Quotes from Deuteronomy

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

1. 2

   Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

2. 3

   I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.

3. 4

   And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

4. 5

   Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

5. 6

   The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

6. 7

   And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.

7. 8

   For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

8. 9

   And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

9. 10

   The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.

10. 11

    The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

11. 12

    Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

12. 13

    As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings.

13. 14

    But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

14. 15

    To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time.

15. 16

    He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

16. 17

    Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

17. 18

    Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

18. 19

    The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people.

19. 20

    Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

20. 21

    And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.