Deuteronomy 24-27 (New American Standard Bible)

Deuteronomy 24

Law of Divorce

 ¹"When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some ^(A)indecency in her, and ^(B)he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house,

 ²and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,

 ³and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

 ⁴then her ^(C)former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

 ⁵"^(D)When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall ^(E)give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Sundry Laws

 ⁶"No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

 ⁷"^(F)If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

 ⁸"^(G)Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

 ⁹"Remember what the LORD your God did ^(H)to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.

 ¹⁰"^(I)When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.

 ¹¹"You shall remain outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

 ¹²"If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

 ¹³"^(J)When the sun goes down you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and ^(K)it will be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.

 ¹⁴"^(L)You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.

 ¹⁵"^(M)You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that ^(N)he will not cry against you to the LORD and it become sin in you.

 ¹⁶"^(O)Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

 ¹⁷"^(P)You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or ^[a]an orphan, nor ^(Q)take a widow's garment in pledge.

 ¹⁸"But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

 ¹⁹"^(R)When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be ^(S)for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the LORD your God ^(T)may bless you in all the work of your hands.

 ²⁰"^(U)When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be ^(V)for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

 ²¹"When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

 ²²"You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

Deuteronomy 25

Sundry Laws

 ¹"^(W)If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, ^(X)and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

 ²then it shall be if the wicked man ^(Y)deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.

 ³"^(Z)He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not ^(AA)degraded in your eyes.

 ⁴"^(AB)You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

 ⁵"When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. ^(AC)Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

 ⁶"It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that ^(AD)his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

 ⁷"^(AE)But if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'

 ⁸"Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, 'I do not desire to take her,'

 ^9(AF)then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and ^(AG)spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'

 ¹⁰"In Israel his name shall be called, 'The house of him whose sandal is removed.'

 ¹¹"If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

 ¹²then you shall cut off her hand; ^(AH)you shall not show pity.

 ¹³"^(AI)You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

 ¹⁴"You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

 ¹⁵"You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, ^(AJ)that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

 ¹⁶"For ^(AK)everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD your God.

 ¹⁷"^(AL)Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

 ¹⁸how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he ^(AM)did not ^[b]fear God.

 ¹⁹"Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you ^(AN)rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

Deuteronomy 26

Offering First Fruits

 ¹"Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it,

 ²that you shall take some of ^(AO)the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and ^(AP)go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name.

 ³"You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare this day to the LORD my God that I have entered the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'

 ⁴"Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

 ⁵"You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, '^(AQ)My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, ^(AR)few in number; but there he became a ^(AS)great, mighty and populous nation.

 ⁶'And the ^(AT)Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

 ⁷'Then ^(AU)we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;

 ^8(AV)and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders;

 ⁹and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, ^(AW)a land flowing with milk and honey.

 ¹⁰'Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground ^(AX)which You, O LORD have given me.' And you shall set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God;

 ¹¹and you and ^(AY)the Levite and the alien who is among you shall ^(AZ)rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given you and your household.

 ¹²"^(BA)When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

 ¹³"You shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from my house, and also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; ^(BB)I have not transgressed or forgotten any of Your commandments.

 ¹⁴'I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.

 ¹⁵'^(BC)Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given us, ^(BD)a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.'

 ¹⁶"This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them ^(BE)with all your heart and with all your soul.

 ¹⁷"^(BF)You have today declared the LORD to be your God, and that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and listen to His voice.

 ¹⁸"The LORD has today declared you to be ^(BG)His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;

 ¹⁹and that He will ^(BH)set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor; and that you shall be ^(BI)a consecrated people to the LORD your God, as He has spoken."

Deuteronomy 27

The Curses of Mount Ebal

 ¹Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, "Keep all the commandments which I command you today.

 ²"^(BJ)So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime

 ³and write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, ^(BK)a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.

 ⁴"So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up ^(BL)on Mount Ebal, these stones, as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime.

 ⁵"Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you ^(BM)shall not wield an iron tool on them.

 ⁶"You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the LORD your God;

 ⁷and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and ^(BN)rejoice before the LORD your God.

 ⁸"You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very distinctly."

 ⁹Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and listen, O Israel! This day you have become a people for the LORD your God.

 ¹⁰"You shall therefore obey the LORD your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I command you today."

 ¹¹Moses also charged the people on that day, saying,

 ¹²"When you cross the Jordan, these shall stand on ^(BO)Mount Gerizim to bless the people: ^(BP)Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

 ¹³"For the curse, these shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

 ¹⁴"The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

 ¹⁵'Cursed is the man who makes ^(BQ)an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret ' And ^(BR)all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

 ¹⁶'^(BS)Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ¹⁷'^(BT)Cursed is he who moves his neighbor's boundary mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ¹⁸'^(BU)Cursed is he who misleads a blind person on the road.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ¹⁹'^(BV)Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ²⁰'^(BW)Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ²¹'^(BX)Cursed is he who lies with any animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ²²'^(BY)Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ²³'^(BZ)Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ²⁴'^(CA)Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ²⁵'^(CB)Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

 ²⁶'^(CC)Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'