27Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: Keep all these commands that I give you today. 2When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster. 3Write on them
28If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:
29These are the terms of the covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. 2Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the Lord
30When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, 2and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your he
31Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel: 2I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The Lord has said to me, 'You shall not cross the Jordan.' 3The Lord your God himself will cross over ahead of yo
32Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. 3I will proclaim the name of the Lord . Oh, pr
34Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land-from Gilead to Dan, 2all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as t
4How the gold has lost its luster, the fine gold become dull! The sacred gems are scattered at the head of every street. 2How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter's hands
34The Lord said to Moses, Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on
20The Lord said to Moses, 2Say to the Israelites: 'Any Israelite or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the community are to stone him. 3I will set my face against that man and I will
46So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, Jacob! Jacob! Here I am, he replied. 3I am God, the God of your fa
47Joseph went and told Pharaoh, My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen. 2He chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh. 3Pharaoh asked the
48Some time later Joseph was told, Your father is ill. So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him. 2When Jacob was told, Your son Joseph has come to you, Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed. 3Jacob said to Joseph, God A
49Then Jacob called for his sons and said: Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come. 2Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel. 3Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my stren
50Joseph threw himself upon his father and wept over him and kissed him. 2Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, 3taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for em
1How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave. 2Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are upon her cheeks. Among all her l
2How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of his anger ! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. 2Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the
45Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, Have everyone leave my presence! So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. 2And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard hi
33This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death. 2He said: The Lord came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from
24Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God. 2Joshua said to all the people, This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: