4Q34
Deuteronomyg
Language:
Hebrew
Date:
30 B.C. - 68 A.D.
Location:
Qumran Cave 4
Contents:
Deuteronomy 9:12-14; 23:17-19 (Hebrew 23:18-20); 24:16-22; 25:1-3, 5, 14-19;
26:1-6; 28:21-25, 27-29
Deuteronomy
9
12 Yahweh
said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have
brought out of Egypt
have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way
which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
13 Furthermore
Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a
stiff-necked people. 14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and
blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation
mightier and greater than they.”
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Deuteronomy
23
17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel,
neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 You shall not bring the hire of a
prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your
God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God. 19 You
shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of
food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
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Deuteronomy
24
16 The fathers shall not
be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 You
shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a
widow’s clothing in pledge; 18 but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God
redeemed you there. Therefore I command
you to do this thing. 19 When you reap
your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you
shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the
fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in
all the work of your hands. 20 When you
beat your olive tree, you shall not go
over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not
glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless,
and for the widow. 22 You shall remember that
you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore
I command you to do this thing.
Deuteronomy
25
1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to
judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 It shall be, if
the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie
down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. 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.
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14 You
shall not have in your house diverse measures, one
large and one small.
15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and
just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your
God gives you. 16 For all who do such things, all
who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
17 Remember
what
Amalek did to you by
the way as you came out of Egypt; 18 how
he met you by the way, and struck
the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were
faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest
from all your enemies all around, in the
land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that
you shall blot out the memory of Amalek
from under the sky. You shall not forget.
Deuteronomy
26
1 It shall be, when you
have come in
to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it,
and dwell in it, 2 that you shall take some of
the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your
land that Yahweh your God gives you.
You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 3 You
shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I
profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh
swore to our fathers to give us.” 4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand,
and set it down before Yahweh your God’s
altar. 5 You
shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian
ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and
lived there, few in number.
There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation. 6 The
Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and
imposed hard labor on us.
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Deuteronomy
28
21 Yahweh will make the
pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you
go in to possess it. 22 Yahweh will strike you
with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the
sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will
pursue you until you perish. 23 Your
sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will
be iron. 24 Yahweh will make the
rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the
sky, until you are destroyed. 25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your
enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee
seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the
kingdoms of the earth.
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27 Yahweh will strike
you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy,
and with the itch, of which you can not be healed. 28 Yahweh
will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment
of heart. 29 You will grope at noonday, as the
blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You
will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.