Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;
16 for the abomination of Jehovah thy God [is] any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.
17 `Remember that which Amalek hath done to thee in the way, in your going out from Egypt,
18 that he hath met thee in the way, and smiteth in all those feeble behind thee (and thou wearied and fatigued), and is not fearing God.
19 And it hath been, in Jehovah thy God's giving rest to thee, from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance to possess it -- thou dost blot out the rememberance of Amalek from under the heavens -- thou dost not forget.
Don’t not prevent the ox from eating, as it works to separate out the grain.
If a man’s brother dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family; instead, her husband’s brother must marry her and sleep with her. The first son she bears to him shall be counted as the son of the dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten. But if the dead man’s brother refuses to do his duty in this matter, refusing to marry the widow, then she shall go to the city elders and say to them, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to let his brother’s name continue—he refuses to marry me.’ The elders of the city will then summon him and talk it over with him, and if he still refuses, the widow shall walk over to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She shall then say, ‘This is what happens to a man who refuses to build his brother’s house.’ And ever afterwards his house shall be referred to as the home of a man who only concern was himself!
If two men are fighting and the wife of one intervenes to help her husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man, her hand shall be cut off without pity.
“In all your transactions you must use accurate scales and honest measurements, so that such will have a long, good life in the land the Lord God is providing. All who cheat with unjust weights and measurements are detestable to the Lord.
Israel must never forget what the people of Amalek did to Israel came from Egypt. Remember that they fought and struck down those who were faint and weary and lagging behind, with no respect or fear of God. When the Lord has given Israel rest from all her enemies in the Promised Land, utterly destroy the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 `When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,
2 then it hath come to pass, if the wrong-doer is to be smitten, that the judge hath caused him to fall down, and [one] hath smitten him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrong-doing, by number;
3 forty [times] he doth smite him -- he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these -- many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.
4 `Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
5 `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;
6 and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.
7 `And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother;
8 and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;
9 `Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;
10 and his name hath been called in Israel -- The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
11 `When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,
12 then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.
13 `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
14 Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
15 Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;
16 for the abomination of Jehovah thy God [is] any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.
17 `Remember that which Amalek hath done to thee in the way, in your going out from Egypt,
18 that he hath met thee in the way, and smiteth in all those feeble behind thee (and thou wearied and fatigued), and is not fearing God.
19 And it hath been, in Jehovah thy God's giving rest to thee, from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance to possess it -- thou dost blot out the rememberance of Amalek from under the heavens -- thou dost not forget.
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Deuteronomy 26:1-19 When Israel arrives in the promised land and own it, they must present to the Lord at the tabernacle the first sample from each annual harvest. Bring it in a basket and hand it to the priest, acknowledging that the Lord God brought them to the land promised to their ancestors. The priest will then take the basket and set it before the altar, saying before the Lord that the ancestors were migrant Arameans who went to Egypt for refuge ---- few in number, but in Egypt became a mighty nation. The Egyptians mistreated them and they cried to the Lord God. He heard and saw their hardship, toil, and oppression, and brought them out of Egypt with mighty miracles and a powerful hand even before the Egyptians --- bringing them to a great place. So they brought God a token of the first of the crops from the ground provided. Afterwards, they are to hold a party using all the good things God has given. They are to celebrate with family, with any Levites or migrants living among them.
Every third year is a year of special tithing. That year they are to give all tithes to the Levites, migrants, orphans, and widows, so that they will be well fed. They shall declare to have given all tithes to the Levites, the migrants, the orphans, and the widows; have not violated or forgotten any rules; have not touched the tithe while ceremonially defiled (example, while in mourning) nor offered any of it to the dead. They will then ask for God's blessing from His home in heaven. If they behave righteously, God will make them greater than any other nation.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 `And it hath been, when thou comest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and thou hast possessed it, and dwelt in it,
2 that thou hast taken of the first of all the fruits of the ground which thou dost bring in out of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and hast put [it] in a basket, and gone unto the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there.
3 `And thou hast come in unto the priest who is in those days, and hast said unto him, I have declared to-day to Jehovah thy God, that I have come in unto the land which Jehovah hath sworn to our fathers to give to us;
4 and the priest hath taken the basket out of thy hand, and placed it before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
5 `And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean [is] my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous;
6 and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service;
7 and we cry unto Jehovah, God of our fathers, and Jehovah heareth our voice, and seeth our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression;
8 and Jehovah bringeth us out from Egypt, by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great fear, and by signs, and by wonders,
9 and he bringeth us in unto this place, and giveth to us this land -- a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 `And now, lo, I have brought in the first of the fruits of the ground which thou hast given to me, O Jehovah; -- and thou hast placed it before Jehovah thy God, and bowed thyself before Jehovah thy God,
11 and rejoiced in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the sojourner who [is] in thy midst.
12 `When thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates, and been satisfied,
13 and thou hast said before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the separated thing out of the house, and also have given it to the Levite, and to the sojourner, and to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all Thy command which Thou hast commanded me; I have not passed over from Thy commands, nor have I forgotten.
14 I have not eaten in mine affliction of it, nor have I put away of it for uncleanness, nor have I given of it for the dead; I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that Thou hast commanded me;
15 look from Thy holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless Thy people Israel, and the ground which Thou hast given to us, as Thou hast sworn to our fathers -- a land flowing [with] milk and honey.
16 `This day Jehovah thy God is commanding thee to do these statutes and judgments; and thou hast hearkened and done them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
17 Jehovah thou hast caused to promise to-day to become thy God, and to walk in His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His commands, and His judgments, and to hearken to His voice.
18 `And Jehovah hath caused thee to promise to-day to become His people, a peculiar treasure, as He hath spoken to thee, and to keep all His commands;
19 so as to make thee uppermost above all the nations whom He hath made for a praise, and for a name, and for beauty, and for thy being a holy people to Jehovah thy God, as He hath spoken.
Every third year is a year of special tithing. That year they are to give all tithes to the Levites, migrants, orphans, and widows, so that they will be well fed. They shall declare to have given all tithes to the Levites, the migrants, the orphans, and the widows; have not violated or forgotten any rules; have not touched the tithe while ceremonially defiled (example, while in mourning) nor offered any of it to the dead. They will then ask for God's blessing from His home in heaven. If they behave righteously, God will make them greater than any other nation.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 `And it hath been, when thou comest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and thou hast possessed it, and dwelt in it,
2 that thou hast taken of the first of all the fruits of the ground which thou dost bring in out of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and hast put [it] in a basket, and gone unto the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there.
3 `And thou hast come in unto the priest who is in those days, and hast said unto him, I have declared to-day to Jehovah thy God, that I have come in unto the land which Jehovah hath sworn to our fathers to give to us;
4 and the priest hath taken the basket out of thy hand, and placed it before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
5 `And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean [is] my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous;
6 and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service;
7 and we cry unto Jehovah, God of our fathers, and Jehovah heareth our voice, and seeth our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression;
8 and Jehovah bringeth us out from Egypt, by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great fear, and by signs, and by wonders,
9 and he bringeth us in unto this place, and giveth to us this land -- a land flowing with milk and honey.
10 `And now, lo, I have brought in the first of the fruits of the ground which thou hast given to me, O Jehovah; -- and thou hast placed it before Jehovah thy God, and bowed thyself before Jehovah thy God,
11 and rejoiced in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the sojourner who [is] in thy midst.
12 `When thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates, and been satisfied,
13 and thou hast said before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the separated thing out of the house, and also have given it to the Levite, and to the sojourner, and to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all Thy command which Thou hast commanded me; I have not passed over from Thy commands, nor have I forgotten.
14 I have not eaten in mine affliction of it, nor have I put away of it for uncleanness, nor have I given of it for the dead; I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that Thou hast commanded me;
15 look from Thy holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless Thy people Israel, and the ground which Thou hast given to us, as Thou hast sworn to our fathers -- a land flowing [with] milk and honey.
16 `This day Jehovah thy God is commanding thee to do these statutes and judgments; and thou hast hearkened and done them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
17 Jehovah thou hast caused to promise to-day to become thy God, and to walk in His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His commands, and His judgments, and to hearken to His voice.
18 `And Jehovah hath caused thee to promise to-day to become His people, a peculiar treasure, as He hath spoken to thee, and to keep all His commands;
19 so as to make thee uppermost above all the nations whom He hath made for a praise, and for a name, and for beauty, and for thy being a holy people to Jehovah thy God, as He hath spoken.
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Deuteronomy 27:1-26 Then Moses and the leaders tell the Israelites to follow all these commands being given. After they cross the Jordan River and enter the promised land, they are to set up some large stones and plaster them at Mount Ebal. They are to write this whole body of instruction on them when they cross the river to enter the land God is giving flowing with milk and honey. They are to set up these stones. Then build an altar there to the Lord, using natural, uncut stones -- unshaped with tools. They are to offer burnt and sacrifice peace offerings, celebrating by feasting there before the Lord. They must clearly write all these instructions on the stones coated with plaster.”
Then Moses and the Levitical priests told all Israel that they finally have become the people of the Lord. They must obey the Lord -- keeping all commands and decrees provided then. When crossing the Jordan River, the tribes of Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin must stand on Mount Gerizim to proclaim a blessing over the people. And the tribes of Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali must stand on Mount Ebal to proclaim a curse. The Levites will shout to all the people of Israel: Cursed is anyone who carves or casts an idol and secretly sets it up. These idols, the work of craftsmen, are detestable to the Lord. And cursed is anyone who dishonors father or mother, or who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker, or leads a blind person astray on the road, or who denies justice to foreigners, orphans, or widows, or who has sexual intercourse with one of his father’s wives, for he has violated his father. Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with an animal. Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether she is the daughter of his father or his mother. Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with his mother-in-law. Cursed is anyone who attacks a neighbor in secret. Cursed is anyone who accepts payment to kill an innocent person. Cursed is anyone who does not affirm and obey the terms of the regulations. And all the people will say so be it.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 `And Moses -- the elders of Israel also -- commandeth the people, saying, Keep all the command which I am commanding you to-day;
2 and it hath been, in the day that ye pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, that thou hast raised up for thee great stones, and plaistered them with plaister,
3 and written on them all the words of this law in thy passing over, so that thou goest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- a land flowing with milk and honey, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee.
4 `And it hath been, in your passing over the Jordan, ye raise up these stones which I am commanding you to-day, in mount Ebal, and thou hast plaistered them with plaister,
5 and built there an altar to Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones, thou dost not wave over them iron.
6 Of complete stones thou buildest the altar of Jehovah thy God, and hast caused to ascend on it burnt-offerings to Jehovah thy God,
7 and sacrificed peace-offerings, and eaten there, and rejoiced before Jehovah thy God,
8 and written on the stones all the words of this law, well engraved.'
9 And Moses speaketh -- the priests, the Levites, also -- unto all Israel, saying, `Keep silent, and hear, O Israel, this day thou hast become a people to Jehovah thy God;
10 and thou hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and done His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day.'
11 And Moses commandeth the people on that day, saying,
12 `These do stand, to bless the people, on mount Gerizzim, in your passing over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
13 And these do stand, for the reviling, on mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
14 `And the Levites have answered and said unto every man of Israel -- a loud voice:
15 `Cursed [is] the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put [it] in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen.
16 `Cursed [is] He who is making light of his father and his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
17 `Cursed [is] he who is removing his neighbour's border, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
18 `Cursed [is] he who is causing the blind to err in the way, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
19 `Cursed [is] he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
20 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
21 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with any beast, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
22 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
23 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
24 `Cursed [is] he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
25 `Cursed [is] he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
26 `Cursed [is] he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, -- and all the people have said, Amen
Then Moses and the Levitical priests told all Israel that they finally have become the people of the Lord. They must obey the Lord -- keeping all commands and decrees provided then. When crossing the Jordan River, the tribes of Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin must stand on Mount Gerizim to proclaim a blessing over the people. And the tribes of Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali must stand on Mount Ebal to proclaim a curse. The Levites will shout to all the people of Israel: Cursed is anyone who carves or casts an idol and secretly sets it up. These idols, the work of craftsmen, are detestable to the Lord. And cursed is anyone who dishonors father or mother, or who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker, or leads a blind person astray on the road, or who denies justice to foreigners, orphans, or widows, or who has sexual intercourse with one of his father’s wives, for he has violated his father. Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with an animal. Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether she is the daughter of his father or his mother. Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with his mother-in-law. Cursed is anyone who attacks a neighbor in secret. Cursed is anyone who accepts payment to kill an innocent person. Cursed is anyone who does not affirm and obey the terms of the regulations. And all the people will say so be it.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 `And Moses -- the elders of Israel also -- commandeth the people, saying, Keep all the command which I am commanding you to-day;
2 and it hath been, in the day that ye pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, that thou hast raised up for thee great stones, and plaistered them with plaister,
3 and written on them all the words of this law in thy passing over, so that thou goest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- a land flowing with milk and honey, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee.
4 `And it hath been, in your passing over the Jordan, ye raise up these stones which I am commanding you to-day, in mount Ebal, and thou hast plaistered them with plaister,
5 and built there an altar to Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones, thou dost not wave over them iron.
6 Of complete stones thou buildest the altar of Jehovah thy God, and hast caused to ascend on it burnt-offerings to Jehovah thy God,
7 and sacrificed peace-offerings, and eaten there, and rejoiced before Jehovah thy God,
8 and written on the stones all the words of this law, well engraved.'
9 And Moses speaketh -- the priests, the Levites, also -- unto all Israel, saying, `Keep silent, and hear, O Israel, this day thou hast become a people to Jehovah thy God;
10 and thou hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and done His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day.'
11 And Moses commandeth the people on that day, saying,
12 `These do stand, to bless the people, on mount Gerizzim, in your passing over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
13 And these do stand, for the reviling, on mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
14 `And the Levites have answered and said unto every man of Israel -- a loud voice:
15 `Cursed [is] the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put [it] in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen.
16 `Cursed [is] He who is making light of his father and his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
17 `Cursed [is] he who is removing his neighbour's border, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
18 `Cursed [is] he who is causing the blind to err in the way, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
19 `Cursed [is] he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
20 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
21 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with any beast, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
22 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
23 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
24 `Cursed [is] he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
25 `Cursed [is] he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
26 `Cursed [is] he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, -- and all the people have said, Amen
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Re: Bible verse by verse
LittleNipper wrote:Deuteronomy 27
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
23 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
King James Version (KJV)
23. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Something to make this thread fitting to Mormonism - or does it make offtopic?
Patty Bartlett Sessions (mother of Sylvia Sessions Lyon = mother in law of Joseph Smith)
Married Joseph Smith March 9 1842
Sylvia Sessions Lyon
Married Joseph Smith February 8, 1842
by the way (from http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/)
10 months later, on December 24th, Joseph’s journal mentions a visit to his wife, Sylvia, who was giving birth to her third child: “Walked with Sec[retary Willard Richards] to see Sister Lyons who was sick. Her baby died 30 minutes before [we] arrived”. Sylvia had lost two of her three children in death. On September 18, 1843, another of Joseph’s visits to Sylvia is recorded by William Clayton, “Joseph and I rode out to borrow money, drank wine at Sister Lyons P.M. I got $50 of Sister Lyons and paid it to D.D. Yearsly.”
On January 27, 1844 her only surviving child, Philofreen, also died. At this time, Sylvia was eight months pregnant with her fourth child, Josephine Rosetta Lyon. Josephine later wrote, “Just prior to my mothers death in 1882 she called me to her bedside and told me that her days were numbered and before she passed away from mortality she desired to tell me something which she had kept as an entire secret from me and from all others but which she now desired to communicate to me. She then told me that I was the daughter of the Prophet Joseph Smith”.
Amen.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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Re: Bible verse by verse
ludwigm wrote:LittleNipper wrote:Deuteronomy 27
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
23 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
King James Version (KJV)
23. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Something to make this thread fitting to Mormonism - or does it make offtopic?
Patty Bartlett Sessions (mother of Sylvia Sessions Lyon = mother in law of Joseph Smith)
Married Joseph Smith March 9 1842
Sylvia Sessions Lyon
Married Joseph Smith February 8, 1842
by the way (from http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/)
10 months later, on December 24th, Joseph’s journal mentions a visit to his wife, Sylvia, who was giving birth to her third child: “Walked with Sec[retary Willard Richards] to see Sister Lyons who was sick. Her baby died 30 minutes before [we] arrived”. Sylvia had lost two of her three children in death. On September 18, 1843, another of Joseph’s visits to Sylvia is recorded by William Clayton, “Joseph and I rode out to borrow money, drank wine at Sister Lyons P.M. I got $50 of Sister Lyons and paid it to D.D. Yearsly.”
On January 27, 1844 her only surviving child, Philofreen, also died. At this time, Sylvia was eight months pregnant with her fourth child, Josephine Rosetta Lyon. Josephine later wrote, “Just prior to my mothers death in 1882 she called me to her bedside and told me that her days were numbered and before she passed away from mortality she desired to tell me something which she had kept as an entire secret from me and from all others but which she now desired to communicate to me. She then told me that I was the daughter of the Prophet Joseph Smith”.
Amen.
So we have another reason Joseph Smith was punished by God?
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Re: Bible verse by verse
Deuteronomy 28:1-68 If Israel obeys God's commandments and not worship other gods they will reap the following blessings:
Blessings in the city,
Blessings in the field;
Many children,
Ample crops,
Large flocks and herds;
Blessings of fruit and bread;
Blessings when you come in,
Blessings when you go out.
God will defeat their enemies --- who will march out together but will scatter! The Lord will bless an obeying Israel with good crops and healthy cattle, and prosper them. All the nations in the world shall see that Israel belongs to the Lord, and they will stand in awe. The Lord will provide an abundance of good things in the land, just as he promised: many children, many cattle, and abundant crops. God will open his wonderful treasury of rain in the heavens, to provide fine crops every season. He will bless everything they do; and Israel shall lend to many nations, but shall not borrow from them.
If Israel does not listen to the Lord and reject these laws, then all of these curses shall come upon you:
Curses in the city,
Curses in the fields,
Curses on your fruit and bread,
The curse of barren wombs,
Curses upon your crops,
Curses upon the fertility of your cattle and flocks,
Curses when you come in,
Curses when you go out.
The Lord himself will send his personal curse upon Israel. He will confuse and bring to failure everything they do, until at last they are destroyed because of the sin of forsaking him. He will send disease --- such as tuberculosis, fever, infections, plague, and war. He will blight the crops, covering them with mildew. The sky above will be as nourishing as bronze, and the soil beneath will be as infertile as iron. The land will become as dry as dust for lack of rain, and dust storms shall destroy everything.
The Lord will allow enemies to defeat Israel. Israel will march out to battle gloriously, but flee before its enemies in utter confusion and they will be tossed to and fro among all the nations of the earth. The dead bodies will be food to the birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.
God will send upon Egyptian boils, tumors, scurvy, and itch, for none of which will there be a remedy. He will send madness, blindness, fear, and panic. Such shall grope in the bright sunlight just as the blind man gropes in darkness. They shall not prosper in anything; and will be oppressed and robbed continually.
Someone else will marry their fiancée; someone else will live in the house they build; someone else will eat the fruit of the vineyard they plant. Their oxen shall be butchered, yet they won’t get a single bite of the meat. Donkeys will be driven away as they watch and will never return. The sheep will be given to enemies. And there will be no one to protect Israel. They will witness sons and daughters taken away as slaves in abject despair. A future nation will eat the crops Israel will have worked so hard to grow. They will always be oppressed and crushed. They will go mad because of all the tragedy all around. The Lord will make life a living hell. God will exile Israel and a future king they will choose to a nation presently unknown to Israel. While in exile Israel shall worship gods of wood and stone! Israel will become an object of horror, a proverb and a byword among all the nations ---- rejected of God.
Such will sow much but reap little, for pests will eat the crops. Such will plant vineyards and care for them, but they won’t eat the grapes or drink the wine, for worms will destroy the vines. Olive trees will be growing everywhere, but there won’t be enough olive oil to make anyone feel good! For the trees will drop their fruit before it is matured. Sons and daughters will be snatched away as slaves. Insects shall destroy the trees and vines. Foreigners living in the land shall become richer and richer while the evil doers become poorer and poorer. They shall lend to and control the currency. They shall control and Israel shall be manipulated.
The Lord will bring a distant nation against Israel, swooping down like an eagle; a nation whose language they don’t understand— a nation of fierce and angry men who will have no mercy upon young or old. They will consume everything until cattle and crops are gone --- grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, and lambs will all disappear. That nation will lay siege to the cities and knock down the highest walls—walls man will place their trust in as being impervious. Israel will even eat the flesh of its own sons and daughters in the terrible days of siege that lie ahead. The most tenderhearted man will become utterly callous toward his own brother and his beloved wife and his children who are still alive. He will refuse to give them a share of the flesh he is devouring—the flesh of his own children—because he is starving in the midst of the siege of cities. The most tender and delicate woman among you—the one who would not so much as touch her feet to the ground—will refuse to share with her beloved husband, son, and daughter. She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can eat them: so terrible will be the hunger during the siege and the awful distress caused by the enemies at the door.
Refuse to obey all the laws written in this book, thus refusing reverence to the glorious and fearful name of Jehovah God, then Jehovah will send perpetual plagues. He will bring all the diseases of Egypt, and they shall plague the land. That is not all! The Lord will bring every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this book, until that nation is destroyed. There will be few left, though once as numerous as stars.
Just as the Lord is glorified in doing wonderful things, so the Lord will be glorified in destruction; and they shall disappear from the land. The Lord will scatter Israel among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There they will worship unknown heathen gods made of wood and stone! There among those nations they shall find no rest, but the Lord will give Israel trembling hearts, darkness, and bodies wasted from sorrow and fear. Lives will hang in doubt and such will live night and day in fear, and will have no reason to believe that death is not imminent --- day and night. Then the Lord will send Israel back to Egypt in ships, a journey God promised Israel would never need to make again; and there will offer to sell themselves to enemies as slaves—but no one will even want to make a seemingly foolish purchase.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 `And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,
2 and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God:
3 `Blessed [art] thou in the city, and blessed [art] thou in the field.
4 `Blessed [is] the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
5 `Blessed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
6 `Blessed [art] thou in thy coming in, and blessed [art] thou in thy going out.
7 `Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee -- smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee.
8 `Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
9 `Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways;
10 and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee.
11 `And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.
12 `Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure -- the heavens -- to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou -- thou dost not borrow.
13 `And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do,
14 and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day -- right or left -- to go after other gods, to serve them.
15 `And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:
16 `Cursed [art] thou in the city, and cursed [art] thou in the field.
17 `Cursed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
18 `Cursed [is] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
19 `Cursed [art] thou in thy coming in, and cursed [art] thou in thy going out.
20 `Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings [by] which thou hast forsaken Me.
21 `Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till He consume thee from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it.
22 `Jehovah doth smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued thee till thou perish
23 `And thy heavens which [are] over thy head have been brass, and the earth which [is] under thee iron;
24 Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land -- dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed.
25 `Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;
26 and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling.
27 `Jehovah doth smite thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and with emerods, and with scurvy, and with itch, of which thou art not able to be healed.
28 `Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
29 and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.
30 `A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;
31 thine ox [is] slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it; thine ass [is] taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee; thy sheep [are] given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee.
32 `Thy sons and thy daughters [are] given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!
33 The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;
34 and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see.
35 `Jehovah doth smite thee with an evil ulcer, on the knees, and on the legs (of which thou art not able to be healed), from the sole of thy foot even unto thy crown.
36 `Jehovah doth cause thee to go, and thy king whom thou raisest up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, and thou hast served there other gods, wood and stone;
37 and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.
38 `Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;
39 vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;
40 olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.
41 `Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity;
42 all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;
43 the sojourner who [is] in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;
44 he doth lend [to] thee, and thou dost not lend [to] him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
45 `And come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee, and overtaken thee, till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which he hath commanded thee;
46 and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed -- to the age.
47 `Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things --
48 thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.
49 `Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,
50 a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;
51 and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee.
52 `And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee;
53 and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee.
54 `The man who is tender in thee, and who [is] very delicate -- his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,
55 against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates.
56 `The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,
57 and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates.
58 `If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name -- Jehovah thy God --
59 then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed -- great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast.
60 `And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee;
61 also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law; Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed,
62 and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God.
63 `And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it;
64 and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers -- wood and stone.
65 `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;
66 and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life;
67 in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest.
68 `And Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, Thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men-servants and for maid-servants, and there is no buyer.'
Blessings in the city,
Blessings in the field;
Many children,
Ample crops,
Large flocks and herds;
Blessings of fruit and bread;
Blessings when you come in,
Blessings when you go out.
God will defeat their enemies --- who will march out together but will scatter! The Lord will bless an obeying Israel with good crops and healthy cattle, and prosper them. All the nations in the world shall see that Israel belongs to the Lord, and they will stand in awe. The Lord will provide an abundance of good things in the land, just as he promised: many children, many cattle, and abundant crops. God will open his wonderful treasury of rain in the heavens, to provide fine crops every season. He will bless everything they do; and Israel shall lend to many nations, but shall not borrow from them.
If Israel does not listen to the Lord and reject these laws, then all of these curses shall come upon you:
Curses in the city,
Curses in the fields,
Curses on your fruit and bread,
The curse of barren wombs,
Curses upon your crops,
Curses upon the fertility of your cattle and flocks,
Curses when you come in,
Curses when you go out.
The Lord himself will send his personal curse upon Israel. He will confuse and bring to failure everything they do, until at last they are destroyed because of the sin of forsaking him. He will send disease --- such as tuberculosis, fever, infections, plague, and war. He will blight the crops, covering them with mildew. The sky above will be as nourishing as bronze, and the soil beneath will be as infertile as iron. The land will become as dry as dust for lack of rain, and dust storms shall destroy everything.
The Lord will allow enemies to defeat Israel. Israel will march out to battle gloriously, but flee before its enemies in utter confusion and they will be tossed to and fro among all the nations of the earth. The dead bodies will be food to the birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.
God will send upon Egyptian boils, tumors, scurvy, and itch, for none of which will there be a remedy. He will send madness, blindness, fear, and panic. Such shall grope in the bright sunlight just as the blind man gropes in darkness. They shall not prosper in anything; and will be oppressed and robbed continually.
Someone else will marry their fiancée; someone else will live in the house they build; someone else will eat the fruit of the vineyard they plant. Their oxen shall be butchered, yet they won’t get a single bite of the meat. Donkeys will be driven away as they watch and will never return. The sheep will be given to enemies. And there will be no one to protect Israel. They will witness sons and daughters taken away as slaves in abject despair. A future nation will eat the crops Israel will have worked so hard to grow. They will always be oppressed and crushed. They will go mad because of all the tragedy all around. The Lord will make life a living hell. God will exile Israel and a future king they will choose to a nation presently unknown to Israel. While in exile Israel shall worship gods of wood and stone! Israel will become an object of horror, a proverb and a byword among all the nations ---- rejected of God.
Such will sow much but reap little, for pests will eat the crops. Such will plant vineyards and care for them, but they won’t eat the grapes or drink the wine, for worms will destroy the vines. Olive trees will be growing everywhere, but there won’t be enough olive oil to make anyone feel good! For the trees will drop their fruit before it is matured. Sons and daughters will be snatched away as slaves. Insects shall destroy the trees and vines. Foreigners living in the land shall become richer and richer while the evil doers become poorer and poorer. They shall lend to and control the currency. They shall control and Israel shall be manipulated.
The Lord will bring a distant nation against Israel, swooping down like an eagle; a nation whose language they don’t understand— a nation of fierce and angry men who will have no mercy upon young or old. They will consume everything until cattle and crops are gone --- grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, and lambs will all disappear. That nation will lay siege to the cities and knock down the highest walls—walls man will place their trust in as being impervious. Israel will even eat the flesh of its own sons and daughters in the terrible days of siege that lie ahead. The most tenderhearted man will become utterly callous toward his own brother and his beloved wife and his children who are still alive. He will refuse to give them a share of the flesh he is devouring—the flesh of his own children—because he is starving in the midst of the siege of cities. The most tender and delicate woman among you—the one who would not so much as touch her feet to the ground—will refuse to share with her beloved husband, son, and daughter. She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can eat them: so terrible will be the hunger during the siege and the awful distress caused by the enemies at the door.
Refuse to obey all the laws written in this book, thus refusing reverence to the glorious and fearful name of Jehovah God, then Jehovah will send perpetual plagues. He will bring all the diseases of Egypt, and they shall plague the land. That is not all! The Lord will bring every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this book, until that nation is destroyed. There will be few left, though once as numerous as stars.
Just as the Lord is glorified in doing wonderful things, so the Lord will be glorified in destruction; and they shall disappear from the land. The Lord will scatter Israel among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There they will worship unknown heathen gods made of wood and stone! There among those nations they shall find no rest, but the Lord will give Israel trembling hearts, darkness, and bodies wasted from sorrow and fear. Lives will hang in doubt and such will live night and day in fear, and will have no reason to believe that death is not imminent --- day and night. Then the Lord will send Israel back to Egypt in ships, a journey God promised Israel would never need to make again; and there will offer to sell themselves to enemies as slaves—but no one will even want to make a seemingly foolish purchase.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 `And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,
2 and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God:
3 `Blessed [art] thou in the city, and blessed [art] thou in the field.
4 `Blessed [is] the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
5 `Blessed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
6 `Blessed [art] thou in thy coming in, and blessed [art] thou in thy going out.
7 `Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee -- smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee.
8 `Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
9 `Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways;
10 and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee.
11 `And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.
12 `Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure -- the heavens -- to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou -- thou dost not borrow.
13 `And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do,
14 and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day -- right or left -- to go after other gods, to serve them.
15 `And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:
16 `Cursed [art] thou in the city, and cursed [art] thou in the field.
17 `Cursed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
18 `Cursed [is] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
19 `Cursed [art] thou in thy coming in, and cursed [art] thou in thy going out.
20 `Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings [by] which thou hast forsaken Me.
21 `Jehovah doth cause to cleave to thee the pestilence, till He consume thee from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it.
22 `Jehovah doth smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with blasting, and with mildew, and they have pursued thee till thou perish
23 `And thy heavens which [are] over thy head have been brass, and the earth which [is] under thee iron;
24 Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land -- dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed.
25 `Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;
26 and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling.
27 `Jehovah doth smite thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and with emerods, and with scurvy, and with itch, of which thou art not able to be healed.
28 `Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
29 and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.
30 `A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;
31 thine ox [is] slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it; thine ass [is] taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee; thy sheep [are] given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee.
32 `Thy sons and thy daughters [are] given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!
33 The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labour, eat up doth a people whom thou hast not known; and thou hast been only oppressed and bruised all the days;
34 and thou hast been mad, because of the sight of thine eyes which thou dost see.
35 `Jehovah doth smite thee with an evil ulcer, on the knees, and on the legs (of which thou art not able to be healed), from the sole of thy foot even unto thy crown.
36 `Jehovah doth cause thee to go, and thy king whom thou raisest up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, and thou hast served there other gods, wood and stone;
37 and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.
38 `Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;
39 vineyards thou dost plant, and hast laboured, and wine thou dost not drink nor gather, for the worm doth consume it;
40 olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.
41 `Sons and daughters thou dost beget, and they are not with thee, for they go into captivity;
42 all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;
43 the sojourner who [is] in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;
44 he doth lend [to] thee, and thou dost not lend [to] him; he is for head, and thou art for tail.
45 `And come upon thee have all these curses, and they have pursued thee, and overtaken thee, till thou art destroyed, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which he hath commanded thee;
46 and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed -- to the age.
47 `Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things --
48 thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.
49 `Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,
50 a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;
51 and it hath eaten the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, till thou art destroyed; which leaveth not to thee corn, new wine, and oil, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock, till it hath destroyed thee.
52 `And it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, till thy walls come down, the high and the fenced ones in which thou art trusting, in all thy land; yea, it hath laid siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee;
53 and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee.
54 `The man who is tender in thee, and who [is] very delicate -- his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,
55 against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates.
56 `The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,
57 and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates.
58 `If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name -- Jehovah thy God --
59 then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed -- great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast.
60 `And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee;
61 also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law; Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed,
62 and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God.
63 `And it hath been, as Jehovah hath rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so doth Jehovah rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste; and ye have been pulled away from off the ground whither thou art going in to possess it;
64 and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers -- wood and stone.
65 `And among those nations thou dost not rest, yea, there is no resting-place for the sole of thy foot, and Jehovah hath given to thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and grief of soul;
66 and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life;
67 in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest.
68 `And Jehovah hath brought thee back to Egypt with ships, by a way of which I said to thee, Thou dost not add any more to see it, and ye have sold yourselves there to thine enemies, for men-servants and for maid-servants, and there is no buyer.'
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Re: Bible verse by verse
LittleNipper wrote:So we have another reason Joseph Smith was punished by God?
Why would Thor son of Odin want to punish Joseph Smith?
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Re: Bible verse by verse
The Erotic Apologist wrote:LittleNipper wrote:So we have another reason Joseph Smith was punished by God?
Why would Thor son of Odin want to punish Joseph Smith?
Odin wouldn't but the only true God might.
Reasons:
Joseph Smith added to God's Word even though completed by and through Christ Jesus.
Joseph Smith had multiple relations with young girls and married women.
Joseph Smith would make himself king over America.
Joseph Smith ridiculed True Believers.
Joseph Smith attempted to bring confusion and distrust to the inerrancy of God's Word.
Joseph Smith misdirected trust from God and redirected it towards an organization, additional writings and proclamations of "prophets."
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Re: Bible verse by verse
No--not Odin; Thor. You know, the same Thor who saved you from an icy death by conquering the Frost Giants.LittleNipper wrote:Odin wouldn't but the only true God would.
Nipper, have you thanked Thor for conquering the Frost Giants?
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