Passage results

View commentary related to this passage

Deuteronomy 13

    ²And that come to pass which he spoke, and he say to thee: Let us go and follow strange gods, which thou knowest not, and let us serve them:

    ³Thou shalt not hear the words of that prophet or dreamer: for the Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or not.

    ⁴Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.

    ⁵And that prophet or forger of dreams shall be slain: because he spoke to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage: to make thee go out of the way, which the Lord thy God commanded thee: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

    ⁶If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,

    ⁷Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from one end of the earth to the other,

    ⁸Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,

    ⁹But thou shalt presently put him to death. It Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

    ¹⁰With stones shall he be stoned to death: because he would have withdrawn thee from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage:

    ¹¹That all Israel hearing may fear, and may do no more any thing like this.

    ¹²If in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to dwell in, thou hear some say:

    ¹³Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:

    ¹⁴Inquire carefully and diligently, the truth of the thing by looking well into it, and if thou find that which is said to be certain, and that this abomination hath been really committed,

    ¹⁵Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, even the cattle.

    ¹⁶And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shalt burn them with the city itself, so as to consume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever: it shall be built no more.

    ¹⁷And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,

    ¹⁸When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all his precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 14

    ²Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God: and he chose thee to be his peculiar people of all nations that are upon the earth.

    ³Eat not the things that are unclean.

    ⁴These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

    ⁵The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

    ⁶Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.

    ⁷But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

    ⁸The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

    ⁹These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.

    ¹⁰Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.

    ¹¹All birds that are clean you shall eat.

    ¹²The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

    ¹³The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:

    ¹⁴And all of the raven's kind:

    ¹⁵And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:

    ¹⁶The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

    ¹⁷And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,

    ¹⁸The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the hoop also and the bat.

    ¹⁹Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

    ²⁰All that is clean, you shall eat.

    ²¹But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat not thereof. Give it to the stranger, that is within thy gates, to eat, or sell it to him: because thou art the holy people of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

    ²²Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth,

    ²³And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.

    ²⁴But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither,

    ²⁵Thou shalt sell them all, and turn them into money, and shalt carry it in thy hand, and shalt go to the place which the Lord shall choose :

    ²⁶And thou shalt buy with the same money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either of the herds or of sheep, wine also and strong drink, and all that thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and thy house:

    ²⁷And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.

    ²⁸The third year thou shalt separate another tithe of all things that grow to thee at that time, and shalt lay it up within thy gates.

    ²⁹And the Levite that hath no other part nor possession with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be filled: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands that thou shalt do.

Deuteronomy 15

    ²Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord,

    ³Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.

    ⁴And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in possession.

    ⁵Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all things that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised.

    ⁶Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no one shall have dominion over thee.

    ⁷If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within the gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand,

    ⁸But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that which thou perceivest he hath need of.

    ⁹Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.

    ¹⁰But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing craftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord thy God may bless thee at all times, and in all things to which thou shalt put thy hand.

    ¹¹There will not be wanting poor in the land of thy habitation: therefore I command thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor brother, that liveth in the land.

    ¹²When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free:

    ¹³And when thou sendest him out free, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

    ¹⁴But shalt give him for his way out of thy flocks, and out of thy barnfloor, and thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy God shall bless thee.

    ¹⁵Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee this.

    ¹⁶But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:

    ¹⁷Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like manner to thy womanservant also.

    ¹⁸Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them tree: because he hath served thee six years according to the wages of a hireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that thou dost.

    ¹⁹Of the firstlings, that come of thy herds and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of the male sex. Thou shalt not work with the firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not shear the firstlings of thy sheep.

    ²⁰In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.

    ²¹But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.

    ²²But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.

    ²³Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.

View commentary related to this passage

²⁸And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first commandment of all.

    ²⁹And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God.

    ³⁰And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment.

    ³¹And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

    ³²And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth, that there is one God, and there is no other besides him.

    ³³And that he should be loved with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength; and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.

    ³⁴And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

    ³⁵And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the scribes say, that Christ is the son of David?

    ³⁶For David himself saith by the Holy Ghost: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

    ³⁷David therefore himself calleth him Lord, and whence is he then his son? And a great multitude heard him gladly.

    ³⁸And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes, and to be saluted in the marketplace,

    ³⁹And to sit in the first chairs, in the synagogues, and to have the highest places at suppers:

    ⁴⁰Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long prayer: these shall receive greater judgment.

    ⁴¹And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much.

    ⁴²And there came a certain poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

    ⁴³And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury.

    ⁴⁴For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.