LXX Concordance for οὐ

no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land,[fn] and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

“but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can't eat from any tree in the garden'? ”

“But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.' ”

but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel? ”

“I don't know,” he replied. “Am I my brother's guardian? ”

“If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

And the LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain[fn] with[fn] mankind forever, because they are corrupt.[fn] Their days will be 120 years.”

After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but it did not return to him again.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

“However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

Now the word of the LORD came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body[fn] will be your heir.”

So he brought all these to him, cut them in half, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

“Your name will no longer be Abram;[fn] your name will be Abraham,[fn] for I will make you the father of many nations.

“If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

“You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won't the Judge of the whole earth do what is just? ”

“suppose the fifty righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five? ”

He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

“Your servant has indeed found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can't run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

“Hurry up! Run to it, for I cannot do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city is Zoar.[fn]

So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac! ”

and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can't bear to watch the boy die! ” While she sat at a distance, she[fn] wept loudly.

The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from? ”

A meal was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.”

So Laban said, “Please speak.”

“My master put me under this oath: ‘You will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live

“But I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman will not come back with me? '

Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.[fn]

He said, “Look, I am old and do not know the day of my death.

So Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl.

Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl.”

“Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

But they replied, “We can't until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well's opening. Then we will water the sheep.”

Laban said to him, “Just because you're my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

When morning came, there was Leah! So he said to Laban, “What have you done to me? Wasn't it for Rachel that I worked for you? Why have you deceived me? ”

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die! ” she said to Jacob.

Laban asked, “What should I give you? ”

And Jacob said, “You don't need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.

“If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

She said to her father, “Don't be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

“I've been with you these twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.

When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob's hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” he said. “It will be Israel[fn] because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

That is why, still today, the Israelites don't eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because he struck Jacob's hip socket at the thigh muscle.[fn]

“We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us.

When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob's sons.

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.

When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from them.[fn] He said, “Let's not take his life.”

He went over to her and said, “Come, let me sleep with you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

She said, “What will you give me for sleeping with me? ”

Judah recognized them and said, “She is more in the right[fn] than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her intimately again.

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master's wife, “with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.[fn]

“When they had devoured them, you could not tell that they had devoured them; their appearance was as bad as it had been before. Then I woke up.

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance ​— ​like the sand of the sea ​— ​that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

“This is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

“Bring back your youngest brother to me, and I will know that you are not spies but honest men. I will then give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the country.' ”

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

“But if you will not send him, we will not go, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.' ”

They served him by himself, his brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, since that is detestable to them.

“Isn't this the cup that my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wrong! ' ”

“But we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.'

“We told him, ‘We cannot go down unless our younger brother goes with us. If our younger brother isn't with us, we cannot see the man.'

Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants,[fn] so he called out, “Send everyone away from me! ” No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers.

They said, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt! ” Jacob was stunned,[fn] for he did not believe them.

And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to stay in the land for a while because there is no grazing land for your servants' sheep, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”

Then the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

“However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, even under force from a strong hand.

The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart[fn] so that he won't let the people go.

“Go get straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but there will be no reduction at all in your workload.' ”

Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh's slave drivers had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why haven't you finished making your prescribed number of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before? ”

“No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks! ' Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.”

“Now get to work. No straw will be given to you, but you must produce the same quantity of bricks.”

“The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from it.”

But Moses said, “It would not be right[fn] to do that, because what we will sacrifice to the LORD our God is detestable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what the Egyptians detest in front of them, won't they stone us?

Pharaoh responded, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but don't go very far. Make an appeal for me.”

The LORD did as Moses had said: He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people; not one was left.

“But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that the Israelites own will die.”

“Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail that has ever occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may worship me.

“They will cover the surface of the land so that no one will be able to see the land. They will eat the remainder left to you that escaped the hail; they will eat every tree you have growing in the fields.

The locusts went up over the entire land of Egypt and settled on the whole territory of Egypt. Never before had there been such a large number of locusts, and there never will be again.

“Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before or ever will be again.

“You must not leave any of it until morning; any part of it left until morning you must burn.

“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat ​— ​you may do only that.

During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn't a house without someone dead.

The people baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves, since it had no yeast; for when they were driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared provisions for themselves.

“It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.

Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day when you came out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery, for the LORD brought you out of here by the strength of his hand. Nothing leavened may be eaten.

“Isn't this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

It came between the Egyptian and Israelite forces. There was cloud and darkness, it lit up the night, and neither group came near the other all night long.

The water came back and covered the chariots and horsemen, plus the entire army of Pharaoh that had gone after them into the sea. Not even one of them survived.

Moses continued, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and all the bread you want in the morning, for he has heard the complaints that you are raising against him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the LORD.”

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it? ” because they didn't know what it was.

Moses told them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you[fn] refuse to keep my commands and instructions?

“You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you. You can't do it alone.

“No hand may touch him;[fn] instead he will be stoned or shot with arrows and not live, whether animal or human. When the ram's horn sounds a long blast, they may go up the mountain.”

Moses responded to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since you warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consecrate it.”

Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work ​— ​you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the resident alien who is within your city gates.

Do not murder.

“Do not make gods of silver to rival me; do not make gods of gold for yourselves.

“If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.

“When an ox[fn] gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox's owner is innocent.

“Do not allow a sorceress to live.

“You must not exploit a resident alien or oppress him, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt.

“You must not blaspheme God[fn] or curse a leader among your people.

“You must not spread a false report. Do not join[fn] the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.[fn]

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of my festival offering must not remain until morning.

“Be attentive to him and listen to him. Do not defy him, because he will not forgive your acts of rebellion, for my name is in him.

“Do not bow in worship to their gods, and do not serve them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them[fn] and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.

“You must not make a covenant with them or their gods.

“Moses alone is to approach the LORD, but the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him.”

God did not harm[fn] the Israelite nobles; they saw him, and they ate and drank.

“If any of the meat of ordination or any of the bread is left until morning, burn what is left over. It must not be eaten because it is holy.

“You must not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt or grain offering; you are not to pour a drink offering on it.

“The wealthy may not give more and the poor may not give less than half a shekel when giving the contribution to the LORD to atone for[fn] your lives.

“Whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister by burning a food offering to the LORD, they must wash with water so that they will not die.

“It must not be used for ordinary anointing on a person's body, and you must not make anything like it using its formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

“As for the incense you are making, you must not make any for yourselves using its formula. It is to be regarded by you as holy ​— ​belonging to the LORD.

“Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up with you because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

But he added, “You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see me and live.”

maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin. But he will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers' iniquity on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.

And the LORD responded, “Look, I am making a covenant. In the presence of all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done[fn] in the whole earth or in any nation. All the people you live among will see the LORD's work, for what I am doing with you is awe-inspiring.

“Because the LORD is jealous for his reputation, you are never to bow down to another god.[fn] He is a jealous God.

“Do not make cast images of gods for yourselves.

“Do not present[fn] the blood for my sacrifice with anything leavened. The sacrifice of the Passover Festival must not remain until morning.

“Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”

“He will tear it open by its wings without dividing the bird. Then the priest is to burn it on the altar on top of the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

“No grain offering that you present to the LORD is to be made with yeast, for you are not to burn[fn] any yeast or honey as a food offering to the LORD.

“You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings.

“Tell the Israelites: When someone sins unintentionally against any of the LORD's commands and does anything prohibited by them —

“Now if the whole community of Israel errs, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, so that they violate any of the LORD's commands and incur guilt by doing what is prohibited,

“When a leader[fn] sins and unintentionally violates any of the commands of the LORD his God by doing what is prohibited, and incurs guilt,

“Now if any of the common people[fn] sins unintentionally by violating one of the LORD's commands, does what is prohibited, and incurs guilt,

“He is to bring them to the priest, who will first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the back of the neck without severing it.

“If someone sins and without knowing it violates any of the LORD's commands concerning anything prohibited, he is guilty, and he will bear his iniquity.

“Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the burnt offering; the burnt offering itself must remain on the altar's hearth all night until morning, while the fire of the altar is kept burning on it.

“The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest will burn wood on the fire. He is to arrange the burnt offering on the fire and burn the fat portions from the fellowship offerings on it.

“It must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from my food offerings. It is especially holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

“Every grain offering for a priest will be a whole burnt offering; it is not to be eaten.”

“But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place; it must be burned.

“The meat of his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship must be eaten on the day he offers it; he may not leave any of it until morning.

“If any of the meat of his fellowship sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presents it; it is repulsive. The person who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.[fn]

“The fat of an animal that dies naturally or is mauled by wild beasts[fn] may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do.

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your clothes, or else you will die, and the LORD will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may weep over the fire that the LORD caused.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

“Since its blood was not brought inside the sanctuary, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”

“But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves you are not to eat these:

camels, though they chew the cud,

do not have divided hooves ​— ​they are unclean for you;

“Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses ​— ​they are unclean for you.

“You are to abhor these birds. They must not be eaten because they are abhorrent:

eagles,[fn] bearded vultures,

Egyptian vultures,[fn]

“All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean.

“All the creatures that swarm on the earth are abhorrent; they must not be eaten.

“But if the spot on the skin of his body is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest will quarantine the stricken person for seven days.

“The priest will reexamine the condition on the seventh day. If the scaly outbreak has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,

“After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine the contamination. If the appearance of the contaminated article has not changed, it is unclean. Even though the contamination has not spread, you must burn the fabric. It is a fungus[fn] on the front or back of the fabric.

“The priest must order them to clear the house before he enters to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house becomes unclean. Afterward the priest will come to examine the house.

“The priest is to return on the seventh day and examine it. If the contamination has spread on the walls of the house,

“But when the priest comes and examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the house after it was replastered, he is to pronounce the house clean because the contamination has disappeared.[fn]

“If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands in water, the person who was touched is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

“This is to be a permanent statute for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practice self-denial and do no work, both the native and the alien who resides among you.

“They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.

“Therefore I say to the Israelites: None of you and no alien who resides among you may eat blood.

“Since the life of every creature is its blood, I have told the Israelites: You are not to eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.

“Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.

“You are not to come near any close relative[fn] for sexual intercourse; I am the LORD.

“You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

“But you are to keep my statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable acts ​— ​not the native or the alien who resides among you.

“You must keep my instruction to not do any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am the LORD your God.”

“Do not turn to worthless idols or make cast images of gods for yourselves; I am the LORD your God.

“If any is eaten on the third day, it is a repulsive thing; it will not be accepted.

“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

“Do not steal. Do not act deceptively or lie to one another.

“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden.[fn] It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

“You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

“Do not turn to mediums[fn] or consult spiritists,[fn] or you will be defiled by them; I am the LORD your God.

“When an alien resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

“Do not be unfair in measurements of length, weight, or volume.

“You are to keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

“Therefore you are to distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron's sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a dead person among his relatives,

“He is not to make himself unclean for those related to him by marriage[fn] and so defile himself.

“The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained[fn] to wear the clothes, must not dishevel his hair[fn] or tear his clothes.

“He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

“Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God.

“No descendant of the priest Aaron who has a defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.

“But because he has a defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar. He is not to desecrate my holy places, for I am the LORD who sets them apart.”

“Tell Aaron and his sons to deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites that they have consecrated to me, so they do not profane my holy name; I am the LORD.

“He must not eat an animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts,[fn] making himself unclean by it; I am the LORD.

“No one outside a priest's family[fn] is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired worker is not to eat the holy offering.

“If the priest's daughter is married to a man outside a priest's family,[fn] she is not to eat from the holy contributions.[fn]

“The priests must not profane the holy offerings the Israelites give to the LORD

“You are not to present anything that has a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

“You are not to present any animal to the LORD that is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash, or scabs; you may not put any of them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.

“But you are not to slaughter an animal from the herd or flock on the same day as its young.

“You must not profane my holy name; I must be treated as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sets you apart,

“Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD wherever you live.

“On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

“You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain[fn] until this very day, and until you have brought the offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

“On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations.

“You must not do any daily work, but you must present a food offering to the LORD.”

“On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the LORD your God.

“You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

“There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work.

“But there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the LORD: you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

“The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.

“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only aliens and temporary residents on my land.[fn]

“The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.

“Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

“If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, you must not force him to do slave labor.

“They are not to be sold as slaves,[fn] because they are my servants[fn] that I brought out of the land of Egypt.

“You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.

“He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A resident alien is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.

“Do not make worthless idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

“I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

“I will place my residence[fn] among you, and I will not reject you.

“and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

“When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

“I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

“They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. You will not be able to stand against your enemies.

“If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.

“But no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to the LORD, because a firstborn already belongs to the LORD.

“No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.

“He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; they cannot be redeemed.”

“Do not register or take a census of the tribe of Levi with the other Israelites.

But the Levites were not registered among the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

“Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.

“Send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them.”

“he is to abstain from wine and beer. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or from beer. He must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.

“He is not to defile himself for his father or mother, or his brother or sister, when they die, while the mark of consecration to his God is on his head.

“they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

Even when the cloud stayed over the tabernacle many days, the Israelites carried out the LORD's requirement and did not set out.

Whether it was two days, a month, or longer,[fn] the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. But when it was lifted, they set out.

“When calling the assembly together, you are to sound long blasts, not short ones.

But he replied to him, “I don't want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.”

“I can't carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.

“I speak with him directly,[fn]

openly, and not in riddles;

he sees the form of the LORD.

So why were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? ”

But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can't attack the people because they are stronger than we are! ”

The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people despise me? How long will they not trust in me despite all the signs I have performed among them?

“The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in faithful love, forgiving iniquity and rebellion. But he will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers' iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generation.

“Don't go, because the LORD is not among you and you will be defeated by your enemies.

They placed him in custody because it had not been decided what should be done to him.

“These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the LORD's commands and obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

The LORD told Moses, “Put Aaron's staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before me, or else they will die.”

“They are to perform duties for you and for the whole tent. They must not come near the sanctuary equipment or the altar; otherwise, both they and you will die.

“However, you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to splatter their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a food offering for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

The LORD told Aaron, “You will not have an inheritance in their land; there will be no portion among them for you. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

“The Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

“You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites' holy offerings, so that you will not die.”

“He is to purify himself with the water[fn] on the third day and the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.

“But a person who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the assembly because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

“Why have you led us up from Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It's not a place of grain, figs, vines, and pomegranates, and there is no water to drink! ”

“Please let us travel through your land. We won't travel through any field or vineyard, or drink any well water. We will travel the King's Highway; we won't turn to the right or the left until we have traveled through your territory.' ”

Yet Edom insisted, “You may not travel through.” And they came out to confront them with a large force of heavily-armed people.[fn]

“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land I have given the Israelites, because you both rebelled against my command at the Waters of Meribah.

“Let us travel through your land. We won't go into the fields or vineyards. We won't drink any well water. We will travel the King's Highway until we have traveled through your territory.”

Then God said to Balaam, “You are not to go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

The officials of Moab arose, returned to Balak, and reported, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

But Balaam responded to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the command of the LORD my God to do anything small or great.

Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the path to confront me. And now, if it is evil in your sight, I will go back.”

Balak asked Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn't you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you? ”

I see them from the top of rocky cliffs,

and I watch them from the hills.

There is a people living alone;

it does not consider itself among the nations.

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won't see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.”

I have indeed received a command to bless;

since he has blessed,[fn] I cannot change it.

There is no magic curse against Jacob

and no divination against Israel.

It will now be said about Jacob and Israel,

“What great things God has done! ”

“If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the LORD's command, to do anything good or bad of my own will? I will say whatever the LORD says.

Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

For the LORD had said to them that they would all die in the wilderness. None of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

“On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

“On the seventh day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

“You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of trumpet blasts for you.

“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this seventh month and practice self-denial; do not do any work.

“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; you do not do any daily work. You are to celebrate a seven-day festival for the LORD.

“On the eighth day you are to hold a solemn assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

“When a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.

“But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, none of her vows and none of the obligations she put herself under are binding. The LORD will release her because her father has prohibited her.

“But if her husband prohibits her when he hears about it, he will cancel her vow that is binding or the rash commitment she herself made, and the LORD will release her.

“But if her husband cancels them on the day he hears about it, nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or her obligation, is binding. Her husband has canceled them, and the LORD will release her.

and told him, “Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.

“‘Because they did not remain loyal to me, none of the men twenty years old or more who came up from Egypt will see the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ​— ​

“We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has taken possession of his inheritance.

“You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

“But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intent

“If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.

“No inheritance is to transfer from one tribe to another, because each of the Israelite tribes is to retain its inheritance.”

“I said to you at that time: I can't bear the responsibility for you on my own.

“Do not show partiality when deciding a case; listen to small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.

“The LORD was angry with me also because of you and said, ‘You will not enter there either.

“But the LORD said to me, ‘Tell them: Don't go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from being defeated by your enemies.'

“Don't provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot of it,[fn] because I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his possession.

“The LORD said to me, ‘Show no hostility toward Moab, and do not provoke them to battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, since I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.' ”

“When you get close to the Ammonites, don't show any hostility to them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the Ammonites' land as a possession; I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.' ”

“At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed the people of every city, including the women and children. We left no survivors.

“But you did not go near the Ammonites' land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River, the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.

“Don't be afraid of them, for the LORD your God fights for you.

“Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west, north, south, and east, and see it with your own eyes, for you will not cross the Jordan.

“You must not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it, so that you may keep the commands of the LORD your God I am giving you.

“I won't be crossing the Jordan because I am going to die in this land. But you are about to cross over and take possession of this good land.

Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:

“Do not make an idol for yourself in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

“Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

“but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. Do not do any work ​— ​you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or donkey, any of your livestock, or the resident alien who lives within your city gates, so that your male and female slaves may rest as you do.

“Do not murder.

“The LORD spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and total darkness on the mountain; he added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

“houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant ​— ​and when you eat and are satisfied,

“Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,

“and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

“You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

“do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

“Don't be terrified of them, for the LORD your God, a great and awesome God, is among you.

“Burn up the carved images of their gods. Don't covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

“Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.

“a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.

“Therefore, circumcise your hearts and don't be stiff-necked any longer.

“Then the LORD's anger will burn against you. He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the LORD is giving you.

“Don't worship the LORD your God this way.

“You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone is doing whatever seems right in his own sight.

“but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

“But don't eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

“be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, ‘How did these nations worship their gods? I'll also do the same.'

“do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity,[fn] and do not spare him or shield him.

“All Israel will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do anything evil like this among you.

“Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the LORD will turn from his burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as he swore to your ancestors.

“You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head[fn] on behalf of the dead,

“You must not eat any detestable thing.

“But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:

camels, hares, and hyraxes,

though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves —

they are unclean for you;

“but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales ​— ​it is unclean for you.

“but these are the ones you may not eat:

eagles, bearded vultures,

black vultures,

“All winged insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a resident alien within your city gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

“When the LORD your God blesses you as he has promised you, you will lend to many nations but not borrow; you will rule many nations, but they will not rule you.

“Be careful that there isn't this wicked thought in your heart, ‘The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,' and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty.

“Do not regard it as a hardship[fn] when you set him free, because he worked for you six years ​— ​worth twice the wages of a hired worker. Then the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

“But if there is a defect in the animal, if it is lame or blind or has any serious defect, you may not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

“But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water.

“Do not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship ​— ​because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry ​— ​so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

“Eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there is to be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; do not do any work.

“Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

“Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or sheep with a defect or any serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.

“and has gone to serve other gods by bowing in worship to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky ​— ​which I have forbidden ​— ​

“you are to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses. Appoint a king from your brothers. You are not to set a foreigner over you, or one who is not of your people.

“When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.

“This is what you requested from the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die! '

“But the prophet who presumes to speak a message in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods ​— ​that prophet must die.'

“Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:

“Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger[fn] might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die,[fn] since he did not previously hate his neighbor.

“Do not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.

“Then everyone else will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything evil like this among you.

“When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

“However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

“But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce food. You may cut them down to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.

“Then if you are not satisfied with her, you are to let her go where she wants, but you must not sell her or treat her as merchandise,[fn] because you have humiliated her.

“when that man gives what he has to his sons as an inheritance, he is not to show favoritism to the son of the loved wife as his firstborn over the firstborn of the neglected wife.

“you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God's curse. You must not defile the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

“Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

“If you come across a bird's nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, do not take the mother along with the young.

“If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don't bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

They will also fine him a hundred silver shekels and give them to the young woman's father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

“Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

“If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

“Never pursue their welfare or prosperity as long as you live.

“Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you.

“Do not bring a female prostitute's wages or a male prostitute's[fn] earnings into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

“If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because he will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.

“Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promised to the LORD your God.

“the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

“If he is a poor man, do not sleep with the garment he has given as security.

“You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be held guilty.

“He may be flogged with forty lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.

“But if the man doesn't want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He isn't willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.'

“you are to cut off her hand. Do not show pity.

“When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven. Do not forget.

“Then you will say in the presence of the LORD your God:

I have taken the consecrated portion out of my house; I have also given it to the Levites, resident aliens, fatherless children, and widows, according to all the commands you gave me. I have not violated or forgotten your commands.

“The LORD will open for you his abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

“Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not follow other gods to worship them.

“You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.

“You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

“He will lend to you, but you won't lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

“a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.

“You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit.

“The LORD will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

“I led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;

“The LORD will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The LORD will blot out his name under heaven,

“All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD demolished in his fierce anger.

“I tell you today that you will certainly perish and will not prolong your days in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan.

saying, “I am now 120 years old; I can no longer act as your leader.[fn] The LORD has told me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.'

“Be strong and courageous; don't be terrified or afraid of them. For the LORD your God is the one who will go with you; he will not leave you or abandon you.”

“And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because[fn] their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do,[fn] even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

They sacrificed to demons, not God,

to gods they had not known,

new gods that had just arrived,

which your ancestors did not fear.

“They have provoked my jealousy

with what is not a god;[fn]

they have enraged me with their worthless idols.

So I will provoke their jealousy

with what is not a people;[fn]

I will enrage them with a foolish nation.

“But keep a distance of about a thousand yards[fn] between yourselves and the ark. Don't go near it, so that you can see the way to go, for you haven't traveled this way before.”

“This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you what is set apart.