Warnings

7 “^(A)When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, ^(B)seven nations greater and stronger than you, ² and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you ^[a]defeat them, ^(C)then you shall ^[b]utterly destroy them. ^(D)You shall make no covenant with them ^(E)and show no favor to them. ³ Furthermore, ^(F)you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your ^[c]daughters to ^[d]their sons, nor shall you take ^[e]their daughters for your ^[f]sons. ⁴ For ^[g]they will turn your ^[h]sons away from ^[i]following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and ^(G)He will quickly destroy you. ⁵ But thus you shall do to them: ^(H)you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their ^[j]Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. ⁶ For you are ^(I)a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be ^(J)a people for His ^[k]own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ^[l]earth.

⁷ “^(K)The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because the Lord loved you and kept the ^(L)oath which He swore to your forefathers, ^(M)the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of ^[m]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹ Know therefore that the Lord your God, ^(N)He is God, ^(O)the faithful God, ^(P)who keeps ^[n]His covenant and ^[o]His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who ^(Q)love Him and keep His commandments; ¹⁰ but ^(R)repays those who hate Him to ^[p]their faces, to destroy ^[q]them; He will not delay ^[r]with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. ¹¹ Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Promises of God

¹² “^(S)Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you ^[s]His covenant and ^[t]His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers. ¹³ He will ^(T)love you and bless you and ^(U)multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, ^[u]in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. ¹⁴ You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female ^(V)barren among you or among your cattle. ^15 (W)The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you. ¹⁶ You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you; ^(X)your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^(Y)a snare to you.

¹⁷ “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I ^(Z)dispossess them?’ ¹⁸ you shall not be afraid of them; you shall well ^(AA)remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: ^19 (AB)the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. ²⁰ Moreover, the Lord your God will send ^(AC)the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish. ²¹ You shall not dread ^[v]them, for ^(AD)the Lord your God is in your midst, ^(AE)a great and awesome God. ^22 (AF)The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the ^[w]wild beasts would grow too numerous for you. ^23 (AG)But the Lord your God will deliver them before you, and will ^[x]throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed. ^24 (AH)He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; ^(AI)no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. ²⁵ The graven images of their gods you are to ^(AJ)burn with fire; you shall ^(AK)not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be ^(AL)snared by it, for it is an ^(AM)abomination to the Lord your God. ²⁶ You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ^(AN)ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.

God’s Gracious Dealings

8 “All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you ^(AO)may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your forefathers. ^2 (AP)You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has ^(AQ)led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, ^(AR)testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³ He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you ^[y]understand that ^(AS)man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. ^4 (AT)Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. ^5 (AU)Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. ⁶ Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to ^[z]fear Him. ⁷ For ^(AV)the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. ¹⁰ When ^(AW)you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

¹¹ “^[aa]Beware that you do not ^(AX)forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; ¹² otherwise, ^(AY)when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, ¹⁴ then your heart will become ^[ab]proud and you will ^(AZ)forget the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^[ac]slavery. ¹⁵ He led you through ^(BA)the great and terrible wilderness, with its ^(BB)fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He ^(BC)brought water for you out of the rock of flint. ¹⁶ In the wilderness He fed you manna ^(BD)which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might ^(BE)test you, to do good for you ^[ad]in the end. ¹⁷ Otherwise, ^(BF)you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’ ¹⁸ But you shall remember the Lord your God, for ^(BG)it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. ¹⁹ It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, ^(BH)I testify against you today that you will surely perish. ²⁰ Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so ^(BI)you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

Israel Provoked God

9 “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess ^(BJ)nations greater and mightier than you, great cities ^[ae](BK)fortified to heaven, ² a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘^(BL)Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’ ³ Know therefore today that ^(BM)it is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as ^(BN)a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that ^(BO)you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you.

⁴ “^(BP)Do not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them out before ^[af]you, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ but it is ^(BQ)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you. ⁵ It is ^(BR)not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm ^(BS)the ^[ag]oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

⁶ “Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are ^(BT)a ^[ah]stubborn people. ⁷ Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; ^(BU)from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. ⁸ Even ^(BV)at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. ⁹ When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; ^(BW)I neither ate bread nor drank water. ¹⁰ The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone ^(BX)written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. ¹¹ It came about ^(BY)at the end of forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. ^12 (BZ)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^(CA)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’ ¹³ The ^(CB)Lord spoke further to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a ^[ai](CC)stubborn people. ^14 (CD)Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and ^(CE)blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

¹⁵ “^(CF)So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. ¹⁶ And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. ¹⁷ I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes. ^18 (CG)I fell down before the Lord, ^(CH)as at the first, forty days and nights; ^(CI)I neither ate bread nor drank water, ^(CJ)because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger. ¹⁹ For ^(CK)I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was wrathful against you in order to destroy you, ^(CL)but the Lord listened to me that time also. ²⁰ The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time. ^21 (CM)I took your ^[aj]sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

²² “Again at ^(CN)Taberah and at ^(CO)Massah and at ^(CP)Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath. ²³ When the Lord sent you from ^(CQ)Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘^(CR)Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the ^[ak]command of the Lord your God; ^(CS)you neither believed Him nor listened to His voice. ^24 (CT)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day I knew you.

²⁵ “^(CU)So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and nights, which I ^[al]did because the Lord had said He would destroy you. ^26 (CV)I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²⁷ Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin. ²⁸ Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, “^(CW)Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had ^[am]promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.” ²⁹ Yet they are Your people, even ^(CX)Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your ^(CY)great power and Your outstretched arm.’

The Seventy Sent Out

10 Now after this ^(A)the Lord appointed ^[a]seventy ^(B)others, and sent them ^(C)in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come. ² And He was saying to them, “^(D)The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. ³ Go; ^(E)behold, I send you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. ^4 (F)Carry no money belt, no ^[b]bag, no shoes; and greet no one on the way. ⁵ Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ ⁶ If a ^[c]man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. ⁷ Stay in ^[d]that house, eating and drinking ^[e]what they give you; for ^(G)the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not keep moving from house to house. ⁸ Whatever city you enter and they receive you, ^(H)eat what is set before you; ⁹ and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them, ‘^(I)The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ ¹⁰ But whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, ¹¹ ‘^(J)Even the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off in protest against you; yet ^[f]be sure of this, that ^(K)the kingdom of God has come near.’ ¹² I say to you, ^(L)it will be more tolerable in that day for ^(M)Sodom than for that city.

¹³ “^(N)Woe to you, ^(O)Chorazin! Woe to you, ^(P)Bethsaida! For if the ^[g]miracles had been performed in ^(Q)Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in ^[h](R)sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it will be more tolerable for ^(S)Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And you, ^(T)Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will be brought down to Hades!

¹⁶ “^(U)The one who listens to you listens to Me, and ^(V)the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

The Happy Results

¹⁷ The ^[i]seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even ^(W)the demons are subject to us in Your name.” ¹⁸ And He said to them, “I was watching ^(X)Satan fall from heaven like lightning. ¹⁹ Behold, I have given you authority to ^(Y)tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. ²⁰ Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that ^(Z)your names are recorded in heaven.”

^21 (AA)At that very ^[j]time He rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I ^[k]praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight. ^22 (AB)All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and ^(AC)no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

^23 (AD)Turning to the disciples, He said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see, ²⁴ for I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them.”

^25 (AE)And a ^[l](AF)lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” ²⁶ And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? ^[m]How does it read to you?” ²⁷ And he answered, “^(AG)You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” ²⁸ And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; ^(AH)do this and you will live.” ²⁹ But wishing ^(AI)to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

The Good Samaritan

³⁰ Jesus replied and said, “A man was ^(AJ)going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and ^[n]beat him, and went away leaving him half dead. ³¹ And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. ³² Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. ³³ But a ^(AK)Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion, ³⁴ and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him. ³⁵ On the next day he took out two ^[o]denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return I will repay you.’ ³⁶ Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?” ³⁷ And he said, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do ^[p]the same.”

Martha and Mary

³⁸ Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named ^(AL)Martha welcomed Him into her home. ³⁹ She had a sister called ^(AM)Mary, who was ^(AN)seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word. ⁴⁰ But ^(AO)Martha was distracted with ^[q]all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.” ⁴¹ But the Lord answered and said to her, “^(AP)Martha, Martha, you are ^(AQ)worried and bothered about so many things; ^42 (AR)but only one thing is necessary, for ^(AS)Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”