Deuteronomy 13-14
1599 Geneva Bible
13 5 The enticers to idolatry must be slain, seem they never so holy. 6 So near of kindred or of friendship. 12 Or great in multitude or power.
1 If there arise among you a Prophet or a dreamer of [a]dreams, (and give thee a sign or wonder,
2 And the sign and the wonder, which he hath told thee, come to pass) saying, [b]Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them,
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of the prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God [c]proveth you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
4 Ye shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him, and shall keep his commandments, and hearken unto his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
5 But that Prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, he shall [d]be slain, because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God (which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and delivered you out of the house of bondage) to thrust thee out of the way, wherein the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk: so shalt thou take the evil away forth of the midst of thee.
6 ¶ If [e]thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thine own son, or thy daughter, or the wife, that lieth in thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own [f]soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, (which thou hast not known, thou I say, nor thy fathers)
7 Any of the gods of the people which are round about you, near unto thee or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth unto the other:
8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hear him, neither shall thine eye pity him, nor show mercy, nor keep him secret:
9 But thou shalt even kill him: [g]thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and then the hands of the people.
10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die (because he hath gone about to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: from the house of bondage)
11 (A)That all Israel may hear and fear, and do no more any such wickedness as this among you.
12 ¶ If thou shalt hear say (concerning any of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell in)
13 [h]Wicked men are gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known,
14 Then [i]thou shalt seek, and make search and inquire diligently: and if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you,
15 Thou shalt even slay the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword: destroy it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof with the edge of the sword,
16 And [j]thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and burn with fire the city and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto the Lord thy God: and it shall be an heap forever, it shall not be built again.
17 And there shall cleave nothing of the [k]damned thing to thine hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his wrath, and show thee mercy, and have compassion on thee, and multiply thee as he hath sworn unto thy fathers:
18 When thou shalt obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments which I command thee this day: that thou do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.
14 1 The manners of the Gentiles in marking themselves for the dead, may not be followed. 4 What meats are clean to be eaten, and what not. 29 The tithes for the Levites, stranger, fatherless, and widow.
1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God, (B)Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make you any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 (C)For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a [l]precious people unto himself, above all the people that are upon the earth.
3 ¶ Thou shalt eat no manner of abomination.
4 [m]These are the beasts, which ye shall eat, the beef, the sheep, and the goat,
5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the bugle, and the wild goat, and the unicorn, and the wild ox, and the Chamois.
6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and is of the beasts that cheweth the cud, that shall ye eat.
7 But these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, and of them that divide and cleave the hoof only: the camel, nor the hare, nor the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, therefore they shall be unclean unto you:
8 Also the swine, because he divideth the hoof: and cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcasses.
9 ¶ (D)These ye shall eat, of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat.
10 And whatsoever hath no fins nor scales, ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you.
11 ¶ Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
12 But these are they whereof ye shall not eat: the eagle nor the goshawk, nor the osprey,
13 Nor the glede, nor the kite, nor the vulture, after their kind,
14 Nor all kind of ravens,
15 Nor the ostrich, nor the night crow, nor the [n]seamew, nor the hawk after her kind,
16 Neither the little owl, nor the great owl, nor the redshank,
17 Nor the pelican, nor the swan, nor the cormorant:
18 The stork also, and the heron in his kind, nor the lapwing, nor (E)the [bat].
19 And every creeping thing that flieth, shall be unclean unto you: it shall not be eaten.
20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
21 Ye shall eat of nothing that [o]dieth alone, but thou shalt give it unto the [p]stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it: or thou mayest sell it unto a stranger: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not (F)seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
22 Thou shalt [q]give the tithe of all the increase of thy seed, that cometh forth of the field year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God (in the place which he shall choose to cause his Name to dwell there) the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thy kine, and of thy sheep, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is far from thee, where the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name, [r]when the Lord thy God shall bless thee,
25 Then shalt thou make it in money, and [s]take the money in thine hand, and go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.
26 And thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thine heart desireth: whether it be ox, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatsoever thine heart desireth: [t]and shalt eat it there before the Lord thy God, and rejoice, both thou, and thine household.
27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, shalt thou not forsake: for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee.
28 At the end of three years thou shalt [u]bring forth all the tithes of thine increase of the same year, and lay it up within thy gates.
29 Then the Levite shall come, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, and shall eat, and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 13:1 Which sayeth that he hath things revealed unto him in dreams.
- Deuteronomy 13:2 He showeth whereunto the false prophets tend.
- Deuteronomy 13:3 God ordaineth all these things that his may be known.
- Deuteronomy 13:5 Being convicted by testimonies, and condemned by the judge.
- Deuteronomy 13:6 All natural affections must give place to God’s honor.
- Deuteronomy 13:6 Whom thou lovest as thy life.
- Deuteronomy 13:9 As the witness is charged, Deut. 17:7.
- Deuteronomy 13:13 Hebrew, children of Belial.
- Deuteronomy 13:14 Which art appointed to see faults punished.
- Deuteronomy 13:16 Signifying that no idolatry is so execrable, nor more grievously to be punished, than of them which once professed God.
- Deuteronomy 13:17 Of the spoil of that idolatrous and cursed city, Read Deut. 7:26 and Josh. 7:11.
- Deuteronomy 14:2 Therefore thou oughtest not to follow the superstition of the Gentiles.
- Deuteronomy 14:4 This ceremonial Law instructed the Jews to seek a spiritual pureness, even in their meat and drink.
- Deuteronomy 14:15 Or, cuckoo
- Deuteronomy 14:21 Because their blood was not shed, but remaineth in them.
- Deuteronomy 14:21 Which is not of thy religion.
- Deuteronomy 14:22 The tithes were ordained for the maintenance of the Levites, which had none inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 14:24 When he shall give thee ability.
- Deuteronomy 14:25 Or, bind up.
- Deuteronomy 14:26 After the Priest hath received the Lord’s part.
- Deuteronomy 14:28 Besides the yearly tithes that were given to the Levites, these were laid up in store for the poor.
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