23No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord . 2No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord , even down to the tenth generation. 3No Ammonite or Moab
24If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, 2and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife
25When men have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty. 2If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and have him flogged in his pr
26When you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, 2take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and
30Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense. 2It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high -its horns of one piece with it. 3Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding arou
31Then the Lord said to Moses, 2See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts- 4to make artistic designs for work
32When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to
19The Lord said to Moses, 2Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy. 3 'Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. 4 'Do not
17The Lord said to Moses, 2Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: 'This is what the Lord has commanded: 3Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox, a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it 4instead of bringing it to the
18The Lord said to Moses, 2Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the Lord your God. 3You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow t
3Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over. 2After three days the officers went throughout the camp, 3giving orders to the people: When you see the ark of th
6Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. 2Then the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3March around the city once with a
2Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. Go, look over the land, he said, especially Jericho. So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. 2The king of Jericho was told, Look! Some of the Israe
1After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord , the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: 2Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them-to the Is
12These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah: 2Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in
14Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them. 2Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine-
13When Joshua was old and well advanced in years, the Lord said to him, You are very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over. 2This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and Geshurites: 3from the Shih
11When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Acshaph, 2and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor on
10Now Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and totally destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made a treaty of peace with Israel and were living near th
16The allotment for Joseph began at the Jordan of Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, and went up from there through the desert into the hill country of Bethel. 2It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz), crossed over to the territory of the Arkites