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on mount Ebal. the words of this law, when thou art paf- widow: and all the people shall fay, Afed over, that thou mayeft go in unto the men. land which the LORD thy God giveth

20 Curfed be he that lieth with his fathee, a land that floweth with milk and thers wife, because he uncovereth his fahony as the LORD God of thy fathers thers skirt: and all the people shall fay, hath promifed thee,

25 Curfed be he that taketh reward to flay an innocent perfon; and all the people thall fay, Amen.

26 Curfed be he that confirmeth-not all the words of this law to do them and all the people thall fay, Amen. CHAP. XXVIII.

thou art become the people of the day A Near Ken Clige to pals, if thou shalt

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for disobedience. ORD, and they fhall be afraid of thee. fmitten before thine enemies: thou fhalt 1: And the LORD fhall make thee plen- go out one way against them, and flee fecous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, ven ways before them, and fhalt be rend in the fruit of thy cattel, and in the moved into all the kingdoms of the earth. Fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD fware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 The LORD fhall open unto thee his good treafure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his feafon, and to blefs all the work of thine hand: and thou halt lend unto many nations, and thou fhalt not borrow.

26 And thy carcafe fhall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beafts of the earth, and no man fhall fray them away.

27 The LORD will fmite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the fcab, and with the itch whereof thou canft not be healed.

28 The LORD fhall finite thee with madness, and blindness, and aftonishment of heart.

13 And the LORD hall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath: if that thou hearken unto the command- 29 And thou fhalt grope at noon-days, ments of the LORD thy God, which I as the blind gropeth in darknefs, and command thee this day to obferve and to thou shalt not profper in thy ways: and do them: thou shalt be only oppreffed, and fpoiled evermore, and no man fhall fave thee.

14 And thou shalt not go afide from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to ferve them.

30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man fhall lie with her : thou shalt build an houfe, and thou fhalt not dwell But it shall come to pafs, if thou therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and wilt not hearken unto the voice of the fhalt not gather the grapes thereof. LORD thy God, to obferve to do all his 31 Thine ox fhall be flain before thine commandments and his ftatutes which I eyes, and thou fhalt not eat thereof: thine command thee this day, that all thefe afs fhall be violently taken away from curfes fhall come uponthee, and overtake thee. 16 Curfed fhalt thou be in the city, and curfed bait thou be in the field.

17 Curfed fhall be thy basket and thyftore. 18 Curfed fhall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increafe of thy kine, and the flocks of thy fheep.

19 Curfed fhalt thou be when thou comeft in, and curfed shalt thou be when thou goeft out.

20 The LORD fhall fend upon thee curfing, vexation and rebuke, in all that thou fetteft thine hand unto, for to do; until thou be deftroyed, and until thou perifh quickly, becaule of the wickedness of thy doings whereby thou haft forfaken me.

21 The LORD fhall make the peftilence deave unto thee, until he have confumed thee from off the land, whither thou goeft to poffefs it.

22 The LORD fhall fmite thee with a confumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extream burning, and with the fword, and with blafting, and with mildew: and they hall purfue thee until thou perish.

23 And thy heaven that is over thy head fhall be brafs, and the earth that is under thee fball be iron.

24 The LORD fhall make the rain of thy land powder and duft: from heaven hall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

before thy face, and fhall not be reftored to thee thy fheep fhall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none

to rescue them."

32 Thy fons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes. fhall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and therefhall be no might in thine hand.

33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours fhall a nation which thou knoweft not, eat up; and thou shalt be only oppreffed and crushed alway:

34 So that thou shalt be mad, for the fight of thine eyes which thou shalt fee.

35 The LORD fhall fmite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a fore botch that cannot be healed, from the fole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

36 The LORD fhall bring thee and thy king which thou shalt fet over thee, unto a natiofi which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there fhalt thou ferve other gods, wood and ftone.

37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all nations whither the LORD fhall lead thee.

38 Thou shalt carry much feed out into the field, and halt gather but little in: for the locuit fhall confume it.

39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and drefs them, but fhalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes for the worms shall

as The LORD hall caufe thee to be eat them

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Curfes threatned to the disobedient. 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees through the wife of his bofom, and towards the out all thy coafts, but thou shalt not an- remnant of his children which he shall oint thy felf with the oyl: for thine olive leave: thall caft his fruit.

41 Thou shalt beget fons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them: for they fhall go into captivity.

42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land fhall the locuft confume.

43 The ftranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high, and thou halt come down very low.

44 He fhall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he thall be the head, and thou fhalt be the tail,

45 Moreover, all thefe curfes fhall come upon thee, and thall purfue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be deftroyed: because thou hearkned ft not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee.

46 And they fhall be upon thee for a fign and for a wonder, and upon thy feed for ever.

ss So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he hall eat because he hath nothing left him in the fiege, and in the ftraitness wherewith thine enemies fhall diftrefs thee in all thy gates.

56 The tender and delicate_woman among you, which would not adventure to fer the fole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye fhall be evil towards the husband of her bofom, and towards her fon, and towards her daughter,

57 And towards her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and towards her children which the fhall bear: for the fhall eat them for want of all things fecretly in the fiege and ftraitnefs wherewith thine enemy fhall diftrefs thee in thy gates.

58 If thou wilt not obferve to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayeft fear this glo rious and fearful name, THE LORD

47 Becaufe thou fervedft not the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all TH things:

48 Therefore fhalt thou ferve thine enemies which the LORD fhall fend against thee in hunger, and in thirft, and in nakednefs, and in want of all things and he fhall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have deftroyed thee.

49 The LORD fhall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as fwift as the eagle flieth, a nation whofe tongue thou shalt not understand: so A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the perfon of the old, nor fhew favour to the young.

51 And he fhall eat the fruit of thy cattel, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be deftroyed: which alfo fhall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oyl, or the increafe of thy kine, or flocks of thy fheep, until he have deftroyed thee.

52. And he hall befiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou truftedft throughout all thy land: and he fhall befiege thee in all thy gates, throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. 53 And thou fhalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy fons, and of thy daughters (which the LORD thy God hath given thee) in the fi ge and in the ftraitnefs wherewith thine enemies fhall diftrefs thee:

54 So that the man that is tender a ng you, and very delicate, his eye fhall vil toward his brother, and toward

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the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy feed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and fore fickneffes, and of long continuance.

60 Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the difeafes of Egypt, which thou waft afraid of; and they fhall cleave unto thee.

61 Alfo every ficknefs, and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be deftroyed.

62 And ye fhall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the ftars of heaven for multitude: becaufe thou would not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

63 And it fhall come to pafs, that as the LORD rejoyced over you to do you good, and to multiply you: fo the LORD will rejoyce over you to deftroy you, and to bring you to nought, and ye thall be plucked from off the land whither thou goeft to poffefs it.

64 And the LORD fhall fcatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth, even unto the other, and there thou shalt ferve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and ftone.

65 And among thefe nations fhalt thou find no eafe, neither hall the fole of thy foot have reft: but the LORD fhall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and forrow of mind.

An exhortation Chap. 66 And thy life fhall hang in doubt be fore thee,and thou shalt fear day and night, and fhalt have none affurance of thy life. 67 In the morning thou shalt fay, Would God it were even: and at even thou shalt fay, Would God it were morning, for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou fhalt fear, and for the fight of thine eyes which thou shalt fee.

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thee, and as he hath fworn unto thy fa
thers, to Abraham, to Ifaac, and to Jacob.
14 Neither with you only do I make
this covenant, and this oath,

15 But with him that ftandeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and alfo with him that is not here with us this day:

16 (For ye know how we have dwelt 68 And the LORD fhall bring thee into in the land of Egypt, and how we came Egypt again with fhips, by the way where-, through the nations which ye paffed by.

of I fpake unto thee, thou shalt fee it no more again: and there ye shall be fold un, to your enemies for bond-men and bondwomen, and no man fhall buy you.

CHAP. XXIX.

Hefe are the words of the covenant

17 And ye have feen their abominations, and their idols, wood and ftone, filver and gold, which were among them)

18 Left there fhould be among you man or woman, or family, or tribe, whofe heart turneth away this day from the LORD our

fes to make with the children of Ifrael, in tions, left there fhould be among you a the land of Moab, befide the covenant root that beareth gall and wormwood, which he made with them in Horeb. 2 And Mofes called unto all Ifrael, and faid unto them, Ye have feen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, unto Pharaoh, and unto all his tervants, and unto all his land,

3 The great temptation which thine eyes havefeen, the figns,and thofegreat miracles: 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to fee, and cars to hear unto this day.

s And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your cloaths are not wax en old upon you, and thy fhoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have Je drunk wine or ftrong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Hefhbon, and Og the king of Bafhan, came out againft us unto battel, and we fmote them.

8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe

cf Manaffeb.

9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may profper in all that ye do.

10 Ye ftand this day all of you before the LORD your God, your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Ifrael,

19 And it come to pafs when he heareth the words of this curfe, that he blefs himfelfin his heart, faying, I fhall have peace though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirft:

20 The LORD will not fpare him, but then the anger of the LORD, and his jealoufie fhall fmoak againft that man, and all the curfes that are written in this book fhall lie upon him, and the LORD fhall blot out his name from under heaven.

21 And the LORD fhall feparate him un to evil, out of all the tribes of Ifrael ac cording to all the curfes of the covenant, that are written in this book of the law:

22 So that the generation to come of your children that fall rife up after you, and the ftranger that fhall come from a far land, shall fay, when they fee the plagues of that land, and the fickneffes which the LORD hath laid upon it;

23 And that the whole land thereof is brimftone, and falt, and burning, that it is not fown, nor beareth, nor any grafs groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Ze boim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:

24 Even all nations fhall fay, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of this great anger?

25 Then men fhall fay, Because they have forfaken the covenant of the LORD Your little ones, your wives, and thy God of their fathers, which he made with franger that is in thy camp,from the hewer them, when he brought them forth out of of thy wood, unto the drawer ofthy water: the land of Egypt.

12 That thou fhouldft enter into cove- 26 For they went and ferved other nant with the LORD thy God, and into gods, and worshipped them, gods whom his oath, which the LORD thy God ma- they knew not, and whom he had not keth with thee this day: given unto them.

13 That he may eftablish thee to day for a people unto 27 And the anger of the LORD was kinhimfelf, and that he may dled against this land, to bring upon it all be unto thee a God, as he hath faid unto the curfes that are written in this book

Mercies to the penitent.

Deuteronomy.

28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and caft them into another land, as it is this day.

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

Nd it

CHAP. XXX.

Life and death. eft fay, Who fhall go up for us to heav and bring it unto us, that we may hear and do it?

13 Neither is it beyond the fea, th thou shouldft fay, Who fhall go over fea for us, and bring it unto us, that may hear it, and do it?

14 But the word is very nigh unto th in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that it mayeft do it.

And thall come to pafs when all these day life See, I have det before thee

fing and the curfe which I have fet before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

2 And fhalt return unto the LORD thy God, and halt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy foul:

3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compaffion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath fcattered thee.

If any of thine be driven out unto the outmoft parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee.

5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers poffffd, and thou shalt poffefs it: and he will dothee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

6 And the LORD thy God will circumcife thine heart, and the heart of thy feed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy foul, that thou mayeft live.

7 And the LORD thy God will put all thefe curfes upon thine enemies, and on

16 In that I command thee this day love the LORD thy God, to walk in ways, and to keep his commandments a his ftatutes and his judgments, that th mayeft live and multiply: and the Lo thy God fhall bless thee in the land, w ther thou goeft to poffefs it.

17 But if thine heart turn away, fot thou wilt not hear, but shalt be dra away, and worship other gods, and fe them:

18 I denounce unto you this day, t ye shall furely perish, and that ye shall prolong your days upon the land, whit thou paffeft over Jordan, to go to pof it.

19 I call heaven and earth to rec this day against you, that I have fet bef you, life and death, bleffing and curfi therefore choofe life, that both thou thy feed may live:

20 That thou mayeft love the LORD God, and that thou mayeft obey his vo and that thou mayeft cleave unto (for he is thy life, and the length of days) that thou mayeft dwell in the which the LORD fware unto thy fath to Abraham, to Ifaac, and to Jacob, to g them.

CHAP. XXXI.

them that hate thee which perfecuted thee. ANd Mofes went and fpake th

8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD,and do all his command. ments which I command thee this day.

9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattel, and in the fruit of thy land, for good for the LORD will again rejoyce over thee for good, as he rejoyced over thy fathers:

10 If thou halt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep his commandments and his ftatutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God, with all thine heart and with all thy foul.

II For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

12 It not in heaven, that thou should

words unto Ifrael.

2 And he faid unto them, I am an h dred and twenty years old this day, I no more go out and come in: alfo LORD hath faid unto me, Thou halt go over this Jordan.

The LORD thy God, he will go d before thee, and he will deftroy thefe tions from before thee, and thou fhalt fefs them: and Joshua, he shall go over fore thee, as the LORD hath faid.

4 And the LORD hall do unto the he did to Sihon, and to Og kings of Amorites, and unto the land of th whom he deftroyed.

s And the LORD ball give them up fore your face, that ye may do unto according unto all the commandm which I have commanded you.

Be strong and of a good cour