Category: Deuteronomy

1 “At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood.” 2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall…

1 These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb. 2 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the Lord did before…

3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Setting the Scene…

1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 3 In the fortieth year, on the first day…

1 “These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.” 2 You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served…

1 “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.” 2 But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your…

1 “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the Lord’s food offerings as their inheritance.” 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them. 3 And this shall be the priests’ due from the…

1 “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,” 2 and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you…

3 So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him down until he had no survivor left. Setting the Scene for Deuteronomy 3:3 In Deuteronomy chapter 3, we find the Israelites on the brink of entering the Promised Land after wandering…

1 “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord. Setting the Scene for Deuteronomy 23:1 In the scene described in Deuteronomy 23:1, we find a group of Israelites gathered at the entrance of the tabernacle in the wilderness. The group includes Moses, Aaron,…