Matthew 27:27-44

New King James Version

The Soldiers Mock Jesus^(A)

²⁷^(B)Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the ^[a]Praetorium and gathered the whole ^[b]garrison around Him. ²⁸And they ^(C)stripped Him and ^(D)put a scarlet robe on Him. ²⁹^(E)When they had ^[c]twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” ³⁰Then ^(F)they spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him on the head. ³¹And when they had mocked Him, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, ^(G)and led Him away to be crucified.

The King on a Cross^(H)

³²^(I)Now as they came out, ^(J)they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. Him they compelled to bear His cross. ³³^(K)And when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Place of a Skull, ³⁴^(L)they gave Him ^[d]sour wine mingled with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He would not drink.

³⁵^(M)Then they crucified Him, and divided His garments, casting lots, ^[e]that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet:

^(N)“They divided My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots.”

³⁶^(O)Sitting down, they kept watch over Him there. ³⁷And they ^(P)put up over His head the accusation written against Him:

THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

³⁸^(Q)Then two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and another on the left.

³⁹And ^(R)those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads ⁴⁰and saying, ^(S)“You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! ^(T)If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

⁴¹Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the ^[f]scribes and elders, said, ⁴²“He ^(U)saved others; Himself He cannot save. ^[g]If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe ^[h]Him. ⁴³^(V)He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

⁴⁴^(W)Even the robbers who were crucified with Him reviled Him with the same thing.

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Footnotes

Matthew 27:27 The governor’s headquarters
Matthew 27:27 cohort
Matthew 27:29 Lit. woven
Matthew 27:34 NU omits sour
Matthew 27:35 NU, M omit the rest of v. 35.
Matthew 27:41 M scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders
Matthew 27:42 NU omits If
Matthew 27:42 NU, M in Him

Romans 13

New King James Version

Submit to Government

13 Let every soul be ^(A)subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. ²Therefore whoever resists ^(B)the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will ^[a]bring judgment on themselves. ³For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? ^(C)Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. ⁴For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. ⁵Therefore ^(D)you must be subject, not only because of wrath ^(E)but also for conscience’ sake. ⁶For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. ⁷^(F)Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

Love Your Neighbor^(G)

⁸Owe no one anything except to love one another, for ^(H)he who loves another has fulfilled the law. ⁹For the commandments, ^(I)“You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” ^[b]“You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, ^(J)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁰Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore ^(K)love is the fulfillment of the law.

Put on Christ

¹¹And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time ^(L)to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. ¹²The night is far spent, the day is at hand. ^(M)Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and ^(N)let us put on the armor of light. ¹³^(O)Let us walk ^[c]properly, as in the day, ^(P)not in revelry and drunkenness, ^(Q)not in lewdness and lust, ^(R)not in strife and envy. ¹⁴But ^(S)put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and ^(T)make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

Footnotes

Romans 13:2 Lit. receive
Romans 13:9 NU omits “You shall not bear false witness,”
Romans 13:13 decently

Psalm 68

New King James Version

The Glory of God in His Goodness to Israel

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song.

68 Let ^(A)God arise,
Let His enemies be scattered;
Let those also who hate Him flee before Him.
²^(B)As smoke is driven away,
So drive them away;
^(C)As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
³But ^(D)let the righteous be glad;
Let them rejoice before God;
Yes, let them rejoice exceedingly.

⁴Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
^(E)Extol^[a] Him who rides on the ^[b]clouds,
^(F)By His name ^[c]Yah,
And rejoice before Him.

⁵^(G)A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
⁶^(H)God sets the solitary in families;
^(I)He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
But ^(J)the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

⁷O God, ^(K)when You went out before Your people,
When You marched through the wilderness, Selah
⁸The earth shook;
The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God;
Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
⁹^(L)You, O God, sent a plentiful rain,
Whereby You confirmed Your inheritance,
When it was weary.
¹⁰Your congregation dwelt in it;
^(M)You, O God, provided from Your goodness for the poor.

¹¹The Lord gave the word;
Great was the ^[d]company of those who proclaimed it:
¹²“Kings^(N) of armies flee, they flee,
And she who remains at home divides the ^[e]spoil.
¹³^(O)Though you lie down among the ^[f]sheepfolds,
^(P)You will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And her feathers with yellow gold.”
¹⁴^(Q)When the Almighty scattered kings in it,
It was white as snow in Zalmon.

¹⁵A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;
A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
¹⁶Why do you ^[g]fume with envy, you mountains of many peaks?
^(R)This is the mountain which God desires to dwell in;
Yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever.

¹⁷^(S)The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
Even thousands of thousands;
The Lord is among them as in Sinai, in the Holy Place.
¹⁸^(T)You have ascended on high,
^(U)You have led captivity captive;
^(V)You have received gifts among men,
Even from ^(W)the rebellious,
^(X)That the Lord God might dwell there.

¹⁹Blessed be the Lord,
Who daily loads us with benefits,
The God of our salvation! Selah
²⁰Our God is the God of salvation;
And ^(Y)to God the Lord belong escapes from death.

²¹But ^(Z)God will wound the head of His enemies,
^(AA)The hairy scalp of the one who still goes on in his trespasses.
²²The Lord said, “I will bring ^(AB)back from Bashan,
I will bring them back ^(AC)from the depths of the sea,
²³^(AD)That ^[h]your foot may crush them in blood,
^(AE)And the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

²⁴They have seen Your ^[i]procession, O God,
The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
²⁵^(AF)The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after;
Among them were the maidens playing timbrels.
²⁶Bless God in the congregations,
The Lord, from ^(AG)the fountain of Israel.
²⁷^(AH)There is little Benjamin, their leader,
The princes of Judah and their ^[j]company,
The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

²⁸^[k]Your God has ^(AI)commanded your strength;
Strengthen, O God, what You have done for us.
²⁹Because of Your temple at Jerusalem,
^(AJ)Kings will bring presents to You.
³⁰Rebuke the beasts of the reeds,
^(AK)The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
Till everyone ^(AL)submits himself with pieces of silver.
Scatter the peoples who delight in war.
³¹^(AM)Envoys will come out of Egypt;
^(AN)Ethiopia will quickly ^(AO)stretch out her hands to God.

³²Sing to God, you ^(AP)kingdoms of the earth;
Oh, sing praises to the Lord, Selah
³³To Him ^(AQ)who rides on the heaven of heavens, which were of old!
Indeed, He sends out His voice, a ^(AR)mighty voice.
³⁴^(AS)Ascribe strength to God;
His excellence is over Israel,
And His strength is in the clouds.
³⁵O God, ^(AT)You are more awesome than Your holy places.
The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people.

Blessed be God!

Footnotes

Psalm 68:4 Praise
Psalm 68:4 MT deserts; Tg. heavens (cf. v. 34 and Is. 19:1)
Psalm 68:4 Lit. Lord, a shortened Heb. form
Psalm 68:11 host
Psalm 68:12 plunder
Psalm 68:13 Or saddlebags
Psalm 68:16 Lit. stare
Psalm 68:23 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. you may dip your foot
Psalm 68:24 Lit. goings
Psalm 68:27 throng
Psalm 68:28 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. Command, O God

Deuteronomy 22-26

New King James Version

Various Laws of Morality

22 “You ^(A)shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray, and ^[a]hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother. ²And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him. ³You shall do the same with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment; with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do likewise; you ^[b]must not hide yourself.

⁴^(B)“You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift them up again.

⁵“A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are ^[c]an abomination to the Lord your God.

⁶“If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, ^(C)you shall not take the mother with the young; ⁷you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, ^(D)that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

⁸“When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.

⁹^(E)“You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.

¹⁰^(F)“You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

¹¹^(G)“You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.

¹²“You shall make ^(H)tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself.

Laws of Sexual Morality

¹³“If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and ^(I)detests her, ¹⁴and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and says, ‘I took this woman, and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin,’ ¹⁵then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. ¹⁶And the young woman’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he detests her. ¹⁷Now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, “I found your daughter was not a virgin,” and yet these are the evidences of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. ¹⁸Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him; ¹⁹and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.

²⁰“But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, ²¹then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with ^(J)stones, because she has ^(K)done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. ^(L)So you shall ^[d]put away the evil from among you.

²²^(M)“If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die—the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

²³“If a young woman who is a virgin is ^(N)betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, ²⁴then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he ^(O)humbled his neighbor’s wife; ^(P)so you shall put away the evil from among you.

²⁵“But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. ²⁶But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. ²⁷For he found her in the countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

²⁸^(Q)“If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out, ²⁹then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman’s father ^(R)fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife ^(S)because he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days.

³⁰^(T)“A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor ^(U)uncover his father’s bed.

Those Excluded from the Congregation

23 “He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall ^(V)not enter the assembly of the Lord.

²“One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

³^(W)“An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord forever, ⁴^(X)because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and ^(Y)because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ^[e]Mesopotamia, to curse you. ⁵Nevertheless the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God ^(Z)loves you. ⁶^(AA)You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

⁷“You shall not abhor an Edomite, ^(AB)for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because ^(AC)you were an alien in his land. ⁸The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

Cleanliness of the Campsite

⁹“When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing. ¹⁰^(AD)If there is any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp. ¹¹But it shall be, when evening comes, that ^(AE)he shall wash with water; and when the sun sets, he may come into the camp.

¹²“Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out; ¹³and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse. ¹⁴For the Lord your God ^(AF)walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.

Miscellaneous Laws

¹⁵^(AG)“You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you. ¹⁶He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it ^[f]seems best to him; ^(AH)you shall not oppress him.

¹⁷“There shall be no ritual ^[g]harlot ^(AI)of the daughters of Israel, or a ^(AJ)perverted^[h] one of the sons of Israel. ¹⁸You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the Lord your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are ^[i]an abomination to the Lord your God.

¹⁹^(AK)“You shall not charge interest to your brother—interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest. ²⁰^(AL)To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, ^(AM)that the Lord your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.

²¹^(AN)“When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you. ²²But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you. ²³^(AO)That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth.

²⁴“When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container. ²⁵When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, ^(AP)you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.

Law Concerning Divorce

24 “When a ^(AQ)man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some ^[j]uncleanness in her, and he writes her a ^(AR)certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, ²when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man’s wife, ³if the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife, ⁴^(AS)then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is ^[k]an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Miscellaneous Laws

⁵^(AT)“When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and ^(AU)bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

⁶“No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes ^[l]one’s living in pledge.

⁷“If a man is ^(AV)found ^[m]kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and mistreats him or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die; ^(AW)and you shall put away the evil from among you.

⁸“Take heed in ^(AX)an outbreak of leprosy, that you carefully observe and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; just as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do. ⁹^(AY)Remember what the Lord your God did ^(AZ)to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt!

¹⁰“When you ^(BA)lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. ¹¹You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you. ¹²And if the man is poor, you shall not ^[n]keep his pledge overnight. ¹³^(BB)You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and ^(BC)bless you; and ^(BD)it shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

¹⁴“You shall not ^(BE)oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates. ¹⁵Each day ^(BF)you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; ^(BG)lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.

¹⁶^(BH)“Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.

¹⁷^(BI)“You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, ^(BJ)nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge. ¹⁸But ^(BK)you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this thing.

¹⁹^(BL)“When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may ^(BM)bless you in all the work of your hands. ²⁰When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. ²¹When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. ²²And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.

Laws of Social Responsibility

25 “If there is a ^(BN)dispute between men, and they come to ^[o]court, that the judges may judge them, and they ^(BO)justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, ²then it shall be, if the wicked man ^(BP)deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down ^(BQ)and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows. ³^(BR)Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother ^(BS)be humiliated in your sight.

⁴^(BT)“You shall not muzzle an ox while it ^[p]treads out the grain.

Marriage Duty of the Surviving Brother

⁵^(BU)“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. ⁶And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears ^(BV)will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that ^(BW)his name may not be blotted out of Israel. ⁷But if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the ^(BX)gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’ ⁸Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and says, ^(BY)‘I do not want to take her,’ ⁹then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, ^(BZ)remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not ^(CA)build up his brother’s house.’ ¹⁰And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’

Miscellaneous Laws

¹¹“If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals, ¹²then you shall cut off her hand; ^(CB)your eye shall not pity her.

¹³^(CC)“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. ¹⁴You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. ¹⁵You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, ^(CD)that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁶For ^(CE)all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are ^[q]an abomination to the Lord your God.

Destroy the Amalekites

¹⁷^(CF)“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, ¹⁸how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he ^(CG)did not fear God. ¹⁹Therefore it shall be, ^(CH)when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will ^(CI)blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes

26 “And it shall be, when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, ²^(CJ)that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and ^(CK)go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. ³And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord ^[r]your God that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

⁴“Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. ⁵And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was ^(CL)a ^[s]Syrian, ^(CM)about to perish, and ^(CN)he went down to Egypt and ^[t]dwelt there, ^(CO)few in number; and there he became a nation, ^(CP)great, mighty, and populous. ⁶But the ^(CQ)Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. ⁷^(CR)Then we cried out to the Lord God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression. ⁸So ^(CS)the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, ^(CT)with great terror and with signs and wonders. ⁹He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, ^(CU)“a land flowing with milk and honey”; ¹⁰and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O Lord, have given me.’

“Then you shall set it before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God. ¹¹So ^(CV)you shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you.

¹²“When you have finished laying aside all the ^(CW)tithe of your increase in the third year—^(CX)the year of tithing—and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled, ¹³then you shall say before the Lord your God: ‘I have removed the ^[u]holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, ^(CY)nor have I forgotten them. ¹⁴^(CZ)I have not eaten any of it ^[v]when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it ^[w]for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me. ¹⁵^(DA)Look down from Your holy ^[x]habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, ^(DB)“a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’

A Special People of God

¹⁶“This day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. ¹⁷Today you have ^(DC)proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will ^(DD)obey His voice. ¹⁸Also today ^(DE)the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, ¹⁹and that He will set you ^(DF)high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be ^(DG)a ^[y]holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”