Deuteronomy
34 chapters, 959 verses. The 5th of 66 books, in The Law.
How it begins
1These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2(There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh–barnea.)
3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them;
Chapters
- 1Moses recounts the wilderness
- 2Journeys around Edom and Moab
- 3Defeat of Og and land distribution
- 4Keep the commandments
- 5The ten commandments repeated
- 6Love the Lord with all your heart
- 7Destroy the idolatrous nations
- 8Remember the wilderness years
- 9Not for your righteousness
- 10The covenant renewed
- 11Love the Lord and keep his ways
- 12Destroy idolatrous places of worship
- 13Against false prophets
- 14Clean and unclean beasts
- 15Release of debts and servants
- 16Three feasts and judges
- 17Laws for king and priest
- 18The Levites and a prophet like Moses
- 19Cities of refuge
- 20Laws of warfare
- 21Laws of inheritance and honor
- 22Laws of humanity and purity
- 23Who may enter the congregation
- 24Laws of marriage and divorce
- 25Justice, marriage, and remembrance
- 26Firstfruits and tithes
- 27The law written on stones
- 28Blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience
- 29The covenant renewed in Moab
- 30Repentance brings restoration
- 31Joshua commissioned; the law written
- 32Moses' song of judgment and mercy
- 33Moses blesses the tribes
- 34Moses dies and Joshua leads
King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.