Through the Bible in a Year — 2026-048

And Moses called all Israel and said to them,

Hear O Israel the statutes and judgments that I am speaking in your ears this day,

and you shall learn them and be watchful to perform them.

The Lord your God established a covenant with you at Horib,

not with your fathers that the Lord established this covenant,

but with all of you here alive today.

The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire,

and I stood between the Lord and you at that time to report to you the words of the Lord,

for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up into the mountain saying,

I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

out of a house of slavery.

You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself a carved object or likeness of anything whatever is in heaven above,

or whatever is in the earth beneath, and whatever is in the waters under the earth.

You shall not do obeisance to them, nor are you to serve them,

because I am the Lord your God, a jealous God,

repaying the sins of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

and doing mercy unto thousands for those who love me and keep my ordinances.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain,

for the Lord will never acquit the one who takes his name in vain.

Keep the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it, as the Lord your God commanded you.

Six days you shall labor and do all your labor,

but on the seventh day there is sabata to the Lord your God.

You shall not do in it any labor.

You and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave,

your ox and your draft animal, and any animal of yours and the guest within your gates,

so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you,

and you shall remember that you are a domestic in the land of Egypt,

and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a strong hand and with a high arm,

therefore the Lord your God instructed you to keep the day of the Sabbaths and to consecrate it.

Honor your Father and your Mother as the Lord your God commanded you,

so that it may be well with you and that you may be long lived in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal,

you shall not testify falsely against your neighbor with a false testimony.

You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, you shall not covet your neighbor's house,

or his field, or his male slave or his female slave, or his ox or his draft animal,

or any animal of his or whatever belongs to your neighbor.

These words the Lord spoke to your whole gathering at the mountain from the midst of the fire,

darkness, blackness, tempest, allowed voice, and he did not add,

and he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me,

and it happened when you heard the voice from the midst of the fire,

and the mountain was burning with fire, that you approached me,

all the leaders of your tribes and your council of elders,

and you said,

Look, the Lord our God has shown us His glory,

and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire.

This day we have seen that God will speak to a person, and He will live.

Now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us,

if we continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, then we will die.

For what flesh which has heard the voice of the living God,

when He speaks from the midst of fire, as we have shall also live.

Go you near, and hear whatever the Lord our God may say,

and you shall speak to us all things,

whatever the Lord our God may speak to you, and we will hear and do it.

And the Lord heard the sound of your words when you were speaking to me,

and the Lord said to me,

I have heard the sound of the words of this people,

what they have spoken to you,

all that they have spoken they have spoken correctly,

who shall grant that their heart be in them,

in such a way that they fear me,

and keep my commandments in all their days,

so that it might go well with them,

and with their sons forever.

Go, say to them,

return to your houses,

but you stand here with me,

and I will speak to you the commandments and the statutes and the judgments,

that you shall teach them,

and let them do them in the land that I am giving them as an allotment.

And you shall be watchful to do as the Lord our God is commanded,

you shall not turn right or left,

to go according to all the way that the Lord your God is commanded,

so that he may give you rest,

and that it may go well with you,

and that you may prolong your days upon the land,

that you shall inherit.

And these are the commandments and the statutes and the ordinances

that the Lord your God commanded to teach you to do so in the land

which you are entering there to inherit,

so that you may fear the Lord your God,

to keep all his statutes and his commandments that I command you today,

and you and your sons and your sons,

sons, all the days of your life,

so that you may be long lived.

Now hear, O Israel,

and be watchful to perform,

so that it may be well with you,

and that you may multiply greatly,

just as the Lord the God of your fathers has spoken,

to give you a land flowing with milk and honey.

And these are the statutes and the judgments,

which the Lord commanded to the sons of Israel,

in the wilderness as they were coming out from the land of Egypt.

Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,

and you shall love the Lord your God with the whole of your mind,

and with the whole of your soul,

and with the whole of your power.

And these words that I command you today,

shall be in your heart and in your soul,

and you shall teach them to your sons,

and talk on them while sitting at home,

and going on the road and lying down and rising up,

and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand,

and they shall be things unshakeable before your eyes,

and you shall write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

And it shall be whenever the Lord your God brings you

into the land that He swore to your fathers,

to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,

to give you large and fine cities that you did not build,

houses full of all sorts of goods,

that you did not fill,

dug sisters, that you did not dig out,

vineyards and olive groves, that you did not plant,

and when you eat and become full,

take care for yourself,

lest you forget the Lord your God,

who brought you out of the land of Egypt,

out of a house of slavery,

the Lord your God you shall fear,

and him you shall serve,

and to him you shall cling,

and by his name you shall swear,

do not go after other gods

from the gods of the nations around you,

because the Lord your God who is present with you

is a jealous God,

lest the Lord your God being anchored

with wrath against you,

destroy you utterly from the face of the earth,

and it will be when the Lord your God leads you

into the land that the Lord swore to your fathers,

to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,

to give over to you great and beautiful cities

that you did not build,

houses full of all good things that you did not fill,

quarried wells that you did not dig,

vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant,

and when you eat and become full,

regard yourself,

lest you forget the Lord your God

who led you out from the land of Egypt,

from the house of slavery,

you shall fear the Lord your God and serve him,

and you shall cling to him,

and you shall swear by his name,

do not walk after other gods

from the peoples that surround you,

because the Lord your God who is with you

is a jealous God,

lest the Lord your God become angry and anger

with you and utterly destroy you

from the face of the land.

You shall not tempt the Lord your God

as you tempted in the temptation,

by guarding you shall keep the commandments of the Lord God,

the testimonies and the statues that he has commanded you,

and you shall do what is pleasing and good

before the Lord your God,

so that it may be well for you,

and that you may go in and inherit the good land

that the Lord swore to your fathers,

to chase out all your enemies before you,

as he said,

and it shall be when your son asks you tomorrow,

what are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments

that the Lord our God has commanded you,

that you shall say to your son,

we were domestics to Pharaoh in the land of Egypt,

and the Lord brought us from there

with a strong hand and with a high arm,

and the Lord gave before us signs and wonders,

great and evil in Egypt,

against Pharaoh and against his household,

and he brought us out from there in order to bring us in,

to give to us this land that he swore to give to our fathers,

and the Lord commanded us to perform all these statutes,

to fear the Lord our God,

so that it may be well for us all our days,

so that we may live, as it is today,

if we are watchful to perform all these commandments

before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us,

there will also be mercy for us.

Now if the Lord your God brings you into the land

that you are entering there to inherit,

and shall clear away great and numerous nations before you,

the Ketite and the Gargishite and the Amarite,

and the Canaanite and the Parasite,

and the Heavite and the Jebiusite,

seven nations numerous and mightier than you,

and the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands,

and you shall strike them by annihilation,

you shall annihilate them,

you shall not establish a covenant with them,

neither shall you have mercy on them,

neither shall you intermary with them,

you shall not give your daughter to his son,

and you shall not take his daughter for your son,

for she will turn away your son from me,

and he will serve other gods,

and the Lord will be angered with wrath against you,

and will utterly destroy you quickly.

But thus you shall do to them,

you shall break down their altars and smash their steelies,

and cut down their groves,

and burn the carved objects of their gods with fire,

for you are a people holy to the Lord your God,

and the Lord your God has chosen you to be for him,

and exceptional people,

more than all the nations on the face of the earth.

It was not because you are more numerous than all nations

that the Lord chose you and picked you,

for you are very few in comparison with all the nations,

rather because the Lord loved you,

and since He was keeping the oath that He swore to your fathers,

the Lord brought you out with a strong hand and with a high arm,

and redeemed you from the house of slavery,

from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

And you shall know that the Lord your God, He is God,

the faithful God, who keeps the covenant and mercy

with those who love Him,

and keeps His commandments to a thousand generations,

and who repays those who hate Him to their face,

to destroy them utterly,

and He will not delay with those who hate Him,

to their face He will repay them,

and you will keep the commandments and the statutes

of these judgments that I command you today to do.

And it shall be whenever you hear all these statutes

and keep and do them,

that the Lord your God will guard closely for you,

the covenant, and the mercy as He swore to your fathers,

and He will love you and bless you and multiply you,

and He will bless the progeny of your belly

and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil,

the herds of your oxen and the flocks of your sheep,

in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

Blessed you shall be among all the nations,

there shall not be an impotent one,

nor a sterile one among you, or your cattle,

and the Lord will remove from you every illness,

and all the dread diseases of Egypt,

that you have seen, and that you experienced,

He will not inflict on you,

but He will inflict them on all who hate you,

and you shall eat all the spoils

the nations of the Lord your God is giving to you.

Your eye shall not be sparing to them,

and you shall not serve their gods,

for this is a stumbling block to you.

But if you say in your mind,

this nation is more numerous than I,

how will I be able to destroy them utterly?

You shall not be afraid of them,

with remembrance you shall remember

what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh,

and to all the Egyptians,

the great trials that your eyes saw,

the signs in those great wonders,

the strong hand in the high arm,

as the Lord your God brought you out.

The Lord our God will do thus to all the nations,

of whose faces you are afraid.

And the Lord your God will send the Hornets against them,

until even the ones who have been left

and those hidden from you are wiped out.

You shall not be wounded before them,

for the Lord your God with you is a great and strong God,

and the Lord your God will consume these nations

before you little by little.

You will not be able to consume them quickly,

lest the land become a wilderness

and the wild animals be multiplied against you.

And the Lord your God will deliver them into your hands,

and he will destroy them with a great destruction,

until he is destroyed them utterly,

and he will deliver their kings into your hands,

and you shall destroy their name from that place.

No one will be able to stand up against you,

until you have destroyed them utterly.

The carved objects of their gods you shall burn with fire.

You shall not desire silver and gold from them,

and you shall not take for yourself,

lest you stumble by means of it,

for it is an abomination to the Lord your God,

and you shall not bring an abomination into your house,

or you will be in anathema like it.

With an offense you shall take offense,

and with abhorrence you shall abhor it,

for it is an anathema.