Through the Bible in a Year — 2026-050

And you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His orders and His statutes and His commandments,

and His judgments always.

And you shall know today that it was not your children who have not known or seen, that

discipline of the Lord your God, and His magnificent works, and His strong hand and His high

arm, and His signs in His wonders, that He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh king of

Egypt, and to all His land, and what He did to the force of the Egyptians, to their

chariots and their horses, how He made the water of the red sea flow over them as they

pursued you from the rear.

And the Lord has destroyed them to this very day, and what He did for you in the wilderness

until you came to this place, and what He did to Nathan and Abraham, sons of Eliab, son

of Rubin, whom the earth have he opened its mouth swallowed them up, along with their

households and their tents in all their substance, which was with them in the midst of all

Israel.

For it is your eyes that saw all the great deeds of the Lord that He did for you today.

And you shall keep all His commandments that I command you today, so that you may live and

be multiplied, and go in and inherit the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan,

to take possession of it there, so that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore

to your fathers, to give them and their offspring after them, a land flowing with milk and

honey, for the land into which you are about to enter there, to inherit it is not like

the land of Egypt, whence you are coming from there, when they sow the seed and water it

with the feet like a garden of vegetables, but the land into which you are entering there

to inherit it is a hilly land and flat, it will drink water from the rain of the sky,

a land that the Lord your God regards it.

The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year, even

until the end of the year.

Now if by hearing you hear all His commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord

your God, and to serve Him with the whole of your heart, and with the whole of your soul,

He too will give the rain for your land in season, early rain and later rain, and you

will gather in your grain and your wine and your oil, and He will give fodder in your fields

for your cattle, and when you have eaten and been filled, take care to yourself, lest

your heart be expanded, and you turn away and serve other gods into obeisance to them.

And the Lord being wrathful be angry against you and shut up the sky and there will be no

rain, and the land will not give its fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land

that the Lord gave you.

And you shall put these words in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as

a sign on your hand, and they shall be things unshakeable before your eyes, and you shall

teach your children to say them when they are sitting at home, and going on the way and

lying down and rising, and you shall write them on the doorposts of your houses and on

your gates, so that you may be long lived and the days of your sons in the land that the

Lord swore to your fathers to give them, may be as the days of the sky above the earth.

And it shall be, if by hearing you hear all these commandments that I command you today to

do, to love the Lord your God, to go in all his ways and to hold fast to him.

The Lord too will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations

great and rather stronger than you.

Every place wherever you may plant the trace of your foot shall be yours, from the wilderness

and antilebonon, and from the great river the river you freightes, and up to the western

sea shall be your borders.

No one will stand against you.

The Lord your God will put the trembling of you, and fear of you on the face of all

the land, on which you may go upon it, as the Lord spoke to you.

See I am giving before you today a blessing and a curse.

The blessing if you hear the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today,

and the curse, if you do not hear the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today,

and if you wander from the way that I command you, having gone to serve other gods that

you do not know.

And it shall be when the Lord your God has brought you into the land into which you are crossing

there to inherit it.

You shall give the blessing on Mount Garazine, and the curse on Mount Guy Ball.

Look, are these not across the Jordan beyond by the way of the setting of the sun, in

the land of Canaan, that which is situated to the west, near Golgol, beside the high oak.

For you are crossing the Jordan when you go in to inherit the land, that the Lord your God

is giving you as an allotment, for all days and you will inherit it and live in it, and

you shall be watchful to perform all these ordinances and these judgments that I am giving

before you today.

And these are the ordinances and the judgments that you shall be watchful to perform in the

land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you as an allotment, all the days that

you live on the earth.

You shall with destruction destroy all the places, there were the nations whom you are about

to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains, and on the dunes, and beneath

every leafy tree.

And you shall chop down their altars and smash their steelies, and cut down their groves,

and burn with fire the carved objects of their gods, and blot out their name from that

place.

You shall not do so to the Lord your God, but the place which the Lord your God may choose

in one of your tribes, to designate that his name be called there.

You too will seek and enter there, and you will bring there your whole burnt offerings

and your sacrifices and your first fruits and your votive gifts.

Your free will gifts in the firstlings of your oxen and sheep, and you shall eat there

in the presence of the Lord your God, and shall rejoice in all things to which you put

your hands, you and your households, as the Lord your God has blessed you.

You shall not do all things that we are doing here today, each one doing what is pleasing

before him, for you have not come until now into the rest and into the inheritance that

the Lord your God is giving you.

And you shall cross over the Jordan, and live in the land that the Lord your God is allotting

to you.

And he will give you rest from all your enemies around, and you will live in safety.

And it shall be that the place wherever the Lord your God may choose for his name to

be called there.

There you shall bring all that I command you today.

Your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices and your ties in the first fruits of your

hands, and your gifts in every choice one of your gifts, whatever you may vow to your God.

And you shall be joyful before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters,

your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is at your gates, since he has no part

or allotment with you.

Take care to yourself, lest you bring your whole burnt offerings at any place where you

may look.

But at the place that which the Lord your God may choose in one of your tribes.

There you shall offer your whole burnt offerings, and there you shall do everything I command you

today.

Yet at your every desire you shall slaughter and eat meat, according to the blessing of

the Lord your God, which He has given you within your city.

The unclean one among you and the clean together shall eat of it, as they would gazelle or

deer.

The blood, however, you shall not eat.

You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

You shall not be able to eat within your cities the tithe of your grain, and of your wine

and of your oil, the firstlings of your oxen, and of your sheep, and all votive gifts that

you may vow, and your agreements in the first fruits of your hands.

But these you shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God, at the place that which

the Lord your God may choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and

your female slave, and the guest in your cities.

And you shall be joyful in the presence of the Lord your God, in all things where you

may put your hand.

Take care to yourself, lest you neglect the Levite all the time that you may live in

the land.

Now if the Lord your God enlarges your borders, as he has said to you, and you shall say,

I am going to eat meat.

If your soul desires to eat meat, in every desire of your soul you shall eat meat.

But if the place the Lord your God may choose for his name to be called there, is rather

far away from you.

Then you shall slaughter from your oxen, and from your sheep, that God may give you, as

I have commanded you.

Then you shall eat within your cities, according to the desire of your soul.

Just as the gazelle is eaten in the deer, so you shall eat it.

The unclean one among you, and the cleaner like shall eat it.

Take great care not to eat blood, because its blood is life, the life shall not be eaten

with the meat.

You shall not eat it, you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

You shall not eat it, so that it may go well with you, and your sons after you, if you

do what is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.

But when you have taken your sacred things, whatever you may have, and your votive gifts,

you shall come to the place which the Lord your God may choose for himself, for his name

to be called there.

And you shall make your whole burnt offerings.

The meat you will offer on the altar of the Lord your God, but the blood of your sacrifices,

you will pour out at the base of the altar of the Lord your God.

But the meat you shall eat.

Keep in here, and you will do all the words that I command you so that it may go well

with you, and with your sons forever, if you do what is good and pleasing before the

Lord your God.

Now if the Lord your God utterly destroys from before you the nations among which you

may enter there to inhabit their land, and you dispossess them and live in their land,

take care to yourself lest you seek to follow them, after they have been utterly destroyed

from before you.

You shall not seek their God's saying, how do these nations act toward their gods?

I will do the same.

You shall not do thus to the Lord your God, for the abominations to the Lord which he hates,

they have done for their gods, for they burn their sons and their daughters, in fire to

their gods.

Every word that I command you today, this you shall be watchful to perform.

You shall not add to it or take from it.

Now if a prophet or one who devines by a dream should appear among you and give you a sign

or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder should come about, which he spoke to you saying,

let us go and serve other gods whom you have not known.

You shall not hear the words of that prophet or diviner by that dream, for the Lord God

is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with the whole of your heart

and with the whole of your soul.

So after the Lord your God, and him you shall fear, and his commandments you shall keep,

and his voice you shall hear, and to him you shall be joined.

And that prophet or that diviner by dream shall die, for he spoke to lead you astray from

the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed you from slavery,

to thrust you from the way that the Lord your God commanded you to go upon it, and you

shall eliminate the evil one from yourselves.

Now if your brother from your father or from your mother, or your own son or daughter,

or the wife in your bosom, or the friend who is like your own soul secretly entreats

you saying, let us go and serve other gods whom you do not know.

You know your fathers from the gods of the nations that are around you, those near you

or far away from you, from an end of the earth up to an end of the earth.

You shall not yield to him and listen to him, and your eye shall not be sparing toward him.

You shall not have a longing for him, neither shall you shield him, reporting you shall

report concerning him, and your own hands shall be first against him to kill him.

And afterwards the hands of all the people, and they shall stone him with stones, and he

shall die because he sought to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out

of the land of Egypt, out of a house of slavery, and all Israel when they have heard, will

be afraid and never do again according to this evil thing among you.

Now if you hear in one of the cities that the Lord your God is giving you to live therein

saying, lawless men have gone out from among you, and led all the inhabitants of their city

astray saying, let us go and serve other gods whom you have not known.

And you shall examine and ask and make a thorough investigation.

And look, the charge is clearly true, this abomination has been done among you.

Wiping out, you shall wipe out all the inhabitants of that city by slaughter by dagger.

With an anathema you shall anathematize it, and everything in it.

And all of its spoil you shall gather into its streets.

And you shall burn with fire the city and all its spoil, with its population, before the

Lord your God.

It shall remain uninhabited forever, never to be rebuilt.

Nothing from that which is anathema shall stick to your hand, so that the Lord may turn

from the heat of his anger, and he shall give you mercy and be merciful to you and multiply

you, as the Lord swore to your fathers.

If you hear the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all his commandments that I command

you today, to do what is good and pleasing, before the Lord your God.