¹ И заповедал Моисей и старейшины сынов Израилевых народу, говоря: исполняйте все заповеди, которые заповедую вам ныне.

² И когда перейдете за Иордан, в землю, которую Господь Бог твой дает тебе, тогда поставь себе большие камни и обмажь их известью;

³ и напиши на камнях сих все слова закона сего, когда перейдешь Иордан , чтобы вступить в землю, которую Господь Бог твой дает тебе, в землю, где течет молоко и мед, как говорил тебе Господь Бог отцов твоих.

⁴ Когда перейдете Иордан, поставьте камни те, как я повелеваю вам сегодня, на горе Гевал, и обмажьте их известью;

⁵ и устрой там жертвенник Господу Богу твоему, жертвенник из камней, не поднимая на них железа;

⁶ из камней цельных устрой жертвенник Господа Бога твоего, и возноси на нем всесожжения Господу Богу твоему,

⁷ и приноси жертвы мирные, и ешь там, и веселись пред Господом Богом твоим;

⁸ и напиши на камнях все слова закона сего очень явственно.

⁹ И сказал Моисей и священники левиты всему Израилю, говоря: внимай и слушай, Израиль: в день сей ты сделался народом Господа Бога твоего;

¹⁰ итак слушай гласа Господа Бога твоего и исполняй заповеди Его ипостановления Его, которые заповедую тебе сегодня.

¹¹ И заповедал Моисей народу в день тот, говоря:

¹² сии должны стать на горе Гаризим, чтобы благословлять народ, когда перейдете Иордан: Симеон, Левий, Иуда, Иссахар, Иосиф и Вениамин;

¹³ а сии должны стать на горе Гевал, чтобы произносить проклятие: Рувим, Гад,Асир, Завулон, Дан и Неффалим.

¹⁴ Левиты возгласят и скажут всем Израильтянам громким голосом:

¹⁵ проклят, кто сделает изваянный или литый кумир, мерзость пред Господом, произведение рук художника, и поставит его в тайном месте! Весь народ возгласит и скажет: аминь.

¹⁶ Проклят злословящий отца своего или матерь свою! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

¹⁷ Проклят нарушающий межи ближнего своего! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

¹⁸ Проклят, кто слепого сбивает с пути! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

¹⁹ Проклят, кто превратно судит пришельца, сироту и вдову! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

²⁰ Проклят, кто ляжет с женою отца своего, ибо он открыл край одежды отца своего! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

²¹ Проклят, кто ляжет с каким-либо скотом! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

²² Проклят, кто ляжет с сестрою своею, с дочерью отца своего, или дочерью матери своей! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

²³ Проклят, кто ляжет с тещею своею! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

²⁴ Проклят, кто тайно убивает ближнего своего! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

²⁵ Проклят, кто берет подкуп, чтоб убить душу и пролить кровь невинную! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

²⁶ Проклят, кто не исполнит слов закона сего и не будет поступать по ним! И весь народ скажет: аминь.

¹ Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

² He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

³ and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

⁴ Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

⁵ I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

⁶ Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

⁷ Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

⁸ He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

⁹ They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

¹⁰ He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

¹² Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

¹³ Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

¹⁴ Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

¹⁵ Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

¹⁶ The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

¹⁷ Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

¹⁸ since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

²⁰ Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

²¹ I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

²² The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

²³ Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

²⁴ What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

²⁵ Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

²⁶ Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

²⁷ Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

²⁸ What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

²⁹ He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

³⁰ He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

³¹ He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

³² He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

³³ Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.