In their own words — 2791 recorded sayings
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“Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 9:5-12
“And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 9:13
“Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 9:14
“So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands. And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go. And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes. And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 9:15-23
“From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 9:24
“And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,”— Moses, Deuteronomy 10:12
“If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living. It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it. But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh. Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water. Do not take it for food; so that it may…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 12:21-30
“Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 12:31
“Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him. But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him. And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 13:3-6
“Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other; Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover; But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people. Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 13:7-13
“Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 13:14
“But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 15:10
“Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves. And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 17:15-16
“And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 17:17
“Then the Lord said to me, What they have said is well said.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 18:17
“I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 18:18
“And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 18:19
“But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 18:20
“And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?”— Moses, Deuteronomy 18:21
“When a prophet makes a statement in the name of the Lord, if what he says does not take place and his words do not come true, then his word is not the word of the Lord: the words of the prophet were said in the pride of his heart, and you are to have no fear of him.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 18:22
“For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 20:4
“And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 20:5
“Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 20:6
“Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 20:7
“And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 20:8
“Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 20:9
“Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 21:8
“So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord. When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners; If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife; Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut; And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in…”— Moses, Deuteronomy 21:9-20
“Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 21:21
“Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin: And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, but he has no love for her;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 22:15-16
“And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the sign that she is a virgin. Then they are to put her clothing before the responsible men of the town.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 22:17
“Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 22:18
“Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 25:8
“Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 25:9
“And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.”— Moses, Deuteronomy 25:10
“If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;”— Moses, Deuteronomy 25:11
“Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God. And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:4-5
“And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:6
“And our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord's ear was open to the voice of our cry, and his eyes took note of our grief and the crushing weight of our work:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:7
“And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm, with works of power and signs and wonders:”— Moses, Deuteronomy 26:8
Speaker attribution: Clear Bible MACULA (CC BY 4.0). Wording: Bible in Basic English (public domain).