" In doing this he is carrying out herem as commanded by Yahweh in Deuteronomy 20: 17: " You shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

The rabbis, who made many additions and interpretations of Jewish Law, did so only in accordance with regulations they believe were given for this purpose to Moses on Mount Sinai, see Deuteronomy 17: 11.

: 1 Timothy 1: 17 ; Deuteronomy 6: 4 ; 1 Kings 8: 27 ; 1 John 1: 5 ; Genesis 1: 1 – 2 ; Acts 17: 24 – 25, 28 ; Psalm 90: 1 – 2 ; Matthew 28: 19 ; John 3: 16 ; Isaiah 57: 15 ; 2 Peter 3: 9.

# Torah and Haftarah Readings: The Torah reading is Deuteronomy 14: 22-16: 17.

The rabbis derived these from Deuteronomy 25: 17 – 18, Exodus 17: 14 and 1 Sam.

* Deuteronomy 25: 17

The text at the side ( in Dutch and Hebrew ) is from Deuteronomy 25: 17, 19-" Remember what Amalek has done to you ... do not forget.

According to the law they instruct you and according to the judgment they say to you, you shall do ; you shall not divert from the word they tell you, either right or left " ( Deuteronomy 17: 10 – 11 ) ( see Encyclopedia Talmudit entry " Divrei Soferim ").

The divine command is considered implied in the general law to follow any instructions of the religious authorities ( Deuteronomy 17: 11, and 32: 7 ; Shab.

Back references to the event occur in Numbers 25: 18 and 31: 16, Deuteronomy 4: 3, Joshua 22: 17, Hosea 9: 10 ; Psalm 106: 28.

In this way, we have Jewish names like Asmodai ( Book of Tobit ), Azazel ( Leviticus 16: 8-10 ), or Belial ( Deuteronomy 13: 13, Book of Judges 19: 22, Books of Samuel, part 1, 1: 16, 2: 12 10: 27 and 25: 17, and part 2 16: 7 and 22: 5, Books of Kings part 1, 21: 10-13, Books of Chronicles, part 1, 13: 7 ); Semitic deities like Adramelech, Baal ( see Baal ( demon ), Baal was also a general Jewish name for a false god ), Ashtaroth ( derived from Astarte ); Greek, Roman and Egyptian names like Bifrons ( See Bifrons ( demon )), Lamia, Phoenix ( see Phenex ); and so on.

Deuteronomy 32: 8 ( Septuagint ); and Ecclesiasticus 17: 17 ( Septuagint ).

He had six sons, one of whom was Amalek, born to his concubine Timna, who was the ancestral enemy of the Israelite people ( Exodus 17: 16 ; Deuteronomy 25: 19 ).

* Ethical Decalogue, the more familiar list in Exodus 20: 1 – 17 and Deuteronomy 5: 4 – 21

Genesis 8: 7, Leviticus 11: 15, Deuteronomy 14: 14, 1 Kings 17: 1, 1 Kings 17: 4, 1 Kings 17: 6, Job 38: 41, Psalm 147: 9, Proverbs 30: 17, Song of Solomon 5: 11, Isaiah 34: 11, Luke 12: 24.

It begins with the last word of Deuteronomy 28: 17 ( ומשארתך, " and your kneading trough ").

The Shfela is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in Deuteronomy 1: 7 ( the vale ); Joshua 9: 1 ( the valleys ); 10: 40 ( the vale ); 11: 2, 16 ( the valley ); 12: 8 ; 15: 33 ; Judges 1: 9 ; 1 Kings 10: 27 ; Jeremiah 17: 26 ; 32: 44 ; 33: 13 ; Obadiah 1: 19 ; Zechariah 7: 7 ; 1 Chronicles 27: 28 ; 2 Chronicles 1: 15 ; 9: 27 ; 26: 10 ; 28: 18.

The decisions made by this High Court must be upheld, per se the Law of Moses ( Deuteronomy 17 ), this gives their legal rulings divine authority.

Samuel answers the description of the " prophet like Moses " predicted in Deuteronomy 18: 15-22: like Moses, he has direct contact with Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, acts as a judge, and is a perfect leader who never makes mistakes.

Somewhere, perhaps on the southeastern shore, would be the cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis which were said to have been destroyed in the time of Abraham: Sodom and Gomorra ( Genesis 18 ) and the three other " Cities of the Plain "-Admah, Zeboim and Zoar ( Deuteronomy 29: 23 ).

The meaning of navi is perhaps described in Deuteronomy 18: 18, where God said, "... and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

It is in this period that the earliest clear monotheistic statements appear in the Bible, for example in the apparently seventh-century Deuteronomy 4: 35, 39, 1 Samuel 2: 2, 2 Samuel 7: 22, 2 Kings 19: 15, 19 (= Isaiah 37: 16, 20 ), and Jeremiah 16: 19, 20 and the sixth-century portion of Isaiah 43: 10 – 11, 44: 6, 8, 45: 5 – 7, 14, 18, 21, and 46: 9.

In the seventh and sixth centuries, we begin to see expressions of individual identity ( Deuteronomy 26: 16 ; Jeremiah 31: 29 – 30 ; Ezekiel 18 ).

In Leviticus 18: 21, 20: 3 and Deuteronomy 12: 30-31, 18: 10, the Torah contains a number of imprecations against and laws forbidding child sacrifice.

The Book of Deuteronomy ( 18: 9 – 12 ) explicitly warns the Israelites against engaging in the Canaanite practice of divination from the dead: Though Mosaic Law prescribed the death penalty to practitioners of necromancy ( Leviticus 20: 27 ), this warning was not always heeded.

Deuteronomy 18: 10-12 states " No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or one that casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead.

The first-born male of every clean animal was to be given up to the priest for sacrifice ( Deuteronomy 12: 6 ; Exodus 13: 12, 34: 20 ; Numbers 18: 15-17 ).

Current religious thinking views the Akedah as central to the replacement of human sacrifice ; while some Talmudic scholars assert the replacement was the sacrifice of animals at the Temple — using Exodus 13: 2 – 12f ; 22: 28f ; 34: 19f ; Numeri 3: 1ff ; 18: 15 ; Deuteronomy 15: 19 — others view that as superseded by the symbolic pars-pro-toto sacrifice of circumcision.

Leviticus 20: 2 and Deuteronomy 18: 10 specifically outlaw the giving of children to Moloch, making it punishable by stoning ; the Tanakh subsequently denounces human sacrifice as barbaric customs of Baal worshippers ( e. g. Psalms 106: 37ff ).

Moloch figures in the Book of Deuteronomy and in the Book of Leviticus as a form of idolatry ( Leviticus 18: 21: " And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch ").

There is a Biblical source for this idea in Deuteronomy ( 31: 18 ), where God says that " I will surely hide My face on that day " (" Hester Panim " in Hebrew ).

Under some circumstances they could be contacted by the living, as the Witch of Endor contacts the shade of Samuel for Saul, but such practices are forbidden ( Deuteronomy 18: 10 ).

To this group belong the blessing of Noah ( Genesis 9: 25-27 ), of Isaac ( 27: 28-29 and 39-40 ), and of Jacob ( 49: 3-27 ); Jethro's congratulation of Israel ( Exodus 18: 10 ); the blessing of Aaron ( Numbers 6: 24-26 ) and of Balaam ( 23: 7-10, 18-24, 24: 5-9, 24: 17-24 ); Moses ' farewell ( Deuteronomy 33: 1 and following ); the psalms that begin with " Ashre " = " Blessed is ," etc., or contain this phrase, as Psalms 1, 41, 84: 5 and following, 84: 13, 112, 119, 128.

The Hebrews, upon their entry into Canaan, had been commanded ( Deuteronomy 20: 16-17 ) to kill " anything that breathes ... in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance ," with the explanation that " otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God " ( Deuteronomy 20: 18 ).

( Deuteronomy 18: 1 – 2 ) Thus, no territory was identified as Levi and Aaron's home.

Members believe that the purported visits of this " messenger " fulfill Malachi's prophecy, as well as others found in Revelation 14: 6, Malachi 3: 1, Deuteronomy 18: 15-19, and Daniel 7: 9-10.

Aeromancy was mentioned in Deuteronomy 18 as being condemned by Moses.

Kenneth Kitchen states that nearly all treaties in this period follow the pattern of Deuteronomy closely, while first-millennium treaties contrarily but consistently place " witnesses " earlier and omit prologue and blessing sections, requiring classification of the Sinai covenant and its renewals in Joshua with the fourteenth or thirteenth century rather than the sixth.

It is also based on the Hebrew Torah that states in Deuteronomy 31: 24, 25 and 26 ; After Moses finished writing the words of this Torah in a book from beginning to end.

Deuteronomy 23: 3 – 6 summarises these incidents, and further states that the Ammonites were associated with the Moabites.

The Hebrew Bible states that " these words " be spoken of " when you lie down, and when you rise up " Deuteronomy 6: 7.

As the Oxford Companion to the Bible states: " Since life was viewed as sacred ( Genesis 9. 6 ), no amount of blood money could be given as recompense for the loss of the life of an innocent person ; it had to be ' life for life '" ( Exodus 21. 23 ; Deuteronomy 19. 21 )".

The conformity to the Old Testament concepts is shown in Matthew 4: 10 and Luke 4: 8 where in response to temptation Jesus quotes Deuteronomy 6: 13 and states: " It is written, you shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.

Deuteronomy 13: 1 states simply, " Be careful to observe only that which I enjoin upon you ; neither add to it nor take away from it.

The Torah itself, in Leviticus and 23: 15-16, and Deuteronomy 16: 9, states that it is a commandment to count seven complete weeks from the day after Passover night ending with the festival of Shavuot on the fiftieth day.

The first recorded reference to apostasy from Judaism is in Deuteronomy 13: 6-11, which states:

The discussion of shechita ( kosher slaughter ) in Deuteronomy 12 states " you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which God Lord has given you, as I have commanded you ," yet the only earlier commandment given by the Torah is " you shall not eat the blood.

Deuteronomy 16: 21 states that YHWH ( rendered as " the ") hated Asherim whether rendered as poles — " Do not set up any Asherah beside the altar you build to the your God "— or as living trees — " You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God which you shall make ".

* Book of Deuteronomy states the prohibition of prostitution.

The doctrine states that Jesus Christ performed three functions ( or " offices ") in his earthly ministry-those of prophet ( Deuteronomy 18: 14-22 ), priest ( Psalm 110: 1-4 ), and king ( Psalm 2 )