by Septuagint
[26] And I sent ambassadors from the wilderness of Kedamoth to Seon king of Esebon with peaceable words, saying, [27] I will pass through thy land: I will go by the road, I will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. [28] Thou shalt give me food for money, and I will eat; and thou shalt give me water for money, and I will drink; I will only go through on my feet: [29] as the sons of Esau did to me, who dwelt in Seir, and the Moabites who dwelt in Aroer, until I shall have passed Jordan into the land which the Lord our God gives us. [30] And Seon king of Esebon would not that we should pass by him, because the Lord our God hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as on this day.
[31] And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver before thee Seon the king of Esebon the Amorite, and his land, and do thou begin to inherit his land. [32] And Seon the king of Esebon came forth to meet us, he and all his people to war at Jassa. [33] And the Lord our God delivered him before our face, and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. [34] And we took possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city in succession, and their wives, and their children; we left no living prey. [35] Only we took the cattle captive, and took the spoil of the cities. [36] From Aroer, which is by the brink of the brook of Arnon, and the city which is in the valley, and as far as the mount of Galaad; there was not a city which escaped us: the Lord our God delivered all of them into our hands. [37] Only we did not draw near to the children of Amman, even all the parts bordering on the brook Jaboc, and the cities in the mountain country, as the Lord our God charged us.
Chapter 3
[1] And we turned and went by the way leading to Basan; and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Edraim. [2] And the Lord said to me, Fear him not, for I have delivered him, and all his people, and all his land, into thy hands; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Seon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Esebon. [3] And the Lord our God delivered him into our hands, even Og the king of Basan, and all his people; and we smote him until we left none of his seed.
[4] And we mastered all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; sixty cities, all the country round about Argob, belonging to king Og in Basan: [5] all strong cities, lofty walls, gates and bars; besides the very many cities of the Pherezites. [6] We utterly destroyed them as we dealt with Seon the king of Esebon, so we utterly destroyed every city in order, and the women and the children, [7] and all the cattle; and we took for a prey to ourselves the spoil of the cities.
[8] And we took at that time the land out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, extending from the brook of Arnon even unto Aermon. [9] The Phoenicians call Aermon Sanior, but the Amorite has called it Sanir. [10] All the cities of Misor, and all Galaad, and all Basan as far as Elcha and Edraim, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan. [11] For only Og the king of Basan was left of the Raphain: behold, his bed was a bed of iron; behold, it is in the chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man. [12] And we inherited that land at that time from Aroer, which is by the border of the torrent Arnon, and half the mount of Galaad; and I gave his cities to Ruben and to Gad. [13] And the rest of Galaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og I gave to the half-tribe of Manasse, and all the country round about Argob, all that Basan; it shall be accounted the land of Raphain. [14] And Jair the son of Manasse took all the country round about Argob as far as the borders of Gargasi and Machathi: he called them by his name Basan Thavoth Jair until this day. [15] And to Machir I gave Galaad. [16] And to Ruben and to Gad I gave the land under Galaad as far as the brook of Arnon, the border between the brook and as far as Jaboc; the brook is the border to the children Amman. [17] And Araba and Jordan are the boundary of Machanareth, even to the sea of Araba, the salt sea under Asedoth Phasga eastward.
[18] And I charged you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land by lot; arm yourselves, every one that is powerful, and go before your brethren the children of Israel. [19] Only your wives and your children and your cattle (I know that ye have much cattle), let them dwell in your cities which I have given you; [20] until the Lord your God give your brethren rest, as also he has given to you, and they also shall inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives them on the other side of Jordan; then ye shall return, each one to his inheritance which I have given you.
[21] And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all things, which the Lord our God did to these two kings: so shall the Lord our God do to all the kingdoms against which thou crossest over thither. [22] Ye shall not be afraid of them, because the Lord our God himself shall fight for you.
[23] And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, [24] Lord God, thou hast begun to shew to thy servant thy strength, and thy power, and thy mighty hand, and thy high arm: for what God is there in heaven or on the earth, who will do as thou hast done, and according to thy might? [25] I will therefore go over and see this good land that is beyond Jordan, this good mountain and Antilibanus.
[26] And the Lord because of you did not regard me, and hearkened not to me; and the Lord said to me, Let it suffice thee, speak not of this matter to me any more. [27] Go up to the top of the quarried rock, and look with thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. [28] And charge Joshua, and strengthen him, and encourage him; for he shall go before the face of this people, and he shall give them the inheritance of all the land which thou hast seen. [29] And we abode in the valley near the house of Phogor.
Chapter 4
[1] And now, Israel, hear the ordinances and judgments, all that I teach you this day to do: that ye may live, and be multiplied, and that ye may go in and inherit the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you. [2] Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, and ye shall not take from it: keep the commandments of the Lord our God, all that I command you this day. [3] Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did in the case of Beel-phegor; for every man that went after Beel-phegor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him from among you. [4] But ye that kept close to the Lord your God are all alive to-day.
[5] Behold, I have shewn you ordinances and judgments as the Lord commanded me, that ye should do so in the land into which ye go to inherit it. [6] And ye shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation is a wise and understanding people. [7] For what manner of nation is so great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God is in all things in whatsoever we may call upon him? [8] And what manner of nation is so great, which has righteous ordinances and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?
[9] Take heed to thyself, and keep thy heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thine heart all the days of thy life; and thou shalt teach thy sons and thy sons’ sons, [10] even the things that happened in the day in which ye stood before the Lord our God in Choreb in the day of the assembly; for the Lord said to me, Gather the people to me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days which they live upon the earth, and they shall teach their sons. [11] And ye drew nigh and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: there was darkness, blackness, and tempest. [12] And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which ye heard: and ye saw no likeness, only ye heard a voice. [13] And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
[14] And the Lord commanded me at that time, to teach you ordinances and judgments, that ye should do them on the land, into which ye go to inherit it. [15] And take good heed to your hearts, for ye saw no si
militude in the day in which the Lord spoke to you in Choreb in the mountain out of the midst of the fire: [16] lest ye transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female, [17] the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven, [18] the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth; [19] and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, thou shouldest go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God has distributed to all the nations under heaven. [20] But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
[21] And the Lord God was angry with me for the things said by you, and sware that I should not go over this Jordan, and that I should not enter into the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. [22] For I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but ye are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land. [23] Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and ye transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which the Lord thy God commanded thee. [24] For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
[25] And when thou shalt have begotten sons, and shalt have sons’ sons, and ye shall have dwelt a long time on the land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven image of any thing, and shall have done wickedly before the Lord your God to provoke him; [26] I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that ye shall surely perish from off the land, into which ye go across Jordan to inherit it there; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly cut off. [27] And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you. [28] And ye shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which cannot see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell. [29] And there ye shall seek the Lord your God, and ye shall find him whenever ye shall seek him with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction. [30] And all these things shall come upon thee in the last days, and thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice. [31] Because the Lord thy God is a God of pity: he will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee; he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord sware to them.
[32] Ask of the former days which were before thee, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and beginning at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened any thing like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard: [33] if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard and hast lived; [34] if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt in thy sight. [35] So that thou shouldest know that the Lord thy God he is God, and there is none beside him. [36] His voice was made audible from heaven to instruct thee, and he shewed thee upon the earth his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
[37] Because he loved thy fathers, he also chose you their seed after them, and he brought thee himself with his great strength out of Egypt, [38] to destroy nations great and stronger than thou before thy face, to bring thee in, to give thee their land to inherit, as thou hast it this day.
[39] An thou shalt know this day, and shalt consider in thine heart, that the Lord thy God he is God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but he. [40] And keep ye his commandments, and his ordinances, all that I command you this day; that it may be well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, that ye may be long-lived upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for ever.
[41] Then Moses separated three cities beyond Jordan on the east, [42] that the slayer might flee thither, who should have slain his neighbour unintentionally, and should not have hated him in times past, and he shall flee to one of these cities and live: [43] Bosor in the wilderness, in the plain country of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad belonging to Gad, and Gaulon in Basan belonging to Manasse. [44] This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. [45] These are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt: [46] on the other side of Jordan, in the valley near the house of Phogor, in the land of Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote when they came out of the land of Egypt. [47] And they inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan eastward. [48] From Aroer, which is on the border of the brook Arnon, even to the mount of Seon, which is Aermon. [49] All Araba beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth hewn in the rock.
Chapter 5
[1] And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the ordinances and judgments, all that I speak in your ears this day, and ye shall learn them, and observe to do them. [2] The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Choreb. [3] The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: ye are all here alive this day. [4] The Lord spoke to you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire. [5] And I stood between the Lord and you at that time to report to you the words of the Lord, (because ye were afraid before the fire, and ye went not up to the mountain) saying, [6] I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
[7] Thou shalt have no other gods before my face. [8] Thou shalt not make to thyself an image, nor likeness of any thing, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth. [9] Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor shalt thou serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me, [10] and doing mercifully to thousands of them that love me, and that keep my commandments. [11] Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord thy God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.
[12] Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God commanded thee. [13] Six days thou shalt work, and thou shalt do all thy works; [14] but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do in it no work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and the stranger that sojourns in the midst of thee; that thy man-servant may rest, and thy maid, and thine ox, as well as thou. [15] And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord appointed thee to keep the sabbath day and to sanctify it. [16] Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God commanded thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long upon the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee. [17] Thou shalt not commit murder. [18] Thou shalt not commit adultery. [19] Thou shalt not steal. [20] Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. [21] Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any beast of his, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
[22] These words the Lord spoke to all the assembly of you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire — there was darkness, blackness, storm, a loud voice — and he added no more, and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them to me. [23] And it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the mountain burned with fire, that ye came to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders: [24] and ye said, Behold, the Lord our God has
shewn us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live. [25] And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, and we shall die. [26] For what flesh is there which has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and shall live? [27] Do thou draw near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and thou shalt speak to us all things whatsoever the Lord our God shall speak to thee, and we will hear, and do.
[28] And the Lord heard the voice of your words as ye spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to thee. They have well said all that they have spoken. [29] O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear me and keep my commands always, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever. [30] Go, say to them, Return ye to your houses; [31] but stand thou here with me, and I will tell thee all the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, and let them do so in the land which I give them for an inheritance. [32] And ye shall take heed to do as the Lord thy God commanded thee; ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, [33] according to all the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in it, that he may give thee rest; and that it may be well with thee, and ye may prolong your days on the land which ye shall inherit.
Chapter 6