4Q33
Deuteronomyf
Language:
Hebrew
Date:
75-50 B.C.
Location:
Qumran Cave 4
Contents:
Deuteronomy 4:23-26; 7:22-26; 8:2-14; 9:6-7; 17:17-18; 18:6-10, 18-22;
19:17-21; 20:1-6; 21:4-12; 22:12-19; 23:19-25; 24:2-7; 25:3, 5-9; 26:18-19;
27:1-10
Deuteronomy
4
23 Be careful, lest you
forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and
make
yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has
forbidden you. 24 For Yahweh your God is a
devouring fire, a
jealous God. 25 When
you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt
yourselves, and make a carved image in
the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight, to provoke him to anger;
26 I call heaven and earth to witness
against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the
land which you go over the Jordan to
possess it. You will not prolong your days on
it, but will utterly be destroyed.
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Deuteronomy
7
22 Yahweh your
God will
cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at
once, lest the animals of the field increase
on you. 23 But Yahweh
your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until
they are destroyed. 24 He will deliver
their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under
the sky. No one will be able to stand before
you, until you have destroyed
them. 25 You shall burn the engraved images of
their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor
take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an
abomination to Yahweh your God. 26 You shall not
bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like
it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a
devoted thing.
Deuteronomy
8
2 You shall remember
all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty
years
in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your
heart, whether you would keep his commandments,
or not. 3 He humbled you, and allowed you to be
hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that
man does not live by bread only,
but man lives by every word that
proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth. 4 Your clothing
didn’t grow old on you, neither did your
foot swell, these forty
years. 5 You shall consider in your heart that as
a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines
you. 6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh
your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good and spacious land, a land of brooks of water, of springs,
and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive
trees and honey; 9 a land in which you shall
eat bread without scarceness, you shall
not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills
you may dig copper. 10 You shall eat
and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you. 11 Beware
lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and
his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today; 12 lest,
when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them; 13 and
when your herds and your flocks multiply, and
your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is
multiplied; 14 then your heart might be lifted
up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage;
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Deuteronomy
9
6 Know therefore, that
Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land
to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. 7 Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness.
From the day that you left the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against
Yahweh.
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Deuteronomy
17
17 He
shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to
himself silver and gold.
18 It
shall be,
when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy
of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
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Deuteronomy
18
6 If a Levite comes
from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a
foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh
shall choose; 7 then he shall minister in the
name of Yahweh his God, as all his
brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh. 8 They
shall have like portions to eat, in
addition to that which comes from the sale of
his family possessions. 9 When you have come into
the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you
shall not learn to imitate the
abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not
be found with you anyone who makes his son or
his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices
sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
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18 I
will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my
words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command
him. 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he
shall speak in my name, I will require it
of him. 20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the
name of other gods, that same prophet
shall die.”
21 You
may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?”
22 When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow,
nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken.
The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy
19
17 then both the men,
between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the
judges
who shall be in those days; 18 and the judges
shall make diligent inquisition: and behold,
if the witness is a false witness, and
has testified falsely against his
brother; 19 then you shall do to him as
he had thought to do to his brother. So
you shall remove the evil from among you. 20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will
never again commit any such evil among you. 21 Your
eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy
20
1 When
you go out to battle
against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people
more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with
you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest
shall approach and speak to the people, 3 and shall tell them, “Hear,
Israe l, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your
heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your
enemies, to save you.”
5 The
officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there
who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return
to his house, lest he die in the battle,
and another man dedicate it. 6 What man is there who has planted a
vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and
return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use
its fruit.
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Deuteronomy
21
4 The
elders of that city
shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is
neither plowed nor sown, and shall break
the heifer’s neck there in the valley. 5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name;
and according to their word shall
every controversy and every assault
be decided. 6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
7 They shall answer and say, “Our hands
have not shed this blood, neither
have our eyes seen it. 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent
blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them. 9 So you shall put away the
innocent blood from
among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your
God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive, 11 and
see among the captives a beautiful
woman, and you have a desire to her, and
desire to take her as your wife; 12 then you shall bring her home to your
house. She shall shave her head and
trim her nails.
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Deuteronomy
22
12 You shall make
yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you
cover yourself.
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14 accuses her of shameful things, and
gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this
woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;” 15 then the young lady’s father
and mother shall take and bring
the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the
elders of the city in the gate. 16 The
young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man
as his wife, and he hates her. 17 Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter
the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s
virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the
elders of the city. 18 The elders of
that city shall take the man and
chastise him. 19 They shall fine him one hundred
shekels of silver, and give them to
the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of
Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.
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Deuteronomy
23
19 You shall not lend on
interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of
anything that is lent on interest. 20 You may
lend on interest to a foreigner; but to your brother you shall not lend on
interest, that
Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in
the land where you go in to possess it. 21 When
you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall
not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh
your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. 22 But if you refrain from
making a vow, it shall be no sin in
you. 23 You shall observe and do that
which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
24 When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your
fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container. 25 When
you come into
your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but
you shall not move a sickle to your
neighbor’s standing grain.
Deuteronomy
24
2 When she has departed
out of his house, she
may go and be another man’s wife. 3 If the
latter husband hates her, and write her a certificate of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the
latter husband die, who took her to be
his wife; 4 her former husband, who sent her
away, may not take her again to be
his wife, after that she is defiled;
for that is abomination before Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to
sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance. 5 When a man takes
a new wife, he shall not go out in the
army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He
shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has
taken. 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper
millstone as a pledge; for he takes a
life in pledge. 7 If
a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel,
and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So
you shall remove the evil from among you.
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Deuteronomy
25
3 He may sentence him
to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give
more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be
degraded in your sight.
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5 If
brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of
the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother
shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and
perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6 It shall be
that the firstborn whom she bears shall
succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be
blotted out of Israel.
7 If the man
doesn’t want to take his brother’s
wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say,
“My husband’s brother refuses to raise up
to his brother a name in Israel. He
will not perform the duty of a
husband’s brother to me.” 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him,
and speak to him: and if he stands and says,
“I don’t want to take her;” 9 then
his brother’s wife shall come to him
in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and
spit in his face. She shall answer and
say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s
house.”
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Deuteronomy
26
18 Yahweh has declared
today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that
you should keep
all his commandments. 19 He will make you high
above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that
you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he
has spoken.
Deuteronomy
27
1 Moses
and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep
all the commandment which I command you today. 2 It shall be on the day
when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set
yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster. 3 You shall write on
them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God
gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey,
as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you. 4 It shall be, when you have crossed over the
Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you
today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall
coat them
with plaster. 5 There you shall build
an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not
use any iron tool on them. 6 You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall
offer burnt offerings on it to
Yahweh your God. 7 You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You
shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
8 You shall write on the stones
all the words of this law very plainly.”
9 Moses
and the priests
the Levites spoke to all Israel,
saying, “Be silent, and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of
Yahweh your God. 10 You shall
therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice,
and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”