¹ And Moses with the ancients of Israel commanded the people, saying: Keep every commandment that I command you this day.

² And when you are passed over the Jordan into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, thou shalt set up great stones, and shalt plaster them over with plaster,

³ That thou mayst write on them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over the Jordan: that thou mayst enter into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as he swore to thy fathers.

⁴ Therefore when you are passed over the Jordan, set up the stones which I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster:

⁵ And thou shalt build there an altar to the Lord thy God, of stones which iron hath not touched,

⁶ And of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt offer upon it holocausts to the Lord thy God:

⁷ And shalt immolate peace victims, and eat there, and feast before the Lord thy God.

⁸ And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law plainly and clearly,

⁹ And Moses and the priests of the race of Levi said to all Israel: Attend, and hear, O Israel: This day thou art made the people of the Lord thy God.

¹⁰ Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices which I command thee.

¹¹ And Moses commanded the people in that day, saying:

¹² These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when you are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

¹³ And over against them shall stand on mount Hebal to curse: Ruben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan, and Nephtali.

¹⁴ And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

¹⁵ Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.

¹⁶ Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

¹⁷ Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

¹⁸ Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and all the people shall say: Amen.

¹⁹ Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.

²⁰ Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, and uncovereth his bed: and all the people shall say: Amen.

²¹ Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people shall say: Amen.

²² Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

²³ Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law: and all the people shall say: Amen.

²⁴ Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the people shall say: Amen.

²⁵ Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say: Amen.

²⁶ Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.

¹ These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.

² Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:

³ Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names out of those places.

⁴ You shall not do so to the Lord your God:

⁵ But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

⁶ And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep.

⁷ And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.

⁸ You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man that which seemeth good to himself.

⁹ For until this present time you are not come to refit, and to the possession, which the Lord your God will give you.

¹⁰ You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the land which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have rest from all enemies round about: and may dwell without any fear,

¹¹ In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

¹² There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and maid- servants, and the Levite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession among you.

¹³ Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see:

¹⁴ But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices. and shalt do all that I command thee.

¹⁵ But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is to say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and without blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart, shalt thou eat it:

¹⁶ Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

¹⁷ Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any thing that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the firstfruits of thy hands:

¹⁸ But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy son and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.

¹⁹ Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land.

²⁰ When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul desireth:

²¹ And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of thy docks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee.

²² Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.

²³ Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:

²⁴ But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water,

²⁵ That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.

²⁶ But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord, thou shalt take, and shalt come to the place which the Lord shall choose:

²⁷ And shalt offer thy oblations the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on the altar: and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat.

²⁸ Observe and hear all the things that I command thee, that it may be well with thee and thy children after thee for ever, when thou shalt do what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

²⁹ When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which then shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land:

³⁰ Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.

³¹ Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.

³² What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.